Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace August 1944 that rotated gis get the works Junior officers and noncom at military redistribution Points in the Are jealous of to Lowe re turning from the fighting fronts have responsible for abuse and loss of privileges to some charges Marvin National legislative representative of veterans of foreign in letters o of War Henry Stimson and Navy James Ketchum stated that overseas personnel returned on rotation have been saddled the dirtiest Camp details and forced to take one and today Nesses to supplant expected furloughs probably thousands of men Are returned from overseas Only to be abused by their superiors and reassigned to foreign duty without n Chance to visit he such goings on Are apparently the result of unwarranted action Liy personnel at the Ketchum and top military officials Cerl Ainy did not condone such his statement called particular attention to the plight of 200 enlisted Navy Vete rans of the aleutians and South Pacific now stationed at Camp replying to said War has under preparation a very Oom Pruhen Sieve plan providing for reclassification and re assignment of returned the Secretary said that he mistakes and abuses you Menti ii Are inevitable in an organization As Largo As the american infantrymen cautiously pick Thair Way Over heaps of rubble As they close in on a chateau during the Advance in debris is still falling from the building left Center from a previous Shell International our casualties Secretary Stimson has announced that total War casualties of All the armed forces since Pearl har Bor now total of this Are army casual the new combined totals killed wounded missing captured total this is the army will make two week stand in Cairo this is the army has arrived in the Middle East and will begin a two week engagement at the Cairo opera House about the mid dle of the twice nightly performances for american and Allied military personnel Only will lie free of application for tickets must be made through special which is making efforts to arrange for outside the immediate Cairo area to see the famed Al sol Dier details of this plan Are being worked out and will be announced with one or two this is the original company of Irving berlins fabulously successful descendant of the last wars Yip Yip the 160 has just completed five months in where it played to Over troops in Santa fog Gia and Baru Affer its assignment with the fifth Mark Clark awarded lie company a citation for discipline mid perform before the italian the this is the army detach ment played 14 weeks in where two thirds of each audience was on third proceeds of the Sale to amounting to More than was Given to British War service in the King Anci Queen the princesses Royal and Churchill were among the after London the unit played in Manches Bris Bournemouth and the show opened in new York july where it was an immediate one of the greatest in history of the american in new York and on four throughout the the show played for the Benefit of the army emergency Relief fund and after the tour stopped off in Hollywood see army on Page 8 Allied ring of steel closing British and Indian troops have crossed the Peak narrow ing the enemy defense Are to nine Miles from some of the heaviest fighting since Tissino has been going on along a 21mile front Flo where eighth army troops hammered out gains in their drive to an arc around the Indian holding the Western Anchor of the line before Florence have pushed Forward West of Pesa River and captured Casti eight and a half Miles Southwest of the historic which is said to be intact except that there is no water Supply or on the Allied Western flank the fifth army battled against in creased nazi resistance before i the americans Are preparing o Cross the River under constant artillery fire from the Hills North of apparently fearing an american Surprise at Kesselring troops Are keep ing the nights Bright with Pisa has been evacuated in order to spare its says the German news adding that has also been see Florence on Page 8 gis will be aired monday nights have been chosen for a weekly recording at Camp Huckstep toy the Mobile re cording unit of us anime Public under the sponsorship of special the unit will record i Joes and Janes in songs and discs will be flown to the states for presentation on network radio Brad Leys yanks yesterday captured capital of Brittany astride the Breton Advance american 66 Lumens now May choose Between striking at Brest or 8fc Demps oys British troops Preas towards in a stirring succession of daily american tanks and infantry Are spilling through the Gorman of with its massive port of Advance units have reached Reu on third of the Way across the Breton Peninsula an important communications at Tho Center of the Normandy the British took Over the Caumont sector from the pressed As far Tje Beny Bocage to the West and drove into Hill territory Between Caumont und Villor Bocage to the in the Caen sector the canadians have opened a Strong attack against stubbornly defended hedgerows at the East endow the throughout the entire the Allied mass shows no 8lgn of and one spokesman called developments of the past several Days the most important of the in striking front Avran the yanks have nip pet Poss Ible German efforts to flood the Lowling Selene Estuary area by seizing the Sluice games to Twoie portent dams on the at veins heavy tank Battle besides starting to slice the Bre ton the american drive has included a saving toward Interior advancing from the yanks Are Githiri 20 Miles a the British at be Bony which would break final stoppage of Tho Normandy wedge and also threaten to engulf Large German forces within the much in the manner the russians Are Advance bypassing a technique not previously open to Mont Mary because of his space from the front on resistance the in neither Booby traps see Rennes on Pago b s Eye bases following turkeys break with nazis Cabinet meetings Are being held in Sofia and Bucharest to discuss the Balkan situation in Light of turkeys break with the at the request of sup ported by the Turkey has broken off diplomatic and Trade relations with and thus Given the Reich a severe setback both militarily and in the eyes of the nazi turkish exports to including tanning materials and will be and the nazi War office will also lose valuable Center Sof especially at Adana and the Long waited break came wednesday after Britain had agreed to the to furnish War materials necessary for Turkey to face any difficulties that May result from the Premier Saracoglu told be natio Nal Assembly in the decision you Are asked to fake is not a decision for it is the attitude that the other aide will take on which depends see Turkey on Page 8 soviets storm Borders of Prussia Warsaw aflame with the East prussian Border under Shell fire for the first Cher Yakovsky has struck the Border from red troops Are fighting three Miles from German Border town of the Battle of Warsaw is raging As marshal to Kossovsky forces Hack through German defences in the suburbs of the City and tighten and Widen the encircling arc to the Northeast and Points on the Eastern outskirts of the polish capital now Lay behind the frontline of Battle and the main russian said to num Ber a million Are now ready for a last frontal assault on War saw proper which lies West of the out flanking the City on the North red tanks have spearheaded the infantry to touch the East Ern Bank of the Vistula while South of the other of to Kossovsky troops press Forward on a comile River they Are swarming across the Vistula with Pontoon rafts and even with fierce fighting pro Gressing in the Eastern the City itself is a hell of burning dog fights Over head and the Thunder of earlier reports said that he Ger mans have already evacuated their officials and civilians from the City and with the first chaotic Janic of impending Battle troops Are resisting fiercely but in the Center of the nazis Are destroying buildings and laying waste the City be fore the inevitable Baltic trap on the Baltic russian troops slashed northward through Latvia this effecting a 32 Nile breakthrough straight to the Baltic 25 Miles West of and Are now driving eastward to Ward Tho Khz circled in the Baltic arc Are Between and German troops which face a Baltic Dunkirk in addition to constant Boni Mig from the red air the Ped salient is also exposed tenacious fingers of armoured sea to Finland or East be almost impossible present soviet Coinman and see Trumia n
