Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                Or that lie or traits of Cha Raeter which adversely affect his or is not qualified or other to hold any officer will first be subject to reassignment by his com manding if there s a gob can be satisfactorily he will be re commended the officer May then voluntarily requests 1 reduction and reassign ment in a lower Orrade 21 Relief duty if he is More than 38 years old 3 he May if he selects hone of these the reclassification Board will study the Case and recommend which is subject to review the War the War had announced that All Over who were commissioned As Are being placed of in Active Russ give nazis invasion jitters on Eastern front the ominous Lull on the major sectors of the Eastern front entered its second month this week As tiie red army continued to mass men and munition for the coming it is believed that the offensive is imminent and that a newly trained army of Over four million men is now for the Gigantic blow against thousands of massed guns Are being assembled along the mile with hints from that the russian commanders intend to shatter Ger Man defense lines toy sheer weight of artillery in addition to the heavy artillery and Field great batteries of mortars and famous Katusha rocket guns have been Overall com Mander is chief Marshall of for no major changes have occurred along the russian front although bloody but local fighting is still reported from cer Tain even the soviet air War has been at a minimum this week with few More than a 100 nazi planes claimed for the weeks minor gains the russian attacked and scored minor gains in the Stanislavov area in South Eastern Poland and along the lower Dniester Northwest of where the russians have maintained a Bridgehead for Over a the germans have struck repeated blows against this soviet toehold in a suicidal but futile Effort to drive them Back across the in Vitebsk sector North White the russians Are warding off attacks against their newly acquired Hill the Only other local action is reported from Nevel on the Northern in the finnish soviet air men of the Baltic Fleet continued to raid enemy named for Clapper own a Liberty christened the Ray mond clapper1 in Honor of the newspaper was a Florida shipyard i to Delft be of Csc intelligence officer from subject to re Classi decide that duties of which assignment because 4n Rade ff1 what it Vii equiv and lie eased foot into better t0 this is marvins to Jiff got the first on april the on May 13 and the third h Raidt of i were him cd try to stay on the ground june said in Tret Tang sort of used to it by to Raj was around the f to s and As they laughed w the tiny headline came to was Ltd Small and Sandy a Jim Patton of a Rantry Pilot wit quiet and fit Dwight Hanson of Ore compact also a Pilot and George of a Friendly navigator with an accent you could Cut with a knife and Diele of who had a flashing and used to toe the this was the chosen to bring Back a files from his recent visit to the italian air of them deserved a rest and a change and they were getting the at in what what ice what what what women what a is about what they finally we got Back to that Plesti away at Daybreak we took off about said and made a perfect rendezvous with the there were planes in our group of Hanson was Pilot of the Lead plane in the Lead with Diele As Copilot and myself Asna the Bombardier was Fred Higginbotham of and its too bad Hes not Here Hes a we ran into heavy Clouds at and soon lost sight of everybody except our own then three of them developed motor trouble and turned we discussed the situation but decided to keep on to he original later we found that the others had been ordered to but for some reason we failed to get the so we rumbled along and finally i spotted a Hole and got my about this time our fighter escort bad to go so we turned in toward the tar get continued even Tho we  see Over the Valley the Clouds cleared a bit pro his launch big offensive in new York Day for Nebraska Drys has been set for no vember 7 when members of the states United dry forces expect to have Nebraska vote on a prohibition amendment along with the general if they Nebraska will be Bone dry and completely devoid of this is the attempt on the part of prohibitionists to attempt a Maior breakthrough on a National to put the question of statewide including Beer on the november signatures Are required on petitions before Jim there Are about voters in the South in was actually the first state to vote favor ably on prohibition by referendum but since the act contained a pro vision that practically nullified the the action has been largely discounted As an expression on state v the Plesti run of the hottest in the business and we located the our tar was an Oil refinery just East of the the Jerries put a smoke screen Over the target but we know that at least four bombs were hits up to put in the Only thing we had to worry about was the getting there and the flak Over the when that they All no said the flak didst actually Knock any planes Down but it makes things so damned in meet Goering pets the took up the so when wed dumped our Load we made a slow turn away from the being care nil not to go near which is another very warm place and set out for our return fighter escort of p38s was to meet us at this Point but because 6f the weather they were afew minutes late and a lot happened in those few then they All began to and the Small item in the paper became 33 fortresses in tight formation with 429 fifty Aliber machine guns spitting Lead at the 0odd German Fig Beers that Sud Denly roared Down upon 21 zeros blasted in six minutes by Navy fighters Central own delayed Navy pilots in six minutes shot Down 21 and possibly 23 japanese Zero planes of a Force of 25 or 30 planes which offered resistance Over an american correspondent aboard a Navy aircraft Only eight pilots opposed the enemy flight in one of the most remarkable air actions of the the occurring in the Early morning of april was reported m communiques but the details were not the Squadron commander Lej seven other pilots in the Brief fray in which he bagged five zeros and probably shot Down another not a single Navy hellcat fighter Lane had a Bullet Hole after the the enemy pilots acted in exp the Squadron commander among them were some of Goe rings famed yellow nose squad who have to keep up their average of kills in order to stay in the there hot and fanatical and have plenty of guts saw its hard to be said but some of those Guys will dive Between the Wing tips of two fortresses that Are in tight theres barely room for the void much less a whole but Thev take the those Yel Low nose pilots Are really Good continued we held our formation As Best we could and gave them plenty of but they gave us some our two wine men went i saw the Wing shred off of they come in five or six in line abreast from rear and to disperse our fire then they try diving thru the Thev tried everything Thev had and we lost some planes and some Good men rut we got 17 of them for sure and 23 p388 to the Rescue about this added we saw a Bunch of jul carry ing begin to form up Over gobs1 hitch will be longer than gis news concerning demobilization came from official sources this week estimates submitted by the War and Navy disclosed an Opi Nion that the army can partially demobilized after Germany is but All the boys in Bell Bottoms will have to remain in service to maintain the Navy at a Peak strength until the Jap War is the War estimates that nearly men can be Dis charged monthly for a year after Germany although the rate at which troops May be returned from overseas will depend upon the shipping concerning James Forrestal said that men can be released from the Navy with in 1824 months after the japs to one out of this looked like the last from where i we were Busy As hell trying to protect ourselves from a gang of me 109s and few and now these other babies were going to stand off and throw rockets at it want a comfortable and said Thorpe and everyone grinned at the pleasant and then we saw a Beautiful the pus lining up and turning towards when the p38s hit them from above it was Beautiful they got four jus with the first pass and seven later and the rest of them got the hell out of there the mrs and fwd made one More Quick pass at and then they when those p38s god bless the fight is As Good As Over for we tightened in and m spite of the weather and some hidden gun positions we passed and in spite of damage Nncy other minor Camp with those Beautiful p38s Buzz dog around us All the that it meant when tin paper said american heavy bombers raided Plesti Herbie Kay Dallas band Leader Herbie a husband of Dorothy la died underground gets orders from Ike London first invasion or Ders from Eisenhower broadcast several Days ago to eur ropes the vast net work of patriots who Are awaiting the assault Western ikes speaking Over the new american broadcast ing told patriots that the supreme commander counts on you As a part of the great Force now being marshalled to inflict final defeat on the they were instructed to begin gathering information on enemy troop move strength of various Neadau arters and signal in following the precedence of other Harry Kelly set up machinery for the statewide Observance of the open of the second front and asked citizens to join a minute of silence at that time to commemorate the air raid sirens will sounded to announce the invasion and two hours the invasion ceremony will take