America at war! (1941--) -- Part 2

U.S. Navy Department (April 15, 1943)

Communiqué No. 344

North Pacific.
On April 13, during the day, ten attacks were carried out against Jap­anese installations at Kiska by formations of Army Liberator (Consolidated B‑24) heavy bombers, Mitchell (North American B‑25) light bombers and Warhawk (Curtiss P‑40) and Lightning (Lockheed P‑38) fighters. Beached enemy float planes were strafed. Many hits were scored and fires were started in the runway and main camp area.

South Pacific.
On April 14, during the afternoon, Avenger (Grumman TBF) torpedo bombers and Wildcat (Grumman F4F) fighters bombed and strafed Japanese barges and installations in Viru Harbor, New Georgia Island. Several fires were started.

News Release

For Immediate Release
April 15, 1943

Army bomber sinks submarine in Caribbean

A heavy bomber of the U.S. Army Air Forces caught a German submarine cruising on the surface in the Caribbean Sea several months ago, and destroyed the undersea raider with depth charges. A member of the submarine’s crew, who survived the attack, later was picked up by a U.S. destroyer.

The plane, piloted by CPT Howard Burhanna Jr., USAAF, of 1747 Maryland St., Philadelphia, was on a patrol flight when the submarine was sighted on the surface, eight miles away. Changing his course CPT Burhanna made for the sub, and in a few minutes was over his target. The sub had not had time to submerge, and was still on the surface when the plane released its depth charges.

Immediately after the attack, air and oil bubbles began rising from the water with gradually increasing intensity. Thirty‑seven minutes later, the men in the bomber spotted a large volume of oil and air bubbles surging to the surface. The oil slick spread out in a large circular area.

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The Pittsburgh Press (April 15, 1943)

BRITISH 35 MILES FROM TUNIS
Allies seize two heights in Axis lines

Gen. Montgomery masses 8th Army for new assault
By Virgil Pinkley, United Press staff writer

Yanks carried out task in Tunisia, Stimson says

Strategy of holding attacks barred U.S. drive to coast in south, War Secretary explains

SAVAGE JAP ASSAULT ON AUSTRALIA FEARED
Pacific peril called as big as late in 1941

MacArthur aide declares enemy has huge fleet massed at Truk
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer


Kenney says foe has edge in air in Southwest Pacific

Allies must destroy 5 planes to every one they lose

No new millionaires –
War profits decline, but wages soar

Workers, not stockholders, getting the breaks in World War II
By Dale McFeatters

Nightclub owner is given 15 years

Boston, Massachusetts (UP) –
Barnett Welansky, owner of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison today for manslaughter in connection with the fire at his club last Nov. 28 which cost 491 lives.

Judge Joseph Hurley imposed the prison sentence on each of 19 counts, but ordered that they all be served concurrently – the first day in solitary confinement and the rest at hard labor. The possible maximum sentence would have been 20 years in prison.

The 46-year-old defendant, a Boston lawyer, stared ahead as sentence was pronounced.

Reporters file formal appeal to revoke ban

Freedom of press abridged at food meetings, they claim

GOP delays move to force tax bill vote

Republicans want more time to study pay-as-you-go plans

U.S. soldier dead reburied in Pacific


Oran memorial services to honor American dead

Traitor clings to last hope

Supreme Court delays hanging of Detroit German

New fighters will escort Fortresses on long trips

400-mile-an-hour Thunderbolt called answer to Focke-Wulf 190 in raids on Europe
By Walter Cronkite, United Press staff writer

Simms: New book aids post-war plan

Halifax agrees unity depends on better understanding
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor

U.S. employees’ deferment hit

Federal hiring of draft-eligible men rapped

Malaria feared as U.S. plague when war ends

Specific treatment to immunize people yet to be found

U.S. to expand ‘Good Neighbor’

It’s our only foreign policy, Hull, Welles reveal


Dies group reveals Nazi propaganda

U.S. fliers hit bases in Burma

Drop three tons of bombs on Jap airdromes


Ten raids in day on Japs at Kiska

Eisenhower sees disaster for Axis force in Tunisia

Allies on schedule in cleanup in Africa, general says, terming Rommel no superman

WAACs will soon ‘invade’ Great Britain

Two officers arrive to prepare for landing of big group
By Helen Kirkpatrick

Editorial: Secrecy will backfire

Edson: Lawyers snarl pay for ships seized by U.S.

By Peter Edson