THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JULY 3, 1943:
American dive-bombers hammered today at what was believed to be the headquarters
of Japanese forces on New Georgia Island, four miles from the
big air field at Munda, as ground forces continued mopping-up operations
on nearby Rendova Island and other scattered points of resistance.
Here are identification numbers of several Army and Air Force units and
their commanders which already have been disclosed in previous Stars and
Stripes news stories as based in .the South and Southwest Pacific. Undoubtedly
these organizations are included in the U.S. forces now taking
part in ;he Solomons and New Guinea offensive.
25th Division—Maj. Gen. Joseph Collins, Guadalcanal.
32nd Division—Commander not given, New Guinea.
Sixth Army—Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger, Australia.
5th Air Force—Maj. Gen. Ennis C. Whitehead, Australia.
13th Air Force. Maj. Gen. NathanF. Twining, Guadalcanal, South
Pacific.
RAF heavy bombers have destroyed two locks of the important Rhine-Heren
barge canal and paralysed Germany's principal artery for transporting
Ruhr coal to Amsterdam, dispatches from Stockholm said yesterday.
Reports reaching Cairo yesterday said German troops have shot several Greeks
on Crete and arrested hundreds of others as a result of street fighting following
recent USAAF raids on airfields near Salonika.
THE STARS AND STRIPES
Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations
New York, N.Y.—London, England Saturday, July 3, 1943
Jap New Georgia Headquarters Struck
U.S. Calls Advances
Merely Preparatory
To Major Offensive
Foe's Munda Airport
Menaced by Planes,
Artillery, Troops
WASHINGTON, July 2
American dive-bombers hammered today at what was believed to be the headquarters
of Japanese forces on New Georgia Island, four miles from the
big air field at Munda, as ground forces continued mopping-up operations
on nearby Rendova Island and other scattered points of resistance.
Authoritative sources here, meanwhile, emphasized that the sudden
American sweep northward through the Solomons was not a major offensive in
itself, but rather a prelude to such an offensive.
Rejecting the much-criticized and necessarily slow "island-to-island"
policy, the United States forces have attempted to gain bases—particularly airfields—
from which a real offensive can be launched, it was said.
Air Score: 123 to 25
These Outfits May Be
In New Pacific Drive
Here are identification numbers of several Army and Air Force units and
their commanders which already have been disclosed in previous Stars and
Stripes news stories as based in .the South and Southwest Pacific. Undoubtedly
these organizations are included in the U.S. forces now taking
part in ;he Solomons and New Guinea offensive.
25th Division—Maj. Gen. Joseph Collins, Guadalcanal.
32nd Division—Commander not given, New Guinea.
Sixth Army—Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger, Australia.
5th Air Force—Maj. Gen. Ennis C. Whitehead, Australia.
13th Air Force. Maj. Gen. NathanF. Twining, Guadalcanal, South
Pacific.
Reports reaching Cairo yesterday said German troops have shot several Greeks
on Crete and arrested hundreds of others as a result of street fighting following
recent USAAF raids on airfields near Salonika.
Allied Air Attacks Crippling
Nazis9 War Transport System
RAF heavy bombers have destroyed two locks of the important Rhine-Heren
barge canal and paralysed Germany's principal artery for transporting
Ruhr coal to Amsterdam, dispatches from Stockholm said yesterday.
This information, disclosed a day after news of the smashing of Germany's
key U-boat base at Wilhelmshaven, emphasized the hammering being given
to all forms of German transportation, a strategy pointed up by new RAF
attacks yesterday on railway targets in northern France, Belgium and Holland.
The part American airmen are playing in this campaign against Hitler's supply
lines within his "fortress" was evident in an Eighth Air Force communique announcing
that P47 Thunderbolts shot down four FW190s in sweeps over north
France and the Low Countries late Thursday, probably destroyed another and
damaged five more.
Germans Shoot
Greek Leaders
Of Crete Riots
Disorders Follow USAAF
Raids Near Salonika;
Cagliari Bombed o
Reports reaching Cairo yesterday said German troops have shot several Greeks
on Crete and arrested hundreds of others as a result of street fighting following
recent USAAF raids on airfields near Salonika.
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