Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1944 — Page 2
8288 Enemy Dead Count; * American Casualties
Total 5500.
_By MALCOLM JOHNSON © United Press Stal Correspondent
PEARL HARBOR, Sept. 21—Be- ||
~~ leaguered Japanese forces were cut up {nto two isolated pockets on the western coast of Peleliu today by army troops, which breached the o. of the enemy position while marines hammered at both ends of the line.
AA Tokyo broadcast, recorded by
N. B. C., said a “very heavy U. 8. task force” had been sighted Sunday north of the Palau islands) Less than 2000 Japanese were believed holding out in the two pockets on the island's coral ridges, where they were fighting viciously from caves and pillboxes. Headquarters disclosed that the count of enemy dead on Peleliu and nearby Angaur had now reached 8288, while American cas ualties in the first 11 days of the campaign totaled 5500, including dead, wounded and missing. The U. 8. casualties consisted of: Killed—marines - 580, army 106; wounded, marines 3639, army 769; missing, marines 401, army 5. As the marines and soldiers of ‘Adm. Chester W. Nimitz’ forces continued the steady drive on Peleliu, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Southwest Pacific airmen hit Ceram’s airdromes and Japanese shipping lines. Five small vessels were sunk and four others damaged.
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Radarman: 3-¢ Roy Page O'Neal enjoying ice cream in the naval hospital at Charleston, 8, C. He was wounded off the French coast and
brought to the U. §,
THE EXPLOSION of a mine off the coast of France blew ras darman 3-¢ Roy Page O'Neal from the bridge of his ship, the fleet tug U. S. S, Partridge, and sank the ship. | Radarman O'Neal, whose wife Mrs. Eunice O'Neal lives at 844 N. Capitol ave., was brought to the’ naval hospital at Charleston, 8. C., from England aboard the hospital ship Dogw He suffered a compound A{racture of the right leg, a fracture of the spine and five bron ribs from the explosion. Radarman O'Neal was in the water for an hour clinging to a board before a Canadian vessel picked him up. Before entering
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CAPITAL ENDS ‘DIMOUT
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (U, p).|Rimihi Workmen today began removing heavy paper-board blackout blinds which have shielded capitol and senate and house office building win-
dows since the war began. HOOSIER MAKES 108 RAIDS
BEDFORD, Ind. Sept. 27 (U. P.» —T. Sgt. Paul E. Mathis, veteran with 108 combat missions to us credit, was at home on furlough tos His tunic bore 24 oak leaf ‘purple heart. Mathis was out of action only eight]
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Bitish Widen iden Bridgeheats Over Rubicon, Drive Up Po Valley.
By CLINTON B. CONGER United Press Staff Correspondent ROME, Sept. 27—British 8th army troops expanded their bridgehead across the Rubicon and drove up the Po valley today as American 5th army infantrymen joined the Germans in ferocious battle to retain the allied gains in the rough, dificult Apennine mountain ‘sector. The 8th army, after clearing up the last enemy resistance south of the Rubicon, sent Canadian units to the outskirts of the town of Bellaria, on the Rimini-Ravenna coastal highway seven and a half miles north of Rimini, Meanwhile, other 8th army units further inland approached the town of Save ignano, on the Rimini-Forli highway eight miles northwest of
Still Holding Ridge
In the mountainous terrain through which the Americans were driving on Bologna, the 6th army made gains varying from a half mile to three miles, but in one sec tor the Germans unleashed a couns ter-attack and advanced to drive the Americans from the strategic spur of Mt. Alafine ridge, just south of Castel Del Rio and 20 miles south of Bologna. The main mass of the ridge, however, still was firmly in possession of the Americans.
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Blast War Plants
LONDON, Sept. 21 (U. P).— Nearly 2000 American Flying Fortresses, Liberators and fighters smashed ay at war plants and rail yards in the Rhineland and western Germany in 8 wide-spread
of the allied afmies. More than 1100 heavy ombers escorted by Mi Thunderbolts and Lightnings dropped ex-| plosives through a heavy overcast | 'o° on a tank factory at Kassel, rail |” yards at Oppau, synthetic oil and chemical plants at Ludwigshafen, rail yards and an industrial plant at Cologne, and an ordnance depot at Mainz. R, A. P. medium bombers, meanle, flew through thick clouds to attack the German frontier town of Goch, eight miles south of Cleves on the Niers river.
Frankfurt Bombed
The raid followed in the wake of R. A. F. night attacks on the Rhinejand depots of Karlsruhe and
Prank fires, that sent smoke and} 8000 feet, were started at Karlsruhe, an industrial rail center and inland port supplying the German force§ opposing Lt. Gen/ George 8. Patton's 3d army. Frankfurt) which lies in the rear of German positions on the American 1st army front, also was bombed effectively by the night raiders, two of which were lost in the double attack. :
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2000 Yank Planes. |
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softening-up bombardment ahead)
Three Cities Are Targets for Huge Ships; All Raiders Return Safely, WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 (U. P.).
—China-based American B-20 Superfortresses struck Anshan bl
Japane: ‘Manchuria 1 a time ino gavight stack Y; while other Superforyosiam attacked Darien, Manchuria and Loyang and Kaifeng in occupied China, the 30th bomber command reported today. Results of the Anshan mission, aimed at Japanese steel production, were not known because the bombing was accomplished under a heavy
Hit Steel Plants
Noge of the big bombers was lost a is mission, the oummunique re-
Be ig the second largest steel producing center of the Japanese empire, ranking next to the great steel center of Yawata, Japan, which also has been attacked in other Superfortress raids. Anshan was attacked first on July 20 by Buperfortresses and the raid was repeated on Sept. 8. In Loyang and Kaifeng, cities in the Japaniens ceupise portion of ina, qilitary targets Wer at. ci
“Enemy anti-aircraft fire in all the raids was reported weak, the communique said, and fighter opposi-
tion was light.
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By WALTER CRONKITE eight days United Press Staff Correspondent ago fighting y lian U.'S. AIRBORNE battles during the wesk to ke keep it TROOPS AT VEGHEL, The | PCD. Netherlands, Sept. 25 (Delayed).— | The third attempt to breach the This is one of the strangest front | corridor came yesterday lines of the war, when the Nazis shove 1 am writing this on a mahog- spearhead across the road imany fable. The fancy leather | ‘Mediately Southwes} o here. Day in Mich L Se WE ARE HERE in a modern
casts easan “milling plant of a co-operative room. 3 Heasant gio 9 v- the society, on the banks of the canal
walls are easy on the eyes. But the f table is dancing, the leather chair is rocking, and the wall and mural are shaking.
“ OUTSIDE, down at the corner where the drugstore would be if the setting outside matched this |
here from that front door ack battleground with blood on them to mark the enemy's effort.
DANIELLE DARRIEUX FIRED ON IN PARIS
PARIS, Sept. 27 (U. P).—Fim Actress Danielle Darrieux narrowly escaped desth and her husband was wounded seriously Sunday nights when French police patrols fired on their car in Neuilly. The police opened fire when Mise Darrieux’ chauffeur failed to haly quickly enough in response to theip signal,
Her husband, attache at the Santo Domingo legation in Paris, was hit three times in the abdomen and a woman riding with them wag shot in the thigh. Both were ree moved to a hospital,
Another couple of blocks across the canal and down the road is a German 88 mm, gun. . These two don't like each other, The roar of the tank seems to shake one's very innards and it is so loud it hurts the ears, The 88's answering fire comes in staccato cracks that is like light. ning ripping off the roof, accoms panied by a high whine that seems to split the brain, » : 4 s THIS 18 the third battle for Veghel and its vital bridge across the Zuid Willems canal, This American airborne outfit that won fame at Normandy already has won the undying gratitude of the British for originally opening the 30-mile
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