Central Front Offense Still Going Forward
Henry Cassidy reports from Moscow on December 16 that German forces push along the Stalin grad front, driving wedges into Red Army lines with tanks and planes. Red Star notes heavy artillery and repeated attacks as Russians continue a winter offensive west of Rzhev and near Velikie Luki, with significant tank and armor losses claimed on both sides.
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Henry Cassidy
Moscow
Red Army
Stalingrad
Kalinin
Velikie Luki
Pravda
Communist Party
Rzhev
Vyazma
Rzhev-Vyazma
U S Warplanes Bomb Buin Without Opposition
The Navy reports U S bombers hit Buin on Bougainville in the Solomons with no enemy opposition. The bulletin also notes a sixth airfield attack on New Guinea and two Japanese machine gun crews destroyed on Guadalcanal in Com 221.
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Washington
United States
Buin
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Navy
Guadalcanal
New Guinea
South Pacific
U. S
Allies Bomb Jap Stronghold At Mambare River Solomons
Allied forces relentlessly pressed Japanese holdfast near the Mambare River mouth while ground units pushed against Buna area positions. Air power struck Lae and Gasmata airfields, with several enemy planes downed as a B-24 Liberator repelled Zeros. Sanananda and Buna fronts remained hot. In North Africa, British Eighth Army advanced toward Zauta En Nafilia as Western Front air power targeted Tunisia and Naples harbors, while Italy reported oil depot raids near Tripoli and Beirut.
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Australia
MacArthur
Mambare River
Bunarea
Npon
Lae
New Guinea
Gasmata
New Britain
MacArthur Sai
Sanananda Point
Buna Village
Buna Mission
Mambere
Psees
London
Britain
Eighth Army
Tripoli
Rommel
Zauta En Nafilia
el Agheila
Bauta En Nafilia
Naples
Tunis
la Goulette
Mediterranean
Beirrut
Syria-Lebanon
Lampedusa
Sicily
Sousse
Avis
Rome Come Munique
Bone
Algeria
Tunisia
United States
Morocco
Mediez-El- Bab
Bizerte
Malta
Anis
North Africa
Rome
Allied forces gain momentum in Europe and Africa
Cairo dispatch notes Allied strength rising on all fronts as the British Eighth Army presses Rommel in Egypt while Allied air power and global coalition pressure the Nazi regime. Hitler defers bold offensives, seeking time amid supply strains and strategic realignment as Axis defenses buckle under United Nations pressure.
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Fuehrer
United Nations
Hitler
Rommel
Caucasus
Reds
Eighth Army
el Alamein
Egypt
Withering Fire Powers Buna Capture from Japanese
Delayed dispatch from Merlin Spencer reports American Doughboys in New Guinea capturing Buna village from stubborn Japanese defenders. Heavy mortar barrages preceded a two hour assault with withering fire from rifles and machine guns. Casualties were negligible as U S forces consolidated positions and cleared snipers, securing a vital point on the northern Papuan coast. The operation opened a main American left flank relief and continued with inland swings to the west.
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Ihe
Merlin Spencer
Associated Press
New Guinea
Buna Village
Buna
North Carolina Rules On Poll Tax And Exemptions
North Carolina Attorney General Harry McMillan issues opinions on voting after felony conviction restoration of citizenship, church property ad valorem tax status, private haulers needing licenses, and retirement eligibility for teachers. The digest frames who may vote, tax exemptions, and post retirement employment limits.
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Raleigh
Harry McMullan
Board of Trustees
Sabotage charge at Washington engineers meeting
Brigadier General William H. Harrison, vice president of American Telephone & Telegraph, denounces wartime bottlenecks he calls sabotage while recounting a trucking operator’s blunt complaint about war material distribution. He warns that delaying certificates of war necessity hampers bombs and food supply, tying transport to national defense.
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Washington
William H. Harrison
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
W.P.B
Census figures on 1819 class youth available for draft
Census Bureau estimates 2,479,000 youths aged 18 and 19 subject to military service under draft law. About 2,210,000 are white and 269,000 nonwhite. Mortality rates from 1940 show 110,984 infants died under one year. Axis infant mortality rates are higher, influencing population policy assessments.
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Washington
Census Bureau
America
United States
Germany
Italy
Japan
Longest Congress Ends Its Historic Two Year Session
Washington dispatch notes the 77th Congress, the longest in history at 715 days, adjourns after a year of prewar battles and wartime coordination. It records 5 Senators and 14 Representatives dying, a vast war-backing budget of about 192 billion dollars, and tax measures to fund the war effort as December 16 marks adjournment day.
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Alex H. Singleton
Washington
77Th Congress
House
Senate
Congress
Pearl Harbor
Asia
Europe
68Th Congress
Bus Plunge Drowns Several Workers at Gloucester Yorktown
Gloucester Point Va Dec 16 A bus carrying white and necro workers to a Navy mine depot plunged from a Gloucester Yorktown ferry into the York River. A number of persons were drowned, 25 occupants were rescued, and the exact death toll was not yet known. Driver Robert E Paul of Mathews County was among those pulled from the icy water. The Navy sent a salvage boat and the bus was later raised empty. Rescued workers suffered minor cuts and were treated at the Navy Mine Hospital.
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Gloucester Point
York River
Gloucester- Yorktown
C. D. Burke
Gloucester
Burke
Robert E. Paul
Mathews County
Navy
Navy Mine Hospital
Japanese Drive Start From Shasi toward Yangtze port
Chungking reports Japanese forces have begun a offensive from Shasi in Hupeh, driving south through Coree columns. Heavy fighting described as in progress by the Chinese high command in the latest communique.
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Chungking
Shasi
Yangtze
Hupeh
Army officers warn North Carolina coast may face invasion
Raleigh report cites Col. William S. Pritchard saying North Carolina lies mid Atlantic coast with 200 mile shoreline and 100 plus war plants behind it making invasion a likely target. He notes German morale requires a spectacular raid and that a token strike could occur, while patrolmen could aid defense.
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Lynn Nisbet
Enterprise Screen
Mir Walter Hotel
Raleigh
Northarolina
United States
North Carolina
William S. Pritchard
State Highway Patrol
Greenville
Ter
Bryden
Fourth Service Command
Broughton
A. N.C
Col. Pritchard
Atlantic
Union
Col. Wichard
Germany
America
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Zuar
Misurata
Libya
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Libyan
Marsha Rommel
Buind
Jap Air Base
The
U.S
Cairo
Africa
N.C. Attorney General
Tucker
Army
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