Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                Sources Law of Fiuty Iri the United by Walter ancient Shore of tie in the morn lit i of Ense scene but i marked Triumph the end of the first of this Summers i ale Kiider and his Multi National fifth and eighth armies smashed the strongest defense which the germans were Able to erect i overran their Reserve lines to Advance some 60 and effect a Junction with the an Zio thereby throwing a great Arm around Kess Elings right flank crowding him Back into a situation from which he can greatest the meeting of the patrols West of Terracina marked the victorious conclusion of the first Battle the Battle to crush the powerful defensive which the germans bout like a Wail across the italian at the same the second Battle is Al ready the Bathe to up and destroy the German armies term ant Divis Tont decimated on the second task Alexan Aire aay has made a pretty Good beginning in the course of accomplishing the he Feas taken thousands of Cap tured or destroyed great quantities of artillery and great mountains of stores and wrecked three or four already reduced and fragmented German Kes sell my was forced to commit nearly the of his reserves while Alexander brought his own troops into a powerful position from which to launch a new the forces erupting from Anzio have taken one and Are approach ing the second of two main lines of communication Over which Kes selring could extricate his while to the South British forces at Large in the relatively open Liri Valley and Sacco Are free to exert terrific frontal All this has taken just two but in this Brief time the Battle for Cas sino already has turned into a Battle for the German armies in it also Nas the first Battle in a much larger Campaign now jj6r although Italy is and Long secondary the operations there Are linked nonetheless directly with the great massed assault on Hitler Europe which ill now in alike in strategic implications and in the manner of accomplishment the Victory in Italy is an integral part of a greater pattern for Atlantic Wall smashing of the italian Wall will be Felt in France and elsewhere in a strategic sense breaking of the Cassino line meant smashing Down still another Gateway into the already battered Hitler fort but perhaps the most Sig  aspect of this Suc Cess lies in the Way in which it was to the German staff commanders their position in Italy has presen Ted a problem very on a Small to the much More ter Rible problem confronting them As they turn and gaze into the Chan Nel there they have built the Atlantic in Italy they had built a Wall from the Adria tic to the this italian Wall of far less a borate than the Atlantic coastal defences but it was Strung across terrain Ideal for defense far More so than the level Plains of Belgium and Northern France and endowed with very consider Able Protection in the Way of steel pillboxes and heavy artillery it the fatal weakness of All such a Wall to he of any service must he continuous and continuously one Hole in a Fence it becomes useless one break in Dike and the sea engulfs the i a whole one failure in the Wall defense and All the rest is it is worse than it is a tray for men left within and a waste of All the Effort of strengthening its several we gotta do is figure out How to Send it Home v Louis dont look now but Guys at Jefferson Are playing with electric trains these it a part of their training and not a second a railway operating battalion discovered that electric toy trains were just the for studying Railroad transportation after a sos to hundreds of trains were sent in by persons who read the the boys promised to the toy trains before Jug when Papas Louis Leo a War Plant has sued his wife for his chief and most interesting complaint was that Elsiemarie the had cashed in 60 of their War Bonds so that entertain a redheaded Soldier boy Why Ellel bouncing baby Washington a the smithsonian institution has Roun ded out its transportation Hexhi bits Nat in the museum which houses Early Day High wheeled bicycles and horseless attendants made room for an army pinup girl Camp the bar Racks mates of Walter Gruber must he Green with envy for Wal ter has a pinup collection num Bering although he recently Ost 100 photos while moving from ins last All the pinup Pic Tures Are of the same girl Wlton closes a new picture each time she and says is just about every Day strategic withdrawal Chanute the song claims that nothing can Stop the army air corps hut a Meadowlark and her four Bailies recently stopped the air corps when a Parade of weather cadets was about to Heurin at Chanute it was discovered that a Meadowlark and her four Havies had set up housekeeping in the Middle of the Parade grounds and when anyone approached the mama put up a vicious fight for the Sanctify of her the cadets finally retreated to another Section of the Field and the Meadowlark to her maternal with no turn about s fair play recent members of the Washington county draft Hoard trekked Down to fort Mcpherson to undergo the regular rookies routine of Cal and mental the draft Voaid want off to the War All were they merely wanted to see for themselves How the hundreds of draftees theod pushed into Khaki were run through the no More Numis fort Utah there will he no More John Ami dots a in the records of the 9th service according to the use of the letters meaning no Middle Ini tial was More confusing than found a of to begin do Tuffli with Only that has nothing to do with the this deferring to the West african i paper has a a pretty swell drawing of the subject by Myron a character named Maurice he if youre tired or any stronger synonym of waiting for that to come Consi Der the Case of overseas for 20 Hes sweating out the problem of going Back to the states under the rotation policy of us anime or under an oct or Der to the judge advocate rals for his overseas Hes been on special duty with an Engineer regiment in a Headquarters out his a qualifications include work at Sewanee and Tennessee universities and an from Cumberland after which he practice Law in Jack for three years before going into the army in and in the upper left hand Cor Ner of his Nichols scrawls that who was talking to us a while Back about his 20 months of unrecognized make Way for As Iff to Point out there is a Santa a 13 in a recent Issue the upping of the was now he came overseas an enlisted Man in february Hes a boy who got the Breaks and made major and Happy Jan in the Diplo Matic language in which we began this erudite West la Guerre skipping Over to East we Zero beat reporting that last monday the radio City Bowling Alley came into the new open Only to yanks and stimulates As clo sely As possible a regular Alley in the four alleys for Duck pins and a Complete bar comprise the installations an Zero beat promises to carry reports of the local right now the Gas thereabouts Are getting Down to some solid lumbering up with an Eye to a regular Bowling league once everyone got the feel of the drag in an irreverent of items from Sand script offers two stories of after hours activities at Camp one concerns the Huck Steo glee clubs Early achieve ments and particularly its search for some Good first wont be allowed to leave without a this glee club is getting some special arrange ments by will am 0 Kelly of the among them my heart Tell paper doll and easter the boys Are raising the monday night roof in the band Barracks under th3 leadership of John a who spent some 12 years conducting bands and Cho ral groups in the mid tile second is the papers camera won by Harod Schaffer with his study of the Pon other winners Are Harry Elvey for his John Albert for Street Cairo and Stanley Joel White and Rudolph another is it the same on Between file 13 and who this has something to do with the letters Norman Mckenna and his stand for Unity of the press whatever Mav Al who does a Oneman family show on the local is actively hit put upon Mckenna on his i minute air nothing like a Good if it is confusing from a was that the gong1 although the beachhead has since become something thanks be to our most recent issues of the Anzio Echo were mimeographed Wail before that Happy one of the outstanding features of the Sheet is its Brevity of wit is the soul of its continue to be for whoever feels inclined to one is headed psychology Wisdom knowing what to do skill knowing How to do it virtue not doing the other is under weather there is swimming on a local were our friends the limes have broken out in sum Mer and who used to chaperone hens in Jersey was the Only did not appreciate the recent deluge of a trifle baffling is headline gear Grinders launch Susy baffling because like to know More about Susy than simply that Shes a launch built entirely of scrap constructed by the local maintenance red Cross girl mar Garet Draper wielded the Cham pagne bottle which reports was done As the Susy q was lowered into the with miss drapers usual poise and sending the bottle crashing against the prow of the when the launching and Tim Bers fell the Susy q1 glided smoothly Over the Waves on her Maiden gracefully cutting the she is a credit to the boys who constructed her and the Pride of this Long live Susy q b these american troop shows Are aired in slate 1j Road ens tiny on the Long wave dial meters or 620 pcs mondays and on 221 g meters or 1318 pcs tues Ilau throw a shh inn shortwave hand at Cairo time june 2 Melody Roundup we oot spotlight bands Eddie june 3 Charlie Mccarthy with an old flame Dorothy la Are you a c1n1us Eddie Mav Hoffs on estion june 4 american news let ter paragraphs from Iho slates personal album tonight nah june 5 command perform Ance Yon never do von great music Walter Huston lights the june 6 up to scratch Dan ring in the june 7 Showtime the old musical front line what this country needs Rosalind Russell rare Vou kid Ding june 8 the hit Parade is Sinatra and Bea 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