Curren Events February 26, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY FEBRUARY 26, 1944:

London (UP)—

United States Air Forces shot down 142 German planes yesterday for a six-day bag of 641 in the record offensive carried through last night by British planes attacking Augsburg twice in a few hours after American bomb- «ri had hit the aircraft assembly center.

 BY THE ASSOCIATED) PRESS.

Few of Japan's cluster of island fortresses remained untouched today in the barrage of American attacks shaking the enemy's control! of the South-Central Pacific.

 BY THE UNITED PRESS.

The Japanese apparently were becoming apprehensive today for the safety of Tokyo in view of the far-flung operations of American aerial and naval forces in the Pacific

 TROY, N. Y., SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1944

BRITISH AIRMEN

SMASH AUGSBURG

IN TWO ATTACKS

More Than 17,000 Tons of

Bombs Dumped On Reich

This Week

London (UP)—

United States Air Forces shot down 142 German planes yesterday for a six-day bag of 641 in the record offensive carried through last night by British planes attacking Augsburg twice in a few hours after American bomb- «ri had hit the aircraft assembly center.

A communique announcing the results of yesterday's daylight air battles said the Nazis fought furiously "in a vain effort to protect vital remnants of German fighter production"—a significant disclosure that the week-long offensive had reduced Adolf Hitler's plane production facilities to "remnants."

The British reported the raid on Augsburg waa "in very great strength" and that heavy damage resulted. The city, ablaze from yesterday's daylight raid by U. S. bombers, is a center of aircraft

production.

77 American Planes Lost.

NAZI ARTILLERY

SHELLS ALLIES ON

ROME BEACHEAD

German Attack South of Cisterna

              Hurled Back,

                However

AMERICAN FLYERS

BLAST JAP BASES

OVER WIDE AREA

Nimitz Report Says Enemy

Attempts To Protect

Marianas Futile

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Few of Japan's cluster of island fortresses remained untouched today in the barrage of American attacks shaking the enemy's control! of the South-Central Pacific.

Disclosure that Guam was attacked in the Feb. 22 carrier strike j at the Mariana Islands widened the scope of the present offensive.

It added to the havoc left at Truk ' and other Caroline Islands, and to destruction piled up in the Marshalls where the Nipponese have ' been forced out of two important' atolls.

Japanese Worried

For Safety of Tokyo

BY THE UNITED PRESS.

The Japanese apparently were becoming apprehensive today for the safety of Tokyo in view of the far-flung operations of American aerial and naval forces in the Pacific.

Moscow radio, in a broadcast reported by the FCC, quoted the Japanese newsper Tokyo Shimbun that the evacuation of the Tokyo population was being carried out at a pace

"which cannot be considered satisfactory at the present moment when the enemy has approached the Marshall Islands."

"We are saying this because something unexpected might happen to Tokyo," the newspaper said, according to Moscow