Current Events June 19, 1943; Italy Warned / Guadalcanal Victory:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY JUNE 19, 1943:

Italians living and working near war industries were warned last night

in the name of the Allied high command that the Allies intend a systematic

bombing campaign to destroy factories and communications that

serve the Axis.

"Therefore," Algiers radio told them, ''the Allied high command advises

you to leave the neighborhood of those objectives and take your families

to safe places.

American fighter squadrons scored one of the biggest air victories of the war in the Pacific yesterday when they shot down 77 Japanese planes attempting to raid Guadal-

canal, it became evident today as details of the battle trickled into Washington

from advanced Pacific bases

The Flying Fortress raid on Kiel last Sunday was described officially

yesterday as the USA AF's greatest single battle of the war.

Fought against the most savage fighter opposition yet provided by the

Germans, it proved, Maj. Gen. Ira C. Eaker said, that the Nazi Air

Force is "inadequate" to halt mass bombing of Germany.

A campaign to check careless talk by American forces in Britain, particularly

those in leave areas, has been launched by U.S. Army authorities

following reports of a sudden rise in violations of security 'measures.

               THE STARS AND STRIPES

Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in The European Theater of Operations

              New York. N.Y.—London, England Saturday, June 19, 1943

Italy Warned

Raids to Be

Intensified

Italians living and working near war industries were warned last night

in the name of the Allied high command that the Allies intend a systematic

bombing campaign to destroy factories and communications that

serve the Axis.

"Therefore," Algiers radio told them, ''the Allied high command advises

you to leave the neighborhood of those objectives and take your families

to safe places.

However, they do not want to annihilate your innocent civilian population.

Therefore we repeat our warning: Leave, you and your families, for safe

zones. Don't forget that it is because of your alliance w i t h Germany that our

bombs rain down on Italian cities."

New reports of Allied invasion forces massing in the Mediterranean—this time

in Syria, in addition to previously described concentrations of men south of

Sicily and at Gibraltar—were broadcast by Axis radio yesterday.

New bomber blows at

Guadalcanal Air

Victory One of

War's Greatest

TwoU.S. Vessels Damaged,

25 Killed in Raid

By 120 Planes

WASHINGTON. June I8—American

fighter squadrons scored one of the biggest air victories of the war in the Pacific

yesterday when they shot down 77 Japanese planes attempting to raid Guadal-

canal, it became evident today as details of the battle trickled into Washington

from advanced Pacific bases.

Kiel Raid 'Greatest U.S. Air Battle

The Flying Fortress raid on Kiel last Sunday was described officially

yesterday as the USAAF's greatest single battle of the war.

Fought against the most savage fighter opposition yet provided by the

Germans, it proved, Maj. Gen. Ira C. Eaker said, that the Nazi Air

Force is "inadequate" to halt mass bombing of Germany.

"It was a significant victory," the Eighth Air Force commander

declared. "The German fighter strength is the stoutest shield they have

against our bomber offensive. Now that it is proved inadequate they

have lost the air battle. Their war industry is certain to be destroyed."

The formation that pounded Kiel, the smaller of two Flying Fortress

thrusts launched simultaneously at northwest Germany, apparently was

challenged by the total opposition force the Germans could muster in

the vulnerable Kiel-Bremen-Wilhelmshaven area—upwards of 200

fighters.

At an overall loss of 26 bombers for both formations, the smaller force

raiding Kiel, destroyed, by official count and estimate, an average of

four fighters for every bomber lost, and at the same time absorbed the

total enemy resistance so successfully as to permit the larger attacking

force to bomb its target at Bremen almost unmolested by fighters.

Praise for the combat crews which participated has come from Gen.

Henry H. Arnold, USAAF chief, in a cable from Washington, and from

Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, ETO commanding general.

Loose Talk of U.S. Troops

Prompts Lip-Closing Drive

A campaign to check careless t a l k by American forces in Britain, particularly

those in leave areas, has been launched by U.S. Army authorities

following reports of a sudden rise in violations of security 'measures.

Worst offenders, it was reported, are troops who have been overseas

for more than three months. New arrivals, more cognizant of security

regulations after receiving strict warnings at staging areas and on board

— ship, u s u a l l y are reticent in talking of

t h e i r a c t i v i t i e s , but s t i l l do not fully observe

regulations.

Current Events June 18, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JUNE 18, 1943:

The Japanese have suffered one of their worst aerial

defeats In the Pacific war, the navy revealed today In announcing

that American flyers destroyed 77 enemy planes In

a giant dogfight yesterday over Guadalcanal.

Smashing the Jap aerial armada of bombers and escorting Zero

fighters cost the U. S. forces only six planes.

Reported large-scale Allied naval operations in the Mediterranean,

trouble in the Balkans and Illinois of a falling-out between

Germany and in Turkey combined today to UK lease Axis

invasion jitters to fever pitch.

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's victorious armies were credited today

with killing or wounding 40,000 out of 100,000 Japanese troops

in a 40-day battle on the upper Yangtze river front, and dispatches

said the Chinese had now surrounded the Japanese stronghold at

Owchihkow

          The Charleston Gazette

                 Charleston, West Virginia, Friday Moraine, June 18, 1943.

77 Jap Planes Knocked Out

By U. S. Over Guadalcanal,

Americans Losing Only Six

Shattered Enemy Assault

Deemed Defensive

WASHINGTON. June 17—

(INS)—The Japanese have suffered one of their worst aerial

defeats In the Pacific war, the navy revealed today In announcing

that American flyers destroyed 77 enemy planes In

a giant dogfight yesterday over Guadalcanal.

Smashing the Jap aerial armada of bombers and escorting Zero

fighters cost the U. S. forces only six planes.

The Navy Department tonight was still awaiting the full story of the,

battle. A special communique issued

shortly after noon stated merely:

"A brief report received from the South Pacific reveals that in

an air battle over Guadalcanal on June 16. U. S. planes shot down

32 Japanese bombers and 45

Zero fighters. Six U. S. planes are missing. No further details

have been received."

2d Worst of Pacific War

Axis Invasion Heightened

By Fleet Assembly, Turkish Rift

By Thomas (', Watson

LONDON. June 17.— (INS)—

Reported large-scale Allied naval operations in the Mediterranean,

trouble in the Balkans and Illinois of a falling-out between

Germany and in Turkey combined today to UK lease Axis

invasion jitters to fever pitch.

Seventy-five Allied ships, including a battleship, two aircraft

carriers and 10 destroyers, all concentrated in Gibraltar harbor.

Italian headquarters said Allied raiders also blasted the area of Mt.

Vesuvius, the famous volcano, including modern Pompei.

Large British forces are concentrating along the southern frontier

of Turkey," the Rome radio asserted, amplifying its previous assertion that

many Allied landing craft were massing at Pantelleria island 60

miles from Sicily.

           The Portsmouth Herald

                           PORTSMOUTH, N. H., FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1943

ALLIED PLANES POMMEL

NAPLES, SICILY, SHIPPING

Rome Claims

British Gather

Near Turkey

(By the Associated Press)

Italy's bomb-scarred port of Naples, two Sicilian

airdromes and enemy shipping off Greece came under

the flail of Allied war planes in the latest assaults in

the Mediterranean, it was announced today, as the Axis

stressed new invasion preparations against Southern

Europe.

Italian headquarters said Allied raiders also blasted the area of Mt.

Vesuvius, the famous volcano, including modern Pompei.

Large British forces are concentrating along the southern frontier

of Turkey," the Rome radio asserted, amplifying its previous assertion that

many Allied landing craft were massing at Pantelleria island 60

miles from Sicily.

Dispatches from Ankara said the 350-mile border between Turkey and

Syria was reopened at 6 am yesterday, after all traffic except Allied

diplomatic and military personnel had been halted for 48 hours

screen troop movements.

                                            Reinforcements at Cyprus

Axis radios > asserted that British and Indian reinforcements had been

moved to Cyprus, 69 miles off Syria, a potential base for invasion of the

Balkans, Crete or the Dodecanese islands. American troops were said

to be among the Cyprus garrison.

Another enemy report said a 62- mile stretch in Northern Syria along

with the Lebanese coast had been declared military areas and closed

to civilians.

Chinese Kill

Jap Troops

(By the Associated Press)

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's victorious armies were credited today

with killing or wounding 40,000 out of 100,000 Japanese troops

in a 40-day battle on the upper Yangtze river front, and dispatches

said the Chinese had now surrounded the Japanese stronghold at

Owchihkow.

Current Events June 17, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JUNE 17, 1943:

American war planes shot down 77 Japanese aircraft

over Guadalcanal island Wednesday—at a loss of not

more than six United States craft — to score one of the

most decisive aerial victories of the war.

Destroyed were 32 Japanese bombers and ' 45 zero

fighters.

The allies swung the main weight of their aerial pincer,

against Europe back to Germany today with a blockbuster

raid on Cologne, while the bombardment of the continent's

southern ramparts fell off sharply.

The easing of the aerial offensive against Sicily coincided

with extra vacant Italian propaganda claims that the allies

had massed 3,000 planes, thousands of tanks, more than

1,000,000 troops, and more than half of the British navy for

an attack on southern Europe.

Ceaseless waves of German troops, bolstered

by tanks and planes, attacked Soviet lines northeast of

Orel today under orders to recapture four lost towns at all cost.

The battle, 30 miles northeast of Orel at the hinge or the southern

and central fronts, was in its fourth day with territory that served as a

springboard for the abortive German push on Moscow in 1941 at

stake.

Radio Rome said today that invasion

barges were moving in a steady stream from Africa

to Pantelleria, only 60 miles southwest of Sicily, and estimated

that the allies have massed 5,000 planes and more

than 1,000,000 troops around the southern rim of the Mediterranean

for an assault on Europe.

                                            Times News

                                      TWIN FALLS, IDAHO, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1943

YANKS DOWN 77

ENEMY AIRCRAFT

AT GUADALCANAL

By The Associated Press

American war planes shot down 77 Japanese aircraft

over Guadalcanal island Wednesday—at a loss of not

more than six United States craft — to score one of the

most decisive aerial victories of the war.

Destroyed were 32 Japanese bombers and ' 45 zero

fighters.

It was the second large Japanese aerial assault in the south Pacific

region in less than a week and came amid reports the invaders are building

up their forces at Rabaul, New Britain, and Wewak, New Guinea,

as well as in the northern Solomons.

American planes have blasted hard at those bases in recent days, dropping

209 tons of bombs in eight raids.

The total of 77 planes destroyed in Wednesday's raid was almost exactly

twice that of the Japanese losses last April 7 when 39 enemy

craft were shot down during a single raid.

Allies Shift

Aerial Drive

To Cologne

By United Press

The allies swung the main weight of their aerial pincer,

against Europe back to Germany today with a blockbuster

raid on Cologne, while the bombardment of the continent's

southern ramparts fell off sharply.

The easing of the aerial offensive against Sicily coincided

with extra vacant Italian propaganda claims that the allies

had massed 3,000 planes, thousands of tanks, more than

1,000,000 troops, and more than half of the British navy for

an attack on southern Europe.

Already, the Rome tub-thumpers proclaimed in a new bedlam- of

nervous patter, invasion barges are moving in a steady stream frdm

Africa to Pantelleria, newly won allied base 60 miles southwest of

Sicily.

WAVES OF NAZIS

ATTACK RUSSIANS

MOSCOW, June 17 (U.P)—Ceaseless waves of German troops, bolstered

by tanks and planes, attacked Soviet lines northeast of

Orel today under orders to recapture four lost towns at all cost.

The battle, 30 miles northeast of Orel at the hinge or the southern

and central fronts, was in its fourth day with territory that served as a

springboard for the abortive German push on Moscow in 1941 at

stake.

Field reports indicated that the red army was holding all newlywon

positions in the face of fierce enemy attacks. Three German battalions

suffered heavy losses In manpower and equipment during

yesterday's fighting. Five tanks and three German planes were destroyed

by gunfire.

Some 80 miles northwest of Orel, an estimated 1.000 German infantrymen

dislodged Soviet troops from their forward positions near Zhizdra.

A Soviet counter-attack restored the situation, however, and

at least 160 enemy officers and men were killed In the fighting.

Million Troops

Reported Poised

To Attack Italy

By DOUGLAS WERNER

LONDON, June 17 (U.P.)—Radio Rome said today that invasion

barges were moving in a steady stream from Africa

to Pantelleria, only 60 miles southwest of Sicily, and estimated

that the allies have massed 5,000 planes and more

than 1,000,000 troops around the southern rim of the Mediterranean

for an assault on Europe.

(A London broadcast quoted "reliable reports from Bern

that peace demonstrations have broken out in southern

Italy, already under heavy allied aerial bombardment.)

Current Events June 16, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JUNE 16, 1943:

While RAF blockbusters smashed up the Sicilian ferry port of Messina,

panicky Italian laborers were reported yesterday 'to be quitting work on

Sardinia's fortifications and fleeing to the mainland by the boatload to

escape the expected Allied invasion. More than 5,000 workers already

have left Sardinia, and others employed on defense works are

demanding to be sent back, Moscow radio said, quoting a Berne dispatch.

Allied fighters and light bombing forces struck across the Channel

yesterday, a few hours after RAF night raiders had resumed their

pounding of the Ruhr with attacks centered on Oberhausen. Other RAF

night intruders swept the Low Countries and France, destroying two

enemy planes and hitting trains and barges.

American submarines, operating in Far Eastern

waters, have sent 12 more Japanese ships to the bottom, the Navy Department

announced today. Some of the sinkings, none of which has been announced

previously, were off the coast of southern China and some near Japan itself.

Germany, already faced with the task of countering an Allied invasion, was

beset by another threat yesterday—the massing of huge Russian forces on the

Moscow front apparently for a blow timed to fall with the opening of the Second

Front.

Finland, which never missed payment of an

installment on her debt to the United States until she became involved in war

with the Soviet Union, will resume payments again tomorrow.

     THE STARS AND STRIPES

Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations

              New York, N.Y.—London, England Wednesday, June 16, 1943

Blockbusters Smash Messina;

Italians Reported Quitting Work

On Sardinia Forts to Flee Isle

Axis Continues to Report

Allied Ships Massing

For New Blows

While RAF blockbusters smashed up the Sicilian ferry port of Messina,

panicky Italian laborers were reported yesterday 'to be quitting work on

Sardinia's fortifications and fleeing to the mainland by the boatload to

escape the expected Allied invasion. More than 5,000 workers already

have left Sardinia, and others employed on defense works are

demanding to be sent back, Moscow radio said, quoting a Berne dispatch. It

added that construction of fortifications in the Iglesias and Cagliari areas had been

halted.

Increasing Axis nervousness over the next Allied onslaught in the Mediterranean

was reflected in expanding accounts of Allied troopship concentrations

in the Mediterranean. Only silence in Allied quarters greeted these German

and Italian accounts but the Berlin and Rome statements made it appear that a

big Allied force was gathering off Pantellaria.

Nazis Howl

As RAF Hits

Ruhr Again

German Radio and Papers

Plead With People

To Pull Together

Allied fighters and light bombing forces struck across the Channel

yesterday, a few hours after RAF night raiders had resumed their

pounding of the Ruhr with attacks centered on Oberhausen. Other RAF

night intruders swept the Low Countries and France, destroying two

enemy planes and hitting trains and barges.

Three Nazi fighters were shot down over France in yesterday's daylight sweeps,

which carried the newest phase of the Allied aerial offensive from bases in

Britain into its fifth day. It began with last Friday's daylight attack by U.S.

bombers on Wilhelmshaven and Cuxhaven, in Germany.

U, S. Subs Sink

12 Jap Ships

Destroyer Listed as Lost;

Cargo Ship Afire After

New Guinea Attack

WASHINGTON, June 15—American submarines, operating in Far Eastern

waters, have sent 12 more Japanese ships to the bottom, the Navy Department

announced today. Some of the sinkings, none of which has been announced

previously, were off the coast of southern China and some near Japan itself.

One destroyer, one large transport, five medium cargo shins, one large trawler,

one patrol vessel, one small supply vessel and two small cargo ships were listed as

sunk. One large tanker, one destroyer and one medium-sized transport were

listed as probably sunk.

In New Guinea, an Allied patrol bomber set fire to a 4.000-ton Jap

freighter with two direct hits with 500-pound bombs at Humbolt Bay.

Allied medium bombers raided Hollandia, Kaimaua and Babo, in Dutch

New Guinea. Jap planes attacked Guadalcanal, in the Solomons, and Goodenough

Island, off New Guinea.

'Reds Mass Near

Moscow-Berlin

Complete Army Believed

Ready to Strike as

Invasion Begins

Germany, already faced with the task of countering an Allied invasion, was

beset by another threat yesterday—the massing of huge Russian forces on the

Moscow front apparently for a blow timed to fall with the opening of the Second

Front.

Berlin radio reported the assembling of the troops :md said a complete army

was involved. The announcer added, however, there were no signs of an

immediate attack.

While fighting on the Russian front has died down in most sectors, a Soviet attack

in one area, near Byclev, succeeded in piercing the German lines. The Red Air

Force continued its heavy blows against supply and rail targets.

Finns Get It Up Again,

Will Meet Debt Today

WASHINGTON, June 15 (AP)—Finland, which never missed payment of an

installment on her debt to the United States until she became involved in war

with the Soviet Union, will resume payments again tomorrow.

Th« Finnish government has notified the United States that it will pay 5168,000

which is due tomorrow under the debt settlement agreement..

Current Events June 15, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JUNE 15, 1943:

SUNDAY ATTACK BY WELLINGTONS BROUGHT DESTRUCTION

BY BLOCKBUSTERS AND INCENDIARIES

TO EAST SICILIAN SHIPPING AND MESSINA FERRY

TERMINAL

Germany's home front shook under a violent new storm of

bombs before dawn today—the fourth night assault in a row—as

RAF heavyweights blasted a fiery trail of havoc among nazi war

foundries in the Ruhr.

12 More Jap Ships Sunk by American Subs;

U. S. Undersea Fleet Grows Steadily

               * * The Daily Inter Lake

THE DAILY INTER LAKE, KALISPELL, MONTANA, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1943

Heavy Bombers of RAF

Pound Messina, Sicily as

Softening Process Goes On

SUNDAY ATTACK BY WELLINGTONS BROUGHT DESTRUCTION

BY BLOCKBUSTERS AND INCENDIARIES

TO EAST SICILIAN SHIPPING AND MESSINA FERRY

TERMINAL—ALL-OUT ASSAULT DELAYED FOR SECOND DAY

THE RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES

                RACINE, WIS., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 15, 1943

   Masses Flee Bombed Nazi Cities

Big Planes Hit

Steel and Coal

Center in Ruhr

Germany's home front shook under a violent new storm of

bombs before dawn today—the fourth night assault in a row—as

RAF heavyweights blasted a fiery trail of havoc among nazi war

foundries in the Ruhr.

A British air ministry communique said the Ruhr attack fell

upon Oberhausen (pop. 110,000) in important steel and coal center

on the Rhine. 35 miles north of Cologne.

Meanwhile. German newspapers received at Bern. Switzerland,

said a mass evacuation of cities in western Germany was under

way as thc result of 180 heavy raids by Allied planes and 600 air

alarms.

Ask Homes Opened.

The nazi press is engaged in a campaign to impel rural residents

to open their homes to refugees. Comfort must bow to the demands

of necessity." Hitler's own newspaper. Voelkischcr Beobachter.

said in urging everyone to crowd refugees into available rooms.

Much-bombed Duesseldorf, target

of a recent 2.000-ton RAF raid, is one of the chief cities being

evacuated, the German papers said.

Not only the bombed-out families but those yet untouched by

the explosives are being moved out. Das Reich said. Men are left

behind to work.

A German war reporter in a Berlin radio broadcast gave an in-

dication today of the tremendous damage wrought by Allied bombs

in thc Ruhr and Rhineland with these words:

"Even soldiers from the eastern front pass these towns in silence

“ bow to the unimaginable suffertngs and sacrifices of these

people," he said.

Plan Is Announced.

Rome Reports Naval-Air Battle/

Blockbusters Hit Sicilian Port

(By Associated Press

Enemy broadcasts again asserted today that Allied warships and

transports were massing in the Sicilian straits, ostensibly prepar-

ing for the grand assault on southern Europe, and declared the fleet

was under heavy attack by axis warplanes.

12 More Jap Ships Sunk by American Subs;

U. S. Undersea Fleet Grows Steadily, Says Knox

Current Events June 14, 1943

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JUNE 14, 1943:

Italy lost her third island outpost in the central Mediterranean in three

days when a British destroyer accepted the bloodless surrender

of Linosa Sunday and fleets of American bombers

and fighters began switching their knockout punch to Sicily.

    KINGSPORT NEWS

                          KINGSPORT, TENN., MON., JUNE 14, 1943

ITALY LOSES THIRD ISLAND OUTPOST

Allies Switch

Knockout Punch

Towards Sicily

Allied Headquarters in North Africa—(AP)—Italy lost

her third island outpost in the central Mediterranean in three

days when a British destroyer accepted the bloodless surrender

of Linosa Sunday and fleets of American bombers

and fighters began switching their knockout punch to Sicily.

Without a shell being fired or a bomb dropped, the panicky gar-

rison of 140 Italian soldiers and sailors raised white flags on the

little speck of land 105 miles south of Sicily and from the bridge of

his speedy gray warship, the destroyer Nubian, Commander J. R. J.

Tyrwhitt accepted the enemy capitulation.