Current Events September 10, 1943:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY SEPTEMBER 10, 1943:

Strong American and British forces under U. S. Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark hammered out a bridgehead near Naples today in a dawn landing that overpowered a number of stoutly resisting German troops embittered by Italy's unconditional surrender.

(A Swiss Telegraphic Agency dispatch from Chiasso, on the Italian border, said the Italian garrison at Genoa was sharply resisting German troops, who were said to have occupied the entire city. Other reports said German divisions were advancing toward all the principal ports on the Ligurian sea above Naples as a precaution against more Allied landings.)

Adolph Hitler, trapped in the center of his own wavering European fortress, was reported to have called a hurried war conference today at which it was decided to reinforce the Po river line in Italy and fight there to the last man.

Major Alexander P. de Seversky, hailing Italy's capitulation as a "victory through airpower" for the Allies, believes 3,000 super-planes larger than the 70-ton Martin Mars flying boat can turn the
same trick against Japan. Germany, he believes, can be blasted out of the war by the aerial route in less than a year.

Australian troops have closed to within two miles of the Malahang airdrome at Lae, New Guinea, and the
Japanese defenses of Lae have been reduced "to practical ruin" by more than 500 tons of bombs dropped by Allied planes in less than a week.


        Titusville Herald
                                TITUSVILLE, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT. 10, 1943

Allies Establish Firm Foothold in Naples Vicinity;
Italian Warships Reported Fleeing to Allied Ports

Americans
And British
Battle Nazis
Near Naples
Troops Led by Clark
Capture Prisoners;
Progress Satisfactory,
Allied Bulletin Says
SINKING OF CRUISER
CLAIMED BY GERMANS
Italians Reported
Resisting Germans
At Genoa Garrison
Map of Southern Italy Will Be
Found Today on Page Eight.
by The Associated Press ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 9—
Strong American and British forces under U. S. Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark hammered out a bridgehead near Naples today in a dawn landing that overpowered a number of stoutly resisting German troops embittered by Italy's unconditional surrender.
Allied reinforcements were reported tonight still streaming ashore. "Operations are proceeding satisfactorily,"
said an Allied communique of this daring stroke one-third of the way up the Italian peninsula.
The troops led by Clark, hero of the submarine mission to North Africa that paved the way for the successful Allied invasion there last November, are in contact with German forces and. prisoners. have been taken," the bulletin added." The disembarkation of troops with their guns and vehicles is proceeding according to plan.
(Berlin said the landing was in Salerno gulf and broadcast a report from the International Information Bureau that German planes attacking landing barges and warships had sunk one Allied cruiser. There was no Allied
confirmation of this Nazi propaganda agency report.
                                                        Italians Resist Germans
(A Swiss Telegraphic Agency dispatch from Chiasso, on the Italian border, said the Italian garrison at Genoa was sharply resisting German troops, who were said to have occupied the entire city. Other reports said German divisions were advancing toward all the principal ports on the Ligurian sea above Naples as a precaution against more Allied landings.)
Before the troops struck the shore near Naples three waves of Flying
Fortresses had destroyed the German military nerve center at Frascat, 12 miles outside Rome, in a neat culmination of events that has staggered the Axis both politically and militarily.
The paralyzing blow at Frascati.

Hitler Plans
Stern Fight
In N.Italy
Germans Move Swiftly
To Seize Many Cities
To Offset Allied Gains
ADMIT ITALIANS
RESISTING THEM
But Claim Situation
In Italy Generally
Under German Control
By The Associated Press
LONDON, Sept. 9—
Adolph Hitler, trapped in the center of his own wavering European fortress, was reported to have called a hurried war conference today at which it was decided to reinforce the Po river line in Italy and fight there to the last man.
Apparently determined to make Italy a bloody battlefield despite her capitulation, Germany moved swiftly to seize important communication centers and strategic points to offset gains already made by Allied landing forces and appeals to Italian forces to turn against their former Allies.
Berlin, announced that Italian troops had occupied the vital Brenner Pass and with announcement that some key communications were held by Italians "loyal to the Axis." intimated that the pass itself might be in friendly hands.
Civilian railway traffic between the two countries was halted by the Germans.
                                                   Occupy Dalmatian
Germany also swung quickly into action across the Adriatic, occupying the Dalmatian area of Yugoslavia's
southwestern coast in an attempt to block any Allied invasion of the Balkans through that gateway. The seizure, the broadcast said "was carried out with the aid-Of Croat puppets.

Russians Take
Key Nazi Center
Of N. Ukraine
LONDON, Friday, Sept. 10.—
Russian armies have stormed into-Bakhmach, key railroad junction on the road to Kiev, squeezed a menacing ise on Bryansk and dashed to within 60 miles of the Dnieper river in a swift advance from the liberated Donets basin in the south, Moscow reported today.
More than 300 towns and villages were captured and more than 4,100 Germans were killed in the day's victories that saw the Soviet armies push into the town of Nedrigailov, 20 miles
east of Romni, and capture Lyudinovo, 45 miles north of Bryansk.
A German radio report, meanwhile, told of a new Russian threat in the south. It said Soviet troops made
landings along the Sea of Azov coast south of Stalino, which would be in the vicinity of Mariupol. TheGermans said the beachhead was "sealed off and the Russians were "facing annihilation."






Seversky Says 3,000 Super-Planes
Could Blast Japan to Defeat
by The Associated Prtm
BALTIMORE, Sept. 9.—
Major Alexander P. de Seversky, hailing Italy's capitulation as a "victory through airpower" for the Allies, believes 3,000 super-planes larger than the 70-ton Martin Mars flying boat can turn the
same trick against Japan. Germany, he believes, can be blasted out of the war by the aerial route in less than a year.
"Man for man and gun for gun we probably can defeat the Japanese in the kind of warfare in which they are proficient, to which they are used, on land and on the sea.
"But why waste the lives and the time when Japan probably could be defeated by 3,000 planes of the proper size and design. On the other hand, It could tukc 500,000 little planes lo do the job."
The giant planes needed defeat Japan are "something we don't have but could have had," continued the
noted advocate of aerial offensive as a major military weapon. De Seversky, in Baltimore in connection
with the opening of "victory through/ alrpower," a Walt Disney adaptation of his book by that name,
said in an interview that he did not believe that Germany ever would be invaded, but would merely be "occupied" when the time comes, just as Italy is now being occupied.
The war speed and stunt flyer said the Italian surrender became inevitable when the Allied planes took over supremacy of the skies. "Victory through airpower does not mean the destruction of a nation," He held, adding that conquest could be accomplished by "assuming control of the air over the enemy's territory and hold-Ing over Win the power to destroy,"

Allied Forces
Within 2 Miles
Of Lae Airfield
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Friday, Sept. 10—UP)—
Australian troops have closed to within two miles of the Malahang airdrome at Lae, New Guinea, and the
Japanese defenses of Lae have been reduced "to practical ruin" by more than 500 tons of bombs dropped by Allied planes in less than a week. Softening up the enemy air and shipping base 'for capture by forces advancing virtually unopposed from both the northeast and northwest through difficult jungle terrain, Allied Liberators and Mitchells have demolished enemy artillery, destroyed or disrupted installations and heavily punished the Japanese garrison, headquarters said today.
New big guns are being rolled forward to add their fire power in devastating the isolated enemy garrison.