Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1945, Cairo, Egypt V if of production sgt Rubli fiery trap i a t 4 a cleverly con guarded har or in a spectacular attack enemy con the american submarine the Navy Dis w f i i As sensational As the raid itself Wais the Escate of the submarine which got away safely hours Battle on sur face of Waters filled with jocks and fishing the Navy did not disclose the Date or Loca Tion of the the under the command of Eugene sent so Many enemy ships to the Bottom they could not be counted in the clearcut the Navy said that flu key took his ship on what appeared to be a hopeless Mission be cause the anchored Convoy was Bidden behind a Protection of escorts concentrated on every logical in the Convoy were tankers and Muni Tion a naval Elfo so shallow was the water around me assault the Barb was forced to remain surfaced during its approach and for at least an hour after the the which occurred at night when visibility was was described by the Navy As a naval flu keys plan called for a Light Ning Stab with the Hope a sur prised and confused enemy might Aid the moving silently through the ene my escort screen and uncharted the Barb let go with every thing she had in the time Avail gave full right rudder and moved toward the Rock strewn water at full from the Fluckey watched japanese ships All around erupting in the night like a nest of volcanoes the Navy columns of fire leaped from several the Navy the first target was seen to Settle in the some vessels that japs Shell own graft pillars of smoke poured sky the Side of one vessel blew out like the fired Magazine of a two ships exploded and sent a Shower of tracers in All i possibly these ships were ammunition carriers for in the deadly criss Cross of tracers were projectiles of All sizes from six Inch to searchlights played momentarily on the fleeing then they went a glance Back from the submarine revealed the scene of the attack was beneath a smoke during i the height of the sea Battle the barbs pursuers opened fire on their own Junks lying in the lower reaches of the escaping scores of shells from the gunboats in the ensuing the Barb finally broke away reaching the open sea As Dawn was break she had not As reached plane sighted her and for the first time since she had spotted the Rich prize she was forced to for the daring assault Fluckey has been presented the nations highest the congressional medal of in addition the Barb was awarded a presidential unit port1 for discharge under the Point v wrote his parents and told them the Good in the same he mentioned casually that he would be accompanied to a wife and who every existence he had neglected to mention he explained he had married after Landing in England 80 months ago and had since acquired two now 16 and four months Ulve been saving it As a sur he iwo stamp wins out Washington a three cent postage stamp depicting the his Torio iwo Jima Flag raising will be issued on july m in commemoration of the Marine corps achieve ments in this such a stamp had been violently opposed by a National Flag code representing More than f Doo patriotic and fraternal societies who didst like the idea of the ame rican Flag being licked behind its pounded onto smeared by and run through cancelling objection was the sub in Sahara Breeze Batter Paul a staff ser batted this one to Kate and won the weekly prize in her tall tale contest 4 during the Early stages of the War we were on Maneu vers in the South Atlantic with storm warn Ings posted to when we surfaced a couple of weeks the storm was still going Waves 100 feet Long tossed the sub around like a Cork so fast that we crossed the coast of we came Down in the Sahara de our propellers coated with Sand and the rudders dug in six feet we scouted around and saw a native imagine our Surprise when we saw Gary Cooper he smiled when we told him our predicament and he said he knew an easy he brought out two Large signs lettered los Angeles City limits and told us to put them up near the five minutes it began to the rain fell for three weeks straight and the desert be came flooded Clear to the Captain gave orders to Start the saying goodbye to the City limits of we gave a Rous ing cheer arid sailed out to buy More War Bonds How do you want your or dehydrated hot pants How to get rid of an Umpire by legitimate foul play was displayed at fort Sill last work when a batters Swift foul grazed the right leg of base Umpire John a few seconds Dromgold was observed gyrating about in a most Peculiar in a sort of fire reported Eye the Impact of the softball had ignited a Book of matches in his pants which in turn ignited his no no nothing a Young Soldier at fort was struck by a strange a lady which happen to Man or it took the form of a violent sneezing spell which occurred each time he kissed his girl and there seemed to be nothing either of them could do about As this unfortunate situation could not possibly continue the sad sack relinquished himself into the hands of Post Hospital Laboratory a series of tests revealed that the Soldier is allergic to the Type of face powder his girl to return from the and Mediterranean Heaters Tofte 2je reports that june 15 is the Day the precedent shattering Job is to begin and that servicing the base i is getting Way with a hundreds of veterans of the 8th air Force the 15th air Force in Italy have been shifted to get the Job rolling and arrival of reinforcements from the states and Europe will double the Field in a that a for the Post the Gazette is replacing the year old mimeographed Post news under the Editorship of Sullivan and begins with a darn sensible notion the editors emphatically do not wish the Gazette a Long it is their fondest Hope that Vij Day will Roll around before the next Issue appears and that before Long we can All go Back to Reading the Weehawken blatant Zamichow is associate Edi Drinkard product chief and among contributors to 1 Are Frank Wil Liam ski Ray Hor Milton Picard and Robert Nolan its a fou Page print Job and appears every wed Down Eritrea Way last Morton Goldberg noted in Zero beat we have the Best stocked pm in the world and Are prepared for any pm has on Sale at the three dozen pairs of ski someone with a soul has written Dali Dit a travelogue of Beautiful excerpts As anyone who has Ever been in Abadan typifies the Romance of the it is about 30 Miles from Abadan across the desert and is the Only place there is to All the perfumes of Araby Are wafted out from Basra and the stench covers an area of roughly 27 in order 10 get from Iran Over to it is necessary to Cross the Riveron an extremely dilapidated ferry or by native is Wise to take a life in the better parts of Basra a minuscule shot of scotch costs 400 but that is not too bad Consi Dering that a Fil is Worth about a tenth of a is a reason ably Good Bazar in one of the few remaining bazaars in this part of the but Only advantage to a covered Bazaar is that it keeps All the flies and smells in that if you care for the flies and the there Are absolutely no sights of historical significance to on the the town is squalid and but since it is the Only place to the hell11 Al Hamdu Lilian begins Earl Harris in his take it column this week in Sand script and it turns out to be his Farewell to the paper Hes made just about the liveliest in the Middle everyone knows and reads Sand script and while he Hast been the Only one on the Camp Huck step Hes been editor two and a half Hes knocked out a yarn on the typewriter of his and Hes seen to it that the Camp personnel is supplied with information about their their astr Vitea Ana watched Gamp Hue step grow from a of Frame Barracks under the name of Oarb Elhagg to its present condition of epic Fatmi Wellik quipped he Hee headed wishing the paper a successful life by the turn of a Short thanks for he winds and so see you in the Good and no to tie it was a grand Job you e number of and theres just to keep up with who got How Many Points toward the fifth weve been scanning and come up with two first is from the Oran base unit which reports that the top men at la Senia Are two master sergeants and one Pri Cecil Jones totals to Stanley Thomas to 107 and Orville Gibson an even another granites have Over but the aver Points per Man is one nameless sad sack with 11 then theres the Barsham Bak Sateesh report of Clyde Exma Nager of Post laundry who missed 12 Points for a child by ten his wife gave birth to seven Pound Linda in Cago on May but the wife of Gavin former Billet ing beat the deadline by one the Stork reached his wife Home on May probably the most romantic out fit in a according to a Story in must be the 671st air service whose latest bridegroom is George he recently married Muriel Mel Ville off the the air de pot boys have married red Cross Uso Urra Folk civilians we take a Back seat to no one proudly proclaim the men of the pointing to the nine and on half Pound boy off and Harold the eight pounds Koounce son of and George Perlin and the approaching heir off and Frank lightning flashes James of a reports Herman Belferman in had a hard hit the heard the co making a bed Check a couple of hours after he got to got up for break but it turned out to be mid night Day Ever re corded on Bahrein appears to have been saturday june when the temp hit see Basshar Bak adding that records Only pro Back 12 years and that the air conditioned Barracks Felt depo dope at gazes comes out for trips for depot pointing out that the repair and Supply Crews in their neck of the wastes Are aching for a change of furlough scenery Marazan for five Days or a week at Fez Doest answer editor Herbert Schiller remarks and we Hope he gets some action from his swell in announced that the summer hours Are siesta time from noon til Skeleton shifts taking Over for the hot sensibly to e daily Bush owner tells of Golf balls at the pm and that another Golf at is now in com Parison with the other two Cour was who lat up to by reprinting three Days in a Row that Story about the Bureau of Fustin looking through packages that arrive from gis overseas could somebody have put the Bee that thoroughly on editor Mckenna Navy tactics spar Celia Bergeron and Navy flyer William Mccartney were married last culminating a Romance which began when his fighter plane crashed through the roof of her fathers House last
