Saturday, August 6, 2011

Current Events July 8, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JULY 8, 1943:
American troops have landed at two points near the
Japanese air base at Munda on New Georgia island, the high command
said Thursday.

Soviet Russia claimed Thursday that the red
army had dealt the mini war machine the greatest blow in its his-
tory and had thwarted for the moment the huge German onslaught
on the central fronl by killing 30,000 destroying or damaging 1,539;
tanks and shooting down MS airplanes in the first three days of fighting.

Massed Allied air power smashed through on the fourth day of the nonstop
blitz against Sicily, drenching German and Italian airports with
explosives in round-the-clock bombing.

The British Eighth Army, veteran of the African campaign, is now concentrated in
Iraq, Iran and Syria, in Asia Minor, according to reports in an Italian news-
paper. Gen. Bernard Montgomery was reported in Baghdad.

New oil fields have been discovered in Azerbaijan which
were expected to become second in importance only to Baku, capital of this
region, Izvestia disclosed. The fields were said to be remarkable not only for the
quantity but the quality of the oil which would permit the production of 100
octane aviation gasoline.

                 The Billings Gazette
        BILLINGS, MONTANA, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 8, 1943

Yankees Land Near Munda;
Japs Lose 9 Ships at Kula

Americans Within
Four Miles of
Enemy Air Base
Allied Headquarters in Australia,July 8.—(AP)
American troops have landed at two points near the
Japanese air base at Munda on New Georgia island, the high command
said Thursday.

Reds Claim Nazis Stopped
With Loss of 30,000 Men.
1,539 Tanks and 649 Planes
Moscow, July 8.—(/I1)—Soviet Russia claimed Thursday that the red
army had dealt the mini war machine the greatest blow in its his-
tory and had thwarted for the moment the huge German onslaught
on the central fronl by killing 30,000
destroying or damaging 1,539;
tanks and shooting down MS airplanes
in the first three days of fighting.

THE STARS AND STRIPES
Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations
Vol. 3 No. 211 New York, N.Y.—London, England Thursday, July 8, 1943

Nazis Halted in War's Fiercest Battles
Reds Claim
1,271 Tanks
Knocked Out
Foe decked in Ferocious
Combat after Capture •
Of Two Villages
MOSCOW, July 7 (UP)—
Hurling as many as 400 tanks into attacks in narrow sectors and repeating their
assaults as many as 16 times a day, the Germans have still failed to force
a breach in the Russian lines on the Orel-Kursk-Belgorod front.
Toward the end of the third day reports were that the slight penetration
achieved by Nazi armor on the Orel-Kursk sector was being wiped -out.
In ferocity, intensity and the weight of armor used the present fighting on the
Orel-Kursk and Byelgorod sectors of the Russian front surpasses any battle that has
yet taken place in the whole war, it was said in Moscow.
On the Byelgorod sector possession of the two villages taken by the Germans—
the sum total of their successes on this front—was being hotly disputed. The
German advance beyond the villages had been stopped.
Lose 10,000 in Day

Non-Stop Raids
On Italy's Ports
Allies Destroy 110 Axis
Planes in Four-Day
Air Onslaught
ALLIED HQ., North Africa, July 7 (AP)—
Massed Allied air power smashed through on the fourth day of the nonstop
blitz against Sicily, drenching German and Italian airports with
explosives in round-the-clock bombing.
Only two enemy aircraft were destroyed in combat yesterday, but the total for
the four-day offensive was 110. Five planes were missing in yesterday's attack.
Allied losses for the four days totaled 39.

Six Jap Ships
Believed Lost
In Solomons
Battle in "Narrow Strait
Cost U.S. a Cruiser;
Air Blows Continue
WASHINGTON, July 7—
Six Japanese ships were probably sunk and four others damaged in the naval
battle in Kula gulf, while the U.S. lost the light cruiser Helena, a Navy
communique announced today.
The action, precipitated by a Japanese thrust into the eight-mile wide
gulf north of New Georgia island, was one of a half-dozen
engagements disclosed during the day, including a dogfight over Darwin which
cost the Japs probably 11 planes and a new naval bombardment of Kiska in the
Aleutians.
Meanwhile Col. Frank Knox, Navy Secretary, told 10,000 Puget Sound navy
workers at Bremerton, Wash., that he had received word that the Japanese had
taken "a damned good licking." He did not make clear whether he spoke of
current operations in the Solomons or previous naval engagements.
Second U.S. Ship Lost

Eighth Army Reported
In Iraq, Iran, Syria
BERNE, Switzerland, July 7 (AP)—
The British Eighth Army, veteran of the African campaign, is now concentrated in
Iraq, Iran and Syria, in Asia Minor, according to reports in an Italian news-
paper. Gen. Bernard Montgomery was reported in Baghdad.

Reds Find New Oil Fields
MOSCOW, July 7 (AP)—
New oil fields have been discovered in Azerbaijan which
were expected to become second in importance only to Baku, capital of this
region, Izvestia disclosed. The fields were said to be remarkable not only for the
quantity but the quality of the oil which would permit the production of 100
octane aviation gasoline.

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