Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 2, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Saturday october 2, 1943 now it can be told the stars and stripes weekly a 5 ninth bars nothing enemy because of press censorship regulations stars and stripes has not been Able previously to mention the ninth division by name in connection with the North african and sicilian campaigns. Here told for the first time is the ninth a Story with the ninth division a regimental colonel once a a Yel Bowleg Cavalryman but now with the ninth infantry vision was pinned Down with his Forward company during the attack on Tro Lna 111 Sicily. The time for the attack had come but the men did not Rise to go Forward. Quot we can t make  the men mumbled we just can t make it up  h it done to make no difference a shouted the colonel and he stood up walking Forward. Eighty eights sounded off. When the Shower of dust Rock and Shrap had cleared the colonel was still walking Forward. The men Rose in Masse and joined him. They took the Hill. Fighting outfit the ninth has the kind of leadership and spirit that makes a lighting outfit. The men showed it at Randazzo the Southern hinge ? last German defense line Sicily. They showed it by their Brilliant envelopment of Green and Bald Hills in the a Djenane Valley Campaign which led to the fall of Bizerte. They showed it in one of the bitterest Battles of North Africa the 28-Day fight at Al Huettar and again when they forced March some 900 Miles to help Stem the Rommel thrust through the Kasserine pass. They showed it when their three combat teams made landings at Safi at port Lyautey and Algiers last november 8. Maj. Gen. Manton s. Eddy Mas been leading the ninth division since july 8. 1942. In the last War lie commanded a ninth division machine gun company and was wounded in the Meuse Argonne Campaign. His army career of 27 years shows a continuous Chain of successes. No headlines the ninth fought throughout both the North african and sicilian campaigns usually As combat teams attached to other divisions. This is Why it has been left out of the headlines for units smaller than a division have not been releasable. The Campaign history can be Best told in the operations of its infantry regiments allowing plenty of credit foe the Fine support of the artillery the engineers and the other units who fight with and Back up the doughboy. The a a fighting Falcon regiment is Best identified by its slogan a a anything anywhere anytime bar  the slogan comes from their colonel the same character who says a a hit done to make no difference. A he asked no one to adopt the triple a but the idea behind the Symbol was contagious and now every Man shouts out the slogan whenever the going gets Tough. A battalion of the a a fighting Falcons commanded by it. Col. Robert b. Cobb of Usk wash., after their ship had been torpedoed some 160 Miles off Algiers boarded their assault boats and by a sgt. Jack Foisie stars and stripes staff writer kept on coming in a Day late for the landings but 8mong the first troops to enter the City. That started off the Fame of the a fight scout and maj. Frank l. Gunn of Crawfordville ga., who wears a helmet punctured by shrapnel. Added a their Quot i sur colonel added their sicilian victories at Marsala Troina Cesaro and Randazzo. Its heroes included a pfc. Called Jesus Flores of los Angeles a Doughty doughboy of mexican descent who has killed More germans than he can notch on his Rifle. The lord is on my Side a he says. Saved colonel there is capt. Felix p. Suttle mire with a dec a Silver Star and a purple heart with Oak Lea. Cluster. At Troina he and three men Are credited with fighting off two platoons of Jerries and rescuing the regimental colonel who had been taken prisoner. A the colonel kept waving his swagger stick telling us to shoot the bastards and come and get him and we did a capt. Suttlemyre explained. He commands the regimental Cannon company. Then there was the staff sergeant now missing in action who upon returning from a successful patrol blundered into his nervous outpost a a for gods Sake done to shoot a he shouted a a Here comes the next president of the United states. A capt. Joseph Wise of Rock Hill s. C., the regimental Public relations officer can vouch for the Story he was there. There Are others like 1st sgt. William c. Ogburn who hiked 42 Miles in 18 hours sgt. John Fitzgerald a divisional Headquarters he took command during the Battle of Troina but no one knew about it until a front line observer phoned to the command Post reporting that a a there is an old guv out in front shooting like hell and exposing us All to retaliatory  not old when the colonel returned to the command Post the Telephone message Lay on his Field desk. The 54-year-old West Pointer simply crossed out the word a a old and earmarked the report on file another Story coming out of this incident tells of a Man deep in his foxhole who shouted to the a a old Many to get Down off the Skyline a a not me a said the colonel. A a i be got a sniper in my sights which is More than you be  another of the ninth a regiments goes by the name of the  they have acquired Fame by their wide flanking movements through terrain which the enemy regarded As a passable. The a go devils were one of two regiments which outta neutered the heavily fortified German positions Green and Bald Hill. The same envelopment worked again at Troina Cesaro and Randazzo when the a a go devils a with the famous French Gums plunged across the sicilian washboard constructing a 34-mile Road through the wilderness to bring up their heavy artillery. It was so metres that. Sun. The battalion commanded by it col. Michael b. Kauffman of Laramie wyo., has received a special citation for beating off a fierce counterattack in the Sedge Rene Valley. When the attack had been repulsed. 116 germans Lay a Etc during the same counteract ack capt. Matty l. Urbanowitz a former Star Boxer for Cornell University grappled with a Heinie grabbed his machine pistol and on turned it on the advancing Ger Man squad. Another athlete it. Morris t. Mclemore former football Ace for Vanderbilt has also had occasion to try his Gridiron tactics on the enemy. A Uwi a Tiik Nome Tor the ninth m ird regiment nicknamed Long been a a a show division toe raiders a took the heaviest an t staged Many reviews for Al fighting at Safi on the French a led leaders. Moroccan coast was in on the kill i the germans too. Have come to  Baule was it the division artillery has seen action with every combat team one time it marched 777 Miles through mountains and then without rest was thrown into the  sri r the Panzer spearhead pointed for Thala. The germans did not get to Thala. But it remains for a sgt. Billy Booth of Lynchburg va., to be declared the most popular Man in the division. He is the pie Baker. The ninth divisions insignia is a double quatre Oil of red and Blue with a White Center and a background of Khaki it is Well known Back Home for the ninth dash with american forces in Italy a a we re making a run up North of Rome tonight a it. Dubose the it division Leader said casually. A hear there May be some German shipping batting around off the tiber. We re leaving in two minutes if you d like to  a he a Rome a i thought aloud. A a that must be 125 Miles behind German  a a about that a the lieutenant nodded. A a gosh i Hope we run into  we were off in a minute twisting out into the Mediterranean and North toward the tiber in the fastest thing the american Navy puts on the seas the it or the mob motor torpedo boat As this Craft is officially known. A soon we were whistling by Vesuvius belching a High Grey column of smoke against the Twilight sky and on past Naples. We were sitting in the mess room trying to eat As the boat did calisthenic. It. Edward Dubose a handsome easy going fort Worth texan looked Over to it. It Jug George Steele the boats skipper from new Bedford mass., who had just finished a business administration course at Harvard when he went into the Navy. A a we re having an unusually smooth cruise i would say or. Steele a he observed. Yes exceptionally smooth a agreed it. Steele. �?�1 can remember other times. Like the time a Man was bounced out of that bunk right there and landed head first on the Leo to out with a fractured Skull  a luckily  i said. A a just think he might have been seriously  by Bill brinkle1 a special to the stars and stripes tiber t  is Xvi Fliss any scenery nato. K us Rne typical �?T40 selectee a now �?T20 years older i Charles e. Teed the a a typical american selectee to whom life Magazine gave a 12-Page spread in its March 16. 1940 Issue is still per maps but he is in no Way a a a selectee any longer. The ninth division infantryman has seen action in both the o a african and sicilian campaigns coming through without a solemnly no a so typical in that respect i  he remarked a need is. Now a cd rpm ral. Second in command of a Rifle squad Romr origin so a of 12. Only live remain sgt. Sol Adler. Pfc teed Thomas Taylor pfc. William of Donnel and life a Story mentioned teed a girl Violet. She was a waitress when worked with him in his mothers restaurant in Effingham 111 teed married Violet shortly before coming overseas. It is her letters that help along when the going is Tough.�?�. The Fame and fan mail that besieged the 24-year-old Soldier following publication of life a yarn did not change him. He was a marked Man for a while a said 1st sgt. Roy Harvey Alloy. W. A More for that a he was and the Guys liked him even a a no in be not changed much. I guess a the handsome or Norai agreed a a except that i be aged about 20 years a Nan some caporal briefing after awhile i quit the farce of trying to eat and sat Back tightly while it. Steele explained the purpose of this Mission. A a we re looking for German destroyers rumoured to be on the Loose North of Rome a he said. A we re not at All sure they re there but they might be. Besides keeping our eyes open for them we re to run in close to the italian Shore to within a couple of Miles or so look things Over and bring Bax a report on what we  it. Steele moved we go topside and get a taste of Salt Spray for dessert. He sprawled on his stomach right on the dead prow of the boat stuck his head Clear Over it and tickled his nose in the water As the ship dipped. Apprehensively i flopped Down beside him digging my hands and feet in to keep from being blown off that 40-knot deck. A a what makes a it boat seems rough a it. Steele screamed above the wind and water Roar a a is just wha you see Here. The boat goo on too of the Waves and then Falls off. See. Like its doing now. The ailing off is the rough part. That is Why sometimes a very bad sea 7 will really be smoother for us than la medium one merely because we can usually stay on top of the Waves  simple enough that seemed simple enough and while i was wishing for a wild rough sea to come on we took a Quick look Over the boat. Prow tip to Fantail she Wras toughness 50 tons of Fine mahogany and uncanny Maneule ability fast As fiery hell and scared of nothing on beneath or above the seas. With Lier torpedoes she would attack the biggest thing that floats and then with her Speed get the Devil out. With her guns she was ready to would t miss any scenery. Higgins is a Good example of the Way pts lure men from activities As different from this Type of living As fifth Avenue new York is from Licata Sicily. He was finishing three years at the new England conservatory studying for concert singing when he became interested in pts and made off to a Navy Boot Camp. It men have to be versatile. For example Bennie Brozyna from Chicago is the ships Cook but in addition to whipping up meals he takes his turn in the gun Turret and one night got a real hot foot there when a Shell went straight through the sole of his shoe. Higgins shuffling along in a pair of rope sandals be had picked up on some Mediterranean Island took me Forward for a look at one of the boats Battle scars acquired in a running fight with two German e boats off the coast of Italy some weeks before the invasion. Lovely 30 minute the Shell had entered at the it Ori Bow sizzled through one of the mens teabags through the empty Crews quarters and Galley and into the unoccupied space c an ammunition locker an Inch be of where Higgins was standing at the time. Water was smooth and we could see Humpy rows on a hat snore. Through binoculars they looked Uke Small houses. Everything appeared As peaceful As Virginia uhf ten we had just passed the Point where the tiber flows into the sea and i was thinking Well this is Duck soup just Uke a Moonlight cruise on the Potomac when the plane came Over. She came circling High out of the sky a dark darting to hum Ming across the Side away from the Moon. The men in the turrets swung their guns around shoved their helmets on a Little More tightly and waited there for her in silence. 11 spotlighted us As on a stage. A million dollars right now for a Cloud a Ensign Stoney said tersely. But there was no Cloud near the Moon or anywhere in the sky and the plane kept shortening the Circle a Black threatening Roar until she was 300 Yards away and the same distance High. A dead ahead coming in a clipped it. S Eele. A a guns on  i be men wheeled their guns to Waid her ready to give her enough it hell to Burn her pants off. I Hen she Cut off and away. Return visit it. S Pele let his binoculars slide Quot we had a Lovely thirty minutes a Hose he said. Us Dino Honvo Hpe Al vent 11 to us hot Anc Down against his Chest. Heavy but running away a1 the a Shell be Back a he said Lime and our boat had been dam and there in a minute she was aged in a previous engagement so circling in the same Way until she of in tr0rmkewathemwn Yards off and Quot dad ahead Cornein t overtake them. As if coming in for a straddle. Quot but we poured plenty of shells into them for what they gave us later we Learned from italian prisoners that our fire killed the German e boat Mediterranean operations commander who happened to be on Board one of the boats a the  we were getting on up and Higgins and i walked Over to the starboard Side to squint our eyes through the Moon brightened night toward the Shore. It. Dubose came up from the Chart House. A a just passed a minefield a he said. A a say maybe you a like to Siam flounced her who anything in Rndy get a Ihli even that flounced her. Down in the Chart House it. So Eele turned me Over to George Higgins quartermaster third class from Boston who at the moment was plotting a course that would i remembered the Case of the fractured Skull and knew immediately i was never so we Ide awake in my life As right now. We re about five Miles below the tiber now a he said and again site ducked away. Hie Bastard a someone said. Quot Why does no the make up his mind a 1 let s give him a dose the next tune sir a one of the gunners said from his Turret. A a lets give it to him whether he comes in or  the skipper chuckled. A a Well see a he said. A third time she came in slithering around the sky thrumming nearer and nearer to the same spot Grey and Low ahead almost poised there As if not quite decided whether to strike arms with her Tough Little adversary below. I could almost feel the Muscles in the gunners fingers Strain. Once More the plane stayed in a Circle then Cut away toward Rome. She was gone and did no to Como Back again