Monday, September 20, 2010

Current Events September 18, 1942; RUSSINAS LAUNCH DRIVES, STALINGRAD/ NEW GUINEA BATTLES NOW SPORADIC:

       The Lethbridge Herald
                    LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER I8, 1942

REDS SMASH, TWO DRIVES, STALINGRAD
GERMAN' CHUTISTS
Shower City AsRussians Attack
Moscow Launches "Large-Scale" Attack from Tour.
Directions in the Voronezh Sector in An Effort
to Relieve Stalingrad—German Wedges
in City Wiped Out

LONDON, Sept. 18—(C.P.)—A Reuters dispatch from
Moscow said tonight that "German commando troops
were being dropped at dusk from troop-carrying planes all
over the terrain before Stalingrad and at the outskirts of
the city."
Another Reuters dispatch said that "on the northern,
flank of the southern front"—in the Voronezh sector—
"the Red army has unleashed a new offensive from four
directions with a view to relieving the Stalingrad posi-
tion." The offensive was "on a large scale."
WIPE OUT TWO DRIVES
(By^Henry C. Cassidy, Associated Press Staff Writer)
MOSCOW, Sept. 18—(A.P.)—Taking a stand, with the
precipitous banks of the "Volga at their very backs,
the defenders of Stalingrad have counter-attacked and
wiped out two enemy wedges within the city in a supreme,
last-ditch effort to save the great manufacturing centre
from the Germans, the Russians said today.
The Germans precipitated this bitter and thus far
successful Russian counter-action by rushing into the cityproper
from the northwestern outskirts, and pushing almost
to the cliffs overhanging the west bank of the Volga.
With no choice between counter-attack and surrender,
the Russians took their stand.
TERRIBLE BATTLE


        Cumberland Evening Times
                   CUMBERLAND, MD., FRIDAY, SEPT. 18, 1942

BATTLE IN NEW
GUINEA AREAS
NOW SPORADIC
Both 'Allies and Japs Are
Maneuvering For Pos-
ition During Lull In
Ground Fighting
ENEMY BASES RAIDED
Allied Fighter Planes Strike
Smashing Blows at Bun
to Ease Pressure On
Defenders
General MacARTHUR'S Headqua-
rters. Australia, Sept. I8. (AP) While
Australian troops battled Japanese
forces in the New Guinea jungles
only 32 miles air line from Port
Moresby. Allied fighter Planes
struck a smashing blow yesterday
at the enemy supply base at Buna
General MacArthur's headquarters
I announced today.
Approximately 35.000 rounds ol
cannon and machinegun fire were
loosed by the Allied raiders in a
concentrated attack, destroying or
|damaging 15 landing barges and set
tting fires in supply dumps which
were visible for 35 miles. a cum-
munique said.
Buna Pounded 45 Minutes

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