Current Events JUNE 23, 1942: U. S. JOINS EGYPT AID:
San Mateo Times
SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1942
U.S. JOINS EGYPT AID
Russ Aid Reaches Sevastopol F. R., Churchill Call in U. S. Shipping Experts
Rommel Army;Parachutists,Ready for Stab CAIRO.
June,23.-~(U,P)~The united States air corps, co-operating with the.' Royal Air force, heavily bombed the main axis Libyan base of Benghazv' a communique disclosed today but front line messages reported strong enemy forces moving cross the desert against Egypt.
BRITISH TOLD HELP SENT TO EGYPT ARMY
LONDON,June 23—(UP)—The government assured an angry House of Commons. today that reinforcements were reaching the British army in Egypt for a strong fight against an expected Axis" offensive but one Parliamentary group drew a motion declaring lack of confidence in the central direction of war strategy.
Hitler Opens New Drive on Kharkov Front
MOSCOW, June 23,—(U.P)—Many women and children of Sevastopol have been evacuated from the besieged Crimean fortress whose defenders, sworn to fight to "the last drop of our blood," have wiped out a German wedge pointed at the heart of the city, the newspaper Pravda announced today. The women and children among Sevastopol's 70,000 civilians presumably were rescued from the encircled and bomb-damaged city by sea, under protection of the guns of the Russian Black sea fleet. They probably were taken eastward into the Caucasus.
Sub Pack off New England
by United Press
Survivors reaching an east coast port today told how a pack of three axis submarines had fired two torpedoes into their freight and passenger vessel on June 15, sinking the ship 75 miles off the New England coast with a probable loss of 88
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