Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 7, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Page 2 the stars and stripes weekly saturday August 7, 1943sicily vignettes baby clinic summer resort with american forces in Northern Sicily the sicilian Campaign in this sector has pro it Lucid no stranger contrast than the sight of men killing and being killed within earshot of men frolicking in the Mediterranean surf. The rugged coast line and the Hills rising steeply from the beaches have Cut the fighting area into definite pockets with the germans retreating from Stren Point to Strong Point and the americans leapfrogging Over the hog beads after them. So it is that around the Corner and Over the Ridge All hell May be breaking Loose while on this Side of the Cape and the Ridge it s As peaceful As a summer resort except for an occasional Long Range Shell that the germans throw in just to break up your vacation. So it is that the Quot rest campy for combat troops May be within sound of machine gun fire. In fact one of the first duties of the combat engineers upon entering freshly occupied territory is to Clear the beaches of mines so that the men May go swimming and Wash their clothes. It is the custom of the mine sweepers to bomb ice business with pleasure and after they have cleared a path to the Waters Edge to keep right in going. A a nothing like a Salt water laundry said pvt. Russell Webb a combat Engineer from Midville Utah tossing his pants into the water. The sea is also being put to another use for disposal of mines. Time was when the engineers Job ended with the dining up and defusing of the Teller anti tank missiles. The harmless hunks of explosives were stacked up in neat piles along the edges of the Road to await Salvage. Sometimes however unfriendly civilians got in the piles first and put the mines Back in working order. Such sabotage win happen be longer. The engineers new Are loading the defused mines hate air inflated rubber boats paddling some distance off Shore and dumping them Down to Davy Jones locker. \  continued from Page ii i scald their funds provided 40 million lire to build workers dwellings it whether before or after the cessation of Allied bombings was not stated and instructed Hie removal of All Laws a a not corresponding to Italy Slegal traditions a All this observers believed added up to just another Effort by the Sadoglio government to assure the nation that fascism was dead at Home and at the same tune try to persuade the italians to approve the continuance of fascist policies abroad. The Success of these political tactics remained strictly in doubt. Neutral news sources indicated that the italian masses while pleased by All measures directed against their tonner fascist masters were primarily interested in getting peace despite tightening official censorship a North italian newspaper was quoted As say my. Away with speeches. We demand peace from the government above  other Neutral sources reported that Many italians after staging riots and sit Down strikes at the weeks beginning were beginning to fall into despairing mood. These italians were apparently convinced that they could do nothing to change the attitude of the be dog in government which evidently has More or less firm military support or to drive German troops from Italy a soil without Allied Aid As bombings of Naples and other centers were resumed the a hied governments made it Clear that they did not intend to bargain with the Sadoglio group for peace. Speaking for the Churchill government. Viscount Cran borne told the House of lords that the United nations feel no Quot tenderness for the Sadoglio Cabinet and would insist on Italy a unconditional surrender. He drove the Point Home by announcing that this stand earlier endorsed by the United states has the full backing of the soviet Union. The Outlook of Italy yesterday might have in summed up like this a a barometer falling wind Iller easing. Hurricane  with american forces in Northern Sicily the woman had a shrapnel wound on her leg and a baby in her arms. The child though unharmed was not Well. Her soft flesh was flabby and her legs were Mere lifeless rods. She fretted continually and there was no color in her face. A a can you help my  she asked the american doctor through an interpreter Cut. Joseph melt of Jamestown. N y. Capt. Don j. Wilson a third division medical officer of Tribune kan., is no baby specialist but he saw at once what the baby needed. All the children in this half starved country of Sicily needed food he knew. Captain Wilson Hadnot Many Vitamin pills but he gave almost All of them to the Mother for baby Josephine. Through the interpreter he explained their purpose and How they were to be taken he promised some canned milk for her baby if she would come Back tomorrow. The Mother flowed out her wends of thanks in italian which the Captain did not understand but he understood the new Light of Hope in the Mother s face. A a we done to have much for babies in our army medical outfits but we certainly give them what we can a said the army doctor a a and we have rotated Many other types of civilian eases since Landing on the Island. The yanks around the Aid station had seen the baby Josephine and they did t need a medical degree to know How they could help. Before the Mother and her baby had Gene a Mack she was bring offered cans of milk meat and Beans boxes of sour balls Rolls of a a five flavor Candy and tubes of Barbatei. , continued Nom Pogo i once surrendered in Masse As soon a they heard that the Guys in front of them Pere gowns. Unlike the gurkhas British Indian troops who look like a Bunch of kids these Gums look and aet As Tough As they really Are and they really Are. Back in 1912, when the French came into Morocco and overwhelmed them these Gums had very primitive ideas about lighting and torturing and killing. They would just As soon Cut somebody head off As say a a Good morning  however when the French took Over they tamed them a Little and absorbed them into their army As a separate fighting Force. Their units built up into Tabors equivalent to our regiment made up of four Gums 200 go winners to a Geum. Most of the men Are lean wan clone cropped crinkly hair and a plaited Pigtail. The Pigtail is to give the lord something to gras onto when he yanks them up to Paradise after they die. The Gums Are All Mohammedan in religion. Berber in or Gin. I berbers Are natives of North Africa arabs a Are not. Practically All of them Wear beards. Quot they believe that a Man who has not seen action and does not have a Beard is not a  explained 1st la Bis toe Hubert their company commander. Hubert has been with the a urns for three yeas. Before that tie was with the spa his those North african native cavalry with the tech Meelor conscious uniforms. Quot these Gums Are the Best fighters i have seen  said the lieutenant. Quot they just done to know when to  besides their company commander each gown is staffed by one other French officer and ten French noncom. In addition the Gums have their own native sergeants. All eat the same food pc rations which they d it Idee particularly. The Gums would much prefer a steady diet of bread and Green Tea their National dish. To every Tabor of Gums there is a cavalry unit each Man owns ids own horse strictly for reconnaissance. A Gums fight on foot. Also attached to each Section Are several score mules to carry ammunition into terrain where jeep can to go. But the Gaums Are crazy about their jeeps. It makes a funny picture to see one of these go Limiter wearing his Wool sack uniform tearing along in a jeep his Pigtail Fly Iii in the  called classic example London raids which in ten Days devastated 3,600 acres of Hamburg were described As a a classic example of a round the clock bombing by an rap spokesman Here. Operations against this most bombed German City were the result of perfect cooperation Between British night and american Day bombers he said. According to the spokesman a night attack by too planes required a ground personnel of 100,-000, while 70,000 worked in support of the Day raids. He added that 40 to 60 airfields were required. Hamburg once a great port and a Ilia i Center has ceased to exist according to some German sources. But the British Point out that the nazis May be trying to make it appear that the target is no longer Worth bombing. Great armadas of ached planes staggered the City with eight big raids Over the 10-Day period.  flashes from the front a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a Russia continued from Poge ii Orel. For two Days an estimated 30 nazi divisions advanced then the wehrmacht was stopped co d before a Wall of russian infantry and Armor that soon sent the world s a a most perfect military machine into a Retreat which the germans described As a a fighting an elastic  for Days the russians moved slowly Forward in a great encircling move on Orel. Prom the North East and South eight soviet armies relentlessly tightened their Vise. Thursday the red army cracked the steel hedge hog defences and roared into the City. From Kharkov to Smolensk the August heat cannot prevent cold Shivers from running up and Down the backs of German commanders. The vital Railroad from Moscow to Kharkov is completely in russian hands and the Garrison at the most important City in the Northern Ukraine is in severe danger of being encircled by an Onrush of red army forces from Belgorod. Smolensk is faced with the same danger from the South As the soviet armies press towards Bryansk. Never exuberant in his flow of language Marsha Stalin emphasised the destruction of the legend that soviet troops could not fight in summer. His order of the Day As supreme commander was addressed to the russian military leaders who had carried out his plans for the Ore Belgorod offensive generals Popov Sokolovski to Kozovsky vat Outkine and Konev. It read a a today aug. 5, our troops on the Bryansk front sustained by forces from the West and Central fronts on the flanks As a result of fierce Battles captured the town of Orel. Also today our troops from the Steppes and Voronezh front broke the enemy resistance and occupied the town of Belgorod. A a month ago on july 5. The germans began their summer offensive in the Orel and Belgorod Region to encircle and wipe out our troops in the kursk salient and to occupy kursk. Having repulsed All enemy attempts to break through to kursk from the direction of Ore and Belgorod our troops then went Over to the offensive and aug. 5, just one month after the Start of the German offensive have occupied Orel and Belgorod. Thus the legend is destroyed spread by or germans that As a matter of course soviet troops Are not Able successfully to undertake a summer offensive a to commemorate this Victory the 5th, 129th and 300th Rhie divisions. Which were the first to break into Ore and which liberated it have been gives the name of Quot Orel a divisions. From now on they will be called the 5th Ore Rifle division the 120th Orel division the 300th Orel division. The 89th guard division which was the first to penetrate into Belgorod and which liberated it has been Given the name of a a Belgorod division. A today aug. 5, the capital of our country however will give the Salute to our valiant troops who have liberated Ore and Belgorod by giving 12 salvos from 120 cannons. A Tor the successful offensive operations express my gratitude to All troops under your commands which a of part in the fight to j liberate Orel and  the newest gag in these parts is the b-2�?� air plane. It was the product of some unidentified i wit who saw four planes approaching. He shouted a a Here come the b-2�?Ts.�?� a Friend said. A a what in heir Are b-2�?Ts?�?� replied the first party a a it will b-2 damned bad if they Aren t  4p a a one of the first jobs All Mph a have to handle in newly conquered towns is that of protecting the mayor and chief of police. For some reason or other civilians want to shoot this pair of functionaries on the spot. There have been several close Calls. A a a they just awarded the soldiers medal to sgt. David Kass. Bronx n. Y., who saved five soldiers from drowning on d Day. Kass was driving his Duck off the list ramp when he saw the Duck right behind him hit something and keel Over. Kass Dove in and saved All three occupants one of whom had a broken leg. Later in the Day when a Shell hit the Magazine of the list Kass gave his life preserver to someone who  swim and jumped a of the ship with everyone else heading for another list nearby. When he reached it he noticed three other soldiers floundering in the water several Hundred Yards away. Tired As he was Kass made a separate trip to bring Back each of them. A a a just another Case of medical magic the doctors said. The Soldier had come in with holes in his liver stomach and bowels his spleen removed and Mouth wounds All complicated by massive pneumonia. A few years ago he would have been dead in a matter of hours. But the docs gave him a Small injection of intravenous Sulf pyridine and now the patient  when they re going to let him go Back to his unit. In in in a sgt. Guy Goodman lived in Hershey pa., and worked for the Hershey chocolate company for years before he came into the army. He was telling Martin covered Cross director of Public information in North Africa How much head like to see a Hershey chocolate bar again when code opened his me skit and gave the Hershey boy his Hershey bar. Before they left Palermo the germans destroyed almost All automobiles they  use. But that Hasni to frustrated gigs with a yen for sightseeing. Its possible to hire a horse and Carriage with a civilian Driver and the boys Are doing just this. They look like wealthy tourists As they Canter hither and Yon to Survey the Many Points of historical interest. A a pm sgt William Binder of Youngstown Ohio and Cpl. Salvatore Dimarco. Of new York City Are interpreters. Their Normal procedure is to Deal with the germans after they Haw been captured. But War is never Normal. They were alone in the sicilian Hills one Day when an italian Farmer warned them that there were German soldiers hiding in the Vicinity. The two decided to Root them out. Three hours later they found them and it took Only two shots to convince the group to surrender. Eight germans came out with their hands in the air. A a a sgt. Claude Fernandez of Carlsbad. N. A. Has a helmet that is too Large. He was sitting in a Slit Trench somewhere in Sicily when a Shell hit the area. His head Felt funny he took off his helmet and Felt his head to see if there was any blood. There was none. He looked at his helmet a piece of shrapnel had entered one Side of the Back end gone out the other it had not touched him. Remarked sgt. Fernandez a a it is Good to have a helmet that is too  a a a somewhere in Sicily the chaplain of a front line american outfit from the 45th division experienced Mort unusual difficulties in holding holy communion for the artillery. This particular Battery was shelling the enemy during the service and concussions from the guns repeatedly knocked the wafers from the communion plate. With a bit of dusting however they were As Good As new. And services were concluded satisfactorily a a a chaplain William f. King was setting a German soldiers broken leg near a Well. Before he was Finis lied a Shell swept by and blew up the Well. The chaplain finished setting the soldiers leg. Chaplain King was a gunners mate in would War i. A a a the chief nurse in the evacuation Hospital on the front walked up to a sgt Herbert Bryant Washington. D. A. With a complaint. Quot theres a sicilian family living High behind our latrine a she said. Quot its bad enough when they use our latrine bul when they Corral their goats in it. A a a it now develops that to Palermo was ready to fold up two i months before the actual invasion fire department records and Public figures Bear out this Assumption a pc Hilly after May 9, when hundreds of planes pounded the docks and City proper Palermo was anxious to toss in the Low i. Car w civilians finally came to the conclusion the allies intended to a Mash Hie entire City of Palermo and kill everybody in it. They reached this men Al stale aft t Abe May 9 raid when Cue string of bomb exploded in Vittorio Emmanulle. The leading Street. Still morale was t entirely gone people helped clean in wreckage after each raid and w colera in panic was avoided in the words of a Deputy fire chief Quot we Are read to stand anything if it meant invasion and Relief from fascism a Ltd a a a the Entrance of americans into Palermo meant free Ltd it a for in american Veteran of world War i who has been living in Palermo for the past five years he is ept Fama Cuccia. Formerly of new York City since 1p38 he has lived in Sicily on the Little Money he made in the states for the fascist government made it Simno Wyble for him to obtain work of any kind due to his american citizenship. Nor would they Jet him return to new York but now the tables Are turned and Cuccia is acting As a one Man information Bureau for the yanks while awaiting transportation Back to the land of the flee Quot speaking in Plain English i would prefer an american jail to what i have gone through Here a he said. A a one of the american made a St a that Cross Over to Sicily is manned mostly by British veterans of sin i pore it was natural therefore that they rate the japs As their number one enemy. On the shield of one of their to my. Guns is painted Quot torus aspirin  a a a a six tons of bombs Are on their Way a the officer said it was one of those super special service jobs of air support. It. Col John honeycomb called up the corps air officer. Capt. Omige had Enfield. About an air Mission on four heavy Caliper German guns that were bother my our troops before the colonel Ca was finished the operator interrupted to Tell the Captain that his previous Call to air support command had finally come through. Had Enfield transmitted the order to air support and before he Hung up. The planes atle in Hie air. A half hour later the Mission was completed