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

Clapper: War report

By Raymond Clapper

Germans ‘raid and run,’ but ‘always run’ in end

Yanks hold firm, even when shells hit close; ‘fighting pillroller’ aids the wounded
By H. R. Knickerbocker, representing the combined U.S. press

Two Yanks find sleeping Nazis and tiptoe off

By Will Lang, representing the combined U.S. press


News ‘travels’ via grape arbor in North Africa

U.S. Signal Corps station constructed with salvaged metal

U.S. destroyer sunk off Italy

Navy also reveals loss of two tugs

Völkischer Beobachter (September 19, 1943)

Schwere Enttäuschung der englischen Presse –
Scharfe Kritik an Eisenhowers Kriegführung

Eigener Bericht des „Völkischen Beobachters“

Über Bougainville in drei Tagen –
130 USA.-Flugzeuge abgeschossen

U.S. Navy Department (September 19, 1943)

Communiqué No. 467

South Pacific.
During the night of September 15, a Japanese plane bombed Guadalcanal Island. Some minor damage was sustained, and one man was injured.

The Pittsburgh Press (September 19, 1943)

Allied artillery threatens Naples

Island gateway to port seized; 5th Army storms forward
By Richard D. McMillan, United Press staff writer

Airmen pound Europe again

France and Berlin raided as non-stop assault is continued
By Walter Cronkite, United Press staff writer

MacArthur set to start push against Indies

Lightning capture of Lae clears way for long-planned assault
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer

WPA shovels (almost new) put up in vast tool sale

U.S. to dispose of billion dollars’ worth of valuable government machinery
By Robert Taylor, Press Washington correspondent

Two Yanks sneak into Rome under very eyes of Nazis

U.S. officers, removing only their caps, obtain vital, secret information
By Clark Lee, representing the combined U.S. press

Gulf hurricane shifts to south

Adm. Standley leaves Russia for U.S. parley

Consultations expected to concern foreign ministers’ conference

Teenage girls choose Como as ‘crooner of year’

New York lasses promise Canonsburg singer swooning audience

Nelson to link U.S. and British arms program

Current efforts will be geared to Allied military plans

Petrillo lifts recording ban on two companies

Musicians sign contracts with Decca, World Broadcasting System

Bill delaying father draft faces defeat

Senators opposed to telling service chiefs how to run war

‘Informer’ law facing death

Senate votes to kill ‘get-rich-quick’ angle

Helped by speech clinic, stutterer can enter Army!

Once they were 4-Fs, but all that is changed by steady treatment