America at war! (1941– ) (Part 1)

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Völkischer Beobachter (November 7, 1942)

USA.-Einzug in Jerusalem

rd. Ankara, 6. November –
Amerikanische Verbände haben, anstatt sich an die nordafrikanische Front zu begeben, in Jerusalem unter begeistertem jüdischem Beifall ihren Einzug gehalten. Nach einer Bekanntmachung des amerikanischen Kommandos in Kairo sind diese USA.-Truppen erst ein Vorkommando. In nächster Zeit würden weitere Einheiten folgen, um die in Palästina verbliebenen Besatzungstruppen in größerem Umfang abzulösen und zu anderweitigem Einsatz frei zu machen.

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Stalin-Agenten kommandieren in USA.

rd. Lissabon, 6. November –
Die Bolschewisierung der Vereinigten Staaten macht unter dem höchst persönlichen Schutz Roosevelts weitere Fortschritte und beunruhigt große Teile der amerikanischen Bevölkerung in immer stärkerem Maße. Wie rücksichtslos jede Auflehnung nationaler Amerikaner gegen die sich ausbreitende rote Diktatur unter voller Zustimmung der Regierung unterdrückt wird, offenbart ein Artikel der amerikanischen Zeitschrift Readers digest. Darin wird die Gewaltpolitik aufgedeckt, die heute von den bolschewistisch geführten Gewerkschaften überall in den USA. ausgeübt wird und ‚eine ganze Reihe von Fällen nachgewiesen, in denen Arbeiter, die sich eine Kritik des Bolschewismus erlaubten, sofort aus den Gewerkschaften ausgeschlossen und auf die Straße gesetzt wurden, ohne daß ein Unternehmer es wagen darf, sie wieder einzustellen.

Auch die Zahl der bolschewistischen Filme ist ständig in der Zunahme begriffen. Die USA.-Zeitschrift Click kündigt in größter Aufmachung die Verfilmung eines kommunistischen Agitationsromans an, in dem die Verbrechen der bolschewistischen Banden während des spanischen Bürgerkrieges verherrlicht werden.

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USA.-Zerstörer in Brand geworfen –
Die Kesselschlacht auf Guadalcanar

dnb. Berlin, 6. November –
Die Kesselschlacht auf Guadalcanar dauert an. Die Japaner gehen von drei Seiten gegen die amerikanischen Stellungen vor. Durch Einsatz von Panzern gelang ihnen am 4. November ein Durchbruch durch die tiefgestaffelten amerikanischen Verteidigungslinien im Ostteil der Insel, 20 km südlich von Aola. Nach Brechung des letzten amerikanischen Widerstandes in diesem Kampfabschnitt stießen die Japaner weiter nach Westen in den Rücken der amerikanischen Hauptkampflinie vor. Trotz erbitterten feindlichen Widerstandes wurden auch hier die Amerikaner überwältigt und nach Süden zurückgeworfen.

Neue japanische Truppenlandungen erfolgten am 4. November in der Gegend von Bolonda an der Südküste sowie weiter westlich am Kap Hunter. Durch die erfolgreichen japanischen Landungsoperationen wurden die Amerikaner gezwungen, ihre stark zusammengeschmolzenen Streitkräfte zu verzetteln und gegen die einzelnen japanischen Landungsorte einzusetzen. Dadurch hat sich die strategische Lage der amerikanischen Truppen seit Anfang November weiter erheblich verschlechtert.

Die japanische Marine-Luftwaffe greift ständig mit starken Kräften in die Erdkämpfe ein. Die Luftherrschaft liegt jetzt schon unbestritten in ihrer Hand. Die Amerikaner können ihre wenigen noch kampffähigen Bombenflugzeuge auf Guadalcanar und Tulagi nur noch begrenzt einsetzen, da es an Jagdschutz fehlt. Allein in der Zeit vom 27. Oktober bis zum 4. November verloren die Amerikaner in Luftkämpfen über den Salomoninseln 22 Jagdflugzeuge‚ darunter 17 Lockheed- und 5 Lightning-Jäger. Außerdem wurden in der gleichen Zeit 29 amerikanische Bomber vom Typ Douglas und Liberator abgeschossen. Damit verlor die amerikanische Luftwaffe im Südwestpazifik in neun Tagen 51 Flugzeuge gegenüber nur 14 japanischen Verlusten.

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Die Operationen im Südpazifik dauern an

dnb. Tokio‚ 6. November –
Die Operationen im Südpazifik dauern noch weiter an, erfährt das Deutsche Nachrichtenbüro von den zuständigen japanischen Marinebehörden. Diese Tatsache ist um so interessanter, als bekanntlich seit dem sensationellen Bericht des Kaiserlichen Hauptquartiers vom 28. Oktober über die großen amerikanischen Verluste bei der „Seeschlacht im Südpazifik“ weder von japanischer noch von amerikanischer Seite irgend welche weiteren Einzelheiten mitgeteilt wurden. Desh lb war es bisher auch unklar, ob die Operationen bereits abgeschlossen worden sind oder ob sie noch andauern.

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U.S. Navy Department (November 7, 1942)

Communiqué No. 184

South Pacific.
On November 5:

  1. A force of 27 enemy aircraft, composed of bombers and escorting fighters, attacked our positions on Guadalcanal Island. Although clouds prevented air contact with the attacking enemy planes, our airfield and installations were not damaged.

  2. U.S. aircraft maintained a continuous patrol over enemy positions, bombing and strafing troop concentrations and supplies.

  3. During the night of November 5-6, U.S. Marines repulsed light attacks against our western flank in the vicinity of Point Cruz.

On November 6:
U.S. Army troops crossed the Malimbiu River, a few miles south of Koli Point, on the north coast of Guadalcanal. Only light enemy resistance was encountered.

Communiqué No. 185

South Pacific.
A minimum of 5,188 Japanese have been killed by U.S. forces in land-fighting in the Tulagi-Guadalcanal area of the Solomon Islands since our occupation of positions in this area on August 7, 1942. This figure is based on an actual count of enemy killed in actions ashore and does not include estimates of those killed in enemy-controlled areas where no count could be made.

These known casualties suffered by the enemy were the result of the following actions:

  1. 1,000 Japanese were killed during our occupation of positions on the Islands of Tulagi, Gavutu, Makambo, and Tanambogo on August 7 and 8.

  2. 670 of a force of 700 Japanese were killed near the mouth of the Tenaru River on the morning of August 21.

  3. 500 Japanese were killed during severe fighting on Guadalcanal Island on the night of September 13-14.

  4. 2,000 Japanese were killed during operations extending from October 22 to October 27.

  5. 1,018 Japanese were killed by bombs, hand grenades, surface force bombardment, aircraft strafing, artillery, machine gun and rifle fire and in hand-to-hand combat during minor skirmishes, snipings and small-scale engagements between Army-Marine Corps troops and the enemy from August 6 to November 7.

During the month of October, 369 enemy planes were destroyed by U.S. forces in the South Pacific area.

No report of further action in the Guadalcanal area has been received since the issuance of Navy Department Communiqué No. 184.

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Brooklyn Eagle (November 7, 1942)

Blow-by-blow story of Gen. Montgomery’s victory over Rommel

Debacle, once started, was overwhelming – American-made tanks played big role
By Richard D. McMillan

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‘U.S. Marine be dead,’ Jap hordes yelled

Foe fiercely chanted threats in decisive Guadalcanal battle

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Army battles Irish before 70,000 today

Tops city grid card – Lions meet Colgate, rams hosts to LSU
By Ralph Trost

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Borough bomber pilot killed in action

Lt. Theron Platt, artilleryman, won wings in July

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Queens labor dispute sent to War Labor Boards

Washington (UP) –
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins has certified to the War Labor Board a wage and union security dispute between the G. F. Richter Co., Glendale, Long Island, and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union (CIO) involving 90 employees.

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Storm avoids Florida, sweeps across Cuba

Havana, Cuba (UP) –
A tropical storm, which had swerved away from Florida, was blowing itself out in Cuba today.

Reports from the northern provinces, where it first struck, indicated that winds were of far less than hurricane intensity (75 miles an hour) and that damage was slight.

Only one casualty was reported: an elderly woman was hurt by a falling wall in Santa Clara city.

Winds were heavy from Santa Clara West, and occasional heavy rains fell. Towering waves crashed over the coast, in some areas of which residents had been evacuated in fear of tidal waves.

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8 dead in Rochester gunpowder explosion

Rochester, New York (UP) –
The death toll of a gunpowder explosion late yesterday in a building of the Rochester Fireworks Company reached eight – all women – today, and it was feared that three critically injured victims would die.

The explosion itself was small, but it started a fire that took an hour and a half to subdue. Officials said a friction spark, caused when a night watchman dropped or set down a tray of powder too hard, was responsible.

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None too high

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Zooming smoothly over Mt. McKinley, very high, U.S. Army A-29 attack bombers on the way to blast Japs on Kiska in the Aleutian Islands.

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Must clarify war aims to East, says Willkie

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U.S. transports reported in big battle fleet

Mediterranean convoy led by great force, Spain dispatches say

London, England (UP) –
Axis dispatches said today that American and British troop transports were among a great convoy reported to have steamed out of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean late yesterday.

Dispatches from La Línea, Spain, said the convoy was led by a battle fleet, including the battleship Rodney, the aircraft carrier Argus, 26 destroyers and several corvettes.

A Radio Berlin broadcast said today that the Rodney left Gibraltar under an umbrella of fighter planes. It was escorting both American and British troop carriers, the broadcast said.

See important development

Spanish and Axis reports emphasized more and more that a development of importance was occurring at Gibraltar. Reports said 125 ships, including three carriers, seven cruisers and 34 destroyers, had been concentrated at the rock.

Radio Paris said Royal Air Force reinforcements arrived at the fortress yesterday. A La Línea dispatch said 26 planes, including six American Flying Fortresses, flew in from the direction of the Atlantic yesterday afternoon and then took off toward the Mediterranean.

A dispatch from the official Spanish news agency said Gibraltar authorities had confiscated all barges, lighters, dredges and scows and ordered them prepared for immediate use. It implied that they would be used for transporting troops, saying disembarkation exercises were being held on the beach at Gibraltar.

Second front mentioned

A Stockholm dispatch asserted that vast quantities of tanks and planes were stored at Gibraltar:

…and it is believed they are intended for the opening of a second front with Gibraltar as a base.

Axis radios put out almost hourly warnings. They emphasized that Casablanca, the chief port of French Morocco, was in immediate danger, and suggested that the Allies were planning to attack Dakar, the great French West African base.

The Axis propagandists evidently feared a “squeeze play” would be carried out against their harried desert troops, with Allied forces striking against them from the west as well as the east.

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Says French Isles invite rule by U.S.

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WLB clamps down hard on $5,000 salary ceilings

It will be ‘pretty damn tough’ to get approval for raise, says Davis

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Flynn to base defense on shakedown charge

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Editorial: 800,000 U.S. troops abroad precursors of Axis disaster

An announcement by Gen. Marshall that American Army forces overseas now number 800,000 stimulates speculation as to military developments in 1943, which now lies only two months in the distance, and which, there is increasing reason to believe, will be the climactic year of the war. This confident expectation has its source principally in developments of the year now drawing to a close – a year which, while marked by Japan’s formal appearance as one of the working partners of the Axis alliance, has nevertheless produced evidence that Germany, the keystone of Axis strength, has lost that irresistible quality so tragically apparent in her earlier military endeavors, and from this point on will be hard-pressed to hold her gains.

This closing year, accordingly, has been one of great achievement made possible by the heroic and resourceful resistance of the Russians, by the initiative taken by the British in North Africa and by American production, which, in spite of shortcomings, has been a factor of incalculable value in sustaining military operations on all fronts. But in the coming year, Gen. Marshall’s report indicates, the role of the United States will be of an altered character, one which will involve not only the further development of the nation’s status as the arsenal of democracy but also the participation in what will probably be the final phase of the war.

The presence of 800,000 American soldiers at overseas stations cannot in itself be accepted as a sign that this country is at this hour prepared for its part in a great offensive. When the front covers a great stretch of the globe, the concentration of troops at any one point cannot be of the proportions required for decisive action. But the number is growing swiftly and within a few more months, there will be available the forces required to strike effectively in Europe and in the Pacific.

For the present, it is heartening to know that enemies, rampant when in the full flush of their power, have been stopped that they are being drained of a material measure of their strength and that their spirit, once so confident, is suffering from the deliberating effects of doubts and misgivings.

Now that three years of war have passed without the attainment of the promised victory, it seems reasonable to assume that the German mind should recall with increasing fear the many and ominous parallels between the situation today and that of 24 years ago, when, just when Hindenburg and Ludendorff seemed on the threshold of conquest, fresh young troops began to appear upon the scene as precursors of disasters.

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Japs hurled back on Guadalcanal

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