Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace Army journal defends Stilwell army and Navy unofficial service came to the defense of Joseph vinegar Joe Stilwell and Eaid his efforts to build an effective chinese army had been handicapped by Chi Nese before Stilwell was recalled from the command of the publication Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek accused him of throwing away the lives of chinese Chiang criticized the Lack of american lend lease Aid and objected violently to Stilwell As the journal the appearing at a time when Roosevelt is expected to name Patrick Hurley As ambassador to said also that ambassador Gauss resigned because of the presence of other american representatives in China ind his ignorance of their dealings with chinese Chiang was obdurate in his refusal to yield to attempts of vice president Wallace to get him to effect military cooperation with chinese according to which said Hurley worked toward unification of Chi a and the supplying of communist is Well As chunking the report strive to build an effective Chi Nese army and insisted that it receive full for All victories much to the dissatisfaction of our own Back at his Home in declined at his first press conference to comment on his he voiced Strong Praise for Trio american my hats off to this generation in for he the army must have done an excellent Job of Are More amenable to discipline and i think the War picture was better presented to Sti Weils successor to Raymond Wheeler has been announced As successor Stilwell As de poly commander of the Allied Southeast Asia he will continue As the commands Prin Cipal administrative officer under lord Louis As commander of the army Section and senior american offi cer in he is in charge of lend lense to allies in that Wheeler was com manding general of cart before Showell assumed command in november 1944 stars and Middle East retired to Greener Dick Smith of Hie Merrill marauders shows the Jap gun he picked up on a Guadalcanal Battlefield to 1st Ruth of and Edward of nurse Rackstraw is holding a folder souvenir of the famed band of with the flags of China and the Usa and patches of Chi and the marauders own containing a rare collection of marauder photo Richard of Chi Cago Doest pretend to be an authority on mules and we like to put him in the position of seeming but when he was reminiscing the other Day about some of the things that had happened to him As one Mickey to be a papa Jane who married Mickey Booney on 13 after a whirlwind court Lias disclosed thru she and Mickey Are inf now Hopes Well have a said rills marauders in he mentioned mules in a Fri Emily Fino my sort of Way that made him our expert on mules of the turns out that while global wars gifts to civilization have included the the list and other equally Well publicized theres not been much mention about the flying feed bag and that where this Story merrills marauders Maas you must have a year ago this time last year the scooped up by Volunteer methods in lie wore in the of two months training in after a Thev started walking up the Teclo after about 120 Miles of that Thev called it an eleven Day practice thou Thov struck out for their behind helices assignments against the Tcath platoon of 50 Ami had Ivee mules and Throe Ingle skip nors Dio a Moleskin up int a Boss Butcher ils just a trick name for a now Chr Roulfs cavity fool bal Timo fun mules in ruled in with mortars Ami Nam Ihnn von Verv Well Thorn to in Rev i hair Hulk lunches As could Vou new offensives seen As japs pour big forces info China that where the flying feed bag comes when the marauders were completely sur rounded by the nips they got their supplies by and in specially marked Par packages came train and mixed feed because is yet no ones gotten around to inventing a ration for Dick Smith Hopes Hes on his was Home the Sel Depre Cating mule expert of the week went to the Southwest Pacific 33 months on Guadal Tala i and with he marauders 100 medi Calls certified As unfit for combat Dicks hoping wind up near the Windy City and the girl to whom he was married for three months before he came but dont get the idea from nil this fancy palaver that Dick my Lesk inned for his Merrill maraud his Job was All the things a fighting Man has to do in that Tough theater of the mules Kinning talk is just what he noticed the skinners of Bis outfit wed hate to put him on the snot As burmese Moleskin Ning fax part just because he answered a few of our questions suicide charges by japs feature it 8 Leyte righting no the opening of the second month of the Philippines invasion found american successfully re pulsing the third determined ene my attack on the yank South of despite terrific artillery fire from scores of including Long the japs in he Limon poc Ket Clung stubbornly to their positions and have been Able to make several suicidal counterattacks against the ring of american Macarthur communique said that the enemy apparently has decided to commit the famous Jap 1st division to hold he town of although at least a Quarter of the originally estimated at already has been wiped enemy casualties during Tho Campaign on Leyte have risen to Moro than against losses of including killed and 16 Manila area pounded again a Miles to the South Oast amphibious troops have landed in the Asia Island off the tip of new Gui and the completion of the occupation of the Maria islands in tin same area was the Bav area flamed Atrain when the third Fleet car Rier task Force made its fourth strike within n month at Manila Bay targets to sink two cargo set fire to damage three others and destroy the planes also blasted an ene my Cruiser beached in shallow Oiler widespread Aerial strikes included a blow at Brunei naval base on North Borneo where heavies blasted a destroyer and set docks in the first strike at several hits were scored on a battleship Ami a naval raid on Volcano a delayed Navy communique bus revealed that american War shins struck within 750 Miles of Tokyo on 10 to bombard two islands in the Volcano the raid caught the by Surprise and explosions and fire were caused which visible 35 Miles at simultaneously Tho Navy def issued its longest communique of the Pacific War which summarized that the recent Philippines naval and air engagements May out to he Amon or he decisive Bat Les of modern the communique also identified Bufi u slips lost in addition to the Carrier a Norton Lurier the Battle of the Philippi Page 5 b29s blast 35 Jap fighters in strike at Omura super fortresses of the 20th bom Ber command blasted through the strongest fighter interception they have yet met to rip the great Omura aircraft works in Japan along with targets at banking and Shanghai in occupied the Daylight operation was i vested principally at Omura on he japanese Home Island of Kyu Shu but Wen her forced a diver Sion of the Effort toward the other two said an air Force communique in Twenty enemy interceptors were Jug were probably Des troyed and 19 others damaged As the japs sought to Harry the strategic reduction of the Omura works begun 25 and continued two super fortress were shot Down and one was the super fort losses were the first suffered at the hands of japanese fighters since the inauguration of the command in awaits takers in film Competition already entries in the movie contest and its Worth of Pri Zes Are being received at the mid dle East film Exchange special the thre Way contest closes 15 and in cose youve forgotten theres solid Cash waiting the writer of the Best letter about overseas the author of the Best cartoon idea and the taker of the Best Ca Mera shot of any subject dealing i 15 May not seem very pay Days next thursday they were the escort gamier and Saint destroyers Johnston and and the destroyer escort Samuel to there was no change inthe assessment of enemy losses which stand at 58 warships sunk or Rabbit Hunt on Marianas further naval us Cri Hecl to perils of the listed ten including a destroyer and two destroyer the said that seven were lost in Iho Phili Pinns although during the philippine from in the a writer Vern Iglauer Hinnd told How americans had conducted a Ebreo inv Rabbit using about 900 marines flushed out and killed 248 Jan Straer lers and captured 48 the round in increased the Saipan enemy dead to Carrier bracketed by shells of Jap Cruiser chunking Japan is plan Ning to fight out the War on the Asiatic Mainland rather than on Home soil am to that end is pour ing a formidable Well trained and Well equipped into South Wede new commander of forces in the China said this he predicted the japanese will be Defeated within about a year after the end of War in Wedemeyer also said he had made recommendations to Chiang Kai Shek for simple i sound dispositions to meet the enemy capabilities in he told a press conference that possible enemy moves included a push from captured Luchow to Kwangsik province southward for a link with Jap forces in French a Fedemeyer described Shunroku commander of Jap forces in As a very i still have a feeling our problems Are not he Wedemeyer talked to newsmen As the chinese High command revealed that the japanese have Cap tured 43 Miles Northwest of fallen Liu How along the Kwangsik Kwei Clow the new enemy successes in their attempt to lop off Eastern China came As Donald Nelson and 13 american Industrial experts and advisers to chivas new War production Board arrived to attempt to increase chivas War on the Burma chinese exploiting successes in the Burma Border have plunged a Carlo 20 Miles Forward from re captured Wangshih on the old Burma Road and Are converging on Che Fang from two and possibly three Che Fang lies 25 Miles South of buy More War Bonds framed in the exhaust smoke of a american Carrier bracketed by a Alvo of from Hie enemy which is circled at the the occurred during the second Battle of photo by Herald from
