Sixteen men from the Alameda Naval
Air Station were rescued last night from rubber life rafts 300 miles off the
Pacific Coast after their Navy bomber went down on a flight from Alameda to
Hawaii.
LONDON. April 13.-
Simferopol. Yevpatoriya and
Feodosiya have fallen to rapidly advancing Red Army troops in the Crimea.
Marshal 5talin announced in three orders of the day.
Simferopol, capital of the
Crimes. 35 miles north of the naval base of Sevastopol, was described as
"the main strong point of enemy defenses guarding the pass to the port of
the southern coast of the Crimean peninsula" in the third order of the day
LONDON, April 13.—(AP)—
U.S. planes, totaling
probably 2000, landed a double blow at German aircraft production
today, striking from Italy at works in Hungary and from Britain
at important plants in Germany.
(Editor's note: The position of
Allied troops fighting to hold Imphal was uncertain today. In Washington, D.C.,
Secretary of War Stimson reported that the Japanese have cut -the road between
Imphal and Kohima and are attacking both towns, but a communique from New Delhi
said counter-attacking Allied troops have driven the enemy from a .strong
position southwest of Imphal.)
NEW YORK. April 13.-(AP)—
United States airmen held captive
in Germany are being fed underhanded Nazi propaganda through fake "prisoners"
newspapers distributed as though they were exchanges between different camps,
newspapers The two small printed in English, are called "Okay" and
"The Camp News.
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA,
THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1944
Bomber
Falls
Into
Sea on
Hawaii
Flight
Surface Ships Find
Men at Dawn, Take
All Aboard Safely
Sixteen men from the Alnmeda Naval
Air Station were rescued last night from rubber life rafts 300 miles off the
Pacific Coast after their Navy bomber went down on a flight from Alameda to
Hawaii.
Oil trouble in the starboard
engine caused the difficulty, according to Iuet.. W. R. Briggs, pilot of the craft.
The ship fell into the sea just as the radioman was sending an SOS.
A fleet of ships and planes
immediately set out to hunt for the fliers, but it wasn't until 44 hours
later that Comdr. John D. Andrews
and his destroyer crew came upon the wreckage.
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SEVASTOPOL OUTPOSTS FALL;
2000
U.S. PLANES OVER EUROPE
Ovidiopol, on
Last Escape
Route. Taken
Ovidiopol, on
Last Escape
Route. Taken
LONDON. April 13. — (AP)—
The
capture of Ovidiopol, on the Dnester Gulf southwest of Odessa and on the last
German escape route from that area, was announced
by
Moscow tonight.
By TOM YARBROUGH
LONDON. April 13.-
Simferopol. Yevpatoriya and
Feodosiya have fallen to rapidly advancing Red Army troops in the Crimea.
Marshal 5talin announced in three orders of the day.
Simferopol, capital of the
Crimes. 35 miles north of the naval base of Sevastopol, was described as
"the main strong point of enemy defenses guarding the pass to the port of
the southern coast of the Crimean peninsula" in the third order of the day.
Simferopol, capital of the
Crimea. 35 miles north of the naval base of Sevastopol, was described as
"the main strong point of enemy defenses guarding the pass to the portof
the southern coast of the Crimean peninsula" in the third order of the day.
Stalin said it was captured by a "vigorous attack by tank formations and infantry" which were pushing rapidly
toward Sevastopol, captured by the Germans July 3, 1942, after nine months'
siege.
Yevpatoriya is on the west coast
42 miles north of Sevastopol, and Feodosiya
is on the south coast, 100 miles east of the naval base.
18-MILE
SPRINT
Feodosiya fell to the maritime army of Gen. Andrei' I.' Yeremenko, which
"broke through the enemy defenses" at Akmanai on the Kerch Peninsula
in an 18-mile sprint.
Yevpatoriya tumbled before Gen, Feodor
I. Tolbukhin's Fourth Ukrainian Army which delivered a "bold blow struck
by tank formations and infantry," Stalin said.
Battle
Line
Fluctuates
on
India
Front
(Editor's note: The position of
Allied troops fighting to hold Imphal was uncertain today. In Washington, D.C.,
Secretary of War Stimson reported that the Japanese have cut -the road between
Imphal and Kohima and are attacking both towns, but a communique from New Delhi
said counter-attacking Allied troops have driven the enemy from a .strong
position southwest of Imphal.)
(United Press reported a Tokyo
radio broadcast claiming that Japanese
troops advancing from the north
along Imphal highway had occupied Kanglatengi. identified by the enemy
broadcast as the northern gate to Imphal. The broadcast said that east of
Imphal Japanese troops captured a fortress near Puel.)
Japs Cut India Road,
Stimson Reports
WASHINGTON. April 13—
Army Secretary of State- Stimson said today that Japanese troops
had cut the road between Imphal and Kohima and "are attacking both towns."
He observed He observed at the
press conference where he made the disclosure that "it is not too
difficult" for troops to penetrate in areas of
the hills and jungles. A linear
defense at Imphal. he said, could not be employed, but it Is possible in much
fighting to retain certain strong points of defense. Thus far, he added,
British and Indian troops are holding the strong points.
He said that "substantial reserves
of men and weapons are available" in
the area.
(page 16)
Nazis
Feed Subtle Propaganda to Captured
U.S.
Fliers, but Airmen Keep Up Morale
By MEL MOST
(Recently returned
from internment in Germany)
NEW YORK. April 13.-(AP)—
United States airmen held captive
in Germany are being fed underhanded Nazi propaganda through fake "prisoners"
newspapers distributed as though they were exchanges between different camps,
newspapers The two small printed in English, are called "Okay" and
"The Camp News."
They purport to be written by American
prisoners in other camps and contain various innocent bits of news from America
that reach Germany.
But the airmen I spoke to from prison
camps said they also contain subtle Nazi propaganda.
No copies of these newspapers are
known to have come out of Germany as yet. Only 18 American fliers have been
released from German imprisonment so far, and we spent nine days on the
Gripsholm with them.
NO
WRITTEN MATTER
None was allowed to take any written
matter on his person when he left camp. And it is extremely unlikely that any
who may have escaped would have loaded themselves with printed souvenirs.
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