Saturday, December 4, 2010

Current Events December 4, 1942; TUNIS AND BIZERTE DAMAGED BY AIR RAIDS / ALLIES AND AXIS BOTH LOSE SHARPLY IN BITTER FIGHTING

Allies Sink 2 More Tunisia-Bound Convoy Vessels
The Port Arthur News
PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1942

HEAVY AIR
RAIDS RAIN
DAMAGE ON
TWO CITIES
Both Sides Lose Sharply In
Bitter Land Fight
HOLD TO VITAL POINTS
U. S.-British Forces Have
Hands Full In Battle
LONDON, Dec. 4 (AP).—
Allied airmen have sunk two
more Axis merchantmen in
of a convoy attempting to re
inforce Germans and Italian
battling desperately in the Tunisian
triangle, the British announced to-
day, bringing the Allies' two-day
total to nine vessels sent to the
bottom along the enemy's increas-
ingly hazardous Mediterranean
supply route.
New and heavy blows also were
sruck simultaneously at Bizerte
and Tunis, chief enemy ports of
entry, as the Allied land force
regrouped for a new showdown
after warding off Axis counter-att
acks during 48 hours of bitter
fighting in which losses were de-
clared by an Allied spokesman
have been heavy on both sides.

War In Brief
AFRICA: Allies and Axis both
lose heavily in land fighting,
while Tunis and Bizerte lashed
from air by Allied airmen; 2 more
Axis ships sunk from Tunisian bound
convoy.
RUSSIA: German counterattacks
beaten oft as Red army
continues slow but sure advance.

SOLOMONS: Nine Jap ships
sunk in newest attempt t» reinforce 'Buna-
Gona garrisons; patrol
action reported on Guadal Canal
21 planes destroyed on
ground on Timor island by Australian
Beaufighters

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