The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 26 January 1944 — Page 4

THE DAILY BANNER, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1944.

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Rocket Gun is Secret Weapon

<lt> I till | ih T.ut Mirth) A1WANCK1) A I, I. I K D HKAD CJfUAKTERS, NKW CTIXHA, Jan 2f> (UP) The m' ret w ajxm.s that bladteil (ml inva.sion paths l"i t . Americans in New Britian wi ,■ re vealed today to hi imilti-b.irreh-d rochet "guns."

Con sting of rocket tubes rr.ount- ■ I in hanks on ducks amphibious trucks and other small craft, their | blazing barrages paved the way for the ucu'ssful landings on Arawe and Cape Gloucester in western New

Britian.

I rode into Arawe Harbor nn Dec. 15 on a duck and witnessed the barrage this new weapon laid down against .Inpanes ■ positions to soften the way for the landing forces be-

hind us.

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were used in an amphibious landing Lt. W. Donald Beaver, Kew Gardens, N. Y„ who commanded the duck told me "we've been waiting for this day a long time. We’re going to prove the rock t is a great weapon.” And pmve it they did, with a terrific barrage The duck fired 240 rockets in four minutes, blasting , v ry eq.iare foot of the landing jeaches The ro kets exploded ir rows they are usually fired in serie: of 10 like gigantic bio mirg flow

ers.

The banks- were mounted on th» rear cf the duck They were fired over t i Ir ads of the crew, who were protect 'd from the h at by a steel nielcl. There was a gieat swish and . ursts of flame as they were fired b it it was not hard on the ears liki i ival barrage. They were fired by • emote control from the cabin, ano passed < verhead in a groat arc, ex ploding when they hit the target. At Saidnr, X rode toward the beach' it dawn with an infantry unit, and we wut.hid two naval vessels open i path with rockets mounted thei'' • vs. The ' ight of those explosions blazing a path down the beach n. - '^ in dcctrifyin'j effect upon the morale of the troops. A rocket barrage helped blast the Japanese from the vicinity >f the airput at C'upe Gloucester. After Uuho operations Brig. Gen. V,. F. Heavey, command r of the s con' engineering special brigade, reported that office 1 !s were “elated" over the results obtained by use of rockets For instance, at Cape Gloucester, strongly-Intrenched Japanese hold dip the Marines for two days at one point. Ducks were rushed to th< m n ' and rix barrages of 210 rock ets each were thrown at the enemy posiD ii I mediately after tin Marines occupied them without opposition. They found four machim gun n. ts kiocktd out and more than SO dead Japanese. Tvv 'iity of the dead were uamark- !, indi. ding they were killed by concussion alone.

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* Ohudovo Tosno sector of the 1 Leningrad-Mo cow railn ad

| This lengthened the broad Kus.-ian j gap through the enemy s fortified line to 25 miles probable depth of ! this point- and lent weight to re- | ports that the Red army at lad had j broken clear through long-prepared | defenses. If confirmed, the breakthrough probably wiil lead !•> the collapse • f the whole German salient below Leningrad with the enemy fall-

ing tack to the Baltic states. In the Ukraine, the Germans con-

tinued their ince sa/it counter-at-1 tacks east of Vinnitsa and north of

BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Jan. 26. Kristinovka in an apparent attempt William K. (Billy) Brown today I to g ov je t prpiaure on the norththrew his hat in the ring as a can . wcstern f ron t_ .but without any aplidate for state commander of ^ 1 parcnt succcss . uMoi . e tha n 1.500 Gertndiana Department of the American mans were kme(| and 63 tanks and

William E. (Billy) Brown

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L T P AGAIN — Showing effects of his recent attack of flu, here Is how President Roosevelt looked as he broadcast his recent wartime message to Congress and the people. His fivepoint Win-the-War program is now under advisement of Congress.

Legion. With this announcement nade hAe today. Mr. Brown becom•s the first candidate in the contest which will be decided at the annual tatc convention of the organization

at Indianapolis in August. STRONG GERMAN DEFENSES FALL TO RED FORCES

BISSIWS BKKAK THROUGH

( ENTER OF NAZI LINE

NEAR EEM.NGHAH

MOSCOW, Jan. 26- (UP)— Gen. j Kyril A. Meretskov s northwestern ; anniea were reported to have scored 1 decisive brer-kthrough at the center • f tlie enemy's crumpled Lcnin-grad-Novgorod defense line today • Blasting a 25-:i.il? corridor through ! some cf the strongest fortifications

in Europe.

To the west, the fall of the fiveway tailroad junction of ' Krasnogvardeisk, a city i f 12,000, 25 miles | southwest of L lingrad, was believd imminent a Gen. Leonid A. Govorov’ forces broke into the out-

skirts.

Railroads running both west to Tallinn, Estonia, and east to Tosno have been cut, leaving the garrison only the trunk line southward to Pskov over which to escape. The seveiance of the Krasnog’vardeiskTosno line broke the last direct rail link (between the front southwest of Leningrad and the Volghov river front. 1 1 German broadcasts said the Soviets, strengthening their beachheads at the eastern end of the Crimean Peninsula, had driven to the outskirts of Kerch and London military observers speculated that the city would fall soon.) Front dispatches said Meretskov’? armies, hammering at the center of the 100-mile defense line between 1 Leningrad and Novgorod, had ad-1 vanced another 10 miles to reach the I

self-prcpelled guns knocked out east

of Vinnitsa Aline.

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