Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Page 4the stars and stripes daily tuesday july 20, 1943 yanks near Munda base Jap ships Are hit coming to Relief Rome Bombino continued from Page i a Ricento  from Page i Washington july 19 Willy the Navy fought two successful actions with japanese warships trying to Rush Relief to hard pressed land forces in the Battle for the Solomons the american Forward troops in new Georgia Island were attacking the enemy pions near the Airfield it Munda according to today communique from Allied Southwest Pacific Headquarters. The japanese were retorted to be using All their old Iii is As they fell Back on their main base at Munda. At night they kept up a continual noise shouting false orders in English calling names and blowing whistles. Concealed Foxholes were scattered along the line of their Retreat and american troops were kept Busy cleaning out in us it act eco enemy nests far la Hind the spearhead of their Advance in the enemy s Effort to Rush groups of destroyers through the narrow Waters of the Central Solomons trying to get reset to his land forces. Allied naval units handed the japanese two More defeats the communique refuted this time the lighting took place Oft Kolo hangars Island the first engagement was against three japanese destroyers intercepted at night All a Bree were hit and one is believed to have been sunk in the second action Allied Light units turned Back six Jai destroy Eis. Hitting one with a torpedo in both actions the Allied ships were not damaged. Pin tiler North in the Solomons. Tor be it to and dive homers for the second successive Day attacked enemy shipping in the bum Anchorage at the Southern tip of Bougainville Island. That was where a 200-plane attack on the preceding Dav resulted in the sinking of seven japanese warships. For yesterday s raid almost As Many Allied machines were used. I a freighter was sunk. And two destroyers and another freighter damaged. Thirteen additional Jap planes were shot Down to add to the 49 of the first Days raid. These two attacks were the heaviest vet carried out in the South Pacific area. Was to destroy aircraft Ai drome curved. Each radio of Iterator of the act i it i s and Railroad communion leading plane of its flight would Lions to Cut Italy a spinal Cord at signal Back a bombs away when its base. The first string of bombs the fax launders were dropped on a George was dropped by flying fortresses Ciampino. The same would happen Worth. K in on the san Lorenzo marshalling when the forts smashed san Lor Yards by Saaf b-17 s. They. In o and when the liberators hit were followed in Over the target j Littorio. By Saaf b-26 marauders and  planning to the b-2s Mitchells escorted by lightnings. From the 9th Force stationed in the Middle East came b-24 liberators. Forty five minutes after the fortresses struck san Lorenzo which is four Miles from the Vatican City another wave of b-17�?Ts to filled the same target. That was the closest that Allied bombers came to the seat of the holy roman Catholic Church. Just As the fortresses completed the attack on san Lorenzo the first Liberator bombers began dropping their loads on the lit Torio marshalling Yards and marauders and Mitchells escorted by p-38 sex Gan an attack on the Ciampino Aird Romes. I had a Balcony seat for the bombing of Ciampino Aird Romes North Ami South. At the briefing at h 30 o clock this morning i met my Pilot 1st of w m Butterfield. Of Mas of. Idal i it. And listened to the Captain of the groups intelligence Section describe the target. The Airport is divided into two parts he said. These parts Are divided by a taxiing strip there Are 30 aircraft blast shelters three hangar administration buildings Barracks offices a Ixia Hie fuel tank and facilitating  until this morning no hint of the colossal proportions of the raid were known to these pilots who sit on benches facing their briefing officers during Hie half hour briefing one major stated a this is a Mission for the Hook the history Hook. This is one of the most important missions of the  another Captain observed Quot pre Blent Roosevelt and prime minister Churchill have already told Italy that it was time to save its Honor and get out of the War. This Mission is to help Italy make up its  the colonel commanding this group of b-2.r> Mitchells stated that the allies had planned a world wide Hookup to Tell about the bombing at Hie time it of p-38j world about this a a said. Quot before the u s. Troops continued from Page ii the Only serious resistance by he enemy to the attacking Allied forces hire the German Hermann Goering division and the italians. Fir Ami by an easily defended terrain corded by Man made and natural Waterways have stubbornly Opi Vised the drive of the British nth army on Sicily a second largest City. Military sources Here today revealed however that the British Are expanding Bridgehead they have obtained at the Gorna Lunga Between tile sea and the Hunt less than two Miles Inland where three smaller streams Combine to make that River. Canadian troops have captured Piazza Armenia on the Central front 30 Miles North of the coast line where they first landed. An Allied Force Headquarters spokesman declared today it can no longer to said that italian troops As a whole have their heart in the sicilian fighting. Whole units Are now surrendering As the number of prisoners taken by the invaders climbs to 35,000. Ameri cans have taken British 12,000 the Axis forces in the latest Gage muits have introduced practice of placing tile More Xuy Idabel German troops on 23.000 and the Entile de the flanks while the italians attempt to defend the Center. This has offered to Allied armies the Chance to smash through the Center and split the enemy concentrations. A report has come from the Trout that italian soldiers shot to death a German officer who of i i Vised them in their desire to surrender. Civilians of the Island continue to express their gratification at tilt arrival of the Allied forces and voice the opinion that the lighting in Sicily will soon by Over. The allies Relief of the acute food shortage has won them Many italian friends. Civilians complain that the greatest part of their food was going to the German and italian armies while they were on the verge of starvation. Raid a the colonel dutchmen  we left the briefing tent and to Pix a a jeep to meet miss Maisie and Lier Crew. La. Butterfield introduced me to tile Crew 2nd it. G w. Sebor of Astoria Long Island co pilots sgt. Diaries l Connors of Mcdon . Bombardier a sgt Francis e Colley of Buckner mo., radio Gyratory and lower Turret gunner and a sgt. Donald w storms of Muncie. Id. The top Turret gun i Lier the Crew had done 16 missions together in the same ship i Shanghai  today Quot Shanghai lug was Laid up with Sicily trouble a bad Oil pump and la Butterfield and his Crew were Given miss m us in for the record event we sat in the Shade of miss Maisie s fuselage ducking our Heads As the bombers ahead of us stirred no Clouds of dust on their Rush Down the runway breaking bibs of Straw Flint littered the ground and often consulting our watches two minutes att i too hours we climbed in and joined our brother Mitchells it was a five hour Tup Over an i balt a plenty of time to get used to the Teel of the ship a d figure How to climb through her to t ilk to the Crew members then we struck Over the med Iten mean which looked at first like a Tai Road with the Sun shining on it at Ink hours i saw Oiler elements of flu formation Tom my us we were second plane a i the left Wing of the flight Leader in our formation which waft the second formation to Cross the cd i Zampini Aird Romes at 1237 i fastened my Parachute and tuned in on the ship s radio. The command phone Between bombers and fighters a steady Dit riot Dit. La Butterfield trimmed his wings a ahead of us we saw the shores of Italy. We had already climbed to bombing Altitude and could now see the i Iller River. Rome a unmistakable landmark to our West. Across from the tiber was the Vatican City. Ahead of us several Miles was the Littorio marshalling Yards and heavy Clouds of smoke and dust were pouring from them. Flak bursts Rose ahead of us. And soon we could see the flak on our sides. Lit. Butterfield. Following the Hight Lender Begall the crazy i dodging evasive tactics to throw Hie tracking flak throwers off their target. I done to remember now i Many minuses we spent dipping rising swaying but suddenly we straightened out and it. Sebor pointed Down. There were tile j Ciampino Aird Romes which i could make out from the photo mans i had studied earlier that morning i and then the lieutenant pointed to the sea sweep. The leading plane i of our flight its bomb Bay doors j had been Oji ened several minutes before now i watched the bombs j dropping one after the other As neatly spaced As if they had in held apart by Cord. Our own bombs were dropping at intervals Between the seas Ween s bombs the Bombardier. A sgt. Connors told me this later. I he talk was somewhat heavier now and the ship rocked lightly and ahead i saw an enemy fighter flu Only one i saw during tile raid sgt. Connors at the nose gun. Was rattling away at it then we picked up our evasive action an observation a it St of an attached artillery regiment. Locating targets Lur their dozen howitzers were Quarles of leaven and pvt James sit Huson of Plymouth n. C. Quot yeah. We give them plenty of  said a Quarles a a but most credit belongs to the infantry. I base foot soldiers did a magnificent Job take a Haik through these glasses and watch them do j their stuff. They be  commandeered All the horse and mules Iii the Vicinity to carry up supplies a the u s Navy also took part Jin the rapture of Agrigento Nival shells came whizzing in from the sea to pulverize important targets in town and a it it. Their rumbling explosions were easily distinguished from tie sharper artillery sex it its in the air. A-36 s made mane sortie s against italian artillery posts and vehicles thanks to them and tie american artillery roads surrounding Agrigento were dotted i ii smashed enemy trucks Many of them a n Ime apr to aching the Supco slopes leading to the City the 3rd division ran into its stiffest resistance of the Campaign but it was hot stiff enough to Stop the infancy and As darkness full Aeri Gerdo was und a american control the doughboy were loud in their Praise of italian Farmers from whom they obtained mules and horses to carry gear Over terrain in Nassa Hie to vehicles Quot most of them done to seem to Mussolini and better i in do a said pfc Frank Miles. Birdeen Wash they no their animal win Inelve and  help us loaf them Una soviets Cain in Orel area russians beat off new nazi attack to we of 1s London. July 19 Bealing off Strong German counter attacks the red army made Small gains along the Orel sector and at several Points was within to Miles of the Central front bastion today s communique reported. I two week ago the Wotier Maht pushed its summer offensive into High gear and aimed its sights eastward. Two Days later. Marshal von Kluge s 30 Panzer divisions had made their Iasi Forward March and the germans have been stationary of retreating Ever since while the russian ground Progress was slowed slightly by the Biller  of Orel the red air Force met no such obstacle and carried out heavy attacks on the City s rail Lunet Ion and on enemy Aird Romes. M it scow anti minced activity around Belgorod to South has been confined to format Swanee As he germans russians hive pushed their heaviest fore is in tile Battle for or strongest fortress Between Smolensk and Kharkov both key cities Iii my German simply line on the Eastern front. Advancing soviet units in the Orel sector damaged and destroyed 78 German tanks and 2� armoured cars and 137 enemy planes were Dio Down in combat and by ant i ii re f a 11 batteries ii was off Ceilly announced three russian planes did not return to their bases the re Iii i Sicily likes continued from f Tell of wine and fruit for the soldiers i two weeks before lbs Hill Syracuse had been visited by tin Princess of Piedmont who Heads flu italian version of the red Cross tile British officer Learned that she was besieged by hundreds of women who asked for two things food and peace. Young men were Friendly and blamed Premier Benito Mussolini for their present shortages of food. Clothes and shoes. Older men sex j pressed concern lest the allies press j the youths into forced labor battalions. The englishman however explained that this was ail Axis not an Allied practice. Many persons declared that their deliverance from Hie germans and Mussolini was the happiest event in their lives the officer said at Pachino on Sicily a Southeast tip. He saw streets lined with a Ople making the v sign and in the main i Square they were efficiently removing All fascist insignia. And significantly enough pictures of Mussolini were finding their Way to the towns trash cans them no attention whats italian Unity continued from Page it As asses as1 is Gen to and Porto empedocle have cleared the enemy out of the area and Are strongly securing these important Southern port towns. For the Tyr Hennian near the t r map Ort unmoved Lii. Abner Well leave it t to t Eind a Cam re y foolish Huff re adopt the r Motherless Chile he. Got Quot a Appy tire like. A Havig cuss Mim sea below los coastline were enemy . Unoccupied and by the formations that paid Ever the next time i reached for my notebook it was 1.795 hours. We were already starting out for sea where there was no More flak. Sgt. Connors Elim no through the Tunnel Between hrs compartment and the navigators. Ani made the Symbol for Billeh new a Beer. A a perfect he said. Quot on the  the shines radio turned to Quot Bason Quot which  now playing a song that in a sure i  make out perhaps Only airmen with ears that tune out Static were sure what that big program was playing. To my ears it sounded like a a Happy Days Are Here again a a voice interrupted the song but i could t make much sense of what it said when i arrived at our medium bomber base after the raid and the engine Roar was Over someone told me what win Aid during that station interruption the words were. I was told Rome was bombed today despair at a time when by howls driven into underground shelters when Japan was driving him from the Pacific a the first necessity s Orza said is not Resolution to take the enemy a blows passively. But the spiritual and material preparation to give blow for blow injury for injury Des auction for destruction Quot a through the centuries Italy has demonstrated Hist when she is at the Bottom of the abyss of tragedy and sorrow she has of herself Rome Back toward life. But aint is indispensable tor reaching the Heights of this proud destiny that god has reserved for Italy every difference in to night or attitude. Must disappear in the great  he said in another plea for Unity. Describing blackly the Fate of an Talv conquered by the Quot richest and greed est empires of the Earth Scorza definitely admitted that Quot today we arc forced to defend our own  Quot let a vigorous and ineradicable will continue to stiffen All the italians in each Man an Active mind a Loyal heart a we atoned let the whole people and tile whole people form a army. Only by Complete will Italy be Abb to climb up the slope and attain vie by Al Capp hand i really 1 sir of Unity Back  lie concluded his Back to to lie Wall speech. Btu the sicilian people seemed flt it put More Faith in the Roosevelt Churchill proclamation than in Scorza s dramatic Appeal they greeted the advancing Allied armies with open arms and sex changed git is of wine Aud cheese tor the Allied presents of food and clothing. Then was Unity but and fas Cist Unity in a manifesto issued by the underground calling on lillians to tight not for Germany at War lint for peace. Partisans Arn called upon to attack and sabotage machinery working under German it tors another leaflet distributed to soldiers in the italian aimed Fores in France summoned them a i go Back to your own Homes >111 the patriots fighting for Btl or  Lallan civilians in Fiance were urged to help frenchmen who ire lighting tor freed in by Saho Ming or it Duc ton. Transportation and rein  toning Viereck guilty Ashing i it a c to it Irge s i v a for Violet a German propagandist was convicted in his second trial it of violating foreign agents regi it t it in act Ila jury found dim Utility it a >11 Nix Conns a previous conviction was thrown out a 1 e supreme court and i new trial ordered he faces pore bit 12 Yeai sentence