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Allies Slice Afrika Korps
As Rommel Flees El Agheila
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hampered large-scale operations
in the Tunisian area where the
Allies have driven the Germans
30 miles southwest of Tunis.
The Allies took advantage of the
temporary lull to rebuild bridg-
es destroyed in an effort to de-
lay the Axis advance from the
east when the British First
Army and American forces land-
ed in North Africa. The bridges
had been demolished by the
French and by Allied para-
troopers.
The Allies now control all
avenues of approach into Africa,
having succeeded in capturing
command of the skies. The Axis
has suffered hgavy losses in the
air, at sea, and in dock areas,
and little aid to the enemy has
been able to trickle through the
alert American and British pat-
rols.
It is known that the Germans
Russians
Blast Nazis
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the past few days.
The large Axis force rushed
op from Rostov to halt the Rus-
sian surge southwest of Stalin-
grad, and relieve German forces
In the Stalingrad area, succeeded
in driving a salient into Soviet
lines about 15 miles northwest
of Kotelnikovsk earlier in the
week. But the Red Army began
pounding the salient with artil-
lery fire from both flanks, then
Infantry and tanks followed with
devastating effect, and the Nazis
soon fled in disorder.
The thorough Russian fighters
destroyed 50 German tanks and
killed more than 3,000 enemy
troops in the counter-assault. In
addition, 35 Axis aircraft, in-
cluding at least four giant tran-
sports, were shot down in the
Stalingrad area.
West of Rzhev, Soviet troops
have occupied additional strong
points, over-running weak coun-
ter-blows. In the Velikye Luki
area, the Russians maintained
their methodic annihilation of a
large German force which is now
completely surrounded, and
thrust back desperate efforts by
the enemy to break out of the
ring.
Italian troops are reported to
be defending the Voronezh area
where the Russians enjoyed a
field-day yesterday, destroying
one full Italian regiment, captur-
ing a number of prisoners and
supplies in great quantities. And
southeast of Nalchik, Soviet
troops drove a mile-deep wedge
into the Nazi positions, while
three more villages were recov-
ered in the Mozdok viciniity.
Moscow radio claims that since
Nov. 19 German losses amount
to more than 250,000 men killed
or captured, while 971 planes —
including 427 transports — have
been destroyed.
have a large force — several
times the size of that now in
Tunisia — based at Sicily. But
Allied air superiority has so
thoroughly smashed landing at-
tempts, that it is doubtful if
Axis leaders will risk such a
wide-scale movement as would
be necessary to transfer the
troops to the battle zone.
Buna Falls
To Allies
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ing defenses for a final assault
on Jap positions in Papua.
The American Air Force
smashed another large-scale
landing attempt by the Japs 50
miles northwest of Buna, and
ceaselessly strafed the Japanese
force that did manage to reach
shore, while the Japs tried des-
perately to salvage stores from
the sea.
Fifteen Japanese Zero fight-
ers engaged one American Army
Flying Fortress which was re-
coM'.oitering over New Georgia
Island in the Solomons. The
Fortress accounted for five of
the enemy aircraft and return-
ed safely to its base.
Marine dive-bombers made a
return attack on Japanese facil-
ities at the Munda airfield on
New Georgia Island, while an-'
other Allied bomber squadron
blasted Japanese shore installa-
tions in Buin on Bougainville
Island. Neither attack met with
any opposition from the enemy. I
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ster and Harold Vanderveer
wer. dinner and graduation
guests. Lie diplomas were pre-
sented to the class by General
Bonesteel, who was introduced
by Capt. Irwin M. Flacks, School
Commandant. In addition, con-
gratulatory messages were given
by Admiral Beary and Honorable
Leland Morris.
Mess graduates were: Mess
Sergeants—Pvts. Howard W.
Howe and Alton L. Kerr. Cooks
—T/4G. Donald S. Tignor, T/5G.
Curtis W. Inge and Jay J. Jones
Jr. Pfcs. Christopher B. Aragon,
Nick Bezubik, Victor I. Baker,
Frank R. Campos, John Nasuti,
Jaime P. Nazario, Albert A. Ras-
mussen and Herman G. Siltman;
Pvts. Gillis G. Goodwin, John J.
Kovalcik, William A. Marshall,
Clarence R. Sexton, William P.
Brown Jr., Carney L. Foster and
Virgil Fryman.
Graduate bakers were: Pfcs.
Richard D. Henson, Gerald Peter-
son, Edward E. Putz, Buster L.
Young, and Homer Stoneman.
Men To Help
■
Decorate
Rec Center
If there’s ever been any doubt
about the Red Cross gals having
“moxie,” perish the thought!
Under ordinary circumstances,
it would take the charming host-
esses several days and nights to
decorate the Rec Center in the
Yule pattern they have planned.
But their solution of the problem
is really brilliant. Monday eve-
ning is “Christmas-Decorating-
Party Night,” and that’s when
every doggie in attendance will
be recruited to help hang the
crepe paper, etc.
Of course, all aid will be vo-
luntary, and fellows who hail
from small towns where co-
operation of this nature is or-
dinary activity, will be filled
with nostalgic memories as they
dangle precariously from lad-
ders, or smash their fingers with
the business ends of hammers.
Then, too, Monday’s labor will
enhance the Center’s appearance
Tuesday evening when a formal
dance is on the docket.
Arrangements for Christmas
Day still are in the formulative
stage, but advance notices indi-
cate a versatile day of enter-
tainment, starting at 1430 hours
and continuing without a pause
until the customary curfew.
Pvts. James J. Dalton, John P.
Frost, Melvin L* Gatts, Peter Mir-
isola, Arnold M. Robbins, Gordon
G. Tidd, Orval L. Hamilton and
Alan B. Robertson.
Dehydrated foods make a
tasty meal when prepared by
students of the Bakers and
Cooks School. Even the mouth-
watering slab of lemon pie is
prepared from the dehydrated
pantry.
Dehydrated Menu Features Meal
As B. & C. Class Is Graduated
Organization News
We’ve all heard jokes about
new Model-T Corporals, but
Pfc. Carl Zastrow caught Bill
“Slave Driver” Peltonen remov-
ing a cellophane cover from his
brand-new Tech, stripes!
Any night when they’re in
the mood, the sweet music of
harmonicas floats out of the
home of Pfc. Joe Gaszak and
our own man-mountain, “Tiny”
Califf. With the Xmas entertain-
ment soon due, we need all that
local talent front and center.
“Babe” Bolings hits the head-
lines again, this time with happy
news of a seven-pound daught-
er.
T/5G. Wm. R. Cremens.
After weeks of careful plan-
ning, Pfc.’s Madorna and Radice
played host to their many friends
in 2. Main and only dish was
Italian spaghetti with meat-balls
—one Gl-can full. Pfc.’s Miller
and Sorge won honors for hav-
ing the crudest manners and get-
ting away with the most spag-
hetti.
What could cause those dreams
that make one fall out of bed
hollering “What goes on here?”
T/5G. Neuman needs the cure if
anyone has found it.
Corp. Don Fischer.
Champ in ping-pong: Pfc. Rudy
LePage, in straight sets over Pfc.
Pete Perez. And we’d still be in-
terested in knowing what hap-
pened to Pvt. Blosser. Which
leaves us where we started, on-
ly five bucks poorer.
And may we take this oppor-
tunity of saying that the hand-
somest, best dressed, PX operator
we’ve got, is T/5G. James J.
O’Neill. Brother, he’s really
smooooooth! And as if that were
not enough, the women go mad
over him!
Pfc. J. K. Stark.
Field Artillery
We are wondering why all the
smiles in the unit the last few
days? It couldn’t be that the
mail was that much of a morale
booster, could it, boys? The cook
crew is still tops when it comes
to getting mail. For the latest
in Parisian coiffures, we suggest
a bit of lid-raising anywhere
in the unit. After all a GI is not
so bad, is it? It seems that mir-
acles never cease. The greatest
case of love in the unit is that
of Pfc. Aliseo who sits down each
night and reads all the letters
that he has received from his
wife all over again. The cooks
won’t be able to rest now that
Pfc. “Pedant” Whittier has mov-
4Wolves* To Meet
A get-together is being plan-
ned for officers who are gra-
duates of the University of
Michigan at 8 p.m. Monday
evening, December 28. Reports
indicate that there are a num-
ber of “Wolverine” men in the
Command and this should be
a good chance to swap stories
of Ann Arbor days. Bring any-
thing reminiscent of college
I days, including pictures, rec-
ords and beer, with you. Name
of the camp at which the
meeting will be held can be
obtained by phoning the
WHITE FALCON office.
ed in with his commanding voice.
Why all the sweating in the
unit? It couldn’t be that some
one is looking for a Christmas
package to come soon, could it,
boys?
The Thanksgiving Dinner was
a real success and was enjoyed
by all.
Corp. Leigh.
Things in this organization
are now taking a turn for the
better. Among these things: Sgt.
William A. “One-Punch” Glass,
awoke one fine morning to
find that some kind soul had
donated a pair of nice new
T/4G. chevrons to his WOOL
UNDER-SHIRT. Keep it up, and
they’ll have them on your draw-
ers. Our newly appointed T/5G.
Robert “Snuffy” Draxler found
out that his long-johns had been
tampered with and had stripes
marked with indelible ink on all
the legs.
These little morning ‘ jaunts
of ours seems to your “roving
reporter” to be developing big
legs and less wind. Maybe a bit
of bunk-fatigue would compens-
ate a little better.
We would like at this time to
offer our sympathy to the three
“little fishes” that ended up by
kissing dear mother earth. —
First, Pvt. James “Pisan” Giuffre,
who tried running fully clothed,
but had his hands in his pockets,
and his feet just wouldn’t stay
separated. Therefore, at the pre-
sent time he looks as if he tang-
led with his “BITTER-HALF.”
— Second, Staff Sgt. Hubert “Pin-
Head” Flummerfelt is now re-
cuperating from trying to make
reveille the other day. — And
third, that .lady-killer Corp. Her-
bert “Choppers” Hederer who
just can’t quite keep his head out
of the way of the front end
of a truck. It does look as if
he was trying to put a new part
in his hair.
A new man has now taken
his place within our realm. He
is none other than Pvt. Irving
“Killer-Diller” Mandelbaum, that
Bronx, N.Y. flash. According to
his story “the ladies are just
wild about him.”
Sgt. Charles B. McCommons.