Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1943, Algiers, Algiers Vol i no. 91, thursday August 19, 1943 u. S. Army daily newspaper for troops in Algiers area one franc forts direct triple punch at Germany flight hits plane factory flies on to african bases London aug. 18 a Britain fitted flying fortresses yesterday delivered severe blows to German a a second largest aircraft fac a re. The Meserschmitt Plant at Lien hew on Over the Alps to North Africa according to today Allied air communique. It a is a a Iii tremendous Daylight activity that saw two Oiler great formations of fortresses raid Germany ii it Man Ain while another c my no run m i Terraneau bases Airfield in Southern ack ack sets plane seven Miles High London out a the Best pieces of Auti aircraft shooting in history a o men credited to three mixed an i aircraft batteries on tile South coast of England. They potted a me-109 flying Ovet on reconnaissance. About a veil Miles up. In spite of its height the gunners shot at Tho plane and hit it dead on. The Eisenhower hails Victory of Battle tried yanks Messersi Mitt half an i the Earth about a broke cleanly in two pieces fill to mile apart. Troops Given Welcome by captured City to sin Iii at France. To raid on Craft t intones penetration of Niino the by Miles to Ltd get to for starts conference leaders studying War s next moves me unmarked tile Dic a St fortresses into Gers flew on i he Africa. Saaf Headquarters lure said last night to tat the losses on this raid were Bot available. One of the in St vital links in Germain s War production Chain. The big Ball bearing works at Seh Weinfurt. W As attacked wit ii rest effect by tile o her two fortress formations from Britain the planes on this Mission met Strong fighter opposition and 36 of them Are missing but Crews that got Hack reported Good bombing results of is not known yet How Many enemy fighters the forts shed Down but squadrons of thunderbolts and spitfires which escorted the bombers destroyed 33 enemy machines. In other Alii cd operations of the Day. Of Saaf medium bombers attacked get Man airfields at Pix and bras Sud and bombed the railway Yards at Calais in France. Piaf typhoon bombers raided the airfields at Lille and Woen Sprecht near Antwerp. Belgium. Last night the rape in great strength attacked the German amiral and radio works at Peme Mende on the Baltic Island of use loin Northwest of Stettin. Bombing during the Moonlight attack was reported Well the installations on the Island were described a it vital to the German War Effort. A great number of German aircraft were encountered and several destroyed. Heavy Stirling and other Raf bombers were credited Oday wit ii a heavy raid on the Fiat and Railroad installations at in Northwest Italy monday night. Six enemy raiders were shot Down Over Southeastern England last night during raids which caused slight damage and some casualties. I tic sixth historic meeting Between president Roosevelt und i in minder Winston Churchill Bogan yesterday in Quebec Only a Day alter the collapse cd Sicily had been announced. The great Allied Victory added new Sig no it Anet to the conference regal Den a it potentially tile most import Atli yet held by the Heads of Hie american and British government s. I lie president arrived in Quebec tuesday night and was met by Churchill who drove Hun to the Citadel where the leaders will stay during their visit Iii Canada. Since Hie announcement last week that Roosevelt and Churchill would meet tor the second time in three months their combined i chiefs of staff have held Long ses i Sions in Quebec to Iron out tile preliminary details of the major i questions which would absorb the i attention of the president and j prime minister. High on the list of subjects undoubtedly. Is the problem of military operations against Western Europe the Quot third front Quot which 1 will divert German divisions from j the Eastern front a and the Means i it bringing the nazi government i to Knees. Since Roosevelt and Churchill last discussed the future i offensives the Campaign for Sicily began and ended in com i Piete Success. But the next blows to be launched against the Axis Ion tin continent will be of far greater scope than tile Island landings it was regarded As a certainty by most observers in Allied capitals. Retains i rom Quebec London and Washington indicated that the forthcoming conference will resolve the Allied posh Ion on the works j italian declaration of Rome As an Turin i out in City. In the american capital. Secretary of state Cordell Hull disclosed that the Rome government has not yet officially no tit ted the United states of its desires to make Rome a neutralized City. By a sol Kai pm Martin stars and strives staff writer with american troops in aug 17 delayed just another pile of j nibbled Rock where buildings used Loim where people used to live. But when two american recon parties too ted into Hie town at 5 30 this morning the 38th Day Atter the invasion Landing life had come Back to the rubble people had left their caves to Hunt up some american flags and Parade in the streets cheering loud eign to Cli own out tilt sound of their Small band playing on battered instruments. And in the Parte streets winding up a Road to the top of the Hill was a Long column of Little kids old ii i f i with Donkey carts and several score of pregnant women who were loaded Down with sacks of flour and big cans of food these Semi starved sicilians too Long without Lood had busted into a Well filled italian soldiers storage warehouse. One of the two recon sections to push into town just before Dawn was the 3rd division recon commanded by 1st la William b. Gunter. Commerce. Ga., who had brought his boys Forward slowly town after town running Over mines bumping into Jerry artillery and Small arms fire. For the Job. Gunter had a single Battery of pack 75 howitzers attached to jeep is. To give him close support. The 75�?Ts were Well used firing at tanks at entrenched machine gun nests. It was near Hie Crossroads when nine jeeps passed safely Over a Road and the tenth jeep set off the mine. Jus about the same time the second platoon of i company of the third battalion of an infantry regiment of the 3rd division and a half dozen men from Headquarters company hiked eight Miles bypassed several demolitions. They finally reached the town Only to discover that All the germans had pulled out the night lie fore after the last Hill entrenched Heinie Battery fired two rounds in our Gen a Oral direction about 7 30 that night. All that remained were the a anxious to Siu Render italians leading the second platoon the same group that entered Palermo first was 2nd la Ralph Yates. Austin. Tex., arum 2nd la. Jeff pc general lists Allied gains of Campaign by in. Stars and Allied ters. Aug Paul s. Green strip it staff net Force ii Kai her aria the Campaign in Lien. Dwight ii. Eisenhower nazis hold in Ukraine Kharkov defense cuts soviet Cains cont. On Page 4. Col. 2 . Units rivals Ai by Sui. Jack Foisie stars aria strips staff writer with american troops w Here the coast Road bends Inland entering aug. 16�? across the corridor to . A delayed two divisions and the German prisoner captured this of rangers will share the Honor of ter noon reported that his battalion instructed to continue t timing it was revealed i be today As units converged upon the historical be a port. Hie 3rd and 45th divisions which have alternated in the tight along tic North coastal sectors both have a battalion of infantry pushing along the main Road Down those last few Miles. Another Batuto from the 3rd. The same outfit which made the two amphibious Raider thrusts last winging North headed Peloro above to clean out the let a remaining get away Point of Whit enemy still remains in Sicily the Ranger battalion after working through the Hills to the South of the main Road. Has also turned toward resist Nice during rho final Day pith operation books it is d plus 37�?centered about gesso had been delaying action until eight o clock tonight then to withdraw and evacuate Quot if possible a All their t officers left them this morning j promising the platoon leaders Quot honorary commissions if they i is to u id get out the prisoner said. That resistance consisting of a few Mobile 75�?Ts and tanks mount my 88 s. Plus some Small arms fire. Week Are was brushed aside and the Victory for Cai get bound drive continued. Demolitions and minefields had to be dealt with. I the y inks were Cager a a to finish up Hie and the natural rivalry to be first into town seeded a the Tempo i evacuation by the enemy continue d at scattered Points along the Lynch Allied planes attempting to dive and strafe the boat loads were met by extremely heavy flak. Reconnaissance photos showed that Mote than 250 a guns were protect my tile b aches. The commanders ate interest i in Cap luring As Many of guns As possible and once into the a patrols will split North and South to mop up what remains. It. Col. Live Vav Bernard of the amphibious raiders described his land sweep to the very Northeast tip of Sicily As Quot we be got them out on a limb and we re going out on the limb aft them a company commander quipped �?�1 Hope the limb can sup Xii both our the British were still reported some 20 Miles from the City lying held up by enemy created Road Breaks a a which will take six weeks to according to an Raf spokesman. I Here wet demolitions on the americans Road too. But Fortun cont. On Page 4. Col. 5 London aug. 18�?violent fighting still raged Iii the outskirts of Kharkov last night As the germans continued their All out defense of the key Ukraine City i it was reported from Moscow last night. The nazis have reversed their earner tactics of at tem it my an orderly Retreat from Kharkov and have Brough up a Large part of their available Panzer divisions and Luftwaffe squadrons to reinforce the defending Garrison. The soviet Advance around and beyond Kharkov threatens to trap at least 50 German divisions East of the Dnieper and the wehrmacht is Mak be eve a possible Effort to Hod off the Russia tide to prevent possible los of thir entire of Quot a in Southern Russia the red Arenn a is if the Ukraine especially in the Kharkov area could in measured Only in Yards yesterday russian pincers pressing the ebb on Tho w do a extending from Northwest to Southeast were a of info slowly and Tho cocain corridor to Tho South a rest Wras he Ino narrow0 but a final assault of Tho kind that Swent Oro oui Eklov once the in a a Tbs had been reached has no j vet been bar wind by the red Arrne at Kharkov. Moan wide russian troops pushed Doser to a gtd were in off Joia in roofed within in Miles of the Rita from the eat a the and inn up up Quot rpm a Rdv a Cair of seven Miles in the Quot last to o Days in Spie of Tho natural Barrier adored but Tho terrain in rounding Brvan a further North Tho soviet Arr a considerably improved its position in Tho spas Rwy Minsk actor. Moscow announced Wasp launched Sicily has been the coming of age fur the fighting men of the american 7th army it was Indi rated today at a press conference i by Gen. Dwight i Eisenhower Allied commander it chief in North Africa under wit is ii auction the Conquest of the Island wus carried through to its successful conclusion. Stressing he meant to Praise every Allied Soldier taking part in the Campaign. Gen Eisenhower noted he was particularly gratified that the Amene ans have now had the Battle putting them i a Par with the War Wise British veterans. He remarked the soldiers of both nations can be Lik ened to the double barrels of a Shotgun ready for use in tile next j operation. Its a real Victory and our troops have done everything the Best troops in the world would have done and that includes All three services a he said 135,000 prisoners releasing tile Box score tor the Campaign the Allied Leader announced there were Well Over 135,-000 Axis prisoners taken up to the loth of August including 6-7.000 germans. Enemy losses in killed and wounded readied 32.000 men i including 24.000 germans. These numbers which do not include considerable casualties Iii tile bust week make a total of 167,000 in killed wounded and prisoners of i War. For the same Feriod ending Augustio the an it lost 260 Tanto and .�?~>02 guns destroyed or Cap tined during the entire Campaign there were 1,601 Axis planes captured or destroyed on the ground and in the air. Besides aircraft these figures do not a id hit final week of Light Iii. As for equipment Many thousands of vehicles of All types and great quantities of stores Are Sud b my collected. On the Allied Side Gen Eisenhower estimated our losses Iii men killed wounded missing and prisoners Are expected to reach 25,000. A total of 103 Allied tanks 274 planes and 251 guns have been destroyed. Praises engineers tile general had especially High Praise tor Hie engineers who did such a marvelous Job in Clearing the Way for advancing troops Over the tremendously difficult terrain. He permitted this direct quota to Ion Quot Only through the engineers has the end of the Campaign come As discussing the evacuation of Axis forces Gen. Eisenhower revealed the germans Iliad succeeded in getting out most of their remaining effective during the past few Days. He did not disguise tie fact that he was Disapio tinted at the escape of any germans at All. He explained How difficult it was tor tile Navy and air forces to Rover the Short stretch of water in the face of heavy coastal guns. And Strong ack ack. He noted Al Quincy. Mass. The aircraft planes took a great toll of Carrier seventh american i enemy personnel fleeing across the warship to Bear that name was Straits bunched at the Bethlehem fore Saj j during the last River Yards Here Jackie Shea. Of six. Son of cmdr. John j. Shea. Jimmy Burlingame ten and his brother Bobby nine sons of gunner Archie c Burlingame stood at attention As the ship Slid Down the was. Their fathers perished when the carriers immediate predecessor was sunk off Guadalcanal last septem tier. During the last phase Battle the italian rear guards surprisingly enough fought Well for the first time in the Campaign. Gen. Eisenhower noted the Victory accomplished these objectives Sicily has been occupied for us As a base cont on Page 4, col. I ,
