Current Events February 27, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY FEBRUARY 27, 1944:

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

The week's stupendous Allied air offensive against Germany had ended in a great victory, knocking out the. Germans' airplane industry to a point where it no longer can replace battle losses, a high American air force spokesman declared in London Saturday night.

 By ASSOCIATED PRESS

American warships: shelled Kavieng for the third time while heavy bombers blasted at the heart of Rabaul, General Douglas MacArthur disclosed Saturday night, as Axis radios reported that a violent battle is being fought for Guam, one of the central Pacific islands which the Japs captured from a small American force early in the war

Ariel Offensive

Leaves Germany

Shy Replacement

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

The week's stupendous Allied air offensive against Germany had ended in a great victory, knocking out the. Germans' airplane industry to a point where it no longer can replace battle losses, a high American air force spokesman declared in London Saturday night.

As he talked, 14 of the nost important aircraft production centers in Naziland lay charred and shattered by recurrent hurricanes of bombs.

Hitler rushes to Reversed Area

Simultaneously, continued good military news from the ' Russian front was spiced by it report from the French radio In Algiers which quoted a Swedish source that Adolf  Hitler had dashed to northern Russia to see why his legions were retreating so rapidly.

Yank Warships

Shell Kavieng;

Sink More Ships

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

American warships: shelled Kavieng for the third time while heavy bombers blasted at the heart of Rabaul, General Douglas MacArthur disclosed Saturday night, as Axis radios reported that a violent battle is being fought for Guam, one of the central Pacific islands which the Japs captured from a small American force early in the war.

The U'S navy offered neither confirmation nor denial of the Berlin broadcast that a fight for Guam has been under way for days.

 Sink Ship; Fire Two

Fviday night, however, the navy  department had reported that Guam was attacked Fob 22 in the carrier force strike at the Mariana islands..

 American destroyers, unhampered by either Jap worships or planes, sank one ship and left two  in flames in the Kavieng ,harbor

on the northern Up of New Ireland,

 Another cargo vessel was left sinking off nearby New Hanover  island. Gen MacArthur said.

Report Japs in Flight

The Japanese were reported pulling out of both Kavieng and Rabaul, where Adm Wm F Halsley’s bombers turned from blasting airdromes to hitting the weakening enemy base," in the city itself.