Apr 30, 1944; GREATES AERIAL BATTLE CONTINUES:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY APRIL 30, 1944:

LONDON, April 29.—(/P)—

Two thousand United States w a r  p l a n c s smashing through box-like stacks

of hundreds of German fighters in the greatest daylight battle of the war casting a 2,500-ton torrent of exploding steel and Incendiaries on invasion- jittery Berlin Saturday at a cost of 63 bombers and  fighters.

London, April 29.—(AP)—

The allied war of nerves Saturday kept Germany tensely expectant of momentary

landings on the continent, and Berlin itself said "The invasion air force Is now actually In the fight."

London, April 29.—(U.P)—

Amphibious Yugoslav forces, in their most ambitious operations so far, have captured the strategically-important Dalmatian island of Mijet, a partisan headquarters communique announced Saturday. It appeared that other invasion units were mopping up on Korcula, 19 miles to the northwest.

BILLINGS,  MONTANA,  APRIL 30, 1944

2,000 U. S. Planes Figure

In Greatest Aerial Battle

77 Are Shot Down

In Berlin Raid;

Toulon Also Target

LONDON, April 20.—(/P)—

Two thousand United States w a r  p l a n c s smashing through box-like stacks

of hundreds of German fighters in the greatest daylight battle of the war casting a 2,500-ton torrent of exploding steel and Incendiaries on invasion- jittery Berlin Saturday at a cost of 63 bombers and  fighters.

R. A. F. bombers carried on the onslaught Saturday night, smashing  unidentified targets In German occupied territory. A United States communique said that 88 German planes were destroyed In combat, 72 by the guns of the Plying Fortress and Liberator crews, and 16 by a powerful escort of American Thunderbolt, Lightning and Mustang fighters and R. A. F, Mustangs which also wrecked parked nazi aircraft and shot up 21 Locomotives.

Invasion Rumors

Keep Europe's

Nerves on Edge

Berlin Says Air

Attacks Mark

Start by Allies

By ALEX SINGLETON

London, April 29.—(AP)—

The allied war of nerves Saturday kept Germany tensely expectant of momentary

landings on the continent, and Berlin itself said "The invasion air force Is now actually In the fight." Thus, for all practical purposes, Berlin said the invasion began a . week ago, when the Americans and British hurled great numbers of

reserve air crews and planes into the bombing of the continent.

Perhaps Illustrative of the shattered state of Europe's nerves—in neutral countries as well as occupied and Germany itself—was one rumor out of Finland that the land assault was already In progress.

Allied Airmen

Hit Jap Bases

In New Guinea

Points in Carolines

And Marshalls

Also Are Blasted

Advanced Allied Headquarters

Southwest Pacific, April 30.—(UP)—

General Douglas MacArthur's airmen carried on their sweeping offensive against. Japanese bases in northern New Guinea, the Carolines and the Bismarck archipelago with heavy attacks on enemy airfields and supply installations, it was announced early Sunday

Lieutenant General George C Kenney's Fifth air force in New Guinea sent heavy and medium bombers against the Wake Island airfield 110 miles west of the new

American base of  Hollandia In a 79-ton attack, MacArthur's communique said. The bombers hit the airfield and also attacked the town of Sarmi on the mainland.

Solomons-based heavy bombers of  the Thirteenth  A. A. F. ranged over the Pacific to carry out their fifteenth  attack of the war against Truk atoll, dropping' 22 tons of bombs on Eton and Dublon Islands spreading fires and explosions through the area. One enemy night fighter was shot down and one American bomber was lost, the communique said.

Yugoslavs Take

Another Island

London, April 29.—(U.P)—

Amphibious Yugoslav forces, in their most ambitious operations so far, have captured the strategically-important Dalmatian island of Mijet, a partisan headquarters communique announced Saturday. It appeared that other invasion units were mopping up on Korcula, 19 miles to the northwest.

Partisan control of the two islands, where heavy fighting has been under way since last week end when Marshal Josph (Tito) Bronz' troops -supported by allied planes

and warships swarmed ashore, could give the allies new footholds for a possible Balkan invasion and seriously threaten the Germans' Adriatic sea life line.

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