Navy reports Attu landings launch Aleutians action
U S forces have landed on Attu in the western Aleutians and are engaged with Japanese troops. The move aims to position U S forces to threaten Kiska and disrupt enemy supply lines, with weather and distances shaping the operations amid the broader campaign in the North Pacific.
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Navy
U. S
Attu
Aleutians
Kiska
Japan
Tokyo
Paramushiro
Kurile
North Pacific
Hawaiian Islands
Alaska
North American
Midway
Hawaii
Dutch Harbor
Chichagof
Amchitka
Rat Islands
Holtz Bay
Savania Bay
Allies strike across Europe in record air offensive
Allied air forces from Britain the United States and Russia launched a coordinated campaign against Nazi strongholds across Europe. They bombed Berlin Duisburg St Omer Meaulte Cagliari Naples and Warsaw while Russian and Tunisian based planes hit Prague and Augusta. Nine lines of updated reports note heavy losses on both sides and ongoing air battles over the North German coast.
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Berlin
Warsaw
Naples
Ruhr Valley
Sardinia
Sicily
France
Bohemia
RAF
United States Air Forces
Red Air Force
Germany
Ruhr
Czechoslovakia
Duisburg
Europe
St. Omer
Meaulte
Axis
Tunisia
Cagliari
Middle East
Augusta
Dortmund
Rostock
Stettin
Adolf Hitler
Air Ministry
RAF Bomber Command
DNB
Moscow Radio
Praga
Boston
Thunderbolt
Focke Wulf
Messerschmitt
Churchill pledges arms for China in war against Japan
Prime Minister Winston Churchill told Chiang Kai-Shek that the day will come when the United Nations arms will drive the Japanese from China. The White House released Churchill's reply to Chiang praising Allied victory in North Africa and pledging continued pressure on Japan, while General Eisenhower promised the Africans will press on until Hitler is exterminated.
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Washington
U.P
Winston Churchill
Chiang Kai-Shek
United Nations
China
Churchill
Chiang
Roosevelt
Japan
White House
Generalissimo
North Africa
Africa
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hitler Fn
Five Year Plan for 1942 Income Taxes Defeated in Senate
The Senate rejected a pay as you go proposal by Sen. Allen J. Ellender to collect 1942 taxes on a five year installment plan. The vote was 55 to 21. The item reflects early debate on how to handle 1942 revenue provisions and related tax collection mechanics.
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Washington
U P
Senate
Allen J. Ellender
Louisiana
No Rain Is Forecast and Warmer Weather Ahead
The forecast predicts no rain with a gradual warming trend today and tonight. Patchy drizzle, fog, and light to moderate winds noted. high around 61, low near 47. Regional businesses listed include Ditto duplicating machines and genuine supplies, Russell Stationery, and Regal Co. real estate and loans.
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Ditto
Russell Stationery
Sailor recalls Pacific duty and sinking ships
Seaman Harlan J. Ludlam, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ludlam of 607 B Jackson Street, on 30 day leave, recounts serving aboard an American submarine in the Pacific. He describes aggressive U boat actions against Japan, poor enemy treatment of prisoners, and heavy depth charge danger while detailing missions that sank ships and damaged Japanese harbors.
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Navy
Marines
Harlan J. Ludlam
J. A. Ludlam
Jackson Street
Globe News
Pacific
Ludlam
Weather summary for Amarillo and West Texas regions
The forecast calls for warmer conditions tonight and into Saturday with moderate to fresh winds. Little temperature change expected in portions of West Texas with scattered light rain. pockets of snow flurries or showers in northern mountains tonight and Saturday. Temperatures over 24 hours ending 6:30 A M show a high of 61 and a low of 47 with trace moisture at noon today.
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Amarillo
Texas
Japanese in Guadalcanal memoirs reveal grim long war drawn by snipers
T Sgt C C Crow home from Guadalcanal recounts brutal combat in the Pacific. He says extermination talk reflects hard war and cites a kill from a grass-eating enemy who warned of a New York birth before guidance to enemy dumps was blasted. Crow visits his brother in town on leave from an army hospital.
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Pacific
C. C. Crow
Guadalcanal
Crow
Merical Division
Field Artillery
New York
Tokyo
Navy Helium Supply Needs Grow With More Airships
Hearing on the Navy appropriation bill reveals expanded helium demand for 1944 as more lighter-than-air craft operate. Am arillo and Exell plants will majorly supply gas, with new plants planned in Shiprock New Mexico Thatcher Colorado Cunningham Kansas and Otis Kansas.
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Washington
Texas Panhandle
Navy Department
E. A. Cobey
Naval Bureau of Aeronautics
Amarillo
Exell
Bureau of Mines
Shiprock
N. M
Thatcher
Colo
Cunningham and Otis
Kan
Cobey
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Russell Islands
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Unalaska
SU. S
Hitler
Straits of Dover
Boulogne
Halifax
Wellington
Radio
Algiers
Sweden
OPA
Lubic
Porterhouse
Peetee
Ranch Loans
eelo-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
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