THE LOWELL SUN
' Lowell Mass. Friday January 29 1943
ZERO HOUR FOR AFRICA OFFENSIVE
Big Allied Drive Due to Bounce
German Forces From Tunisia
Dispatches Indicate Americans
May Have Struck First Blow
By William K. Dickinson
LONDON, Jan. 29. (UP)—Dispatches from North
Africa said today that the zero hour was near for a great
offensive to throw the Germans and Italians remaining on
the African continent into the sea, and one report indicated
that Americans were already delivering the first blow.
Radio Algiers said advancing American troops had
reached Maknassy, 75 miles north of the Mareth line, near
the Tunisian-Tripolitanian frontier.
Axis Jittery
Axis radios sounded other alarms of a big Allied drive. Radio Paris
said Allied forces below Maknassy Were testing defenses the Axis was
preparing between Chott Djerid and Gabes. Swampy Chott Djerid
is just above Gabes, and there In only 14 miles of passable land between
it and the coast.
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U. S. Air Force Played Big
Part in Routing Rommel
Brig.-Gen. Elmer E. Adler Reveals
Roles of Yank Fliers in Libya
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 (INS) —
Brig. Gen. Elmer E. Adler, who as just returned to Washington
after more than a year of. Duty n India and the Middle East,
disposed today that the U. S. 9th Air
force played a large part in the rout of German Field Marshal Ervin
Rommel's army.
Adler, who served as second in command of the 9th Air Force, in-
informed the War Department that the U. S Airforce “probably
contributed more to the defeat of Rommel than we can yet realize."
Two Task Forces
For the Libyan campaign opened by Lieut. Gen. Bernard Montgomery's
British Eighth army, the American 9th Air Force was organized
as two task forces and attached to the R. A. F., he explained.
These forces—a desert task force and a heavy bombardment
task force—struck "many and effective blows" in the battle which
has driven the Fascist armies in headlong flight across Libya ant
Tripolitania, Adler said.
Allied Planes
Rake Japan's
Guinea Bases
Nips Retaliate
With Weak Raid
on Merauke
UNITED NATIONS HEAD
QUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Jan 29 (INS)—Allied bombers smashed
at Japanese bases on a 1200 mile front from Amboina to New Britain
island, an Allied communique reported today as the Japanese retaliated
with a weak raid on Merauke on the south shore of
New Guinea. Enemy float planes dropped two bombs in a swamp
area.
Five Areas Bombed Allied bombers blasted enemy
bases in five areas. Attacks were made on Wewak, Flnschhafen and
Mubo In New Guinea, on three points on New Britain island, on
the Fulloro airdrome on Timor, on the Binnen bay district of
Amboinn, nnd on the Aroe islands south of New Guinea.
Hi,I like the part the talk of prayer, we must not forget to live for God and Country. My dad was a gunner on the B-17 , my next door neighbor growing up was the top gunner on the B-25 in the Pacific, he talked how the japs cut off heads and rolled them down the hill to his camp at night. I love to say, IN GOD WE TRUST, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, GOD BLESS AMERICA. We need to repent as a nation or we can lose our nation.Thank you so much!!
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