Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 21, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Face 2the stars and stripes weekly saturday August 21, 1943  j flashes fro in a a a a  or clip met Bank Fyle. Wearing his familiar fatigue uniform we approx adding army Headquarters when stepped toy a husky Bip. A a hey fondled whereas your Leggins a he bawled and without waiting for an answer started writing out a ticket a a name a Fyie a said the slight elderly columnist. Quot How a spell it a  first Mac a a a Erato a said Ernie. The of looked for chevrons and found done. A a private  a a no War   the up thought a moment. Quot Well in that ease and he Tore up the ticket. A a Chow vim a a a Veteran of it missions is missing and his Cre Matee stationed at an advanced North african air base Are mourning. Quot Chow hound a wad an enthusiastic flyer and used to ride in the Tail gun position with his pal Cpl. Rolfe 8. Waterman Engineer gunner rom Evansville id. He used to Wear a Parachute normally designed to convey equipment. On his 19th Mission he decided to go Forward to see of the rest of the Crew was on the beam. As he a went through the Waist the Waist gunner opened fire on an enemy plane. Quite understandably a a Chow hound jumped and fell through the opposite gun window. Now a Chow hound to missile because being a Black and White Fox terrier he could no pull the rip Cord. A a a. A sgt Jack e. Enderle to in personnel Supply of a heavy bombardment group and his brother sgt. Thomas Enderton to with a Railroad battalion. Recently while on pass they happened to meet in me of the larger cities and discovered that not Only were they stationed near each other but that Tom was a conductor on a train which runs by the bivouac area of the fortress group. Now when the train passes the area conductor Tom has the Engineer sound a brotherly blast on the whistle. Not Long ago a letter from Home intended for Enderie in the air corps was sent to Enderie in the Railroad outfit. The delivery was simple the letter was tied to a Lump of Coal and thrown off at the brother a bivouac area. A a a a p-40 wa1hawk group which recently scored five victories on its 100th Mission to bring its total of enemy planes destroyed to too on its 100th operational Day has now celebrated its first anniversary in 50 escort missions made by this group Over North Africa Sicily and Sardinia More than 1,000 bombers were covered and not one was lost due to enemy aircraft action. Although the groups motto is Quot we dont have any heroes and we Don t want any Quot it carries on its Rolls three aces. They Are Izaj. Robert l. Base Tor. Of Columbia Conn., the group commander capt. Ralph g. Taylor Durham n. C., and it. Walter b. Walker Stamford Conn. A a to yetis Quot special services has a presented a a phonograph with assorted american. German and italian records to a Yankee 155 my. Battery. That is the record player was found in an italian dugout explained Cpl. Robert h. Shaw of fort Filto s. D. The Choice of records being what they Are the Field artillerymen have selected a the Bugle Call rag a a the Stein song and Quot Giunchi i Polo As the big three in their hit Parade. This swing session goes on con Lnu Eusley pausing Only for fire missions or when counter Battery shrapnel to breaking Over their Heads. Engineers praised by Gen. Eisenhower Allied Force Headquarters a Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower was lavish in his Praise of the engineers who paved the Ray for advancing troops in the difficult Sicily terrain by almost miraculous reconstruction of demolished roads and Bridges and Clearing of minefields. A sparing no words to slum his appreciation Gen. Eisenhower permitted correspondents to qty to this estimate of their work Quot Only through the engineers has the end of the Campaign come sol  Sicily Campaign Success continued from Page to tired. During the entire Campaign comparatively easy time of it in i Btl enemy planes were captured the assault on Syracuse and Ayer destroyed on the ground and gusts but they soon stalled before in the air. J the Superb German defences at a tremendous amount of equip Catania. Folks at Hoku t continued trom Page i a the last the in of the shark a b-26 marauder was Over the Milo Ai drome near Trapani Sicily. Piloted by it. John b. Stumbra the shark ran into flak that came up in Box barrages to make the sky look like it was covered with a Black Cloud. The shark Mas riddled with anti aircraft fragments. One big chunk caught the Light motor but h kept on producing Power. A piece of steel whirled through the Toft Wing and neatly clipped the Hydraulic lines that control the Landing gear end brakes. Other pieces Tore through the fuselage and Tail. Coming in Over their Home Field it. Stumm told his co Pilot la. James a. Weir of Senatobia. Miss to lower the wheels but nothing happened. They tried the emergency system and the right wheel came Down which to worse than none at All. I Clifford c. Decuir. Of Shreveport. La. Sgt. William h. Bowen of Bramwell w. A. 8gt. Clyde l. Buiu. Of Birmingham. Ala., and s-8gt. Arvel l. Clark of Kirbyville. Texas a a padded themselves in the radio compartment and the shark came in for the Landing in last. She touched the ground and started rolling along the runway. The left Wing hit the ground crumbled the plane turned left the right motor touched the ground As the right wheel was sheered away. The Tail hit and broke off Landing 50 feet away but the Dew walked away from the shark without a scratch. A tata the sicilian peasant a sum a drawn cart to no matter of fact conveyance. Almost All the carts Are brightly painted with biotic Al scenes. On the axles of some of them Are carved such scenes As the last supper. One White bearded Harmer carrying a Load a i watermelons had the sides of his cart painted with pictures of ancient romans relaxing in their courtyards at Pompeii. His mule. Uke All the other hard working mules who draw peasant carte wore a a Tori Bant plume of red and Green crepe paper. Kist in the Mase of conflict i amp a statements and reports issued by some politicians and government spokesmen in Washington. Even Secretary of the Navy Frank Kite admitted to this Over the current National furore of drafting pre Pearl Harbor fathers. Asked if the Navy contemplated drafting them he replied a there have been a lot of announcements that have been confused. Its out of my  Public shaky As a result of All this the pubic Lias become shaky concerning what they read and hear. So now people apparently Aren t quite sure that tire news sent to soldiers overseas int glossed and touched up like a bad photog aph to remove the disturbing elements or even to withhold them entirely. But just As they demand a i the news of the Battlefront Good or bad so they feel that soldiers must be Given All the news from Home even if unfavourable if the men Are to re Cross the Bridge from the army to civilian life successfully and intelligently when the War ends. They Tell you that rationing does no to bran it the War closer not when you can walk into almost any Manhattan restaurant and get a Good pre War Mea if you have the Money and Arentt too demanding of the menu. Nor do the heavier taxes or the Khaki crowded streets or the newspaper la a Pines bring the War Home As my h As the solitary a mail tier from me be Quot is or a i sin Quot face at top crime. But i Bel eve even those the v Arment was taken including a number of giant my i tanks in Good working order but these and great quantities of supplies Are still being collected. Per the italians the ignominious defeat meant the destruction of an ensure army the fifth army washed Down the Drain of War. The is 5th and loth armies crumbled in Tunisia the both was blasted to bits by the russians and the Otto disappeared in  officers believe the 6th bad been composed of two corps which included nine divisions with a tots of 96m00 men 1,700 guns and Leo tanks. German losses equalled two divisions not a bad haul for a 38-Day operation on italian soil. The vast majority of Axis troops evacuated Over the Straits were germans probably the few italians Able to leave included higher officers of 6th army Headquarters. The allies added up their casualties and announced that in killed wounded missing and prisoners the British lost 11,834 men after Over Kerning initial opposition Tho yanks knifed through italian units on their Way North until on or to they took Erma Sicily s Central City from which Rands lend in cd tents in the East and to North canst Points Halfway Between Paisano and Messina. Other american troops swept toward the West until they took Palermo first chg of the Island on july 22, cutting Sicily in half. At their Leisure they overran the Western coast occupying Marsala and Trapani the temporary stalemate in a1 three fronts was broken when the British on aug. 6 broke into Catania smashing the Southern end of the enemy a my Etna line. The next Day the 1st division took Troina. The morning after that yanks on the North coast sprouted water wings in a daring amphibious raid that brought them behind enemy lines. The Landing from the sea took the germans completely by Surprise and they offered no resistance As the raiders were joined by the main body of troops who and the americans 7.400 men. Pre c poured Santa Agata. San Fra sum ably Many of the missing will turn up but others will be added to the list of dead and wounded and the total is expected to be about 25,000. Allied losses in equipment included 103 tanks 251 guns and 274 planes. Canadian casualties until aug. 4 reached 1,895 officers and men. This was divided into killed�?15 officers and 360 men wounded a too officers and 1,100 men and missing to officers and 300 men. Thoughts went Back to that never to be forgotten morning of saturday july to when this terse announcement was flashed to a waiting world a a Allied forces under command of general Eisenhower began Landing operations on Sicily Early this  As the general himself explained Tello fell about the same time. The last heavy fighting took place before Randazzo North of it. Etna. Americans and British joined forces for an All out assault on the town which finally fell on aug. 13. The taking of Randazzo was likened to the capture of Tunis and Sizer to because it was the last Strong Point of the Axis in Sicily and its rapture forced the rapid Retreat of the enemy along both coastal roads. About this time the 7th army pulled off another sea Landing la the North. The germans were waiting for the raiders but they  do much More than offer some opposition before retiring. This cleared the Cape Orlando Region and the americans raced ahead at top Speed with their eyes on Messina. The British pushed up the East coast Road. The final hours were enlivened by additional amphibious features. The 7th army readied All Plant for a third raid in the Milano it that was the decisive moment. Once the landings were successfully completed when the assault divisions arrived on Shore sub Stan tingly undamaged the allies families Sav Are indifferent Arentt knew they had won the Axis Rea Region but it was called off at so deliberately. I went through my lazed they had lost. The last moment when it was Dis first Quot air raid in America last j the american 7th army under covered american forces already week when to a City held a practice command of it. Gen. George s. Controlled the area. It was pretest at 5 of Dock in the afternoon  jr., swarmed up the i maturely announced As having the moment that Manhatten office beaches West of a Point South of been carried out. But Hie British buildings were divorcing millions Ragusa past Gela up to Licata. Held a sea raid of their own be of White Collar workers into the Gen. Sir Bernard Law Montgom Low Messina mainly in an Effort streets. It wit have been fairly j Erys British 8th army which in j to avoid a demolished stretch of obvious to most of them that the eluded the canadians took the Road. Chances of Germany being atle to j beaches East of Ragusa around the j and so the end came. Americas Nare bombers at this so pm of the tip of the Island to Avola on the artillery smashed into Messing War for a Laid on new York were i East coast. Both armies were ins covering the Advance of the first pretty slim the 15th army group under Gen. Patrols who made their Way into  Eisenhower and Gen. Sir Harold i town at 2060 hours monday aug. Niue. Vernal it in l Alexander Deputy com j 16 troops of the 3rd division were yet of some 2 700.060 people fur  their command accompanied by units of the 45th. Prised by the Siren Only War included the Allied navies under the next Day it was All Over rests were made by the City so a i of the Fleet sir Andrew j what had the Victory a com raid wardens of persons Nihn Quot to Browne Cunningham and the Al flashed according to Qeti. Eisen take shelter according to re Pula it Arm under air Chat of mar Bower Lions. And one was a woman who refused to be detoured from going to the Corker grocery to get milk for her baby. On n labelled the Shal sir Arthur w. Tedder. Their task made easier by paratroopers who were flown Over some. Hours before the rangers and the few York apr editor filly j pfc division Ren info the stiffest to test a silly but i think a Jug resistance at Gela. The 45th that perhaps for most of the people j met Tough fighting before in every fascist Headquarters cleared out by the isl infantry j meant ten minutes when they i Doiniso. While the 3rd Cap division you can read the famous pledge of the fascist party prom j almost Hare the real War ured Licata. The British had a gently displayed on the Wall usually under the picture of the sex Alk 1 a Little cloner to it. Not to Duce. The pledge reads �?�1 swear to follow without discussion the enemy planes my bombs but to otters of the Duce and to serve with a i my strength and if necessary conditions Ever seas with my blood the cause of the fascist revolution a Quot perhaps a says i civilian America As seen from Cpl. William Holloway interpreter from Bryn mawr. Pa., this pledge is what makes it so easy for us to take Over a town. Tile fascists Are mid on us because we Don t pledge them to anything. We just Tel. Them to wait and  Here is ready and wiling to undergo any test to hasten Victory and Briner the soldiers How be quicker. But they want something denied up. For example they want it known that the majority of families. Even those whose incomes bees in a bomber. That s what to sgt. Eddie Lake. Of men aha. Minn., found in his b-25 the other Day at an advanced base in North Africa. Eddie climbed into his plane and was tinkering a tem from the War plants Are not around with the controls when he noticed a Coupe of bees on the Rolinc in Money As they think Tho window panels. Looking Down he saw the whole family a Complete soldiers believe Linier to Ere Are swarm. Being an old Farmer the situation do in t faze him one by. J Roc Oil in the family working. His Crew swears that he played with them the whole morning. With Only gloves As Protection. Fri die scooped them up and now has them comfortably fixed in a ?00-lb. Bomb Fin Box. Plans Are boing made to use the Honey if and when. Call White cellar worker now t in in selves Quot the new  they want it known that they Aren t complaining about brine do. Priced of certain foods shipped to if All untried divisions committed to action fight a soldiers although they pc raised Well As the 45th we Wen t have to worry a a High ranking general the a roof in c or two c Ces a Parr not Horn Hie 45th. E a a Fhy Eov emment stored food for a Shell landed 15 feet from set. Michael Bozo Ich. Of Pitts soldiers has spoiled and been Burgh in the Valley of Quot no Man s land Quot Between Cerami and Troina. 7i a. Hie blast blew the combat Engineer into the air and he came Down abbe a i they us it no a i with a thump unconscious but otherwise unhurt. He was rushed to extending Between the Bat a Field Hospital As  one Day later sgt. Bozovich of per it it and the Home front As was in the Road hitching a ride Back into action. Not that he i Oneff to from White Stone particularly relished being under German artillery fire again but Orr Island wrote shove All he did no to went to be transferred out of the infantry outlet i Jujj Al eats to which he is attached. Bozovich was afraid that if he remained in the Hospital another Day his pals would have moved on and he would be transferred to some a eight Ball gang. Although his Job As a front line Engineer is to keep the roads open for those who fellow the advanced elements Bozovich says when to Fregie is no Bridge to repair he joins the doughboy and fights. Sicily has been occupied for use As a base our Mediterranean sea routes have been protected enemy air bases have been capture morale of the Axis Soldier was damaged because he was beaten on his Home grounds. End of the Road son. T-4 Floyd Cavath. I in sic by. I believe. I see in the paper that you have been sept Here by stars and Strine of Africa to write up us civilian that Towery Good news  what was left of Messina was banded Over to the allies by an italian colonel. He stands beside maj. Ger. L k. Truscott commanding general of the 3rd division and maj. Gen. G. Keyes one of la Gen. George Patton Deputy commanders who accepted the surrender of the town