Japan's highly prized Salamaucc airdrome on the northeastern New Guinea
coast is in allied hands today and fall oi the grimly defended town of
Salamaua itself appears imminent.
Adolf Hitler announced tonight that German parchutists
and other Elite troops snatched Benito Mussolini from imprisonment today
and thus "frustrated" a plan by the Pietro Badoglio government to turn
the former Italian premier over to the allies for trial.
Hitler Forces 'Liberate' Mussolini
LONG BEACH INDEPENDENT
Long Beach, California, Monday, September 13, 1943
SALAMAUA AIRDROME
WRESTED FROM JAPS
Yanks and Aussies Smash Through
Jungle to Threaten Big Nip Base
- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Sept. 13.—(Monday)—(INS)—
Japan's highly prized Salamaucc airdrome on the northeastern New Guinea coast is in allied hands today and fall oi the grimly defended town of Salamaua itself appears imminent.
Capture of the vital Salamaua airdrome by American and Australian jungle fighters was announced by Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur in his morning communique, which also told of new allied successes across the Huon gulf at Lae, where approximately 20,000 Japanese troops have been trapped by MacArthur's encircling forces.
Duce Free to Take Italy in Hand Again,
Nazi Radio Boast After Daring Rescue
LONDON, Sept. 12.—(INS)—
Adolf Hitler announced tonight that German parchutists and other Elite troops snatched Benito Mussolini from imprisonment today and thus "frustrated" a plan by the Pietro Badoglio government to turn the former Italian premier over to the allies for trial.
Hitler's communique, according to the Berlin broadcast recorded jxvho had been imprisoned by a clique of traitors." "German parachutists, men of the security service and armed .SS today performed an operation for the liberation of Benito Mussolini,
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