American Bombers Devastate Emden Reds Repulse Massed Tank Attack
Allied dispatches from Algiers detail Italian and Canadian forces advancing in the Garigliano and Moro river areas. The Fifth Army pushes toward Cassino from east and south, with San Leonardo and San Pietro contested as Italians join the fight and German counterattacks intensify near Monte Samucro and the Cassino line.
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Emden
Edward Kennedy
HE Wuarters
Algiers
Fifth Army
Rome
Garigliano
Eighth Army
San Leonardo
Moro River
Mark W. Clark
Cassino
San Pietro
Mignano
Hermann Goering
Ision
Ion
Pietro Badoglio
Rmans
Badoglio
Moro
Bernard L. Montgom
London
Ross Munro
Sicily
Lathc
Domino S
Eighth Y
Pescara
Ortona
Filignano
Monte Samucro
Emden Raid Scores 138 German Planes Shot Down
American heavy bombers Liberators and Fortresses with Lightning and Thunderbolt fighters hit Emden, shooting down 138 German planes in a daylight North Sea raid. The assault, the fifth on Emden, emphasized intensified Allied air power and rough weather that slowed the journey to and from the target.
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Gladwin Hill
London
North Sea
Emden
U. S
Hamburg
U. S. Eighth Air Force
RAF
England
Berlin
Dover
H. H. Arnold
Germany
Soviets Push In Dnieper Bend Raking Towns and Kirovograd Rail Hub
Moscow said Soviet forces repelled a German drive west of Kiev, destroying hundreds of tanks and inflicting heavy losses. In the Dnieper bend they captured Novgorodka and Sakharnoye and advanced toward Kirovograd, with sieges and street fighting reported around Cherkasy. The assault marked a major, sustained battle across a broad Ukrainian front as Germans faced renewed pressure near Malin and Zhitomir.
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Dnieper Bend
Kirovograd
Sakharnoye
Berlin
Chigrin
Cherekasy
Kremenchug
Ing
Gilmore
Ameen
Calallodines
Moscow
Kiev Bulge
Malin
Don Steppe
Stalingrad
Monitor
Zhitomir
Korosten
Dnieper
Novgorodka
Znamenka
Mederovo
Death penalty demanded in Louisville kidnapping case
In Louisville on December 11, U. S. District Attorney J. D. Inman asked for the death penalty for Thomas H. Robinson as his federal kidnapping trial opened. The government outlined Robinson’s life from childhood, the kidnapping of Mrs. Reed Stoll, and alleged violent misdeeds including earlier robberies in Nashville.
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Louisville
Thomas H. Robinson
U. S
J. D. Inman
Robins
Robinson
Reed Stoll
Army hospital unit to observe trial in England 1941
Messages reach families that a Duke University linked Army hospital unit activated in 1941 will observe a trial in England. The notice cites members and supporters tracking the case from the 1940s era medical unit.
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Ham
Army Hospital
Duke University
England
U.S. Warns Balkan States to Leave Axis
Secretary of State Hull urged Bulgaria Hungary and Romania to shed Hitler's puppets and join the United Nations in facing Nazi defeat on the two year anniversary of their wartime declaration. He implied the peoples should overthrow the Axis-backed regimes and seize their governments.
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Washington
United States
Hitler
Balkan
Axis
Bulgaria
Hungary
Romania
United Nations
Nazi Germany
Corden Hull
Italian Brigade Falls to German Fire at Mount Lungo
Italian troops entering World War II on the side of the Allies suffered a tragic defeat on Mount Lungo near Mignano. The unit advanced under heavy fire and could not sustain the assault, with American officers calling the action brave but foolhardy. Experts cited tactical misplanning and strong German resistance as the main cause. Two days earlier the Italian force had taken the lower slopes to replace an American unit, with aid from American artillery and strong flank support.
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Fifth Army
United Nations
Italy
Mount Lungo
Mignano
Cassino
Lungo
Bricker Attacks New Deal Policies in East Campaign Swing
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker launched a sharp critique of New Deal domestic policies during his first major eastern appearance as he pitched for the Republican presidential nomination. He spoke before the Pennsylvania GOP with notable allies including Alfred M. Landon, Senator Robert A. Taft, and former National Chairman Joseph W. Martin.
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New York
John W. Bricker
Ohio
New Deal
Pennsylvania
GOP
Alfred M.adon
Robert A. Taft
Joseph W. Martin
Massachusetts
Soviet radio warnings target Finland Romania Hungary
Moscow radio warned Finland Romania and Hungary to break with Germany or face punishment by the Allies. The broadcast, monitored by U.S. agencies, cited War and the Working Class as source and noted Russia is not at war with Bulgaria.
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New York
Moscow
Finland
Rumania
Hungary
Germany
Russia
Bulgaria
UC. S&s
Nations urged to share blame for aiding Nazis in war
Secretary of State accuses Bulgaria Hungary and Romania of becoming Hitler puppets and declares they must share responsibility for aiding the Nazi war machine. He cites Allied bombings on Sofia and warns these governments to sever ties or face defeat with Germany. Connally also warns them to leave Germany or sink with it.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Hungary
Romania
Hitler
United States
United Nations
Nazi Germany
Connally
D-Hex
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Germany
Convoy Safe Allies Foil 20 U-boats in North Atlantic Battle
In a 48 hour confrontation, British and American planes and warships repelled at least 20 German U-boats, sinking five and damaging three while two convoys passed safely. Coastal aircraft and Liberators aided, with several submarines split or sunk and crew rescued as escort ships remained unscathed.
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James F. King
London
North Atlantic
Admiralty-Air Ministry
Russians Recognize Partisans Back Yugoslav Government
The Turkish radio reported the Soviet Union will recognize Marshal Broz Josip’s partisan Yugoslav government as the legal authority, sidelining King Peter’s regime. The move follows Allied aid shifting toward the partisans as Mihailovic’s royalist forces clash with Broz troops amid German offensives in Slovenian territory.
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London
Marshal Broz
Josip (Tito
Peter
Ministry of Information
Yugoslavia
Draja Mihailovic
Slovenia
Fiume- Trieste
Adriatic
Ivan Ribar
Broz
Mihailovic
Coal Men Agree On Contract For Soft Coal Mines
A subcommittee of soft coal operators and the United Mine Workers reached terms close to the Ickes-Lewis pact used by the government. The deal, requiring joint conference and War Labor Board approval, includes a $40 retroactive travel time payment and covers northern Appalachian, Indiana, Illinois and other mid west western districts.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
Ickes
War Labor Board
Appalachian
Indiana
Illinois
Aussies Seize Jap Post and Raid Marshall Islands
Australian patrols swept along New Guinea coast and inland from Wareo on Thursday and Friday, capturing Bazuluo village near Wareo and pushing coastal outposts northwestward. Japanese air raids caused minor damage near the Dump area, while an 8,000 ton Japanese freighter was sunk off New Ireland.
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C. Yates McDaniel
Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Wareo
Huon Peninsula
Bazuluo
Douglas MacArthur
Ramu Valley
Ramu
New Ireland
Bombers Hit Mili and Jaluit Atolls in Third Raid
United States Liberators of the 7th Air Force shot down four to seven Japanese Zeros in a raid on Mili Atoll, with a 15 ton bomb load. The attack followed two earlier strikes as Japanese interceptors rose to meet the four engined bombers, signaling reinforcements amid the planned amphibious invasion threat.
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Pearl Harbor
United States
Marshall Islands
Chester W. Nimitz
7Th Air Force Liberators
Mili Atoll
Mili
Jaluit
Officer Is Tried After NAS Blast
Norfolk Virginia December 11 One naval officer faced a general court martial this week on neglect of duty related to the September 17 depth charge explosion at the Norfolk naval air station that killed 28 men and injured more than 250. Lt Joseph Pranis is the officer tried. later trials will include Warrant Officer Robert Slaughter and Roy T Faulner. The court's findings in Pranis case will be released after approval and outcomes announced when learned. He was detailed as ordnance officer responsible for ammunition details at the air station when the blast occurred.
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Norfolk
Norfolk Naval Air Station
David McDougal le Breton
Fifth Naval District
Joseph Pranis
USN
San Diego
Calif
Robert L. Slaughter
Long Beach
Roy T. Faulner
Aviation Ordnance Man
Pranis
le Breton
Benes Arrives in Moscow for Mutual Aid Pact Talks
President Eduard Benes of the Czechoslovak government in exile reached Moscow to begin talks on a 25 year mutual assistance pact with the Soviet Union. Premier Joseph Stalin attended a dinner for Benes, reported by a Moscow broadcast via the Soviet Monitor in London.
Army Turns Historian in War Notebook at Italian Base
Bruce Hopper, a Harvard professor and former WWI pilot with the 96th squadron, leads a U S Army effort to record war history while battles continue. He recalls Paris liberty and the Doolittle era, noting lightweight missions over France with German fighters and flak threats, as his team documents events for future study.
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Italy
Airforce
Harvard
Bruce Hopper
Cambridge
96Th
AEF
Carl Spaatz
Paris
James Doolittle
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