THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY MAY 16, 1943:
Italy and her two main island shields, Sicily and Sardinia,
were the targets today of a sustained Allied air offensive that
has reached almost to Rome itself.
American Flying fortresses, hopping off from Africa, paced the premvasion
assault yesterday with violent hammering of Civitavecchia,
an important Italian west coast port only 37 miles northwest of Rome.
Airdromes, ports, factories, railways and other varied objectives.
U.. S. forces tonight continued to hold the initiative in the North
Pacific with the principal action still confined to Attu island where
the Japanese are waging a desperate struggle to maintain their foothold
in the face of a furious five day American onslaught.
Germans have launched a series of sharp new attacks
against Russian positions in the L e n i n g r a d area, employing
massed artillery and waves of infantry, but it still was too '•
early to say whether this was the opening gun in a general
Nazi offensive.
The Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, Sunday Morning, May 16, 1943.
Sustained Offensive Batters
Italy's Main Island Shields;
U. S. Wreaks Ruin in Reich
Fortresses Reach '
37 Miles to Rome
Marshal Tedder Asserts:
Mediterranean 'Opens
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, May 15—(INS)
—Italy and her two main island shields, Sicily and Sardinia,
were the targets today of a sustained Allied air offensive that
has reached almost to Rome itself.
American Flying fortresses, hopping off from Africa, paced the premvasion
assault yesterday with violent hammering of Civitavecchia,
an important Italian west coast port only 37 miles northwest of Rome.
Airdromes, ports, factories, railways and other varied objectives
were hit by the storm of Allied bombs crashing into the Sicilian
centers of Messina Palermo and Comiso and the Sardinian bases of
Calgiaria, Olbia, Alghero, Porto Torres. Calasetta an« Porto Ponlc '
Romano.
Tedder Says Air Cover Ready
Capture of Attu
Deemed Certain
American Troops Said
Making Progress
WASHINGTON. May 15,—(INS) —
U.. S. forces tonight continued to hold the initiative in the North
Pacific with the principal action still confined to Attu island where
the Japanese are waging a desperate struggle to maintain their foothold
in the face of a furious five day American onslaught.
Since the disclosure at noon on Friday that an offensive is underway
in the Aleutians, the navy has made no additional announcements
as to 'he progress of the Attu attack: and no further communique
is expected..
Conquest Believed Sure
Nazi 'Chains'
Assault Area
Of Leningrad
Too Early to Determine
If General Offensive;
Kuban Slackens
MOSCOW, May 15.—(AP)—The
Germans have launched a series of sharp new attacks
against Russian positions in the L e n i n g r a d area, employing
massed artillery and waves of infantry, but it still was too
early to say whether this was the opening gun in a general
Nazi offensive.
Red Star, army newspaper, said the Germans first laid a heavy
barrage on Soviet lines and then sent "chains'1 of infantrymen ad-
vancing toward Leningrad in the face of heavy fire. Eight waves beat
against the defenses in a single day.
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