Current Events February 9, 1943; RESISTANCE CEASES ON GUAALCANAL (see E.T.'s NOTE ) / RUSSIANS HEAD TWARD SEA O F AZOV / U. S. STRIKING BLOWS IN ITALY:

                        San Mateo Times

SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1943

JAPS LEAVE GUADALCANAL

U .S . Diver Sinks Pacific Convoy;

Russ Drive Presses On Kharkov

Yanks, Rommel Clash;

Guinea Base Wiped Out

Resistance on

Island Halts,

Declares Knox

WASHINGTON,

Feb. 9. -----(U.P)—Secretary of the Navy

Frank Knox, declared today that “all resistance on Guadalcanal

apparently has ceased," except for a few small isolated groups

of surrounded Japanese troops. He told reporters that he had

information from Guadalcanal partly supporting Japanese reports

they had withdrawn troops from Guadalcanal.

Knox said that this now "brings our forces into "striking distance"

of some of the most important Japanese bases.

“Forced "Transferred”

Resistance Of

Enemy Ceases

On Guadalcanal

E. T.'s Note:

On 9 February, General Patch radioed to Admiral Halsey

       “TOTAL AND COMPLETE DEFEAT OF JAPANES FORCES ON

         GUADALCANAL. EFECTED TODAY. . . TOKYO EXPRESS

         NO LONGER HAS TERMINUS ON GUADALCANAL”.

This operation began in August 1942 and involved the heroic action of the United States Army, Navy and Marine Corp. The total causalities have not been determined; the Navy lost 24 combat ships not counting PTs, Patrol Craft, auxiliaries and Transports.

(The Two Ocean War by Samuel Elliot Morison)

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The Stars and Stripes

Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations

London, England Tuesday, Feb. 9, 1943

Soviets Turn South in Ukraine,

Blasting Armor Hurled in Path,

In Attempt to Trap Huge Force

Using Germans 'Own

Panzer Method of

Encirclement

A battle which gave evidence of being one of the greatest outflanking

maneuvers in the history of warfare was in progress in the Donetz Basin

of the Ukraine last night as Russian forces swept through Kramatorskaya,

a big chemical city west of Voroshilovgrad, and turned southward

towards the Sea of Azov.

Battering back heavy armored divisions which the Germans threw into

he conflict to bar their path, the Russians moved steadily on in their effort to encircle

the entire basin and lock huge numbers of Nazi troops into a pocket,

with their backs to the sea. The northern flank of the German

Army has been turned, according to dispatches from Moscow, threatening the

Germans with a disaster as serious as Stalingrad if they do not begin to move

their troops out quickly over the only two railways left to them in the area.

Nazis' Own Tactics

U. S. Planes

Give Naples

Worst Raid

Sardinia Bases Also Hit

As Air Offensive on

Italy Heightens

The United States Army Air Force, opening an intensified aerial assault

from -bases in both the Middle East and -Tunisia, struck two smashing

blows at Italy on Sunday, it was disclosed in official communiques yesterday.