WASHINGTON. Apr. 20—
American war casualties up to
Apr. 7 totaled 189.309. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson disclosed today. He
listed Army figures as 25,013 killed". 59.222 wounded. 32,048 missing and
28.799 prisoners, a total of 145.082.
Adolf Hitler's Atlantic Wall took its heaviest pounding
of the war yesterday as the Allied invasion command sent more than 2,000 U.S.
and Allied fighters and bombers across the English Channel in an afternoon blitz
of unprecedented strength.
CEYLON, Apr. 20—
A mighty British naval task
force, striking at an's stolen empire from the west
way the U.S. fleet has been hammering
at it from the east, blasted Burmese bases, installations and shipping in
northern Sumatra yesterday in a surprise raid at dawn,
he bold foray, the first
large-scale British naval activity of the Pacific.
German troops hold tenaciously to Sevastopol yesterday, but Russian sea and air superiority took a heavy toll of the comparatively few Nazis who managed to leave the port aboard evacuation barges. Five hundred miles to the north along the front guarding the approaches to the enemy's main base at Lwow in Poland, heavy fighting was in progress south and east of Stanislavov, 60 miles southwest of Tarnopol.
German troops hold tenaciously to Sevastopol yesterday, but Russian sea and air superiority took a heavy toll of the comparatively few Nazis who managed to leave the port aboard evacuation barges. Five hundred miles to the north along the front guarding the approaches to the enemy's main base at Lwow in Poland, heavy fighting was in progress south and east of Stanislavov, 60 miles southwest of Tarnopol.
New York, N.Y.—London, England Friday,
April 21, 1944
2,000 Allied
Planes
Pound France
from
Calais to
Cherbourg
Invasion Command
Darkens Skies With
Forts, Libs,
B26s, Fighter-Bombers,
In Afternoon
Offensive
Adolf Hitler's Atlantic Wall took its heaviest pounding
of the war yesterday as the Allied invasion command sent more than 2,000 U.S.
and Allied fighters and bombers across the English Channel in an afternoon blitz
of unprecedented strength.
Military installations from the
Pas de Calais to Cherbourg were hammered by task forces of Liberators and
Fortresses and P38 and P5i fighter-bombers which branched off from a main fleet
of some 750 aircraft, escorted by between 500 and 750 U.S. fighters. Other fighters
went ranging all across France, seeking the Luftwaffe.
Marauder medium bombers, covered
by RAF and Allied Spitfires, and other light forces, joined the attack and for
hours through the late afternoon and early evening the roar of aircraft was continuous
above the water gap separating the invasion forces from Hitler's Atlantic Wall.
Sumatra Hit
by a British Naval
no JapAirfields
Battered
Carrier Planes
in 1st
Big Sea Foray in
West
CEYLON, Apr. 20—
A mighty British naval task
force, striking at an's stolen empire from the west
way the U.S. fleet has been hammering
at it from the east, blasted Burmese bases, installations and shipping in
northern Sumatra yesterday in a surprise raid at dawn,
he bold foray, the first
large-scale British naval activity of the Pacific.
It was carried out by bombers and
fighters from a number of aircraft carriers
supported by a powerful Allied
fleet of battleships. cruisers, destroyers and submarines under the command of
Adm. Sir ----s Somerville. ---followed by four days the announcement that the
headquarters of Lord Louis Mountbatten's Southeast Asia Command ---«en moved
from remote New Delhi India, to Kandy. on the island of Ceylon, which is
barely" 1.000 miles from Sumatra
where Mountbatten can work
closely with his naval forces.
At
West End of East Indies
The raid on Sumatra, a large
island in the west of the Dutch East Indies,--* p, was announced today in a communique
from Mountbatten's headquarters which said that the Sabang and Nga airfields
were the targets, ---ing is a tiny island off the north tip Sumatra. 680 miles
from Singapore, heavy bombs were used and fighter
---rts strafed ground targets,
Germans Cling
To Sevastopol;
Losses Heavy
Fierce Fighting
Continues
In Stanislavov
Area,
Key to Lwow
German troops hold tenaciously to
Sevastopol yesterday, but Russian sea and air superiority took a heavy toll of
the comparatively few Nazis who managed to leave the port aboard evacuation
barges. Five hundred miles to the north
along the front guarding the approaches to the enemy's main base at Lwow
in Poland, heavy fighting was in progress south and east of Stanislavov, 60
miles southwest of Tarnopol.
Moscow dispatches reported that
the enemy was throwing tanks and shock troops into the attack here -;on a scale
reminiscent of the unsuccessful counteroffensive
at Kiev." Beyond speaking of
heavy fighting and towns changing hands several times a clay, neither side gave
any detailed accounts of progress.
American War
Casualties
Now 189,309,
Stimson Says
WASHINGTON. Apr. 20—
American war casualties up to
Apr. 7 totaled 189.309. Secretary of War Henry L.
Stimson disclosed today. He
listed Army figures as 25,013 killed". 59.222 wounded. 32,048 missing and
28.799 prisoners, a total of 145.082.
Navy. Marine and Coast Guard
figures were given as 18.795 killed. 21.726
wounded and 3,706 prisoners, a
total of 44.227.
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