By Phil Ault LONDON, Feb. 24
(UP)—
The Berlin radio reported
that big American bomber fleets attacked northwestern and central
Germany today, that hundreds of German fighters attacked them,
and at midday a violent air battle still was going on.
Russian troops and tanks hammered
the Germans back through the streets of Dno, strongest German base west of
Pskov at the invasion gateway to the Baltic states, today and capture of the
town was believed imminent.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Naples, Feb. 24 (AP)— Fighting;
again flared on the Anzio front, with artillery gunners breaking up! German
groups preparing to attack in front of American troops west of Cisterna and
Allied troops repulsing Nazi attempts to infiltrate their lines southwest of
Carroceto, Allied headquarters announced today.
PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 24. (UP)—
Hundreds of U. S. planes from a
powerful naval task force that thrust to within 1300 miles of Tokyo' were
thought today to have wrecked 'another portion of the Japanese fleet in an
assault
on the twin Mariana bases of
Tinian and Saipan, next-to the- last Pacific barriers to Japan itself.
U. S. Bomber
Fleets Pound
Reich Anew
Nazis
Report
Violent
Battle
Going
On
LONDON,
Feb. 24
The
United States (UP)
—
Army headquarters announced
that
American bombers
attacked
Schweinfurt and
Gotha in
Germany today.
By Phil Ault LONDON, Feb. 24
(UP)—
The Berlin radio reported
that big American bomber fleets attacked northwestern and central
Germany today, that hundreds of German fighters attacked them,
and at midday a violent air battle still was going on. Immediate
confirmation of the Nazi report was lacking, but if it is borne out It
will mean that American air power has unleashed the fifth major
attack on Germany in==
Dno's Fall
Imminent
Reds
Hammer Nazis
Through
Town Streets
By Harrison
Salisbury
MOSCOW, Feb. 24 (UP)—
Russian troops and tanks hammered
the Germans back through the streets of Dno, strongest German base west of
Pskov at the invasion gateway to the Baltic states, today and capture of the
town was believed imminent.
The Soviets broke into the northern
and eastern outskirts of Dno, four-way railroad junction of 9000 persons, 60
miles east of Pskov, yesterday after capturing more than 150 localities in
advances of up to 16 miles in 24 hours.
German forces appeared to be abandoning
their positions around Dno, already outflanked from the south and north, with
little more than rear guard resistance for a stand along a line running just
east of Pskov in a final 'effort
to save Estonia and Latvia.
1500
Nazi Killed
More' than 1500 Germans were
killed and many others were capured.----
Fighting
Flares Anew
At Anzio
Artillery
Gunners
Break
Up German
Attack
Preparations
By
Richard G. Massock
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Naples, Feb. 24 (AP)— Fighting;
again flared on the Anzio front, with artillery gunners breaking up! German
groups preparing to attack in front of American troops west of Cisterna and
Allied troops repulsing Nazi attempts to infiltrate their lines southwest of
Carroceto, Allied headquarters announced today.
While four-engined bombers were ranging
into Austria and attacking an important German aircraft assembly plant at
Steyr, the tactical air force swung over the coast of Italy and Yugoslavia,
showering bombs on enemy shipping from which the enemy has been feeding
supplies into the Italian battle area.
NEW
RAIDS MAY HAVE WRECKED
ANOTHER
PORTION OF JAP FLEET
Carrier
Task Forces Moved Beyond Truk
*To
Deal First Blow at Mariannas
By William F. Tyree
PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 24. (UP)—
Hundreds of U. S. planes from a
powerful naval task force that thrust to within 1300 miles of Tokyo' were
thought today to have wrecked 'another portion of the Japanese fleet in an
assault
on the twin Mariana bases of
Tinian and Saipan, next-to the- last Pacific barriers to Japan itself.
Speculation mounted that the carrier-based
planes, duplicating the American victory at Truk, 650 miles to the southeast,
caught Japanese cruisers, destroyers and possibly even battleships and carriers,
sent many of them to the bottom under a rain of bombs and torpedoes.
No
Details
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz,
commander of the Pacific fleet, announced in a communique yesterday that the
assault began Tuesday.
No details were available, he said,
and it was presumed that the task force had maintained radio silence until it
reaches less dangerous waters.
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