The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-11-24
NewHeavy Night Attack
Made on NaZi CapitaI
Enemy Struck
From Air i'm
Pacific
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Bomb-battered residents OF Der.
lin crawled out OF their air raid
shelters again this morning 10 find
new fires blazing all around in The
Nazi capital, and buildings blasted
down everywhere. az the result Of
the British Royal Air Forces sec.
ond formidable night attack with
in - hours on the very heart OF
Killers European fortress
Last nights attack came short.
ly after dark, on the heels OF tbs
greatest aerial bombardment in
history. and marked the 9lst BON
bardment OF the city which Field
Marshal Hermann Goering had
promised the German people would
never feel the blast OF an enemy
bomb
The German radio was the first
TO announce last nights attack on
Berlin, whining that new terror
raid had been carried out on the
Nazi capital
Fires from Monday nights rec,
ord attack Still blazed az the Brit.
ish raiders arrived over Berlin
Tuesday night. and this morning
the smoke OF fires from Mondays
aud Tuesdays raids blended to
hang heavy pail OF smoke over
the center OF Nszidom.
L. al L.
this current series OF air raids was
part OF an Allied master cam,
paign" 10 knock Germany out OF
tho war as quickly as possible
The death OF Berlin as a war
time capital may well he In sight"
The LONDON Daily Mail declared.
Drop Explosives
Aerial operations hit the enemy
hard in the Southwest Pacific.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's airmen
dropped I9t tons OF explosives on
Jap airdromes on New Britain Ia
land and left enemy Installations
scared and blackened
Allied medium and heavy bomb.
era dropped ll2 tons OF bombs on
1 Agnr Island and l.idenhafeu air
dromey. and strsfel the ground
forces OF the foe with $4,000 rounds
OF ammunition
An additional 81 tons ~ high
explosives burst on Cape Glouces-
ter. at the eastern end OF New
Britain. where the enemy airpors
and supply bases were blasted.
Five Jap planes on the ground
were damaged or destroyed
In Russia. however, the NsEis
for a change reported n few sue
cesses Moscow admitted that tina
Red Army had been forced 10
withdraw in two sectors north and
east OF Zhitomir because OF des-
perate German counterattacks. Tbs
Soviet. Withdrawals occurred near
Brusilov. 25 miles east OF Zhito-
mir. and at Chernykhoy, 10 miles
north OF Zhitomir
Drive Russians Back
However the Soviet high com
mand stated the enemys gains
were costly. More than 1000 Ger
mans we're killed and more than
100 Nazi tanks we're disabled or
destroyed. as the Nazis drove the
Red Army back at these points
Every dispatch from the fronr
indicated that the Nazls were
hurting their every resource into
their counter attacks, Moscow said.
but the cost TO the enemy was
enormous and had no effect on So
Wet advances on other sectors OF
the bsttleline
In American Hands
In ilr Central Pacific the Gib
bert Islands were firmly in Amer
lean hands. This announcements
was made by Admiral Chester ".
Nimitz L. 8 commander-in.chief
OF the Pacific fleet. who issued
dominique revealing Maxim Atoll
was entirely in American hands.
jap resistance at Maxim had been
completely wiped out by the Amer
Jean 9th division. Admiral NimitI
said
In the Tarawa atoll it was be-
lieved only a matter OF hours be
fore American Marines capture
Betio Island. and the fall OF Abema.
ma Island to other L. S. units ap-
peared inevitable.
on the Italian front Allied troops
clsshed In several sectors with
Nazi forces but gains by both the
Fifth and Eighth Armies were
N 1.