Sunday, October 24, 2010

Current Events October 24, 1942; JAPANESE FLEET TAKING IT''S TOLL/ REDS BEAT OFF BLOWS/ R A F BOMBS ITALY/ ARIEL BATTLES WAGED OVER EGYPT:


        The Charleston Gazette
    Charleston, West Virginia, Saturday Morning, October 24, 1942.

10 Jap Vessels Including
Cruiser, Destroyer Sunk
Or Damaged by Bombers
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Blow Dealt Foe's Fleet
In Low Level Attack
At Rabaul
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Definitely Destroyed
8 Transports or Cargo
Craft Badly Hit, Says
Communique
GEN. M'ARTHUR-S HEAD
QUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA,
Oct. 24.—(Saturday).—(INS)— .
Flying Fortresses under Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's command'
were announced today to have
probably sunk one heavy Jap
anese cruiser, an enemy destroyer,
and two large Jap merchantmen
in one of the most destruc-.
tlve raids thus far in the southwest
Pacific war theater.

Attack Repulsed
On Guadalcanal
12 Rising Sun Planes
Shot Down as U. S.
Forces Lose 2
Yank Bombers Raid
Foe on Russell Isle
This Is First Revelation
Nipponese Had Landed
On Small Island
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—
(INS)—American defenders of
Guadalcanal have driven off the
second Jap land attack in as
many days, the navy announced
today, while U. S. airmen and
anti-aircraft gunners destroyec
another 12 enemy planes and
damaged two more in the air.
Concurrently, Douglas "Dauntless"
dive-bombers attacked enemy
positions on Russell island, about
30 miles northwest of Guadalcanal
to continue the devastating air raids
on enemy concentrations throughout
the islands.
The navy also announced that a
Jap ship, believed to be a submarine
has again shelled American
positions on Espiritu Santo island
in the New Hebrides.
U. S. Air Forces Supreme

Reds Beat Off
Factory Blow
In Stalingrad
But German Radio Claims
Overrunning of 'Red
October' Bastion
By Surprise
MOSCOW, Saturday, Oct. 24.—
— Thousands of German

troops supported by heavy tanks
artillery and planes struck yes
terday at a Russian-held factory
in northern Stalingrad, but th
Soviets announced early today
that "our units are beating of
the Hitlerite attacks and inflicting
heavy losses.
RAF Bombs Italy;
Genoa Left Ablaze
'Strong Force' Strikes
Embarking Point
For Africa
LONDON, Oct. 23.—(INS)—While
great fires still blazed in Genoa
after the heaviest air assault thus
far against that Italian naval base,
RAF bombers and fighters this afternoon
carried out daylight attacks
against objectives in Germany, occupied
Holland and northern
France.
Aerial Battles
Waged in Egypt
Allies Keep Air Initiative
Land Blows on Bases,
Supply Lines
CAIRO, Oct. 23.—(AP)—The aerial
battle for Egypt crackled on today
with United Nations airmen holding
the initiative and landing solid
blows on Axis air bases and supply
lines.
Two straight weeks of almost uninterrupted
raiding were completed
yesterday when United States desert
fighters and medium bombers raked
enemy landing fields while the RAF
and Australians reported a "very
successful" raid on an enemy air
base at Maleme, Crete.

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