Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 18, 1943, Oran, Oran Vol. 1 no. 144 thursday november 18, 1943 one franc daily newspaper for u. S. Armed Force sat 7-1 ratio in Pacific Battles. A a a. Allied score is 102 fro 15 for Post week Allied South Pacific Headquarters. Nov. 17�?while Allied airmen continued their relentless pounding of japanese Cito Jet tvs in the Southwest Pacific an official United states Navy spokesman in Washington pester Dap revealed that Allied bombers Are blasting enemy aircraft out of the air at a ratio of 7 to 1. Rabaul key japanese Gen. Fork prefers truck to place Chicago. Or. 17�?ui Gen. Mark w. Clark would rather sleep in a truck among his men than in a pal in Naples the commander of the 5th army wrote has wife Here. The Palace was so big general Clark add that. Quot i sort of rattled around. He dismissed the guard called two of his officers and drove out to the Elu try to Quot my truck and my men where i belong his letter to my Clark related. Allied nazi patrols Classi As ram Cou Beds dosing on Lor Oslen nazi lir Pirl i Mali i Antes Loomin a in Imam airfields near Marseilles Hirr in twin afr frack new Britain hot for the base a in Island. Is getting too to handle the he Eaid the nip ponese had suffered ugh a into important Fleet units they be impelled to abandon their stronghold. Destruction of 192 Jap planes to the Rabaul area la the last tax Days to the loss of Only 15 american aircraft was also revealed in y the spokesman who added that the 7-1 ratio sounded so High that u. S. Officials doubted the figures until proof was provided. The november 11 raid by Carrier based u. Enemy warships and damaged i others the spokesman said. Medium Allied bombers delivering new blows against Raoul yesterday Sank an 8.000-ton transport with two direct hits from Mast height and ripped another Large merchant hip. Japanese bombers attempted to harass Allied positions on new Guinea but were quickly driven off. Twenty Jap planes were downed and six More were probably destroyed it was reported. A communique called Allied air losses a Ray eyes of yanks with to a 5th army. Nov. 17�?frontline medics credit the All seeing eyes of Little portable a Ray machines with the saving of hundreds of american Uvea. When casualties Are suspected of harbouring shrapnel fragments surgeons turn the floor Cecrope eyes of the a Ray on the patient and probe with educated eyes for the dangerous Shell pieces. When fragments axe discovered orders Are Given for a Quick operation and the Man use is saved. Equipped with generators the a rays Are ready to operate within half an hour after a Hospital tent is set up. Quot we would t know what to do without the Little a Ray said it. Harry Mifton Block Brooklyn. Quot it takes the guess Wark out of surgery and makes it Posa be for us to ave a Hundred times better service. Quot and Man who is suspected of carrying a Shell fragment in his body is brought immediately to the flour scope. Within several minutes we Are Able to Tell the location of the foreign body and plan for immediate surgery it Block added Quot the a Ray units Are set up just in Back of the frontline to Speed Early treatment of seriously wounded men requiring immediate surgical attention. The a Ray sex amp mint Atlon save us three hours in probing and Mony of patients Quot it Avery Parsons Xing St Alban it said. Duck Llam Battle Allied Force Headquarters nov. 17�?bor the third successive Day the italian Battelline re High winds rain and oof held up All but patrol action on both Sites. On the 5th army left flank near the Mediterranean coast an enemy patrol was severely shot up Quot As it attempted to Cross the Gari guano River after a foray into Allied liars on the South Bank. The number of enemy casualties was not Given. On ask a 5th army right flank just North of Venafro americans recovered some of the High ground they had lost to enemy counterattacks on monday. Up the Une from this Point to the Southwest of Pinero an Allied patrol took a number of prisoners. It was to Fth s area that a German Reserve regiment launched three counterattacks on sunday against the threat of an Allied offensive. On the 8th army front where weather conditions were the worst British forces improved their positions to the North near Atessa. And a British patrol clashed with an enemy reconnaissance unit about four Miles West of Casu Gimme. Quot military observers Emilia sized the extreme difficulty of All operations at the for wet under the present weather coalitions. Soaked to the skin of he ceaseless rain men Are forced of Steep on the wet ground under tents often flattened by High Allied Force Headquarters nov. 17�?naaf flying fortresses yesterday celebrated the first anniversary of their first raid in Africa a six plane affair on base Rte. Sidi Ahmed Ai drome with a full dress bombardment of the great nazi held is tres be tube Field near Marseilles France. The fortresses coordinated their attack Over Southern France with a a of marauder raid on the Airfield at Salon also near Marseilles. It was the first time twin engine marauders had bombed France from Mediterranean bases first to reach their target the Bitt were met by so enemy fighters. Fortress gunners shot Down 12. The marauders encountered 15 interceptors and shot Down one. Three bombers were lost in the two attacks. Good results were reported at both Fields which the germans have been using As bases for bombing attacks against Allied shipping. High explosive and in is Bun on hangars administrative buildings shops and among parked aircraft. For the second successive Day Naaf bombers pounded the Fleu Sis Airfield near Athens Greece which the germans Are using for Aerial operations against the British in the Aegean sea. B-2s Mitchells dropped their bombs into wreckage still burning and smoking from the previous Day s raid. Several thousands of fragmentation bombs were released and numerous fires and explosions was Fiarn other Mitchells bombed Harbor installations at the German held port of Sibenik on the Central coast of Yugoslavia. Fighter bomber flying in slightly improved weather conditions Over the front bombed and staffed gun positions in front of the 8th army others continued their attacks against enemy in the Adriatic sea. While Russia Dnieper Bend vets must be Giren cossacks sweep chances mrs. For a behind City to Cufr escape Roure new York not. 17�?the United states Mast give returning veterans the Opportunity to learn and a the Type of work they want to do. Mis. Eleanor Roosevelt yesterday told the annual new Yark Herald Tribune forum. Quot Stop thinking of yourself As an individual a mrs. Boo Avelt advised. Quot think of yourself As a Ritter i the world of the Ture which we who Are fighting far it surely want it to be a better War activities have int radioed our Young women to worlds of Whdeh they previously had no Conception. Or. Whittam amen Nosan president emeritus of Smith College declared. Or. William Mather Lewton Lafayette College president mid universities stand ready u devote their heat efforts to training tar Public service. Drunk Ema Tira my or Leros Luftwaffe Power seen As cause London nov. 17�?the soviet army battering All German resistance today was less than six Miles from the vital rail Junction of Korostek at the crossing of the Leningrad Odessa and Kiev Warsaw lines. Three of the six rail ways leading out of the City have been Cut and the other three were being approached by Strong rus columns. Nazi Winter line i a a plenty rugged9 by a sgt. Jack. Foisie Yak and 1�rpvue� vhf writer with american troops in Central Italy ito 15�?de-layed a How Tough is this German Quot Winter line Quot ask the men fighting in the la us beyond Venafro Ard my that us than any line tiny faced before and that while its not quite As hot As Salerno it be on and on and fever if Vou hang around Venafro very Long you get a Sample of what these a tout doughboy a most of them a rom the Middle West mean by Quot plenty the town itself nestling under the brow of Quot German graveyard Quot Hill was entered after hardly More than a skirmish four Days ago. And then All hell broke Loose. Though the yanks have no cute alight penetration into the Quot Winter hell still Falls on Venafro today. The shells burst still t n Quot German graveyard Quot Hill from the Belfry of a monastery la the Valley i watch the shells exploding on the Hill. They Send up puffs of Gray smoke these Are the High explosives or they Send up puffs of White smoke which Billows and spreads More rapidly Thorn Aie the White phosphorous Sheila. The German shells fall on our ride of this Steep Ridge and out Fuhl go so the Advance infantry patrols Tell me Are falling on the other. Shells of both sides Are Chipping of the Crest of Quot German graveyard Quot my. So named because of the German crosses on the Keno. For the first time since the Salerno landings the Boche is Mac i Ira the yank artillery aun for gun round for round and one is As accurate As the other. To my right As i watch from the Belfry 8 Tower of alack smoke # rising evidence of a hit. Later i teamed that a prime mover for a 155 my howitzer was destroyed. The barrage became so intense that the Battery was forced to withdraw. Artillery not the reported pillboxes amt barbed wire is the basis of the German Quot water line in tills sector. Much has been said of tie difficult terrain but More should be said. In Many company sectors not even mules can make it up Ine Hill a supplies must be hand London nov. 17�?British resistance on the tiny dodecanese Island of Leros in the Aegean sea has ended according to it official announcement Here today. The announcement in London followed by a few hours a German news Agency report that 3,000 British and 5,000 italian troops had Laid Down their arms. Leros was the second of the in dejanese islands which the British have lost to the Naris since the italian surrender. After the armistice last september British troops were landed on two of t italian islands cos and Leros. The British were compelled to vent ate cos earlier this month the resistance offered to the germans on Leros was believed stronger and Only yesterday reports from Cairo flared that greek reinforcements had reached the sex by four Island 008 mites off the North african coast and that British troops had improved theft positions. Local German air superiority appeared to explain the Gem an Victory. The Luftwaffe was Able to operate from nearby Balkan bases and subjected defending ground forces to constant heavy fire. The rap rendered some support to the British ground troop but it distance from its bases presumably in the Middle East apparently proved an ame obstacle. The dodecanese a string of 13 islands of which the largest is Rhodes have scant economic value Boft Are of considerable strategic importance because of their Scatton at the Quot Back door Quot of the the yrs am wrested the islands from Turkey in 1912 and after world War i heavily fortified both Leros and Rhodes As naval bases the reds passed Zlobicki six Miles Southeast of Korostek last night and were marching straight to the City. All communications out of Korostek have been severed in a wide arc extending to the North and South leaving open Only those directly to the rear. Cossack cavalry was heading behind the City in an attempt to close the narrow escape Gap left to the German Garrison but it seemed Likely that the approaching column would launch its final assault even before City was surrounded. The Advance of Korostek took precedence Over All other movements in the Western Ukraine in spite of the obvious desire of Many units to Cross the polish Border. As soon As Korostek fall a mad lunge Westward May be expected since one soviet column was teas than 30 Niles from Poland yesterday while Korostek itself. Is hardly 50 Miles from the Frontier. Another important Battle was raging in the Gomel sector where the Southern flank of the Nasi White russian line has been vis tally isolated and soviet units Are in the outskirts of the City. Advancing under cover of heavy hellfire the red army has widened the breach in the German defences along the Gomel Mattway and has captured Batchl 40 Miles West of the City. Recta an important Junction 35 mite West of Gomel has been by passed and has lost its importance in the defense ring around the White russian capital. A third major defeat was teaming for the germans in the Dnieper Send Region South of Kiev where determined enemy counterattacks around pastor failed to ease the soviet pressure on Kri Vot rag. Berlin has announced that the wehrmacht retreated to Quot Shorter lines Quot because of the heavy fighting Between Rivot mag and Zaporozhye on the Dnieper River. Russian sources have not confirmed any Mentz an of Large scale fighting to the bends but off Seftal announcement is expected soon perhaps when the soviets can announce the capture of Krivol hog. Southwest of Mignano is mount Lungo. Americans hold the East Crest while not Moro than a few Hundred Yards away the germans oort med do Toff of building Boom seen Washington a the Federal housing administration estimated that in the first year after wartime curbs Are lifted two Bith a dollars Worth of new Homes Walt be built and three billion Dot pm 1 be spent on repairing and Modou izing ote one Paris Ruhr area pounded by Raf London aircraft of Ute Raf fighter command were Over targets in Northern prance monday attacking enemy shipping and transport. The planes left a. Tug in flames on the Seine and damaged at least five locomotive in Low level dives on targets in the Ruhr area. Earlier in the Day. Typ Toona As tacked motor Sesaria be adige out to sea of the Nar Thweat Ouri of France. One Raf Plana a urinal ing. A a
