Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                I up 100mile fyr rhe id give their main in in on the Pisa 40 to 60 Miles present spite the counterattacks it drugged terrain the eight fannies battled their the  san Vincenzo up airline mites from leghorn after 4 nine Miles Southwest of was savagely contested for several Days but the eight Ham a feed the town and British casualties he adj my Churchill an that Dominion Ana Indian casualties in Italy the time of the september landings to the fall of Rome of these were killed wounded and Are Churchill explained that these Are army casualties Only aft Are distinct from other Ope rations in the Mediterranean has now occupied the Village of six Miles beyond other eighth army units captured the Heights of Bagnola and Monte five Miles North of be bag bitter fighting raged on the approaches to american troops have captured 1 Miles Southwest of a Bridgehead has been established on the North Bank of the Orcia Allied Headquarters revealed that the fifth army has captured nazi prisoners since the beginning of the current the capture of the port of porn Bino earlier in the week is expected to ease the United states Snoply problem and Speed the drive on capture of which would be a serious blow to the retreating allies capture burmese Barrier on Road to China following the capture of Mog Aung by chinese and British the North Burma Campaign is now focused on he seized myi Jap bastion 35 Miles North i a Strong american Force is approaching from the North to implement other Allied troops which have battling inside the town for the past several my Itkina is the last enemy Strong hold holding out against the Allied attempt to Clear a land sup nov line to 20 Miles North West of was the first to in the Swift Jap Advance has pierced the outer defences Hunan province rail Way Center and most important following the fall of Heng tins puts enemy columns about 80 Miles South of Changsha along both sides of the Canton Hankow the Lith Saaf has been Active throughout attacking River Supply boats and enemy troops but the Jan drive aimed at splitting China in two has been rolling Forward at a terrific an Allied task Force attacked port Blair in the Adaman islands off Southern inflicting heavy damage to a seaplane workshops and Washington the bolivian regime of Gualberto Villarroel was formally recognized by the det Neof if ctr key Etoir flit this Story written Tor Stan and Middle by a army air corps officer stationed at one of the russian others do every Byer the their was just like their is at any other Post that sweat ing pm but this want just another mis it was one that have a lot to do with writing of the stability of the world in future those protected by came across the russian and they landed on russian soil atlases jointly prepared by american gis and red army men and women they had Bee going on since be looking to this june at villagers turn out the heavy bombers had taken off in too bed marshalling Yards at West of the Russ German and were in the soviet Union for further shuttle or roundtrip jobs to targets picked in conjunction with the red army general among the welcomes standing where German soldiers stood Many months ago were Averi har ambassador to the John chief of the military Mission in Russia Alexei Ladin Movich second in com Mand red Andi Alexander who commands All soviet troops at also among the welcomes Wens children and townspeople from u neighbouring As there were at bases where other heavy bomb ers and fighters landed one aged russian kissed one of the first pilots to step a Little Barefoot boy of six or seven locked his hand in that of a navigator and proudly walked along with Saginor Good morning How Are after they and the Only other English he red army soldiers working by Side with Ameri can ground Crews waved and before swarming Over the big bombers to put in practice their paper boning of weeks invasion electrified rues warm As the initial Welcome was however americans got an even warmer although it was less when they returned from their first Mission off the soviet it was some thing one could during the one Felt the russians were damned glad to see the glad to have them where they could see them slug Hitler Ite the Welcome Raner but shortly after the americans had taken off to wreck the nazi Airfield which they did period at gaining Width Andi Speed As it that the allies had landed in those fliers came Back to the russians As True comrades in ams in every As representatives of an army that was striking on right gather to hear fortress Crew members of of Weir on a new fief in the soviet new York where they longed to see it strike in the personal admiration for the bombing Crews grew when within a couple of hours High ranking russians were passing among themselves strike pictures of the Galatz showing a Beautiful bomb pattern Over the whole target area someone grabbed one to show ground Crew men and pliers Down on the crowded and exclaimed and passed the picture around and yelled for they were seeing through a cameras eyes the precision and devastation of strategic army air forces they liked gis tame red turf and mud the russians we rent the Only proud there were hundreds of gis from the Good far off who got a Lump in their Throat As they saw the bombers come Over the they slug ged it out with russian turf and mud since february to get ready for the boys who had Given Adolf a Little Surprise and they now saw their bases As the completion of aah encirclement of festing everything was in easy Range they knew it were glad they played a part in although they May not have realized at the moment they had taken part in what some of the worlds top newsmen described Over and Over again As these some of them Here Many said that no thing Ever had approached this operation in bringing Russia and the englishmen expressed a fond Hope their beloved Raif would too some Maurice Russia born Moscow correspondent for the new York Herald Tribune wrote that the event is of the greatest Mili tary and diplomatic not Only of the present War but of our maybe the air Crews had Felt the same thing when they heard Nathan Twining say at their briefing Back in Italy gentlemen today youre to rus yanks Batty continued from Page 1 More Uro Bahlev sunk Ami 13 Hargis american losses during tin same period were announced As a revised Conn unique of the naval Battle off the which Oce ured when a powerful e on Saipan fourteen Days after Landing at Aginah american troops have conquered half of the strategic Island of screening the Sai task pan invasion contacted the Jap revealed that two of the four Jap aircraft carriers were sunk by planes and a third was sunk by submarines the Day the Carrier bagged by the subs has been tentatively identified As one of the japs newest and largest a Carrier of the Shikaku three torpedoes crashed into the big the exis fabulous the naval Battle bared Triue of the United states task Force 58 which is described the most powerful and destructive naval unit in the history of without disclosing its makeup it has been hinted that it includes most of the22 big new carriers commissioned since Pearl the Conquest of Biak Island off new is All but accomplished and the islands three airstrips Are now firmly in american Jan dead Ami captured on Biak now total More than 10 times the number of americans big doing skidded for fourth at Alex an army Navy softball game and an Al male bathing Beauty contest highlight fourth of july doings at the Sidi Ilisha Beach dub of the red Cross at its going to be an Allday affair tuesday with prizes for All which further list three Volley Ball games soldiers sailors sailors sailors and women a tug o War Between the Alex com Mandos and the red Cross Hus Kies a bag a Blind mans water Polo and Kyak ious Ting and miniature horse like All the Alex Beach the whole celebrations Bakh buy More War Bonds Russia continued from Page 1 within Miles of capital of the karelian opening of the red army Long awaited summer offensive was launched against Vitebsk exactly four years after Germany Denun i atoll the treaty of 1s3 and mar Ched into Russia without Declara Tion of a 48hour artillery and air barrage preceded the ground Moscow confirmed the offensive on Friday announcing that Northwest of troops had broken through on a 20mile below the nazi other troops broke through on a 15mile front and Cut the Orsha defences crumbled after two Days of crack troops of the 1st Baltic army extended their breakthrough to a Width of go pushing Forward to the River the capture of and encirclement of five nazi divisions was announced on monday night by by tuesday russian troops were battling their Way into Southern Anchor of the fatherland the defense line itself was in tatters a powerful German stronghold co vering the approaches to had fallen into russian hands the russian tidal wave was sweeping according to German losses have been extremely heavy with killed in the Vitebsk Sec Tor go Bill continued from Page 1 in expenses for books and Laboratory fees Are provided with monthly for subsistence and extra in Case of depend other provisions include medi Cal cure for veterans with the appropriation of for the construction of Hospital facilities increase in authority and Field for the veterans administration set tin up improved machinery for Job counselling and Job How to collect in a statement made after sign the Bill the president said there is still much to be done and called upon Congress to act upon recommendations for Post War Industrial he also brought attention to the importance of a Bill he suggested a few months ago which would extend social Security under the Federal old age and survivors insurance to All men and women for their period of also pending the presidents Sig nature is a Bill insuring Civ ser vice preference to honorable Dis charged widows of servicemen and wives of disabled ser the while 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