Apr 26, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY APRIL 4, 1944:

By RICHARD McMURRAY

(Associated Press War Editor)

Brunswick, central German aircraft building center, came under the sights of 1,000 or so American planes today in the great and continuing air invasion of Europe, prelude to the real thing.

 American Sixth army troops continued their virtually unopposed sweep through Japanese positions a sweep through Japanese positions and were last reported within artillery range of the big Hollandia airdrome.

ST. JOSEPH, MICH., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1944

AIR INVASION

ROARS THRU

ITS 12TH DAY

Reds Reported To Have

 Begun New Drive For

   Key to Balkans

By RICHARD McMURRAY

(Associated Press War Editor)

Brunswick, central German aircraft building center, came under the sights of 1,000 or so American planes today in the great and continuing air invasion of Europe, prelude to the real thing.

Today's assaults carried the preinvasion aerial offensive—heaviest the world has ever seen—through the twelfth consecutive day.

Reds Start New Drive

Romanian and German accounts asserted that the Russians had opened an offensive on a broad front along the Lower Dnestr  river between the Carpathians and the Black Sea — aimed apparently at the Galati gap between the mountains

and the Danube estuary. Seizure of the gap would wrest most of the Balkans from the enemy.

DRIVE DEEPER

IN HOLLANDIA

Yank Forces Move Within

Sight of Main

Airdrome

By RICHARD C. BERGHOLS

(Associated Press War Editor)

American Sixth army troops continued their virtually unopposed sweep through Japanese positions a sweep through Japanese positions and were last reported within artillery range of the big Hollandia airdrome.

Allied headquarters approved release of the statement by Associated Press Bureau Chief C. Yates Mc-Daniel that "fall of Hollandia airfield is imminent" and permitted correspondents to speculate whether Japan has pulled most of her estimated 60,000 troops out of central and northern New Guinea.

No Major Opposition

No major opposition has been met by columns of Americans converging on Hollandia, Cyclops and Tami airdromes in the Hollandia sector, nor by other Sixth army forces which captured Tadji airdrome near Aitape, 150 miles southeast, cleared the enemy from the airdrome's fringes and made it a safe base for U. S. Fifth airforce fighter planes covering the operations at Hollandia.

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