Sunday, March 13, 2011

Current Events March 13, 1943; GERMANS RECAPTURE KHARKOV IN BLOODY BATTLES / GERMANS IN RETREAT IN NORTH AFRICA / LIBORATOR BOMBERS, BILLY MITCHELL BOMBES, AND BEAUFIGHTERS BATTER JAPANESE BASES:


              Nevada State Journal
            RENO, NEVADA. SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 13, 1943

Kharkov Captured Again By Nazis
Bloody Battles
Rage In Russia
LONDON, March 12. (UP)—Germany asserted tonight
that its forces had broken into the Red square at Kharkov and
that "thus the town is again in German hands after three weeks
of temporary Soviet occupation."
A Russian special communique, issued almost simultaneously,
announced the capture by storm of Vyazma, last of the
great German salients pointed at Moscow, and said an enormous
quantity of war spoils was taken in
l«n ft rti n i rm/\ftl a battle which had cost the Ger
mans more than 9,000 men killed.
It was indicated that one of the bloodiest battles of the war was
raging in the blacked-out streets of Kharkov, Russia's fourth city,
into which a triumphant Red army had fought its way 24 days ago for
its biggest reconquest of the historic winter offensive.
In Red Square


EIGHTH ARMY
THROWS BACK
NAZI FORCES
Enemy Is Pounded by
Airplanes of
Allies
A L L I E D HEADQUARTERS,
North Africa, March 12 (U.P)—The British eighth army has thrown the
Germans into retreat in the Ksar Rhilane area west of the Mareth|
line, aided by Allied planes which wrecked 21 armored machines and
seven big guns, it was announced tonight.
A supplement to the regular allied communique said the enemy had
"withdrawn to the north" from the Ksar battlefield on the edge of the
desert, stripped of better than two thirds of the 30 armored cars
which spearheaded the Axis attack on the eighth army last Wednesday.
                                                      Patrol Activity

ENEMY CARGO
VESSEL HIT
AT JAP BASE
Heavy Storms Braved
By Bombers to Strike
New Blows
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS,
Australia, Saturday, March 13. (U.P) —
Bucking equatorial storms, four-motored American
Liberator bombers battered the key Japanese base at Ambon yester-
day scoring a direct hit on a 7,000-ton enemy cargo vessel and shooting
out of action four hostile planes, Gen. Douglas MacArthur
announced today.
Braving the h e a v y weather, Dutch-manned Billy Mitchell bombers
and Beaufighters of the Royal Australian air force earlier swept
Timor Island, pounding Fuiloro air field and damaging two small Japanese
ships at Lautem.
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