Apr 19, 1944; Anzio Beachhead attacked:

HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1944

NEARLY 2,000 U.S.

PLANES STORMING

CONTINENT TODAY

By PHIL AULT,

United Press Correspondent

London, April 19. —

American bombers and fighters nearly 2,000 strong capped a pre-invasion parade of 5,000 Allied warplanes over Adolf Hitler's European fortress within 24 hours with a six-pronged assault today an Nazi air force lairs deep in Germany.

For the second straight day up to 1,000 Flying Fortresses and Liberators flanked . by fighters in like strength smashed at Germany a few hours after 1,000 British bombers lashed the continent from burning Berlin to the French coast.

Again, as in yesterday's assault on Berlin, the United States aerial fleet battled

through. intercepting German fighter squadrons to drive home the heavy blows on aircraft factories at Kassel and five plane parking- grounds to the southeast

and northwest.

Russian Armies Storm

Sevastopol From Three

Sides In Climax Drive

By M. S. HANDLER

United Press Correspondent

Moscow, April 19. —

Two Russian armies stormed Sevastopol from three sides today after smashing the last Axis resistance in the Crimea outside the. Historic naval base which front dispatches described as an inferno fired by Soviet siege guns and dive bombers.

Military advices said Sevastopol was the last. Crimean town in German hands, indicating that the Red armies had toppled the last' Axis .outposts and joined . to clamp an unbroken assault arc against the city proper.

The massed Russian forces also appeared to have negotiated the awkward turning of the Bay of Sevastopol, a protective barrier pushing two and one half miles

inland above the great Crimean port.

ANZIO BEACHHEAD

WEST LINE RAIDED

BY GERMAN TROOPS

By REYNOLDS PACKARD

Allied Headquarters, Naples,

April 19.—

German shock troops attacked the west flank of the Anzio beachhead yesterday, but were beaten back with heavy losses in a series of assaults on a narrow sector of the Allied front, a communique disclosed today.

Sporadic fighting flared along the beachhead front throughout the day, rising to its highest pitch shortly before dusk when the Nazis launched two relatively strong .attacks against an Allied forward position 2 1-2 miles southwest of Aprilia

SATAWAN AIRFIELD

KAYOED BY YANKS

IN CAROLINES AREA

By DON CASWELL

United Press War Correspondent

Allied Headquarters, Southwest

Pacific, April 19.—

American Liberators, flying a 2,000-mile round trip from the Solomons, temporarily- knocked out the airfield at Satawan, outlying Japanese post 150 miles southeast of Truk in the Carolines, it was 'announced today.

The big four engined bombers from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's command dropped 31 tons of explosives on the .Satawan airdrome without opposition Sunday, as

the Japanese failed to put up either aerial interception or antiaircraft fire.

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