Roosevelt Finds U. S. War Plant Production Near Peak
The Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 2, 1942.
Invasion Forces Inch
Deeper In Suburbs
Red Fliers
Fell Nine
Planes
In Combat
Moscow, Oct. 2 /AP)— A
Red army guard division of
Stalingrad's siege-worn garrison
was reported routing
the Germans from house
after house today in a counterattack
coupled with
Soviet offensives outside the
city while invasion forces
inched deeper into the
northwestern suburbs.
The Germans pressed their own
ofensive from the northwest even as
the Russians struck back along the
fortified and blast-pitted streets of
the Volga river industrial center.
The noon communique stressed
defensive action within Stalingrad.
It stated that Russian detachments
accounted for 10 tanks of a large
attacking force with shell fire, rifles
and grenades and slew 200 men, driving
the survivors back to their initial
positions.
The outnumbered fliers of the Red
air force were declared to have
brought down nine enemy planes
in combat.
Subs Sink
Five More
Jap Ships
BULLETIN
Washington, Oct. 2 (AP)—The
Navy announced today that two
Japanese ships probably were
sunk, two others were damaged
and six zero fighters were shot
clown in a recent series of army
air attacks against Japanese in
the Aleutian islands.
Washington, Oct. 2 (AP)—The
Navy announces today that United
States submarines operating in the
western Pacific had sunk five more
Japanese ships, probably sunk two
others and damaged one.
Navy communique, No. 136 said:
Far East
1. United States submarines have
reported the following results of
operations against the enemy in Far
Eastern waters:
"'One large seaplane tender
sunk.
"One large cargo passenger
ship sunk.
"One large freighter sunk.
"Two medium sized cargo ships
sunk.
"Two medium sized cargo
ships damaged and probably
sunk.
"One large tanker damaged.
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