Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Current Events December 8, 1942; 15 SHIPS LAUNCHED ON PEARL HARBOR DAY / 1st ARMY ADVANCING ON BIZERTE / SHIP TORPEDOED, 135 MISSING:


         The Charleston Gazette
                  Charleston, West Virginia. Tuesday Morning, December 8, 1942

U. S. Recalls Pearl Harbor
By Launching 15 Warships
Score of First War Year Stands at 394 Jap Ships
Sunk Against Only 86 Lost by Americans,
Who Mark Day by Unremitting Toil
WASHINGTON. Dec. 7.-(AP)-America remembered Pearl Harbor
today with work. Officials made no speeches. Shipbuilders
launched 15 warships.
Japan remembered too. Amid announcements that an unspecified
number of new warships had been commissioned, Tokyo got
around to admitting the loss of one battleship and three aircraft
carriers, just half the number Washington knows were sunk.
The true score of a year of war
in the Pacific, by official United
States and Allied count, stood at.
394 Japanese ships sunk to 86
American, although Tokyo admitted
the loss of only 40 warships.

1st Army Reported Slowly
Advancing Toward Bizerte;
Axis Rail Centers Bombed
Warships Shell
Enemy on Shore
Allies Smash Violent
Tebourba Assaults,
Radio Says
Reinforcements Arrive
To Aid Britons, Yanks
Commandos Land Behind
Lines, Sever Highway
Feeding Front
LONDON, Dee. 7.—(INS)—In
a mighty battle of tanks, artillery,
infantry and planes that
may herald the final showdown,
reinforced American and British
units tonight were reported
grinding down the power of an
Axis counter-offensive in northeast
Tunisia and regaining the
initiative at some points.

Ship Torpedoed,
135 Are Missing
Sinking of Merchantman
Heroism of Sailors
Bared hy Navy
AN EAST COAST PORT, Dec.
(AP)—One hundred and thirty-five
men are dead or missing after the
daylight torpedoing of a U. S
ship early last month off South
America. The sinking was announced
ed today by the Navy Department
in Washington, along with three
others.

Jap Ships Attrition Opens
Road to Tokyo, Says Knox
WASHINGTON. Dec. 7.—(AP)—A
year of naval war in the Pacific
has cost Japan so many ships of all
types that she soon will be unable
o give adequate support to her 1sand
bases guarding the invasion
routes to Tokyo, Secretary of the
Navy Knox asserted today.

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