Startled Axis war camp recalls Tunisian collapse amid call for peace
London reports on the third anniversary of the Low Countries invasion as Hitler and Mussolini voice hardship and fatalism. Franco signals peace moves while the Netherlands broadcasts hope for liberation and a united nations effort. Rommel warns evacuation needed, Italians hold most of the Mediterranean defenses.
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Low Countries
Adolf Hitler
Mussolini
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Holland
English Channel
Hitler
United Nations
Europe
Catalina Flying Boat Sinks German U-Boat in West Indies
Navy reports a Catalina flying boat spotted a surfaced U-boat in West Indian waters in March. Lt. John Edwin Dryden Jr. strafed, then four depth charges by Lt. Stetson Beal split the submarine, debris and oil slick rising as 11 crew swam among wreckage while life rafts and rations were dropped before the plane returned to base.
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Navy
Catalina
West Indian
J. G
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Kansas City
J. G.) Stetson C. Beal
Lisbon Falls
Germans Fight Desperate Stand at Cap Bon Peninsula
Allied dispatches report German troops clinging to a narrow escape corridor at Cap Bon near Tunis as 80,000 Axis troops mobilize to join remnants on the peninsula. Dozens of boats sink while the area around Bizerte yields to American forces and the British push from Hamman Lif toward Cap Bon. Major General Omar N. Bradley, shown as a brigadier, led the U S Second Army into Bizerte after Patton.
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Comenaissance
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Plane Crash Kills Four at Marine Recruit Base
An army experimental plane crashed into the recruit hut area at a U S Marine Corps base in San Diego killing four people and wounding 63. The pilot R A McMakin and three Marines died. Seven Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. civilians aboard, six others injured.
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Courier
United Air Lines
McMahin
South Pacific
Navy
Marine Corps
Thunderbolt Fighters Prove Masters In Antwerp Air War
The P-47 Thunderbolt, a fast eight-gun fighter, proves superior in the Antwerp battle role. Flying with the Eighth Air Force, it engages Luftwaffe fighters, escorts heavy bombers, and supports Allied sorties across Europe.
Senate Approves Civilian Supply Administration Plan
The Senate voted 44 to 29 to create a powerful civilian supply administration to secure materials and services for the home front. The bill, championed by Senator Maloney, would supplant the War Production Board unit on civilian requirements and may face House approval.
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War Production Board
Maloney
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James F. Byrnes
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Oregonian
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Arthur D. Whiteside
Taft
Ohio
Churchill Plan For Victory In Africa Praised
Lord Halifax said Churchill in 1940 began a strategic plan for victory that strengthened Middle East positions and enabled delivery of armor to triumph in Africa. The envoy recalled behind the walls at home, Britain moved to strike on Europe’s Mediterranean coast and beat the Italian attack, leading to Tunis and Bizerte.
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Lord Halifax
Churchill
United States
Middle East
Mediterranean
Europe
Tunis
Bizerte
End of Axis survivors flow to Cap Ron as Tunisia battles rage
World War II news tallies shifting fronts on May 10 1943 with Axis survivors streaming toward Cap Bon in Tunisia while Soviet forces breach outer defenses at Novorossiysk. Red air units hit German supply routes, France seeks peace, Hitler speaks on war hardships, and American Thunderbolt planes debut for Fortresses. The Changsha assault is halted for a fourth time.
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Cap Ron
Tunisia
Hitler's Pals Take Over Italy
A Moscow broadcast reported by a Soviet monitor says Field Marshal Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler will go to Rome to direct Italy's defense. Goering would oversee army reorganization air force and naval bases while Himmler pursues internal purges and stabilization of the regime.
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Heinrich Himmler
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Mussolini
Reuters
Wagers Rise on War End After Tunisian Victory
In London May 10 AP reports Allied victory in Tunisia sparked betting on a war’s end. Brokers offered even money that Italy would quit the fight by year’s end and Germany defeated by November 1944. Bets surged in the City’s financial district as optimism grows for France Greece and Poland. Pacific war not included in wagers.
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Tunisia
Italy
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France
Greece
Poland
Better Negro Schools Sought in Education Plan
In Dallas on May 10 the National Educational Association Legislative Commission heard H F Ivey urge federal funds to equalize opportunities for Negro and white students. He warned that without support there will be downward equalization.
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H. F. Ivey
Meridian
Miss
National Educational Association Legislative Commission
Southwestern States
Red Air and Red Army Break Through to Kuban Front
Russian dispatches report a breakthrough at Novorossisk after fierce ground and air fighting from the Sea of Arzov marshes to the Black Sea. The air offensive claimed 930 German planes destroyed in a week while Russians lost 235. raids hit 19 railway junctions including Bryansk Poltava Belgorod Dorogobuzh near Orel Vitebsk and Elnya.
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Belgordo
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Vitebsk
Elnya
Stormoviks
Survey predicts near normal Panhandle wheat crop
County agents Hatton of Hansford and Crabtree of Potter report after weekend rains that the Panhandle area likely to produce a normal 1943 wheat crop. Observers note reduced acreage from volunteer wheat and some pessimism among farmers, but general optimism if weather holds. A forecast from another source suggests about 25,000,000 bushels.
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Joe Hatton
Hansford County
Hatton
Ed Crabtree
Potter County
German air assault on Rostov repelled by Soviet defense
Moscow radio reported that about 200 German planes attacked Rostov and Bataisk on Monday but were dispersed by Russian fighters and anti aircraft fire. Forty nine attackers were downed in the engagement.
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Rostov and
Bataisk
Moscow
Jap Thrown Back Before Changsha
Chinese communique reports fresh Japanese attempts to land on the south shore of Lake Tungting in North Hunan failed. A landing earlier in the day succeeded briefly two days ago before being driven off. Clashes continued west of the lake as Japan appears to have made another push. The report also cites Japanese losses around Lungling, Ichang, and western Chekiang.
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Burma Road
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Yunnan Province
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Hupeh Province
Kinhwa i
CheSiang
Weather Amarillo and Vicinity Warmer Tuesday
Amarillo area forecast calls for warmer temperatures on Tuesday with gentle to moderate winds. Texas west and New Mexico also warm with cooler pockets in extreme northeast Tuesday night. Hourly observations show temperatures ranging from the mid 40s to mid 70s with no significant precipitation.
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Axis prisoners mounting as Eighth Army presses Enfidaville
Algiers radio reported Axis prisoners arriving at about 1,000 per hour in Tunisia. The bulletin noted ongoing enemy artillery activity in the sector north of Enfidaville where the Eighth Army continued its attack.
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Algiers
Reuters
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Enfidaville
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