WEEK OF JANUARY 27 TO FEBRUARY 3
230th Week of the War
112th Week of U. S. Participation
Volume II No. 42F
CENTRAL PACIFIC: Opening their operation with
CENTRAL PACIFIC,
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seizure of at least 10 beachheads,
an amphibious force consisting of the Seventh Infantry
Division and the Fourth Marine Division launched
assaults on Jap naval and aviation installations on Kwajalein,
Roi and Namur islets of the Kwajalein atoll in the
Marshall Islands. Roi was quickly taken. Landings were
made with the support of the most powerful Navy task
force ever assembled, and after a three-week series of
bombing attacks. Opposition to the initial landings was
light, but became more furious as the action turned toward
the three principal objectives. In going ashore in the Marshalls,
the two divisions attained the distinction of being
the first to invade territory held by Japan before Pearl
Harbor. Kwajalein is the world's largest atoll, having a
length of about 70 miles. The Seventh Division operated
against Kwajalein Islet at the southern end, the Marines
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Where you're used to seeing a .50 caliber gun, this
Navy reconnaissance Liberator mounts a giant camera,
and there is a photographer instead of a waist gunner.
Artillery technique in Italy. This tank destroyer is
snuggly dug in and the fire of its 3-inch gun is regulated
by regular field artillery sights and procedure.
American helmets of the 25th Division and peaked-crown,
wide-brim hats of a New Zealand brigade intermingle at
Vella Lavella as New Zealanders relieve Yanks there.
A Navy mobile photographic laboratory comes ashore in
the Solomons. It is the rear echelon without which the allimportant
photo reconnaissance planes would be useless.
brief space of 20 minutes. Reports filtering through neutral
countries told of havoc so thorough that hardly a
block in the Reich capital remained completely intact.
Eighth USAAF Fortresses and Liberators made strong attacks
on Frankfort, Brunswick and Hanover. The Frankfort
strike was reported to be the eighth strongest so far,
with about 800 bombers and 700 fighers participating.
Besides these operations, bombers of all classes maintained
a steady succession of attacks of targets in France and the
low countries.
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Stuffing 250 pamphlets each into 25-pounder shells in
Italy. Prepared by the Fifth Army Psychological Warfare
branch, the pamphlets are sprayed over enemy territory.
against Roi and Namur to the north. Few but Japs and
natives have set foot on the Marshalls since Japan quit
the League of Nations in 1935 and began fortifying the
group as a bastion to shield its great Truk base several
hundred miles farther west.
ITALY: After forcing the Germans from Cassino but
remaining unable to enter it themselves except
in patrol strength because of enemy artillery fire poured
into the town from dominating hill positions, Fifth Army
American troops broke through on a four-mile front north
of Cassino. So complete was this break-through that the
Americans overran all Gustav line defense installations in
that sector and had only the natural obstacles of Italian
terrain between them and the next German prepared line
about nine miles farther on. Cassino was thus flanked,
and its only remaining highway to the north placed under
threat. The advance put Fifth Army forces in the Cassino
region within fifty miles of those fighting to extend the
Rome beachhead. British on the left of the beachhead
tried to cut the Rome to Naples rail line at Campo Leone
15 miles from Rome, while American troops struggled
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African Goummiers of the Fifth Army are now provided Pilots of the 99th Fighter Squadron, first all-Negro
with American uniforms, but they insist on going into bat
USAAF organization to see action, talk tactics following
tie wearing their traditional gowns over the GI outfits. a mission. The 99th was credited with destroying eight
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of the 28 enemy aircraft shot down over the Fifth Army
beachhead south of Rome on Jan. 27. The officers in the
photograph all are former Tuskegee University students.
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