Current Events December 23, 1942: REINFORCEMENTS LAND ON MALTA / RUSSIANS MOVE INTO UKRAINE / RAIDS CONTINUE AT BUNA AND RANGOON:

      REDS DRIVE ON ROSTOV

U. S. Planes Shower Bombs on Rangoon

The Bakersfield Californian

BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1942

(insert photo)

Subs,Planes

Smash Nazi

Vessels

Reinforcements of

Supply Landed on

Island of Malta

ALLIED Headquarters in North

Africa, Dec. 23. (AP)—Vigorous patrol

activity marked the battle of

Tunisia yesterday and "enemy artillery

has shelled some of our positions,"

an allied communique announced

today.

TONDON, Dec. 23. UP)—Two

axis warships and eight

merchant vessels were reported

.today as sunk or damaged

along the Mediterranean

supply routes to the remaining

German-Italian strongholds

in North Africa.

Russ Push

Deep Into

Ukraine

Russian 'Attacks

Aim at Kharkov,

Rostov Regions

MOSCOW, Dec. 23. (HP)—

The Red army today

broke into the Ukraine, the

rich agricultural province

that lured Adolf Hitler into

taking his Russian gamble,

and the Germans were re-

treating in such haste that the

luftwaffe was reported to be

bombing its own ground

troops in an attempt to halt the

rout.

Allies Sink 10 Axis Ships

in Attack on Supply Lane

English Navy

Planes Raid

Dutch Indies

MacArthur's Men

in Desperate

Assault at Buna

LONDON, Dec. 23. (AP)—Big

American bombers raided

Rangoon by daylight three

times this week while the

British pounded the port of

Akyab and hurled their carrier-

borne naval aircraft at

the westernmost Japanese

base in The Netherlands Indies

in an aerial onslaught of

swiftly rising proportions.

Despite the increasing signs of a

comeback campaign into Burma, the

Japanese apparently were caught

flat-footed. The American raiders

encountered only two. fighter planes,

and the British naval planes also

all returned safely, apparently having

met little or no opposition.

A United States Army Air Force

communique from New Delhi said

big bombers attacked Rangoon twice

on Sunday and once yesterday,

smashing airdrome buildings and

railroad yards anil leaving dock

areas ablaze.

American medium bombers, the

communique said, carried out attacks

Monday on Japanese-used

rail lines in central Burma. The

raids were in force and the communique

said great numbers of

explosives were* dropped squarely

on the targets.

Current Events December 22, 1942: YANKS HIT SUBURBS OF BIZERTE / U. S. BLASTS JAPANESE AT KISKA AND SOLOMONS / RUSSIAN TROOPS AT GATEWAY OF CAUCASUS:

COMMANDOS LEAD TUNIS ASSAULT;

ALLIES ON BRINK OF GIANT DRIVE

Red Army Sweeps On Toward Rostov Goal

The Bakersfield Californian

BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1942

Yanks Hit

to Suburbs

of Bizerte

Landing in Heavy

Seas Unopposed

by Axis Forces

LONDON, Dec. 22.---(AP)---A

commando raid on Tunisia,

in which Americans

were reported to have participated,

stabbed to within 5

miles of Bizerte in a hit-and run

foray last week, Reuters

said today. The report of

American participation, which

Reuters did not mention and

which was not confirmed, was made

by the London Telegraph.

U.S. Bombers Blast Japs

at Both Ends of Pacific

Kiska Subs

Target of

Heavy Raid

Jap Buna Airport

Falls to Bitter

Allied Assaults

WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.

---(U,P)—United States bomb-

ers have heavily blasted the

Japanese submarine base on

Kiska island in the Aleutians,

setting off violent explosions,

and at the other end of the

Pacific front have smashed

again at enemy bases and

shipping in the Solomons.

The attack on Kiska, second in

three days, was carried out Sunday.

Apparently it was unusually

severe. The American bombers

were escorted by fighter planes, a

'navy communique said, and executed

"a heavy, co-ordinated attack."

"Hits were scored and heavy

Russ Town Retaken

as Yanks, Britons

Join in Tunisia

By United Press

RUSSIAN troops "drove toward

Rostov, the gateway

to the Caucasus, today and

their new offensive threatened

to isolate axis forces in the

southern sector and collapse

the entire enemy front in that

theater.

The Red army captured another

big town in the middle

Don sector, where they had heen

driving toward Millerovo, important

junction on the Voronezh-Kostov

rail line.

R.A.F. Raids

Batter Jap

Burma Base

Wavell's British

Army Nears Akyab

Without Battle

By DARRBLL BERRIGAN

NEW DELHI, India, Dec.

22.—A British communique

reported today that Royal

Air Force .fighter planes again

had attacked the vital Japanese

base of Akyab in western

Burma, apparently softening

up enemy defenses in

preparation for an assault by

ground forces believed to

have advanced to within less than

45 miles of the city.

BAKERSFIELD WEATHER

Temperatures

High Monday 46

Low Monday 37

(Weather forecasts withheld at request

of military authorities.)

Current Events December 21, 1942: RUSSIANS PUSH AHEAD / BRITISH PURSUING GERMANS IN AFRICA / JAPANES DEFENSE AT BUNA CRUMBLING

STATESVILLE DAILY RECORD

STATESViLLE, N. .C., MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1942

NEW RUSSIAN DRIVE MAKES HEADWAY

Axis Africa Corps A re Still Retreating

Red Army Sweeps

Steadily Ahead

In Great Push

Village After Village Is

Falling Before the Advance.

Nazi Losses Are

Tremendous.

By UNITED PRES

The great new Russian drive

on the middle Don front is be-

lieved to be nearing its next ob-

jectlve — the key railroad town of

Millerovo .

The Moscow noon communique

says the Red Army columns,

sweeping steadily southward, are

brushing aside desperate Nazi

counter-attacks .

Pursuing British

Only 20 Miles

Behind Germans

Africa Corps Passes Up

Series Of Excellent Defense

Stands. Retreat

Remains Orderly.

By UNITED PRESS

The Africa Corps is retreating

through one of the last natural

defense barriers east of Tripoli,

without even slowing up.

Today's Allied communique re.

ports heavy air attacks on Axis

transport columns continuing1

their flight 50 miles west of

Sirte.

This means the Africa Corps

has passed up a series of deep.

dried-up river beds that begin at

Sirte and provide an excellent de.

fense line.

JAP DEFENSES

AROUND BUNA

ARE CRUMBLING

American Light Tanks

Crush Japanese Left

Flank. Allied Artillery

On Job.

By UNITED PRESS

Japanese defenses around Buna

mission on the New Guinea coast

are crumbling under a powerful

allied assault.

American light tanks, manned

by Australians, have crushed the

Japanese left flank — a strong belt

of concrete and steel pillboxes

that withstood infantry assault

for 31 days

Current Events December 19 and 20: BRISTISH MARCH INTO BURMA / RUSSIANS BREAK THROUGH NAZI LINES / ALLIED FORCES MOP-UP SECTOR NEAR BUNA:

The Charleston Daily Mail

CHARLESTON, WBST V I R G I N I A , SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1942

British March lnto Burma;

Japs Flee Surprise Attack

30-Mile Advance

Made Along Bay

Imperials Set Up 20-Mile Front;

Enemy Withdraws Without Battle

NEWDELHI, Dec. 19 (UP).—Gen, Sir Archibald Wave's

British imperial army was on the offensive along the roads

rivers of Burma today one year and four days after the

Japanese invasion that resulted in a complete British retire-

ment into India.

The Montana Standard

BUTTE, MONTANA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1942

Reds Break Through Nazi Lines

200 Inhabited

Points Are Captured

20,000 Germans

Die; 10,000

Taken Prisoner

By M, S. HANDLER

MOSCOW, Dec. 19.—(UP)—

Russian troops, battering

German lines in the middle

reaches of the Don river, 185

miles northwest of Stalingrad,

have captured 200 Inhabited

points, killed 20,000 Germans

and captured 10,000 others In

four days' lighting, a special

Soviet communique disclosed

Saturday night.

Allied Forces

Advance

in New Guinea

Flying Fortresses Sink Japanese Cruiser,

While Remnants of Nips Landed in

Amboga, Kumusi Sectors Are Wiped Out

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Sunday, Dec.

20.— (AP) — The Allied ground troops in New Guinea have cap

tured Cape Endaladere, to the east of Buna village, and Fly-

ing Fortresses have sunk a Jap cruiser near Madang, Gen.

Douglas MacArthur's communique reported Sunday.

A third triumph announced was

the mopping up of enemy remnants

in the Amboga and Kumusi sector

some 40 miles above Buna, where

the Japs last Sunday achieved landings

despite bloody losses.

Resistance Split

British Open

Offensive

Against Burma

Advance 40 Miles

in First

Phase of Attack

NEW DELHI, India, Dec.

19.—(AP)—A part of the million-

man army of Gen. Sir

Archibald P. Wavell has

passed to the attack after

months of preparation and

has advanced about 40 miles

into Burma in the first phase

of an offensive to reopen the

Burma road to China.

Current Events December 18, 1942: BRITISH 8TH ARMY SMASHES ROMMEL IN NORTH AFRICA

The Charleston Gazette

Charleston West Virginia, Friday Morning, December 18. 1942.

Rommel Rearguard Puts Up

Grim Fight to Smash Trap;

Tunisia Foe Bombed Heavily

 

8th Army Column

Cuts Foe in Half

Strong Armored Forces

Between Axis Bodies,

Airmen Report

Give Them But Slim

Chance For Survival

Main Imperial Units Reach

Marble Arch. 15 Miles

From Battle Zone

CAIRO. Dec. 17.—(INS)—Encircled

rearguard units of the

retreating Axis Africa Corps

fought tonight to break a steel

wedge separating them from the

rest of their army in Tripolitania,

even as the main body

of the British 8th army raced

into Marble Arch, only 15 miles

east of the battle^area.

The Daily Chronicle

Centraiia, Washington, Friday, December 18, 1942

ROMMEL'S ARMY CUT IN TWO

Fleeing Nazis

Cut Off West

Of El Agheila

Trapped Enemy Armored Fortifications

Continue To Be severely

Mauled After Suffer-

ing Heavy Casualties

By Associated Press

The British Eighth army has

cut Marshal Rommel's retreating

African corps columns in-

two along the road to Tripoli,

trapping armored formation

which "already have suffered

heavy casualties and continue

lo be severely mauled," the

British announced Thursday.

Coffee Royal

SOUTH BEND, Ind., Dec. 17.,

—(AP)—Judge J. Elmer Peak of

Superior Court sipped a cup of

coffee he brewed himself, and

called In newspapermen.

"Taste it," he said. "It's Just

about as good as coffee served

on most tables, at least,'it .beats

the recipe that President, Roosevelt

and Mayor La Guardia, who

recommended using c o f f e e

grounds a second time."

The recipe, one part coffee,

one part roasted rye grain.

Current Events December 17, 1942: MONTGOMERY ADVANCES AGAINST ROROMMEL IN AFRICA / FORTRESSES DEFEAT ZEROS IN SOLOMONS / SUICIDE SQUADS ATTEMPT TO HOLD IN NEW GUINEA:

      San Mateo Times

SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1942

ROMMEL ARMY CUT IN TWO

British Trap Retreating Nazis

MONTGOMERY ADVANCE

MAY ANNIHILATE FOE

BEFORE REACHING TUNIS

BRITISH BATTLE HEADQUARTERS AT EL AOHEILA,

Dec. 16.—(Delayed.)—(U.P)--The luftwaffe has been driven from

the skies in an area stretching 40 miles westward of here, and

today American and British planes were pounding trapped axis

forces without opposition.

Fortresses Down Whole

Flight of 12 Jap Zeros

Navy Air Diver

Hits Cruiser

Near Solomons

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—

(U.P)—An entire flight of 12 Japanese

Zero fighters was shot

down by a group of army flying

fortresses near New Georgia

island in the Solomons, the navy

disclosed today.

Navy dive bombers damaged

an enemy destroyer or cruiser

in the Munda area of New

Georgia.

Allies Mop Up

Suicide Squads

In New Guinea

GENERAL MacARTHUR'S

HEADQUARTERS, Australia,

Dec. 17.—(UP.)—Allied forces in

Eastern New Guinea increased

pressure today in what was left

of the Buna front, where the

Japanese defenders were under

direct orders from Emperor Hirohito

to resist to the last man.

The heaviest fighting was reported,

in the daily communique, in

the immediate Buna front, just

south of the government station.

Allied bombers and fighter planes

continued their blasting of Japanese

positions from Cape Endaiadere,

about three miles east: of cap-

ured Buna, all the way up the coast

to thc Mambare estuary, 40 miles

northwest of Gona.

Orders From Emperor

An explanation of the fanatical!

Japanese resistance in the Buna-

Gona area, where the ratio of enemy

dead to enemy prisoners was

40 to one, came in the interrogation

of a 24-year-old lance corporal of

Japanese mountain artillery, cap-

tured recently.

This prisoner said the defenders

had been told that Emperor Hirohito

wanted Buna defended to the

last man. There were indications

hat the emperor had issued an imperial

rescript, which to his subect

is the equivalent of an order

from their sun god inasmuch as

the emperor in addition to his posi-

tion as temporal ruler is a descendant

of the sun.

           Must Give Life

Current Events December 16, 1942: AXIS WITHDRAW IB NORTHERB TUNISIA / ARIEL OFFENSIVE STEPPED UP IN SOLOMONS / NAZIS SLICE SOVIET LINES:

MANSFIELD NEWS-JOURNAL

MANSFIELD, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1942

NAZIS WITHDRAW IN TUNISIA

Drive to Wipe Out Jap Reinforcements

Allied Patrols

Find Northern

Posts Vacant

British Eighth Army Continues Driving

Rommel Force Westward to Tripoli

As Allies Smash Tunisian Coast

With Mounting Air Attacks.

BULLETIN

LONDON—UP)—The Allied pincers in North Africa

clamped tighter on Axis troops today as the British

Eighth army pushed more than 50 miles west of El

Agheila.

'BY United Press

LONDON—German force? apparently have withdrawn

from some of their advanced positions in

northern Tunisia, the Morocco radio reported today;

ns the British Eighth Army drove westward through

Libya toward Tripoli and a junction with the Tunisian

Allied army.

British planes based on Malta joined in a big scale

attack on shipping along the east coast of Tunisia

where the Axis was desperately pouring in reinforcements

for it.s last ditch stand on the African continent.

ALLIEDPLANES

LASH OUT AT

LANDING PARTY

New Guinea Ground Forces on

Move To Mop Up Enemy

Around Buna.

M'ARTHUR PLANS MOVES

General Supervises Action at

Front To Clean Japs

Out of Papua.

BULLETIN

WASHINGTON—(INS)— Stepping

up their aerial offensive

against the Japs in the south

Pacific, U. S. planes attacked

enemy bases at Buin in the

northern Solomons and for the

sixth day rained bombs on the

new Nipponese airfield on New

Georgia island, the navy announced

today. Significantly, the

navy stated that no enemy resistance

was encountered in

either raid on the Jap bases.

NAZIS SLICE

SOVIET LINES

Drive Armored W e d g e I n t o

Red Positions Southwest

of Stalingrad.

.MOSCOW - (if (—German units

slashing hard at the left wing of

the Red army southwest of Stal-

grad.