Monday, May 14, 2012

May 14, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY MAY 14, 1944:
 
CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1944

63 Nazi Planes
Are Shot Down;
In Sky Battles
Duels Cost Invading.' -Ameri
cans Twelve Bombers
and Ten Fighters During
Attacks
Aircraft Plantsdreds of RAF Mustangs
And Rails Bombed
By AUSTIN BEAI5MEAR
London, Sunday, May 14 (AP) _
Two thousand U. S. bombers .and American-Allied fighters hammered three major targets in northern, Germany yesterday and shot-down; 6 3 Nazi Planes in sky duels which cost the invading Americans- 12 bombers and 10 fighters.
Up to 750 flying Fortresses and Liberators, escorted inland by nearly 1,000 U. S. Lightnings, Mustangs and Thunderbolts, and covered in the withdrawal  by hundreds of RAF Mustangs, attacked a Focke-Wulf plant at Tutow, rail yards
and locomotive repair shops at Osnabruck, a synthetic oil refinery in the Stettin area and other targets.

Surrender Terms
for Germany Are
Near Completion
Call for Complete Destruction
of Prussian-
Built Army, Reliable
Informant Discloses
Must Lay Down
Arms At Once
Russians Insist on Point,
Fearing Troops Might
Melt Back Into
Reich
~BY 'WES GALLAGHER
London, May 13 th—
American- British-Russian plans for acceptance of Germany's surrender are nearly
completed, and call for infanite destruction of the Prussia-built army, a reliable informant disclosed tonight.
This war's terms for Germany are said to differ from the last war's in that they are "surrender" terms rather than "armistice" proposals.

Fighting Grim
 At Every Point
On Italy Fronts
Allies Capture Several
Strategic Positions i n
All-Out Drive to Destroy
Hitlerites
Gains Up To Six
Miles Are Scored
British Eighth Army Fights
Bitter Battles With German
Parachute Troops
in Cassino Sector
By NOLAND NORGAARD
Allied Headquarters. Naples, May 13 (AP) —
Allied troops, on the offensive in Italy smashed deeper tonight into the- heavily-fortified Gustav Line, Increasing the gains of two miles or more that they had recorded during the day but encountering grim resistance from the Germans
in strong mountain positions.
Exact location of the gains could not be disclosed pending: tomorrow's daily communique, but already the Allies hold at least five villages and seven strategic hills and were going ahead after the close of the second day of their big push aimed
at destroying the Germans in Italy. Americans, French, British and Poles all were engaged In heavy fighting.

Russians Tense
Over Prospects
Of Allied Blow
Moscow, May 13 (AP)
Tension over the opening of the western front was noticeable in Moscow today.
Editorials and 'articles in Moscow's newspapers create a zero hour atmosphere sharpening the rapidly mounting interest of the people in date of the Allied invasion and the resumption of the Red Army Offensive.
The most popular pastime of of the moment is laying bets on when the United States and Britain will land troops on Hitler's occupied Europe.
The Allied offensive in Italy, however, was reported in 53 lines of type on the back page of one Moscow newspaper thismorning.

Chinese Hopes
Of Retaining
Loyang Fading
Japanese Drive To Within
Two Miles of Honan
Province Citadel: Tanks
Spearhead Advance
By SPENCER MOOSA
Chungking, May 13 AP-
Japanese troops using up to 200 tanks, have driven to within two miles of Loyang, the Chinese command acknowledged tonight, and Chinese hopes of holding the ancient Honan province citadel faded rapidly.
Enemy troops made their deepest penetration to the west, and also had reached a point only three miles northwest of the city, high command said.

About 60 U.S. Seamen
Perish Off Scotland
Liberty Ship Dashed To
Pieces On Rocks When
Storm Drives It On
Shore

Dover Straits
Weather Turns
Bad Suddenly
New York. May 13. (AP)—
The London radio tonight broadcast the "Straits weather report ".saying: "Sudden change. Boisterous wind, approaching gale force at times. Overcast
sky."
The broadcast was recorded in New York.

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