Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Page 2 the stars Ano stripes weekly saturday july 24, 1943- the Axis Island shrinks Trapani Marsala threatened c. A Nitolo Porto drop cock Licata a i o to to is cd Miles soviet army continued from Page North. The nearest natural Barrier to which a German army could Retreat is the Dnieper River 230 Miles Westward from Orel at its closest Point. This three pronged russian drive on Ord could be extended to All three objectives in nazi hands. The red army s first summer offensive begun Only a week ago was already cutting a wide Swath in the defences of Orel launched As a counter attack to the wehrmacht so delayed summer push that de nearly three weeks ago the russian Advance had Cost the germans huge quantities of equipment and the equivalent of four to five divisions of men. Almost 3,500 German tanks and close to 2,000 Luftwaffe planes have fallen prey to accurate soviet gunnery and fierce russian fighting since july 5. In their Retreat to make a last ditch defense of Orel the germans have left behind 50,000 dead and 6,000 captured soldiers Moscow asserted. Only connecting link from the Ger Majok operation but an offensive on Kharkov soon was indicated by a Moscow announcement of local Battles in the donets River Basin above Rostov and Southwest of Kharkov. A soviet communique predicted the operation might reach the major operation status within a few Days. Hie fail of Orel is expected momentarily by soviet military observers As the ring of steel tightened around it from the North East and South. The intensity of the Battle on the first front gave the germans no time and Little inclination to worry about the Fate of their italian partners on us second front in Sicily. The German time table calling for advances in summer and retreats in Winter apparently had skipped a few pages. Their summer offensive delayed from May to july had already had its fling a for two Days and had been stopped cold. Then without the Benefit of to in bitter cold they have had As their parachuting photog lands upside Down with the american troops in sicily�?�?Tt-4 Max Campbell of my a staff writer Hollywood got the purple heart today. He got it because he s a crazy kid with a lot of guts. Campbell Isnit an infantryman he a a photographer. But so far in this War theater anyway he a the Only photographer to jump with the paratroopers the Only one to get a purple heart. And he did no to jump in a practice session near Casablanca. He jumped on Sicily two hours before a hour on a Day. He knew what be was doing. He volunteered. They did no to teach Liim much at 1 be paratroop Camp. All they aught him was the Correct Way to step out of a plane. A that Sall you need to know Quot they said. And they were right. In tile dark of tile plane As it look off each Man knew j list where every thug was. It was a Ong roundabout route they took to avoid the Convoy. At 12 04 everybody hooked up. At 12 06 they were scheduled to jump. But there was a mix up somewhere. So while the planes hunted for their objectives the boys sweated out a half hour All loaded with their two chutes equipment. Then came the signal Light and the boys booked up to Tho plane Cable the Light flashed and they started jumping Campbell was no. 4 Man. T done to know what happened after i jumped out a said Campbell. A except that opening Shock jarred up everything inside of me. And then there was a terrific sensation of seeing an equipment Chute coming Down in flames lighting up Tho  sky sharply outlining All the paratroopers and planes. If there was any enemy in that sector we would All have been dead ducks a said Campbell had six tanks the americans Only had a few anti tank guns. So the paratroops pitched in to help out. Campbell did no to have his camera so he shot with a carbine. He was shooting All Day Long but be went out a Little too far and soon he found himself pinned Down by mortar ii that s when he got hit by shrapnel in his right leg. Instead of having the leg treated he sprinkled a Little sulfa on it and took his turn for three hours that night guarding the rations. Next afternoon they shipped him off to a Hospital and he stayed there for four Days. He stayed there until his Boss 1st it. William  Auge hunted him up and got him out this is the second a Day for Campbell. He landed at Safi Morocco. Over there too when the hellfire was. Thickest Campbell volunteered to go ashore in a putdown destroyer so that he. Could get some of the real action shots. Together with sgt. Bernard Haber Bronx n. Y. Who also volunteered for the Job and was supposed to come with tile first Glide ,,.l.1 ers which never came Campbell Rod fun i cd a Ltd red the tunisian Campaign from Start to finish. Now All patched up he wants to go up there and shoot some More. A but this time with my camera not Ziy carbine Quot said Campbell. In an of Inge tree eight seconds later Campbell was in an Orange tree hanging upside Down by one leg. Quot for a minute i thought i was dead Quot he said. But he soon straightened himself out listened until he heard City of Palermo continued from Page i sicilians continued from Page i the clinking sound of Oiler Para Nelly in previous Winter drives the troopers toking off their chutes russians started an Advance of j and then started Hunting for their own. The russians Coneen them. By Daybreak he a in a m1vj rated  in strength around Orel party of eight. But Campbell still do. Everybody although fighting continued around Hadnot i outed the equipment Chute Days of peace Belgorod and around kursk mid with All his camera stun. Way Between Hie two n it a heavy artillery is pouring shells into the City seven Days after tile push started and bomber Are pounding Orel Smi i ways and Supply depots unceasingly. Tiie russians had almost reached the Man rear to Orel the Railroad from Bryansk. If the soviets Cut the line they would eliminate Tho the cig it set out for the coast a Tuii Day of hiking and they walked into Vtttoria poking their j Heads into the towns outskirts trying to determine if the Ami i cans had taken the town yet they had not taken tile town yet so they quickly poked their Heads out again followed by a lot of bullets. Six Miles out of Vtttoria eur Sokoni who promised them a new Sicily and gave them a few new Street signs. Their towns still smell like a flushed toilets their clothes Are rags their people Are illiterate and their food and Money have been drained off into tile fascist purse of Italy. There Art few fat people Here. Spot a fat Man and you spot a fascist american speaking sicilian John Vitanyi who lived in Brooklyn for six years expressed it tills Way Quot the sicilians Are a simple religious people. Even thing they Are a in a doing they have been forced to Here prays for the when they eau forget fascism and fighting and go Back to their farms and Al skiing  to Iii sicilian show will be Over very soon. Have since dried up and the two Peninsulas have been joined. On the North Side of the City toward Monte Pellegrine is the new Harbor of Palermo around which a new Quarter has sprung up. There Are two entrances to this Harbor which is uie finest in Sicily. They Are the North Basin and South Basin with a total Quay age including moles of 5,873 feet. There Are also three additional quays Between the two basins the water area of which was deepened at the Start of this War. The bulk of exports which leave Palermo Harbor Are Citrus fruits oranges and Lemons grown in the very Fertile Plain of Palermo which a Well watered by Springs and streams. Citric acid is also produced in Large quantities for Export. The City is an important rail and Road terminus. The important Railroad which runs Down the halon Mainland and is ferried to Messina proceeds along the North coast to Palermo. A principal Highway runs parallel to the Railroad to Palermo another runs up the West Side of the Island from Castelle Irano to Palermo and still another crosses the Island from Agrigento on the South Shore to Palermo on the North in 1939 a Road from Caltanissetta. In the heart of the Sulphur District to Palermo was nearly completed it is reasonably Safe to assume that the Road is now being used and has undoubtedly served the allies Well in their Advance to the const. Germans threaten new a boat drive London a close on the heels of Allied announcements of Victory Over German submarine warfare German newspapers have an-1 bounced a new a boat offensive which Aill embody new types of warfare. British naval authorities Point out that the Only Way to in prove a boat technique is to draw support from air and surface Craft. It was recalled that Germany in june 1917, proclaimed a new a boat drive the Chancellor of the period von Bettma Holweg caking tile Campaign Quot tile last  food for greeks Ankara the swedish steam a quirls left Mynia for Greece with j rout to , they met up with a 335 tons of food and supplies from potty us of la a Rade reinforce Tot an outfit of the i the red Croiss the Steamer s c Tho Etton 4h  v was to a a niy1 one has to of column Soh Atodd a d Byl,f.,1ine in Loans sad mood for Creek students from their to hmm Only Jav away. Germans. The Meyries Ana germans comrades in Ankara University. Invasion chocolate London a the undernourished children of Europe will have a Corner on the chocolate Market soon. Because it is the bes available Quot Vitamin Container a All supplies will be conserved and earmarked for children seven to 14 years old when tile invasion of Ute Continua begins. Palermo taken 7th army troops move to coast continued from Page i week a italian resistance in the West and North first cracked then collapsed to almost nothing. It bad become apparent by thursday that All except the Barest resistance had collapsed in the Western half of the Island. Reports reaching Allied Force Headquarters that Day pictured the american forces sweeping like an unleashed torrent into Western and Northern Sicily. It was obvious that the High Speed of the advances could not have been reached had tile enemy offered serious opposition. Soldiers with a heart in their fight could have delayed an invasion army for weeks in the rough mountainous terrain through which the 7th army charged at break neck Speed. American forces which had previously been reported Only As far West As the Agrigento area were placed in thursdays news a threatening Marsala the City on the Western tip of Sicily. They had engulfed caste Vetrano and sciatica the chief air rail and Highway centers of the southwestern portion of the Island. Swift Advance seventh army troops pointed toward the North and Northwest had when last heard from been in Tho Canicatti and Caltanissetta regions. Then thursday tile world Learned that the mercurial americans had engulfed the Good sized towns of Menfi Caltabellotta san Stephano Mussomeli and Santa Cancerina in a Broad Belt which ran directly from West to East. On the american East flank the canadians had marched through Ramacca. It became obvious that the War was nearly Over for the Western two thirds of Sicily. The contrast Between the first and second weeks of the invasion was Sharp. During the Early Days of the Allied attack on the Island it was the British on the Eastern sector who made the surging advances while the americans especially around Gela were meeting with stiff opposition. By the time the Battle for Sicily had entered its second week however the americans had begun to crack the Back of their opposition while the British had run into a Stone Wall of determined German units which contested every Inch of ground before Catania the East coast s big City. Axis forces Gen. Sir Bernard Law Montgomery a crack 8th army found that aggressive Axis forces made cohesive by tile presence of Large German elements were taking advantage of every one of the Many natural obstacles which blocked the path to Catania and the strategically vital Northeast Corner of Sicily. Yesterday s front line reports repeated the Story of the seven Days that had gone before. There was fierce fighting All along the 8th army front with the British inching ahead and inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy. Defending Axis forces have found a valuable ally in the dozens of tributary streams and irrigation ditches which Cut through the Gorna Lunga River Delta. The enemy has also made extensive use it of land mines in its desperate efforts to delay tile Tough 8th army. The Hermann Goering division reinforced with a Strong Force of German Parachute troops has constituted the principal opposition to the attacking British forces. In Complete contrast to the italian forces in the West the germans have been Able to launch heavy counter attacks. They have been i vain but Are nevertheless annoying. One armed Aee missing in action London Squadron Leader j. A. F. Marla Cilian one armed Ace of the Raf has been reported missing in action. Tire 24-year-old airman was tile Holder of tile distinguished flying Cross and the distinguished service order. He kist his left aim after he had been wounded by a German Cannon Shell Over Malta in 1941. A fortnight after the amputation he was flying again. Three weeks ago Squadron Leader Mecla Cilian and another officer shot Down six enemy aircraft in to minutes Over Baris