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August 18, 1942

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EAKER LEADS RAID; Flying Fortresses Bomb Rouen in First All-U.S. Blow at Nazis ONE GUNNER DOWNS NAZI American Fighters in Escort for Diversionary Attacks -- Spaatz Hails Offensive EAKER LEADS RAID WITH U.S. BOMBERS

By Frank L. Kluckhohnspecial Cable To the New York Times

Eaker leads raid on Rouen rr yds in 1st all US bombing operation; map and illus; RAF, Canadian and Allied fighters aid cited; Eaker and Spaatz comment on raid; Spaatz and Air Marshal R H Peck on joint US-Brit air offensive imminence; US Air Force fighters take part in Dunkerque and Cherbourg raid; US and Brit heavy bombers performance compared; merits of Lancaster discussed

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FOE'S SHIPS ROUTED; Defeated in Night Battle by Fleet Protecting Marine Landings PLANES ALSO BEATEN OFF 18 Downed -- 18 Others Bagged in Initial Attack -- Japanese Captured in Solomons FOE'S SHIPS ROUTED IN SOLOMONS FIGHT

By C. Brooks Petersspecial To the New York Times

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 -- Shore positions in the Solomon Islands that were stormed and taken from the Japanese by United States Marines operating under the protecting guns of warships of the United States Navy "have since been developed and are now well established," the Navy Department announced this evening.

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Notable Births

Henry G. Sanders

1942Henry G. Sanders, American actor[†]

Henry Gale Sanders is an American actor best known for his role in Charles Burnett's 1977 neo-realist film Killer of Sheep. He has also appeared extensively on television, on such programs as The Rockford Files, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, Knight Rider, Knots Landing, Miami Vice, Cagney & Lacey, Married... with Children, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, NYPD Blue, and The Mentalist.

Notable Deaths

Erwin Schulhoff

1942Erwin Schulhoff, Austro-Czech composer and pianist (born 1894)[†]

Erwin Schulhoff was an Austro-Czech composer and pianist. He was one of the figures in the generation of European musicians whose successful careers were prematurely terminated by the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany and whose works have been rarely noted or performed beyond Czechoslovakia until the 1980s.