Charleston, West Virginia, Monday
Morning, November 6, 1944
Superforts
Bomb
Sumatra
Refinery,
Navy, Repairs'
Installation,
Enemy Ship
Struck
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (AP)
B-29 Superfortresses- thundered a
mighty double strike at Japanese power, today, hitting: Singapore naval installations and the
second' biggest airplane "fuel resource in' the-'Far East"
A communique from the 20th air force
which flies the air giants on their" world-wide. missions, called bombing
results "good to excellent1, both at the.. former bulwark of British-sea power" on the tip' of'
the Malay peninsula, and at the the north coast of Sumatra.
The primary blow in
"substantial force": was against, dockyard and repair facilities at
Singapore, which the Japanese are
understood to have
converted into the chief base of
their navy in the south.
Strike
Seeks Jap "Cripples
The presumption was strong .that a
main purpose of the Singapore attack was to hamper the refitting' o Nipponese
warships which may have escaped in that direction from 'the great naval battles
in the Philippine waters.
American
Cannon
Rake
Ormac Area
U.S.
Columns Closing Fast
For
Show-Down Battle
MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS,
Philippines, Nov. 6 (Monday)—AP—
Elements of the American 24th
division have captured Plnamopoan, key communications center on Leyte Island's
northwest coast, and are advancing south at the main road toward Ormoc, headquarters,
announced today.
The town was taken alter the 24th
launched a simultaneous land and sea assault Pinumopoan Is the northern anchor
at the only highway through a narrow valley leading toward Ormoc, 20 miles
southward.
American artillery has been
placed forward, the communique reported, "and enemy, positions throughout
the Ormoc sector are
now under Its fire."
Two
Allied Armies
Reach
Maas River
1st Regains Part
of Loss
lit Slugging Advance
^LONDON. Nov. 5.— AP-
Field Marshal Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery launched a new –assault today • near. . Arnhem— scene of the gallant
British airborne division's stand — and dropped "sabotage
parachutists" behind the vital Arnhem bridge, Berlin radio declared
tonight.
This unconfirmed report came as two
Allied armies punched in to the Moas river to the southwest on a 40-mile front,
reaching the river at two points, and virtually ending the bloody battle to
clear Antwerp harbor as a supply springboard for offensive into Germany.
Only the isolated pockets of Naizs remained on Walcherecn Island, and the big
guns there were silenced. Save for mine-sweeping, the winter route to Antwerp
had been opened.
There was no Allied word on any operation*
at Arnhem. a city in the Neder Rhine guarding the northern approach to the
Reich.
Nazis Claim Success
Berlin said Montgomery's force,
attacked the Germans Arnhem bridgehead under heavy aerial support.
The broadcast declared all the parachutists
dropped to disrupt German communications had been killed or captured. German
strength at Arnhem recently was estimated at five divisions and some armor.
Yanks
Destroy Base
Before
Jap Advance
By Clyde A.
Farnsworth "
KWEILIN, China.
Oct. 28.—(Delayed)—(UP)—
The principal.,
advanced base for U. S. air power In. the Orient blew up tonight in a series of mighty explosions, touched off by
Americans pulling
out of Kwellin
ahead of the oncoming Japanese.
Brig. Gen.
Clinton O. Vincent, commander of the 14th air force's eastern composite wing,
gave the order to set the fuses after a
fighter pilot reported 2,000 Japanese cavalrymen were bearing down on this city
in northeastern Kwangsi province and were- but 15 miles to the east.
Except for the last-minute
delivery of arms to the Chinese, Kwellin, and occasional staging of emergency landings
for fighters and bombers, Yangtang airfield near Kwellin had been unused since
mid-September. Buried in the field were (six ???) tons of bombs, ready for the
demolition work.
These preparations had been made
since the night of Sept. 16, when secondary installations of the base —
runways, taxiways dumps and- buildings at Ehrtant and (Liechlachen ???) and the
adjacent fighter- strip at Wangtang—were destroyed.
The code word
"Marblehead" the signal to demolish the field was received in the communications
cave overlooking the Yangtang strip.
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