Current Events November 4, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY: 4, 1943:

 Republican candidates apparently made a clean sweep in Tuesday's off-year elections in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Kentucky, early and unofficial returns disclosed today.The victories, which gave the Republicans a majority of governorships for the first time since 1928, were

The biggest force of heavy bombers yet sent out by the Eighth Air Force bombed targets in northwest Germany yesterday. The target was Wilhelmshaven, the Eighth Air Force announced late las night.

Marauder mediums simultaneously hammered two enemy airfields in France and one in Holland.

Four or five British or American battleships, three or four aircraft-carriers, seven or eight heavy cruisers and more than ten destroyers were said to have been transferred from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, according to-German radio quoting Tokyo reports yesterday

The Navy Department has announced the light cruiser Savannah had been damaged and some members of the crew killed and wounded when she was hit by a German bomb off Salerno



           Republicans Sweep Off-Year Elections in 4 States
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                   Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations
Vol. 4 No. 3                            New York, N.Y.—London, England                       Thursday, Nov. 4,1943
              8th Air Force on Biggest Raid

Smash Into Germany
Ends Lull in Attacks;
Airfields on Coast Hit
More Than 1,000 Planes—Heavy Bombers,
Mediums, P47s, P38s-Are Flung
Into Massive Day Assaults
The biggest force of heavy bombers yet sent out by the Eighth Air Force bombed targets in northwest Germany yesterday. The target was Wilhelmshaven, the Eighth Air Force announced late las night.
Marauder mediums simultaneously hammered two enemy airfields in France and one in Holland.
The official description of the raiding force as "the largest yet despatched" was interpreted, on the basis of past performance, as indicating that more than 1,000 United States planes were involved in the day's activities, including heavy bombers, mediums and P47 and P38 escorts.
Wilhelmshaven is by far the most important naval base on Germany's North Sea coast. It is a base forminesweepers and escort vessels, and the Germans have been building a considerable number of submarines in the shipyards, among which are the Marien Werft and the Deutsche Werke.
Both Fortresses and Liberators made the trip to Wilhelmshaven and were escorted all the way by P47s and P3Ss. The losses to the raiding force were exceptionally light—five heavies, two mediums and two fighters.The Eighth Air Force made six previous raids on Wilhelmshaven. They were on Jan. 27, Feb. 26, March 22, May 21, June 11 and July 26.
Large forces of Marauders, escorted by Spitfires, attacked two airfields in France, St. Andre de 1'Eure and Tricqueville. St. Andre is 50 miles west of Paris and about 75 miles into France. St. Andre was one of the three targets in their last operation Oct. 24.
Changing pace against the Germans, the Marauders returned to their regular RAF Spitfire escort. In the last sweep the escort was augmented for the first time by Fortress-style Thunderbolt escort and twin-engined P38 Lightnings.
The operations followed by less than 24 hours the great assault by Fortresses and Liberators from North Africa on the Messerschmitt factories at Wiener Neustadt, near Vienna. Reports from Allied headquarters in North Africa last night said that the plants had been virtually destroyed and that it was reasonable to assume that they never would turn out another German fighter plane.
The raid on Germany was the first operation for the American heavy bombers here since Oct. 20, when the
Fortresses struck Duren in western Germany and the Gilze-Rejen airfield in Holland.

FDR Choice
Is Trounced
In New York
Hague-Backed Candidate
Beaten in New Jersey;
Kentucky Goes GOP
NEW YORK, Nov. 3—
Republican candidates apparently made a clean sweep in Tuesday's off-year elections in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Kentucky, early and unofficial returns disclosed today.The victories, which gave the Republicans a majority of governorships for the first time since 1928, were
viewed by GOP leaders as evidence that I942's anti-administration trend was continuing and they expressed confidence that it would prevail in the Presidential contest next year.
With the exception of Indiana, the GOP now controls the state governments of every populous state outside the "solid South." Of the 48 governors, 25 are Republicans, 23 are Democrats.
                                                      'Tired of New Deal'—Willkie
Wendell Willkie, defeated Republican presidential candidate in the 1940 election, said the returns of the election "all point one way—the country is very tired of the present national administration.

Allies Switch Big Fleet
 To the Far East, Japs Say
Four or five British or American battleships, three or four aircraft-carriers, seven or eight heavy cruisers and more than ten destroyers were said to have been transferred from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, according to-German radio quoting Tokyo reports yesterday.
At the same time, Associated Press from La Linea, Spain, said an unidentified Italian battleship arrived in Gibraltar from the Mediterranean to join other Italian vessels anchored there. Sixty-two merchantmen were in Gibraltar yesterday, some en route to the Atlantic, others toward Africa and southern Italy.

Cruiser Savannah Hit
By Bomb Off Salerno
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (AP)—
The Navy Department has announced the light cruiser Savannah had been damaged and some members of the crew killed and wounded when she was hit by a German bomb off Salerno.
The bomb landed on top of a gun turret and started a fire that was brought under control within 20 minutes. In spite of the hit, the ship carried on in support of landing troops and continued to operate effectively.