Saturday, April 16, 2011

Current Events April 16, 1943:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY:
American bombers battering Japanese positions in the central Solomon islands Thursday destroyed a building believed to be a power generating station and sank an 80-foot vessel, the navy announced today.

First army infantrymen were within 15 miles of the key road junction of Tebourba today after some of the fiercest fighting of the Tunisian campaign, it was announced today.

The Red army is throwing a mounting force into the bombing of German military objectives and cities, the latest feat of Russian flyers---

                         The Charleston Daily Mail
CHARLESTON, WEST VI R G IN I A, F R I DAY EVEN I N G . APRIL 16. 1943

3 JAP CONVOY SHIPS BLASTED
Forts Pound
9 Vessels
Off Wewak
3 Warships Among
Targets of Yanks
Continuing Attack
W A S H I N G TON (AP).—
American bombers battering Japanese positions in the central.
Solomon islands Thursday destroyed a building believed
to be a power generating station and sank an 80-
foot vessel, the navy announced today. In the North
Pacific, meanwhile, h e a v y raids on Kiska island continued.
A communique said that the enemy base there was attacked
eight; times Wednesday.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
lN AUSTRALIA (AP).—Flying Fortresses kept up an attack to-
day on a Japanese convoy of three warships and six merchant, vessels at Wewak
New Guinea. Striving to add to the heavy blows dealt three merchmen
at the outset.
Drive in Mountains
Carries Allied Line
Nearer Capital City
Forces Now 25-30 Miles From Tunis;
1st Army Nears Tebourba Junction;
Fighting Is Fiercest of Campaign
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA (AP)-
First army infantrymen were within 15 miles of the key road
junction of Tebourba today after some of the fiercest fighting
of the Tunisian campaign, it was announced today.
In a series of local attacks east of Medjez-El-Bab, the Allied
mountain' line advanced to points between 25 and 30 miles from j
Tunis. Tebourba, once held by the Allies in the eastward push
last fall lies 18 miles airline west of the Axis-held capital.
Allied bombers and fighters continued their assaults upon Axis^air
fields in. Tunisia, although the weather was bad, and it was an-
nounced that RAF Wellingtons struck effectively Wednesday night
at enemy airdromes in southern Sardinia.
Reds Bomb
Two Major
Nazi Cities
Koeuigsburg, Danzig
Liberally Plastered
In Long Range Raid ;
MOSCOW (AP). — The Red army is throwing a mounting:
force into the bombing of German military objectives and
cities, the latest feat of Russian flyers being announced as a
raid on a German airdrome on the Leningrad front where 13
German planes were destroyed on the ground.

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