May 23, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, MAY 23, 1944:

LONDON, May 22.—(AP)—

American heavy bombers and fighters, 2,000 strong, blasted the German submarine base at Kiel and the Pas de Calais fortifications on the Channel today

and knocked down 22 enemy fighters in a quick follow-up of the RAF's saturation raid by night on industrial Duisburg

NAPLES, May 22.—AP—

The Germans threw all the reserves at their immediate disposal into a counter-offensive against the Allied advance today and succeeded in driving the vanguard

of American forces out of Terracina, coastal gateway to the Pontine plain 58 miles from Rome.

 

Charleston, West Virginia,   Tuesday Morning,  May 23, 1944   

Reich Reserves Halt 5th on-Coast;

Bombers Blast Invasion Area, Kiel;

Japs Say Yanks Struck Marcus Isle

RAF Night Blow

Batters Duisburg

German Baltic Navy Base

Fired By Americans

LONDON, May 22.—(AP)—

American heavy bombers and fighters, 2,000 strong, blasted the German submarine base at Kiel and the Pas de Calais fortifications on the Channel today

and knocked down 22 enemy fighters in a quick follow-up of the RAF's saturation raid by night on industrial Duisburg.

Five bombers and eight fighters failed to return from these twin daylight missions, which brought to more than 17,000 tons the amount of bombs poured on shaken Europe.

in the last four days of aerial softening for the invasion. The RAF dropped 2,240 tons on often-bombed Duisburg alone.

Counter-Assault

Holds Terracina

5th Goes Steadily Ahead

Inland, as 8th Gains

NAPLES, May 22.—AP—

The Germans threw all the reserves at their immediate disposal into a counter-offensive against the Allied advance today and succeeded in driving the vanguard

of American forces out of Terracina, coastal gateway to the Pontine plain 58 miles from Rome.

Fierce fighting raged along the entire front as the last of 17 Nazi divisions (perhaps 170,000 men) below Rome and immediately north of the Italian 'Capital entered what may prove the climactic struggle for—Italy. An Allied spokesman declared the enemy had "nothing left in reserve south of Rome."

American patrols entered Terracina yesterday almost without a fight and it appeared the Germans were in full flight along the coastal sector, but the force of today's counter-attack caused the Yanks to withdraw from the town and take up positions 2 1-2 to 3 miles to the northeast, on the road to Fondi. Inland, however, American troops were reported continuing their advance through the mountains, while the Canadians pierced barbed wire entanglements in front of  Pontercorvo, bastion of the Hitler line in the Liri valley southwest of Cassino.

The Poles slugged into Fiedimonte. four miles west of Cassjno, and were reported mopping up the town.

Pico Under French Fire

French, troops took, lost and then recaptured Monte Leucio, four miles west of Pontecorvo on the road to Pico, and brought Pico under heavy attack.

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