Current Events November 30, 1942; RED OFFENSIVE THROWS NAZIS BACK / ALLIES PUSH EASTWARD IN NORTH FRICA / ATTU, ALASKA REOCCUPIED BY JAPANESE / JAPANESE SHIPS SEEN OFF BUNA / ALLIED GAINS IN NEW GUINEA MEASURED IN YARDS:

                 THE STARS AND STRIPES

Daily Newspaper of U.S.. Armed Forces In the European Theater of Operations

                London, England Monday, Nov. 30, 1942

New Red Offensive

Throws Nazis Back

On Moscow Front

Darkest Outlook for

Hitler Since He

Turned East

By Eddie Gilmore

Associated Press War Correspondent

MOSCOW, Nov. 29 (AP)—The

German Army today faced the

blackest moment since the invasion

of Russia as units of the Red Army,

heavily supported by planes and

tanks, marched forward in two great

offensives—outside Stalingrad and

northwest of Moscow.

Allies Push

Eastward In

North Africa

Joint Force Occupies New

Point; Reinforcements

For Air Force

The Allies are pushing eastwards

from Tebourda, in the north of

Tunisia, and have occupied Djedeirda

Coq, northeast of the town, according

to a communique from Allied

Headquarters in North Africa, the

United Press reports.

Ten enemy aircraft were destroyed

during a raid on Bizerte aerodrome

and docks, the communique added.

German-controlled Paris radio has

admitted that the Allies in Tunisia are

getting reinforcements and has stated that

these include bombers which are being

flown from Casablanca.

Axis claims of the Tunisian fighting include

the statement in today's German

communique that Axis troops have

captured a stubbornly-defended mountain

position.

Both Italy and Germany claim heavy

attacks on Allied columns as well as on

shipping off the North African coast.

Plea For Cooperation

Japs Reoceupy Attu Isle,

Navy Department Reveals

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (AP)—The

U.S. Navy revealed today that the

Japanese had reoccupied Attu Island in

the Aleutians.

The renewed occupation of Attu Island

was disclosed by a Navy communique

which reported that a small enemy, cargo

vessel had been bombed, set lire, and

apparently sunk off the island.

(page 3)

More Jap Ships

Seen Off Buna

By U.S. Patrols

Transport May Carry Aid

For Troops at Buna;

Subs Sighted

SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA,

Nov. 28 (delayed)—Flying Fortress reconnaissance

units reported today sighting

" a size able number " of enemy submarines

off the coast at Buna, where the

Australian and American forces are pressing

the Jap ground troops.

Later, a reconnaissance unit reported

that it sighted an enemy transport off

shore at Buna. The crew said this 8,000-

10,000-tonner was anchored between

Mangrove Island and Gona. There were

no reports of small craft around this ship.

There was no indication in Gen.

MacArthur's communique announcing

the presence of hostile naval units

whether it was a new attempt to land

reinforcements for the Japanese righting

with their backs to the sea around Buna

and Gona.

Japs Counter-attack

Monday, Nov. 30, 1942

(page 6)

Jungle Warfare In New Guinea

Yanks, Aussies Reckon

Advance by Yards,

Not Miles

SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA,

Nov. 25 (delayed) (AP)—American troops

seeking to uproot the Japanese from their

rain-soaked jungle defenses on the

approaches to Buna are meeting fanatical

resistance combined with what one officer

described as " beautifully placed defense

positions."

It is increasingly apparent that the task

of knocking the Japs out is going to be

more difficult than observers anticipated

at the start. The Allied advance has been

notoriously slow—measured in feet and

yards, not miles.

Current Events November 29, 1942; RUSSIANS ADVANCING NEAR LATIVIAN BOARDER / GERMAN ITALIAN TROOPS FORCED BACK IN TUNIS / JAPANESE FLEET OFF BUNA;

Oakland Tribune

15c SUNDAY CCCC OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1942

Russ Open Gigantic New Drive, Kill 10,000

300 TOWNS RECAPTURED

Red Army Cuts Three Railways, Advances

8 to 20 Miles Near Old Latvian Border

By HENRY C. CASSIDY

MOSCOW, Nov. 29.—(Sunday)—(AP)—The Russians announced

today that a surprise offensive on the northwest front

had killed 10.000 German troops, routed five divisions,

liberated more than 300 populated places" and broken wide

gaps in German fortifications less than 90 miles from the old

Latvian border.

A special communique issued by the Soviets said that the

Red Army had broken through to a "strongly fortified defense

zone of the enemy" and that in the area of the town of Velikie

Luki, which is 90 miles from Latvia, "the German front has

been broken over a distance of 30 kilometers (about 20 miles).

9 Axis Supply Ships are Sunk;

Escaped French Sub in Spain

Three Other Enemy Vessels Damaged

By British Subs in Mediterranean;

First Army Continues Drive on Tunis

By the Associated Press

LONDON, Nov. 28.—Nine Axis supply ships, including a

tank carrier, have been sunk in the Mediterranean by British

submarines fighting attempts to rush men and provisions to

German and Italian troops now forced back to within 15 miles

of Tunis.

Announcement of this destruction of Axis ships and sup-

plies urgently needed by the

Nazi defenders of Tunis and

Bizerte came from the British

Admiralty at the same time

that enemy sources described

the mounting scale of the Allied

assault on the North African siege

ports.

Jap Supply

Base Razed

Bombers Destroy All

Buildings, Blast

Important Airdrome

WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. — (#) —

American aircraft, striking heavily

at Japanese bases in the Northwest-

ern Solomons were reported by the

Navy today to have destroyed all

buildings in the Munda area of New

Georgia Island and blasteded the Kahili

airdrome on the island of Bougainville.

Jap Fleet

Is Off Buna

Enemy Flotilla

Arrives Again as

U.S. Forces Gain

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

AUSTRALIA, Nov. 29.—(Sunday)—

AP---Risking the deadly bombs of

Jap naval force again is maneuvering

in Buna, where their ground forces

have been pinned against the sea,

the high command announced today.

The communique, one of the briefest

in recent days on the bitter-end

struggle for possession of all Northeastern

New Guinea, gave no indication

of the naval force's intent,

but previous naval series have been

for the purpose of landing reinforcements.

Current Events November 28, 1942; ALCAN HIGHWAY OPENS / ALLIES WELCOME FRENCH SHIPS / AXIS LOSE PLANES AT TUNIS:

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

FAIRBANKS, ALASKA. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER) 28, 1942

Parade Of

Trucks On

Alcan Road

Relays Of Drivers And Service

Garages Will Keep Procession

Moving

By WILLIAM OILMAN

North American Newspaper Alliance

and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

Throughout the 24 hours Of day

and sub-Arctic night, three-ton

trucks carrying four-ton loads

through every obstacle' the frozen

| north can erect—such is the proj

gram which American army chiefs

! here have set for the Alcan High-

I way this winter.

This is the "impossible" road dedi- |

| cated in sub-zero weather a few j

days ago by muffled men in parkas,.

their mittened hands thudding ap-

plause to the cutting of the ribbon

which allowed the first land con-

voy to go on to Alaska.

Trucks Start Rolling.

With that rolling of trucks, the

miracle of construction became his-

ory and Uncle Sams army engi-

neers applied themselves to the new j

challenge, that of transporting war

tonnage over the 1,610-mile high-

way closed to civilians—road without

a single "Mike's Filling Station"

or "Nellie's Diner," tonnage aimed

at supporting Russia and China, and

stabbing at the vitals of Japan.

ALLIES WELCOME FRENCH SHIPS

Air War Mounts In Violence Over Africa

But Few At Toulon

Get Away

Scuttling Of French Fleet Is

Deemed Hopeful Symbol

Of French Resurgence

LONDON, Nov. 23.— Allied ports

today held out the hand of welcome

to any surviving units of the mar_-

tyred French fleet which early Friday

defiantly chose mass suicide in

the harbor of Toulon on the Mediterranean

rather than to be taken

by Hitler.

Even as great explosions still were

tearing out the vitals of French

men-of-war, Admiral Jean Darlan

went on the air last night in an ap-

peal that any surviving units be

given haven at United Nations bases.

Whether any French ships got

away from, Toulon is. not definitely

known yet.

Axis Loses

Planes In

Tunisia

British Submarines Sink Italian

German Supply Ships

In Mediterranean

LONDON, Nov. 28. — Allied aerial

assaults mounting in violence, are

reported by the Morocco radio. The

Allies are making an offensive

against the Tunisian stronghold of

Tunis.

United States Army fighter planes

officially are credited with the destruction

of 14 German and Italian

planes in forays in Tunisia.

Current Events November 27, 1942; FRENCH FLEET SCUTTLED / JAPAN HOLDS POSITIONS IN NEW GUINEA / SMASHING BLOWS DEALT IN STALINGAD:

    MANITOWOC HERALD-TIMES

             MANITOWOK, WIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27,1942

FRENCH FLEET SCUTTLE

62 Warships Sunk By

Own Crews As Nazis

TAKE PORT OF TOULON

.

Vichyy Reports "Not One Vessel Afloat" As Hitler

Seizes Big French Naval Base After Overcoming

Resistance By Frenchmen

By the Associated Press

Defiant French seamen were reported to have scuttled the entire

French naval squadron of 62 warships at Toulon today as

Adolf Hitler, ruthlessly crushing the last of France's free homeland

under the Nazi boot, seized the big French naval base after

overcoming resistance.

A Vichy broadcast said German troops marched into Toulon

at 4 a. m. today.

"By orders of Admiral de la Borde, vessels of the French squadron

at Toulon scuttled themselves," the. broadcast said.

"At 10 a. m., there was not one vessel afloat."

The German high command said merely that "part" of the

squadron' had been sent to the bottom by their French crews as

Axis troops moved in to thwart an alleged plot for the fleet to

escape to the Allies.

Hitler Ordered Seizure

Here's What's

Left of the

French Fleet

By The Associated Press

From Vichy announcements and

information obtained from well informed

quarters in London it appeared

today that this is' the disposition

of the French fleet

AT TOULON: Reported all were

scuttled—

Three battleships—the 26,000 ton

Dunkerque and Strasbourg and the

22,000 ton Provence.

Four heavy and three light

cruisers of 10,000 and ",600 tons,

unnamed.

France's only seaplane tender,

the Commandant Teste.

25 destroyers

26 submarines

—A total of 62 warships not

counting sloops and auxiliaries.

SUNK OR PUT OUT OF ACTION

AT CASABLANCA A N D

ORAN DURING ALLIED LANDINGS—

One battleship, Jean Bart, 36,-

000 tons, beached.

Light 7,249 ton cruiser Primauguet,

beached.

Four destroyers disabled.

Three submarines sunk.

One submarine damaged.

AT DAKAR, WHERE MILITARY

AUTHORITIES ARE NOW

COOPERATING WITH ADMIRAL

DARLAN

One battleship, Richelieu, 85,-

000 tons damaged- in 1940.

Three cruisers, of 7,600 tons

each, Gloire, Montcalm and Georges

; Leygues.

" Three, destroyers.

Eight 'to twelve submarines.

Submarine t≫e nder Jules Verne.

DEMOBILIZED AT ALEXANDRIA—

One battleship, 22.189 ton Lorraine.

Four cruisers.

At least one submarine.

IN THE FIGHTING FRENCH

HANDS TWO

battleships, 32,189 ton Faris

and Courbet.

Five destroyers.

Four submarines.

D E M O B I L I ZED AT

NIQUE—

Aircraft carrier Beam.

Two cruisers.

Japs Hold

Positions

Reinforced By Marine Units

In Bona-Gona Area

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

AUSTRALIA. ( AP)— Reinforced by

strong Marine units. Japanese troops

crammed into the narrow Buna-Gona

beachhead are holding their major

positions in the face of daylong air

aasaults and steady but slightly

abated pressure from Allied ground

forces.

Comparatively meager official reports

from the New Guinea front

today showed little geographical

change in the battle picture in the

last 24 hours.

But a check on the Japanese dead

confirmed earlier indications that

the enemy, despite severe blows

by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's aerial

squadrons, had succeeded in bringing

reinforcements into action

The WAR

TO D A Y

By DEWITT MAC KENZIE

SOMEWHERE IN LIBYA, Nov.

26—(Delayed)—Marshal Rommel is

likely to try to recoup the fallen

fortunes of himself and master by

making a stand at El Aghella, on

the great Gulf of Sirte.

No one here doubts the determination

of the Germans to pay any.

price in blood in an effort to main-

tain a foothold in North Africa—

for this is essential to control of

the Mediterranean,. Without that

domination Hitler can no longer

even hope far victory in the European

war.

How much of a, stand Rommel

can make at strategic El Aghella

must depend on two,things:

(1) Whether Axis forces in Tunisia

can hold Bizerte and Tunis

against the Allied offensive from

the west !

(2) What striking power remains

in Rommel's army. He has suffered

huge losses In men and material

and the troops have been run ragged

by the speed of a retreat of

more than 500 miles that In the

early stages, was a debacle.

The greatest danger to the Axis

undoubtedly lies in the threat to

BIserte and Tunis.

REDS DEAL NAZIS SMASHING BLOWS

BRITISH TAKE CITY IN NORTH AFRICA

        KINGSPORT NEWS

                 KINGSPORT, TENN., FRL, NOV. 27, 1942

Axis Loses

114,000 Men

In 8 Days

Thousands More

Facing Disaster

At Stalingrad

(By The Associated Press)

Moscow reported Friday

that the great Soviet offensive

at Stalingrad was smashing

ahead in an enveloping

a semi-circular arc, sweeping

| around hundreds of thou-

sands of Germans now facing en-

trapment and putting out of action

16.000 more Nazi troops for a

a total of 114,000 dead and captured

in the eight-day-old drive.

Another special communique, the

fifth in five days, said 12,000 more

prisoners had been taken, and the

regular daily midnight communique

listed more than 4.000 killed

in various sectors of the Stalin-

grad area.

Towns Recaptured

Nearly a score of new towns were

i listed as recaptured in Thursday's

action as a strong Soviet force

which had been pushing southward

west of Stalingrad now swung

to the east toward other Red army

forces pushing southwestward from

Stalingrad.

Allies Find Japanese Hard

To Blast Out of New Guinea

By Murlin Spencer

With the American Forces Somewhere in New Guinea

Delayed) (AP)—Fanatical Japanese resistance and "beau-

tifully placed defense positions" are confronting. American

troops in their drive to Uproot the Japanese from the rain

soaked jungle defenses guarding the approaches to Buna,

but the Americans are determined they will drive out the

Japanese in the end.

Current Events November 26, 1942:

Fierce Sky Battles Rage Over Tunisia Desert

The Bakersfield Californian

Bakersfield, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1942

Allied Bombers Sink 2

Nip Destroyers Off Buna

Allies Near

Balk Help for

Trapped Japs

Troop-Laden Ships

Blasted; Foe Holds

12 Mi. Beach Strip

Hy C. YATES McDANIEL

Associated Press War Correspondent

HEADQUARTERS of Gen-

eral MacArthur, Australia,

Nov. 25.—Allied bombers

sank two troop-laden Japanese

destroyers and damaged

a third probably fatally last

night to wreck the third enemy attempt

within a week to reinforce

the battered Burnt-Gona lines

against Americana and Australian Attacks,

it was announced today.

The official list of Japanese warcraft

sacrificed since last Thursday

night in efforts to relieve Lieutenant-

General Tomatore Horli's forces on

their narrowing coastal strip thus

rose to:

One cruiser, four destroyers and

two landing boats .sunk.

One destroyer blasted heavily and

probably sunk.

One destroyer damaged

Bitter Fight

Beaten back mile by mile, Japanese

ground forces nevertheless put

up a bitter fight from a jungle front

approximately 12 miles long and

from 1/2 to 3 miles deep.

Lone Nip Deals

Death to Yanks

Guadalcanal Hit

by Jap's Bombs

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. UP)

The navy announced today

that "some personnel

casualties" were suffered

among American forces on Guadalcanal

earlier this week when a lone

enemy plane made a pro-dawn

bombing attack on our positions

there.

Tho plane dropped bombs to the

south of the Guadalcanal air field

at I! a. in. November 1!5, Guadalcanal

time.

Later ihnt day, army A Ira cobra

fighters harassed enemy ground positionK,

the communique reported

but there was no ground activity ol

importance on the Island.

The text of navy communique No,

202 follows:

"South Pacific (all dates are

east longitude).

"1. On November 25:

"(a) At 3 a. in., one enemy plane

dropped bombs to the south of the

air field on Guadalcanal island.

Some personnel casualties were

suffered.

"(b) There was no ground activity

of importance on Guadalcanal,

"(c) Army (Airacobra) fighters

harassed enemy ground positions.

Bizerte in

All-OutPush

Axis Pours Fresh

Troops Into Tiny

Region on Coast

By United Press Staff Correspondent

TONDON, Nov. 26.—Allied

columns were reported

advancing along the Tunisian

coastal road toward Bzcrte

today while fierce air battles

raged over the French protectorate

and British and American

forces prepared for the start of a

knockout offensive.

Radio Morocco said British forces

nearing the great naval base at Bizerte

already had fought several

skirmishes with axis troops striving

desperately to retain their foothold

in North Africa.

Another column, driving toward

Tunis, 25 miles southeast of Bizertc,

was reported within 22 miles of the

city.