Monday, April 23, 2012

Apr 23, 1944; Japanese off-guard at Sumatra:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY APRIL 23, 1944

 SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, (AP)
Powerful American warships—including a sizable force of deadly carriers—were disclosed Saturday to be operating in the Indian Ocean and to have teamed up with other Allied naval units in the blow that caught the Japanese offguard at Sumatra at dawn Wednesday.

 ALLIED Headquarters Naples. (AP)
 Italy-based night flying RAF Liberators and Wellingtons have teamed up with daylight Ameuean Liberators in pressing through another 24 hours" their,, incessant pounding of Axis~commumcations in the Balkans- ''and in Northern Italy Allied headqusrters announced Saturday.

LONDON, (AP) —
Pre-invasion fleets of nearly 4,000 American and Allied bombers and fighters smashed the German rail center of Hamm, coastal fortifications in France, and airfields in Belgium and France Saturday in history's greatest aerial offensive, which apparently still was under way early Sunday after a week in which 29,000 tons of explosives had been hurled onto Hitler's continental ramparts.


 
PARIS, TEXAS/SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1944.

Allied Planes Hit Installations
At Lhong Airfield on Sumatra
SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, (AP)
Powerful American warships—including a sizable force of deadly carriers—were disclosed Saturday to be operating in the Indian Ocean and to have teamed up with other Allied naval units in the blow that caught the Japanese offguard at Sumatra at dawn Wednesday.
(American pilots outnumbered the British two to one in the Sumatra attack which, Ieft huge fires burning in ' the inner harbor at Sabang, said Associated Press Correspondent Eugene Burns, who was aboard an American carieer during the raid.)
The first formidable assault against the Japanese from the direction of Ceylon, headquarters announced, was delivered by planes launched by British and American flat tops protected by British and French battleships and lighter units of the U. S. British and Dutch navies.
Installations at Sabang, on the island of We, off the northern tip of Sumatra, and at Lhong airfield on Sumatra itself were smashed by explosives from the Allied planes.  The attack was preceded by a diversionary raid on Port Blair, in the Andaman Islands 300 miles northwest of Sumatra, by India based American Liberator bombers.

Prime Rail Targets
At Bucharest Hit
Despite Bad Weather
ALLIED Headquarters Naples. (AP)
 Italy-based night flying RAF Liberators and Wellingtons have teamed up with daylight Ameuean Liberators in pressing through another 24 hours" their,, incessant pounding of Axis~commumcations in the Balkans- ''and in Northern Italy Allied headqusrters announced Saturday.
The beginning of the fourth  month since the Allied beachhead  landings at Anzio, which brought the Allied armies nearest to any of the Axis-held capitals in Continental Europe, found the stalemate continuing on the ground along the entire Italian front and the Mediterranean air force alone carrying the offensive to the enemy.

Pre-lnvasion Air
Fleets Blast at
Hamm Rail Center
Bombing Represents
History's Greatest
Aerial Offensive
LONDON, (AP) —
Pre-invasion fleets of nearly 4,000 American and Allied bombers and fighters smashed the German rail center of Hamm, coastal fortifications in France, and airfields in Belgium and France Saturday in history's greatest aerial offensive, which apparently still was under way early Sunday after a week in which 29,000 tons of explosives had been hurled onto Hitler's continental ramparts.
A U. S. air force bulletin issued early Sunday morning said "satisfactory results" were achieved in the main strike at Hamm by nearly 2,000 Flying Fortresses and
Liberators escorted by Thunderbolt, Mustang and Lightning fighters, But failed to mention any aircraft losses.





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