Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace                              November 1944 the Benghazi november in their Seesaw Battle of the the eighth army finally won through to take Tho town which Onca had been part of the carry morning milk run of ninth Saaf and Raf Crews As Well As ferry and Eycthie bombers while the allies had occupied the Benghazi became a tube through which endless streams of Allied convoys rowed to the final Victory in two years the Cyrenaica capital still shows signs of Only a Pait of prewar population has re turned and Many of the buildings Are just As the bombs left them except for recoverable vast equipment fats been salvaged for use against its former but some use less materials mute of a vanished Rommel shattered afrika Korps and the tide that changed at stars and Middle East one of jerrys coastal defense guns on the Beach gets a firsthand inspection from two curious Leroy of and Victor of new its a says Walter of now its slated for Early conversion into useful what wants to know is he surveys this Salvage dump s Hows he Gonna get that faded Swastika out from under the junk Heap a Volkswagen for All was one of hitters Andrew Onufer of Doest find much left of this remnant of the once superbly equipped afrika staff photos by continued from Page 1 bad shelling and figured wed catch it the next but from then of we didst have a until when it looked As though they were coming to get sweat out Friendly barrage Joseph Kimble of said the dropping of supplies gave away the americans Posi and we were relieved just in Tho Nick of we were just holding our own when the troops the germans were Boring in from All sides and we were voiding them off with grenades and describing the arrival of food in american artillery Higgins said we just crunched in our Foxholes and sweated out the like we would have done if he germans had been shelling those shells May have had chocolate in hut they could have killed you when they after several due to bad the Thunderbolt pilots finally parachuted food and water to the men on the next Day they dropped medical plasma and one water bag caught in a and Peter Bondor of and a sergeant volunteered to climb the free and Cut it the men almost cried when the planes came Over and dropped said William ban Dork of the battalion tried to fight Way out on but enemy mines and machine guns forced them to drop bark to Dugin positions after and Advance of we were Luck to get Back to our said Harry he berth of Only link the men had with 60 million pounds of gobblers Lor gis Chicago More than 95 per cent of All personnel in the armed including those who Are held by the will sit Down to old fashioned thanksgiving tur key dinners on says Mckenzie of the office of quartermaster service men and women Are expected to consume pounds of the traditional including with All the the red Cross is taking Steps to got processed Turkey to prisoners m Germany and the rest of the 7th army was a radio operated by Erwin blon Der of which kept work in the entire time on batteries supposed to last Only two two planes and one Pilot were lost by the Thunderbolt group that dropped supplies to the fowls com through continued from Page 1 of sympathy Over to the persian Gulf Laus who Arent so other events apart from two other Topflight specials will top the commands thanksgiving first of these is saturday nights thanksgiving dance at the Payne Field service club from 8 to Al Knepper and his orchestra will play there will he door refreshments and a floor special busses to the Field will run from Dilelio House at and 8 from the new hotel Shack at and from Cairns grand at 7 and the second is thanksgiving Days Pyramid league football game at this is Between he base Hospital rebels and Payne Field for details of which see sports Page 7 a old fashioned holi Day feast will thanks giving Day at the wac Billet and Josephine wac staff director of has gently predicted that mess Rachel Taylor and her wac Cooks whip up the Best thanks giving dinner around each wac is permitted a guest for the Lucky gis who win an invitation to the wac Shack will find the mess Hall gaily camouflaged with Large Turkey cutouts and colourful main will be focussed on the there will be roast extra Large por Atid plenty of heres the mouthwatering menu Grapefruit cocktail Green and Ripe olives roast Turkey Giblet Gravy fresh White potatoes not Rolls butter mince pie Coffee assorted nuts