THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JUNE 18, 1943:
The Japanese have suffered one of their worst aerial
defeats In the Pacific war, the navy revealed today In announcing
that American flyers destroyed 77 enemy planes In
a giant dogfight yesterday over Guadalcanal.
Smashing the Jap aerial armada of bombers and escorting Zero
fighters cost the U. S. forces only six planes.
Reported large-scale Allied naval operations in the Mediterranean,
trouble in the Balkans and Illinois of a falling-out between
Germany and in Turkey combined today to UK lease Axis
invasion jitters to fever pitch.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's victorious armies were credited today
with killing or wounding 40,000 out of 100,000 Japanese troops
in a 40-day battle on the upper Yangtze river front, and dispatches
said the Chinese had now surrounded the Japanese stronghold at
Owchihkow
The Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, Friday Moraine, June 18, 1943.
77 Jap Planes Knocked Out
By U. S. Over Guadalcanal,
Americans Losing Only Six
Shattered Enemy Assault
Deemed Defensive
WASHINGTON. June 17—
(INS)—The Japanese have suffered one of their worst aerial
defeats In the Pacific war, the navy revealed today In announcing
that American flyers destroyed 77 enemy planes In
a giant dogfight yesterday over Guadalcanal.
Smashing the Jap aerial armada of bombers and escorting Zero
fighters cost the U. S. forces only six planes.
The Navy Department tonight was still awaiting the full story of the,
battle. A special communique issued
shortly after noon stated merely:
"A brief report received from the South Pacific reveals that in
an air battle over Guadalcanal on June 16. U. S. planes shot down
32 Japanese bombers and 45
Zero fighters. Six U. S. planes are missing. No further details
have been received."
2d Worst of Pacific War
Axis Invasion Heightened
By Fleet Assembly, Turkish Rift
By Thomas (', Watson
LONDON. June 17.— (INS)—
Reported large-scale Allied naval operations in the Mediterranean,
trouble in the Balkans and Illinois of a falling-out between
Germany and in Turkey combined today to UK lease Axis
invasion jitters to fever pitch.
Seventy-five Allied ships, including a battleship, two aircraft
carriers and 10 destroyers, all concentrated in Gibraltar harbor.
Italian headquarters said Allied raiders also blasted the area of Mt.
Vesuvius, the famous volcano, including modern Pompei.
Large British forces are concentrating along the southern frontier
of Turkey," the Rome radio asserted, amplifying its previous assertion that
many Allied landing craft were massing at Pantelleria island 60
miles from Sicily.
The Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1943
ALLIED PLANES POMMEL
NAPLES, SICILY, SHIPPING
Rome Claims
British Gather
Near Turkey
(By the Associated Press)
Italy's bomb-scarred port of Naples, two Sicilian
airdromes and enemy shipping off Greece came under
the flail of Allied war planes in the latest assaults in
the Mediterranean, it was announced today, as the Axis
stressed new invasion preparations against Southern
Europe.
Italian headquarters said Allied raiders also blasted the area of Mt.
Vesuvius, the famous volcano, including modern Pompei.
Large British forces are concentrating along the southern frontier
of Turkey," the Rome radio asserted, amplifying its previous assertion that
many Allied landing craft were massing at Pantelleria island 60
miles from Sicily.
Dispatches from Ankara said the 350-mile border between Turkey and
Syria was reopened at 6 am yesterday, after all traffic except Allied
diplomatic and military personnel had been halted for 48 hours
screen troop movements.
Reinforcements at Cyprus
Axis radios > asserted that British and Indian reinforcements had been
moved to Cyprus, 69 miles off Syria, a potential base for invasion of the
Balkans, Crete or the Dodecanese islands. American troops were said
to be among the Cyprus garrison.
Another enemy report said a 62- mile stretch in Northern Syria along
with the Lebanese coast had been declared military areas and closed
to civilians.
Chinese Kill
Jap Troops
(By the Associated Press)
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's victorious armies were credited today
with killing or wounding 40,000 out of 100,000 Japanese troops
in a 40-day battle on the upper Yangtze river front, and dispatches
said the Chinese had now surrounded the Japanese stronghold at
Owchihkow.
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