Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Current Events September 8, 1942; STALINGRAD STANDS FIRM/ JAPANESE NEAR PORT MORESBY:


                   The Portsmouth Times

                     PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1942

STALINGRAD FIRM AGAINST BATTERING
NAZIS SWITCH TO
FRONTAL ATTACK
AGAINST CITADEL
Pounding Of Both Flanks Fails To
Dislodge Russians; Some Ground
Given In Caucasus Area; Grozny
Sector Continues Active
By HENRY C. CASSIDY
Associated Press Staff Writer
MOSCOW, Sept 8—Defenders of Stalingrad were reported
firmly regrouped today against reinforced German shock
troops seeking to enlarge a new and dangerous salient in the
western defenses by nonstop attacks.
A Red army detachment took the initiative in a. night raid,
destroyed the headquarters 0f. a Rumanian battalion below
the city, slew 80 Rumanian officers and men and blew up
'seven axis ammunition trucks, the midday communique said.
Germans wedged into Russian positions in tho Novorossisk area of
the western Caucasus, but either were driven back or held fast in
the Mozdok region of the central Caucuses and they lost additional
positions lo the Russians on the central and northwestern fronts, it
was announced.
Scores of Nazi planes were reported by Red Star lo have failed
to soften Russian lines west of Stalingrad, but the Soviet information
bureau acknowledged a penetration by ground forces in that
area.

JAPS NEARER TO
PORT MORESBY
Fight Way Into Defenses In
Mountains; Losses Heavy
In Fighting
By The Associated Press
MACARTHUR'S HEADQUAR-
TERS IN AUSTRALIA. Sept. 8
Japanese jungle fighters were in
contact with Allied mountain defense
positions less than 60 miles
from Port Moresby today after
losing more than 1,000 men in
dead and wounded in the south- '
eastern New Guinea jungles.

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