This Was Today; Current Events April 5, 1943: The Second U. S. Army Corps, overrunning Axis defense posts and wiping out mortar nests, has unleashed a successful drive through the difficult hills east of El Guetar toward a junction with the British Eighth Army, In one of their biggest and most daring assaults, 133 U. S. Flying Fortresses roared up the Seine River to Paris Sunday afternoon to rain explosives on the huge Renault Armament Works with such deadly accuracy I t h a t returning crew:; said: "We don't see how anything can be left there now." Carrying out the heaviest raids yet made on Kiska in the Aleutians. American poured bombs on the' Japanese base in eight separate assaults, the navy re ported Sunday

          Patton Advances To Join British

      KINGSPORT NEWS

                            KINGSPORT, TENN., MON., APRIL 5, 1943

U. S. BOMBERS SMASH BIG PARIS PLANT

Hills East

Of El Guetar

Fall ToU.S.

First and Eighth

Armies Continue

To Squeeze Nazis

Allied Headquarters in North Africa

The Second U. S. Army Corps, overrunning Axis defense

posts and wiping out mortar nests, has unleashed a successful drive

through the difficult hills east of El Guetar toward a junction with

the British Eighth Army, a communique from Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower's headquarters announced Sunday.

While Gen.'Sir Bernard L. Montgomery' patrols probed the Wadi

El Akarit defenses of Marshal Erwin Rommel 20 miles north of

Gabes, the British First Army in northern Tunisia continued to

sweep forward and Moroccan goums occupied Cape Serrat, on the

Mediterranean coast 35 miles west

of Bizerte.

Scoring one of their most notable successes since they have been in

|North Africa, the fighting forces of Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.,

I which include one armored division and three infantry divisions, swept

|over the brush-dotted hills, killed many of the enemy and took a

number of prisoners, including many Germans.

Nazis Blasted

Essen Dealt

Heavy Blow

By British

London, Monday—(AP)—In one of their biggest and most daring assaults,

133 U. S. Flying Fortresses roared up the Seine River to Paris

Sunday afternoon to rain explosives on the huge Renault Armament

Works with such deadly accuracy I t h a t returning crew:; said: "We

don't see how anything can be left there now."

This powerful daylight blow followed a heavy RAF Saturday night

assault on Essen, home of the Krupp Munitions Works in Germany.

The round-the-clock bombardment—

American by day and RAF by night—was continuing early

Monday. A thunderous roar echoed over the choppy English Channe

as the RAF again sprang to attack Hitler's continental fortress. Berlin

radio promptly shut down.

Winging their way to the Paris area for the first time in the war,

the big Flying Fortresses bombed t h e target "heavily and accurately."

a communique announced, and shot down 25 enemy fighters which they

encountered on the return trip.

Japs On Kiska Suffer

Heaviest Bombing By U. S.

Washington —AP— Carrying out

the heaviest raids yet made on Kiska in the Aleutians. American poured

bombs on the' Japanese base in eight separate assaults, the navy re

ported Sunday.

Allies Continue

To Whittle Down

Japs Sea Power

Allied Headquarters in Australia

Monday-AP-

The Japanese naval concentration of Kavieng now has been destroyed

or dispersed, with seven warships and five merchant vessels

either sunk or heavily damaged," The Monday's noon communique said.