The Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia. Monday Morning, April 20, 1942.
Luftwaffe Hurls Mass Attacks on Red Army;Soviets Widen Breach Airmen Cover Tank Assault
Russians Fight Fiercely
Through Big Minefield
To Break Karelian
Isthmus lane
Finn Counter Blows
Reported Beaten Off
Germans Launch Heaviest
Raids of Year to Blast
Stations, Airdromes
KUIBYSHEV, April 19.——
German planes made mass attacks
on the Red army today in
the heaviest raids of the year,
while the Soviets widened a
breach In the Finnish lines
above Leningrad after fighting
fiercely through enormous minefields.
As many as 50 German
planes assaulted single objectives
alone the thawing, 2,000 mile
battle front.
McArthur Power Assured,
Ordered to Take Offensive
Charter of Four Governments Makes Bataan Hero
Commander-in-Chief in Southwest Pacific;
Powers Cover Land, Sea, and Air
MELBOURNE, April 19.—(INS)—Gen. Douglas MacArthur today
formally assumed clear-cut supreme command of all United Nations
forces in the southwest Pacific—land, sea and air—with
specific Instructions to "prepare to take the offensive.
RAF Blasts 5 Big Jap Seaplanes at Enemy's Main Bengal Bay Base
Port Blair Hit Smashing Blow
Two Four-Engined Flying
Boats Wrecked, Three
Injured in Andaman
Island Harbor
Stilwell Stages New
Mandalay Withdrawal
Beats Off Flank Attack'
Chinese Move Soldiers
Into Irrawaddy Line
NEW~DELHI, April 19.—(INS)' ;
—A smashing new air blow by
the RAF that knocked out five
big Japanese flying boats at .
Port Blair in the Andaman
islands, seat of enemy forces in
the Bay of Bengal, was announced
tonight as British imperial
and Chinese troops waged ,
bitter rear-guard battles in central
Burma.
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