COMMANDOS LEAD TUNIS ASSAULT;
ALLIES ON BRINK OF GIANT DRIVE
Red Army Sweeps On Toward Rostov Goal
The Bakersfield Californian
BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1942
Yanks Hit
to Suburbs
of Bizerte
Landing in Heavy
Seas Unopposed
by Axis Forces
LONDON, Dec. 22.---(AP)---A
commando raid on Tunisia,
in which Americans
were reported to have participated,
stabbed to within 5
miles of Bizerte in a hit-and run
foray last week, Reuters
said today. The report of
American participation, which
Reuters did not mention and
which was not confirmed, was made
by the London Telegraph.
U.S. Bombers Blast Japs
at Both Ends of Pacific
Kiska Subs
Target of
Heavy Raid
Jap Buna Airport
Falls to Bitter
Allied Assaults
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.
---(U,P)—United States bomb-
ers have heavily blasted the
Japanese submarine base on
Kiska island in the Aleutians,
setting off violent explosions,
and at the other end of the
Pacific front have smashed
again at enemy bases and
shipping in the Solomons.
The attack on Kiska, second in
three days, was carried out Sunday.
Apparently it was unusually
severe. The American bombers
were escorted by fighter planes, a
'navy communique said, and executed
"a heavy, co-ordinated attack."
"Hits were scored and heavy
Russ Town Retaken
as Yanks, Britons
Join in Tunisia
By United Press
RUSSIAN troops "drove toward
Rostov, the gateway
to the Caucasus, today and
their new offensive threatened
to isolate axis forces in the
southern sector and collapse
the entire enemy front in that
theater.
The Red army captured another
big town in the middle
Don sector, where they had heen
driving toward Millerovo, important
junction on the Voronezh-Kostov
rail line.
R.A.F. Raids
Batter Jap
Burma Base
Wavell's British
Army Nears Akyab
Without Battle
By DARRBLL BERRIGAN
NEW DELHI, India, Dec.
22.—A British communique
reported today that Royal
Air Force .fighter planes again
had attacked the vital Japanese
base of Akyab in western
Burma, apparently softening
up enemy defenses in
preparation for an assault by
ground forces believed to
have advanced to within less than
45 miles of the city.
BAKERSFIELD WEATHER
Temperatures
High Monday 46
Low Monday 37
(Weather forecasts withheld at request
of military authorities.)
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