Washington –
All American Red Cross personnel in occupied France are safe and well, Chairman Norman H. Davis has been advised by cable. Under arrangements made with the State Department, 16 Red Cross representatives who have been supervising the distribution of supplies to French children are expected to remain with the U.S. diplomatic personnel in France and to be repatriated eventually with them.
Famed French fighting unit, sent to believe Oran siege, loses 60% of men ansd remainder beats disorderly retreat into desert
By John Parris, United Press staff writer
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Flight from Britain for dawn attack at Oran outdoes German blitz tactics in Norway by 1,100 miles
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December financing plans aimed by Morgenthau at inflation ills
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If you are not, then all of your talk about his sacrifice is mere lip service and not patriotic appreciation
By Ruth Millett
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U.S. Navy Department (November 13, 1942)
South Pacific.
On November 12:
At about dawn, U.S. naval forces commenced bombardment of enemy positions to the westward of our positions on Guadalcanal Island. Shore batteries were silenced and large fires were started. Seventy-five Japanese landing boats, some of which had been previously damaged, were found at Tassafaronga. Thirty large landing boats were destroyed by ships’ gunfire and several others were damaged.
At 2:15 p.m., the bombardment was interrupted by an enemy air attack. Twenty-three Japanese torpedo bombers, escorted by 8 “Zero” fighters, attacked our surface ships in the vicinity of Guadalcanal. Twenty-eight Grumman “Wildcats” intercepted and shot down 16 enemy bombers and 5 “Zeros”. Nine enemy planes were shot down by ships’ anti-aircraft fire.
During the above attack, a Japanese plane, disabled and burning, crashed into the USS San Francisco (heavy cruiser), killed 30 of her personnel, and damaged the ship slightly. A 5-inch shell from an enemy shore battery damaged the USS Buchanan and killed 5 of her crew. The San Francisco and the Buchanan were the only U.S. ships damaged in this action. The next of kin of those killed and wounded will be notified by telegram immediately upon receipt of information.
Caribbean Area.
On November 12 (Washington Time), the USS Erie (gunboat) was damaged during an attack by an enemy submarine. The Erie was beached off the southern coast of Curaçao. No report of casualties has been received but next of kin will be notified immediately upon receipt of information.
The Pittsburgh Press (November 13, 1942)
Darlan assumes control in Africa with U.S. backing
By Edward W. Beattie, United Press staff writer
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Axis has met its Marne, and United Nations troops are on way to victory, aged general says
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Washington (UP) –
A companion of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker has been rescued under circumstances indicating there may be other survivors from among the eight men reported missing when the Rickenbacker plane was lost Oct. 21, the War Department revealed today.
The Department disclosed that Capt. William T. Cherry Jr., USA, who was aboard the plane with the noted World War I flier, was rescued yesterday in the South Pacific.
Capt. Cherry is in good condition although weak.
“Friday the 13th must be my luckiest day,” Mrs. William T. Cherry said in Dallas, Texas, when told her husband had been rescued. Called to a telephone from her work at an aircraft plant to hear the news, she said she was going back to work at once with “more vigor.”
The War Department said:
From such information as Capt. Cherry was able to furnish, it is believed possible that other survivors may be on life rafts in the same general vicinity. An intensive search of the area is being made by surface vessels and long-range planes.
Capt. Rickenbacker was en route from Honolulu to the Southwest Pacific as a special representative of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson when the plane on which he was travelling was lost. It was last in communication with an island southwest of Honolulu on the evening of Oct. 21, when it had left only one hour’s supply of gasoline.
MacArthur’s fliers blast four troopships
By Sandor S. Klein, United Press staff writer
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‘We are still losing,’ Melvin Maas says; ‘gag’ charge hurled
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Isn’t that a good way of saying that they are printing money or are they taking money from people using war bonds?
It’s what I call “Gibz”. Think of it as a stimulus check, but for wartime.