THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY JUNE 19, 1943:
Italians living and working near war industries were warned last night
in the name of the Allied high command that the Allies intend a systematic
bombing campaign to destroy factories and communications that
serve the Axis.
"Therefore," Algiers radio told them, ''the Allied high command advises
you to leave the neighborhood of those objectives and take your families
to safe places.
American fighter squadrons scored one of the biggest air victories of the war in the Pacific yesterday when they shot down 77 Japanese planes attempting to raid Guadal-
canal, it became evident today as details of the battle trickled into Washington
from advanced Pacific bases
The Flying Fortress raid on Kiel last Sunday was described officially
yesterday as the USA AF's greatest single battle of the war.
Fought against the most savage fighter opposition yet provided by the
Germans, it proved, Maj. Gen. Ira C. Eaker said, that the Nazi Air
Force is "inadequate" to halt mass bombing of Germany.
A campaign to check careless talk by American forces in Britain, particularly
those in leave areas, has been launched by U.S. Army authorities
following reports of a sudden rise in violations of security 'measures.
THE STARS AND STRIPES
Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in The European Theater of Operations
New York. N.Y.—London, England Saturday, June 19, 1943
Italy Warned
Raids to Be
Intensified
Italians living and working near war industries were warned last night
in the name of the Allied high command that the Allies intend a systematic
bombing campaign to destroy factories and communications that
serve the Axis.
"Therefore," Algiers radio told them, ''the Allied high command advises
you to leave the neighborhood of those objectives and take your families
to safe places.
However, they do not want to annihilate your innocent civilian population.
Therefore we repeat our warning: Leave, you and your families, for safe
zones. Don't forget that it is because of your alliance w i t h Germany that our
bombs rain down on Italian cities."
New reports of Allied invasion forces massing in the Mediterranean—this time
in Syria, in addition to previously described concentrations of men south of
Sicily and at Gibraltar—were broadcast by Axis radio yesterday.
New bomber blows at
Guadalcanal Air
Victory One of
War's Greatest
TwoU.S. Vessels Damaged,
25 Killed in Raid
By 120 Planes
WASHINGTON. June I8—American
fighter squadrons scored one of the biggest air victories of the war in the Pacific
yesterday when they shot down 77 Japanese planes attempting to raid Guadal-
canal, it became evident today as details of the battle trickled into Washington
from advanced Pacific bases.
Kiel Raid 'Greatest U.S. Air Battle
The Flying Fortress raid on Kiel last Sunday was described officially
yesterday as the USAAF's greatest single battle of the war.
Fought against the most savage fighter opposition yet provided by the
Germans, it proved, Maj. Gen. Ira C. Eaker said, that the Nazi Air
Force is "inadequate" to halt mass bombing of Germany.
"It was a significant victory," the Eighth Air Force commander
declared. "The German fighter strength is the stoutest shield they have
against our bomber offensive. Now that it is proved inadequate they
have lost the air battle. Their war industry is certain to be destroyed."
The formation that pounded Kiel, the smaller of two Flying Fortress
thrusts launched simultaneously at northwest Germany, apparently was
challenged by the total opposition force the Germans could muster in
the vulnerable Kiel-Bremen-Wilhelmshaven area—upwards of 200
fighters.
At an overall loss of 26 bombers for both formations, the smaller force
raiding Kiel, destroyed, by official count and estimate, an average of
four fighters for every bomber lost, and at the same time absorbed the
total enemy resistance so successfully as to permit the larger attacking
force to bomb its target at Bremen almost unmolested by fighters.
Praise for the combat crews which participated has come from Gen.
Henry H. Arnold, USAAF chief, in a cable from Washington, and from
Lt. Gen. Jacob L. Devers, ETO commanding general.
Loose Talk of U.S. Troops
Prompts Lip-Closing Drive
A campaign to check careless t a l k by American forces in Britain, particularly
those in leave areas, has been launched by U.S. Army authorities
following reports of a sudden rise in violations of security 'measures.
Worst offenders, it was reported, are troops who have been overseas
for more than three months. New arrivals, more cognizant of security
regulations after receiving strict warnings at staging areas and on board
— ship, u s u a l l y are reticent in talking of
t h e i r a c t i v i t i e s , but s t i l l do not fully observe
regulations.
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