Soviet Armies Push Forward Near Bryansk Front
Soviet forces press toward Bryansk amid spring air offensive as 210 miles southwest of Moscow battles intensify. Red Star notes brief communiques amid heavy artillery and air support. German counterattacks wane as Russians intensify pursuit along the Kalinin and Poltava corridors.
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Moscow
Red Army
Red Star
Bryansk Front
Kharkov
Poltava
Hitler
von Brauchitsch
Germany
International News Service
Kalinin
Bainbridge Island Cleared of Japanese Evacuation Order
The army ordered forcible evacuation of about 300 Japanese residents from Bainbridge Island in Puget Sound near Bremerton, effective March 30. Lt. Gen. J. L. Dewitt signed the measure, the first compulsory West Coast exclusion, with prior voluntary evacuations in California already underway.
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San Francisco
Bainbridge Gland
Puget Sound
Bremerton, Wash
RAF Raids and Tanks Break Axis Lines in Mediterranean
British columns raided Martuba and Tmimi while RAF bombers hit German and Italian bases across the eastern Mediterranean. Libyan raiders used tanks and infantry and claimed "satisfactory results" with Malta prisoners and downed German planes near Maltese air defenses. Bombers also struck Candia Crete Barce Berka and Bengasi. Eleusis base near Athens raided. Free French reconnoiter and dust storms. five British planes lost.
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Cairo
Egypt
Martaba
Tmimi
Mediterranean
Martuba
Tobruk
Malta
Hsran
Claude J. E. Auchinlech
Italy
Crete
Candia
Barce
Berka
Desha
Bengasi
Eleusis
Athens
Desert
No-Man's Land
Shenaka
Canadian Flier Dies In Snowstorm Crash
A Canadian army plane crashed in a snowstorm near Prentiss, Lee, killing one aviator whose parachute failed to open while another landed safely. Officials said heavy winds and a downed telephone line hampered immediate aid and details. The crash occurred a short distance from the Springfield Prentiss road, in rugged rural terrain north of a prior bomber crash in November that killed four.
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Lee
Fier
Prentiss
Here
Springfield-Prentiss Road
Cripps Lands To Woo India
Sir Stafford Cripps arrived in India to woo cooperation in the war against the Axis. He heads toward New Delhi to present a formula for national self government amid Hindu Muslim tensions and a rift within the Muslim League that may affect coalition prospects.
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Cripps
India
London
Sir Stafford Cripps
Stafford
Karachi
Sind
Sir Hugh Dow
New Delhi
Sikandar Hyat Khan
Punjab
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
All-India Myslem League
Jinnah
Sikandar
Jinngh
Sir Stafford
Sir Sikandar Long
All-India Congress
Polish Chief in U.S. Arrives for Roosevelt Conference
Gen. Wladyslaw Sikorski, commander in chief of the free Polish forces, landed in Montreal aboard a warship and will proceed to Washington for talks with President Roosevelt. The Polish information center said Sikorski’s visit ties to important political decisions amid increased European military activity.
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New York
Wladislaw Sikorski
Montreal
Landon Gid
Washington
Roosevelt
Sikorsky
Angry Unions Demand Roosevelt Denounce Arnold Attack
Washington March 22. Labor leaders pressed the Roosevelt administration to disavow General Thurman Arnold who accused unions and the bar of blocking war effort. AFL official said Arnold’s anti trust prosecutions targeted labor. Congressmen urged caution as page references follow.
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Organized
Roosevelt
Wate Alty
Thurman Arnold
Arnold
House Judiciary
Swers
American Federation of Labor
Justice Department
Congress
Allied Airmen Smash 20 Planes at Lae and Burma Bold Strikes
Allied air forces in the Pacific report devastating blows on Japanese air power. Twenty two Japanese planes were wrecked in three Lae attacks with one probable loss. a sixth Darwin raid failed to hit targets. Katherine inland town attack caused one aborigine death and one injury with no military damage. Keepang and Rabaul areas also felt the sting as planes and anti aircraft fire raked targets.
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Lae
U. S
Gen
Yamashita
Burma
Melbourne
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Darwin
Katherine
Birdum
Rabaul
New Britain
New Guinea
Keepang
Dutch Timor
Port Moresby
Final Jap Defeat Declared Certain
Washington dispatch reports Walter Nash, New Zealand minister to the United States, saying Gen Douglas MacArthur and his Australian American forces can force a difficult but remote victory over Japan in the southwest Pacific. Nash warned the enemy may mass for a final grand onslaught that could leave Japan master of Asia and the western Pacific. He added Allied forces will prevail if given the ships, ranks, and airpower to meet the Japanese on equal terms. Chinese ambassador Hu Shih and Philippine resident commissioner J M Elizalde joined Nash in pledging their nations to fight to the last ditch against Japanese aggression.
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INS
Walter Nash
New Zealand
United States
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Southwest Pacific
Nash
Western Pacific
South Seas
MacArth
Anvie
Americ
Paarel
Hu Shih
J. M. Elizalde
Detectives Nab Thief After Hearing Campbell Tune
In New York on March 22 detectives solved a car theft after learning the stolen car had a recorder blaring The Campbells Are Coming. Officers pursued the suspects who were in a police car and arrested a 20 year old for grand larceny.
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New York
Enemy Subs Blast Three More Ships
Navy reports that German submarines torpedoed three U S merchant ships off the Atlantic coast last week. One vessel sank quickly while another settled in the water. survivors were rescued from lifeboats in heavy seas. Planes dropped depth charges, 20 men were saved, and casualties included deaths on two ships with five missing on another.
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Norfolk
Atlantic
Navy
James J. Galvani
Brooklyn
Chinese fliers ready detach ment trained in U S going home to fight
MOFFETT FIELD Calif March 22 14 The first detachment of young Chinese airmen trained at American bases will return to their homeland soon to fight the Japanese Graduation exercises will be Friday at Luke Field Ariz for the Chinese cadets trained under the lease lead to act The number of wars not disclosed The cadets were selected by their own officers in China after preliminary tests and most of them had at least hours in the air before coming to the United States
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Moffett Field
Calif
Moffett. Field
Luke Field
Ariz
China
United States
Just So Skinny Has Watch He'll Be OK
Seattle dispatch describes Skinny Wainwright carrying a big waterproof pocket watch, a family talisman said to keep him safe through campaigns. Mrs Jennie Mears, sister of Lt Gen Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, notes the watch’s importance and Skinny's West Point nickname origin.
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Jong
Skinny Wainwright
Bataan Peninsula
Jennie Meats
Skinny
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright
Luzon
Robert Powell Page Wainwright
Australians rescue 41 from sloop Yarra after Java battle
Canberra reports Prime Minister John Curtin announced that 41 survivors from the Australian sloop Yarra have been picked up from a raft and are in a British port. The Yarra sank with most of its crew during a gallant defense of a convoy against three heavy Japanese cruisers and two destroyers.
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Canberra
Australia
Java
John Curtin
Httle
Big 80-Plane Japanese Air Attack Over Burma
CHUNGREING March 22 One of the largest Burma air battles saw 80 Japanese planes attack an Allied airfield. A combined force of American volunteers from AVG and RAF pilots repelled the raid. The Chinese news agency noted two Japanese planes claimed down in initial reports, with higher losses likely.
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Chungreing
Burma
Royal Air Force
AVG
RAF
Kungming
China
Sev
War Conversion Forces 5 Billion Peace Product Lines to War
Washington report notes peacetime sales exceeding five billion dollars and about 750000 workers face conversion to war production after Pearl Harbor. A May survey shows 31 major civilian lines already under government curtailment orders, with firms urged to shift to arms and munitions or exit industry during the war. The war effort now employs roughly 8.25 million, mainly in shipyards aircraft and munitions plants and defense facilities.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
War Production Board
Bataan Rejects Jap Ultimatum in Early Offense
Japanese forces press in the Philippines as they issue a noon ultimatum to American and Filipino defenders, which is ignored. Gen Yamashita directs the new drive while bombardments hit Manila Bay forts and Patrolling on the Bataan peninsula yields frequent skirmishes. Four American bombers strike Rabaul, scoring direct hits on two enemy cruisers, with at least one sunk or damaged.
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Washington
Philippines
Tomoyuki Yamashita
War Department
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Yamashita
Masaharu Homma
Bataan
Manila Bay
ortenBeanie Aetewm
Ageing Bay
Seneshel
Bataga
Rabaul
New Britain
Australia
T. Philippine Theater
Frankland Drum
Japanese Warned Of U S Bombings
March 22 Tokyo broadcasts quote Lt Gen Asabura Kobaysahh urging total alert as Japanese defense chief warns U S raids could come from the Aleutian arc or Chinese bases. He notes improving weather may enable northern Pacific attacks and U S efforts to bolster Chiang Kai Shek air power could press attacks from unoccupied China.
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Tokyo
United States
Japan
Aleutian Islands
Asabura Kobaysahh
Home Defenaes
Alask
Bowlike
North Pacific
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Sailors Escape Japanese Hongkong Siege to Free China
Two American sailors among the first to flee Japanese occupied Hongkong have reached free China. Their names were not disclosed. They joined Hongkong defenders during the siege, escaped to a small island on December 26 after the city's surrender, and after a month in hiding reached safe territory in Chungking.
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Hongkong
Free China
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