The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-10-11
PontelandoKo Captured by
Allies; Airfields in Greece
TARGETS of Bomber Attacks
Fighting Very
Heavy in
Ukraine


BY International News s ,ticel
Allied head1uartsrs announced
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capture % Fouielandolio town ls .
miles northeast Of BrneFentn and
nina milo, north "A, tbe r,f6,e pt,..
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An oflcial .fdminunique rom
General Dwight IS tiseuhovFf's
hea1guariers said the ep-uy was
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using broken ana hiH'''.t county
10 assist his defense
The inland .trouenpId 4. In IN,
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can fH'h anu h''''sh EisH'h
Armies both ~ which were re-
ported making limited advances
Probe Oefenses
EARLIER reports revealed sdFan' q
Firth Army patrols had sWum
across the Nplturno ltvrr 10 probs
formidable Nazi defense. Oth~r
Firth Army troops crossed the Col.
ore Rll1E 10 grab P0nle and Con.
Sir Bernard Montgomery Eighth
Army seized San Marco, IL miles
northeast OF Pontc.
Meanwhile the air assault IN
Greece continued With Allied fOur-
molored bombers smaahing a. The
AraXos AirdrOme near Athens.
This followed u night RhF attack
on the Martha and talnta Air
dromes on The Island OF Rhodes, OF
tho coast OF Turkey.
No details we're Immediately
available Of the big bomber assault
on the Athens holdH The British
raiders Of Rhodes battered targets
which were stiil smouldcring from
previous raids by American Lib
orators.
Runways OF both fields Wers
straddled nth bombs and vast hres
were set at Calato. Middle East
/ Communique revealed
Hit From Ar
Eighth AIR Force Headquarters 4
Britain revealed the pivotal .tail
junction Of Mncnsior aud other Ia
siallationS At to"ei'ld 10 western
Germany, and the En'iade Nir'
drome In Holland. V0re hat had
by 4. s. Fortrrsses and ihuhd"r'
bolts yesterday Tho days bag
~ l02 Nazl planes raised the three
day total downed by Eighth mr.
force planes 10 At least $50 ANT
possibly $50 enemy planes.
Flying Fortrcaseg were credited
with downing 81 \u2i lutorceptors
for the loss Of 80 BIS The Thun-
derbolts bapged 2l Germans aud
lost only two OF their force.
On the bnlepcr front the &C.
mans "winter l.no' 'rumblcd ard
threatened 10 collapse The NO.
cow newspaper Pra'da disclo-ed
that powerful Russian units, tan,<
and artillery forced Nazi troops
near Kiev to fall back 50 far they
were unable To shell the river.
Dispatches from the front lndt'
Gated the lighting on the lkrain.
ian front was approaching the ferp-
city OF Stalingrad and the German
air force was said to be flying
1000 Sorles a day IN an al.out ef'
fort to check the Russian push
Swim River
Allied Headquarters in North
Africa announced that advance
Fifth Army patrols swan across
the Nolturno River 10 Probe FORM
liable Nazi defeuscs on the north
bank. seizng Cimatola. and also
crossing the Galore River to occu.
ny Ponte Meanwhile Gen. SIR
Bernard Montgomery Eighth
Army seized San Marco II miles
northeast OF Ponte
At Pearl HIarbor Admiral Chess
ter ". Nimitz. commanding the
Pacific feet announced that $50
tons OF bombs the largest weight
OF explosives I'm the Pacific war
operations to date were dropped
on Wake Island oct 5 and s 20
wreck 81 planes destroy wo small
SiIpMu WITH dead Iap--