Thursday, June 3, 2010

Current Events June 3, 1942: AIR RAIDS CONTINUE ON KRUPP MUNITION CENTER


           The Galveston Daily News
GALVESTON, TEXAS. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1942.

RAF Continues Bombing Assaults on
Nazi Industrial, Munitions Centers
Rommel's Dwindling Force
Is Lashing Out in Libya
BY EDWARD KENNEDY
Cairo, June 2. AP The Libyan
battle of destruction raged on with
great violence today around two
thin gaps In the desert Ain el Gazala
-Bir Hachelm line, with the
dwindling ranks of the axis' African
corps lashing out in a supreme
effort to split the British fortified
positions
BY E. C. DANIEL JR.
London, June .2.--AP-- A mighty
aerial corps of British bombers and
fighter planes, 1036 of them, cast
down fire and explosive with terrible
effect upon the German
Krupp munitions center of Essen
and it's war plant environs.

Japs Begin Two New
Offensives in China

FDR Asks War on Axis Puppets
Bulgaria, Hungary,
Rumania Declared
To Be Waging War
on United Nations
Washington, June 2. AP President
Roosevelt asked congress to make
the list of America's, enemies
officially complete today by declaring
war on the axis satellite
nations, Bulgaria, Hungary and
Rumania.

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