Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Current Events October 10, 1942; JAPANESE BASES PULVERIZED AT RABAUL/ HEAVY AIR RAIDS IN NORTH AFRICA:

        NEW CASTLE NEWS


           NEW CASTLE, PA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1942.


Allied Bombers
Pulverize' Jap
Base At Rabaul
All-Out Offensive To Destroy
Jap Bases In Southwest
Pacific Under
Way
SEVERAL BASES
BADLY WRECKED
Largest Concentration Of
Allied Heavy Bombers In
Area Is Reported.
U. S. Bombers
Shot Down 41
Nazi Planes
By ROBERT G. NIXON
( I N S. Staff Correspondent.)
U. S. BOMBER COMMAND
BASE IN ENGLAND, Oct. 10.—
Yankee pilots who participated in
the record raid by more than 100
United States bombers on Nazi-held
Lille declared today that America's
four-motored Liberator 'Consolidated
B-24 aicraft proved equally as
good in action as the powerful flying
Fortresses.

Heavy Air Raid
Against Axis
In North Africa
(International News Service)
LONDON, Oct. 10.— American and
Allied pilots carried out one of the
heaviest and most successful series
of aerial assaults yesterday against
the Axis in north Africa, the Evening
Standard reported today in n
dispatch from Cairo.

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