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GASTONIIA{DAILYGASTON COUNTY. THE 1-INK. COMBED YARN CENTER OF AMERICAA dim* out of dollar woIS OUR QUOTAfor VICTORY withU.S. WAR BONDSSHOWERSVOL. LXIII. NO. 196NRA8lt;rvtc«M.nihrr Audit Bumo of Circulation*GASTONIA, N. C., MONDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 17, 1942tssoriateti Pre«!4**ed Wirt*Widp W'irld News Scrvtc#SINGLE COPIES S«mumTheSolomons*+*★H*★ititititititititit★ititititititit. i.inI0»»»-■ J«»~ **• *-U. S. Air ForceReady For OwnShow In AfricaCAIRO Au^. 17—lt;/P)—The star-in-a-circle of the United States Army air force is almost ready to put on its own fighter show in North Africa’s skies.The drew*rehearsal days lt;f intensive training oiAmerican pilots as flying comrades with desert-wise RAP’ squadrons—is over.When the Americans go back into combat, they will fly the newest American pursuit planes, with their own insignia, in complete United States air force figlitei squadrons.U 8 A A P bomber squadron#**——RftF PI ANES SETThe fruits of air tattle, sweet and bitter. • ohared by t An cons and their British and South African mate* in camps pitched together for the final ftghting-tratmng partnership.Two first* at the enemv’a expense were logged for Major Clan-mount E. Wheeler of 8an Jose. Cultf and Capt. Glade B BUby of Skidmore. Mo.Wheeler fired the fn i .hot at an Axis plain* and Bliby, who fiew u iighter-bomber in « big show atdawn Friday aiMtiV't the airdrome at Puka. dropped the fir t bomb 8eeond Lieut Jack 8 Wilson of Benton City. W*. h , may get credit for half a Oertnan pl;ine Wilson «h.s the fir t Americanflbr *Ur\1 Kilt a* hi*OUT FDR FRANCEI ighter I8 An !rnb-ers Roar Across Channel For Da.vlijrht Raids,LONDON. Aug 17 —'JPi—RAFfighters and bombers flying at suchaltitudes they could not te aeenthrough $t*e haze, roared out overthe channel today, presumably tomake another foray over the occupied coast.On the south coast a loneNAZIS GET OILFIELDS*IDRIVEST AIM ADRussians Fall Back, j From Ruins Of M ai-kop AsNGer-evvman Offensive Aims At Great IndustrialCity.—BY IUDY C.ILMORF—MOSCOW, Aug. 17 -TheGerman offensive in the Don bend flared to full force today in a powerful new drive toward Stalmgrad while in the Caucasus the Russians fell back from the ruins of the Maikop oil fields toward their next petroleum producing area at Grozny.A Russian communique reported a terrific toll of new Nazi manpower and material thrown into the assault southeast of Kiet, kaya and northeast of Kotelnikovski against the flanks of the fortified line guarding Stalingrad.Battl* front dispatches said the Germans roiled foru.ud at tremendous. cost in the KicUkaya salient, 75 miles northwest of Stalingrad, but were held firmly at the Kotel-nitovaki flank, 95 mile* southwest of Stalingrad.In the Caucasus, extending Nazi lines appeared checked on the Krasnodar flank where the Germans are thru ting toward the port of No-i ossisk, but thej stretched ever farther to the southeast along the rail and oil pipe line toward Groz-h *mv %4 *Cir irTWO YEARS OftWAR SPENDING’I60-40-- it/QClt;-J-JoSBattle of Midway—H—Folt of Bataan--------1-Fall of Singapore-1—\U. S. BOMBERS Churchill BackKEEPRAIDSJAP BASESNo Official Word OnProgress Of IslandBattle. But Confidence Seen In Australian Attitude.(ASSOCIATED PKESSIThe battle of the Solomon Islands, now 11 days old, was as obscured as ever today, but it appeared likely that United States Marines were extending beachheads already officially announced captured.While this exclusively Navy operation continued. General Mac Arthur sent his bombers in almost ceaseless harassment of Japanese bases and supply lines in the Southwest Parific.A town on the southeast coast of Timor, Dutch island in Japanese occupation, was bombed, and The Melbourne Herald, saying that Allied troops were still operating in the interior there, speculated that the Timor attacks Wtrt meant to assist the guerrilla forces.B» »e bombing of Timor, theMacArthur communique al o reported continued patrol skirmishing in New Guinea between small enemy forces and Allied outposts beyond the Owen Stanley Range, a line of natural defense for the Allied base at Port Moreby.The Japanese radio at Saigon, French Indo-China, reported that Hanoi and Haiphong, capital andFrom Four DayVisit To Stalin—BY CLYDE A. FARNSWORTH—Associated Press War Editor While the Red armies of the Caucasus and Stalingrad fought for time until Germany could be struck on a second front, London and Moscow disclosed today that strategical plans had been worked out in a Moscow conference which included Winston Churchill. Joseph Stalin and a personal envoy of President Roosevelt.They met against the imposing background of assembled Russian, British and American war experts.Participating in the talks as a representative of President Roosevelt was W. Averell Harriman, special envoy. The United States also was represented in the military talks by Major General Russell P. Maxwell, commander in the Middle East.President Roosevelt and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek were informed daily of the decisions, it was disclosed.An official statement on the visit, issued in both London and Moscow, said of the historic conference:“This just war of liberation both governments are determined to carry on with all their power and energy until complete destruction of Hitlerism and any similar tyranny has been achieved.”“The discussions, which were carried on in an atmosphere of cordiality and complete sincerity, provided an opportunity of reaffirming the existence of close friendship and understanding between the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States of America in entire accord
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Gastonia Daily Gazette
Gastonia, North Carolina, US
Mon, Aug 17, 1942
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