Friday, March 26, 2010

CURRENT EVENTS MARCH 25, 1942; Russians Make Gains Against Germans:


GERMAN LOSS HEAVY
Fairbanks News-Miner
America's Farthest-North Daily Newspaper — Member of The Associated Press
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1942
Russ Keep On Making New Gains
Successes Are Reported on
Virtually All Muscovite
War Fronts
BERNE, Switzerland, March 25. —
Soviet front line dispatches today
declared Hitler's invasion armies
are reported to have been reinforced
by 600,000 troops and are
going through the meat grinder of
Russian attacks, which have cost
the Germans 140,000 men killed
alone since February 5.------

U. S. Navy Raids Jap-Held Islands
Attacks In
Philippines i
Renewed;
Nipponese Airmen Are Tckcn
by Surprise and Many
of Them Killed
Jap Advance Is Near End
CANBERRA, Australia, March 25.
WASHINGTON, March 25. — i
Japanese aerial bombardments Of I
harbor defenses in Manila bay and I
of American and Filipino positions
in Bataan peninsula in the Philip-
pines were reported today to the
War department.
The continued enemy ground activity
on Bataan peninsula indicated
the arrival of Japanese reinforcements----

Equipment
Of Enemy
Destroyed
Attack on Marcus Isl a n d
Scares Tokyo and It
Blacks Out
WASHINGTON, March 25.—The
Navy Department told of highly successful
raids recently on the Japanese-
held Wake and Marcus islands.
These raids so disturbed Japan that
reports from Pearl Harbor, T. H.,
declare Tokyo's lights were blacked
out for several nights.

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