Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Page 4 he stars and stripes daily b-26 Downs giant plane Allied Force Headquarters aug. 4�?in a titanic struggle Between two Aerial giants a b-26 marauder of the coastal air Force destroyed a heavily armed me-223 Over Northern Corsica last Friday. A a it was like a fight Between a battleship and a destroyer a said Wing commander w. Maydwell the marauder Pilot. The German plane offered stiff resistance from its four Forward guns and Side guns while Tommy guns were fired at us from the windows suggesting that it was carrying troops Quot the me-323. Which had six engines can carry 120 fully equipped men. Quot after we had put three of its six engines out of action a continued Maydwell Quot the machine turned into land and made a forced Landing at the base of a Hill it turned Over and fell to nieces. Allies had been Here before British wary continued from Page of from the 8th Saaf have been Active Over Western Europe throughout the period when Ham a it org was bearing the Brunt of the less Rugtive Shower of Allied heavy explosives. Meanwhile it was officially announced Here that the British somber command or opined a rec it re total of More than 17,000 tons it of bombs on German and italian targets in five full scale and six medium attacks during july. Tile effect of the destruction of Hamburg is clearly evident in Berlin i Here special trains and busses packed with refugees Are leaving the capital it was reported by a swedish correspondent who has been expelled from Berlin for writing about the situation there. The Berlin newspaper Voelki her Beo Zachter admitted that All was not Well however. A a if we fail now it is the end of us. The pressure on our Power of resistance has reached our extreme limit. The whole Reich is within reach of Allied planes a it said. A a. 4tiff testimony to the accuracy of Allied bombing la this twisted merchantman. It is one of several smashed at its moorings in troops seized Sicily n largest City. Pm Fly ii i in "1 steel which was once an Axis Palermo Sharbor be it ire Allied Oto by army pictorial service thursday August 5, 1943 captive Pilot flees again Gravenhurst ont. _ Ober lieutenant Hans Peter Krug has escaped from a Canadian prisoner of War Camp for the second time within a year authorities announced. The German flier whose first escape resulted in a life sentence for the Detroit restaurant owner who aided him was last seen swimming in an officers Pool and officials were investigating the possibility that he Swain the Detroit River. After he was recaptured the first time Krug testified in the trial of Max Stephan who was convicted of treason and sentenced to death. President Roosevelt later co mutated Stephan s penalty to Lite imprisonment. Veterans near continued Tram Page it eluding a Tiger. It was also revealed that agora to Miles Northwest of a amp tenant ova changed hands several limes before the allies finally sealed its Fate. This prong of the pincers movement against the last Axis strongholds i was considered progressing Well. In the. North the american 7th army made advances of up to six Miles Over the Steep Hills and valleys aking the coast. Marino a Small port some 18 air modes from i strategic Cai Orlando was Given As the furthest Point of Conquest West of Orlando in the area now contested Hie . Navy i joined the ground forces against the hard pressed men of the Axis. The guns of . Cruisers and destroyers pounded at the coast Road and enemy positions on the 7th army a left flank. It boats out or ated diligently against the ene my a communications by sea. Sicily a East coast Felt thex wer of British naval units. Near the famous old City of Taormina up the coast from Catania. British destroyers let Loose a bombardment against land communications and drove off enemy  British destroyers then pounded the coast Road near Cape Molini 17 Miles South of tar Nina.  flashes from Arm a my the front  Vultee perfects air plane de icer Salute Malta continued trom Page it of Malta a dust Ridden Fly infested airfields. To air vice marshal sir Keith Park air officer commanding Raf Malta whose spitfires strongly reinforced from of -1 Rica covered the invading Armada and subsequent landings Gen. I Eisenhower sent the following message a a during my recent Hasty visit to your command i was in and we used to think we had sliced and fire Power in the last War a these words were sicken by a lieutenant colonel of an a 36 attack bomber group who was a member of the 23th Pursuit Squadron Back in 1918. It was the first to be equipped for ground strafing at which the a-36 is just about the last word. Quot our pads carried two 25-Pound bombs hitched to the Landing gear said the colonel Quot and we had two 50-caliber machine guns. When we went roaring Down a Road at 140 my is an hour with both machine guns going we thought we were just about the greatest engine of destruct id on Earth. A now. Looking at these a-36 s i realize How old values fade by comparison and begin to appreciate the  it might be added that the colonel did no to do so Well in hts 1918 strafing Model. On his first Mission the opening Day of the St. Mihiel drive he was shot Down behind the German lines and spent three months in a prison Camp. New York a device using the exhaust heat of air plane engines to de ice wings and Tail surfaces and defrost windshields has been developed by consolidated Vultee aircraft corporation it was announced by Tom Girdler company i executive. The system operates by circus lating air heated by exhaust pipes inside the Wing through ducts to Tail surfaces and the inside of the plane. It is possible to keep the leading Edge of the Metal Wing at a constant temperature of 60 degrees fahrenheit even when the plane is flying through temperatures of 40 below Zero. Girdler said. Allied Force Headquarters aug. 4�?Burros, those patient Little beasts of Burden were responsible for a slight rift Between army and Navy officers who prepared the invasion of Sicily from Malta it was closed by a naval officer. The army wanted the Burros ferried across to serve As sup ply carriers the Navy which got the army a viewpoint but did t like to think what the Burros might do to the boats agreed to carry the animals Only if the army would tidy up after them so the Burros Rode and the army cleaned up. Pressed by the Universal evidence of exemplary efficiency enthusiasm and fighting  on a night Gen. Eisenhower was said to have stationed himself near an ancient maltese Lighthouse to watch invasion planes Fly toward doomed Sicily. In the Windy darkness he saluted As they passed above. While the a-36 gives off a terrific shriek As a result of its brakes ifs almost Imp possible to see the plane itself once it goes into its bombing attack. Captured soldiers say ifs completely demoralizing to hear the awesome noise and then look up into apparently empty air pilots of a-36�?Ts have no shaving problems. They always have plenty of hot water and they done to require the assistance of fire they just fill up water cans and place them in the Sun. Nature does the rest. You  ask for More than a helmet Ful of sicilian Sun heated Aqua. 4h m a at of group if a Dou a Rte is presided Over by it. Co John Stevenson of Laramie. Wyo. The score card is most impressive numbered among this groups victims Are about 300 mild a vehicles destroyed and 270 damaged also on the destroyed list Are 12 Railroad engines seven tanks. 17 Small boats four cargo ships seven warehouses three radio stations three heavy gun positions one Axis Headquarters. Three enemy aircraft and nobody can estimate How Many enemy troops. Ifs easy to see Hie boys done to do much loafing. A a 4 these a ii pilots Arf Tough lads. One stopped the re flak slugs with his slumber while strafing tanks. He just made it Back to poit. Stepped out of his plane and fainted dead away a a a to better appreciate the versatility of tile a-36 one needs Only scan a roster of daily activities. These include escorting patrol Ling reconnaissance dive bombing Glide bombing strafing and jus torturers fail to get formula Denver Carl h. Samuels a research chemist reported to police a tale that might Well befall a current comic strip Viero. He said lie was held prisoner for 28 hours in the basement of his Home and tortured by three men who sought a formula tor a secret gasoline substitute Samuels had been working on. The chemist said that his torturers used i lot wires in their attempt to gain the secret but that he had not surrendered the formula. Three soldiers die of desert thirst 1,004 merchant ships launched this year flying around looking for Likely targets. It first red Cross Clu Mobile unit to arrive Here was staffed by two girls who had been classmates and sorority Sisters at Stanford University. Until a few Days before neither sue Macpherson Saginaw midi., nor Gretchen Ahlswede Pasadena cal., had any idea that the other w As Over Here a a a for almost two weeks some american troops varied their c ration diet with sausages and sauerkraut. The retreating germans had been too much in a hurry to Burn their ration dump. Washington the launching of ten merchant ships last week brought the 1913 total to 1,004. Hie maritime commission announced since Pearl Harbor 1.847 merchant ships have been launched Admiral Emory s. Land chairman of the maritime commission compared the Prebilla program to the plan inaugurated five years ago of launching 50 ships yearly tor ten years. At that time some people thought it was ambitious he remarked san Francisco three soldiers died of thirst in the Yuma Region of the Imperial desert last week after they became separated from their platoon during Maneu vers it was disclosed by army spokesmen. The platoons water Supply gave out after it had been out six Days. A water party was sent out and while it was away the three soldiers started their own search. The party returned with water but the search of the three was unsuccessful and they died baby kidnapped Albany.  kidnapping of a three Day old baby from a Hospital has been attributed to a person unable to have a child doctors said. The seven Pound girl was abducted from a Nursery which she shared with two other babies and tile kidnapper fled by a fire escape Rich fascists continued from Page if Lii Abner by Al Capp to risk a possible revolt. To some observers it seemed that the fall of Sicily and the resumption of widespread Allied bombings might bring the fever shed italian situation to a head. In Allied capitals As earlier in Berlin there was speculation As to whether the Sadoglio group could Long hold a Liwer. In the House of commons a labor m.p., Emmanuel Shin Well asked prime Munster Winston Churchill whether Britain would recognize a socialist government in Laly avoiding direct reply or. Churchill said that in such eventuality Britain would consult her other allies. Another for speech Washington a the White House revealed that president Roosevelt soon will make another half hour address to the nation which can be considered As a a part two to last week s speech the president had enough for a full hour talk hut thought it better to make two half hour addresses