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Besiegers Stopped – 2
War News Summarized – 2
U.S. Bombers’ Victory Held New Step to Invading Europe (Middleton) – 3
‘Ring Days Over,’ Says Joe Louis; Not to Defend Championship Again – 4-5
Negro Sees Own Folk Drive Tanks to ‘Victory’ in Front of His Porch – 6
Tanks Found Slow in Tennessee Blitz (O’Connor) – 6-7
150 Poles Hanged in Nazi Reprisals – 7
French ‘Explain’ Draft to Workers (Warren) – 8
The Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 9

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1942/oct42/f12oct42.htm

British Liberator sinks sub in Atlantic
Monday, October 12, 1942 www.onwar.com

German submarine in the North Atlantic under air attackIn the North Atlantic... A British Liberator bomber sinks German U-boat U-597. It is the first success scored by the single RAF squadron of long range bombers. Despite their usefulness, the Liberator is reserved for strategic bombing missions over Europe and will not be used in quantity in the Atlantic for some time.

In the Solomon Islands.. The Battle of Cape Esperance. The remaining two destroyers from the Japanese supply convoy are sunk by American planes from Henderson Field airstrip on Guadalcanal.