Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1943, Algiers, Algiers The stars and stripes weekly saturday september 25, 1943 flashes from Tho i italian front Linos Art contest open i to an Allied forces Altavilla As a Little Bizerte of sri. Paul s. Green stars end stripes Ste writer with the 5th army above scuffle the Jerries fled and Gor own gun was sailors and All members of the Allied forces Are eligible to enter the Art contest sponsor i of by the special service Section i of watop9a it Notus a solitary i pvt. Carmine Altamuro of Yonkers n. Y., yesterday the contest was form trudged through the Dusty streets of Capaccio and stopped before a Ope gig Only it but Elig i Altavilla sept. 19 delayed a Hamas patrol turned their House for a drink of water. While waiting for the water he talked ability rules have been changed red eyed still terrified civilians an them. With the owner of the House. The italian said he had a mar re sister Leftery nor sous a quote. Dazed after a steady four Day ar-1 the Battle for Altavilla began Jatoi i contestants should Send their i Tillery barrage crept out of their right Attar the taking of Al Bane Ila r Tow sketches to Art contest special cellars to Welcome american sol on the Hill across the Valley. Alba Jesus ii Fri Jujj no service Section. Natou8a, Apo diem who occupied Altavilla in Nella also changed hands several a suss a sixth eds we laser. Tel wok m. Lorn the High ground and the old italian with his Arm around his Nephew proudly told ,m3 Nan a Grade serial number Altavilla changed hands twice in around it was made secure. The them the Story. When his co heard about it he gave pvt. Altamuro Kuijer and four Days. When american patrols the first 12-hour pass in Italy. Contestants entered to the germans waited German artillery oni the Hills. Tile a it acc i on the i eve a site of awhile then showered the town accuracy of this artillery was sex Cpl. Sam w. Pearson Roanoke rapids n. Cd a a motorcycle i. R Ujj their pictures Are shells. When our men Retreat plagued by a civilian who said that rider for a combat engineers unit got even with a sniper who had 101 and 11 a a a 016 pred to the lower edges of the town some ame ago the enemy had set him pinned Down for two and a half hours when Pearson went out no picture should be larger Yan artillery blasted it to smoke up an artillery school in the re to bring in a wounded buddy. Pearson finally crawled out of danger than 23 a 20 inches. Oils water the Jerries hiding in the houses Elon. They knew every Inch of the got his Rifle and went and finished off the sniper. Colors gouache Wash drawings stat the top of a Hill above the terrain and could drop their shells a a a and pen and Pencil sketches May town the result makes Altavilla blindfolded. They had so Many it. Andrew d. Cox Paterson n. J., didst let Lack of Power Stop be submitted. Every Effort will be look y4ke _ ittle Bizerte him from using an electrified Railroad. He took the wheels off two made to return the pictures to j two and a half ton trucks welded on locomotive wheels in their place their owners but special service and with his Quot truck Mouvet moved so tons of freight on italian assumes no responsibility tracks. 5th Sim out front waited rom pugs i tories caught Between the americans and the town were cleaned out and the rest of them driven a two Majestic temples built by the greeks near the close a. I of the sixth Century b.c., formed the bizarre background for theh _ a i Battle that was being fought in one sector of the Gulf of Salerno area.5 their sheltering columns were picked As the site for the first medical5 a v i battalion to go to work on the italian Mainland. Between these twofer i temples of Neptune and Ceres Large Ward tents were set up and within 30 minutes the first american casualties on inc Mainland were re Lowns of Bau Paglia. Ebon porting for treatment. Altavilla the inst re arc i Ngenng was Preny Altavilla the germans last Cnance in one p4ace above the town die shells stored Here that they could let Loose a barrage on one or two the town was captured by a so tuers it Pmj rement i the up and Down Countryside Jofh brought our soldiers to the Hdldn get either. The Lack of a High Huls beyond it yesterday Good red and the thick under. German snipers and artillery Bat to to drive or the Hills and across the Ca supplies. Jeeps and trucks to Forward positions. The troops had to use mules As they did in Sicily to bring up lore River Valley. A these past four Days have been pretty Tough a admitted pvt. Amos Overholt of Chicago. Quot yeah a chimed in sgt. Russell Stevens Everett mass., lounging Reven italian a boats Slid silently into a Cove just South germans set up a machine gun of the american held town of Maiorka the commander of this flotilla z.7b. Nest in the Steeple of a Church. A _ which Mussolini once declared would wipe out the British Meriter i. Trin awl a no advancing i patrol led by it. Fordyce Gorham t luxuriously in his much used Fox Ranegan Fleet reported to an american Natal officer and asked for if1 those Foothills which curve Muncey pa., crept up to the Hole a a shrapnel was flying fast and orders. He Saki his men had heard of Italy a surrender Over the British Dolari from Salerno to agro poli h4<ieou while our artillery threw furious for awhile. But ifs All Over radio and immediately asked for action with the allies. A my men a a a Quot extending the Allied Bridge at 8teepie. After a Short now. Added Ute commander a a want an organised Opportunity to help drive quote a d5cper nut be italian the germans out it Italy a Mainland a a a Tunis All Over her fuselage pock marked and patched a a Oberlin Sleeper the fighting will probably be ii a a Battle Wise flying Portress recently completed her 100th mis from now on a repetition of the Sion Over enemy territory. She has flown and fought Over Europe and j tunisian and sicilian campaigns 8ptatter of stack Hpak Dve stared away the Foliar a or jeep ride in Italy is. Continued from Page it a she. Dropped 250 tons of bombs consumed look too Gallons of gasoline and mules already Are in use lugging was punctured by More than 400 flak and machine gun holes. Chiefly ammunition and rations up the responsible for the a Sleeper so remarkable record is her ground Crew j teen Mountain sides this is the chief a sgt. R. Lambert of Sorrento la., who celebrated the kind of country in which the planes 100th Mission to Benevent Italy going along. Germans defensive strategy is a aught. Gunning scotch Wishman unloaded his equip Juu pm Al we a it it from in ayin fortress Esters Well for the last time before a. The m a. , Good rest. Behind him were 50 missions and a record of some of the finest combat photography in the North african theater. The first photographer of his group to finish the allotted number of sorties ii .1 to sgt. Lowell a Hall of Kansas City mo., has recorded the bomb damage inflicted by giant fortresses in North Africa Teller la. Sar by. Clinia. Sicily and Italy. A a combat flying and photography Are the Only fjj�1 things i would have chosen in this War a said Hall. To was not so �5j l much the thrill for a combat creates a certain fear. I took Pride in a oin to make a of bringing Home a picture that no eyes could see or Mouth could n a11 Way # # facing North regardless of where this combat Engineer unit goes a the today the entire 5th army line satan Seahorse goes with it. That a the name of the mimeographed with Salerno As the Hub is newspaper which Cpl. Floyd Snyder has been editing for the past 18 Wheeling slowly around to the months. In civilian life the Corporal was an archaeologist school j North and in the direction of Naples. A valiant Allied band who should not be overlooked Are still in the High Hills of Sorrento Peninsula West of Salerno and have for the past two weeks resisted with great courage All German efforts to dislodge them. Teacher and Jack of All trades. A a a pvt. Edward c. Sanderson Philadelphia a machine gunner with a recon patrol gets his Battle inspiration from several revealing photos of Margie Hart. �?�8he always goes Al orig with pvt. Sanderson said patting the ammunition Box of his gun where he keeps the pictures. Two medics stationed at albanello wont go wandering in strange places again. 8-figt. Fred Morgan. Edgartown. Miss., and sgt. Herman Puller Meridian miss., heard there was fighting on a Hill beyond the town and went up to look around. They drove up and Down but find a soul. Later they found that the Hill had been abandoned by american troops and was being occupied by germans at the very time they were investigating. That is typical of All the soldiers in the Salerno sector. American and British fighting Side by Side have built a Strong Bridgehead against Odds that would have routed much larger armies with less courage. Dirt some distance up the Beach uprooted the trunks. The jeep Driver got up and i a line of infantry on either Side brushed himself off a i a toe Highway was filing across have Don that in Sicily a he Mut toe danger zone. Coming this Way tired sheepishly. Do you think were a few italians burdened by i be lost my nerve maybe monstrous loads staggering and Quot no. I Don t think you be lost a a a a a k8&Quot your nerve a i replied somewhat a safely through the sheepishly As i brushed myself off. Off Down Road. A shall we try to get the jeep automatically we hunched lower through now a he Low. A a even so i feel like a to you think we should a i it Beautiful fat groaned the parried. J Driver who is very slim. He pressed there was an embarrassing is the Gas an the Way to the floor Lenee. A a seems pretty quiet right Boardl now a he said at last. Right about then the 88 tossed another shot craters and shells once we plunged into a half snack into the area. At that he gave a filled Crater and the jeep almost shallow Grin a a once we make it to overturned. Once the solid blast of the Highway we come under the artillery jerked us stiff but it was Protection of the Cliff. Shall we our own. Once came the Low Siren try it a # whistle of a Shell headed our Way but the Man beside me just smiled jeep Heads in suddenly he could Tell it was going the faithful jeep churned through to tar our Heads the Sand and made it safely to. And a a we wer out of the the coastal Road. It was a straight Daif a stretch of Road lined on either you Side by stately poplars. It looked a a peaceful at first glance. At in. A a second glance it did not look a a peaceful at All there were jagged ,j2fytl 5lt �?z.,9� cavities in the line of pairs 1 you it lost your nerve where shells had broken off their Rve g0 it the reborn Veteran said. A a How do you we cd Morfee. 2 cd Felt it it a Fey Cefi Lahout of heu continued from Page led to defend the River Bank. When the German tanks came we could do nothing but dig in since they were All around the Corporal spoke then �?�1 done to know How they did no to discover us. We were Only about 200 Yards from their machine guns and anti aircraft a that int All a the sergeant said. A a we were getting our own artillery fire and strafing from our planes and do nothing about during All this time the men lived on dry Corn and onions for food and drank water from the River. Quot you know How we made smokes a the sergeant said. Quot we used to get leaves of dry Corn and Roll it in paper and then use the rays of the Sun through our binoculars to Light the of Frisco cob lacks nautical Cut san Francisco sept. 24�? even granting that Navy store i keepers Aren t custom tailors the i uniform of a Young gob strolling Market Street did no to look quite right to two Shore patrolmen and when the gob gave out a Snappy left hand Salute the Jig was up. The Odd Sailor turned out to be a woman mrs. Rosella Black Lite spa took her into custody
