July 29, 1944; Robots Bring Death in Southern England:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JULY 29, 1944:

 

BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1944

B-29s in

Anshan

Day Raid

Planes Strike Palau;

Marine Invaders of

Guam, Tinian Advance

WASHINGTON. July 29. (U.P)—

The Superfortress raid on Japanes industrial targets nt Anshan, Manchuria, and Tangku, China, achieved good results and- our losses were "extremely light," the

war department announced today.

By VERX HAUGLAND

Associated Press War Editor Striking boldly at the industrial heart of the enemy,

Superfortresses raided Japan's great arsenals in Manchuria for the first time today.

Four hours after the war department announced B-29 raids upon the Mukden area

of Manchuria, the Tokyo radio acknowledged attacks upon the important industrial cities of Anshan and Peuhsihu,. in .eastern Manchuria. The war department withheld details.

The jumbled Tokyo broadcast indicated that the Japanese may have claimed the destruction of one of the bombers, and added, "no material damage was suffered by industrial installations, but residential quarters sustained some slight damage."

Anshan is an iron and steel center of 200,000 population. Penhsihu produces coal and cement. The B-29S hit in daylight today, in contrast to their two previous strikes—June 15 and July 1—both against Japan, at night.

Attack on Palau

Tokyo radio had other bad news to report—an attack by 500 carrierbased planes upon Palau Friday, and a simultaneous strike by 20 carrier planes "south of Palau." There was no Allied confirmation of these raids. American carrier planes attacked Palau. 530 miles east of the Philippines, Tuesday and Wednesday, destroying 26 Japanese planes and sinking a destroyer and seven smaller vessels.

German

Attack Is

Smashed

American Forces

Rush Past Coutances

for 8-Mile Gain

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,

AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, July 29 (U. P.) —

American armor defeated the Germans in a big tank battle in western Normandy

today and resumed .the powerful drive which had captured Coutances and carried to the sea, trapping thousands of Nazi troops in a pocket to the north.

The first major German counteraction

against the First Army offensive fanning out through Normandy VMS crushed decisively in an hourslong battle of United States Shermans and German Tigers and Panthers some 11 miles' south of St. Lo near the east bank of the Vire river

in the vicinity of Tessy-Sur-Vire. Normandy information at supreme headquarters late today was outdated by front reports of the big tank battle, and American advances beyond the points mentioned by spokesman here.

The spokesman said the Americans captured St. Malo dc la Lande, 3 1/2

miles northwest of Coutances, and reached the coast in that area. They

reached the area of Lengronne, 2 ½ ,miles west of St. Denis le Cast, and southeast of St. Lo advanced a mile in the area of St. Jean den Baisants

 

Death Strikes in Robot

Form Near Correspondents

REPORTERS GIVE VIVID DESCRIPTION

OF RESCUE WORK IN RUBBLE FOLLOWING HIT

By COLLIE SMALL and J. EDWARD MURRAY

United Press War Correspondents

LONDON, July 29. (AP)—

The Nazis adopted a new "mass attack" technique in hurling flying bombs at London and southern England during the night, sending the robots over in batches with brief lulls between each onslaught. The attacks took a fresh toll of casualties, including patients in a hospital which was badly damaged. Among the victims were nurses, some of whom despite their injuries, helped volunteer rescue squads carry patients from the hospital under showers of sparks and red hot embers.

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