Stalin orders Red Army to halt retreat and stand firm
Premier Joseph Stalin ordered the Red Army to halt its retreat and stand and fight to the death as German forces pushed into the Caucasus south of Rostov. Pravda and Red Star quoted Stalin urging no step back and declaring unity with Russia’s military legacy to ensure victory.
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Stalin
Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Red Army
Red Star
Finland
France
Fedor von Bock
Caucasus
Rostov
Don
Stalingrad
Volga
Russia
Napoleon
Communist Party
Pravda
Lower
Don Bend
Kletskaya
Proletarskaya
Tikhoretsk
Tzvestia
Semeon Timoshenko
Tsimlyansk
trans-Caucasus
Lower Volga
Caspian Sea
Germany
Soviet Information Bureau
Don Basin
Bataisk
Information Bureau
Voronezh
Ten Northwest workers die in air crash at Minneapolis
Ten Northwest Airlines employees were killed when a U S Army cargo plane crashed at Wold-Chamberlain Field during takeoff. Fire burned bodies and delayed identifications. later revised list named ten victims from St Paul and Minneapolis with two pilots among the dead.
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Minneapolis
Northwest Airlines
Wold-Chamberlain Field
G. W. Callerstrom
Roy Josephson
St. Paul
L. D. Husby
United Airlines
Olson
Fischer
Plane Crashes Into House in Houston Riverside District
A training plane from Ellington Field crashed into a private two story home in Houston's Riverside District killing three people including two army fliers and an expectant mother. Mrs Clem Baldwin was found dead under wreckage after hours of work by firefighters. A cook Pearl Brown escaped unharmed as the plane struck and collapsed parts of the Baldwin residence. Witnesses said the plane lingered in trouble for about ten minutes before impact.
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Houston
U.P
Ellington Field
Riverside
Clem Baldwin
Baldwin
Pearl Brown
R. W. Baldwin
University of Houston
Kansas
U S Army Leaders Arrive in Britain for European Theater
Brig. Gen. Frank O D Hunter and Brig. Gen. Asa N Duncan arrived in Britain as part of U S fighter command and Army Air Force leadership. The note ends with a credit to Neely Greenhill Lowndes Insurance.
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U. S. Headquarters
European Theater
Frank O. D. Hunter
United States Fighter Command
Asa N. Duncan
Army Air Force
Britain
Allied air strikes cripple Japanese destroyer near Buna Gona
Allied planes bombed the Buna Gona base on the north New Guinea coast, hitting and crippling a Japanese destroyer and citing a direct hit as it steamed toward shore. Night raids targeted area installations while jungle patrols skirmished near Port Moresby and Kokoda as Japanese raids on Darwin continued with minor damage and no casualties.
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MacArthur
Australia
U.P
Buna-Gona
North New Guinea
Douglas
Darwin
North Coast
Port Moresby
Mid New Guinea
Kokoda
Owen Stanley
No Man's Land
Amarillo and West Texas Warm with Gusty Winds
Weather forecast for Amarillo and area shows gusty winds and continued warm temperatures today with little change tonight. West Texas remains warm. New Mexico may see scattered late thunderstorms. temperatures near yesterday and last night. Extremes: high 93, low 70. noon reading 88.
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Amarillo
Vicineity
West Texas
New Mexico
War bonds sales lag as Potter County trails quota
Sellers report weak yesterdays sales and no new investments in Liberty bonds this month. Potter County remains over 300000 dollars behind the quota and tomorrow ends the month. A Portuguese steamer Nyassa docked in Baltimore with about 500 refugees from Europe and the Middle East.
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Potter County
Baltimore
Europe
Middle East
Britain Renewed Invasion Pledge and Marshall Stand
In London a government pledge to invade the European continent was renewed in the House of Commons. The Daily Telegraph repudiated claims Britain would object to an American commander in chief directing the second front, citing General George C. Marshall.
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London
Britain
House of Commons
Great Britain
The
Daily Telegraph
George C. Marshall
United States Army
Marshall
Meuse-Ar
Soviet Ambassador outlines front situation in frank statement
Soviet Ambassador Ivan M. Matsky told members of parliament a frank statement on the Russian front as Britain renewed its pledge to invade Europe and open a second front.
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London
Ivan M. Matsky
Stafford Cripps
Commons
Privy Seal
Cripps
House
Winston Churchill
Churchill
War Time Speech and Second Front Debate Amid 1918 Front
In 1918 the Allies hailed a pivotal offensive seen as the supreme action of the American expeditionary force ending with German collapse. Berlin amplified anti second front propaganda while Cripps defended secrecy, denying a Churchill statement on military plans in parliament.
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Germany
United States
Axis Bomb Cairo and Nile Delta Airdromes In Pre‑Dawn Raid
Axis bombers struck British and American airfields in the Nile Delta before dawn. Cairo and Suez zones endured heavy anti aircraft fire and sirens as Axis aims hindered Al lied air operations near El Alamein. British fighter bombers hit the Axis line west of El Alamein. limited land actions and reduced aerial activity followed. Two Axis planes were shot down over Malta.
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Cairo
Nile Delta
el Alamein Front
Suez Zone
Egypt
Alexandria
el Alamein
Sir Claude Auchinleck
Malta
Warm and windy with hot high amid unopposed water trust
The bureau notes another warm windy day with a high near 93 and a low around 70. There is no competition for the water department’s trust and a Repair Now message from John Maynard Lbr. Co. remains.
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Bureau
Water Department
John Maynard Lbr. Co
Pearl Harbor Hero Speaks in Amarillo
Lt. George S. Welch, a Pearl Harbor hero, spoke to the Amarillo Rotary Club. He discussed aircraft performance, defended American planes, and recounted a P 38 mission with heavy battle damage. Welch contrasted Zero maneuverability with American firepower and noted eight American fighters in the Pearl Harbor air over the morning attack.
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Pearl Harbor
Amarillo
George S. Welch
Rotary Club
Col
EB. C
Red) Black
Welch
Lyndon Johnson
Johnson
Taylor
Wheeler Field
Globe-News survey urges full employment to ease Amarillo housing
The Globe-News runs a wartime survey of unemployed Amarillo residents aged 18 to 60, asking them to submit coupons. Officials estimate about 2,200 unemployed, with around 75 percent deemed employable and many likely to work in local war plants. The paper argues housing relief depends on housing currently occupied by employable residents and urges owners to open homes to others while encouraging eligible workers to apply.
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Globe
Amarillo
Globe News
U. S. Employment Service
Globe-News
Ambiguous Form Question About Defense Service Roles
A fragment asks about willingness to take a defense job despite danger and whether the respondent is a wife or mother of a man in the Armed Forces, alongside vague fields on age education and prior occupations.
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Washington
Vandenberg
Michigan
Senate
U.S
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
U.S. Navy
John P. Walsh
John D. Rogers
New Guinea
Joe Omler
Polk Street
the Veteran
Hanson Post No. 54
American Legion
Joe Jenkins
Omler
Mr. Omler
Pampa
Panhandle
Veterans of Foreign Wars
OMLOR
Joe Omlor
America
Berlin
Armed Services
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