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njT WEATHER BUREAU AND VICINITY: Contln- rm today, little change in temperature tonight. Temperatures High 100 Tj0W 68 year High 83 LoW 66 An Independent NEWSpaper Printing the New Impartially mm mum Mm Port Office. Tucaon. miner. Art ton PRICE FIVE CENTS TWELVE PAGES TUCSON, ARIZONA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1943 BRITISH DRIVE 10 MILES INLAND IN ITALY; PARATROOPS AID IN ENCIRCLEMENT OF LAE; U.S.

FORTRESSES BOMB SOUTHWEST GERMANY INDUSTRIES BLASTED Grip on Calabria Tightens PROVINCE EVACUATED Axis Radio Says Enemy; Has Withdrawn From South Calabria 3,000 PRISONERS Columns Nearing Palmi Straits Are Opened For Navigation Palmi ilia GIOVANNI ITALY RFfiftin rAI ARDIA -B(AMC0 A Pellaro AJC Cnnft JTTAORMINA ALLIED HEADQUARTER3 IN NORTH AFRICA, Sept. 6. (IP) British and Canadian troops drove 10 miles inland from their 40-mile beachhead on the Italian toe through extensive demolitions and stood tonight on the forbidding slopes of Aspromonte, a mountain nearly halfway across the Calabrian peninsula. (A Berlin radio account quoting DNB said the Axis had evacuated southern Calabria, the Italian prov ince cradled in the toe.) Ten more towns fell. Prisoners swelled to 3,000.

Columns invading the European mainland were nearing Palmi in their drive north. Others curling around the south tip of the Italian toe extended their holdings beyond Melito on the Ionian Sea. Resistance continued feeble, though some tanks were encountered, the Straits of Messina were opened for Allied navigation as the invaders compelled the Axis troops to withdraw their coastal cannon from range. Triple Smash Allied planes employed their ru premacy to weave a web of destruo ticn in southern and central Italy. British and Canadian troops were advancing methodically in their invasion drive against the Calabrian peninsula in southern Italy.

The column driving north was nearing the town of Palmi (indicated by heavy arrow at left). Other columns (indicated by heavy arrows at right) curling around the southern tip have extended their holdings beyond Melito on the Ionian sea. Large heavy arrow indicates inland push of Eighth Army. Light arrows show the beginning points for the Allied drive. DEATH TOTAL FOR LABOR DAY SOARS IN CLOSING HOURS By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The death toll for America's second wartime Labor day soared in the final hours of the three-day holiday week-end and appeared likely to surpass the toll of about 350 of last year.

At 9 p. m. Monday the dead from accidents was 205, exclusive of scores estimated killed in a wreck of a Pennsylvania railroad train in Philadelphia. Of the 205, 118 were reported automobile victims, 20 drowned, and 67 were victims of various accidents. The National Safety Council had predicted a toll of from 300 to 500 deaths.

In 1941 holiday accident deaths were than 600 and in 1940 more than 500. California led the states in the number of traffic fatalities with 23. Ohio, with 11 auto deaths, was second and Georgia counted nine traffic deaths. Arizona had three. MORE THAN 100 ARE KILLED IN RAILWAY WRECK Pennsylvania Fastest Flier Breaks in Two Rounding Curve PHILADELPHIA, Sept.

6. (IP) The Pennsylvania Rail roads fastest flier, the Con gressional limited, broke in two on a curve in northeast Philadelphia tonight, killing an estimated 100 persons in the most disastrous wreck in recent railroading history, The death toll may be still greater. By 10 o'clock, a check of hospit als and morgues showed 47 dead, with more being brought in one by one, and observers at the wreck scene said 40 or more w-ere still trapped in the wrecked cars. The railroad had not changed its first estimate "25 to 50 dead," but Deputy Coroner Luke Barrett, at the scene, said he believed more than 100 were killed, and Chief DeDutv Coroner Matthew Ross placed the number at 150. Judge Harry S.

McDevitt said after a tour of the scene at 10 p. m. that four cars had not yet been opened. "They seem to be welded together," he said. McDevitt, and army and navy officials at the scene, estimated there were 40 dead in these cars.

The living, McDevitt said, were wedged between seats and under furnishings of the car. Some were half in and half out of the cars. Soldiers on Scene Contingents of soldiers and sailors armed Avith sub-machine guns arrived on the scene after 9 p. m. and kept onlookers at a distance.

At least 25 dead were reported at Frankford Hospital alone, where the basement was turned into a morgue and the dead and injured came in so fast they couldn't be counted. A priest, who entered one of the wrecked cars of'the 16-car train to administer last rites to the dying, said there were 75 persons in the car and he believed at least half of them were dead. Father Leo Palmer, who entered another car, said there were still 10 dead to be removed, and an interne reported five dead in a third car. Hours after the rescue workers were still struggling frantically to get to other trapped persons. 9 Cars Derailed Nine cars of the flier, bound from Washington to New York, were derailed and hurtled across the tracks and embankments.

The locomotive and first six cars and the last car remained on the tracks. W. C. Higginbottom, general manager of the railroad's eastern division, said the wreck was caused by a burned-off journal on the lead truck of the seventh car. The crash occurred three miles from the Pennsylvania's North Philadelphia station in the crowded Frankford business and residential section, and within a few minutes the scene w-as one of indescribable confusion.

Every available ambulance and police car sped to the scene. Mayor Bernard Samuel called out police (Continued to Page 4, Column 5) Nazis Expect More Invasions; Hurry Coastal Fortification Civilians Cleared From Meet Expected Heavier Thrusts Against Europe by Seven Allied Armies NO. 250 SOVIET FORCES 0EST KONOTOP FROM GERMANS Fall of Vital Stalino in Donets Is Expected Momentarily SMASHING ADVANCES Great Steel Center Set Afire by Retreating Enemy, Is Report LONDON, Tuesday, Sept. 7. im The Red army capped the stronghold of Kono-top yesterday in a broad Jeep that put Soviet forces only 115 miles from the Ukraine capital of Kiev, Moscow announced early today.

The fall of Stalino in the Donets basin was expected momentarily. A communique announced the ture of Konotop and also Novye vivnv 25 miles to the northwest war the junction of the Desna and Lffl rivers, whose1 waters flow wuthwestenvard to empty into the Dnieper at Kiev, 115 miles from Novye Mlyny. The Russians now are pursuing broken German troops west of Konotop toward Bakhmach, 15 miles away, a vital rail hub for central Russia, Moscow said. Red airmen also pounded the retreating my- Smashing gains on an SO-mile front in the Donests Basin carried 'the Russians over the bodies of 3,000 Germans to the outskirts of Stalino, reportedly set on fire by retreating Axis forces. Makeeva, six miles east of the great steel center, fell to the advancing Red Army, as did Kramatorskaya.

Slavyansk and other rail cities north of Stalino. Headlong Flight A Moscow broadcast indicated the Germans were "in headlong flight from Stalino. It said Soviet airmen racing ahead of the victorious ground forces had smashed German troop trains at Volnovakha on the line leading southwest of Stalino. The Russians said they killed more than 10,000 Germans on all fronts during the day, "and captured or destroyed scores of enemy tanks and guns. Berlin told of a "planned withdrawal" toward the Dnieper river 140 miles to the west, but Russian front dispatches declared there was demoralization in the Axis ranks.

Dazed groups of prisoners were being rounded up, great quantities of German equipment were being seized Intact, and the Russians also found dynamite charges under vital rail points which the Germans had failed to set off. Nearly 300 towns and villages were swept up by the Russians along the 600-mile front in gains ranging from six to 15 miles. One hundred were seized in the Doners basin, another 100 in the Konotop rea, and most of the others in the sector below Bryansk. Control ton Miles Toppling Konotop, key junction on the Bryansk-Kiev and Kursk-Kiev trunk lines, the Red Army raced on westward toward Bakhmach, 15 miles away, where another line runs northwestward to Gomel, in White Russia. The Russians now control 100 miles of the Bryansk-Kiev line between Konotop and Bryansk, de-Paving the Germans of their most Jirect communications link be-ween the central and southern 'rents, The expected early seizure Bakhmach would cut 'a second German artery between White wssia and Kremenchung, on the Dnieper river bend in the south.

Russia's elation at the victories J3 apparent. The Soviet monitor. no recorded the war bulletin, said 'ine Moscow radio repeated it playing military marches jW every third reading. The Red Armv already had reconquered most of the rich Donets s'n, and the Germans apparently setting fire to Stalino, its industrial heart, on Sunday, dispones said. IMPERATIVE Walter Lippmann's U.S.

Foreign Policy SHIELD OF THE REPUBLIC Council on Boeks in i has designated Lippmann's new fT "lmPerative reading Americans." S. For-W Policy" points to the disastrous result of our fail- re to achieve a workable 'oreign policy in the past "1 outlines decisively our need for the future. Like 'all Mr. Lippmann's writing, 'is clear, illuminating and jnought-provoking. fiThis new won has been on best-seller "sts since its first In June.

It will appear, 'n condensed form, in the nzona Daily Star. The first installment appears Wednesday Arizona daily star VOL 102 LONDON, Sept. 6. (JP) fering from a severe case of invasion nerves, were reported today rushing possible measures for the defense of the southern coast of France and Europe Mediterranean coastline. German rumors of Allied TEAM WORK HELPS ALLIED FLIERS TO SINK 7 AXIS SUBS LONDON, Sept.

6. (JP) Fine team work by U. S. planes and British ships and aircraft recently brought destruction to seven U-boats at a cost of one British plane in a series of battles in approaches to the Bay of Biscay, it was announced today. A joint admiralty and air ministry communique describing the action said it statrted when reconnaissance found the enemy trying to cut down the perils of negotiating the bay by sending submarines out in groups of two or three.

Four of the enemy underseas craft were destroyed in depth charge attacks by British Sunder-derlands, Wellingtons, Halifaxes and Liberators and United States Liberators. Nazi crewmen were set adrift from all except one of them, which exploded, according to the official account. Later three U-boats were destroyed in combined attacks by Royal Navy sloops and coastal command and U. S. planes northwest of Cape Ortgal.

CHURCHILL HAS HOPE OF PEACE IN UNITY PLAN Gets Honorary Degree in Harvard Ceremonial; Asks Cooperation CAMBRIDGE, Sept 6. (TP) British Prime Minis ter Winston Churchill declared today that the United States which could not escape re sponsibility in this time of global conflict, would have an eaual responsibility uuthe peace that follows. "The price of greatness is responsibility, he told a special convocation of Harvard University facultv and overseers, called to gether to award the British government chief an honorary degree of doctor of laws. Churchill, in a bright red gown over dark suit coat and gray trou sers, was cheered and applauded for a full two minutes as Jie accepted the honor from President James Bryant Conant of Harvard The accompanving citation said: "Winston Leonard Spencer Church an ihstorian who has written a glorious page of British history; a statesman and warrior whose tenacity and courage turned back the tide of tyranny in free dom's darkest hour." Common Tongue The "gift of a common tongue," Churchill told his audience at Har vard, most of whom were in uni form, is a "priceless inheritance to the British and American peoples, which has "enabled us to wage war together with an inti macy and harmony never oetore achieved among allies. "It mav well become the foun- dation of a common citizensnip, he added.

Citing the work of the combined (Continued to Page Column 6) FATHERS FACE DRAFTORDERS September 15 Deadline Is Set for Transfer To War Jobs WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. (JP)- Selective Service today set Septem ber 15 as the deadline for fathers in non-deferrable jobs to signify intention to transfer' to other work if they want a cushion against induction ahead of other fathers. Unless they have actually ob tained jobs off the non-deferrable list or registered with the U. S.

Emplovment Service for such jobs and given proof of registration to their draft boards by September 15, they will be the first fathers to be drafted, and can be taken before October 1. Today's announcement took the form of an amendment to a regulation issued three weeks ago. It laid down the rule that the 30-day immunity from reclassification gained by registering for a job-transfer cannot extend beyond October 15 under any circumstances. Rule Outlined However, if the non-deferrable father's order number would 'bring him up for induction earlier than October 15 even if he were not in a non-deferrable job, he will get no added immunity and will be subject to call whenever his number comes up after October 1. Meanwhile, draft boards' authority to order induction of men in the 149 high-skill positions recently designated as "critical occupations" to give them super-el igibil-(Continned to Page 9, Column 2) DROP BEHIND ENEMY Landings From Planes Put Ring Around 20,000 Japanese FOE IS SURPRISED Mac Arthur in Bomber Watches Chutists Complete Task ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Tuesday, Sept.

7. (TP) A i a paratroopers. watched from a Flying For tress by Gen. Douglas, Mac-Arthur as they floated down to the Markham valley, have landed behind Lae, New Guinea, to complete the encirclement of 20,000 Japanese in the Lae-Salamaua sector. These landings, achieved in con siderable force Sunday, caught the Japanese completely by surprise even as a strong force of Austral ians, veterans of African battles had done the day before by storm ing ashore above Lae while war ships laid down a smokescreen.

General MacArthur was in bomber which was part of a huge formation that cruised over the new landing point. He saw the men seize strong positions without encountering any immediate re sistance. The paratroopers were virtually all Americans, although there were a few Australians. These were ar tillery units and their guns also were successfully dropped. These freshly won positions at Lae, together with others which have been slowly forged 18 miles to the southeast at Salamaua, ringed in elements of four Jap anese divisions.

Any hope the Japanese might have held of using the Markham (Continued to Page-4, Column 3) AGREEMENT BY GOP EXPECTED Mackinac Group Drafts Compromise Foreign Policy Proposal MACKINAC ISLAND, Sept. C. (JP) A committee of four Congress members and two governors reportedly reached general agree ment tonight on a compromise statement of Republican foreign pol icy pledging qualified American col laboration with other nations to en force the peace in the post-war world. The tentative declaration, to be submitted to the party's advisory council of 49 tomorrow morning, ap peared acceptable to the extreme interventionist and the nationalistic minded combatants in what has de veloped as a battle over words. Simmered down, the resolution appeared likely to declare that the Republican party favors collabora tion with other nations by neces sary means to preserve the peace.

always keeping in mind first Amer ican interests and American free dom of action. "Sovereignty" Omitted The word "sovereignty," which has become a bugaboo at this con ference of minority party members, apparently was left out. In its stead. Senator Austin of Vermont, a leading exponent of in ternationalism, was reported to have proposed a statement that when ever international proposals collided with the Declaration of Independence or the constitution, American participation must be guided by those documents. This proposal was said to have (Continued to Page 9, Column 4) over the landing area for three hours and also flew over the Huon gulf area where I watched landing operations under way east of Lae.

(Australians began landing in that area the day before this dispatch was written. They went ashore on landing boats while warships stood by and planes flew protectingly overhead). Only once during the four-hour stay over the Lae sector did we hear any report of enemy planes arid that proved false. The first thrill was to see the scores and scores of transports take off in rapid order, followed instantly by fighters, medium bombers and heavies in far the greatest number we've yet seen in this theatre. In beautifully ordered formations, they marched across the cloud-dappled sky of this hot Sunday morning.

Our observation plane took off (Continued to Page 4, Column 1) 70 Nazi Fighters Are Downed in Daylight Aerial Attacks AFTER NIGHT RAID RAF Planes Pour Tons Of Bombs on Twin Rhineland Cities LONDON, Tuesday, Sept. -IIP) Large formations of S. Flying Fortresses attacked industrial targets in southwes Germany and air fields in France yesterday and, en countering persistent opposi tion, shot down more than 70 Nazi fighters, it Was an nounced today. "Flying Fortresses supported by Thunderbolts left fires burning in Stuttgart and bombed other targets, including air fields at Orleans and Conches, in France," said a com munique issued jointly by the air ministry and U. S.

Army head quarters. United States and RAF medium bombers and British fighter-bombers attacked railway yads, docks and French air fields, the com munique reported. The docks of Boulogne and freight yards at Rouen, Abbevill, Serqueux and Amiens came again under the bombsights of the U. AAF Marauders, RAF Mitchells and Venturas and Typhoons. 80 Baggpd in Day Spitfire and Typhoon fighters which covered these operations shot down 11 enemy fighters and a Thunderbolt was credited with a 12th, making a total of more than 80 German fighters destroyed dur ing the day.

The day attack followed a night RAF raid in "very great strength which turned Mannheim and Lud wigshafen, the twin cities of the industrial Rhineland, into smoking ruin under the weight of 1,500 long tons (1,730 U. S. tons) of explosives. it was announced. Culminating four straight davs of virtually uninterrupted raiding totaling already more than 40 major operations, medium and light bombers and fighters followed up the big bombers in a day-long procession across the channel.

Across Channel More waves of bombers and scores of fighters winged out across the channel early tonight to carry (Continued to Page 9, Column 1)" MARSHALL MAY LEAD INVASION Selection of U. S. General For Channel Drive Is Indicated WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 () General George C. Marshall will be commander in chief of Allied forces in the European theatre, the Evening Star says "on the highest authority," and will direct any invasion from England.

This assignment for the 62-year- old chief of staff of the United States Army makes clear, says the Star, that "preparations for operations across the English channel are sufficiently advanced to select a leader." The newspaper story was writ ten by Constantine Brown, military and foreign affairs writer. Story Cited While there has been previous speculation that Marshall, who won high- reputation for moving great bodies of men into action in the First World War, would be the Allied generalissimo in Europe, the Star story treats the matter as settled. British newspapers have given much space to the speculation, the London Daily Herald having said in June that "it is possible that the ultimate lineup may be General George C. Marshall as supreme commander in chief, with General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Sir Harold Alexander bracketed as his immediate lieutenants." Replacement Uncertain The Star's story continues: "Gen.

Marshall's successor as chief of staff has not yet been designated. But after the elimination of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who is indispensable in the Pacific area, the field seems to have been narrowed to a choice between Gen. Btehon Somervell, commanding general of the army service forces, and Gen. Eisenhower, commander in chief of the Allied forces in the Mediterranean.

"Gen. Marshall has done an out standing job since the outbreak of the war. He has organized and trained an army of millions and also has managed, in spite of de mands from various theatres, to keep a balance of forces in accordance with the immediate require ments of our strategy." Heavy bombers pummeled the VU terbo area, 50 miles north of Rome, in daylight sweepjsjsundajv Flyings. Fortresses' and medium bombers concentrated on a triple smash at three key airdromes north of Naples which apparently have been the major enemy air bases. The continued destruction of Italian railways was left for the moment to RAF Wellingtons.

The atp tacks on airfields were with the avowed purpose of destroying enemy aircraft. Thousands of fragmentation and demolition bombs were loosed on the Naples fields by-American raiders, pockmarking the runwa3's. At Santo Stefano D'Aspromonte, 10' miles east and northeast of Reg-gio Calabria, Italian civilians greeted the invaders fervently. The mountain hamlet was farthest inland penetration and, with Reggio Calabria and Scilla, formed a tri-angular wedge, inland. Among the villages captured were Calanna, San Roberto, Fiumara, Santa Lucia, Rosali, San Rocco, Mu.

suala, Laganadi and Santo Alessio. Proceed Cautiously The invasion proceeded slowly, methodically and cautiously over rugged and varied terrain of mountains, valleys and thick wood favorable for defense. The area is thick: with tunnels, bridges and culverts, and the "very extensive" demolitions of these slowed the British, Eighth Army and "the Canadians far more than enemy fire jower. Reinforcements and maintenance forces shuttled across the Messina Straits under the watchful war Bova Arm! I Cope Sparrivento Ionian Sea Miles 20 Many Area in Moves to The Germans, apparently suf other vulnerable spots along ITALY REQUESTS 1919 FRONTIERS Rome Radio Queries U. England Concerning Peace Terms LONDON, Sept.

6. (JP) The Rome radio, in a home and over seas broadcast recorded by the British ministry of information, asked the United States and Brit ish tonight whether they were pre- pared to guarantee Italy's 1919 frontiers. In words reflecting Italy's thoughts of peace, the broadcast stated: "We do not want to haggle over words. We are prepared to face stark reality. Intentions Asked "We, "therefore, ask you Britain and America do you intend to respect the independence and unity of our unfortunate country? "If you do, why don't you say so? "Do the warand peace aims of the Anglo-Saxons guarantee Italy 1919 frontiers, or do they mean further amputation?" The broadcast asserted that the insistence on unconditional surren der proved that the United States and Britain were unwilling to give Italy such an understanding and had Caused Count Carlo Sforza to abandon the position he had assumed in the Italian anti-Fascist movement abroad.

Possessions Named Somaliland, Eritrea and Libya were Italian possessions in 1919. (Continued to Page 9, Column 1) medium units attacked the airdrome from minimum altitude, destroying an enemy bomber and fighter and damaging four other planes on the ground. Antiaircraft positions were silenced, and supply and bivouac areas extensively strafed. i Borgen Bay Our long range fighters swept the north coast to Wilson Point, destroying four enemy barges. One of our planes failed to return.

New Guinea: We have closed "the ring at Lae and Salamaua. In a comprehensive air movement, our paratroops in force have seized the western approaches along the Markham Valley. The operation completely surprised the enemy's ground troops engaged on the north and eastern flanks by our encircling forces which landed yesterday. Elements of four Japanese divi-(Continued to Page 9, Column 2) intentions for the invasion of Adolf Hitler's "fortress of Europe" flew so thick and fast that the British Broadcasting Corporation sent a warning to French listeners to "be careful of German provocations." Announcing the evacuation of even the Italian civilian population from the Calabrian toe of Italy, scene of the United Nations' first invasion of the European main land, the Germans were said to have cleared all French civilians out of a 50-mile strip of France's southern coastal region, 10 miles deep. Forts Built Field Marshal General Karl Ru dolf Gerd Von Rundstedt, 67-year-old German commander-in-chief in western Europe, was also reported pushing ahead additional fortifications in the Narbonne-Montpelier district of the Mediterranean coast to protect his headquarters at Montpelier.

Like the Marseille area, that district, flat and sandv with several good ports, is particularly suitable for landing operations. Advices to the Allied govern ments here said from 5,000 to 10,000 engineers were also working frantically in the Marseille-Toulon area, throwing up fortifications. Berlin admission that southern Calabria was gone was made in a tone which attempted to discount the entire present Italian operations and to anticipate far heavier Allied thrusts elsewhere. Information Sought For days the Germans have been trying to obtain some intimation as to which of the tremendous Al lied forces in the Mediterranean wis going to lifnge against them next. Those forces comprise all or parts of seven United Nations (Continued to Page 4, Column 6) Landing of Paratroopers in Lae Region Called Thrilling Official Communiques ships fluttering Allied ensigns.

un tnis tourth day of the invasion of Europe proper across the moat of the MessinaP Strait, three pfi-amount questions still were unanswered: 1. Wnere was the superb Amer ican Seventh Army of Gen. George a. fauon 2. Will the Italians attempt more than token resistance, or continue to surrender with alacrity? 3.

Where will the main body of German troops be encountered? The answer to the third question may be battered Naples, which ap pear ea to De neavny lortified. Naples is 195 airline miles north of Messina. Few Nazi Captives Only a handful of the prisoners were Germans. Fighting was limited to small scale engagements, official reports showed. Generally, the operation consisted of mortars firing at mountain trails and narrow, winding roads.

Allied casualties were extremely light. (The German oroadcast acknowl edging the "evacuation of southern Calabria" said: evacuation by Italian au thorities and the German military- command force has been carried but according to plan and in com plete order. All supplies have been carried away and brought into safe ty. The civilian populauon likewise has been evacuated in full order. indications point to a sec ond large scale landing of British and American troops at another place in the Mediterranean to come German broadcasts speculated on an attempt to capture Sardinia and Corsica, large islands north of Sicily.

They also spoke of a "direct operation" against the Italian main land, or southern France. (Editor's note: Thirty-five-year-old Vera Haugland, Associated Press war correspondent, person-, ally saw the landings achieved by hundreds of American paratroops in the Markham valley of New Guinea behind the encircled Japanese base of Lae.) Bv VERX HAUGLAND SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Sept. 5. (Delayed) (JP) It's the thrill of a lifetime to watch hundreds of men parachute simultaneously from low-flying airplanes into enemy territory. I had a front seat at this three-ring circus today and it was an unforgettable experience.

I went along in a B-17, (Flying Fortress) to observe today's para-troop invasion of the Markham valley near Lae. I rode in the nose of a great bomber where, with plexiglass on every side of me, I had an unobstructed view of the whole show. Moreover, we hung ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Tuesday, Sept. 7. (JP) Text of today's communique: Northwestern sector Dutch New Guinea: Tanalimer-ah Nine enemy medium bombers raided Tanahmerah township and Mappi post with minor damage.

Manokwari Our heavy reconnaissance units bombed enemy shipping in the harbor. Northeastern sector New Ireland: Cape St. George Our night reconnaissance units attacked enemy ship and barge traffic. New Britain: Gasmata Our medium units and attack planes bombed and strafed airdrome anti-aircraft defenses and building areas, causing fires. Intense anti-aircraft fire shot down two of our planes.

Cape Gloucester Our escorted i.