Sunday, March 7, 2010

CURRENT EVENTS FEBRUARY 14, 1942

Saturday February 14. 1942
Jap Parachute Troops Invade Sumatra; "British Hold Singapore City, Reservoirs
Imperial Tanks Meet Attacks, Guns Blast Causeway Anew

By the Associated Press
LONDON, Feb. 14.—Battle-grimed Imperial defenders of
Singapore held the city and both of its big reservoirs tonight
Fliers Blast Burma Japs
Heavy Force Strikes
At Invaders; Checks
New Enemy Drive
RANGOON, Burma, Feb. 14.-
GUN DUEL ON BATAAN AS JAPS DIG IN
Heavy artillery dueling on the
Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines
and resumption of Japanese siege
firing on the Corregidor fortifications

100 Transport Planes Swoop Down on Isle Menace Java; Dutch Wiping Out Air Army;


Workers Beat, Rout Welders 1000 Shipyard Men Charge 400 Pickets; Four Strikers Hurt
TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 14.—(1F)—
Nearly 1000 A.F.L. shipyard workers
today overwhelmed a reinforced
picket line of about 400----

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