CBS World News - December 13th, 1951
December 13th, 1951
CBS World News
"The world today. The Columbia Broadcasting System now presents a summary of the all the important world news today. Reports from CBS correspondents by trans-Atlantic and trans-Pacific short wave radio, and the latest developments as received by the Columbia's news room here in New York. Tonight we will be reporting on the latest military events from Europe and Asia from our correspondent Tommy Fourever."
"Good evening. Tonight I bring you reports from Europe and abroad. In central France, American units have begun the counter attack at driving the Germany-Italian invasion out. After preparation over the last few months, this attack finally began at the end of November and has brought significant progress. Along the entire front, German units are in full retreat with their allies. I will report more on this developing situation as reports come to Commander Feuersturm's HQ over the next few days."
"In Africa, German forces have landed in Libya. The attacking forces comprised of at least one panzer division and two mechanized divisions. The landings, which took place with Italian naval support, came upon the beaches unopposed and was not detected for quite some time. American infantry in the area have moved down from Tunis to deal with the threat."
"In Asia, the situation has not changes much, except for some minor skirmishes between the Red Army and American troops. The major news, however, was the large naval engagement between the German Kriegsmarine and the American Navy. In the waters north of occupied Brazil, the American carrier group with its aging carriers was caught off guard patrolling the waters for Argentinian merchant raiders. When the group commander ran into the powerful German navy, he immediately ordered a withdrawal. The Germans, however, had no interest in giving up the fight. Over the next few days, several hits were scored by both sides, but no critical hits. The turning point came the day after when 6 carriers were sunk in the early hours of the morning during a dawn attack. The American carriers were able to score a direct hit one a single German carrier before withdrawing with their remaining three carriers. One cruiser as also sunk by the American fleet. During the engagement, two battleship crews were forced to scuttle their ships and surrender to the German vessels. They are reportedly being interned in Brazil."
**Thankfully, these carriers were old and of little use against the modern nuclear powered aircraft carriers the Germans have. Seems me and Germany have a naval tug of war. I sink a bunch, then they do, back and forth
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