Saturday, March 12, 2011

Current Events March 12, 1943; HEAVY ONSLAUGHT BY GERMANS REPULSED AT KHARKOV / AXIS UNITS STRIKE BACK IN DESERT / LARGE AIRFORCE ARMADA TAKES ONE OUR TO CROSS ENGLISH CHANNEL:



            The Charleston Gazette
            Charleston, West Virginia, Friday Morning,'March 12, 1943.

Heavy Onslaught at Kharkov
Repulsed by Soviet Armies;
8th Army Battles at Mareth
Russians Tighten
Grip Upon Vyazma
Ukraine .Battles Pictured
'Growing by Hour'
MOSCOW, March 11.—(INS)—
Soviet troops held firmly tonight before the Ukraine steel center
of Kharkov and in the face of heavy Nazi attacks inflicted
hundreds of casualties on the Germans and destroyed quantities
of their equipment. The Hussian steamroller now
driving west of Gzhatsk meantime continued to roll on to new gains,
and the Soviet pincers clamping shut about the vital enemy-held
base at Vyazma were tightened still further by the capture of Isakovo.
The latter town is 20 miles east of Vyazma and astride the Vyazma-
Kaluga railroad. Several other villages in this region also fell to the
advancing Soviets.

Axis Units Strike
At Desert Outpost
Thrust at Ksar Rhilane
Is Thrown Back
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, March 11.—(INS)—Fast-moving units of the
British 8th army were disclosed tonight to be locked in combat
with Gen. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces at a point 50
miles west of Foum Tatahouine southern outpost of the fortified
Mareth line.
A communique issued at Allied
headquarters in North Africa told of renewed fish tins "nn the 8th
army front, where the British were revealed to have repulsed, with
heavy losses, enemy attacks near Ksar Rhilane. This desert outpost
lies some 50 miles, beyond Talahoune and the clash apparently
occurred when British units skirtingthe flank of the Mareth line and
enemy detachments, seeking to outflank the British positions, clashed
head-on. The region is 40 miles southwest of Toujane, itself 22 miles
west of the important town of Medenine.
Heavy Casualties Inflicted

Air Armada Takes
Hour Over Channel
LONDON, Friday. March 12.—
(AP)—A force of heavy bombers so large it took nearly an hour for
them to cross the English channel headed for somewhere on the German
occupied continent last night as the RAF kept hammering away
at tile Axis to soften them up for an expected invasion thrust.
The big bombers roared out over the same course followed
earlier this week -when Nuernberg and Munich were blasted in
large-scale attacks.
The planes flew above clouds which obscured the moon.

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