The White Falcon - 20.02.1943, Síða 2

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Allies Hit
Sub Bases
In Europe
RAF and United States Flying
Fortresses are following the
plans set out in a recent ■speech
by Prime Minister- Winston
Churchill, when he reiterated
that “We must make the enemy
burn and bleed in every way
that is physically and reason-
ably possible.”
The giant Allied bombers hit
throughout the week at military
and naval targets, concentrating
particularly on the U-boat bases
at St. Nazairre and Lorient,
France, Wilhelmshaven, Ger-
many, and La Spezia in North-
ern Italy. St. Nazairre, situated
about 70 miles southwest of the
nearly devastated French city of
Lorient, was given a particularly
severe pounding.
The repeated attacks on rail-
way terminals and military targ-
ets in northwestern Europe has
caused German authorities to de-
mand the evacuation of some
French coastal cities. From
Breste, thousands of inhabitants
are being moved to the Loire
River district.
There were a few sneak raids
made by German fighter planes,
in which the enemy, flying over
residential districts of English
coastal cities, bombed and mach-
ine-gunned streets, homes and
churches. During the week, en-
emy planes were engaged in dog-
fights over the channel.
Four of the Nazi planes were
brought down, while only' two
Allied fighters were lost. Eight
bombers were reported lost in
the week’s Allied air activity
over Europe.
—New Show
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joyed a hearty reception. Red’s
song, “I Want to be a Soldier
Like My Daddy,” is one of the
comedy highlights of the show.
Edmund De Angeles’ takeoff of
George Givot, the theatrical
world’s “Greek Ambassador of
Good Will,” went one better than
the original as the local come-
dian lapsed into Italian dialect
occasionally. And Robert L. Tyn-
dell’s Hitler-ridiculing skit, “Heil
De Jerk,” with commentary by
Sgl. Lee, was another hilarious
contribution.
Samuel Durso’s melodious
strains on his homemade elec-
trical Hawaiian guitar was an-
other of the show’s features. But
the No. 1 crowd-pleaser proved
to be Johnny Knarr, veteran cir-
cus and vaudeville juggler whose
contortions and remarkable jugg-
ling amazed the audience.
In addition to Rotas, who
handled the violin chores, the
band was composed of Cully
Reese, boogie-woogie pianist;
Floyd Stindle, trumpet; Frank E.
Markota, saxaphone; Carlton Oli-
ver, drums, and Arron G. Sharp,
bass,
M/Sgt. Rhinehardt of the Engineers (right) eliminated Pfc.
William Sheridan in this first-round chess match, but was eli-
minated in the next flight, losing to T/4G. Morris Kirschener of
Ordnance.
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Sectional Winners Crowned
In Local Games Competition
After weeks of intense preli-
minary activity, winners in the
local chess, checkers, pinochle
and cribbage events were deter-
mined Monday evening at the
No. 1 Rec Center when sectional
survivors gathered for the finale.
The events were conducted un-
der supervision of the Special
Service Office.
Appropriate prizes will be pre-
sented to the champions in the
near future when an Awards
Night is held at the Rec Center.
Pfc. William P. Bakeman, Sig-
nal Corps, swept through the
cribbage field without losing a
game. He defeated T/4G. Russell
F. Joseph, Engineers, in the fi-
nals by winning four straight in
the scheduled four-out-of-seevn
match.
Pfc. Miles B. Chumbley, Air
Corps, also met with little op-
position in his speciality, rout-
ing Pfc. Charles M. Davidowicz
four times running in the check-
ers finale.
Sgt. Girard C. Corrado, Coast
Artillery, was extended to four
games before subduing Joe Wen-
drychowicz, Ordnance, in the
pinochle championship match.
Corrado won the opening two
games, then sailed through the
fourth after Wendrychowicz had
grabbed . the nod in the third
game.
T/4G. Michael E. Eberle, Me-
dics, emerged from the chess
tourney with the crown by shad-
ing T/4G. Morris Kirschener in
the one-game clincher. This was
the closest competition on the
evening’s slate, and attracted a
record throng of “kibitzing”
chess fans.
“Suburban” champions haven’t
been determined as yet, but it is
Unlikely that any further com-
petition will be staged to deter-
mine a Command titleholder.
—Africa .
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In the initial fighting, Amer-
ican units destroyed 20 German
tanks, and took heavy toll with
fighter-bomber attacks on enemy
positions at Maknassi and Sen-
ed, while German Stuka dive
bombers caused many of the
American casualties. The unex-
pected German attack struck
American lines which were held
with a limited amount of men
and materiel, then threatened
American-held Gafsa with isola-
tion, causing American evacua-
tion of this position.
General Montgomery’s Eighth
Army forces, meanwhile, are
driving into southeastern Tun-
isia towards Medenine from
newly occupied Ben Gardane,
which is 30 miles from the Mar-
eth Line. Rommel’s forces arc
retreating from the coastal area
marshlands behind the Tunisia-
Tripolitania frontier to the Mar-
eth Line because of the Eighth
Army’s phenomenal advances,
and the rapid organization of
new bases since the fall of Tri-
poli. At the Mareth Line, Rom-
mel will have the opportunity
to consolidate his forces on a
better terrain.
Flying Fortresses, in the first
American Air Force raid against
Sicily, rained bombs on ports
and docks, scoring direct hits
on large merchant vessels. Am-
erican bombers also inflicted
damage in a new raid on Naples,
Italy, while other bombing mis-
sions struck rail targets in south-
ern Italy and Sicily.
A tanker in the Mediterranean
was hit by a torpedo-aircraft,
and one British sub accounted
for six Axis supply vessels in
recent operations.
Gemany’s Field Marshal Rom-
mel, a semi-official report stat-
ed, is in Germany, seriously
ill from wounds received in an
American air raid on Gabes in
Tunisia recently.
—Russia
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gains toward the west in the
general direction of the Dnieper
River. Further south, two Soviet
armies, commanded by Gen. Va-
tutin and Gen. Malinovsky, are
battering south and west to trap
the remnants of Hitler’s army of
250,000 Germans in the Donetz
Bend.
Vatutin’s forces are advancing
from Krasnoarmeisk, 25 miles
northwest of Slalino, where, re-
ports state, “the enemy is try-
ing to repulse the Soviet ad-
vance at all costs.” Smashing
west from Rostov, Malinovsky’s
troops have pushed forward to
Taganrog, the capture of which
is expected soon.
Southwest of Voroshilovgrad,
another Nazi force is absorbing
heavy losses as the Russian of-
fensive continues to gain ground.
In the area of Krasnoarmeisk, a
German counter-attack was hurl-
ed back, with 1,400 Nazis being
slain in the futile attempt,
WAAC’s Display Courage
In Face of Torpedoes
“We fully expected to die lnit
we didn’t want to appear fright-
ened before the men,” was the
heroic statement given by WAAC
Capt. Louise Anderson of Den-
ver, Colo., when she and several
other women were safely aboard
a destroyer after their ship had
been torpedoed during the Af-
rican invasion.
In all, five WAAC captains
were on the torpedoed vessel.
The others are Ruth Briggs,
Westerly, R.I.; Martha Rogers,
Albany, Mass.; Alene Drezmal,
St. Paul, Minn., and Mattie Pinett
of Maine: .
Miss Rogers rowed. “We must
have been in the water for hours
before an Allied plane appeared
and circled overhead until we
were picked up. That plane
looked more beautiful than the
gorgeous sunrise that morning,”
Miss Rogers described.
An Allied destroyer picked up
the remaining passengers, the
torpedoed ship was towed away,
and the convoy proceeded to its
invasion point without delay.
Less, than 100 miles from their
goal, the women were forced to
abandon their transport when
an Axis torpedo set it afire.
They climbed into the shallow
boats, and in some cases, even
took command.
Miss Briggs assumed charge of
her lifeboat and steered while)
Finns Re=Elect
President Ryti
Risto Ryti, Finnish banker,
was re-elected president of Fin-
land this week. Members of the
People’s Party cast most of their
23 electoral votes for Ryth giv-
ing him an absolute majority.
Each New Star
Benefits Mickey
When General Eisenhower
was made a four-star general,
Mickey McKeogh was made a
Staff Sergeant. Mickey is Gen.
Eisenhower’s chauffeur. He
was a private two years ago
when he first drove the then
Col. Eisenhower. As Gen. Eis-
enhower advanced, so did
Mickey, and on two previous
promotions, Gen. Eisenhower
himself pinned the added
stripes on Mickey. '
—Pacific
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stallations. The smoke from the
fires rose to 7,000 feet and the
flames were visible for 110 miles.
In Burma, the 10th United
Slates Air Force, armed with
light and fragmentation bombs,
struck heavily at Japanese in-
stallations in Lonkin in north-
ern Burma. The U.S. raiders
scored direct hits on buildings
and warehouses.
American raiders composed of
American fighter planes and
Mitchell bombers, also hit the
town of Dilli on Timor Island
and Lae in New Guinea.
In the seven-day sea battle
that raged during the retreat
and evacuation of the Japanese
from Gua dal cabal Island, the
Nipponese navy lost two war-
ships, 00 planes, and 13 other
ships that were either sunk or
damaged. The American fleet
lost the cruiser, Chicago, and one
other unnamed warship, while
the Air Force lost 22 planes.
In Washington this week, Sec-
retary of Navy Frank Knox slat-
ed that United States, submarines
in the Pacific are smashing at
the Japanese supply lines be-
tween Tokyo and the Jap bases
in an effort to cripple the move-
ments of men and supplies.
Gen. Douglas McArthur has
awarded the Distinguished Serv-
ice Cross to Lt. Commander Dud-
ley W. Morton, a U.S. submar-
ine commander, for extraordin-
ary heroism in action at New
Guinea, it was learned this week.
Morton’s sub attacked and sank
a Japanese destroyer in Wewak
Harbor on New Guinea. His U-
boat also destroyed every vessel
in a Japanese convoy, including
two freighters, one tanker and
a troop transport ship.
Fast Thinking
Saves Mollison
Jimmy Mollison, famed Brit-
ish pilot, and eight other pilots
narrowly escaped an encounter
with a heavily-armed Nazi plane
this week while ferrying a new
plane to its base “somewhere in
England.”
Skillful maneuvering is all that
prevented the plane’s loss, Ferry
pilots are termed non-combat-
ants, and are not permitted, to
accept air challenges-.