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.
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