Task Force Of Navy May Be Off Japan
American bombing of Tokyo Yokohama and other Japanese cities raises a question as to whether planes were carrier based or struck from land bases on Luzon. If four engine bombers were involved they came from land bases, not carriers. Carrier based bombers would indicate a naval task force near the Japanese coast with supporting ships to protect carriers. Tokyo may rethink strategy moving fleet units from home waters. Churchill notes Japan has many carriers and battleships in the Bay of Bengal, implying bombers could lure forces nearer home to ease India threat. Allied air power will intensify attacks on Japanese held cities in Burma and roads north to Allied lines. The British have destroyed Burma oil wells to deny Japanese access, including the Minbu Wenangyaung area and the Tush field. Dutch reports say oil destruction in Sumatra and Borneo would delay Japanese tapping, taking months. Destruction of Burma wells is a heavy blow to Allies’ oil supply, compounding losses from Dutch fields and Axis submarine raiding. Oil deliveries to fronts remain the current major Allied problem.
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Kirke L. Simpsons
Tokyo
Yokohama
Luzon
Washington
Philippines
China Sea
Indian Ocean
Winston Churchill
Bay of Bengal
United Nations
India
Japan
Rangoon
Burma
Minbu- Wenangyaung
Irrawaddy
Sumatra
Borneo
Dutch Indies
United Nation
Atlantic
Tuberculosis slogan from 1942 North Carolina effort
The North Carolina Tuberculosis Association runs a 1942 Early Diagnosis campaign this month promoting the slogan Tuberculosis Find it, treat it, conquer it. The drive urges early detection and treatment to curb spread and save lives.
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North
Allies Bomb Jap Heartland and Burma Raids Escalate
Allied air forces slammed Tokyo Nagoya Yokohama and Kobe with demolition and incendiary bombs while heavy raids struck Rangoon and Rabaul. In Europe RAF continued attacks on German war plants as Russia neared the Dnieper region and Laval completed a Vichy cabinet. The Japanese claimed minor damage though radios warned the imperial family was safe amid a major disaster.
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Rangoon
Burma
Rabaul
Australia
Japan
Europe
RAF
Germany
Russia
Finland
Ukraine
Dnieperopetrovsk
Laval
France
Yokohama
Kobe
Tokyo
Berlin
Chinese Cheer Japan Bombing News From Tokyo
In Chungking Chinese reaction to American air raids on Tokyo and other Japanese cities runs from elation to cautious optimism. Maj. Gen. Chou Chih‑Jou says the strikes mark the UN offensive start, while Gen. Ho Ying‑Chin foresees stronger raids to come. Chinese crowds listen to radio reports, newsboys sell extras, theaters interrupt programs as audiences cheer the bombing.
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Tokyo
Japan
Chou Chih-Jou
Aeronautical Commission
United Nations
America
Ho Ying-Chin
China
Tokyo Newspaper Declares Americans Toughest foes
Berlin report notes Nichi Nichi corrected Japanese press on foes ranking. Americans now top the list, outranking Chinese soldiers who were previously ahead of Russians, British, Australians and Indians. The paper cites weaker British and American performance due to native troops and confirms Americans were tougher under similar conditions.
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Berlin
Tokyo
Nichi Nichi
Japan
Manchoukuo
United States
Wichi Nichi
Martin: GOP Prioritizes War Victory Over Election Wins
Chicago April 18 Chairman Joseph W Martin of the Republican National Committee said the party would rather win the war quickly than win an election and that 1942 candidates would push for the most vigorous war prosecution.
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Chicago
Joseph W. Martin
Republican National Committee
Diplomatic Moves Cloud War Tactics in Europe
Intelligence notes describe Hitler and Vichy orchestrating a nerve war to coax peace with Russia while courting Middle Eastern neutrals like Turkey Iran and Iraq. Washington privately weighs Hopkins Marshall mission as counter to this strategy shows slow progress toward a second front until 1943.
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Hitler
Russia
Turkey
Iran
Iraq
Caucasus
Washington
U S Troops to Join Raids With British Commandos
General Marshall announced that American troops will inevitably join the British commandos in raids on Axis targets. He noted air bases will be established across the British Isles and said the United States Army has long trained for land cooperation with allied commando efforts. Marshall toured Ulster with Hopkins and Harriman after meetings with Churchill and British chiefs.
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Rice Vahner
Northern Ireland
George C. Marshall
United States Army
United States
British Isles
Ulster
Marshall
London
Louis Mountbatten
Winston Churchill
U. S
St. Nazaire
Brittany
France
Norway
Hopkins
Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
W. Averz
L Harriman
United Statees
Jap Batteries Blasted By Guns On Corregidor
Washington reports Corregidor gunners silenced additional enemy siege batteries and reduced bombing intensity. General Wainwright says Cebu remains in enemy hands and burning, with fierce fighting around the city. Panay island invasion force continues to meet determined resistance from defenders.
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Washington
Corregidor
War Department
Manila Bay
Jonathan Wainwright
Cebu
Philippines
Philippine Archipelago
Panay
Chinese In Burma Withdraw To New Defense Line
Chungking reports that main Chinese forces on the Sittang front in Central Burma have fallen back to a new line after days of a strong Japanese offensive. Fighting on the eastern Burma front remains fierce as Chinese troops under General Joseph W. Stilwell conduct a delaying action despite being outflanked and outnumbered.
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Burma
Chungking
Sittang
U. S
Joseph W. Sitwell
Axis bombers raid Malta injure troops and damaged sites
Valltabella, Malta April 18 reports axis bombers attacked airfields and harbors on the island fortress after a raidless night. Casualties occurred as one German bomber was shot down and two others listed as probably destroyed.
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Vallbela
Malta
Fire erupts again on Normandie on pier
Fire broke out tonight in a lower hold of the former French liner Normandie, now Lafayette, submerged at her pier. Authorities traced the blaze to a welder's torch igniting cork insulation, with a prior spark blamed for the February fire. Firefighters used six by six foot hole cut in the starboard side, three alarms rung, water sprayed by revolving nozzles, and multiple fireboats and disaster units stood by as smoke drifted over New York. The ship, under U.S. control since the war, had been largely converted for wartime use after the earlier blaze.
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Associated Press
New York
Normandie
West 54Th Street
Congressional Investigation Committee
Hudson
United States
Lafayette
France
Germany
Bus Truck Collision Injures Sixteen on Route 1
A Greyhound bus collided with a heavy truck on a busy Route 1 hill in Woodbridge. Sixteen passengers were injured, mostly minor, and were taken to Fredericksburg hospital where two remained in treatment, both with back injuries. Named patients include Malley Green of Winston-Salem, NC, and Edward Wright of Brooklyn, NC.
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Woodbridge
Greyhound
Fredericksburg
Miss Malley Green
Gloria Ave
Winston- Salem
N. C
Edward Wright
Brooklyn
New RAF Incendiary Balloons Reported in Europe
A new weapon appeared in the European air war as incendiary charges were floated to targets by small hydrogen balloons, reportedly developed by the Royal Air Force.
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London
RAF
Europe
Nine Member War Manpower Commission Formed
President Roosevelt created a nine member War Manpower Commission led by Paul V. McNutt to mobilize manpower and womanpower for war labor. The board will include representatives from War Navy Agriculture and Labor departments the Selective Service System Civil Service and a WPB labor section. Hillman heads the WPB labor division to be reorganized into a labor production division with McNutt as chief. Questionnaires will classify about forty million registrants and the nation may need about 1.9 million more workers this year as services draw on manpower.
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Hillman’s
Associated Press
Washington
War Manpower Commission
Federal Security
Paul V. McNutt
Roosevelt
Anl
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
War, Navy, Agriculture, and Labor Departments
Selective Service System
Civil Service
WPB
Broad Authority
McNutt
White House
Sidney Hillman
Commission
Federal Security Agency
Hillman
CIO
Nelson
Manpower Commission
Armed Services
Value Placed on Expropriated Oil Wells
Washington April 18 A joint Mexican American commission assigned the expropriated oil properties of U S companies in Mexico a value of 523 995 991. The firms had claimed 150 000 000 to 200 000 000 with Mexico arguing 10 000 000 to 15 000 000. The finding is non binding on the oil companies and outlines payment by Mexico to the United States government with titles turned over to Mexico before distribution.
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Washington
State Department
Mexico
Joint Commission
Sinclair Oi
Morris L. Cook
United States
Manuel J. Zebada
Standard Oil of New Jersey Group
Standard Oil of California Group
Consolidated Oil Company
Sabalo Group
Seaboard Group
Cook and
Zecharia
Government of
Jap Officials Reported To Visit Hirohito After Air Raid
Tokyo said the premier navy minister and foreign minister paid a personal call on Emperor Hirohito after 4 pm Tokyo time to report on the air raid and ask about his welfare. The broadcast noted the emperor remained composed but clearly concerned by the incident. The empress, princes, and princesses were reported safe.
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San Francisco
Japan
Navy
Hirohito
Tokyo
Radio Tokyo
CBS
Bombers Pound Axis In Day And Night Raids
London dispatch reports thick formations of British bombers and fighters continuing raids across the channel. RAF aircraft attacked northern France targets including railways and diesel plants as German defenses claimed losses. Augsburg Hamburg and St Nazaire were hit. experts say Allied airpower now fields about 3000 first line planes daily.
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J. Wes Gallagher
London
BAE
Europe
Kent
Boulogne
Spiitfires
Channel
Air Ministry
RAF
St. Nazaire
Hamburg
Augsburg
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Russia Eyes Recapture of Dnieper Industrial Center
Russian dispatches claim the hour is near to recapture the Dnieper bend industrial center of Dnieper Petrovsk in Ukraine. They also report gains on the Karelian front northeast of Leningrad and deep pushes into Finnish defenses with thousands of enemy casualties and several settlements taken.
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Kuibyshev
Russia
Dniepero-Petrovsk
Dnieper
Ukraine
Karelian
Leningrad
Moscow
Red Star
Tass
Red Army
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Manpower Board
U.S
Richard McMurray
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G.O.P
Ashington
Stalin
Egypt
Asia Minor
O'Hare
Edward P
Butch) O'Hare
Rita Wooster
St. Louis
Phoenix
Arizona
Axis
U.S. Air Force
Milta
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