Current Events May 30, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY MAY 30, 1943:

The United Nations have worked

out every tactical detail of their plan to invade the European

continent.

Preparations n a t u r a l l y are shrouded in strict secrecy, but indications

from many quarters in Britain and the continent suggest

that the hour for the general sea, air and land offensive is close at

hand.

The fierce battle for the northwestern

corner oi the Caucasus is still in progress. The Soviets

are maintaining a day and night bombardment of the Nazi

defense line northeast of Novorossisk, and a new flareup is

expected at any hour.

HOUR FOR INVASION

OF CONTINENT NEARS

LONG BEACH INDEPENDENT

             Long Beach, California, Sunday, May 30, 1943

REDS UNLEASH HEAVY ATTACK

Warships of Allies Take Up Strategic

Positions to Assault Fort of Europe

LONDON, May 29.—(TP)—The United Nations have worked

out every tactical detail of their plan to invade the European

continent.

Preparations n a t u r a l l y are shrouded in strict secrecy, but indications

from many quarters in Britain and the continent suggest

that the hour for thfe general sea, air and land offensive is close at

hand.

The London News – Chronicle gave prominence today to a report

that British warships have taken up strategic positions in the

Mediterranean and elsewhere. The newspaper said a number of

troop ships had moved into the Mediterranean on Wednesday. A

number of Allied barges have been concentrated in Tunisian ports

within easy striking distance of Sicily, Sardinia and Pantelleria,

which presumably will soon become an important Allied" naval

and air base for the purposes of this major operation.

The Daily Telegraph said today in dispatches from Madrid that

Mussolini had presided over an emergency secret session of h is

Fascist party chieftains to map out a plan of defense of his prized

Mediterranean islands.

24-Hour Bombardment of Nazi Lines

Maintained Northeast of Novorossisk

MOSCOW, May 29.—(TP)—The fierce battle for the northwestern

corner oi the Caucasus is still in progress. The Soviets

are maintaining a day and night bombardment of the Nazi

defense line northeast of Novorossisk, and a new flareup is

expected at any hour.

At the same" time, a Finnish communique reports a powerful

Soviet attack in the western sector of the Karelian isthmus. Rus-

sian artillery forced a break in the Finnish lines, allowing Soviet

patrols lo make incursions into Finnish territory.

Tonight's Soviet communique still gives no details of the Kuban

battle. However, the communique reports new outbreaks on the.

Lisichansk front. Here Soviet units broke into German trenches and

consolidated a new forward position.

The Germans counterattacked but were forced to retreat, leaving

!00 Nazis dead on the battlefield.

Current Events May 29, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY MAY 29, 1943:

The London News-Chronicle said today

that every detail has been worked out for an Allied invasion

of Europe. British warships already have taken up strategic

positions and the opening of a second front is imminent.

American Army troops, supported by strong sea

and air attacks, have captured several more Japanese positions in fierce handto-

hand fighting in the Chicagof harbor area on Attu Island, the Navy Department

announced today.

Reports that Rommel is at present in

Bucharest as commander-in-chief of all Axis anti-invasion forces in the Balkans,

are circulating in Stockholm.

THE RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES

                RACINE, WIS., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 29, 1943.

Report Warships Poised

For Invasion of Europe

Plans for Blow

Complete, Says

London Paper

LONDON.—(U.P.)—The London News-Chronicle said today

that every detail has been worked out for an Allied invasion

of Europe. British warships already have taken up strategic

positions and the opening of a second front is imminent.

The dispatch followed axis reports that the Allies have

concentrated invasion barges in Tunisian harbors within

striking distance of Sicily, S a r d i n i a , Pantelleria and

southern Italy and that a big Allied convoy, including large

troopships, entered the Mediterranean Wednesday.

Premier Benito Mussolini met secretly recently with his

fascist party chieftains and mappcd plans to defend Sicily and |

Sardinia "to the end," the Daily Telegraph said. Other sources

reported the Italians were strengthening fortifications, increasing

anti-aircraft batteries and improving airdromes on the two

island outposts, already under heavy daily bombardment by Allied

planes seeking to soften their defenses.

THE STARS AND STRIPES

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

New York, N.Y.—London, England Saturday, May 29, 1943

Yanks Win New

Points on Attu

Planes, Warships Support

Land Forces Engaged

In Fierce Battles

WASHINGTON, May 28—American Army troops, supported by strong sea

and air attacks, have captured several more Japanese positions in fierce handto-

hand fighting in the Chicagof harbor area on Attu Island, the Navy Department

announced today.

The other Jap center of resistance on the island is in the Sarana Bay area,

where American troops also are engaged in close-quarter fighting.

These latest attacks have been made in clear weather which followed the snow,

sleet and fog of the earlier fighting, the Navy Department added.

Liberators and Mitchells have destroyed every building in the Chicagof area with

heavy bombing attacks. At the same time, warships have shelled the Japs dug in

along the shore.

In the Southwest Pacific, Lae, big Jap base on the northwestern coast of New

Guinea, received its heaviest air raid of the war when Allied medium and heavy

bombers blasted the airdrome and shore bases with 28 tons of bombs. Fires were

visible for 75 miles.

Rumored Rommel in Balkans

STOCKHOLM, May 28 (UP)—Reports that Rommel is at present in

Bucharest as commander-in-chief of all Axis anti-invasion forces in the Balkans,

are circulating in Stockholm.

Anti-invasion forces, according to the reports, are divided into three army

groups—one in Yugoslavia, one in Bulgaria and Rumania and the third in

Greece.

Current Events May 28, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, MAY 28, 1943:

Six Italian flying fields in the invasion outposts of Sicily, Sardinia

and Pantellaria have been bombed virtually into uselessness within the

hist 48 hours, North African headquarters announced yesterday, as

Allied planes kept up the process of blotting out Axis airdromes.

Russian forces ten divisions strong, supported by five tank brigades, launched

a full-scale offensive on the eastern part of the Kuban bridgehead yesterday,

Berlin radio announced last night.

As weather

conditions improved on the usually fogbound Attu Island, American ground

forces accelerated their attacks against the two Japanese pockets isolated on

Chicagof peninsula, the Navy Department announced today.

The future conquest of the Aleutians depends greatly tjn the success of the

American force which today has a handful of stubborn Japanese troops cornered

on Attu,island. The folio-wing article, written by Eugene Burns, Associated Press

War Correspondent, before the Attu landing, tells why it may be a tough task

to expel the firmly entrenched Japs from the Aleutians bases—stepping stones to

Tokyo.

       THE STARS AND STRIPES

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

              New York, N.Y.—London, England Friday, May 28, 1943

U.S. Planes Smash

Six Italian Airfields

On Invasion Islands

Power Plant at Big

Dam in Sardinia

Is Blasted

Six Italian flying fields in the invasion outposts of Sicily, Sardinia

and Pantellaria have been bombed virtually into uselessness within the

hist 48 hours, North African headquarters announced yesterday, as

Allied planes kept up the process of blotting out Axis airdromes.

The raids, by Flying Fortresses, Lightnings and Warhawks of the

North-West African Air Force, were carried out as Algiers radio pounded

away at Italian nerves with ceaseless exhortations

to throw put the Fascists, end the war and make peace for themselves.

The roaring motors over Sicily and Sardinia gave pointed proof, if any was

needed, of the truth of the broadcaster's warning that:

"Allied bombers will darken the sun over Italy. Very soon Allied bombers will

launch mass attacks against you. They will go on attacking until Axis objectives

are swept away. They will attack your harbors, airdromes, railways and factories,

all that can help to delay the Axis defeat."

Power Station Blitzed

Soviets Launch

Full Scale Push,

Germans Claim

Ten Division^ Supported

By Tanks, Open Up

Along Kuban

By the United Press

Russian forces ten divisions strong, supported by five tank brigades, launched

a full-scale offensive on the eastern part of the Kuban bridgehead yesterday,

Berlin radio announced last night. After failing in their attempts to reduce

the bridgehead for three weeks, the radio said, the Russians withdrew their

forces, which were completely exhausted, and replaced them with newly-formed rifle

divisions and tank brigades- from the Volga and Eastern Caucasus.

After heavy artillery preparation these forces attacked Wednesday morning in an

attempt to free the Temyruk road as far as the western promontory of the Tainan

Peninsula, Berlin said.

Two hundred Russian planes were pressed into attacks on German rear communications

before the attack was launched, it was stated. The Germans

claimed 48 shot down and 23 others so badly hit they crashed behind the Russian

lines.

The radio warned that resumption

of the drive must be expected.

page 2

Japs Have Powerful

Bases Built On

Kiska Island

The future conquest of the Aleutians depends greatly tjn the success of the

American force which today has a handful of stubborn Japanese troops cornered

on Attu,island. The folio-wing article, written by Eugene Burns, Associated Press

War Correspondent, before the Attu landing, tells why it may be a tough task

to expel the firmly entrenched Japs from the Aleutians bases—stepping stones to

Tokyo.

AT AN ADVANCE BASE, Andreanof

Islands, Alaska (delayed) (AP)—Airborne dynamite has, so far, not succeeded

in blasting the Japanese off Kiska and Attu islands. Cameras tell why.

That "why" is a fragmentary textbook of Japanese leapfrog island-to-island warfare.

Further, this lens study gives the first account of how the Japanese built a

submarine and airplane base on American soil.

For the past nine months, photograph interpreters have watched the Japanese

build a sub base from scratch; watched him build reservoirs, and now they see

him before his shinto shrine.

Part of Midway Plan?

Yanks Open Up

Again on Attu

WASHINGTON, May 27—As weather

conditions improved on the usually fogbound Attu Island, American ground

forces accelerated their attacks against the two Japanese pockets isolated on

Chicagof peninsula, the Navy Department announced today.

U.S. planes supported the push with bombing and strafing attacks, the announcement

added.

Only 654 casualties have been sustained so far by the U.S. troops which

landed on Attu, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced tonight. The

casualties were made up of 137 killed, 399 wounded and 118 missing.

Jap Offensive in China

CHUNGKING, May 27 (BP)-r-Tanks and mechanized units are being rushed

up by the Japanese for a great drive to smash through to China's capital city, a

military spokesman stated in Chungking tonight.

Current Events may 27, 1943:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY MAY 27, 1943:

President Roosevelt announced

today that the War Conference of the British-American

staffs has ended, in "complete agreement on future opera-

tions in all theatres of the war.”

American Army- casualties in North Africa from November 8

to May 15 totaled 2,181 killed, 9,437" wounded and 6,937 missing

or held prisoner, Secretary of War Stimson said today.. .

Previously the U. S. Army had reported 1,180 casualties in

the initial landing operations which began November- 8 and

these were included in the over-all figure reported by the secretary.

Americancasualties since the outbreak of the war were set at 83,756 dead, wounded or missing a War Department announcement toay. The total does not include men listed as prisoners by the Navy but does include Army men captured by the enemy.

Army figures, as of May 25, were: killed, 6,318 ; wounded, 13,598; missing,

22,905 ; captured, 15,836. The totals jnie 12,500 Philippine Scouts, of whom

469 were killed, 747 wounded and the rest presumably captured 'by the Japs.

The Navy lost 5,620 killed, 2,233 wounded and 9,894 missing. The Marine

corps figures are: 1,594 killed, 2,446 wounded and l,071missing. Coast Guard

were: 78 killed, 22 wounded, 158 missing.

An RAF bomber force, estimated at between 500 and 1,000 planes,

raided Dusseldorf early yesterday and plastered the German city with

8,000-pound bombs in what air experts called the "second heaviest raid

of the war."

Allied aircraft gave Italy's outer invasion defenses — Sicily,

|Sardinia and Pantellaria—what was officially called a "terrific hammering"

yesterday, destroying 23 Axis planes in air combat.

                         The Daily Inter Lake

TI1E DAILY INTER LAKE. KAL1SPELL, MONTANA, T11UHSDAY, MAY 87, 1943

War Conference Comes To End

No Details Given Except

That There Is Complete

Agreement On All Plans

MOMENTOUS PARLEYS WHICH STARTED ON MAY 11

COME TO A CLOSE TODAY AND ROOSEVELT ISSUES A

ONE-SENTENCE STATEMENT—NO CLUES TO FUTURE

PLANS RELEASED IN STATEMENT

Washington, May 27—(AP)—President Roosevelt announced

today that the War Conference of the British-American

staffs has ended, in "complete agreement on future opera-

tions in all theatres of the war.”

The statement:

"The conference of the combined staffs in Washington

has ended in complete agreement on future operations in all

theaters of the war”.

U. S. FORCES WIN NEW FOOTHOLD ON

RIDGE IN CHICHAGOF AREA AT ATTU

American Aircraft Strike Anew at

Islands in Mediterranean

U.S. Casualties in

Africa 2,184

Washington, May 27.—(AP)—

American Army- casualties in North Africa from November 8

to May 15 totaled 2,181 killed, 9,437" wounded and 6,937 missing

or held prisoner, Secretary of War Stimson said today.. .

Previously the U. S. Army had reported 1,180 casualties in

the initial landing operations which began November- 8 and

these were included in the over-all figure reported by the secretary.

           THE STARS AND STRIPES

Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed ForcesIn The European Theater of Operations

                New York, N.Y.—London, England Thursday, May 27, 1943

Dusseldorf Is Bombed by RAF

In War's Second Heaviest Raid;

8,000-Pounders BIast Industries

Attack on Steel Qty

Adds to Damage

From Flood

An RAF bomber force, estimated at between 500 and 1,000 planes,

raided Dusseldorf early yesterday and plastered the German city with

8,000-pound bombs in what air experts called the "second heaviest raid

of the war."

It was the 52nd time the city had been raided, the last attack being on

Jan. 27.

Returning pilots said that in spite of heavy clouds over the target they had

given the city a battering comparable to that delivered against Dortmund early

Sunday morning. The Dortmund raid was described as the biggest in the history

of aerial warfare.

The Air Ministry admitted the loss of 27 bombers in the Dusseldorf attack, indicating

a huge force had been engaged.

Flood Waters Spread

4OO Planes

Bomb, Gun

Italy's Isles

Axis Planes Now Giving

Stiff Resistance Over

Invasion Defenses

By Noland Norgaard

Associated Press War Correspondent

ALLIED HQ, North Africa,

|May 26- Allied aircraft gave Italy's outer invasion defenses — Sicily,

|Sardinia and Pantellaria—what was officially called a "terrific hammering"

yesterday, destroying 23 Axis planes in air combat.

Nearly. 400 planes of the North West African Air Force bombed and

gunned a variety of targets, principally docks, shipping and airfields, disrupting

communications and destroying supplies. Eleven Allied planes were lost yesterday,

today's communique disclosed. That is a small proportion in view of the large

attacking forces.

|U.S. Casualties

Total 83,756

WASHINGTON, May 26—American

casualties since the outbreak of the war were set at 83,756 dead, wounded or missing

a War Department announcement toay. The total does not include men

listed as prisoners by the Navy but does include Army men captured by the enemy.

Army figures, as of May 25, were: killed, 6,318 ; wounded, 13,598; missing,

22,905 ; captured, 15,836. The totals jnie 12,500 Philippine Scouts, of whom

469 were killed, 747 wounded and the rest presumably captured 'by the Japs.

The Navy lost 5,620 killed, 2,233 wounded and 9,894 missing. The Marine

corps figures are: 1,594 killed, 2,446 wounded and l,071missing. Coast Guard

were: 78 killed, 22 wounded, 158 missing.

_______________________________________________________________________

Current Events May 26, 1943:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY MAY 26, 1943:

Heavy forces of Allied planes pounded ,Axis Europe from the west to-

day amid mounting evidence that Inhabitants of the enemy's

Mediterranean Islands and the toe of the Italian boot were: being

rolled back by the terrific- blows from American and British and

units based in Africa.

With blockbusters and ordinary bombs, with cannon and

machineguns, Allied air armadas numbering 900 or more

planes, stormed at another of Adolf Hitler's broken arsenal

cities and the fire-grimed island ramparts of Italy in a

two -front assault, war announcements from London and

Africa said today

UnitedStates troops have wiped out the Japanese position in Chichagof

valley, one of three major areas held by the enemy

on Attu island, THE Navy an nounced today, and were

reported following up with a drive against a second main position

around Chichagof harbor.

            The Charleston Gazette

              Charleston, West Virginia, Wednesday Morning, May 26, 1943.

 

                                                     Morning News

                       FLORENCE S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING MAY 26, 1943

MIGHTY ALLIED AERIAL BLOWS HIT AXIS EUROPE

Jap Bomber Force Raiding Attu Smashed and Routed

Italians Reported

Evacuating Bomb-

Blasted Islands

To Escape Blows

Britain Based Bombers

Roar Out Across Channel

to Pour Destruction

Into Hitler's War-Making

Industries

LONDON, May 25.—(AP)— Heavy

forces of Allied planes pounded ,Axis Europe from the west to-

day amid mounting evidence that Inhabitants of the enemy's

Mediterranean Islands and the toe of the Italian boot were: being

rolled back by the terrific- blows from American and British and

units based in Africa.

London (Wed.) May 26—

(AP)—R.A.F bombers, attacked

Germany again during - the night, It was announced to-

day, -striking at the Reich after a one night lull follow-

ing their record breaking assault on Sunday.

In sweeps from-the west,- Mitchell

medium bombers, with an escort of

Spitfires, again raked the

the enemy airfield (?????)

THE LUD1NGTON DAILY NEWS

LUDJNGTON, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1943.

900 PLANES BLAST AT AXIS EUROPE

Twin Raids

Hit Italy,

Duesseldorf

Attack , is Near Tempo of

2,000-ton Raid Staged on

Dortmund

(By CARlTER CRANMER,

Associated Press War Editor)

With blockbusters and ordinary bombs, with cannon and

machineguns, Allied air armadas numbering 900 or more

planes, stormed at another of Adolf Hitler's broken arsenal

cities and the fire-grimed island ramparts of Italy in a

two -front assault, war announcements from London and

Africa said today.

Duesseldorf, Reineland, city

of 429,000 of which 380 acres already had been laid waste by

previous assaults, was the target Tuesday night of approximately

500 of the RAF's giant bombers in the fourth super-raid

of the month. The attack approached or equaled the re-

cord 2,000-ton bomb assault on Dortmund of two nights ago.

400 Planes .from Africa

From, north west Africa- Tuesday nearly 40 planes again

swarmed over the battered islands

of Sicily, Sardinia and Pantellerla — the outer defenses

of the, Mussolini homeland-rand----

U.S. TROOPS WIPE

OUT JAP POSITION

Chichagof Harbor Pocket Is

Eliminated by Yank Forces

In Attu

Major areas held by the enemy on Attu island, the Navy

announced today,

The Navy reported following up with a drive

against a second main position

around Chichagof harbor.

Army heavy and medium bombers and fighter planes supported

the continuing assault, a navy communique said. The

planes bombed and strafed enemy positions in the Chichagof

area and started fires.

Chichagof Harbor Pocket Is

Eliminated by Yank Forces

In Attu

WASHINGTON-( AP) -United

States troops have wiped out the Japanese position in Chichagof

valley, one of three major areas held by the enemy

on Attu island, THE Navy an nounced today, and were

reported following up with a drive against a second main position

around Chichagof harbor.

Army heavy and medium bombers and fighter planes supported

the continuing assault, a navy communique said. The

planes bombed and strafed enemy positions in the Chichagof

area and started fires.

Current Events May 25, 1943:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY MAY 25, 1943:

Beating down the world's thickest

anti-aircraft defenses guarding, the primary source of Germany's

war power, the RAF dumped more than 2,000 tons of .

bombs on the industrial city of Dortmund last night in the

heaviest and most .concentrated air attack in history.

British heavy bombers also blasted other objectives in the Ruhr,

ranging up and down the vital industrial valley which they flooded

only a week ago by their breaching of the Mohne and Eder dams.

Pantelleria, which may yet win from Malta the title of world's most

bombed island, was given another drastic going-over by American

and British bombers yesterday and the number of Axis aircraft destroyed

in the .Mediterranean theater in the last five days rose to 317 officially tabulated.

Desperate counter-attacks by the Japanese in an attempt to

regain control of Attu appeared in the making today as the

navy announced a second large scale enemy air assault on the

little Aleutian island.

The Nazi grip on Italy tightened visibly today as Hitler^ air force

and Air Marshal Albert Kesselring faced the task of coping with the

mounting fury of Allied air assaults against Axis bastions in the Mediterranean.

Art Treasures Removed

Florence is being evacuated and ancient Roman treasures are being

removed from Rome to be stored safely away in the event that the

Eternal City is bombed.

Japanese troops attacked in sectors near Ichang. their important

Yangtze river base 460 miles down river from Chungking, the Chinese

high command reported today.

                     The Charleston Gazette

           Charleston, West Virginia, Tuesday Morning, May 25, 1943.

RAF Hits Dortmund With 2,000 Tons

Of Bombs in War's Heaviest Air Raid;

Yanks Repel Jap Plane Stab at Attu

37,000 Homeless

In Ruhr Arsenal

Nazis' Civilian Defense

Off Guard, Report

LONDON, May 24.—(AP)—Beating down the world's thickest

anti-aircraft defenses guarding, the primary source of Germany's

war power, the RAF dumped more than 2,000 tons of .

bombs on the industrial city of Dortmund last night in the

heaviest and most .concentrated air attack in history.

The unprecedented assault also carried the RAF to another milestone

in the aerial battle of Europe, for, according to the air

ministry news service figures, it brought the total weight of explosives

dropped on Germany by the RAF bomber command since the

war began to 100,000_tons.

British heavy bombers also blasted other objectives in the Ruhr,

ranging up and down the vital industrial valley which they flooded

only a week ago by their breaching of the Mohne and Eder dams.

Ruin Showered

On Pantelleria

Stepping Stone Bombed

4 times in Day

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

NORTH AFRICA, May 24.—(AP)—

Pantelleria, which may yet win from Malta the title of world's most

bombed island, was given another drastic going-over by American

and British bombers yesterday and the number of Axis aircraft destroyed

in the .Mediterranean theater in the last five days rose to 317 officially tabulated.

U. S. medium bombers and Warhawks blasted Pantelleria 'three

times within five daylight hours with results described as "excellent,"

and the RAF's big two engined Wellingtons followed up

by night to pulverize the little Italian island with two-ton blockbusters.

2 Counterattacks

Beaten Off Island

Enemy Fleet Suspected

Near Aleutians

WASHINGTON, May 24.— (AP)—

Desperate counter-attacks by the Japanese in an attempt to

regain control of Attu appeared in the making today as the

navy announced a second large scale enemy air assault on the

little Aleutian island.

Twice great flights of twin-engine enemy bombers have roared into

the Attu area. Twice they have been turned back. Each time,

presumably, they were prevented from accomplishing their objectiv

battering of American land troops which were steadily wiping out

Japanese forces on Attu.

Art Treasure

People Being Evacuated

From Florence

By Pierre 3. Huss

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

NORTH AFRICA, May 24.—(INS)—

The Nazi grip on Italy tightened visibly today as Hitler^ air force

and Air Marshal Albert Kesselring faced the task of coping with the

mounting fury of Allied air assaults against Axis bastions in the Mediterranean.

The terrific pace set over Sardinia and Sicily and into the environs

of Rome itself has been hastening Italy itself into a crisis and thereby

menacing the solidarity of the Axis

                                  Art Treasures Removed

Florence is being evacuated and ancient Roman treasures are being

removed from Rome to be stored safely away in the event that the

Eternal City is bombed. This indicates that the German high command

has no intention of declaring Rome an open city and that the

Axis is aware the battle for the continent will not lag or be less

furious than the crushing Allied onslaughters which Tunisia.

Kesselring faces an unenviable situation similar to that which Col.

Gen. Jurgen von Arnim faced in North Africa.

Japs Said Driving

Against Chungking

CHUNGKING, May 24.—(AP)—

Japanese troops attacked in sectors near Ichang. their important

Yangtze river base 460 miles down river from Chungking, the Chinese

high command reported today, and observers saw the move as either

preparations for operations against Chungking or consolidation of important

river territory.

The Chinese communique said fighting -was heavy southeast and

northeast of Ichang and announced that the Japanese had occupied

Yuyangkwan. highway center 35 miles to the south.