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THE STARS ANP STRIPES?/P£Seklj In 8tc!! ed by and for printed at the mo, where the phone numberby The StarsYank About SicilyUP FRONTlandin, Alterslanager, Capt ecutlve Editor, X. Ed Hill. Limited Nations 1 Army SignalCpl. Mike Trentacoste is a veryr, June 2, 1914llliam E. Tout erbert Mitgangman, Sgt. Jack O. O, Piecola l,radp and other ays. The job is plete, however, ares Pvt. Bult-t flood control ts constitute a with which the *n combat both human suffer-ountless millions icident to floods ie boys in the ashington make ipriations Cor inns worthy andTHEJeriek A. Harrislationshipresumption of 5 to Spain, one lomatic termin situation. Let’s point—’’sharply of wolfram topolite guy. He is always ready with a smile or a word of greeting for his many acquaintances.Mike probably knows as many people in Palermo as most GIs knew back in their home towns Most of them he knows only by sight. He knows the names of only a few, and to others he's given pet nicknames, like the wig, or the one from number 81.Mike also has a long list of addresses. There’s nothing fashionable about any of them. Most of them are down dreary alleys wl*re the sun seldom penetrates and the cobblestones are littered with orange peels and food scraps They are in the slums of Sicily.Mike starts work every after-, noon at four o’clock. He heads a convoy made up of a jeep and a weapons carrier, driven by Pvt Leonard Ferrante.’Today,’’ said Mike, there is nothing new'. No new' addresses. So we’ll make the rounds of some of the old ones before supper.”Off The AvenueThe first address was only a few feet from one of the finest avenues in town. The uny street wasn’t wide enough for ihe jeep, so Mike.Pvt. Armando Di Pinto and T-4 Lou Lipshitz left the cars outside and walked In. Mike stopped in at number 13. The other tw wrr* upstairs next door,, at number 15 Di Pinto and Lipshitz needed a .flashlight to find their way up the twisting stairway.^There’s nolxdy inside, saio the fat woman dressed in black who had followed them upstairs.’’Please open the door anyway, asked DdPinto. He and Upsliitz walked inside and flashed theii lights around the dingy apartment.They looked out on tin* balcony and in every corner of the bedroom and diningroom. There was no one inside, just as the fat woman in black had said.’They’re not working today, said DiPinto.Everybody got back in the jeep and the weapons carrier and droveThe next stop.’ said Lipshitz ’’may be interesting. Hang on and don’t be frightened when Mike gives her the gun up this alley. We have to go fast or we might miss some of our friends, who will leave m a hurry when they hear the jeep coming.”Mike pressed the accelerator to the floor, and the Jeep roared up the narrow alley, jarring* to a stop ipches in front of a mule and an orange cart. Everybody piled outOrange SalesladyLipshitz stopped at a doorwav and looked in. There was a bed and some wicker baskets filled with oranges inside, little else. On a chair sat a laughing woman who recognized her visitors immediately; They’d been *o see her many unit's before She broke into a bab-p-► pie of excited Italian.i L | W Says to go away and leave her f m alone, said Lipshits* Says to go^ I way and not to bother her She’sselling her-oranges, nothing else, these days.Mikes fund address was in one of the most crowded districts of the city. There was a big crowd outside that almost doubled when! Miss Gill the two ears pulled up Outside an!house which ancient stone building was a big four guitars sign. Off Limits To All Allied hwo s;ixophc Personnel, it said land two do?Inside the building, ai the sec-1 she doesr ond-floor landing, a cheerful mid-1for either t dle-aged woman smiled w’hen she|r~ ~saw Mike and Uxi the way into a ltculn 5 bright room, loud with bnlbant rt\ p Pnni ipjusli couches and gaudy with * “i /ou^spJtod wa H bright drapes. | ALLIEDj Inside, several women sat idh 1EHB Maj* 4he crimson! In the corner a glum-faced manikin. Comnusmoked a cigarette ,uid said noth- ices of Sup mg. ' cited eightHa\e y**a et n anv Amlt; *» ,■ .» . -lit m : ui today? Mike asked No. saidtlu\ Joseph Jknow how our bly control ex Lo Germany or tory. Does It rol, supervision does the U. S co’s pledge? —’’oust German dc points.” How ;cept this when tral Spain has d our cause? certain Italian nd arbitrate the ips. Very gen-arbitratc.” lomas A. Lanese\r! Hear!e a bit of talk Texas. Aceord-/erb, Texas lue ,1k. more rivers e can look far lan in any otherigt. (\ E. QueenNAPLES — rides each ho to do anythn she can. but tlt; staff and crew On our shir was Percy G She used to t tion at Castii: there.After suppe bottle of Coes on the ship. 1 most of the 1 since leaving she does this, seamen in th« it around.Miss Gill h tilled with b musical insti zines. As soon are settled, si pack of cig? brush, for mlt; all their gearAs they arc see some com and others lt;little possess! balanced on have on ho: just OD shi dirty gray ui Miss Gill (. on the men. ! most badly left alofle. give a boy a still looking three hours 1 his as a fan WOl'N ILove...’i in fuU death sUie call whu/as blind,ed, to fight forconquer in theno laurels forMiss Gill and Germai has a few v had two. C start led-looki card showei prisoners art [.is anybodyFreedomtliough fewire may hamwoman. Only Palernutani todaAmerican!.It was chow time when the two | car caravan finally pulled into lie d life Vss than IMP lot in 4h' Pi azza Julio Ci-sarej TWat-s iUl until after supper. . , m* speechle^ aid Mike. But come back again;gasoline w» 4 j any time. We work every, day ex - .liable ram out the tribute) eept Sunday. The vice squad T1 nu'nt. \ ou wa\s busv.” „ tern o: c«r-5 Bill Slattery• »» Bill. UrMI /‘A‘duty -auown vm Concern: when four 190-octane. Gen, Lark ageous act
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Sicily Stars and Stripes
Palermo, Sicily, IT
Fri, Jun 02, 1944
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