Oakland Tribune
OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 1943
U.S. Evacuates Three Airfields
American Units Are Isolated
After Fierce Tunisian Fight;
British Posts in Jeopardy
TWO U. S. RAIDS
BATTER JAPS
IN SOLOMONS
THE STARS AND STRIPES
London, England Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1943
Reds Take Kharkov from SS Divisions
Capital of Ukraine,
Long in Nazi Hands,
Falls to Swift Blow
Soviets Route Two Tank Divisions Motorized
Unit and Infantry to Take Key City;
Battle Scene Since October, 1941
By the United Press
Kharkov, Russia's greatest industrial city and railway junction of the
Ukraine, was captured by the Russians yesterday after being hi German
hands since Oct. 28, 1941.
A German SS corps, comprising two tank divisions, a motorized division
and several infantry divisions, was routed in the fighting that brought it
back into Russian hands.
Kharkov, biggest industrial city in the Ukraine, with a population of
nearly 500,000, is the key to the rich Ukraine. Cast iron, sugar, tobacco
and brandy are/the most important of the town's products.
U.S. Planes Hit
Sicily, Naples
Forts From North Africa
Bomb Palermo, Libs
Visit Port Again
ALLIED HQ, North Africa. Feb. 15 (delayed) (AP)—American Flying Fortresses
attacked Palermo today in the first raid on Sicily by the Allied air force in
North Africa.
Without loss the Fortresses rained bombs on Palermo's docks, scoring a
direct hit -on a large merchant vessel, which burst into flames, and starting a
large fire at an oil tank area.
Rabaul Pounded
By 70 Bombers,
All Planes Back!
Lae, Amboina, Dilli, Dobo
Blasted in Wide-spread
Allied Air Attack
ALLIED HQ, Australia, Feb. 16 (UP)-
—Allied airmen carried out heavy attacks against the Japanese in almost every sec- -
tor in the Southwest Pacific area yesterday, 'hammering Rabaul, Ambon, Dobo,:
Dilli and Lae. \
Following up Sunday's record raid on! Rabaul, 70 aircraft,- including Flying;
Fortresses, battered the area again with 38 tons of bombs and 1,500 incendiaries.;
They concentrated their attack on the northern perimeter of Simpson Harbor
where the town of Rabaul is situated.
15 Jap Vessels
Blasted by U.S.
American Navy "Loses
Cruiser Chicago and
One' Destroyer
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—Two Japanese destroyers; were sunk and 13 others
probably sunk or damaged, while the United States lost the heavy cruiser
Chicago and a destroyer, in a week of furious sea and air fighting in the
Solomons beginning on Jan. 29, the Navy Department announced today.
The battles took place after large Japanese naval concentrations were
spotted by U.S. reconnaissance planes. Apparently the Japanese were protecting
the evacuation of their last troops from Guadalcanal, the Navy said.
The Chicago, a 9,300-ton cruiser completed in March, 1931, sank after two
attacks by torpedo planes on successive days, the second as she was being towed
to port.
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