Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1942 — Page 1
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-- Merchantman Attacked - In South Atlantic.
A NEW ENGLAND PORT, Aug.| 19 (U. P)—An enemy surface ;l° raider, using two torpedo boats in| : ‘a pincers attack, has sunk an = " American merchantman in the first| Tg “auch attack of world war II, it was SS revealed today. Fifteen or 18.men were believed killed and the remainder of the 46-| man crew were wounded or-£ap-tured. BS Wounded survivors said the night attack in the South Atlantic was launched simultaneously from three sides on a calm sea. The. 9000-ton raider. hurled 60 rounds of heavy ghells in salvos of six from hidden gun turrets as the torpedo boats Sipped in to fire four torpedoes and . spray the medium-sized ship with tracer machine-gun bullets,
19 Taken Aboard Raider
, Tn addition to the 15 or 16 bea2 eved killed, 19 or 20 were taken aboard the raider and 11 were rescued by a united nations merchantman after sailing 450 miles in five days in a lifeboat. The merchantman went. to the
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day’s War Moves—
| INDING SETS ATTERN FOR |" 'ECOND FRONT|
en as Pledge to Con-| quered That Liberation - Day Is Not Far Off.
By LOUIS F. KEENLEE United ‘Press Analyst The allied landing in considerable rce on the coast of occupied ance is more than a commando id; it sets the pattern for the insion to come and is an implicit omise to the conquered pevples at the hour of liberation is not r distant. The British were carelil to warn ie French population that this is st yet the opening of the coming cond front. They were cautioned 3t to expose themselves by a preature uprising and were told that teir help will be asked when the me comes. The promise was given 1at “France and her allies will ced you on the day 6f liberation.” The British was wise. { the hopes of the Prench people nd of the other peoples of occupied urope were roused too high by ais preliminary operation, the letown would be terrific when a genral offensive failed to develop.
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Achieve Objective, Destroy Big Battery of Artillery in Greatest Military Action Since Dunkirk.
LONDON, Aug. 19 (U. P.).—The authoritative British press association said tonight that the chief objectives GREAT AIR of the Dieppe attack had been achieved. SATTLES x 2h e—— is LONDON, Aug. 19 (U. P.).—American, British and Canadian troops today fought out a dress rehearsal of a second front in Europe with a record-breaking commando attack on the Dieppe coast of occupied France. : Striking 55 miles across the English channel undér an umbrella of British and American air power, the commandos gave western Europe its biggest taste of military action since Dunkirk. So powerful was the commando smash, backed up by tanks landed after the first attacks, that the British radio was forced to broadcast repeatedly that “this is no invasion” to avert uprisings by the French populace. At mid-afternoon London time the commando’ attack : "THe damage to morale would off-|Still was in ‘progress, but some of the troops were being et any possible ‘advantage to be withdrawn—having achieved their objective, which was aingd by the attack'on - |destruction. of. a ‘big: battery of six-inch Nazi coast t der
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It alko was revealed that some commandos have returned from the Dieppe area to a British base and were 1 fhe the air force is particular fm-| “UT : nt 7 10 described as being in “high spirits.” Other reports said a The Be ie si fore prepared the way(number of wounded commandos had reached English ports. 1 Drelumt lines bing 08 rr - There still was no indication, however, how long it would take the ‘main body of troops to carry out the operas
— id-18° She ‘perfect co-ord} sation of the land, ses and air "This map shows the pattern of the record allied comupdod attack made today on Dieppe; in Nedaesupiel Frases. forces involved. The part played
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a citizens with relatives in Germany. The third officer was first to report the raider’s lights, the captain gaid. Previously an S. O. S. ‘had . been . received by the ship, which géve a position 30 miles away. The captain said he. ordered an 8S. O.-S.
and so believed the first distress call ‘was faked by the raider,
Raider Believed Hit
Spotted. about three miles distant, the raider closed in to threequarters of a mile and opened fire. The navy’s gun crew. replied, the captain. ssid, and probably hit the raider twice : before ‘their . gun. deck was hit, - The second officer, a 35-year-old : resident, told how the port lifeboat was lowered with 13 men in it as tracer machine-gun jullet~from the port side and bow ; poured into the merchantman. Occupants of the aft lifeboat, he said, were machine-gunned, but seven or ‘eight managed to leap overboard and swim to a liferaft.
" SUB CAPTAIN TOSSES “LIFE BELT TO VICTIM
: 2A GULF COAST PORT, Aug. 19 (U. P)~An Italian submarine commander, who torpedoed and gank ‘a small British merchant vesgel in the Atlantic July 9 with the loss of three lives, tossed a life pregerver lettered “Mississippi” to the ship’s master who was struggling desperately in the ‘water, survivors said today. Forty-one men survived the lateafternoon attack which occurred off the northern coast of South Amerjca. Two of the dead were members of the. ship’s crew, the third Was: & navy gunner who drowned.
IS ‘MISLEADING’ Miesse Believes City Still Asks More Money for
’43 Than Needed.
The 14%-cent reduction in -the civil city tax rate proposed by. city officials in “misleading” and does not represent a. reduction in its proper form, the Indiana Taxpayers’ .Association charged today. Even with the proposed reduction in the rate, the city still plans to spend more money next year than it is spending in 1942, said: Harry Miesse, association executive secre-
According .to Mr. Miesse, this is the situation: City officials lasf fall refused to effect certain economies which would have been possible because of increased collections, higher assessed valuations and revenue from other tax sources.
far more than was required. In other words, he says, the tax rate ‘was 10 cents too high. Now, with their new budget estimates, the officials are asking for less money than any obtained. for this year, but more money than they are actually spending. “Obviously,” said Mr. Miesse, “jt (Continued on Page Five)
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Nazi Airport at Abbeville
LONDON, Aug. 19 (U. P)— American flying fortresses = today carried out a successful precision bombing attack on the key Nazi air base of north France at Abbeville in an air maneuver designed
‘| to support the commandos fighting
at Dieppe. - “Two squadrons of the hugh highaltitude American . planes, escorted by’ R. A. F. fighter planes, roared over the Abbeville airdrome, which is known to American eagle and R. A. F. pilots as a “hornet’s nest” of crack Nazi planes and pilots. In good visibility the Americans employed their famed bomb- sights to lay numerous hits on runways, buildings and aircraft dispersal areas. Protecting the U. S. planes were British and Canadian fighter squadrons.
All ‘the attacking: ‘bombers 'returned safely. i Abbeville is about - ‘35° miles from Dieppe and is known to be a key point in the entire Nazi defense
system for France and the low|.
countries. R.A PF men regard it as one of the most dangerous luftwaffe bases with which they have to deal. It is believed here that ‘about half of Germany's fighter strength now is in western Europe but the caliber of the German pilots is|; thought to be well above that of units operating against the Russians in the East. The attack obviously was designed to immobilize Nazi fighter strength and prevent the German air force from challenging allied air control over the Dieppe area.
Sub Sinks Jap Warship Off ~ Aleutians, Making Score 23
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (U. PJ). «=A U. S. submarine has sunk a Japanese cruiser or destroyer in the western Aleutian area—bringing to 23 tha number of Jap ships sunk or damaged in that area—the navy ‘announced today. Fog prevented exact identification of the type of ship. ‘ This was the ninth warship hit by U. S. submarines in that area. The submarines, penetrating to the Jap bases, under cover of the fog, already had sunk six destroyers,
were believed to have sunk another destroyer and left another “burning fiercely.” : So far all U. S. forces in the area have sunk 10 ships—six destroyers, one transport, one cruiser, one cargo ship and the cruiser or destroyer mentioned today. The 12 damaged were four cruisers, an aircraft carrier, three destroyers, a gunboat and three
This was the first submarine sotion reported by the U. S. in the
Aleutians since July 21.
BLOWS HALT! !
Nazis Reported: Tossing | Full Strength in Fin: “Stalingrad Drive.
MOSCOW, Aug. ‘19 (U. P)~-1 Germans today: hurled masse: fresh troops, tanks and planes r what the oficial Soviet Sm) § : Red Star called “a final driv.
northwest of Stalingrad, $1 weight of attacking German and motorized infantry forc: Russian retreat to a secondar. fense line. ; Russian attacks in the Rie} 4 ii sector were said to have des: masses of enemy. infantry re: and new tanks and planes : the Red army defender had d forced back.
Attack Rear Lines
The Soviet noon communia i nounced that Rusisan force: carried out successful raids :. immediate rear ‘of the Gi:t northwest of Kotelnikovski, communique German forces had “sor:¢ pushed back” the Rusisans : ¢ Pyatigorsk, to which a dri (Continued an Page Fiv:
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a the American raid Monday on Rouen and one by the BR. A. P fev dare ‘san cn Le" Eww Toth near Dieppe. Sant Senin os the pontbers smashed at roundhouses accommodating 250 locomotives:
Hamper Reinforcements = - ‘When the raid came, the invaders were covered not only by the fleet but by clouds of combat planes which kept the Germans off. With‘out the planes, the operation would ‘have been impossible. In the full ‘scale invasion, the combined Brit-
~The preliminary work: of he air force is an integral part of allied concentrated on rail lines and have commission thousands of German or Germanoperated locomotives. This makes it difficult for the
the excellent communication lines
. Keep Nasi Forces Scatiered The many points which the Brit-
compels the Germans te keep their forces widely scattered. If they move too many troops to a point such ‘as Dieppe to overwhelm the invaders, they may expose themselves somewhere else. This keeps the Germans guessing and on the jump. For all they know, the Dieppe attack may be a diversion and the British are planning to strike in real force elsewhere in France, or Belgium, or the . |Netherlands. A drive through. Holland, for instance, would outflank the heavy defenses which the Germans have set up in France and beyond the French Border. 2
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The German radio indicated that heavy Nha counters attacks were in progress in an effort to drive the commans dos from their positions, and later said all “allied forces have: ‘| been driven out of the Dieppe area.” : The chief objectives of the Dieppe engagement—in ade dition to the physical destruction on German war facilities: in the Dieppe region—were believed to be a test of German ability to meet large scale ‘coastal attacks and a dressrehearsal of methods to be used iliimsisly in opening a.
second front. - ish and American air force will play : , |Ehe same part.
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All branches of armed forces were employed in the at tack, it appeared, with naval forces transporting the troops and shelling coastal defenses while the air arm challenged Nazi fighter strength and blasted at reinforcement lines and communieations points. There was no indication of the size of the commando forces but for the first time they employed tanks and it was evident that the raiding troops smashed their way through. ‘Nazi beach defenses and secured a firm foothold ashore. The action—coming only 48 hours after the announce ment of: the Moscow conference of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin—sent a thrill through the British public which saw its hopes for a second front getting at a ; a partial realization. oa
However, military quarters; ‘emphasized that a real
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U.S. Rangers Are'in Fighting
hundred engaged in the Dieppe attack and far more extens : sive planning than even was required for today’s operation. ‘The American forces in the big attack were units of the newly organized ranger force—the American equivalent of the British commandos. - These picked volunteers have been training for several months in raid tactics. American air forces were backing up the R.. A Fin
Report 2 Nazi Subs Sunk By Allied Planes Off Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 19 (U. by Comm. Jack Lacey had sunk a P.) —~American, British and Bra-|submarine yesterday, 50 miles from zsillan planes joined today in a cam-|the coast, apparently in the area ‘against axis submarines off where the ships went down. Subsequently, the sinking of a sub-
providing an air curtain for the land troops. Great flyin fortress bombers were blasting at Nazi strong points and communications lines for German reinforcements.
: : : U. S. Fliers Aid Ground Troops it : Squadrons from all front-line R. A. TF. fighter staf army along the coast were in action in continuous attacks not - in the Dieppe area but over a wide region of northern | Residets along the Dover coat roporid tha ¢ ] : | ground was rocking under the explosion of bombs and a J {lery shells in the Dieppe area. .| So many British planes: swarmed into the air | Britons recalled the days of the battle of Britain when R.A. F. nd luftwaffe fought to a finish for domination 8 the air avound the British isles. WL | For the Americans, the attack represented. the. time that U. S. troops have set foot. in France since the world war. Xi cliased (months intensive prep:
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- Aug. 19, 1942.
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