German troops facing the new Allied assault by Gen. Mark W. Clark's 5th
Array in the Liri valley "have started to break, and enemy vehicles now
are 'reported moving northward," N.B.C. Correspondent Ralph Howard said
tonight in a broadcast from Naples
The central German industrial city of Magdeburg, twice destroyed by fire
centuries ago, once more was ablaze Saturday night after a terrific
hammering by the R.A.F. which brought to a climax a 'mighty 26-hour
aerial battle involving perhaps 3,000 Allied planes.
Aleutian-based bombers twice attacked the Paramushiro naval base, at the northern tip of the home islands of Nippon, in the early morning darkness Friday. (see maps below)
SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 23, 1944
Stalemate Before Cassino a
Believed Broken as Result
Of New Allied Beachheads
By Associated Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.—
German troops facing the new Allied assault by Gen. Mark W. Clark's 5th Array in the Liri valley "have started to break, and enemy vehicles now are'reported moving northward," N.B.C. Correspondent Ralph Howard said tonight in a broadcast from Naples.
"Although the effect, of the new landings up the; coast were not felt upon the Germans during the day," the correspondent said, "there were reports this evening that the Nazi vehicles have begun to move back."
The stalemate before Cassino has been ended because of the new Allied assault up the coast, he said, and
added: "Tonight the 5th Army is on the move again."
By Associated Press
ALLIED HDQRS.; ALGIERS, Jan. 22.—
American and British troops by the thousands landed practically without opposition on the beaches south of Rome and moved inland Saturday in a daring, successful seaborne blow that completely surprised the Germans and deeply outflanked the powerful "Gustav" and "Adolf Hitler" defense lines.
The Germans placed the scene standing with their mouths open 16 to 28 miles south of Rome on a 30-mile flat coast between the Tiber River mouth and the resort town of Nettuno, and they admitted
loss of Nettuno Harbor.
Allied headquarters merely said it was south of Rome but officiaily described the assault as "another phase in our objective to take Rome." The landing caught the Nazis by "complete surprise" and "constitute a grave
menace" to enemy communications, headquarters said.
Slight Resistance
Troops who splashed ashore met. "slight resistance" and are making "satisfactory progress" in their drive inland, it was announced hours after the predawn onslaught.
2,000 Tons
Of Bombs Hit
.Magdeburg
Big German Industrial
Center Left in
Flames by R.A.F.
By Associated Press
LONDON, Jan. 22. —
The central German industrial city of Magdeburg, twice destroyed by fire centuries ago, once more was ablaze Saturday night after a terrific hammering by the R.A.F. which brought to a climax a 'mighty 26-hour aerial battle involving perhaps 3,000 Allied planes.
Large sections of the city, a rail junction harboring a wide variety of war industries, were left in flames by a deluge of more than 2,000 long tons of explosives and incendiaries dropped with saturating effect in 34 minutes by planes which- flew more than 500 miles to reach their targets.
The assault brought to at least 6,300 tons the total weight of bombs hurled on Europe by Allied air armadas in two nights and a day. An R.A.F. assault,on Berlin Thursday night and an American heavy bomber pounding of the "rocket gun coast" of France Friday were the other principal raids.
American Bombers Raid Paramushiro,
Bases on Marshal Is and Rabaul Shipping
By Associated Press , . . .
. American bombers raided Japanese fortifications from Paramushiro to the equatorial Solomons and from the mid-Pacific Marshall Islands to Burma, Allied communiques announced Saturday.
Aleutian-based bombers twice attacked the Paramushiro naval base, at the northern tip of the home islands of Nippon, in the early morning darkness Friday. All the planes made the 1,000-mile round trip safely. A single plane and anti-aircraft fire meeting the first flight was the only opposition., • ' 'General MacArthur's airforce destroyed 15 planes during a raid on Rabaul, New Britain, Allied headquarters in New Guinea announced. The attackers lost six planes.
By Associated Press
ADVANCED ALLIED HDQRS.,
NEW GUINEA, New Guinea, Jan. 23.— WASHINGTON, Jan. , 22. PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 22.—
Destruction of 15 Japanese planes during a raid on Rabaul, New Britain, was reported today by General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters. The attackers lost six planes. In the Bismarck Sea north ot New Britain, Allied night patrol planes have sunk a 3,000 ton enemy freighter near the Admiralty Islands. This is in the same area where earlier In the week an ammunition ship and a small cargo vessel were destroyed.
On .Northeastern New Guinea,Australian troops in the Ramu Valley less than 50 miles from the enemy coastal base of Madang advanced along the Faria River.
• These Aussies thus resumed a drive which had been dormant since last October.
By Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. , 22.—
A new series of bombing attacks on Paramushiro apparently signalled Saturday the revival of a campaign to cripple this strong Japanese navy base in the North Pacific. Bombers which the navy frankly asserted were based in the Aleutians struck twice at the strongly fortified enemy position at the northern tip of the Kurile
Island chain in which the mainland of Japan lies. The raids were reported: Saturday in a comunique.
• Meantime, in the south, other Allied forces driving north and westward are aiming their ultimate blows at conquest of the enemy homeland.
By Associated Press
PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 22.—
Five of the Japanese-held Marshall Islands were pounded—without enemy interception—by American bombers Friday, the sixteenth consecutive day of aerial blows at this group of Central Pacific bases.
Low-flying Mitchell bombers gave Mili Atoll its twelfth raid of the month, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz reported Saturday, and Dauntless dive bombers attacked shore facilities and damaged three small vessels at Tmiet and Emidj Umieji) Islands of Jaluit atoll. Mill and Jaluit are nearest the American-held Gilbert Islands
to the south.
Mill's airfield, gun emplacements and living quarters were bombed and strafed at midday. Heavy bombers earlier in the day pounded Roi and Kwajalein Islands of Kwajalein Atoll.
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