SYRACUSE,
N. Y MONDAY EVENING, 'APRIL 24, 1944
Mighty
Processions Blast
at
Germany, Yugoslavia,
Romania
3-PRONGED
ATTACK
In
Pre-Invasion Offensive Is
Carried
to Eighth Day
London. April 21 (UP).—
An estimated 3,000 American war
planes swarmed over Europe today in mighty processions paced by fouur –engined bombers
which struck heavy blows at Munich and Friedrichrhafen in Germany,
Bucharest and Plosti in Romania, and the
Yugo-
slav capital of Belgrade.
The five -pronged main assault by
United States Air Forces strike from
Britain and Italy carried unbroken pre-invasion against
the continent through it’s
eighth straight day and probably
to a new peak of intensity.
Japanese
Army of 60,000
Below
Hollandia Cut
Off
by Invaders
AIR AND NAVY HELP
Terrific
Shelling From
Sea
and Bombing Pre-
cede
Landings
Advanced Allied Headquarters,
New Guinea, April 24 (UP).—
The; largest American invasion
army of the Southwest Pacific war has captured
three airstrips and is closing in
on the big Hollandia air base in Dutch New Guinea, following''. A triple
landing that carried Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces 500 miles closer to the
Philippines, it was revealed today.
The main invasion force captured
the town of Hollandia and its emergency airstrip only a few hours alter landing
in Humboldt Bay on the north coast of New
Guinea, Saturday, then joined
another column that pushed ashore at Tenahmerah Bay, 20 miles to the west, in a
pincers drive inland toward the Hollandia air base.
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