Saturday, April 24, 2010

Current Events April 24, 1942; GERMAN PORT BLASTED BY BRITISH RAIDERS:


              The Sheboygan Press
SHEBOYGAN, WIS., FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1942.
German Port On Baltic Raided By British
Great Fires Are Started At Rostock
Heinkel Aircraft Works
Included In Targets
Of British Raiders In
Night Attack
(By Associated Press)
British air raiders, systematically
blasting Germany's war nerve
centers, set great fires at the
German Baltic port of Rostock
last night and apparently inflicted
heavy damage, the London
air ministry announced today,
while Nazi warplanes stepped up
the tempo of their attacks on England.

U. S. Plane In Russia After Raid On Tokyo
Kuibyshev.—(AP)---Russia an-
nounced today that a United
States bomber which raided Japan
last Saturday and then lost its way
has been interned with its crew in
the Russian Maritime province on
the sea of Japan.
It appeared to be an already
completed test of the year-old Japanese-
Russian neutrality pact but
United States embassy officials
here said Ambassador Admiral
William H. Standley had asked
Washington for instructions."

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