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rrb5-aiImXRE JUNE 7. 1944 PAGE 7 Yank Bombers from Russia i Hit Nazi Base in Romania Badoglio to Form New Government Nazis Curb Attacks On Soviet Lines MOSCOW, June 7 (UP) German Nazis Pin Down Ranger Team In One Sector Yanks Call for Aid, Fight Their Way Out American Heavies Complete First Raid from Soviet Fields Safely; Two Fighters Lost Copyrisht. 1944. by Ths Pittsburgh Pres and The Chicago Daily ws. Inc.

HEADQUARTERS OF THE EASTERN COMMAND, U. S. S. attempts to break the Soviet lines north and northwest of Iasi, Romania, were tapering off today following the heavy loss of men and material in eight successive days of futile assaults on the Russian positions. June 6 (Delayed) The success of shuttle bombing seemed assured today, with the completion of the first mission flown by U.

S. heavy bombers from the new American bases in the tooviet union. I teUL'WWiW At i Rue I I Pk tt a 0 pollow-up forces I The task force, which had flown here from Italy, yesterday flattened important airdrome installations at NAPLES. June 7 (UP) Premier Pietro Badoglio of Italy has tendered his resignation of his government to Prince Humbert, newly-designated lieutenant general of the realm, who has accepted and instructed Badoglio to form a new government incorporating underground political leaders now In Rome. The present government will continue to function until the new government is formed, it was said.

Badoglio with several of his ministers will go to Rome soon to consult on the new government with underground leaders there. Meanwhile, the official seat of Italian government will remain at Salerno, inasmuch as military necessity forbids placing Rome under Italian jurisdiction. daiati. Romania, witnout tne loss 01, 'We won't, have anv more fiehter opposition for awhile, I guess," he said. The bombardiers said that their LEU "AWKIXS cUS Combined Allied Press A FLAGSHIP OFF thi- fUne 3 UP--Casualties rmK hS Ct kU of the shore aPPar-anri i tU 6 moderately heavy of on- attacking to the right ciml rastal vlUae reported bursts were squarely on the target and that they believed that the airdrome, which had been impor A communique said the Germans lost a number of tanks and armored cars and suffered 300 killed as Red Army troops turned back comparatively small tank and infantry forces in yesterday's attacks.

In the first week of the unavailing drives against the Russian lines, the Germans lost 7300 dead. 333 tanks and 355 planes. The communique said that Soviet long-range bombers carried out a mass raid on Iasi Monday night, starting about 90 fires among military trains and installations, while a single oomoer, aiinuugn iwo 01 its escorting Mustangs were missing. Six enemy aircraft were shot down without having attempted to attack the formation. So neatly was this mission timed to coincide with' the Allied invasion of Western Europe that most of the bomber crews were unaware it had occurred until they returned here.

Some radio operators heard ac tant base for the Nazis tactical leuuorcements last night. Tile caused force against the Russian front, was eliminated, for the time being at least. The last squadron, which carried incendiaries, dropped so many, according to 26-year-old Capt. Bill Jett of Lascruces, N. counts as they left the target and headed back across Soviet lines.

MEXSMA r)nndln craft in the surf, by bv cVnd artillery and during1?" and machine-gun fire curing the landings. Land Behind Srhprinle The effects of this dual threat, naval planes from the Baltic Fleet sank three German transports to that the flld seemed covered with fireflies." SOOTHING MtOICATED POWOEI Since their arrival here on Fri Hitting the beaches which now has become a reality, with the Red Army on the one side and the Allies on the other, have been indicated already by the absence of fighters in the course of taling 11,000 tons in the Baltic Sea. Twenty German planes were shot down Monday during an attempted hind Spr'mkl heat rath Irritated skin with MexianACooh burn. Soothes. Save most in big tin.

day the bombers have been serviced schedule shm by joint crews and loaded up with raid on a Soviet military target munitions, some of which were on the Gulf of Finland. American, covered often with sig natures of workers who made them for Russia. the heavy bombers' journey. Crews from the 15th Air Force described the trip as a "milk run," The colonel who led the first unit over the target said that they encountered no fighters and only light eL BEACHHEAD IS PEPOPTED vVV'y0' 60 MILES ALONS COAST J-ymm A TUIS AREA WITH XNv. N.

Vr.Lr.c" c4 Ca PENETRATIONS UP TO IZ NVa 1 13 A Ev'reT VTVl PAmsfe Asilf I a NC TPoorson if I I t- I i 2Q 3o so 1 ta loupe I Churchill Wanted To Go Along By an Australian Correspondent for th flak at Galati and near another Romanian town where another airdrome marshaling yard is located. The second unit was led by a colonel flying a plane named "Windy City." He reported 20 or 25 enemy fighters in the air but said that they refused to close against the bombers and their powerful escort fighters. Combined Allied Prss ABOARD H. M. S.

HILARY, June 6 (Delayed) (UP) Prime Minister Churchill was persuaded only with 'Fifteen vessels like you see in Lake Michigan went scurrying out of Danube Harbor fearing that it BATTERING THEIR WAY INLAND, Allied forces beat off the first heavy Nazi counterattacks in the Caen area of the Normandy Peninsula. The Germans were cleared from all of the beachheads, but front dispatches said two Nazi armies were speeding toward the invasion coast for a full-scale counter-assault. also was a target," he said. Hit Target Squarely the greatest difficulty from accompanying the invasion force to the hostile coast. It was pointed out to him that the extra work involved in safeguarding him would be very great, and the bulldog-hearted Prime Minister finally agreed.

These facts were revealed this afternoon by Adm. Sir Bertram Ramsey when he paid a visit to the ship to which this correspondent is attached. rnmhoT? terday" one regihiental combat team ran into bad luck right hv fistart and 'as Pinned down infn. machine-gtm fire poured into it from a ridge some 800 yards beyond high water. hours the men -were hold on in foxholes while bvattleship Arkansas and the trench cruisers Montcalm and oeorge Leygues moved into an short "nee to help bold "tie destroyers give all possible help to the stranded force.

Fight H'av Out The trapped men finally fought Weir way out, and at 12:30 p. destroyer Harding reported to this flagship from an offshore position that thev had won across the beach and moved several hundred yards inland. Apparently the caliber of German resistance remained high all along this beach area. The landing troops suffered from mines which knocked out several water-proof tanks. Artillery fire also was a problem.

Naval Battle Fought in Channel By PETER GLADWIN Representing the Combined U. S. Press ALLIED AIR BASE. Great Brit-sin. June 7 lUPi-We flew over a naval battle in the Channel before dawn today and crossed the French coast to find the country behind the Normandy beachhead blazing with great fires.

Our flight of Mitchell medium bombers was resumine its mission A squadron leader. 25-year-old Maj. John Morris of Oakland, completing his 53rd mission, said Caught in Army Uniform George Newman, 18, of Seattle, was sentenced by Federal Whiskies and cordials 1U jVVtXSl cl since 18941 jA that the target was covered ex ceptionally well. His first reaction to news of the second front was a Judge F. P.

Schoonmaker today to three months in jail on charges of m. a. mm ee, tne. mttmumn, pa. sigh of relief.

illegally wearing an Army uniform Guns, Ships, and Bombs Make Invasion a fHef' Mighty Allied Attack on France Is Likened By Reporter to 'End of World By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Copjrirbt. 1944. by The Pmsbursh Press and The Chirao Daily Se. IrxJ.

OFF THE COAST OF FRANCE. June 6 (Tuesday) The battle to save the world is like the end of the world, an ear-splitting, nerve-shattering, blinding scene full of belching guns, rumbling blockbusters, ships, aircraft and flares in the foreground on the whitecapped sea, with the sullen, low-lying coast of France in the background. Under a roof of slatey clouds ride the landing craft with their precious burdens of American fighting men armed to the teeth, and many scared to death, yet all willing, with the spirit of so many heroes, to have one worry and we have heard; it from 20 men, if we have heard it! once and that is that their people-would worry about them when they have heard the news that Europe has been invaded. hunt the Hun out of his stolen lair. We write this at zero hour as our first waves of infantry hit the beach.

It is 6:30 in the morning, the cool, fresh morning which comes at the end of a weird, roaring night. Our paratroops landed early in the morning. Blockbuster Blitz Though we could not see them, we did see German ack-ack streaming up from the coast and an occasional transport going down in flames. Later we saw empty transports flying back to England. Earlier in the night we watched for the first time in our lives a Royal Air Force quick blockbuster blitz along the coast.

More than 100 flares blazed in the sky as Path Practice Flights 'More Exciting' Glider Plane Pilots Describe Invasion of yesterday to cut communications behind the beachheads and impede the reinforcement of Germans opposing the Allied thrust at Caen. As we scudded across the Channel we could see a group of destroyers far below open fire on German E-boats. Soon the E-boats were hidden In their own smokescreens and we were unable to observe the results of the engagement. Fires Mark Path Crossing the French coast, we found the battlefield of Normandy spread out below us. The pre-dawn darkness was torn with gun flashes and with a dull glow against the horizon as well as great fires nearer at hand, marking the path of bombers which, had preceded us.

Caen was burning in the distance, but as we approached great chains of chandelier flares came floating down so slowly they seemed to hang motionless in the air and they filled the sky with such a brilliance the Bv BRUCE MUNJf United Press Staff Writer AIR-BORNE TROOP BASE, Eng- finders went over. Then the coastline went up in smoke and we felt sick from the shuddering concus land, June 7 Pilots of the big' planes shuttling troop-laden gliders' sions that came quaking through the intervening miles of air and water. That was at 3:55 a. m. Soon after 5 a.

as daybreak came, our medium bombers came over and wrecked the coast up to the east and we saw two of them plunge down in flames. Big Guns Open Up At 6 o'clock our big guns opened up and since then the whole stretch of intervening sea has been alive with great engulfing flashes and mighty thuds. The coast is covered by a bank of puffy gray-black smoke from the shells. fires in the town were dimmed. Sees Terrific Blast saw one terrific explosion as we turned to our own target.

It was a railway bridge across a river, blown up by a Mosquito bomber. As wp coasted in over the target, a little town on our port side appeared one enormous bonfire. The heavies apparently had been there not so long before. The flames jutted out against the framework of buildings and blackened chimneys and sent up a light bright enough to read by in our cockpit. We circled the target, and as the stick of 1000-pound bombs went down we could feel the plane across the Channel to France as- serted today that their job was less i exciting than practice maneuvers and their losses in the initial D-Day mission were less than two per cent of the planes involved.

Returning pilots said the gliders were spilling men and materials out on French fields in double quick time before their tow planes had left the drop zone and opposition from enemy fighters and ground fire ranged from negligible to none at all. "Like Coney Island Capt. Woodrow Smeck, of Lan-: caster. a group operations com- mander whose 28th birthday fell on D-Day. returned today from a flight in a Dakota over the Cherbourg peninsula wfth this descrip- tion "The beach where we crossed re- scmbled Coney Island on Monday morning after the crowd had left.

There was debris everywhere and plenty of obstructions left. Some of We have bad luck with the weath er and we have taken the bit in our teeth by going in landing craft that fif iW-sJr- i-i if illl MiifSm mm rr It i in 'i wnlty il i niYimiii iSssS IS. bounce around like empty bottles. You can only imagine what it is like on the beach where we shall be go ing shortly. We can only thank God that we have had no interference jump into the air.

First Casualties Arrive in Britain By HOWARD WHITMAN Representing Combined U. S. Tress AN INVASION FORT, June 6 (Delayed) (UP) The first German prisoners and the first casualties whatsoever until this moment. You can take it from our com mander and everybody below him that our air corps and the RAF have done a magnificent job. There was not a man aboard who did not take his hat off to the men who went flaming down into the sea last nieht.

the defenses had been cleared as if torn up by some powerful fore to make a lane. Sights Hospital "On one part of the beach a hospital unit had been set up. The red crosses on the tenti were prominent from the air. I was disappointed by the lack of action. We saw smoke and some firing in the distance and lots of ships in the Channel.

"If we had had a few smudge pots on the field and a fighter cover A. In? We We have just been on deck again and things are strangely quiet. Smokescreen covers part of the sea and vaporous TNT has blanketed out the French coast. Soldiers Praised Men are still loading themselves and their lisht battlecans into landing craft. We will now end this remote control account of the battle, 6T 111, lb II to reach this port were landed late yesterday.

The prisoners, who had been fished out of the channel after their German craft was sunk by invasion warships, were brought in aboard a British light cruiser at 7 p. m. They immediately were herded into a compound to be questioned by intelligence officers. These Nazis, who were among the first to feel the sting of the invasion, straggled along the pier like half -drowned lats. It was clear from the expressions on their faces that they had had enough.

In a subtle way they seemed happy to be in the safety of Allied captivity. The first wounded to be disembarked were soldiers brought back from the French coast in a minesweeper. They were carried ashore over us like today, our practice missions would have been more exciting." Lt. Burnet Outten, 23, of St. Louis.

Capt. Smeck's co-pilot, said he spotted one small French too great for any one man to describe, and go in to see -what is really happening. Before going, we should like to record a fact which does high honor to our soldiers and to the people they have at home. These men are fighting fit. beautifully trained, well- town with American tanks parked in its center and soldiers walking around "as if sightseeing." He saw one warship standing off the coast lobbing shells inland and lota of hv litter bearers and taken to an equipped, and universally express no fear for their own lives.

They are going into a deadly rough and tumble fight for which they have been fully prepared. They wrecked houses near the beach head. 'Xo More Battery Corp. Lester Doolittle, radio operator, of Streator, 111., saw a German coastal battery open up with two rounds but before it Truk, Ponape, Nauru Battered could fire a third warships standing out at sea opened up and there was "no more coastal battery." Lt. Fred C.

Larimore, Farragut, pilot of a Dakota tow plane, emergency hospital near the pier. At 5:30 p. m. a tank landing craft put in with casualties, including cead. Doughboys lounge On Roads in France NINTH AIR FORCE BASE.

England. June 7 CUP) Lt. James B. Crawlev, Springfield. 111., a C-47 pilot who flew two loads of paratroops and supplies behind German lines, said today that when he made his last trip late yesterday he saw American soldiers lounging along French roads, nonchalantly leaning on their rifles awaiting chow call.

Roosevelt to See Pole WASHINGTON. June 7 Presi-dent Roosevelt arranged to confer odav with Prime Minister Stanislaw Mikolajczyk of Poland, who arrived here Monday. said 90 per cent of the gliders dropped by his element made suc PEARL HARBOR, June 7 (UP) cessful landings. Army, Navy and Marine air forces. In all, more than 400 gliders were ranging over a 1000-mile front in towed across by the Ninth Air HE knows what his job is and he is doing it! WE must do our iob as well.

WE must see that nothing stops the steady flow of the things ho needs. WE must put every ounce of energy into War Production. WE must keep our lips buttoned up, so the enemy cannot learn of the movement of men and materials. WE must buy more War Bonds, to the limit of our ability. WE must pray to Almicjhty God for His Divine help, that a speedy Victory may be ours.

Force Troop Carrier Command. The command's planes flew almost 100 missions in the first 18 hours of invasion, either towing gliders or carrying paratroopers. Monessen Soldier Killed in Italy MONESSEN, June 7 Pvt (Advertisement) James Mazzur, 32. was killed in action in Italy May 13. the War Department has notified his wife, Mrs.

Adelia De Sua Mazzur. A steel-worker, he had been in service the Central Pacific, attacked Truk, Ponape, Nauru and the Marshalls in a series of seven raids Saturday, Sunday and Monday, a Pacific Fleet announcement said today. Opposition was scarce. No Jap interceptors were encountered in any of the strikes, although four Jap fighters were sighted in the air over Truk. Only at Nauru was the anti-aircraft fire intense.

Seventh Army Air Force Liberators hit Truk on the night of June 3-4. bombing airfields at Moen, and Param Islands. On Saturday night. Army Liberators attacked Ponape. Medium Mitchells followed up Sunday with another raid on Ponape.

Adm. Chester W. Nimitz revealed anti-aircraft batteries and installations on Langer Island, near Ponape, were hit by the week-end raiders. Mitchells bombed Nauro by day-lisht Saturday and Venturas of Fleet Air Wing Two returned to hit gun positions on the same island Monday. Venturas.

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