Current Events January 12, 1944

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY JANUARY 12, 1944:

United States Eighth Air Force lost 64 planes in yesterdays air battle over Germany, it was announced

officially tonight.

Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin's first army of the Ukraine has stormed and captured Sarney, key rail junction 36

miles inside old Poland, cutting the German-held trunk railway linking the southern and northern fronts,

Soviet Premier Josef Stalin announced today. Stalin Issued a special order of the day commending Vatutin for the capture yesterday of Sarny, which he called a "large rail junction and important German defense base."

                   VALPARAISO, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1944

 Over 100 Of
Foe Downed
Over Reich
More Than 700 Bombers
Take Part in Giant Aerial
Battles. LONDON, Jan. 12, — (UP)—'
United States Eighth Air Force lost 64 planes in yesterdays air battle over Germany, it was announced
officially tonight.
An American headquarters announcement said 59 bombers and five fighters were missing. More than 100 enemy interceptor planes were destroyed by American Flying Fortresses, the announcement revealed.
 It was not immediately clear how many planes the Germans lost altogether, since the estimate of more than 100 did not: include those destroyed by U. S. and British fighter escorts.
The targets of the raiding fleet were German fighter assembly plants at Oschecsleben, Halberladt. and Brunswick, as wall a  other objectives.
Excellent bombing results were observed, the Ammerican communique said.

 Sarny, Rail
Junction, In
Russ Hands
Key City Captured By Gen.
Vatutin's Army, Stalin
Announces.
LONDON. Jan. 12.—(UP)—
Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin's first army of the Ukraine has stormed and captured Sarney, key rail junction 36
miles inside old Poland, cutting the German-held trunk railway linking the southern and northern fronts,
Soviet Premier Josef Stalin announced today. Stalin Issued a special order of the day commending Vatutin for the capture yesterday of Sarny, which he called a "large rail junction and important German defense base."
The vanguard of Russian forces driving far west of the prewar Polish frontier stormed into Sarny and crushed German resistance after forcing the formidable Slucz river fortifications,
By capturing Sarny, on the Wilno-Rowne and Kiev-Warsaw railroads, the Russians forced the nazis to rely on the road through Kowel 82 miles westward for lateral transport.