Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 3, 1943, Oran, Oran                               Vol. 1 no. 67 a t u0s4tty# aboest1 3,1943 ii. S. Army newspaper one franc massive air attack club adj soil Fields american liberators Fly 2,400 Miles to drop 600,000 pounds 01 bombs Cairo. Aug. 2�?in what was described As the biggest Low level mass raid in aviation history a powerful Force of nearly 200 liberators of the 0th Saaf carried out a devastating Daylight attack on the Plesti Oil Field in Rumania yesterday. Flying the longest round trip bombing flight of the War american bombers covered 2,400 Miles to drop 600,000 pounds of explosives and thousands of incendiary bombs from a height of 100-500 feet on installations and plants towers boiler houses and tanks. Heavy explosions and sheets of flame were observed among the Oil refineries which produce 51,500,000 China mourns president Lin Shen chunking Ai. 2-China today mourned the loss of its 81-yres�eiti, Lin Shen Hist night after a Long the Little known. Ameri can educated chief executive had been nominal head of the chinese Republic since 1951. Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek has been formally endorsed As. Acting  army storms san Stefano drives on taif  italian ports Sadoglio regime adopts hostile tone to allies troops 65 Miles t Post Palermo prisoners seized tons of fuel Oil a year and Supply More than 85 percent of Germany s Petroleum demands. Heavy opposition was encountered from enemy fighters Over the target area and on the return journey while bombers experienced intense Light and heavy anti aircraft fire from ground defences at least 51 enemy aircraft were reported destroyed. Twenty of the liberators were shot Down Over the target area and a number have not returned to their bases. It was the second United states raid on the Plesti Region and the fourth the refineries have suffered since the Start of the War. A Small Force of american liberators attacked the Oil Fields on june 12 last year. The russian air Force attacked them twice in 1841. Complete Success Brig Gen. U. G. Anti in who led the raid personally described it As a Oom tote Success. Brig Gen. Victor Trahm chief of staff of the ing precedes in Pacific area flame throwers used in Mundo Washington aug. 2�?a hint that the present Island to base Campaign against the japanese in the South Pacific might soon develop into strategic attacks on Points in the japanese Empire itself was expressed in Allied Force Headquarters aug. 2�?the Advance of the 7th army along the Northcoat Road of Sicily is being effect h supported by the gunfire of american naval forces it was revealed Here today in a naval communique. Meanwhile american it boats continue to harass the enemy s lines of sea communication along the North and Northwest coastline of the Island. Allied naval forces Early sunday again bombarded the Harbor of Croton on the Heel of Italy starting two Good sized fires and sinking two patrol Craft the return tin of enemy share batteries ineffective. A Force of Allied Cruls �5, #�?o5 a Al be Quot yesterday toy a a sew ers and destroyer wasted at the  vhf  try Frank Knox. Harbor of Vibo Vale la Marina in a ave Matey in Rucj cd Quot it 4s not reasonable to assume the Gulf of Santa Eufemia on the tet tin it Momu Foa Yby i a Jeff  owed 1west 00961 01 Iuler ?. We be the one of. The future night. Deprived a the Mator part of the said. Quot at present it s an at the same time another de Island to base Campaign but it is pachment was bombarding the a Bridge which carries the coastal refining facilities on which they depend cd to Supply planes and mechanized ground forces Bot a on the russian and Mediterranean fronts. He revealed that a number of the bombs dropped were of the delayed action Type and that american airmen saw them exploding As they headed for Home. Months of planning and preparation preceded the attack which was worked out to the minutest details. The task of executing the raid was placed in the hands of maj. Gen. Lewis Brereton commander of the. 8th u. S. A. A. F. Approximately 2,000 airmen were trained especially for this Mission and even conducted a practice bombing on a replica of the Plesti area prior to the Mission. Russian army nearing Orel German attacks halted in Donetz japs build huge runway on Kiska Washington the Japan Ese have completed a 3,700-foot runway on Kiska big enough for four engined bombers it was revealed by the Alaska defense command. This is  As evidence that the japs intend to to. The Island for a last ditch stand. Shelling of the Jap positions on Kiska now is being done by heavy Navy units As we As the Light units which previously took part a Navy communique announced. The heavy units include battleships and heavy cruisers. Not reasonable to assume that the whole War will be fought on that a  meantime in their inching offensive against she Jap Solomon stronghold at Munda american troops were using flare throwers Ard Light tanks in their Jungle struggle for the key new Georgia Island base. A number of guns were silenced and ammunition stores blown up when Allied dauntless and Avenger torpedo planes and dive bombers swooped anew railway Over the a ver Oliva which flows into the game Gulf about 22 Miles to the North. Gop indignant Over for talk republicans ask for radio time by to set. Hillary Lyons stars and stripes staff writer Allied Force Headquarters aug. 2�?As the Allied dead War on Italy neared. Premier Pietro Bado Lios government yesterday took a sharper More hostile tone toward the United nations. The a amp lir amp to formed in Rome nine Days ago to succeed Benito Mussolini a regime made no a official statements but the heavily censored italian press apparently reflected its views. One paper tue Popolo i Roma hauntingly declared that the italians were concerned with decisive actions not threats and predicted that the allies would not even be Able to beat the germans in Sicily. Another paper asserted Quot As our internal enemies disappeared within a night so we am at pres tel Hving for nothing a dwt to oppose our external  some observers saw a direct connection. Between the increasing Braggadocio of the Bado tio Een trolled press and the repeated re crts of an influx of German troops through the Brenner pass. These reports say that the nazis Are methodically occupying northeastern Italy from the austrian Bonier to the Gulf of Trieste. Whatever it attitude toward pc cism at Home the Sadoglio government seemed determined to maintain Mussolini a policy of close ties with the nazis. The italian masses if Neutral sources could be credited continue to agitate for immediate peace though less openly than they did last week. Allied planes and italian underground organizations Are said to have widely distributed copies of the Allied Force warning that Italy will be hard hit from the air if so Render does not come. In response to the warning Many italians Are sai., to have fled with their families into Rural areas. By sgt George Dorsey stars and stripes staff writer Allied Force Headquarters. Aug. 2�?american troops of the 7th army have captured the. London aug. 2�?Moscow today reported substantial gains and the a a it capture of 100 locality to the Orel to drop 17 ton of sex while soviet troops a in sector while soviet troops con tinned to Stop German attacks in the Donetz Basin Southwest of Oroshi Novgrad. The communique listed As captured towns to the Northwest North and Northeast of the nazi stronghold of Orel several within 10 Miles of the City itself. Won by the col c. F. Schilt commanding the u. S. Marine Light Bofinger striking forces in the South Pacific said there is nothing left now on Munda Airfield but pock Marks and said that the Jap air Force is continue on Page 41 Washington aug. 2�?harrison e. Spangler chairman of the Republican National committee has telegraphed Secretary of War Henry l. Stimson Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and Robert Sherwood head of the overseas division of the office of War information saying that president Roosevelt has launched a Campaign for a fourth term. Quot under pretext of making a report on the War situation he made a straight of political speech in a bold bid for the votes of soldiers and sailors risking their lives for Freedom Quot he said. Accordingly Spangler demanded he be allowed All facilities for establishing Republican comments thereon to american armed forces through ail army newspapers ship s latins and radio stations. Axis prisoners in England London a an Allied Convoy carrying Axis prisoners from North Africa has arrived safely in Britain after beating off attacks by a boats it was announced. Northern Anchor of the Axis defense line in Sicily with the taking of san Stefano on the tyrrhenian seacoast today s communique revealed. In the same operation the Swift hard striking u. S. Forces surged into Mistretta. Seven Miles to the South. In taking this Hill locked town on the North South Road to Nicosia the americans captured 10,000 prisoners More than half of whom were German. This is by far the largest haul of wehrmacht soldiers reported from Sicily. Midnight  Allied Force Headquarters aug. My s special communique issued Heve tonight it was announced that an All out Allied offensive in Sicily has now started. All along the 60-mile. Sicilian front american British and Canadia were on the move in a Ina ted drive to wipe out the last vestige of Axis resistance on the Island. I the capture of the two towns broke what Allied authorities knew to have been a determined German grip on critical northernmost positions and brought the american forces More than 65 Miles from Palermo where they were first reported to have reached the North coast. From one glance at the map it can easily be seen that the new breakthrough threatens the whole upper half of the Axis Etna line which depends on the slopes of it. Etna for its Central strength., san Stefano s fall also places continued on Papo 4. Montgomery lauds yanks in Sicily the new positions soviet forces indicate that the red k. Armo Quot a for now zg&fv3s"s� armoured command by the Moscow said All German thrusts on the donets were thrown Back with heavy losses despite enemy use of tank and infantry reinforce tents. Nasi losses on All fronts july 81st were set at 70 Sci and 67 aircraft. Meantime it was announced that the diplomatic corps is to return to Moscow from suib Ahev where it he been knee october 1841 when the germans threatened the Floriet capital. Washington a the armoured Force has been changed to the armoured command to prevent confusion with the three big army groups air forces ground forces and service forces the War department announced. Since it is under the ground forces the armoured command designation will fit in with other similar und units like the airborne and the anti aircraft of Umno a a. Three soldiers die of desert thirst ban Francisco a three soldiers died of thirst in the Yuma Region of the Imperial desert last week after they became separated from their platoon during Maneu vers it was disclosed by army spokesmen. The platoons water Supply gave out after it had by Fen out six Days. A water party was sent out and while it was away the three soldiers started their own search. The party returned with water but the search of the three was unsuccessful and they died. Allied Force Headquarters us. 2�?in a personal message to the troops he led across the Lilbian desert into Tunisia and then across the Mediterranean onto Sicily s soil Gen. Sir Bernard Law Montgomery commander of the British Btl army has praised the work of the american 7th army in cleaning up Quot More than half the Island in record time it was Learned Here today. To the British soldiers massed before Catania the stubbornly held Axis stronghold Gen. Montgomery cried Quot into Battle with Stout  Here is the text of the British Leader s message Quot the Allied armies landed id  on italian soil on the 10th of july magnificently supported by the Royal Navy and the Allied air forces and Are today in Possession of the whole Island except for the Northeast Corner where the enemy is now hemmed  Quot i want to Tell All of you. Soldiers of the 8th army that this has been a very Fine performance. On your behalf i have expressed to the commander of the 7th american Annj on our left the congratulations of the 8th army for the Way the american troops have captured and cleaned up More than half the Island in record time. We Are proud to fight beside our american  Quot the beginning has been very Good thanks to your spend of fighting qualities and to the hard work and Devotion to duty of a those who work in the ports on the roads and in the rear areas. V7e must not forget to give thanks to the lord mighty in battle1 for giving us such a Good beginning towards the attainment of our  Quot and now let us get on with the Job. Together with our american allies we have knocked Mussolini off his Perch. We will now drive the Gentian out of Sicily. Into Battle with Stout hearts. Good Luck to you