Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
FAIRBANKS, ALASKA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1942
YANKS FORCE BACK NAZIS IN AFRICA
U. S. Bombers Make Raid On Naples
Fighting Is
Violent in Tunisia
Allies Hampered In Their Operations
By Lack Of Sufficient
Air Force
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA. Dec. 5.—American
combat troops striking (????)
southeast of Tebcssa near Tunisian-
Algerian border in North Africa
today, drove a Nazi armored
column back toward the Mediterranean
coast in disorderly retreat,
capturing more than 100 prisoners
and taking a town,
Americans are fighting with
French Allies and the force commanded
by Col. Edson.
3 Italian
Warships
Are Struck
Railroad Yards Are Hit, Disrupting
Traffic And Waterfront
Is Strafed
CAIRO, Egypt, Dec. 5.—An Italian
battleship and two Italian
cruisers were hit heavily by bombs
dropped in an air raid at dusk'
yesterday by United States Liberator
bombers over Naples, Italy.
Big bombs are said also to have.
burst in railroad yards, disrupting i
traffic in the key port on
west coast of the Italian peninsula,
and caused heavy damage along
the waterfront.
Jap Ships
Struck Off
Solomons
United States Dive Bombers
And Torpedo Planes Hit
Surface Craft
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. — A Navy
Department communique disclosed
today that American dive bombers
and torpedo planes from Guadal-
canal island of the Solomon group
in the Southwest Pacific, had at
tacked a small Japanese force of
light surface ships about 150 miles
northwest of the island. The results
of the attacks were not revealed,
The American warplanes struck
on Thursday, Island time.
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