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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1942
Page
8
Allied forces launch a record-breaking commando attack on the Dieppe coast in France. Flying Fortresses and fighter squadrons accompany the assault as commandos smash through Nazi coastal defenses in the sector.
Allied forces led a large raid on Dieppe with American Rangers British Commandos and Canadian troops attacking coastal defenses. The operation aimed to destroy a six gun battery and a Nazi ammunition dump while tanks bombers and air support pounded targets. Many units began reembarking by midday after achieving key objectives amid heavy fighting along the Dieppe coast.
U S Rangers trained secretly for weeks in Britain under British mentors for the Dieppe raid and other covert operations. The article describes their brutal, silent combat training, mountain climbs, long speed marches, and nerve in beach landings with Bren gun tracer fire close aboard.
A United States submarine has sunk a Japanese cruiser or destroyer in the western Aleutian area, bringing total enemy ships announced as sunk or damaged there to 23. Conditions prevented exact identification of the vessel.
AP reports show Jimmy Allred campaigning through Dalhart Dallas Kaufman and Port Arthur arguing to end isolationism back a war labor policy and parity for farmers while W Lee O Daniel tours from Silsbee Port Arthur Corrigan to Crockett rallying labor voters and defending unions against racketeers amid crowds under trees and in courthouses.
President Roosevelt directed Secretary of War Henry L Stimson to take over and operate the S A Woods Machine Co Boston which had refused War Labor Board order. Allied forces in Willemstad Curacao report submarine search after two torpedoes exploded on the beach and depth charges were dropped near suspected areas.
Aug 19 report says German forces push more troops tanks and planes into a final drive for Stalingrad after repelling Russian counter attacks at the two main approaches to the besieged city on the Volga.
Official dispatches say German armor and motorized units pressured Russian lines south of Kletskaya as Soviet forces were driven back to a secondary defense. The noon communique noted raids behind German positions near Kotelnikovski while Germans pressed near Pyatigorsk and Krasnodar.
Chinese communique reports the recapture of Wenchow on the east coast, about 250 miles south of Shanghai and 600 miles southwest of Japan, with Japanese troops retreating to Tsingtien and Suichang abandoned. In New England port, an enemy surface raider sinks an American merchantman in the first such attack of World War III.
Rio de Janeiro reports all Brazilian soldiers on leave are urgently recalled and the navy bans furloughs for regular reserves as Brazil moves toward war footing amid Axis submarine threats after sinking five Brazilian ships.
Crowds along the shore watched German planes attack a British convoy for about 20 minutes this afternoon. British patrol and anti air craft ships responded with a fierce barrage, keeping the Nazi planes at a high altitude. Bombs were seen dropping, but the convoy pressed on and the raiders retreated to their base.
An API report from Cairo states a ship load of American air support troops has arrived in Egypt. The group, described as thoroughly trained and seasoned, will be used by the U.S. Army Air Corps in the theater. The journey from America was uneventful.
The Globe-News hosts a primary night gathering across Sixth from the Globe-News on the courthouse lawn. Returns begin at 7 o clock with a short ballot and easy counting promising decisive results, broadcast live by Globe News and Amarillo Electric Company. Everyone is invited to enjoy the evening and hear the fresh returns.
The forecast notes warmer conditions this afternoon and tonight across Amarillo and West Texas, with scattered thundershowers mainly in Big Bend and east of the Pecos River. New Mexico similarly warms with scattered showers this afternoon and evening, and temperatures range from a 63 to 84 degree 24 hour span.
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