Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1943, Algiers, Algiers Vol. I no. 83, monday August 9, 1943 reds move southward at Kharkov one franc invasion Materiel supplied Early Washington a All Materiel needed was supplied Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower. Commander in chief of Allied forces in North Africa a full month before Hie invasion of Sicily began it was disclosed by maj Gen w d. Slyer chief of staff of the army service Rothes on Jan. 26, Gen. Eisen How i asked that delivery be made by pm 13 of 5 000 trucks. 20 Loco in olives. 40 Flat cars. 400 dump trucks and smaller items for a total i of 22 shipments. Slyer advised the Allied Leader mat file deadline would be met. I this elect was adding if you want the Pentagon nights official building shipped to you. Eve us a oin Cial utile More russians Only 15 Miles from steel Center in Ukraine London. Aug. 8�?russian mouse forces were within 15 Miles of be Ukraine steel Center of Khar Vas soviet motorized columns struck swiftly southwestward Belgorod to threaten Kharkov a uth encirclement Moscow report-<1 at the same time red army unite that took Orel thursday night moved to a Point Only 25 Miles from Bryansk furious German resistance wast met in both sectors but the rus a tri troops Are continuing to develop their offensive and Are ad-1 dancing steadily towards he Twok a towns of the new German de tense line. The official Coni my ii to be i stated Aiti Tough tin russian thrust at Kharkov is Only a few Days old. I a a the Saieed with which the reds1 Al Jed Southwest Pacific were moving pointed to a begin Headquarters. Aug 8-one Mug of a decisive Battle within a japanese Cruiser and two destroy Able time. Already the Advance or were sunk and another de Bas passed Well to the West of the Strayer probably sunk when Allied Seei City. Out flanking Kharkov on naval units intercepted the four the North and indicating a surge j vessels in Vella Gulf attempting southward that would completely Ito run supplies to Vila on Kolom encircle the defenders. I Angara Island. The action lasted one hour. Gen. Douglas Macar mud trial cities and second univ ? communique reported and our for left the scene without i loss. While Allied ground forces push i de North from Munda american naval leaders reminded the nation 1 of the firs anniversary of the Solomon Island invasion which be u. S. Army daily newspaper for troops in Algiers sri. Enemy crumbles for italians As British attack Etna defences pierced by 8th in fast thrust Call for general strike is sounded As peace protest Palermo restores English Garden a Iii whole of state of siege. Jap naval units sunk land forces push North from Munda formerly est to Kiev among the cities of me Ukraine. Kharkov has already been in red army hands once this year soviet troops captured the City Iii february but lost it again a Mouth later to one of the heaviest German counterattacks of the entire War. Kharkov is the main Center of rail and Road communications for tile whole of Southern Russia and with its capture the Way to the Ukraine and the Dnieper River would he open. Russian forces at one Point were seven Miles from the Railroad to Sumi and Kiev one of the Only two Litie it to the latter City. Entire Pacific Island Cam draft postponed for family men Washington aug. Go a nationwide Pool of All non fathers has been ordered so that no More family men will be drafted before ail available single men Are called it was announced yesterday by selective service Headquarters. States which have the largest supplies of single men and childless married men will furnish most of the october draftees. The Pian worked out Calls for beginning the draft throughout the nation at approximately the same time for All fathers with children born before sept. 15, 1942. It was emphasized however mat the step does not change the liability of pre Pearl Harbor fathers to induction but will Mercia postpone their Entrance into service for several months. Gan the pain. Well destroy the enemy. Well i push Forward until the Battle of tile South Pacific becomes the Battle of Japan adm. William f Halsey or. Commander of . Naval forces in the South Pacific. Told correspondents. Quot in the past we be often fought against forces that greatly outnumbered our own. Now our forces Are stronger than i3t any time since we first began the bitter task of driving the Jap from the lands he seized when our Allied might was unorganized and Unready for major conflict Allied world strategy is aimed at i keeping China in the War against Japan. Adm. Ernest j. King. Com i Mander in chief of the . Fleet j t a. N n. Italy today is in a Royal decree to published in last italian Gazette while the italian socialist Gray was calling Lor a general strike of All elements opposed to the bad it gho regime the abolition of tile monarchy and immediate peace. Rome massages to Swiss i said that the Allied warn my of resumption of the Aerial of Tensive has had a remarkable effect it is Learned that representatives of several political parties yesterday handed marshal Pietro Sadoglio a petition which said. I he extreme seriousness of the situation demands that the government make immediate decisions based on the reality of the War situation and on the wishes of the majority of the another Tjien attack on Sadoglio s Tempo izing jux Juicy is reported from Rome. Despite the order of the italian minister of popular culture or. Guido Romeo. The newspaper Quot Popolo i roman attacked the government saying that if Sadoglio continues his present Jjo Licy he is guilty of an act of violence and oppression against the nation s will and determination or is said the Popolo i Roma Quot tor the government to remain on Hie borderline of Liberty. The italian Public is sufficiently right a to enjoy full Liberty continued on Page ii by pvt. Paul s. Green a stars and stripes staff writer re a Blip Force head Quad i ers aug 8 tile Days of Oer Allied Force Headquarters. Aug 8-now that Benito Mussolini Lias been removed from Power the people of Palermo Are restoring to some of their streets and Parks English names that la Duce ordered removed when Italy Man. Entered the War. It of 111 Sicily seemed Hie of Hie first re christenings flt by m Hie triumphant was that of the picturesque Park by s to a a Quot is cult a in a the Pri news i Quot re or of it in a a Quot re Holt i it Elri a 1,"� Lieen known As the English Gar f and into Den until Mussolini ordered it re add to Oral towns. There named of Lardo Crispi three years ago a nazis would now the people of Palermo Call w Defene their a k Gist Bino again was allies bomb Axis Retreat Northeast Sicily heavily pounded b-17 s operate at 40,200 feet Seattle Wash a flying for tresses can operate at an Altitude of 40.200 feet Boeing aircraft officials said after removal of a censorship restriction forbidding mention of flights Over 35.000 meet. The disclosure w As permitted after a record Parachute jump of 40.200 feet by it. Col. W. R. Lovelace to test new oxygen equipment which by a sgt. George Hakim stars and stripes staff writer Allied Force Headquarters. Aug. 8 a Rio he sustained might of the Northwest air forces was directed this past weekend at the rapidly dwindling Axis tri a n g i e in northeastern sic l y while ground forces moved in lightning like thrusts toward the Northern Apex of Messina virtually every Type of Allied air Date was thrown into the Battle in an Effort to deliver the knockout blow to the last remnants of Axis resistance on the Island. Messina bore the Brunt of the weekend bombing attacks. On Fri i Day a Large Force of Usa of b-17 s dumped tons of High explosives on junctions in the terminus area in an Effort to further hamper the enemy in its disorganized Retreat to the sea they met no enemy aircraft and anti aircraft resistance was considerably less than they had Ever encountered Over the target. Enemy shipping in the Straits four additional towns that Hie groggy in Able to set up a line at any Point with tie rapid Advance bringing Pun the ally All the my. Etna Region i under Allied control except tile j Northern portion j although american forces further North met stiff ailing Panzer i opposition As they pushed Onward North and East of captured Troina the British quartet of victories put them in a position to pounce on the nazi forces from the rear. Hard on the heels of the beaten remnants of the Hermann Goering division fleeing from Catania along the it. Etna Road 8th army veterans captured the towns of Bronte adv to Biancavilla and Belpasso. Bronte on the Western slopes of it. Etna is an important Road Junction eight Miles North of drano. Biancavilla arid Belpasso six Miles apart Are below drano. I he length of the front has now been sliced to about 50 Miles As the germans Are being pushed Back into the narrow part of the Island where their Capetowne the first trophy i taken by a South african naval vessel in the invasion of Sicily reached Capetown this week ail italian Flag captured at Augusta. The action marked the first time that the South african Navy had opera ted in any european theater of War. Kitty Hawks take order seriously a Forward sicilian Airfield told to lick everything you see at sea australian pilots living p-40 Kitty Hawks registered this score against Axis shipping one ship of 150 feet believed to be carrying ammunition or gasoline or both blown up in Milazzo Harbor. Seven out of nine barges sunk. One Barge sunk in Messina St rads. A Schooner hit and near misses scored on other Craft. Group Captain John Darwen i said afterwards a they carried out1 my instructions in a Way rial left no complaint a with american forces in Northern Sicily aug. 7-the enemy dug in on the Forward Slot in of a 700-foot Ridge to the West of san Fratello and were receiving a thorough pasting from the american mortars which Are proving to be one of the most successful weapons of the sicilian Campaign. The Boche did t like it and refilled with mortar fire of their own for Over 30 minutes today they traded blow for blow Shell for Shell in one of the most devastating Batties of the coastal Cain a pain. The effectiveness of the mortar was demonstrated the very first Day when a company commanded by capt. L. R. Kuiper of Laramie who. Smoked out an italian Garrison at Vittoria and blew up a tank with one of their he a Nix bats. The enemy could not believe that tile Job was done by a Moi tar. On d plus one Quot a company did equally Well scoring direct hits in to o machine gun posts at co-1,1 Iso Airport. But it was at Caltagirone that they saved the Day some 30 tanks and 500 infantrymen of tile Hermann Goering ditty sol Jack Foisie stars and stripes staff writer vision had come up suddenly to seriously threaten the american positions. Had it not been that the mortars were already in Jisi tion that Day might have been a different Story Quot recalled it. Robert l. Jardine of Douglas. Coh. We gave them the old Pep it or pot and broke up their these big mortars Are similar in appearance to their Little Brothers. Their fire determination process however is More like the artillery. Like All mortars the weapon has a Low velocity and a super sensitive fuse. It is deadly accurate. All this is background for today conflict which highlighted the third Day of lighting for the town of san Fratello. Of the German known it. Too is deadly accurate but Hasni to the punch nor the Range of the american weapon. The mortars moved into position last night on the Back Side of Altha a 300-foot Ridge which looks up to the 700-foot Hogshead on which the germans Are strongly fortified. The enemy led off by shelling the general area before Dawn. They missed the mortars and the men. But it w As close. Of How close a but. Robert j. Hurlbert of so Paul. Minn., was sleeping near his Musette bag. Which contained All his belongings. The bag was riddled. And the Only thing he salvaged w As a pair of socks very full of holes. That s Okay. All my socks have he said. Quot what i hated losing was a picture of my Gin and two decks of cards especially the the mortars got in their first round at 6 of clock this morning when they threw 60 smoke shells Over As a cover for advancing infantry. I hat smoke is not Only cover for us. But it puts heat on the enemy setting fire to Brush on the Hill and smoking him out of i his positions Quot explained a sgt. The background j Raymond Dale of Magnolia my. Mortar is Well Dale does no to have to be at the firing position but last night he wanted to see what it was like. All morning the German artillery with excellent observation Are practically looking Down our throats have been surveying the Hillside putting one first at the observation Post on top of the Crest then one on the Bridge at the nearby coastal Road then one j where they think the mortars might be. Tile mortar in v s. When j continued on Page i backs will be to the Messina Wall. Rho front line is now Sha ted roughly like a backward "3,�?� with c a Tama at. The base Broil the protruding in Hie Center and Roundel Quot out by tile san Fratello Region in the North. I he taking of Bronte seriously endangers the Panzer troops battling desperately to Stop the yanks w to Are advancing from Troina. 12 Miles to the Northwest. The germans Only Road of Escaje get toward the next Junction Rau Dazzo is within artillery Range of British units in Bronte. Over the weekend it was revealed the 1st american division of maj. Gen. Terry Allen had taken Troina the scene of some of the hardest fighting of the entire Campaign. Heavy casualties were inflicted on the crack German troops in the area As the yanks moved Forward slowly it was reported. The inevitable juncture of american farces lighting eastward from continued on Page it army to appoint negro advocates new York Nemo attorneys will to commissioned As judge adj rates assistant Secretary of War i John j. Mccloy announced in a j letter to the National lawyers Guild. I a a selection of these officers will tie made by the judge advocate i general rom qualified officers of other arms and services or if this source is not adequate by the appointment of qualified enlisted men after successful completion of offi a or candidate school Mccloy 6u j
