SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUARTERS,
Kandy, Ceylon, (AP) —
Powerful American warships—including
a sizable force of deadly carriers—were disclosed Saturday to be operating in
the Indian Ocean and to have teamed up with other Allied naval units in the
blow that caught the Japanese offguard at Sumatra at dawn Wednesday.
ALLIED Headquarters Naples. (AP)
—
Italy-based night flying RAF Liberators and
Wellingtons have teamed up with daylight Ameuean Liberators in pressing through
another 24 hours" their,, incessant pounding of Axis~commumcations in the
Balkans- ''and in Northern Italy Allied headqusrters announced
Saturday.
LONDON, (AP) —
Pre-invasion fleets of nearly
4,000 American and Allied bombers and fighters smashed the German rail center of
Hamm, coastal fortifications in France, and airfields in Belgium and France Saturday
in history's greatest aerial offensive, which apparently still was under way
early Sunday after a week in which 29,000 tons of explosives had been hurled
onto Hitler's continental ramparts.
PARIS, TEXAS/SUNDAY MORNING,
APRIL 23, 1944.
Allied Planes Hit Installations
At Lhong Airfield on Sumatra
SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUARTERS,
Kandy, Ceylon, (AP) —
Powerful American warships—including
a sizable force of deadly carriers—were disclosed Saturday to be operating in
the Indian Ocean and to have teamed up with other Allied naval units in the
blow that caught the Japanese offguard at Sumatra at dawn Wednesday.
(American pilots outnumbered the
British two to one in the Sumatra attack which, Ieft huge fires burning in '
the inner harbor at Sabang, said Associated Press Correspondent Eugene Burns,
who was aboard an American carieer during the raid.)
The first formidable assault against
the Japanese from the direction of Ceylon, headquarters announced, was
delivered by planes launched by British and American flat tops protected by British
and French battleships and lighter units of the U. S. British and Dutch navies.
Installations at Sabang, on the island
of We, off the northern tip of Sumatra, and at Lhong airfield on Sumatra itself
were smashed by explosives from the Allied planes. The attack was preceded by a diversionary
raid on Port Blair, in the Andaman Islands 300 miles northwest of Sumatra, by
India based American Liberator bombers.
Prime Rail Targets
At Bucharest Hit
Despite Bad Weather
ALLIED Headquarters Naples. (AP)
—
Italy-based night flying RAF Liberators and
Wellingtons have teamed up with daylight Ameuean Liberators in pressing through
another 24 hours" their,, incessant pounding of Axis~commumcations in the
Balkans- ''and in Northern Italy Allied headqusrters announced
Saturday.
The beginning of the fourth month since the Allied beachhead landings at Anzio, which brought the Allied
armies nearest to any of the Axis-held capitals in Continental Europe, found
the stalemate continuing on the ground along the entire Italian front and the
Mediterranean air force alone carrying the offensive to the enemy.
Pre-lnvasion Air
Fleets Blast at
Hamm Rail Center
Bombing
Represents
History's
Greatest
Aerial
Offensive
LONDON, (AP) —
Pre-invasion fleets of nearly
4,000 American and Allied bombers and fighters smashed the German rail center of
Hamm, coastal fortifications in France, and airfields in Belgium and France Saturday
in history's greatest aerial offensive, which apparently still was under way
early Sunday after a week in which 29,000 tons of explosives had been hurled
onto Hitler's continental ramparts.
A U. S. air force bulletin issued
early Sunday morning said "satisfactory results" were achieved in the
main strike at Hamm by nearly 2,000 Flying Fortresses and
Liberators escorted by
Thunderbolt, Mustang and Lightning fighters, But failed to mention any aircraft
losses.
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