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.

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