Allies Drive On Toward Tokyo After Gilbert Islands Victory
Allied forces, with rebuilt naval power, seize key Gilbert Island bases in four days of fighting, gaining air and sea leverage in the Pacific. The campaign threatens Marshall and Truk targets, expanding U S reach and foreshadowing coordinated moves from the Solomons and Raabau.
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Japan
Gilbert Group
Pacific
Marshall Islands
Rarbor
South Pacific
Gilberts
Marshalls
Carolines
Marianas
Tokyo
Europe
Larty
Tarawa
Southwest Pacific
Central Pacific
Central
Pearl Harbor
Nippon
Truk
Solomons
Rabaul
U. S
Gilbert Islands
New Guinea
New Britain
Robert E Lee Pioneered as Army Engineer
General Robert E Lee began his career as an army engineer. The United States allocates eight billion dollars monthly to the war effort.
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Robert E. Lee
United States
Nazi loyalty, internment and Patton boast in wartime dispatch
A wartime report details internment totals, with Germans and Italians among prisoners held by Allies. It notes a few officers’ suicides and cites a Washington journalist and General Patton, who boasted a Washington lineage and vowed to lead and die on the battlefield.
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Ray Tucker
Ottawa
Hitler
Italy
Berlin
Fuehrer
Tojo
S. Patton, Jr
United States
Washington
Patton
Geo Washington
Winning the War by Albert Leman Distrust
A historical column notes Persian resistance and intrigue in wartime, highlighting ancient and modern parallels. It credits American aid, missionary hospitals, and medical schools, and praises Yankee ingenuity in rail gauge adaptation and versatile axle design aiding Allied supply lines.
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Albert Leman
Persia
Alexander the Great
Darius
Berlin
West
Ineg
Hitler
Mohammed
United States
Iran
Russia
Reichswehr
Stalin
U. S
Soviet Union
Czech Minister Urges Obliteration of Nazi Germany
New York December 4 1945 Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk of Czechoslovakia called for the complete obliteration of Nazi Germany so a new free Europe can emerge. He urged annihilation of the Nazi party and disarming Germany for a long period while international bodies back a vigilant system to prevent any Hitler like resurgence.
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New York
Jan Masaryk
Czechoslovakia
Nazi Germany
Germany
Europe
Metropolitan Opera
Invasion Rumors Sweep France as War Fears Grow
Paris dispatches report Allied decisions at Cairo fuel fears of an imminent invasion. Reports note increased American and British shipping and troop movements, while German activity rises along the Atlantic wall and in the Mediterranean zones. Restrictions confine residents from sundown to sunrise and evacuations occur along coastal areas.
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Ings
Paris
Cairo
Eisenhower
France
Madrid
Jance
Pueblo
Atlantic Wall
Mediterranean
Pyrenes Mountains
Marsille
Frontier Asthma Co
Frontier
Niscare Street
New York
Free for Asthma During Winter Free Trial Offer
A damaged ad offers a free trial of an asthma method for winter attacks. It claims relief regardless of faith or prior failures and urges readers to send for the sample at no cost. It provides an address blank for requests.
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Arthma Co
Winchell ropes in exclusive leaks and travel tales
Ray Brock, Times reporter with Balkan experience, returns in high spirits at American sights and Yankee food. His forthcoming book Twilight in Turkey is slated for spring. Joel McCrea reported from Africa and South America entertaining troops abroad and sharing meals with locals.
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Ray Brock
Times
Balkans
Turkey
Joel McCrea
South America
Firemen Reclaim Bed After Quick City Fire
Firefighters from ladder company No 11 were alerted at 3 01 am and quickly tore down a building wall to extinguish a hot fire. The blaze burned through the firehouse and was under control in under half an hour before crews returned to bed.
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New York
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