Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Current Events July 15, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JULY 15, 1943:
The jaws of an allied clamp
have taken a deeper bite on eastern Sicily after a fur-
ious battle in which the British eighth army hurled
back a powerful counter-attack by Nazi armored
forces, headquarters reports said today.

Allied troops, opening the all-out offensive to
drive the Japanese from their bases on the northeast New
Guinea coast, attacked the Mubo defenses today in an assault
to break the main bastion before Salamaua.


                    Times Twin Falls News

                                 TWIN FALLS, IDAHO, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1943

ALLIES BITE DEEPLY INTO SICILY
8th Army Throws Back Powerful
German Armored Counter-Attack
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
July 15 (AP)—The jaws of an allied clamp
have taken a deeper bite on eastern Sicily after a fur-
ious battle in which the British eighth army hurled
back a powerful counter-attack by Nazi armored
forces, headquarters reports said today.
The greatest advance was scored by the American
seventh army, driving inland on a line parallel with
the British east coast push.
Led by Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton, jr., the Americans
dug into the Ragusa-Vizzini sector, moved forward
some six or seven miles, captured another important
airdrome and took important heights.
Another Italian general, commanding the 54th Napoli
division, surrendered with his staff south of Vizzini.
Vizzini is about 25 miles west and slightly south
of captured Augusta, and about the same distance
northeast of Gela.
Hurling itself forward against sterner resistance,
the British eighth army of Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
drove to the town of Brucoli; four miles north
of the port of Augusta after weathering' a crisis yesterday
in which the German a r m o r e d forces mounted a powerful counter-
attack and actually reached the harbor at one time.

All-out Drive on
Salamaua Opened
By Allied Troops
By BRYDON TAVES
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
July 15 (U.R)—Allied troops, opening the all-out offensive to
drive the Japanese from their bases on the northeast New
Guinea coast, attacked the Mubo defenses today in an assault
to break the main bastion before Salamaua.
Their path opened by aerial bombardment, jungle fighters
closed in on Mubo "for decisive action," a special announcement
from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters said.
Fall of Mubo would lay open the Japanese line extending
northeastward 10 miles to Salamaua.. an important coastal
base and a major objective of the offensive begun June
30 to roll the Japanese back from both the south and
southwest Pacific.
The new action on the western end of the 750-mile line of operations
came as field dispatches reported
American tanks had joined in tthe assault on Munda, biggest
Japanese base in the central Solomons and major objective on the
eastern end. Munda's fall is imminent, the dispatches said.
                                             Aussies and Yanks

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