Russian Forces Recapture
Sevastopol From Germany
Besieged
Rumanian,
Nazi
Troops Crack
Under
Furious Drive
By TOM YARBROUGH
London, May 10.—(/P)—
The red army captured the Crimean
fortress and port of Sevastopol Tuesday after a 24-day siege, Premier Marshal Stalin
announced early Wednesday in a dramatic order of the day Issued only a few
hours after the conquest.
A three-day final assault cracked
the stronghold garrisoned by thousands of exhausted German and Rumanian troops.
The victory freed two big Russian
armies for incorporation into red army lines deployed on the mainland In
Rumania and old Poland for an expected spring-summer offensive to be timed with
an allied invasion of Western Europe.
More Than 4,000
Allied
Planes Pound Nazi
Areas
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American
Bombers Hit
Ponape
Airfields
And
Marshall; Bases
United
States Pacific Fleet
Headquarters,
Pearl
Harbor, May 9.—(AP)—
Heavy and medium bombers of the
Seventh army air force hit Ponape's airfields Sunday despite moderate
antiaircraft fire, while other American planes bombed and strafed isolated
Japanese in the Marshall islands, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced Tuesday.
No details of the Ponape foray were
given but the navy said that in the sweeps over the Marshalls a Japanese power
station, coastal -guns and antiaircraft batteries were hit.
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