Oakland Tribune
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, JULY 12, 1942
R.A.F Smashes Nazi Planes Off Egypt;
Germans make New Gains in Russia
Reinforcements for Rommel
Sent to Bottom of Sea as Vast
Air Battle Rages Over Desert
Reinforcements for Rommel
Sent to Bottom of Sea as Vast
Air Battle Rages Over Desert
By EDWARD KENNEDY
CAIRO, July 11.—(AP—A German effort to rush reinforcements
by air to the hard-pressed Axis desert armies was
Broken up today when British Beaufighters pounced upon a
group of Junkers, 52 troop transport planes and damaged or
shot down at least 12 into the sea.
In the land fighting British troops have taken 1500 Axis
prisoners, destroyed 18 enemy
tanks and advanced five miles
hitting the northern coastal
railroad west of El Alamein,
front line dispatches reported.
The troop-carrying planes from
bases across the Mediterranean were
under escort of twin-engine Axis
fighter planes, but the British said
there were no R.A.F. losses.
The British attack ended only
when the Beaufighters ran out of
ammunition and low on gasoline,
indicating that some of the aerial
convoy might have escaped tad
reached Axis bases in North Africa.
Fighting Spreads to Outskirts
Of Voronezh as Battle Rages
All Along 200-mile Front
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, July 12 (Sunday)—(AP)—The German spearhead
east of the River Don was pushed forward a few miles
to the outskirts of Voronezh, on the Moscow-Rostov railway,
the Soviet midnight communique said today, but the Russians
indicated two other German thrusts on the 200-mile
front made little or no headway.
The communique did not
mention a withdrawal in anv
sector, but its mention of
fierce fighting "on the outskirts
of Voronezh" indicated
the Germans had enlarged their
bridgehead east of the Don.
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