The Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia. Tuesday Morning. August 18, 1942.
U. S. Flying Fortresses Heavily Bomb Rouen;
Navy Says Solomon Fight 'Ends Victoriously'
High Degree of Cooperation Exists Between American, British Air
Chieftains, Peck Reveals Following Conference With Spaatz
U. S. ARMY AIR FORCE
HEADQUARTERS IN BRITAIN
Aug. 17.—(INS)—Planes f r om
both the U. S. air force and the
RAF will supply the necessary air
support for any invasion of the
continent, it was revealed tonight
by Air Marshal R. H. Peck,
assistant chief of the British general
air staff.
The British air force officer
made his disclosure following a
conference with Maj. Gen. Carl
Spaatz, commander of the U. S.
air force in Europe, and added
that soon American fliers will be
carrying out independent raids
against German targets.
It was revealed shortly afterward
that American bombers today
carried out an independent
attack Rouen occupied France
Not One Plane Lost
In Precision Attack
Of American Fliers
Great Pall of Smoke, Sand' Observed Rising
Over Railway Yards of Normandy Capital;
Brig. Gen. Eaker Leads Own Bombers;
Alabama 'Belly Gunner' Bags Foe
AN AMERICAN BOMBER STATION IN BRITAIN, Aug.
17.—(AP)—Powerful flying fortress crews led personally by
Brig. Gen. Ira C. Eaker dropped tons of explosives by daylight
today on the railway yards at Rouen in France in the1
first full fledged ail-American bombing blow against the
Nazis.
The Americans met and mastered the latest-type German
fighter planes. Not a single American bomber was lost, and
their bombs hit "the heart of the target,"
"They carried out their mission nonchalantly and coolly,"
said tough, cigar-smoking Gen. Eaker proudly of his men aa
he climbed out of his "Yankee Doodle" craft which made the
historic high-level precision run. over Rouen.
Marines Pictured
'Well Established'
Review of First American
Sea Offensive Reveals
Japanese Now Lack
Carrier Force
Enemy Surface Units
Driven From Tulagi
Close-Range Night Conflict
On Ocean Is Narrated
By Communique
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—(AP)—
The first phase of the American
invasion of Japanese-held territory
In the southwest Pacific
has ended victoriously, the navy
disclosed today, with marine occupation
forces in the Ouadalcanal-
Tulagi area of the Solomon
islands holding "well established"
positions.
The victory was not won without
losses, a navy communique made
clear, but the Japanese, in addition
to being forced to relinquish territory
of great strategic value, lost at
least 36 aircraft, suffered damage
to their naval forces and had "a
number" of troops taken prisoner.
The navy carefully refrained from
announcing -the extent of damage
to American forces, saying that
such Information would be of value
to the enemy, but it had previously
announced that one U. S. cruiser
had been sunk and two cruisers,
two destroyers and one transport
damaged.
PUBLISHED AUGUST 18, MMX
Waterloo Daily Courier
WATERLOO, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1942
U. S. TROOPS FIGHTING IN FRANCE
WITH FORCES
IN COMMANDO
CHANNEL RAID
“Not an Invasion" London Radio Tells French People
as Allied Troops Land at Dieppe With Tanks
Under Umbrella of Fighter Planes to Dynamite
Nazi Defense Installations; Battle Started Before
Dawn Reported Completed 9 Hours Later.
London— (UP)— The British' withdrawal from Dieppe has
been completed, it was announced Wednesday night.
A communique announced that British re-embarkation "
from the Dieppe coast was completed nine hours after the initial
landing ' ' as planned. ' '
Some tanks— participating in a commando operation
for the first time—were lost, the announcement said.
London __(UP)__The commandos hit the Dieppe coast of
France, Wednesday in a raid that was the greatest military operations
n Europe had seen since Dunkirk an attack that
took the Yanks back to the soil of France with guns blazing,
backed up by tanks and operating under a cloud of allied'
fighter planes, the commandos debouched on the flat Dieppe
coast line insuch force that constant radio warnings were issued
to the populace that
"This is no invasion."
Nazis Pour Reserves Into Russian Fronts
Germans lose 1,250,000 Men
Since May 15
Moscow Says Nazi Casualties
* Double Those Suffered
by Red Troops.
GERMANS MAKE SOME
PROGRESS IN DON BEND
By HENRY C. CASSIDY
Moscow — (AP)— The Germans
poured strong reserves
^Wednesday into the Don bend
and Caucasus battles from south
of Voronezh to the high plains
of Pyatigorsk and the bolstered
onslaught presaged a full-scale
drive against Stalingrad and along
the Baku rail line to the shores of
the Caspian.
The Russians were fighting back
fiercely.
A communique declared that
the Nazi' gains since May 15 had
cost 1,250,000 casualties —; twice
those of Russia—and that' Adolf
Hitler was draining western Europe
for the new fighting men required
in the east.
16 SAILOR DIE ON
SHIIP SUNK
BY SEA RAIDER
Survivors Report Attacks by
Torpedo Boats Operating
from Bigger Craft.
GUN CREW BELIEVED TO
HAVE SCORED TWO HITS
A New England Port—(INS)
—Torpedo boats swarming from
a German surface raider took
part in the sinking of a medium-
size American merchantman
in the South Atlantic with
a probable loss of 16 American
seamen, two officer survivors reported
Wednesday.
In a grim narration of Nazi
treachery and ruthlessness, the
officers related that the enemy
craft dispatched a fake distress
signal, pounced without warning
and machine-gunned a lifeboat
to accomplish the first known
sinking of an American vessel
by a surface raider.
U. S, Sub Sinks
Jap Warship
in Aleutians
Washington, D. C. —(UP)— A
U. S. submarine had sunk a Japanese
cruiser or destroyer in the
western Aleutian area— bringing
to 23.the number of Japanese
ships sunk or damaged in that
area — the navy. announced
Wednesday ; , .
Fog prevented "an exact identification
of the type of the ship,"
the communique said.
This was the ninth -warship
hit by U. S. submarines alone in
that area since the Japanese
moved in there in June.
The submarines, penetrating to
the Japanese bases under cover
of 'the fog which usually hampers
an air and surface operation,
already had sunk six destroyers,
were believed to have sunk 'another
destroyer and left another
"burning fiercely."
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