Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace                              Paratroop officers decorated in Normandy town american paratroopers form a guard of Honor in the Square of a French town As four of their officers receive the Silver Star for the part they played in the initial Landing in overseas bars will beam from Khaki cuffs i Golden Khaki Ait overseas service liar to Indi Cate each six months period spent outside the Continental limits of Hie United slates has Chen authorized by the War the liar for Wool clothing consists of a rectangle o Gold lace or Bullion on Olive draw and will be four inches above he left sleeve on the Field jacket or service for Khaki clo thing inn bar is of Golden yellow cloth on a Khaki any i who has spent six months overseas since Pearl har Bor is eligible to Wear one Bur for each six month service will be computed from the Date of de parture from the country to the Date of the new authorized in addition to theater ribbons Are now being prepared in Usa Gimli and will be issued by the Quarter Raster and will also be on Sale in the various 4 die in Santa be los Angeles four Pur sons were killed and 28 injured when the Santo be railroads westbound chief plunged from the rails near Early at least 10 cars were overturned in the crash which occurred on a straight stretch of track 14 Miles rest of Bond sales soar National War Bond sales have surpassed in the fifth War plan this is 69 per cent of the extra dough for glider forces okayed the Bill pro posing extra pay for infantrymen Lias signed into a Liy president under its provi infantrymen in Tombal areas will receive additional each month while those in noncombatant areas will he 85 holders of the expert infantry Man badge arc eligible for now Bike in army officials told u congressional committee to limit about 75 per cent of the army infantrymen meet cd the measure also Grants Mem Bers of army and Navy glider units 50 per Cunt pay placing them on equal basis with paratroopers and flight units of the air the Hill allows boosts not to exceed monthly for enlisted men and 8100 monthly for urn nurses As signed to regular glider the author of Lane asserted thai glider unit Rale ii Al pay with paratrooper since to Lily face the additional Hazard of no powered aircraft which must land in open Countryside rat hit than on air replacements for Oming gis Here replacements have arrived under the us anime rotation policy and in possibly three and no More than thirty Days will take Over jobs throughout the com thus relieving men selected for return and reassignment in the this first shipment of Rpp Laci mints for gis benefiting in the rotation policy for those overseas longest consists of the prescribed on half of one percent and will be followed 3y the same percent age of arrivals each the officers and men completed processing at a Middle East Camp and shortly will be taking Over their new this Means that the first group of men to go Home on the rotation plan will soon be walking up the gang this american commander of the first Parrot of paratroopers which took the important Junction of Ssu cur be Vic Omre in by a daring continues to direct operations in of a broken stars and stripes issued in France first Issue of stars and stripes was published in France july 4 the staff remained at work through out the night to get the presses under volume number printed in two is the fore runner of a fou Page Continental edition to be published six times a week in where stars and stripes won journalistic Fame in the last the Independence Day edition carried the yanks launch new attack on Penin plus news from and new York and baseball hot weather Over Normandy yesterday found our air forces again actively supporting ground the yanks have advanced to encircle la Haye Dpi pita and hold it under artillery at the Carpi Juet German tanks hold Tho perimeter and prevent southward movement by the for All bad the fourth week of Normandy fight ing was described by Tho Over cautious a extremely firmly holding a Bridgehead of Square Miles along a Zigzag front of Over a Hundred Miles and extending Inland As fur As 22 Miles in some the allies threw their main strength at opposite ends of Tho at the Bradley yanks first cleaned out the co to Tiu push incr to the Channel at Cap de la sending their prisoner tally up to added to Over three thousand Jerries they buried As Tho ene Niv fell sent Tho German Cost of the futile Peninsular defense Over the without giving the germans in their rear time Tore form for american first army troops launched a Success Ful attack against la have do to the British and Cana Dian troops tightened the arc Are forming around Here has been particularly with the germans Well dug in and supported by massed tanks and artillery along a Ridge behind the Caen there Are three air Fields contested one of at Miles Southwest of fell to Tho now a Fourmile front of Dempsey second British army Fri mrs astride Tho chef Bourg Paris Railroad and High rain Over Normandy had two effects the air support was cancelling out to an extent effect of Allied tier Supre Macy Over the fighting and for the infantry this meant slog Ging along in the mud the Way their fathers had before in Northern France 25 years artillery observation also was Ham Saipan Victory wins Harbor for Fleet following fighting which will go Down with that of and Guadalcanal in Fero City and and infantry have captured Gara pan Ami to gain control of snip ans Best capital of All the fell after the Tough leather necks fought Yard by Yard through the first through the residential then the business Section with its department govern ment buildings and Post american filing through he narrow alleys of the provided the knockout punch which resulted in the capture of the jims last important stronghold on the i losses Are heavy in the Shig fest for Saipan is land at least japs killed during the first 1c Days of fight american tosses were with casualties of including figures compare with approximately Marine dead and wounded in the Battle of latest reports reveal that approximately 60 cent of Saipan see Saipan on Page 8 in the course of his five Day visit to Normandy sheaf reported that Eisenhower had gone behind the German but gave no is fief also an see Normandy on Page 2 red lightning aimed at East Prussia the victorious russian sweep across the Central front during the past week has ended the Battlo of Central Russia and the fight for Eastern Europe is now begin the fall of Minsk marked Tho collapse of the entire German Posi Tion in White following its the red armies have rolled Over the approaches to Poland and the Baltic states at a Pace reaching Over a mile per smashing within ten Miles of the latvian Border and 23 Miles of the stronghold of in and a frontal assault has been launched on Gateway to thru Slin past captured troops of the first Baltic army have taken Miry and Are now Only 4g Miles East of a strategic rail likewise fell in the drive on reports that germans Are being slaughtered by the thousands under pressure of soviet tanks and motorized in most he German has lost All semblance of marking the extent of defeat on the Central it is reported that the germans Are evacuating troops from the Baltic states by sea As the russians near the Borders of Latvia and lion the Southern Anchor of the Central Kovel was abandoned by without fight indicating a possible drive towards Warsaw through South Eastern next on timetable military observers beiievi1 hat the soviets May reach Kast Prussia within five or six they can maintain their terrific 3t is possible that German forces May attempt to Stem the tidal wave along a line of nazi head fortresses Bialystok and Brest i Tomsk but observers in Moscow predict that the cannot see Russia in Page 8