Allied Airmen Poised For Attack On 14-Ship Jap Convoy
The Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1943.
Yanks In Tunisia
Allies Batter 24 Nazi Tanks
Kill 600 Axis Troops In 3 Days
Von Arnim's Attacks
Hurled Back In North
Allies
Capture
Sbeitla;
Drive On
A l l i e d Headquarters in North Africa, March 2 (AP)
Allied troops have hurled back all of Gen. Jurgen von
Arnim's attacks in Northern Tunisia, knocking out 24
German tanks in three days and killing at least 600 Axis
troops, while in Central Tunisia the Allies captured
Sbeitla and drove en three miles farther east.
In one of their most successful days in the air in this
campaign, Allied air forces shot down 25 Axis planes
yesterday, an Allied headquarters communique announced.
The Germans made two more attacks yesterday toward Beja, west of
Tunis and a short distance south of the Mediterranean
driven back after losing six tanks in one action.
Allied Air Attack Slowed
By Weather; Jap Convoy
Headed For New Guinea
Allied Headquarters in Australia, March 2 (AP)
A 14 ship Japanese convoy, one of the largest ever
assembled by the enemy in this sector of the southwest
Pacific, moved westward from New Britain toward the
New Guinea coast today as bad weather delayed Allied
airmen waiting to strike at the Armada.
A communique from Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's
headquarters said the convoy was last sighted off
Talasea. on the northern coast of New Britain and
about 175 miles west of the big enemy base at Rabaul.
While Its destination was still uncertain,
the convoy's position was roughly 250 air miles from thc
Japanese strongholds of Salamnua and Lae on the northeast coast of
New Guinea.
Allied airmen were poised for a blow at the Japanese force and
awaited only clearing skies, but the communique Indicated the enemy
had chosen his weather shrewdly, reporting the ships were "moving
under cover of an advancing weather front.
RAF Bombs
Berlin In
Non-Stop
Campaign
London, March 2 (AP)—The RAF,
continuing the non-stop Allied aerial offensive, against Western
Europe, bombed Berlin and targets in Western Germany last night in
raids from which 19 planes failed, to return, the air ministry announced
today.
The attack on Berlin was described as "a heavy, 'concentrated assault"
carried out in clear weather, and the results were said to have
been good.
Berlin Gets It Heavy
"Berlin got it heavier last night than it has ever had so far," Capt.
Harold Balfour, undersecretary of state for air, declared.
Thousands of tons of bombs were crashed on the German capital in
a half-hour's time, it was disclosed. The communique said that Britain's
biggest bombers—Lancasters, Halifaxes and Stirlings—took part
in the raid.
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