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Publication: Middle East Stars and Stripes Friday, June 2, 1944

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   Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                Lit civilians in the t embassy have been 100 Al leading com the has have set up a new Joyer rement under Maior Siron to Recos Nize the Gove Ament of Vic president while the uprising was staged to prevent election sin the exile of former pre sudent Barrar the revolt was also directed against the police who Are alleged to have mistreated the Peel a civil officials in guavas province have v been  do Micco gets York Pasquale i husband of Gloria Vander bilt has been retired to inactive status because of physical disability by the i who became Illin january and was confined to the figured in the hews when he was knocked Down during a night club argument two weeks Boom Kireay of a gasoline rationing cards probably wept for last week when Char Les opa rationing said they could expect their first new tires since the War began by synthetic rubber production is expected to reach its require4 Peak by that he said that All a card holders will not be Able to get tires immediately since applications will be screened for those a carders whose driving is most buy More War Bonds own scale of that Thel offensive to but will strike in Bush from the been reported i although t assaults in the gift Rumania on Date of 95 in Ishby itt Gera assail of in with heavy Bosses 130 re k Al i Jii t Luc of the and the so Lief the lower four transports sunk soviet War v planes were comparatively inactive this week although sled aircraft Sank four German totalling in the of Finland and struck several at rumanian aupied heavy bombers have been intensifying their raids on the Balkans to disrupt hitlers Supply lines and pre vent the shipment of fresh Reser on 750 fortresses Ana flanked by fight a Surprise coup by Wing ing Over and raiding Large aircraft As Inaz litters a terror Campaign now grips Esthonia pending the according to in the the Ger Man occupation of Bulgaria is virtually Eto Pilot gets 30th own James formerly with the Eagle Squadron and now com Mander of a Mustang has destroyed 15 planes aloft and 15 on the ground equalling the Mark of 30 for the european Thea ter set by Don Huckstep gets on Thea beam station the first i broadcasting unit in was dialled on the air at Camp Kuck Crep this still in the testing the desert transmitter opened on 1420 covering an area of 17mile into mess Halls and Barracks flowed War transcriptions such As the hit Phil Spitalney hour of the Bob Hope show and mail Ca i Fred Foy brings the first voice Over a i while Albert onetime electrical Engineer for operates the test broadcasts can be heard every noon fun to every night from to signal 6f mation of the duty activities on a dozen different fighting but like almost every Mission in action of this Trio be tits eco added to the volumes that await the and of which no Nof e than a tiny fraction Ever r who  two Brothers in Elwood Lincoln High school tells his Story Ward a Middle East base Hospital where he is recuperating from leg nothing sensational Haven Snyth inf sensational to like hiking shot Down in territory or floating for Days on the Ocean or escaping from camp1 Sudano Depre just got a piece of flak daring Mission my seventh aft Sisail gunner of a b25 in just one of those id been Crews in operations from but there seemed to be an excess of so i didst have any regular after a few months at i was sent to the Salerno it was just a Job the towns shambles and there was no place to we had toe ready for a Mission at any most were routine stuff attacking air Supply not much More exciting than training Days Back at for Myers and Sheppard one we were called to support the Anzio Beach who were taking everything the Jerries could throw at them on the ground or in the i remember it was a bad Dav Cloudy cold and rough flying we headed toward the Beach from the tyrrhenian sea in a formation of x48 there were Waves of bombers ahead of and we passed some that were returning from the which were German troop suppy and ammunition some of the panes were pretty Well shot so we knew it was Tough up i was soared ouf Crew was Young i think no one was More than 25 or Thev were swell the Pilot was 2nd a Hughs 2nd Soutar 2nd Diettel radio link and Turret i was at the Tail my Knees knocking against the Armor to the extracurricular activities of 2nd Virginia army nurse of Chestnut add the care and conditioning of Joseph Sudanti the Elwood lad has gotten the name of Romeo from his Ward mates hed Rathet be finicky with his Slick locks while sweating out recovery in a Middle East Hospital than boast of his experiences As a Tail gunner in staff photo by you hear the saying about flak being so thick you can walk on you gotta see it to believe when we came Over it was like looking thru a wire screen to see the ground up a big Black object loomed up in front of the i heard a Start led voice on the inner whats thaw barrage balloon someone no that Flake we started pouncing Nachug we could hear the shells and blow like Sand against the ill never forget the smell of those exploding we started sin Cring to keep our minds occupied while we bounced we kept on singing even when they burst by and some one would say one was for me and some of them Glass shattered in Tho co pilots face the Bombardier was seriously we covered our target and then a burst caught the Middle of the plane and in the noise and i knew id been i was afraid to look i  find my inner phone to let the others up front they were calling had no Tail gunner must have gotten the Pilot that about we covered the got away met at our rendezvous and returned to our the radio Man hearted me to pret and the Copilot took me to a Thev wrapped my Leer in red which seemed Verv funny at the and Here i just a routine Nession just one of thousands of stories that you can find by talking to men from the zones of stories by men who Are Frank to admit that they have known but in relating their dangerous and sometimes Prisly unconsciously add four words that show not is the dominant emotion of the air men who Fly thru scraps of steel we covered our yanks see Rome Glisten fifteen Miles away continued from Page 1 the american cemetery at Clark spoke cautiously of the Advance we stand on the thres hold of before Many Days have we shall have freed this first of european capitals from nazi second corps in action earlier it was revealed that the first selective service outlets to fight in Europe were the 85th and 88th divisions of the american second the commanded by John Coulter of Al was activated at Camp july while the u was formed at Camp Shel iwo months in two which have figured prominently in the Advance up the italian Are men from every at ate in the tank warfare Caine into Active service with reports that the Ger mans Are using the Panther Mark five tanks for the first time in this is modelled after the and is considered to be the most effective German since the present offensive Star the eighth army armoured Force has knocked out a total of 40 enemy tanks and self propelled guns belonging to nine different these officially confirmed victories have been the Best score since the african campaigns and according to ups a Are a Good indication of the heavy fighting which the Bri Tish armoured forces have faced in the Liri Berlin and Rome agreed with Washington and London on the bitterness of the a swe dish reporter in Rome Only a few weeks reported that the younger men of the army Are still full of Battle in the infallibility of Hitler obviously the products of ruthless tanks in open City romans wrote re Porter Agne Hamrin of Stockholm Dagens laugh at the German official Caim that it is an open City because it contains no military he said that Clay and night the streets of Rome resound with the Clatter of German gnus and military convoys All i have seen German Tiger tanks parked in the Sha Dow of the romans consider the allies have been pretty Good not to bomb the treasured ruins which abound in the heart of the in Rome the Vatican City closed its isolated itself from communication with the when the German control led radio announced that italian is units were fighting against the lallies in the Alban fighting broke out in the streets Between fascists and following close on the heels of the Allied military government took up its Job of sup j plying civilian populations which streamed Baik into the towns after living for months in the Hills on Beach leans and in the fascist Model town of lit which was created out of Marshland by Mussolini and peopled with picked fascist Fame am officers found Only two Hundred persons when they first but in two Days the population had swelled to in All these the germans Are systematically destroying civil a j Rogers chooses rattlers representative will son of the late has resigned from Congress to Active duly with the first Mem Ber of Congress to be elected from the army during the present the 33yearold californian was a second lieutenant in the army tank  
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