Thursday, July 14, 2011

Current Events July 7, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JULY 7, 1943:
The navy, revealing loss of the 9,700-ton light cruiser Helena
during the smashing defeat of Japanese warships in Kula
gulf, announced today that the far-ranging. U. S. fleet also had
struck a blow in the North Pacific by bombarding the enemy's
base at Kiska.

Fresh masses of German tanks, infantry, and planes flung themselves
vainly at Russian lines on the southern front today as
the Soviet army regained some lost ground and cut up Nazi
armor that spent itself seizing two villages in the Belgorod area.




The Wisconsin State Journal
                       MADISON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1943

Japs Routed at Kula;
Kiska Blasted Again
U.S. Navy Bags
6 Enemy Ships,
Damages More
Americans Lose
Cruiser Helena
in South Pacific
WASHINGTON—(U.P)
The navy, revealing loss of the 9,700-ton light cruiser Helena
during the smashing defeat of Japanese warships in Kula
gulf, announced today that the far-ranging. U. S. fleet also had
struck a blow in the North Pacific by bombarding the enemy's
base at Kiska.
Identifying as the Helena the U. S. cruiser previously reported
lost in the Kula gulf engagement, the navy confirmed Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's announcement that six Japanese warships were probably
sunk. The navy also said that several Japanese ships were
damaged, although MacArthur announcement gave the damaged
figure as four ship.
                                 Get No Return Fire

Nazis' Attack Fails
as Russ Lines Hold
Axis Loses
7,277 Tanks,
13,OOO Men
MOSCOW — (U.P.) —
Fresh masses of German tanks, infantry, and planes flung themselves
vainly at Russian lines on the southern front today as
the Soviet army regained some lost ground and cut up Nazi
armor that spent itself seizing two villages in the Belgorod area.
Panzer units that made initial slight advances in the Orel and
Kursk areas were torn apart methodically by Soviet artillery
and infantrymen who let them pass unmolested and then smashed the
Nazi attempts to follow up then gains.
The Nazi armored legions –that gained slightly near Belgorod
were stopped cold and the army newspaper, Red Star, said, a fierce
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Russ Yield, Nazis Say LONDON — (U.P.)
The German news agency, DNB, said today that the Germans
had broken through the main Russian line in the Kursk sector
of the eastern front,
Russian counter-attack had set hem back.
German; losses for the three-day ttempt to breach the line between
Orel and 'Belgorod mounted to 1,271 tanks, 314 planes, and 13,000
men: - Russian military observers said the Germans used the same
tactics that cost them bloody losses—and defeat—last year.

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