Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                And Middle ear organised re m Liniai weapon the we e Fira time the Guam Dalh Leld if of fleets added another to this new Thrist Ward the Philip Trines whet Hal american forces have now expanded their team beachhead to 12 after capturing Orote site of the Swgert Airstrip i tote Marianas and the former Marine use of what was termed one of me most fearful instruments of death from americas Arsenal of secret the new weapon was described As equally destructive of life and How there was no hint whether the device is projected Joy gun or operated manually As the Jap was entering manias in the lose column of their tattered Pacific the Allied offensive swept Westward another 200 Miles toward the Philippines when units of the sixth army made unopposed landings at tiny san Sapor Village at new guineas Northwestern san Sapor is Only attack of attack caught the japs Surprise and the s three Fields were deluged i tic bombs vat least 90 aircraft on the off flank of new were punned Down by of a Strong Dask Force which caught and sunk ships and Dow red 45 nip planes against the loss of seventeen More ships were added to the mounting toll of Jap ton nage sent to the Bottom by u s the bag included several naval escort no Quick predicts Stimson Washington in a Broad cast to the american people made his return from prance and War Henry Stim son warned that no German col lapse is yet apparent and that the present Tempo of the War Effort must be therein Only one sure strategy to finish this War with finality and that is for the and our allies to gear every resource we have in men and equipment in final unremitting assault on land sea and in the he said Stimson then prophesied that in and Japan see that they Are about to be comnale Tely overpowered when that fact is physically and unmistakably carried to their Doorstep then and Only then will they Manuel Quezon Dies new York Manuel philippine president in exile died tuesday at his Saranac Lake re where he had been staving for Relief from tuberculosis from which he suffered for Many Cairo blackout ends the blackout in the Cairo area was lifted allowing Public streets and Auto headlights to be fully lighted Mcnair killed on Normandy Battlefront Washington Les i Les Ley Mcnair was killed by enemy fire m Normandy last week while observing front line action in the offensive beyond loan bounced the Mon airs death was revealed less than two weeks after the announcement that he had been relieved his Post As com manding general of the army ground forces for an important assignment who was is the highest ranking american army officer killed in this George Marshall once called him the brains of the army in commenting on his he would pro Abl have elected to die As he did in the forefront of the attack his presence on the firing line should be an inspiring example to the forces of our great ground army a Man he organized and trained who at 35 became the youngest general officer of the first world was appointed chief of staff of the arms Gene ral Headquarters and undertook the most extensive i Tatary training program in the a won s forgot to Duck named to head the army ground forces Early in he visited the tunisian of Battlefront in Inland returned head wounds caused an enemy i this is a Story about a debt re paid with it concerns a pictured which was once the proud Possession of a japanese Soldier on Guadalcanal Island in the Solo a plucky i Engineer by the name of Sheffler eliminated the Jap and took the he sent the trophy to his Mother in new York and later Sheffler Hutn self was killed in his Mother determined to Settle the score with the japs and Deci ded to initiate a Victory loan All her own within her Neighbour Sheffler planned to have each subscriber in her War Bond drive sign the which would eventually he sent to general Mac affixed to a Good sized and dropped on a Jap in she did just collecting in War Bond get several Hundred signatures on the and forwarding it to the Southwest Down in Macarthur head the american Comman Der presented the Banner to a bombing unit of the 5th air Force known the tre Toji terrors and commanded by one colonel Clinton on the Button True turned the assignment Over to Benjamin fridge of Baton of a b25 Billy Mitchell the ban Ner was carefully wrapped around flown Over a Jap Garri son at dutch new and George Craig of Tuscon pressed the bomb Rasuili was a direct hit on the living quarters of the Jap Garri the Banner had gone Home Lesley Mcnair brains of the explained tin first three Star general to be wounded in this alter a Brief lie resumed his Post and continued his policy of eliminating Timpho nored and omm Oded army methods dating since and insisting upon realistic Battle he commanded famous Mil air blows aimed at robot nests battling to Stop the seven week rain of indiscriminate bombing to which londoners have been Allied air forces tins week continued to Hammer at launching plat forms in Northern France am robot factories in testing the nerves of Doughty the robot bombs have also been revealed by air officials As attack Craft against our fortresses arid Libe Churchill said that Homes have been completely damaged and that countermeasures Are being i fear false the Kwh Staaf sent heavies Over Munich which makes not propulsion the Raf struck Rushit factories n sinner and launching platforms As Well As experimental stations in the Baltic where the Hun is thought to be perfecting the Lon distance robot other targets for Allied air forces a heavy raid on shipping at Havre on Mon Day and a thousand plane assign ment supporting the British ground offensive in the Caumont sector in which the heavies had to Fly at exceptionally Low Low As 100 of poor ital based bombers hit Budapest armament works Buffo Javia Harbor rail Yards in the 15th Saaf announced that Fth liberators had bombed Ruma Nian to less than 200 from the russian Churchill sounds optimistic note in one of life periodic reports to the House of prime minister Churchill this week described it on the on every Battle front All Over the the armies of Germany and recoiling the armed forces of the Many nations which in various form the grand tempering his exceptional optimism for the immediate warned it is always possible that there May be a re turn the u4pat the germans May gain some rela Tive advantage in their pointing to the command of Gen Churchill said no Man has Ever Laboured More skilfully and More intensively for the unification and Goodwill of the great forces under Bis command than it is the wish of Eisen Hower that the Battles in Normandy should be viewed As a and As one set of single operations conducted by the Allied forces linked in brotherhood and intermingled every manner that May seem share and share alike the germans have certainly had remarkable opportunities or revising the mocking and insulting terms which they put upon the military value of the american army at the time they declared War on the great we British and too have taken our full share in fierce and prolonged but lest our enemies should suggest on their wireless that the Burden of the struggle has been unfairly shared or make insidious comparisons of let me say that the losses of the British and Canadian forces together Are about equal to those of the larger United Stales army in proportion to their rela Tive to hns been share and share alike in Good Fon unos arid had All along the b29s pulverize Jap War plants in Daylight raid a Fleet of 30 americas new Goliath of the conducted their first Day Light raid from Western China bases when they smashed the great Jap steel and chemical Center of Anshan in Eastern the super forts cascaded their heavyweight bombs from High altitudes on plants producing Ben Toulene and All vital in the manufacture of As As steel and synthetic it is estimated that it will take the japs a year to repair the destruction the port of Tanku at in occupied was also hit in the Day Light losses Wen Allied Hopes of checking the Jap drive i Central China received another setback when Jap forces slashed their Way into proper and Street fighting is re ported in that Junction City on the Camo Hankow railway other chinese forces Are fighting the in Vader Northeast and South of the in Allied troops have struck far behind the enemy lines m an Effort to Cut off his Wane Down the Tiddum four stars for Uncle Joe Roosevelt has nominated Joseph w commander of american and chinese forces in Burma for the rank of full general the a in commenting on Uncle Joes the press tested the probability of now and More important work for Stilwell in the Burma b29s ahead of sked washing my aircraft factories in july exceed of their schedules for super fortresses by four while producing an