Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Ssi Diye a new Battlefront time table followed cont need from Pogo 1 i Nir inv Tali to 01 Ukia Ana Norm que revealed mat american forces j Augusta. Bow had landed East and West of gel. Ion the South coast. Forces strengthened by As gradually im-i2. Genna Troope drove Back a wed. It Toms two int St Tel a pm a rely be new american 7th Anay under i Allied forces in the it Gen. George 8. Pattontjr., had rpm a Tel urday established Maeu of the coast British lamed lately coun Ter attacked and swept the enemy Axis have time explaining Sicily j t i i/1 of Yon in spirit Quot Benito 1 a so Mil bravely told his troops rangers clean out Cela continued from Page i lands West of a Point a Nostri s1 1116 Chen re Fly South of Ragusa a the Way beyond up to the West Side of t Broccoli. Another British column Gen. Sir Bernard Law Mont i a of Merys 8th army tooted Oal of Nadia a took the such deut americans Ragusa Down to the Southeastern tip of the Island and up to a Point p01 just North of Avola on the East Highway Junction. Coast at Broccoli the British were _ Kew Alum group Only about 16 Miles South of Ca it geared that the largest a my group Battle of the still Young sicilian the Allied navies and Campaign would develop As the 8th a11� gom army moved relentlessly Forward Mander in chief Gen. Dwight a against constantly growing con Eteen Hower and Gen. Sir Harold cent rations of enemy troops guns a. G. Alexander Deputy com and Armor. Mander in chief. The highly sue-1 the aim Cess Ful naval operations were i i stiff. Expecting the reefed i Admi Rufe sex amp a a a Steh a a is Andrew Cunningham and the Al larger City wad a �?of1 a a a was commanded by Tery Al the East Elt aha chief marshal sir Arthur i Tedder i located at the foot of i. Etna Tho news from the sicilian Cam ,1 a Only pain for the time being anyway jrr8 irom Messina Catania is promised to be at least 24 hours vital port Railroad and air Cen behind the fighting but the i nearby Gerbil with its world Learned by monday after it and Many satellite noon that the allies were doing Fields is the greatest air Well indeed. The important port i Craa installation in Eastern Sicily. Morf the a unfortunately for any attacking Tak a in Uigh been Force the Countryside surrounding Catania studded with Large irm we Ufa ration ditches which provide a p 2�?�?T Avola i ready made defense against tanks in Ostia no a Gela and other vehicles of War the and nolo. Rora telc City ii Este the North end �hmit9n it 111 kills i of the gom Lunga River Delta Tom the texan sir a it a Rich 4te heavy vet Ned with Trthu-_af1 South sicilian i tary streams Many of which can Kra a. In Blotty this week. They were a sole words h Duce saw lit to express publicly All week. The Leader of the italian fascists apparently spent most of the week in Solitude while his and Hitler s radio stations tried to explain to their people and to the world How come this cracking of the fortress Europe. At first however the usually loquacious Axis propaganda machine was mute. For More than 12 hours after the first american parachutist dropped to Earth in Sicily no word came from Rome or Berlin and the first Rome communique that was issued amounted to Only a Bare announcement of the Allied operations. Then began a writhing and turning of the Berlin Rome line that was Stilt in the throes of confusion As the week closed. Foreign language broadcasts from the italian capital did hint that Sicily might fall and there were signs that the Axis was already preparing an Alibi. Rome complains f a have been invaded by the two richest countries in the world a was radio Rome s complaint. Of course said the Axis commutators the landings did t Surprise them a bit. They knew the allies were coming and the allies were Quot allowed to land after that Quot Mobile reserves would come out of the mountains with a counter attack so effective that Dunkirk will be repeated tenfold. Meanwhile the fascist party inane i mess of machine gun nests. 2nd it. Donald Anderson of Bingham Lake minn., leading in platoon found himself bracketed by some fast flying six Inch shells but his Captain James Lyle mane Vered him out of the danger Bone by Radi oing directions from a Walkie talkie. While these boys kept the nyties attention by wiping out eight machine guns another Ranger company circled the big guns from the rear and in a Surprise attack put All eight coastal guns out of commission in addition to destroying a Battery of mortars. During ail tills combat engineers attached to the Ranger striking Force were Busy Cie be Good defensive Banders. Dutch prisoners a a a a it a a reported taken and the 4le? to the East and West of this a Gusa. Cate de it i Augusta and a a wednes duty afternoon both captured undone occupation of their fallen the americans on the West i you Virtry has t prevented Holland had driven into the High country Elf from doing business with the it take Naro and Palma and the i allies. Americans canadians and British nazis have revealed that hol in Moor i swept land businessmen Are Ink tog modes Tot Priolo and As the week Drew to an end a la opposition began to stiffen tank Battles developed and ele cts of the Germany Hermann Are caught orders for the delivery of american goods such As vacuum cleaners and refrigerators Quot after the allies win the  the invaders threaten to Deport those who chipped together huge a Spon ouse assemblies that paraded for the army for the King and for la puce the people of Sicily Are fighting gloriously for their country and for their fatherland a Rome announced at the same time As returning correspondents told of the Friendly greeting they received Mohi the peace Loving natives. Berlin was inclined to be a trifle bored by the subject of Sicily. Tone official radio repeated that the Axis forces were waiting for the allies to extend their Bridge Heads already 20 to 50 Miles Inland at most Points. The germans said their troops were giving full support but added that Italy must be expected to Bear the Brunt of Tho attack. As a matter of fact the Wil he Strasse was far More interested in the russian front than in a How its Junior partner was doing in Sicily. A somewhere in Sicily Ranger Boss la col. William o. Darby today turned Down a pair of Quot chickens and the command of a full infantry combat team so that he could stay with Quot his boys. A. Gen. George Patton 7th army commander made the offer when he pinned the distinguished service Cross on Darby in recognition of the important part col. Darby and his rangers have played in this show. This is the third time that Darby has turned Down a full col Nelcy. The other two times were in Tunisia when he was also offered command of combat teams. �?�1 feel i can do More Good with my Ranger boys than i could with a combat team a Darby explained. Out mines and barbed wire. Attached to the rangers was a Section of Shore engineers who did All the unloading under fire and also troops Manning mortars. Cela tooth combed Shat Job done rangers spread out at the town s perimeter and went through every douse in every Street in Gela. It was All very systematic and scientific with one Section covering each aide of the Street watching the buildings on the other Side so that there would be no Surprise sniping. There was t. But there were All kinds of incidents. Col Darby Ranger chief featured in a lot of them. Once with a Small group of 18 rangers Darby barged into a hotel packed with 52 italian officers. There was a lot of noise a lot of shooting a lot of grenades going off. It All lasted about five minutes and then Darby and his boys walked out with what was left of the 52 officers. Prom somewhere the italians sent several tanks into town to do a Little Street fighting. They had Little Chance to do much. One Ranger got within 15 feet of one tank and let Loose. He stopped the tank cold killing one of the Crew. The other two of the italian Crew refused to come out until they were persuaded by an incendiary grenade. Opt. Jack Street and sgt. Shirley Quot Call me Jake Jacob spotted another tank but they were All out of ammunition except a 15 Pound Quot pole charge of Tot. So they both ran to the top of a nearby building waited until the tank was directly beneath them and then dropped the int Quot it was a neat simple Job a said the Captain. Shortly after Dawn Gela was As peaceful and Safe As Brooklyn. Sicily second great Allied move Hull Washington pointing to the invasion of Sicily As the second great historic step toward the invasion and occupation of Continental Europe Secretary of state Cordell Hull told the press that to him it was a matter of the greatest gratification to receive Ord that thus far military Progress has been so  when asked by the press whether the office of foreign Relief and rehabilitation of which Herbert h. Lehman is chairman was planning Relief for sicilians after the Island was won or. Hull avoided a direct reply but said that Quot the organization was elaborating plans and collaborating with other Relief organizations to give suitable attention to Relief behind the military lines in liberated  the Secretary also disclosed that the United nations interim food commission would meet for the first time at the archives building on july 15 to discuss Long Range problems