Show U 0 washington 0 0 FURY IN THE AIR U S air operations out but of england lani U S are ae no now w b by Y tar far the mist exten ive and toughest hese operations of f the U S air forces force filers Fliers who have seen action in bom our theaters china the pacific worth north africa and europe say the atrit three are childs pla play I 1 c compared with the current flak effi and gater opposition of germans the first flight a year ago was made without the loss of it a single IS U S plane the germans were ca caught off guard by the daylight raid but such things dont happen aej any more it Is no secret that V U S lasseson los losses on each raid over the continent are high enough to hurt badly though not high enough to stop the operations war correspondents iq in britain declare that U S airmen who fly these missions are the greatest heroes of the war they have to face more fighting fury and face it with more skill than any other men in this war whether fighting figh fighting tini on land sea or in the air PARATROOP MIRACLE there was one thrilling bit of untold history regarding the allied landing in sicily which only now can be revealed A division of U S parachute troops actually stopped about two nazi divisions which were dashing to the seacoast to await allied landing barges this occurred the night before the landing barges arrived had the paratroopers not succeeded in holding up the nazis V U S troops might have landed literally in blood what happened was that the paratroopers coming down mysteriously at night not tar far from the nazi divisions fooled the enemy into thinking he was outnumbered actually a paratroop d division aslon is far inferior it in numbers to a 0 a division of ground troops but the nazis could not tell in the dark how many americans there were got the impression that the sky was packed with paratroopers so they decided to camp for the night and get ready for a fight the next mo morning ing but by daylight U S landing barges were werd safely ashore LUDWIGS WARNING emil ludwig famous german author and blagra biographer aber recently had a 8 unique session with the ardys school tor for military government at charlottesville va as to what the allies should do with germany after th the e w war a r ludwig gave a series of lectures on how to prevent another hitler from arising and plunging the world into another war 20 years hence based upon years of studying bismarck hindenburg and the kaiser the german historian urged that there be a strong army of occupation by all the united nations tor for at least five years the german people should know tor for the first time in years he said what a foreign authority looks like only thus can they be brought to understand that they have been defeated ludwig pointed out that german militarism always had come from prussia while germanys germanas Germ anys culture had come from the south and west therefore he proposed splitting germany ur up into two states 1 prussia small and isolated an and d 2 bavaria saxony and the smaller catholic german states which ari are not militaristic and which would be joined with austria this would put the catholics in one country and the lutheran prussians in another no poor misguided 0 germans armaos leave to the germans all that other nations have ludwig recommended but take away their weapons super their education and give them political guardianship if you do not and if you speak of the poor misguided german people then 20 years from now i your sons will be fighting another r war against them what I 1 fear continued ludwig Is that on the day after the death of f hitler the junkers the generals will kowtow to you and say we love americans come lot let us be brothers again I 1 fear that some of you will say now let us make peace they are good people these generals but they are not they are not one ne whit better then than the hillers Hit lers they merely have better manners manner 3 ludwig declared note ludwig paid tribute privately excellent lob job the army was doing at its school for military government he said he had seldom met such an intelligent progressive gres sive group croup of men with uch such a grasp on the worlds fatur e problems 0 i CAPITAL CHAFF C quite quit a few italian soldiers in sicily undressed hid bid their put on overalls and went home to work to avoid becoming prisoners flaven forthright ex assistant secretary of war louis Johnso ngot back from india his bis report was SG critical of the british that state department part ment officials scarcely believed parts of it but after ambassador bill phillips got back from his india survey undersecretary sumner welles told johnson that pro british phillips was in complete agreement |