Current Events May 20, 1942: BRITIAN TO INCREASE BOMBER STRENGTH;

         MIAMI DAILY RECORD

MIAMI, OKLA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20. 1942

BRITIAN TO MUSTER 1,000 BOMBERS AGAINST NAZIS VAST ATTACKING FORCE PLANNED

ON CLEAR NIGHTS

At Present, British Strength

Estimated at 800 Planes

For Regular Forays

LONDON, May 20—(AP)—Allied

air commands are aiming at expansion

enabling them to send

1,000 bombers a night against German

targets, an authoritative

source indicated today.

"A thousand planes is not a

fantastic figure, this source declared

"At present we have the

facilities for sending 800 planes

on raids, and these can be expanded."

NAZIS PREPARE FOR PARACHUTE

INVASION SOON

Germans to Strike in Caucasus—

Red Advance Into

The Heart of Kharkov

By ROGER D. GREENE

(A.P. War Editor)

Russia's armies storming toward

the great Ukraine steel city of

Kharkov were reported by London

sources to have fought their way

"into the heart of the city's defenses"

today while the Germans

were massing: .100,000 parachutists

for a giant air-borne invasion of

the Caucasus.

The German high command said

that Axis Crimean troops had already

overrun the Kerch peninsula,

across the narrow Kerch strait

from oil-rich Caucasus. . Moscow

said battles still raged there.