The White Falcon - 14.08.1943, Blaðsíða 1

Yol. IV.
Soviets
By-Pass
Kharkov
German forces, harried by
Russian air power and threaten-
ed with encirclement by Red
Army ground units, are racing
against time to evacuate Khar-
kov before the three-pronged
Russian offensive shuts down the
only available escape route.
Pouring fresh troops into the
fray to stamp out firm resist-
ance, Red Army forces in one
column bypassed Kharkov to
sweep westward beyond the ene-
my stronghold. More than 50
miles west of Kharkov, the Rus-
sians captured or destroyed every
possible means of transport
needed to remove the beleaguer-
ed Nazis from apparent doom.
With Soviet armies striking at
Kharkov from the east, north
and northwest, and western rou-
tes virtually blocked, the Ger-
mans will be forced to make a
futile stand in the town or at-
tempt a precarious withdrawal
in. a southerly direction.
However, the Russian air
force is pouring tons of bombs
on German positions and the on-
ly undamaged railway in an ef-
fort to check the Nazi reteat.
Attacks by Soviet airmen have
scattered German detachments
and disorganized their defense
along several sectors.
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Salvage Work
On Normandie
Nears Finish
The former French liner Nor-
mandie, now the USS Lafayette,
has been completely righted, the
Navy Dept, revealed this week.
Salvage operations on the giant
capsized ship already have cost
•$3,750,000. An estimated $20,000,-
000 will be needed to refit and
refurnish the liner which was
gutted by fire Feb. 9, 1942.
When reclaimed, the Lafayette
will do the job of 28 ordinary
transports.
Flood Waters In W.Va.
Kill 10, Damage Land
Ten persons are dead, six oth-
ers are missing and property da-
mage has exceeded $1,500,000 af-
ter flood waters swept through
the mountain settlement of Sut-
ton, W.Va., this week, Several
nearby towns also were flooded.
ICELAND, Saturday, August lb, 19b3.
No. 21.

Maj. Gen. William S. Key, commanding AEF in Iceland, has
been responsible for expansion of athletics among Servicemen,
particularly innovation which will send IBC champions to Brit-
ain to compete against title teams in England and North Ireland.
Allies Tighten Escape Gap
As Sicily Fight Nears End
Receiving heavy support from
British and American Naval for-
ces and aircraft, Allied ground
troops plowed steadily forward
in their battle for control of
Sicily this week, driving the
Axis back toward Messina in the
northeastern tip of the island.
The relentless advance was
carried on in the face of furious
resistance along the entire front.
Gen. Eisenhower said that the
Allies had been slowed up be-
cause of heavy demolition, rug-
ged country and lack of roads.
The enemy used every possible
device to stall off the Allies, in-
cluding land mines, booby traps
and barriers.
British units have contacted the
U.S. Seventh Army in the Bronte
district and are taking part
in the general advance toward
Randazzo, which is one of the
last key points in the Axis defense
system.
Detroit Firm
Indicted By
Grand Jury l1
The Bohn Aluminium .and Brass
Corp. of Detroit, Mich., and three
supervisory employees were in-
dicted by Federal Grand Jury
this week on five counts, charg-
ing sabotage of aircraft parts in-
tended for the United States and
Great Britain, and conspiracy to
defraud.
The employees are Fredrick N,
Eaton, assistant plant manager;
Paul F. Cordes, superintendent,
and George King, foreman.
In a lightning move which ap-
parently took the enemy com-
pletely by surprise, troops of
Gen. Patton’s Seventh Army were
landed by an American Naval
amphibious force in the rear of
Axis positions at Terrenuova,
about 25 miles southwest of Cape
Orlando.
The combined Army and Navy
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Reported Missing,
Barclay Found Dead
Lt. Comm. McClelland Barclay,
internationally known artist pre-
viously reported as missing in
action, was killed when a torpe-
do hit the landing vessel taking
him to the New Georgia front,
the Navy Dept, disclosed. He was
one of several famous artists com-
missioned to make a permanent
pictorial record of the war.

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JFD, ‘Winnie’ Plan
New War Moves
Civilians
Flee From
Nazi Cities
Reports poured out of Ger-
many and occupied Europe this
week telling of a mass evacua-
tion of civilians from cities
throughout the Rhineland.
A dispatch from Stockholm,
quoting German announcements,
said that 4,000,000 people already
have been evacuated from west-
ern /and northwestern Germany
as a result of the all-out Allied
air attacks. Millions more are
awaiting their opportunity to
leave the bomb-ruined area, it
was said.
Meanwhile, the huge winged
death-dealers of the RAF gave
no respite, and the Germans felt
the lash of their power again
and again.
Huge formations of RAF Ster-
lings and Lancasters struck hard
at the German industrial cities
of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen
in what "were described as two
of the most devastating raids of
the war. Tremendous fires were
started and pilots reported that
flames were visible for many
miles on the return trip.
The raids on these two big
centers of German aircraft pro-
duction cost the British nine
bombers.
On the night following these
raids, another powerful force of
Britain’s heaviest bombers at-
tacked the Nazi communications
center of Nuremburg, and the
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U.S. pilots credited with bag-
ging a German bomber over Ice-
landic -waters last week are (left)
1/Lt, Richard H. Holly of Glen-
dale, Ariz., and 1/Lt. William E.
Bethe, of Kenly, N. Car. (U.S.
Army Air Corps Photo.).
While President Roosevelt,
Prime Minister Churchill and
their war leaders conferred at
an undisclosed rendezvous in
Quebec, Canada, Allied nations
anxiously awaited word that the
sixth wartime parley between
the American President and Brit-
ish Prime Minister would set the
stage for a second front.
Each previous meeting of the
Allied staffs has resulted in new,
bold strokes against the Axis,
apparently conceived and plan-
ned at the conference table.
Earlier conferences were the
Atlantic Charter meeting in Au-
gust, 1941; in Washington 15
days after Pearl Harbor; in
Washington in June, 1942; the
“unconditional surrender” pact
of Casablanca last January, and
a meeting in Washington in May.
Indicating that the Russians
are being kept closely inform-
ed, Premier Josef Stalin receiv-
ed the American and British am-
bassadors in Moscow almost si-
multaneously with the announ-
cement that Churchill and
Roosevelt had met. Each emis-
sary conferred at great length
writh his nation’s leader before
returning to Moscow.
Churchill headed for the sec-
ret destination after a brief stop
at Quebec, where he was greet-
ed by Canadian Premier W. L.
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Gen. Somervell
WarnsW.Coast
‘To Be Ready’
The Pacific Coast must be pre-
pared for the day Germany
crumbles and the United Nations
begin to pour war materials into
the Pacific to finish off Japan,
Lt. Gen. Brehon Somervell, chief
of the U.S. Army Service Forces,
warned this week.
“It’s perfectly obvious that
when Germany does crumble, the
tide will swing westward. The
Pacific Coast has to be ready,
not only port facilities but rail-
road lines which feed them,” Gen.
Somervell emphasized.
Musical ‘Hot Foot*
Kills Guitarist
A short-circuit in an electric
guitar was blamed for the death
of musician Joseph Spinalo of
Everett, Mass. Spinale collapsed
while playing the wired instru-
ment in a Boston nightclub, and
died 8 few minutes later, ..