Sunday, November 21, 2010

Current Events November 21, 1942; ALLIED AND AXIS FORCES CLASH IN TUNISIA / SAVAGE FIGHTING IN NEW GUINEA / R A F BOMBERS HIT TURIN ITALY

               The Portsmouth Times
                PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, SATURDAY, NOVE.MBER 21, 1942

ALLIES LAUNCH BATTLE FOR TUNISIA
Drive By Americans To Mop Up In Solomons Appears Near

ARMORED FORCES
CLASH WITH NAZIS
AROUND BIZERTE
By The Associated Press
LONDON, Nov. 21—Allied armored forces streaming
into Tunisia closed with German forces today in
the opening phases of a full-scale -issnult on an arc of
defenses within which the axis has been herded with,
its back to the sea around Bizerte and Tunis.
United States, British ami Fighting French troops already
were reported by north African radio stations to holdall of
Tunisia except these two bridgeheads which the. axis, with air-
borne reinforcements, is defending behind barricades hastily
flung out about 30 miles in a semi-circle around each port.
An Allied spokesman predicted that the struggle would grow
in ferocity hourly and axis reports indicated that the enemy already
was throwing all their air and submarine resources at its
command into the effort to block the closing circle of Allied
steel and choke off its supplies.
Reuters said British forces had captured their first axis prisoners
within Tunisia and that in one clash British parachute troops also
had destroyed six enemy armored cars.
Nazis Expected To Resist

U. S. CLINCHES
ITS GRASP ON
ISLE'S AIR BASE
1500 Japs Landed On Guadalcanal
Killed Or Routed;
Savage Fight Rages
In New Guinea
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21—An
American drive to wipe out remaining
Japanese bases in the
Solomon Islands appeared near
at' hand today as terrific destruc-
tion of enemy troops and ships
seemed to clinch the United
States hold on Guadalcanal.
Announcing for the first time
that the American grip on the
prized island and its strategic air
base is "now very secure". Secretary
of the Navy Knox reported
that half of a force of 1,500 Nipponese
landed on Guadalcanal
had been slaughtered and the rest
routed.
Japs Fight Savagely

RAF SMASHES AT
TURIN ARSENAL
Heaviest Raid Yet On Italy
Completed With Only Trio
Failing To Return
By The Associated Press
LONDON, Nov. 21—The arsenal
city of Turin was attacked
last night by RAF bombers in a .
raid which an authoritative British,
source termed the "heaviest
yet made on Italy”.


ALLIES IN AFRICA
SEEM CONFIDENT
But Nazis Still Have Plenty
Of Fight Left, Mackenzie
Cautions
By DEWITT MACKENZIE
Wide World War Analyst
CAIRO Nov. 21—

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