STARS AND STRIPES
Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces the European Theater of Operations
London, England Monday, March 1, 1943
Allies Halt Attacks in North,
Pursue Foe in Central Sector;
850 Captives Taken in48 Hours
Nazis Seek to Divert
Allies as Rommel
Is Regrouping
ALLIED HQ, North Africa, Feb.28 (AP)-
German attacks exploded over the entire northern front yesterday
and today, but Allied troops beat off the assaults in six sectors of
northern Tunisia, capturing 850 prisoners in two days. Meanwhile,
the Middle East air force further sapped the strength of the Luftwaffe
by shooting down 11 German planes in Southern Tunisia.
A new German attack developed along the northern coastline in the Cape Serrat
area, where yesterday the Italians attempted to push along the Mediterranean,
but were thrown back by the French, who took " a considerable
number of prisoners."
Allied Raids
Blast Nazis
For 72 Hours
U-Boat Bases, Factories
Are Chief Targets of
Day-Night Blows
Seventy-two Hours of bombing which has scattered steel and high
explosive across the whole northern rim of Germany's continental defenses
last night carried the Allied air offensive from bases in Britain to a
Crescendo of ruin.
With American heavy bombers blasting vital Nazi sea bases on two
Successive days and American fighters joining RAF and Allied squadrons in
sweeps across the English Channel, with RAF heavy bombers cascading 'two- and
four-ton block-busters onto Nazi targets by night, with RAF medium and light
bombers repeating the performance in lightning swoops by day, around-theclock
had become a solid reality.
Starting Thursday night, with a smashing blow by big RAF aircraft on Nurem-
berg, deep in German Bavaria, the Allied forces hammered home 'bomb after bomb
fa almost continuous raids that stretched through yesterday afternoon.
Nazi Resistance
Grows., But Fails
To Stop Soviets
Towns West of Kharkov
Fall as Armies Speed
Toward Dnieper
MOSCOW, Feb..28(AP)—Fierce and
costly German -counter-attacks failed today to halt the Russian westward drive
toward the bend of the Dnieper River. Tonight's communiques said the Red
Army had penetrated deeper into enemyheld territory during the day, had captured
more settlements and slashed at the retreating columns of Nazis with longrange
artillery and airplanes.
In the zone west of Kharkov, where the Soviet advance has been the speediest,
town after town was occupied during the day. A message at noon said enemy
columns there had been completely routed, many men captured and much
material seized.
Intense Air Fighting
Dive-Bomber Pilot
Tells of Air War
Over Pacific
" The Flying Guns," an American
Navy pilot's first person story of the
air war in the Pacific, is published in
England by Charles Scribner's Sons,
Ltd. The book is 196 pages and costs
10/6. -It is reviewed here by The Stars
and Stripes air analyst. .
" The Plying Guns " is more than just a well-put together story of America's
battle against Japan in the air above the Pacific. It is, in many respects, the
highly readable equivalent to a text book. It is about dive-bombing, and comes
along at a time when the merits of divebombing are being debated throughout
the United Nations.
It is the story, from just 'before Pearl Harbor through the Battle of Midway and
the smashing of the Jap fleet, of Lt. C. E. Dickinson, dive-bomber pilot flying from
a carrier in the Pacific. His story is told in colaboration with Boyden Sparkes,
veteran reporter, who is Dickinson's uncle.
Dickinson's observations come from the cockpit of his two-place Douglas—SBD
(Scout Bomber, Douglas)—flying from an unidentified carrier.
"The Flying Guns" takes you
through the battles that marked America's fight to recover from the low blow at
Pearl Harbor. It takes you in a cockpit diving down toward the deck of a Jap
carrier at Midway, or again toward a converted Jap merchantman; down
toward a big raiding sub of the Rising Sun with tracer and heavy ack-ack streaking
past you; down from cloudy skies against the "Jap air bases in the coral
islands of the southwest Pacific.
" The Flying Guns " is no misnomer; aircraft have so affected sea warfare as
to provide just that—flying guns—for the warships, in that they can take an explosive
charge, 50 or 100 or 200 miles or more from a carrier deckhand deposit it
accurately where it will do least good for the enemy.
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