Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Current Evens May 1, 1942: AXIS LEADERS CONTINUE BOMBING:


Oakland Tribune
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1942

Hitler and Duce Frame New War
Plan;Japan Absent From Parley
Strategy Is
Planned by
2 Axis Heads
BERLIN. (From German Broadcast),
May I. — I.-PI —Adolf Hitler
and Prcmier Mussolini have reached
a new. accord on all military and
political aspects of the war, it was
announced today in. a communique
disclosing the Axis leaders had
ceeded the goal of 10 per cent set
by defending gun and plane crews.
"It is difficult to give a figure for
the number of enemy aircraft operating,
but it probably was well under
50, a British source reported.
Five out of 20 raiders were reported
destroyed in the German attack
Tuesday night on York.
The Nazi forays last night caused
some casualties, including a small
number of persons killed, but no extensive
damage, it was said.

BRITISH CITY BOMBED
A D.N.B. dispatch broadcast by
the Berlin radio said the coal exporting
city of Sunderland, on the
Wear River 261 miles north of London,
was heavily raided.
The eight-night campaign began
with bombing of the Rhineland.----

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