Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 21, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                Help my Iff t heavy 7 a olbers hit weekend rising feet Kuni big continued m it Crft or Law and g targets in German Southern Budapest and Bridges Over the Rhone and in East them ppm attack l Western Niemen for a direct thrust into German though the nazis v repeat be Erinani int i Garden Pugh Las rough toughest Beach engagements on f to has filming All the have when they had one maybe one or two hours maybe none at Treyve Shell All night but at Treyve gotten up and started Forward to big Loire capture of Stilo was a Prii ize the fitter inching it three rail meet link in Cherbourg with and highways radiate from its huh to Vire and a ranches As Well As towns already liberated from occupied France the liberated coast came straws in the wind Gen Eisenhower announced that the French forces of the Interior Are a combatant Force under Koenig forming an integral part of the he said that the free French forces in the Maquis Bear arms openly against the in so doing violate no rules of War by which both sides Are bound and that he views those who fight under their distinctive Emblem As soldiers under his inside France there appears to be a sixty mile Island free Dom near near where ame rican and British paratroops roam at will with their French Assoc a operate against German communications and those yanks and mommies Are All Volun Teers Between 19 and 22 and their assignment is one of the most dangerous in present Simeon a visitor Busy repairing observed a solemn Bastile Day led by in front of the municipal theater official ceremonies changed the name of the place Marechal Petain to place general de to the lengthening list of Early the liberated strip added the name of 77yearold Secretary of War Normandy Harvest will be one of the Best Grain crops in with its organization left to the 400 tons of Binder Cord and quantities of sacks and can Vas bands have been brought in by Allied which also Are contributing Oil and grease for Farn nazis use Russ guns the Prospect of Early Allied the Paris bourse is with a tendency to convert Money into anything the Black the 20franc piece Rose from paper e 6 to Over German prisoners and equip edly in an attempt to wipe out the across Prussia last a defense the soviets expanded their positions North and South of a River City Cli restly South of capital Kau Nas fal is directly West Grodno tand the River Niemen lies the us easternmost Budge Prussia acquired by Hitler in 1939 there is still no indication that fighting has been carried into so Walki although it is Proba panic is said to be rampant in East Prussia the russian juggernaut prepares to tear into Germany own blow after blow i on the irregular russian 1jhe tried armies chalked up another week of Vic pushing toward the prussian Bia Lvov and the Bor Der with inexorable Force and leaving a Wake of new last thursday marshal Stalin announced that Vilna had been completely thus ending the seven Day annihilation of trapped score killed and the government of soviet White Russia was returned to liberated Minsk from marking a great moral Victory of Grodno by Pinsk had been evacuated by the germans the fall of bastion of Germany Baltic Barrier placed the soviets 170 Miles East of Riga and the great German fortress on the River Niemen East of Prus was under on Grodno after heavy Kaunas was reporter the situation is All is now at the russian threatens to still Over our holy German asserted a nazi broadcaster in a warning to the German a mos cow commentator told the russians that German prisoners had been captured and that 50 nazi dvsion5 had been destroyed by the rolling red told a the Ger mans Are using Many russian artillery they evidently nicked in so Many russian guns they considered it economical to Manu facture shells for if their own artillery had been Ade they hardly have re sorted to such one captured German co moral gave his name and said i am not bound to Tell you any it is in the Versailles the interrogating officer he meant the Geneva convention but pointed out that Hitler had denounced the Versailles treaty years Man but there still first class sol Diers one yank doughboy said there the Best German fighters weve met so our artillery is costing them but we get so he said the Ger and proceeded to Tell All he heres most off the repair Crew of the be Nancye the flying fortress which lady Luck brought Down safely in a pit Orless Landing and old Man sweat repaired for sky duty front left to right Harry Robert no Iii Little Leland Jack Ohio Kenneth James Row Lone Richard Nile Utah Ernest Robert Ohio Addan William Charles Ohio Tinsley somewhere else when Fig was pitched were William grand and Nathan the wily Oriental gentlemen at either end of the front Row were part of a sometimes helpful cheering s by Allan Cahen among the Many strange and bizarre tales that have emerged from world War one from the Middle East stands High in the ranks of the most it is a Story that Marks a first in the annals of aircraft repair and the air the Central figure in the tale is a b17 flying and to this ship goes the Honor of being the first Multi engined plane to land by automatic without a be repaired and out again but that is getting ahead of the the flying fortress be Nancye it was returning to its North Afri can everything was running Clear weather ahead the Crew were in High their photographic Mission had Boon successfully the Pilot noted that their Gas was running but he was scheduled to Stop at Payne Field and suddenly a Sand storm closed Sand storms Are not unusual in this but this one was a particularly fierce Lunning out of unable to the Pilot struggled to keep his two engines were a third was on its and there was enough Gas for but five More minutes of flight the order pre pare to abandon Shiu was and before the Crew bailed the Pilot set the automatic land ing near a native the Crew contacted the authorities and were whisked away to Payne and what of the ship the usual Story would be that it was completely but be Nancye if is not an Ordinary at thu mercy of the practically out of and with three engines she flew making a 180degree she cleared tree landed in a ii makes its successful pro photos by wheat jumped a ten foot Iri finally the Day the eur a Cotton Field a belly Landing if the automatic Pilot had never pro Ved itself this was its Day of Back to the sky a maintenance Crew was Dis patched from the Middle East air depot in an attempt to repair be surely so exceptional a ship was meant to Span the and not be relegated to a Salvage pile after weeks of diligent work the ship began to shape and then the problem of flying her out the ground was rough and this obstacle was Over come by cutting Oil Drums in half and laying them to make a suit Able the work progressed the natives were puzzled at the strange a Goin Gori and the men sweated their baby out t ligation ditch and came to rest in j Gines had been sunup and had a 1 1 f t a checked when the Pilot Clim bed into the the As Well As the score of interested natives held their slowly she taxied Down the every thing seemed to be under but she want in the air and no one dared she Tore Down the runway on her Way skyward and the tension As she lifted from the loud sighs of Relief were heard to the Crew who accomplished the repair Job goes the knowledge and satisfaction of a difficult task superlatively and to Ben Anyce a return to her she alone probably never doubted that she would soar but she is an exceptional ship japs push drive to split China meager reports from chunking reveal that Strong enemy forces Are attacking 70 Miles North of in their attempt to slice China in two along the Hankow Kingtak lies some 225 Miles South of the cur rent fighting around there has been no report from the Fengyang Battle except Chi Nese claims that More than japs have been killed in that Sec Tor Between june 23 and july in their drive along the Tiddum the allies have captured two Jap Strong five Miles South of by Shenaur Village in Northern killed in France Don Pratt assistant commander of the 101 airborne was killed in Normandy on insisted on going in with his their glider struck a tree when Landing in the buy More War Bonds