Tuesday, April 5, 2011

This Was Today; Current Events April 5, 1943: The Second U. S. Army Corps, overrunning Axis defense posts and wiping out mortar nests, has unleashed a successful drive through the difficult hills east of El Guetar toward a junction with the British Eighth Army, In one of their biggest and most daring assaults, 133 U. S. Flying Fortresses roared up the Seine River to Paris Sunday afternoon to rain explosives on the huge Renault Armament Works with such deadly accuracy I t h a t returning crew:; said: "We don't see how anything can be left there now." Carrying out the heaviest raids yet made on Kiska in the Aleutians. American poured bombs on the' Japanese base in eight separate assaults, the navy re ported Sunday


          Patton Advances To Join British
      KINGSPORT NEWS
                            KINGSPORT, TENN., MON., APRIL 5, 1943

U. S. BOMBERS SMASH BIG PARIS PLANT
Hills East
Of El Guetar
Fall ToU.S.
First and Eighth
Armies Continue
To Squeeze Nazis
Allied Headquarters in North Africa
The Second U. S. Army Corps, overrunning Axis defense
posts and wiping out mortar nests, has unleashed a successful drive
through the difficult hills east of El Guetar toward a junction with
the British Eighth Army, a communique from Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower's headquarters announced Sunday.
While Gen.'Sir Bernard L. Montgomery' patrols probed the Wadi
El Akarit defenses of Marshal Erwin Rommel 20 miles north of
Gabes, the British First Army in northern Tunisia continued to
sweep forward and Moroccan goums occupied Cape Serrat, on the
Mediterranean coast 35 miles west
of Bizerte.
Scoring one of their most notable successes since they have been in
|North Africa, the fighting forces of Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.,
I which include one armored division and three infantry divisions, swept
|over the brush-dotted hills, killed many of the enemy and took a
number of prisoners, including many Germans.
Nazis Blasted

Essen Dealt
Heavy Blow
By British
London, Monday—(AP)—In one of their biggest and most daring assaults,
133 U. S. Flying Fortresses roared up the Seine River to Paris
Sunday afternoon to rain explosives on the huge Renault Armament
Works with such deadly accuracy I t h a t returning crew:; said: "We
don't see how anything can be left there now."
This powerful daylight blow followed a heavy RAF Saturday night
assault on Essen, home of the Krupp Munitions Works in Germany.
The round-the-clock bombardment—
American by day and RAF by night—was continuing early
Monday. A thunderous roar echoed over the choppy English Channe
as the RAF again sprang to attack Hitler's continental fortress. Berlin
radio promptly shut down.
Winging their way to the Paris area for the first time in the war,
the big Flying Fortresses bombed t h e target "heavily and accurately."
a communique announced, and shot down 25 enemy fighters which they
encountered on the return trip.
Japs On Kiska Suffer
Heaviest Bombing By U. S.
Washington —AP— Carrying out
the heaviest raids yet made on Kiska in the Aleutians. American poured
bombs on the' Japanese base in eight separate assaults, the navy re
ported Sunday.

Allies Continue
To Whittle Down
Japs Sea Power
Allied Headquarters in Australia
Monday-AP-

The Japanese naval concentration of Kavieng now has been destroyed
or dispersed, with seven warships and five merchant vessels
either sunk or heavily damaged," The Monday's noon communique said.

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