Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Current Events August 31, 1942; RUSSIANS STRIKE NEAT STALINGRAD/ JAPANESE INVADERS REDUCED AT MILNE BAY:

                   THE SYRACUSE
         HERALD JOURNAL
SYRACUSE, N. Y., MONDAY KVKNINO, AUGUST 31, 1942.

RUSSIANS STRIKE NEAR STALINGRAD
Drive Opened
75 Miles to
North of City
Thousands of Foes Slain
as Nazis Arc Stalled for
48 Hours
OTHER ADVANCES
Cossack Cavalry
Has Stalled Enemy Tanks
and Supplies

Japs Caught
In Milne Bay
Allied Trap
MacArthur's Australians
"Rapidly Reduce"
The Invaders
ENEMY IN FLIGHT
Warships Take Nips Off
Under Cover of Night;
Fighting: Bitter
General MacArthur's Headquarters,
Australia, Aug. 31 AP—Hard fighting
Australian ground troops,
slashing through the muddy jungle
of Southeastern New Guinea with
United States and Australian air
units aiding from above, have
smashed the Japanese invaders of
the Milne Bay area in a carefully
laid trap and with them a new
menace to Australia,
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, in n
special communique today, announced
that Australian troops
commanded by Maj. Gen. Cyril Al.
bert Clowes, an Australian veteran
of the Middle East campaigns, had
driven the unwary Japanese out
on the narrow peninsula north of
Mllne Bay where they are being
"rapidly reduced."
Equipment Abandoned

Monday, August 30, 2010

Current Events August 30, 1942;

COMPLETE PAGE OF WIREPHOTOS ON SOLOMONS FIGHT, PAGE 12


                                               Oakland Tribune

                        OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1942

Marines Annihilate Japs In Solomons;


Navy Gives First Full Story Of Capture





All Enemy


Landing Units


Wiped Out


71 Nippon Planes


Shot Down; Three


Warships Blasted

By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER '

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—

(AP)—United States Marine!

are now holding six islands in

the vital Guadalcanal Tulagi

area^of the Southeastern Solo-

mons, the Navy announced to-

night, and have smashed all

Japanese attempts to land

troops in an effort to drive

them out.

Enemy units sent into the island

sines the Marines landed early

August 7 with strong American

Naval and Air Forces in support

have been either completely annihilated

or captured, it was dis-

closed in a communique summarizing

the results to date of the first

American offensive of the war.

Another communique today reported

successful aerial attacks

against a squadron of four Japanese

destroyers in the Jap-held territory

north of the Guadalcanal Tulagi sector.

One large destroyer was sunk,

another was badly damaged 'and

probably sunk, and the third, a

small destroyer was damaged and

left burning.




New Guinea


Japs Are


Reinforced


Heavy Fighting Rages


For Milne Bay as


Allies Pound Bases

By MURLIN SPENCER

GENERAL MacARTHUR'S

HEADQUARTERS, AUSTRALIA,

Aug. 30 (Sunday)—(4";—Japanese

reinforcements were reported today

to have reached Milne Bay, where

a heavy battle between Australians

and invading Japanese soldiers

roared into its fifth day, while up

the coast fresh fighting broke out

in the Kokoda area and in the Lae-

Salamaua sector of New Guinea.

(This was the first report in some

time of land fighting in the Lae-

Salamaua area, which is 180 miles

north of Milne Bay )



Stalingrad


May Be a


'New Verdun'


Defense Gaining in


Strength, German


Assaults Repulsed

By EDDY GILMORE

MOSCOW, Aug. 29— (AP)—The

Russians held hopes of turning Stalingrad

into a Verdun tonight as the

Red Army pressed llth-hour counter

attacks from their unyielding

lines, while on the central front the

massive Soviet offensive was reported

to have overrun the Bzhev

Airport.

Everywhere from the bogs of

Bzhev, 13O miles northwest of Moscow,

to. the vineyards of Mozdok

deep in the Caucasus and dangerously

near the Grozny oil fields, the

Russian Army was showing new

strength and beating off the Ger-

mans.

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Current Events August 29, 1942; VITAL NEW REVERSE FOR RED ARMIES IN SOUTH/ AUSSIE VETS BATTLE IN JUNGLE/ MORE JAPANESE SENT TO RELOCATION CAMPS:

                 The Galveston Daily News
                          GALVESTON,' TEXAS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29. 1942. S. Forces Blast
Allied Air Force Aid Russians
With Destructive Bombing Raid
On Dominated European Areas
Soviets Punch
Back at Enemy
Invader Forces
Midnight Communique
Indicates No Vital .
New Reverse for Red
Armies of the South
by Fred Vanderschmidt
Associated Press War Editor
The .allied .air forces were
making a great mosaic of de-
struction by bomb blast and
fire in German-held Europe
yesterday (Friday), providing
by,, their co-ordinated action the
most important support- to 'the 'red
armies' which'-are punching back at
the enemy outside Stalingrad and
pressing' their own offensive in 'the
Russian center "and^north.

Hittler Retaliates
With Attacks on
Northeast England
.London, Aug. 29. (Saturday)
AP Apparently stung by the
triple punches delivered to Hit-
ler's war machine by American
Flying Fortresses and hundreds
of RAF's biggest bombers, the
Germans last night and-early
today swept across the North
Sea and blasted several .point
along the Northeast coast of
England. .
High explosive and fire bombs
were unleashed by the raiders
'and four persons, were reported
killed along the Northeast coast.
Six persons were said to have
been trapped under the debris
of a smashed building in one
town.

Newly-Landed Jap
And Aussie Vets
Battle in Jungle
. Gen,- MacArthur' Headquarters.
Australia. Aug. 29. (Saturday),
AP Heavy fighting between
veteran Australian and
newly-landed Japanese troops in
the tortuous jungles surrounding
Milne Bay In Southeastern
New Guinea was reported today
by allied headquarters.
A. small number of United
States service troops also were
In the area where the Japanese
first landed early Wednesday.
Low-flying allied b o m b e r s
were giving heavy support to
the defenders by Attacking the
Japanese positions.
All bombs fell in the target
area," the communique said of
the aerial action. "Numerous
fires were started”.

More Japs To Be
Sent to Wyoming
Relocation Camp
. San Francisco, Cal.." -"Aug. 2fl
(Saturday) AP The Santa. Anita as-
semhly. center .will send its second
contingent of Japanese evacuees to
the. Heart Mountain relocation
camp In Wyoming, starting tomor-
row. .When the movement is com-
pletcd, more than 'half the West
coast's one time population of 109,
000 Japanese will have been
settled inland.
An order from headquarters _
the western defense command: provided
today for this latest transfer.
The 3450 Japanese held at the
famed Los Angeles "County race
track will be taken to Wyoming at
the rate of 600 a day on alternate
days.
Their new home Is on the Sho-
shone River, 13 miles northwest of
Cody, where some evacuees from
Oregon and Washington, already
have been re-established.

Japanese involved In the present
movement formerly lived In Lo
Angeles and in San Jose and othe
parts of Santa-Clara County. Their
departure from Santa Anita follows
that during the post week of 1200
San Dicgo evacuees, who were tak-
en to the Colorado River relocation
center near Parker, Ariz.
Some 15,000 more remain at the
racetrack awaiting later transfer
as do approximately 31,000-others
stationed at various assembly
points in the western military areas
of Oregon.. Washington, California
Arizona.'
Resettlement orders issued to
date have provided for the relocation
of nearly 60,000 Japanese
Some of these movements have
been completed. Others are in progress.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Current Events August 28, 1942;

               Winnipeg Free Press
                    WINNIPEG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28,. 1942

KASSEL SHATTERED BY R.A.F. RAID
_
Thousand Planes Indicated
London, Aug. 28. — British'
bombing planes in their biggest
attack in four weeks pounded
on the great German war industry
centre of Kassel during
the night.
An admitted loss of 30
bombers in a concentrated attack
on the gigantic locomotive,
airplane and aircraft and automobile
motor factories there indicated
that the raiding force
consisted of far more-than 600
planes and .might even prove to
have approached a 1,000-plane
level.
The British planes, including
four-motored Sterlings and Lancasters
with their eight-ton bomb
load, rained thousands of incendiary
and hundreds of explosive demount
bombs, believed to include
many two-ton block busters, on their
targets by the light of a bright
bomber's moon.

TELLS OF LIFE IN A JAP PRISON __A veteran sailor of the China seas, Canadian-born Capt.
W. H. Thomas, 67, port captain for an American steamship line
in Hong Kong, who was confined for six months in the Jap
prison, of Stanley Camp and who arrived in Winnipeg Friday,p, and who arrived in Winnipeg _paid paid tribute to the defenders of the Crown Colony, who included the Winnipeg Grenadiers.e defenders of the Crown Colony, who included
"The Canadian troops did their best, they surely did," he
said, "but the surrender was due to lack of three things—airplanes,
water and light." With enough fighter planes and more
troops, it could have been held, in-his opinion.._ ___

BATTERED JAP NAVY DASHES FOR SHELTER_ ___London, Aug. 28. .(BUP}—The Evening Star reported, from
Sydney today that Japanese naval forces are racing away from
Solomon islands seeking shelter in the Japanese-mandated
islands to the north after suffering estimated loss of nearly of
nearly 50 ships sunk or damaged.
New Naval Battle. Rages
Auckland, N.Z.,.Aug. 28.—A great new American-Japanese
naval battle was reported today to. be raging in the Solomons
area, a struggle which may determine the present control of
the waters of that great strategic . area. It is apparently a
desperate enemy attempt to wipe out the most powerful Allied
naval concentration the Japanese have yet met.
Some quarters here believed
that the turning point of the present
phase of the Pacific war may
hinge on the outcome of the events
now in progress.
It was said that the next few
hours may tell the story.

Current Events August 27, 1942; RUSSIANS DRIVE WEDGE IN LINES NORTHWEST OF MOSCOW/ SOLOMON TREND ENCOURAGING/ AMERICANS SMASH INVASION ATTEMPT AT GUADALCANAL:

(E. T.'s note: The front page of this newspaper did not reflect the fighting in the war zone and headlines to call attention were not presented.)


               The Cedar Rapids Tribune

            CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 1942



C. R. HOUSEWIVES SABOTAGE


TIN SALVAGE EFFORT

Unconscious sabotage of what is undoubtedly one

of the most important salvage projects in connection

with the war is being committed by the housewives of

Cedar Rapids, according to Commissioner Louis Bur-

gus, who is in charge of the tin collection campaign '

Here. Commissioner Burgus' charge is borne out by '

several other persons who have made it a point to

inspect the contents of many of the receptacles supposed

to contain nothing but reclaimable tin cans.



OUR ARTILLERY IS


BETTER THAN NAZIS',


SAYS ARMS EXPERT

SALISIBURY. N. C.—The United

States has developed "weapons" superior

to the 88-mm. gun which the

Germans are using In the Egyptian

campaign, Maj. Gen. Levin M.

Campbell Jr., chief of army ord-

inance, said in an address here

He did not disclose what the

American weapons were, but de-

clared they were heavier in fire

power, possessed higher muzzle

velocity and carried greater explosive

charges than the German cannon.

He said American tanks, type

for type, were superior to anything

he enemy had and possessed

heavier armament and greater speed.



                  The Charleston Gazette

           Charleston, West Virginia, Thursday Morning, August 27, 1942.

Russians Drive 30-Mile Wedge
In Lines Northwest of Moscow;

Solomon Trend 'Encouraging'
45,000 of Enemy


Slain in 15 Days
Red Offensive Disclosed
As Siege of Stalingrad
Becomes Imminent,
Grozny Periled
Workers Take Arms
For Volga Defense
Nazis Reported at Main
Barrier of Towering
Caucasus Range

MOSCOW, Thursday, Aug. 27.

(AP)—A Red army counter-attack

northwest of Moscow to relieve

pressure on Imperiled Stalingrad

was reported officially

early today to have killed 45,000

Germans In a 15-day push that

recaptured 610 localities and regained

from 25 to 30 miles of territory.

Americans Smash
Invasion Attempt
One Nippon Fleet Striking
At Guadalcanal Repelled;

Big Sea Fight Still
Rages to North
Six More Jap Ships
Damaged by Airmen


Havoc Dealt Among Enemy
Warplanes, 33 Being
Downed in Battles

By Hamilton Faron

WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—(AP)—

American air power has repulsed

one Japanese invasion fleet

seeking to recapture vital areas

in the Solomon islands and has

wreaked havoc among attacking

Japanese planes, the navy disclosed

today.



Japanese Make
New Landing

Allied Ground Forces Now
Battling Foe on South
Tip of New Guinea

Shanghai AP Bureau Chief Returns %

Morris J. Harris, chief of the Shanghai bureau of the Associated

Press, is greeted on the pier by his wife, after leaving the

liner Gripsholm at Jersey City yesterday.



Secret Weapon May Gird
Allied Second Front Push

LONDON, Aug. 28.—W—The chief of the' U. S. army's arms design

division declared cryptically today that the Anglo-American

allies were producing secret weapons with surprising potentialities

and that new British weapons in production were "really eye-

openers.

Current Events August 26, 1942; HEAVY FIGHTING CONTINUES IN THE SOLOMONS/ GERMANS DRIVE TO GATEWAY OF STALINGRAD:

                    The Montana Standard


BUTTE,.MONTANA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, 1942


U. S. Forces Blast Seven Jap


Warships in Gigantic Battle

Solomons Again


Are Scene of


Heavy Fighting

American Naval and Air Units Meeting

Nipponese Attempt to Recapture

Vital Bases,* Engagement Still Raging

WASHINGTON, AUG. 28.-(U.P)-American and Japanese

naval and air forces are locked In a mighty new battle of

the Solomons which already has cost the enemy at least

seven warships damaged—including two aircraft carriers

and a battleship—.and 21 planes destroyed, the Navy disclosed

Tuesday,

A communique revealed that the second—and perhaps

decisive round of the Solomons struggle burst forth Sunday

when a "strong" Japanese striking force attacked in a

desperate effort to recapture Islands wrested from them

less than a fortnight ago by United States Marines.

But the  American forces were

ready for Just such a "violent attempt,

the Navy said, and it “is

now being met" In a "large scale"

battle.


Moscow Germans Drive


Germans Drive


to Gateway


of Stalingrad

Russians Reveal


Battle for City


Has Been Opened

MOSCOW, Wednesday, Aug.

The Battle of Stalingrad

has begun, the Soviet

high command revealed today

in announcing that massive

German tank and infantry

forces were beating heavily

against Red army defenses

"northwest of Stalingrad"

listed for the first time as a

battle area.

Soviet defenders of the great city

on the Volga were reported officially

to have repulsed German

armored forces attacking in waves,

taking an "enormous" toll of enemy

troops and machines.

Earlier front-line dispatches said

that after big German reinforcements

poured across the Don loop

40 miles from Stalingrad, a tremendous

onslaught was launched

against the outer defenses of the

city, with dive bombers blasting the

Red army lines and parachute

troops dropping down behind them.

Current Events August 25,1942;

FREEPORT JOURNAL-STANDARD


Freeport, Illinois, August 25, 1942


Germans Mass Large Forces
Of Tanks On Eastern Bank Of
Don River Before Stalingrad



All-Out Drive
For Steel City

BY EDDY GILMORE

Moscow, Aug. 25.—(/P)—The Germans

massed large forces of tanks

on the eastern bank of the Don before

Stalingrad today while dive bombers

swarmed the skies and

parachutists descended In the Don

and Caucasus areas with anti-tank

guns and motorcycles to menace

further the already-precarious Red

army positions.

A front-line dispatch to Comsomol

Pravda, official paper of the Young

Communist organization, said the

Germans had been able to concentrate

large masses of men and machines

across the Don.

Big Sea And Air Battle Still

Raging Off Solomon Islands

Six Japanese
Warships Hit
By U.S. Planes

BY SANDOR S. KLEIN

United Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, Aug. 25.—(UP)—United

States planes have inflicted heavy

damage on Japanese forces in a big

sea and air battle that still was

raging off the Solomon islands today.

Strong Japanese forces were Intercepted

as they approached in an

attempt to reconquer bases wrested

from them by U. S. marines.

Current Events August 24, 1942; JAPANESE LOSE FACE AT PORT DARWIN / SITUATION SERIUS IN RUSSIA/ AMERICAN CONVOYS GETTING THROUGH TO BRITAIN:

                               The Daily Courrier


CONNELLSVILLE, PA., MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1942.




Japs Lose More Face in Attack On Port Darwin


MocArthur's Airmen Shoot Down 13 Zero


Planes in What Nipponese Intended to Be


Devastating Raid on Australian City;


Situation in Russia Serious, With Defenders


Continuously Forced Back; Chinese


Maintain New Gains.

NEW BATTLE IN AFRICA IMMINENT

By International News Service..

The Japanese, whose reverses In the Solomon

Islands and In the Gilberts have caused them to "lose

face"—a grave matter, Indeed to the boastful Nipponese—

have tried to regain some of their lost prestige

with what was intended to be a devastating attack on

Port Darwin, Australia.

But, it was revealed today by General Douglas

MacArthur's headquarters their attempt backfired

again, and 13 planes bearing the mark of the Rising

Sun were shot down by Allied interceptor aircraft

which did not lose a single plane.

There could be no minimizing, however, the seriousness

of the Soviet situation.



Largest American Convoy to Sail


Atlantic Reaches Port in Britain

By ROBERT G. NIXON

I. N. S. Staff Correspondent.

SOMEWHERE IN BRITAIN,

Aug. 24.—Another vast convoy of

well-trained American fighting

men, including pilots, artillerymen,

engineers and antitank

units, has landed in Britain, It

was revealed today.

This new convoy Is one of the

largest yet to cross the turbulent'

North Atlantic -to the European

war theatre, and included Americans

from nearly .all., of the 48.

states.

WOMEN FIGHT BESIDE


MEN IN "STORMING"


MANEUVER IN LONDON

by International News Service

LONDON, Aug. 24.—Britain's

women auxiliaries for the first

time have participated in largescale

battle maneuvers, It was

disclosed today. Uniformed women

fought shoulder to shoulder

with men of the home guard

forces storming London bridge,

and forced the "enemy" back

from this vital objective.

Current Events August 23, 1942; REDS DRIVE NAZIS BACK/ U. S. GAINING IN SOLOMONS

                           The Delta Democrat


GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI, SUNDAY. AUGUST 23,1942



Reds Drive Nazis Back Northwest Of


Stalingrad
In Suprise Attack; U. S.
Forces In Solomons Slay 670 Japs



MARINES RAID


IN GILBERTS


MAKIN ISLAND


President's Son, Major


James Roosevelt,


Second In Command

By Walter B. Clausen

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii



American Rangers Ready To Tackle

Anything Now; Tougher, The Better

LONDON, Aug. 22. (AP)—Four

American rangers who believe

they may have been the first United

Slates soldiers to fight on

French soil in this war when they

scrambled ashore at Dieppe with

British Commandos agreed today

they're ready to tackle almost

anything after their experiences

In that foray.

GERMANS IN

RETREAT LEAVE

BIG SUPPLIES

Russians Believed

Counter-Attacking, On

Several Fronts

By Eddy Gilmore

MOSCOW, Aug. 22 (AP)—

Red army men drove back the

Germans, in the Kletskaya

area on the Don bend northwest

of Stalingrad by a surprise

attack last night while

the Germans generally main-:

tained the initiative in other

southern theaters, the Russians

said today.

Friday, August 27, 2010

Current Events August 22, 1942; GERMANS MASS FOR STALINGRAD DRIVE/MARINES REPEL SOLOMON ATTACK/ PATRIOT UNREST IN V ICHY FRANCE AND HOLLAND/ BRAZIL DECLARES WAR:

RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES


RACINE, WIS., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 22, 1942.



Germans Mass for Stalingrad Drive


58 Divisions


Reported Set


For Big Blow


Bloody Fight Rages


Along Don River;


Reds Retreat Slowly

MOSCOW, Aug. 22.—(U.P) —

Front dispatches reported today

that^the Germans have massed

an estimated 58 divisions—possibly

800,000 men—on a 60-mile

front at the Don river elbow in

an attempt to crash through to

Stalingrad.

Under the weight of this great

mass of men, the dispatches said,

the bloodiest fighting of the war

was going on along the west bank

of the Don and at points on the

eastern shore where nazi automatic

riflemen managed to cross

the stream.

Two partys of Germans storm

troops which reached the east

bank were said to have been

destroyed.

The entire territory between

the northern and southern arms

of the Don elbow was said to be

a battleground and it was admitted

that nazi pressure slowly

was forcing the Russian defenders

back at some points.

Reinforcements Arrive



Marines Repel Solomon Attack,


Others Blast Base in Gilberts

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii, Aug.

22—(AP)—United States marines

stood fast in their hard won positions

in the Solomon Islands today

after wiping out a 700-man

Japanese force which tried a

stealthy night landing to pierce

the American lines.

Other marines and American

bluejackets, with Major James

Roosevelt, the President's eldest

son, one of their leaders, destroyed

a Japanese seaplane base

in the Gilbert group, 1,500 miles

northeast of the American-held

Solomons.

Communiques issued by Admiral

Chester W. Nimitz, commander

of the U. S. Pacific fleet, told of

the flareup of fighting in which

the enemy was surprised and destroyed.

Foe Flees to Hills.



Dieppe Attack


Stirs Patriots


To New Action


Vichy Takess Stern


Measure to Curb


Aiding of Allies

LONDON, Aug! 22.—(UP)—A new

surge of patriot activities in German-

occupied western Europe was

reported today as the result of the

Allied raid on Dieppe, and Vichy

France took stern new repressive

measures to discourage patriots

from aiding the Allies in their

next attack.

A big explosion occurred yesterday

in Henrik Ibsen street in

Oslo, Norway, near a Quisling

police station, British sources reported.

Twenty armed Belgian

patriots over- powered guards at a

mine near Marcinelle, seized 25

cases of dynamite and 3,100 detonators

and threw them to the

bottom of the shaft where they

exploded. All escaped. Two,

Belgian patriots were killed by the

Nazis for "endangering German

occupation forces."

'Cubs' Are Derisive.

In Holland, Netherlands authorities

reported, Boy Scout "Cubs"

organized by a secret woman leader

started a campaign of derision

against German occupation troops.

In groups of three and four, the

Netherlands news agency reported,

they run into the streets before

parading German troops and

imitate the nazi goose step until

street crowds burst into laughter

and the troops lose step.

The boys also are stealing swastika

flags from nazi automobiles

and bicycles.



Brazil Declares


War on Axis

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 22.

—(U.P)—The Brazilian foreign

office, the United Press was

advised today, has informed

the 21 governments of the

"western hemisphere of its intention

to declare war on Germany

and Italy.

MONTEVIDEO, Aug. 22.—

(U.P)—The Brazilian ambassador

today announced that Brazil

has declared war on the

axis.

Brazil thus became the first

nation of South America to

go to war against Germany and Italy.



Boat Sinkings in American


Waters Lowest Since Spring

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—(U.P)

—^Merchant ship sinkings in American

waters—the east coast, the

Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean

—^now are lower than at any time

since early spring, official navy

announcements indicated today.

The submarine menace has not

been "licked," for axis underseas

raiders still are sinking ships, but

they have been driven from the

more important sealanes since the

navy began convoying along the

east coast in May.

Losses Total 353.

The navy has announced the

sinking of 353 Allied merchantmen

since mid-January. These do

not include losses revealed in reports

from various Latin American

republics and Canada. An unofficial

United Press compilation

shows at least 456 ships lost by

enemy action.

A large majority of the sinkings

announced by the navy this month

occurred in June and July. Only

three of these took place oft the

east coast and the attacks occurred

some 500 miles out^

Although convoying was established

in May, it was not widespread

enough for its full weight

to be felt until recently.

Decline Off Coast.

Sinkings dropped sharply off

the Atlantic coast, but increased

tremendously in the Caribbean

and gulf. Most of the sinkings

after May were in those areas. A

majority of those announced in

recent weeks have occurred off

the northern coast of South America—

an area apparently less well

protected.

According to official navy announcements

the sinkings for the

month were:

January—12.

February—14.

March—42.

AprU—53.

May—61.

• June—78.

July—68.

August—25 (through Aug. 21.)

Current Events August 21, 1942; U. S. Flying Fortresses Withstand Severe Enemy/ Japanese Suffer Reverses in Gilberts

FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS. FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1942


American Flying Fortresses Down

Six Nazi Focke-Wulfe Fighters

All Big U. S, Bombers Return,


One Damaged; Reds Continue


To Drop Germans Crossing Don


Battle of Caucasus Still Going Against


Russians, Who Execute Further


Retreat South of Krasnodar

London, Aug. 21-(/AP)-Six of Germ-

any's new Focke-Wulfe 198

fighters were destroyed or damaged

over the North sea today by

a flight of 11 U. S. army Flying

Fortresses U. S. army headquarters

In Britain announced.

The 20-minute battle, In which

one Fortress was damaged heavy

started when 20 to 25 of the

speedy German fighters swarmed

to attack the American planes, a

communique said.

The damaged Fortress returned

to it's base, along with all other

U, S. aircraft.

During the 20-minute air battle

six enemy fighters were destroyed

or damaged.

An enemy shell exploded In the

cockpit of one of the Flying Fortesses,

killing the co-pilot and injuring

the pilot.

Other enemy fire destroyed two

engines of this aircraft. The Fortess

was hit in many other places

but no other casualties were suffered.



Japanese May Have Suffered


Another Reverse in Gilberts


Enemy Claims Task Force Landing


Repelled; British Report Restatement

By The Associated Press

By ROGER I. GREENE

Associated Press War Editor \

The Japanese energy reported

today a landing attack by United

States forces on Makin Island in

The Gilberts, 2,400 miles from

Hawaii, and the wording of the

communique aroused speculation

that the action had been a task

force raid in strength.

Imperial Japanese headquarters

said the landing was made by

about 200 troops four days ago

and that they were "completely

repelled" by the Japanese garrison.

This, however, was the usual

Japanese formula for beating the

opponent to announcement of a

Japanese reverse.

Friday, August 20, 2010

Current Events August 20, 1942; MARINES AND AIR ASSAULTS BRING SUCCESSES IN PACIFIC;


                The Vidette Messenger
       VALPARAISO, INDIANA THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1942

LEADERS STUDY RESULTS OF RAID
Call Parley
For Invasion
Discussion

U.S. Marines
Bolstered By
Air Assaults
MacArthur Bomber Forces
Hammer At Jap Naval
Units In Solomon Area.

Nazis Suffer
Heavy Losses,
Vichy Report
French Civilians Killed
And Wounded In Allied
Raid On Dieppe.
BY RALPH HEINZEN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
VICHY, Aug. 20—German troops
suffered "extremely heavy looses'
in the Dieppe battle, it was reported
in French sources today,
and 30 French civilians were killed
and "hundreds" wounded in the
encounter.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Current Events August 19, 1942; U. S. FIGHTING IN FRANCE:


                            Waterloo Daily Courier
                   WATERLOO, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1942

U. S. TROOPS FIGHTING IN FRANCE
WITH FORCES
IN COMMANDO
CHANNEL RAID
Not an Invasion" London Radio Tells French People
as Allied Troops Land at Dieppe With Tanks
Under Umbrella of Fighter Planes to Dynamite
Nazi Defense Installations; Battle Started Before
Dawn Reported Completed 9 Hours Later.
London— (UP)— The British' withdrawal from Dieppe has
been completed, it was announced Wednesday night.
A communique announced that British re-embarkation "
from the Dieppe coast was completed nine hours after the initial
landing ' ' as planned. ' '
Some tanks— participating in a commando operation
for the first time—were lost, the announcement said.


London __(UP)__The commandos hit the Dieppe coast of
France, Wednesday in a raid that was the greatest military operations
n Europe had seen since Dunkirk an attack that
took the Yanks back to the soil of France with guns blazing,
backed up by tanks and operating under a cloud of allied'
fighter planes, the commandos debouched on the flat Dieppe
coast line insuch force that constant radio warnings were issued
to the populace that
"This is no invasion."

Nazis Pour Reserves Into Russian Fronts
Germans lose 1,250,000 Men
Since May 15
Moscow Says Nazi Casualties
* Double Those Suffered
by Red Troops.
GERMANS MAKE SOME
PROGRESS IN DON BEND
By HENRY C. CASSIDY
Moscow — (AP)— The Germans
poured strong reserves
^Wednesday into the Don bend
and Caucasus battles from south
of Voronezh to the high plains
of Pyatigorsk and the bolstered
onslaught presaged a full-scale
drive against Stalingrad and along
the Baku rail line to the shores of
the Caspian.
The Russians were fighting back
fiercely.
A communique declared that
the Nazi' gains since May 15 had
cost 1,250,000 casualties —; twice
those of Russia—and that' Adolf
Hitler was draining western Europe
for the new fighting men required
in the east.

16 SAILOR DIE ON
SHIIP SUNK
BY SEA RAIDER
Survivors Report Attacks by
Torpedo Boats Operating
from Bigger Craft.
GUN CREW BELIEVED TO
HAVE SCORED TWO HITS
A New England Port—(INS)
Torpedo boats swarming from
a German surface raider took
part in the sinking of a medium-
size American merchantman
in the South Atlantic with
a probable loss of 16 American
seamen, two officer survivors reported
Wednesday.
In a grim narration of Nazi
treachery and ruthlessness, the
officers related that the enemy
craft dispatched a fake distress
signal, pounced without warning
and machine-gunned a lifeboat
to accomplish the first known
sinking of an American vessel
by a surface raider.

U. S, Sub Sinks
Jap Warship
in Aleutians
Washington, D. C. —(UP)— A
U. S. submarine had sunk a Japanese
cruiser or destroyer in the
western Aleutian area— bringing
to 23.the number of Japanese
ships sunk or damaged in that
area — the navy. announced
Wednesday ; , .
Fog prevented "an exact identification
of the type of the ship,"
the communique said.
This was the ninth -warship
hit by U. S. submarines alone in
that area since the Japanese
moved in there in June.
The submarines, penetrating to
the Japanese bases under cover
of 'the fog which usually hampers
an air and surface operation,
already had sunk six destroyers,
were believed to have sunk 'another
destroyer and left another
"burning fiercely."