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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