anaheim-gazette 1943-04-29

REPORT FROM THE TUNISIAN FRONT: “ACTION UNABATED IN FEROCITY!” Over Africa this week there hung a heavy expectancy. The moment before the kill, many observers believed. How much longer the Axis could—or would—take the punishment she is receiving from the Allies remained a matter of conjecture based on past experience. But many a seasoned militarist and correspondent predicted that the crisis would come within the next few hours, that Hitler’s roundly trounced Afrika Korps would be forced to acknowledge crushing defeat. Unchecked by Axis counterattacks, the Allies rolled onward. The front, while not decisively drawn, was not without action. The high command termed the tenor of the action as “unabated ferocity.” That the edge is definitely on the side of the Allies was undoubted, but the world was reminded by the command that victory has not yet come. FRENCH FORWARD On the extreme northern flank the French Moroccan troops skirted the rim of the Mediterranean, advanced another three miles and reported their forward elements within 20 miles of Bizerte. An assault carried the Americans to within 75 yards of the crest of Azag, but an enemy counterattack forced them back to its foot. However, the Yanks pressed forward on the right flank for some two miles. Miles south of the Jefna position, the American spearhead in the vicinity of Sidi Nsir bypassed that place after it had been abandoned by the Germans, but did not reach it. Germany Hit By Heaviest Raid On The Homeland American and British Air forces came into their own this week on the far-flung front of the global war, chalked up a notable field day, and made elaborate preparations to increase the range and effectiveness of warfare’s newest, deadliest weapon: Air Power. Germans and Japanese alike felt the fury of Allied aerial might. From Alaska to Africa, the Army Air Forces and the Royal Air Force lashed out against the Axis, grinding their ground installations with super-weight bombs, smashing their war factories, harrying their supply lines. 30 TONS A MINUTE For a period of 45 minutes the RAF’s heavy bombers rained an average of 30 tons a minute upon Germany's great inland port of Duisburg. The RAF termed the attack the severest raid ever made on Germany. Coke ovens, steel mills, warehouses and shipping in the canal linking the Rhine and An assault carried the Americans to within 75 yards of the crest of Azag, but an enemy counterattack forced them back to its foot. However, the Yanks pressed forward on the right flank for some two miles. Miles south of the Jefna position, the American spearhead in the vicinity of Sidi Nsir bypassed that place after it had been abandoned by the Germans, but did not attempt to enter because of heavy mining. Here too the second corps is operating in extremely rugged terrain. LONGSTOP HILL Having cleared the enemy from Longstop Hill, which stands six miles northeast of Medjez el Bab and dominates the road to Tebourba, the British First Army immediately exploited the fruits of this long hard fought battle. British tanks struck out eastward from Medjez el Bab in a feint that drew scattered units of the Germans' Tenth, Fifteenth and Twenty-first panzer divisions from the country about the Medjerda river. This stream follows a snakelike course northeast and closely parallels the highway from Medjez el Bab to Tebourba. Relieved of armored opposition, the First Army infantry placed itself astride both the road and the river, and was reported holding 10 miles southwest of Tebourba. Axis Casualties On All Fronts Mount Steadily Gargantuan losses, draining the life's blood of the once irresistible Nazi war machine, were revealed by Allied headquarters this week. An official communique from Allied high command in Africa set the Axis losses for the period of January 1 to 15 at 30,000 in killed and wounded and 36,000 prisoners. Captured and destroyed enemy equipment totaled 250 tanks, 3000 vehicles, 425 guns and more than 1000 planes. Land based Allied aircraft operating over the Mediterranean sank 34 Axis ships, severely damaged 53 and did lesser damage to 55. MANY PRISONERS Gen. Eisenhower reported that in the actions of Gabes Gap to Axis, grinding their ground installations with super-weight bombs, smashing their war factories, harrying their supply lines. 30 TONS A MINUTE For a period of 45 minutes the RAF's heavy bombers rained an average of 30 tons a minute upon Germany's great inland port of Duisburg. The RAF termed the attack the severest raid ever made on Germany. Coke ovens, steel mills, warehouses and shipping in the canal linking the Rhine and Ruhr rivers suffered heavily. In the Alaskan theatre, the Americans dumped heavy bombs on Japanese installations on Kiska Island. Thirty-one flights were sent against the Japs in three days as the Nipponese made feverish preparations on Kiska, possibly for an attack on Dutch Harbor, U.S. air base which is some 600 miles nearer the mainland. RAF planes dealt another blow at Naples from their bases on Malta and conducted further sweeps over Sicily. CRUCIAL MEDITERRANEAN The importance of Allied aerial operations in the Mediterranean area, bringing Sicily into the most active sectors of battle, is at once recognizable from scrutiny of the map. Upon their supply routes depends the fate of the Afrika Korps, if, indeed, there is yet any doubt as to the outcome of the fascist campaign in that continent. In two days of attack, the Allies knocked down 112 Axis planes, 70 of them transports. Again and again the RAF and American units pounded at the supply lines, destroying 74 enemy planes in one engagement. This was described as the largest number of enemy planes ever destroyed in one engagement in this theatre of war. SEVERE BLOW The transports, in addition to representing a loss of equipment, meant a severe blow to Axis plans. According to Cairo dispatches they were carrying badly-needed specialists to the retreating Italo-German legions. According to War Department figures, the Axis has lost 358 planes against an Allied loss of 62 since April 10. Axis production ceilers felt gaining sting of Allied air power, which smashed more than half of the Foeke-Wulf aircraft plant in strongly defended Bremen and destroyed an estimated 95 Nazi fighters in combat during the raid which cost us 16 bombers. Captured and destroyed enemy equipment totaled 250 tanks, 3000 vehicles, 425 guns and more than 1000 planes. Land based Allied aircraft operating over the Mediterranean sank 34 Axis ships, severely damaged 53 and did lesser damage to 55. MANY PRISONERS Gen. Eisenhower reported that in the actions of Gabes Gap to Enfindaville, the enemy lost 4680 prisoners to the Allies. In one action alone the Russians claimed, 1000 Germans were killed in the Lake Ilmen sector. Captured prisoners were a far cry from the invincible super-race which over-ran France, Belgium, Poland and the Low Countries. The Nazis were bedraggled, sullen, sometimes hungry and poorly clothed. In the African fighting, German troops surrendered to advancing Allies, creeping out of their hiding places with white flags displayed above their heads. Among them were 10 officers. They and the troops with them reported that they had fought in Russia last winter and that many of them had received wounds there. SURRENDER PICTURED Official and captured films made public this week showed the surrender of a brace of Nazi generals in Russia several months ago. Also pictured was the surrender of the premier Russian prize: a Nazi field marshal. On the African front the enemy is using only the best German troops in places where fighting is most severe and an order found on a captured Italian instructed them to battle the Allies with rocks if their ammunition was exhausted. Though the Germans have been retiring so swiftly in some places that they have broken custom by failing to bury their dead, the surrender of 260 on Longstop Hill was not typical of the enemy's Axis production detriters felt gaining sting of Allied air power, which smashed more than half of the Focke-Wulf aircraft plant in strongly defended Bremen and destroyed an estimated 95 Nazi fighters in combat during the raid which cost us 16 bombers. DAYLIGHT RAIDS The Americans began the attack with what is rapidly becoming an AAF policy: daylight raids. Before the debris could be cleared that night, the RAF backed up the American attack with their heavy bombers, smashing the sprawling, giant Skoda armament works at Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, the chemical industries of Mannheim and Lurwigshafen on the Upper Rhine. generally displayed determination. DOGGED NAZIS It was no secret that the Germans were fighting doggedly on, despite heavy losses, failing supplies, complete exhaustion. But the prisoners taken were not the cocky Nazis who had fallen into Allied hands earlier in the war. Allied operations were not, of course, without losses. General Eisenhower reported that the Second US Corps suffered 5372 casualties in its holding action that aided the British Eighth Army's drive through the Gabes Gap to Enfindaville. Of these, 903 were killed and 859 were missing. 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