Monday, October 18, 2010

Current Events October 18, 1942; GUADALCANAL FIGHT STILL WAITS/ CONVOY ARRIVES THANKS TO BIG PLANES:

         The Portsmouth Times


            PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1942



U. S. SHIPS READY AT GUADALCANAL
ISLAND, FIGHT STILL
WAITS; AIR FIELD
IN U.S. HANDS YET

QUICK GLANCE AT WAR DEVELOPMENTS
Solomons, Navy reveals U. S. ships arrayed for battle; land fighting
still on small scale.
STALINGRAD: Russians crush new German thrusts into lines; peril
of city called critical.
LIBERIA: U. S. troops reported ashore on west coast of Africa, 780
miles milesof Dakar.
FAR EAST: V. S. General Stillwell, British General Aukinleck confer
with all in India,
By The Associated Press
The navy has gone i n t o action in the battle for Guadalcanal
along with air and land forces of. the marines and army and the
combined forces are"meeting a serious enemy assault
A navy communique Saturday night, in fairly optimistic!
tone, declared the issue of the battle still is undecided, that no
large scale land fighting; has developed, and that American
losses thus, far have been small.
The fact that U. S. men o' war were ready to slug it out with two
concentrations of Japanese warships reported earlier in the week off
Guadalcanal was indicated in this passage:
"Our land, sea and air forces of the army, navy and marine corps
arc engaged in meeting a serious enemy assault, the outcome of
which still is undecided."

CONVOY FIGHTS
PAST U'BOATS

Big Planes Come To Rescue
Of Ships, Beat Off Pack
Of Axis Submarines
By The Associated Press
A BRITISH PORT, Oct. 18—,
(Sunday)—A large convoy h a s
arrived safely from the United •
Slates after eluding a German
submarine pack in a four-day
hide-and-seek chase.
The air ministry news service
said escort work of United States
navy planes, the British navy, and
the RAF coastal command were
so effective that the pursuing "U"
boats were unable to close in for
torpedo attacks.

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