Marine Flame Throwers Break Jap Defenses at New Guinea Front
Advanced Allied HQ reports flame throwers carving a path through pillboxes on Cape Gloucester while Marines press a western flank advance near the air field on New Britain. In heavy fighting near Borgen Bay, 200 Japanese dead were counted as Allied planes and artillery support aided the assault.
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New Guinea
Cape Gloucester
Newtain
Leathernecks
Borden Bay
New Britain
7Las MacArthur
William H. Rurertus
Mt. Talawe
Vitiaz Strait
Australi
Huon Penin New Guinea
Finschhafen
Adm
William F. Halsey
South Cific
Rathe
Bouganville Island
Solomons
Rabaul
Japan
Ans
Sdes
Kieta
Americans Bomb Japanese Bases with No Losses
From Hungking December 30 Lt. Gen. Joseph Iwell reported a raid by 36 American planes on Japanese bases in French Indo China and central China. Four ships sunk or damaged, two locomotives destroyed, a 2,200-ton river boat sunk, and two airfields strafed. One American plane was shot down with the pilot surviving. Ground losses claimed no Japanese losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hungking
Indo-China
Going Lake
Chi
Joseph Iwell
China
Mon
Hwajung
Tungting
Paolchi Aire
Chinchow
Yochow
Panese
Phu Thodo
Eighth Army Advances From Ortona Over Mine Laden Route
Allied report says Eighth Army pushed a mile inland from Ortona toward Pescara along a heavily mined road as American bombers hit Nazi supply lines.
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Ortona
Richard G. Maslock
Algiers
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Pescara
Allied Headquarters
Attacks on Jewish Kids Charged
Anti defamation league charges in New York that hoodlums aged 10 to 14 roamed Washington Heights attacking Jewish children and desecrating temples. Investigation Commissioner Herlands says a report will go to Mayor La Guardia next week as police plan coordinated youth crime measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Washington Heights
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
William B. Herlands
Herlands
F. H. la Guardia
Lewis J. Valentine
Manhattan
Juvenile Aid Bureau
New York City
Delayed Fourth Time Executions In Murder Inc
Governor Dewey again postponed the executions of Louis Buchalter alias Lepke Capone and Emanuel Weiss to February 7 due to the U S government withholding Buchalter from New York. Capone Weiss and Buchalter are to die for the 1936 Rosen murder in Brooklyn as part of a racketeering case. The state seeks custody to assure the death sentence will be carried out.
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Albany
Thomas E. Dewey
Louis (Lepke) Buchalter
Murder, Inc
Roosevelt
Buchalter
New York State
Dewey
Louis Capone
Emanuel Weiss
Capone
United States
Brooklyn
Gonteeten
U. S
Francis Biddle
New York
German Command Struggle Shapes World War II Leadership
The article notes a rift between Hitler and his generals as the Junker officer class regains influence in the German army. It cites Karl Doenitz’s resignation, the prominence of Field Marshal Rundstedt in France, and returns of other generals to high command while Hitler remains figurehead.
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Karl Doenitz
Doubit
Ee Radecai
Scharnhorst
Hitler
Russia
Junkers
Germany
Eisenhower
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Caucasus
Red Army
France
Low Countries
Fritz Erich von Mann
Goebbels Forecasts High Stakes for 1944 War
Goebbels warns the fate of civilized mankind is at stake in 1944. He concedes enemy difficulties but says Germany has not yet been deprived of essential economic and military positions. He cites year-end review from Berlin radio.
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Associated Press
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Berlin
Goebbels
Germany
Soviet Army Drives Past Korosten
Soviet forces led by Gen. Nikolai Vatutin push toward the border area as part of a three front winter offensive. They breach the Leningrad Odessa railway zone, advance on Zhitomir, and press toward Korosten and Livkov. Malinovsky’s third Ukraine army crosses the Dnieper from Zaporozhe restoring the dam and moving toward Nikopol for manganese.
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Moscow
Nikolai Vatutin
Ukraine
Russia
Bug
Poland
Vatutin
Gorodnitza
REDS
Leningrad-Odessa
Korosten
Chernyakhov
Zhitomir
Livkov
Seocetiar A
Stein
Bug River
Dnieper River
Rodion Malinovsky
Third Ukraine
Zaporozhe
Dnieper Dam
Dnepropetrov
General Marshall Named Time Man of the Year
Gen George C Marshall chief of staff to the U S Army is Time Magazine 1943 Man of the Year. The selection cites the person who effected the most dramatic change in history during the prior year. Others discussed included Churchill Chiang Kai-shek Stalin and Roosevelt.
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New York
George C. Marshall
United States Army
Time Magazine
Time
Churchill
Chiang Kai-shek
Stalin
Roosevelt
Railroads End Strike Threat Yet Wage Row Persists
Washington December 30 The army-hauled rail system ends the strike threat as trainmen and engineers sign wage agreements but 18 unions remain unsettled. The deals grant 9 cents an hour and a week’s vacation with five cents for overtime and away-from-home expenses. Officials warn the wage terms may be open to revision after war. Alvanley Johnston says the engineer pact might be opened on 30 days’ notice except overtime and vacation provisions.
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Joseph A. Loftus Washington
Brehon B. Somervell
Roosevelt
All-Out War Plans On Japs Are Ready
Admiral Ernest J. King announced plans are ready to shift full UN strength to Japan, possibly in 1944, after Germany’s defeat. He noted studies over months on moving power from Europe and that main attack lines on Japan are determined and to be intensified under the general strategy of defeat.
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Washington
Ernest J. King
United Nations
Japan
Germany
Pwiht D. Eisenhower
King
Navy
FDR Absent From Office With Cold In Washington
President Roosevelt remained away from his offices for a second day due to a head cold. White House officials reported no fever and no appointments, though aides said he accomplished a good deal of work yesterday and likely would today.
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FDR
Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Yank and British Planes Sink Nazi Destroyers in Biscay
American Navy fliers Lt. Stuart D. Johnston and Ensign Hugh M. Greeley shadowed 11 German destroyers in the Bay of Biscay for six hours, signaling to base as British cruisers opened fire and sank three ships. The action followed a prior RAF strike on a German blockade runner carrying strategic materials. The communique noted light damage to HMS Glasgow and HMS Enterprise, with one Halifax and one Beaufighter lost on coastal command. Doenitz reportedly near resignation amid the Scharnhorst loss.
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Roger Greene
London
Bay of Biscay
Stuart D. Johnston
Upper Darby
Hugh M. Greeley
Boston
Johnston
Berlin
Admiralty
Air Ministry
Moscow
Karl Doenitz
Admiralty-Air Ministry
HMS
Glasgow
Enterprise
Halifax
Beaufighter
Coastal Command
Far East
Liberator
Berlin Rocked With 2240 Tons Of Bombs
American eighth airforce heavy bombers and RAF planes attacked Berlin and southwest Germany as part of a day long assault on Nazi continental installations. The bombers, including Flying Fortresses and Liberators, conducted the eighth major raid of the month. Royal air force and American medium bombers attacked military objectives in northern France escorted by Allied fighters.
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W. W. Hercher
London
Eighth Airforce
RAF
Berlin
Germany
Amer
France
RAF and US Bombers Target German Cities in Heavy Night Assault
A brief official notice describes a large RAF night raid on Berlin with supporting American and RAF daylight forces striking cities including Stuttgart Mannheim Frankfurt and Karlsruhe. The operation also involved the Royal Canadian Air Force with 2000 tons of explosives and incendiaries, and 20 bombers were lost across the raids on Germany and France.
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Ican
Stuttgart
Mannheim
Frankfurt
Karlsruhe
Berlin
Germany
France
Royal Canadian Air Force
Air Ministry
Tce
RAF
Jap Diplomat Funao Miyakawa Recalled From Moscow
Berlin radio reported in a Tokyo dispatch that Funao Miyakawa first secretary of the Japanese embassy in Russia was recalled today. The short note gave no sign of deteriorating relations and did not disclose a reason for the recall.
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Associated Press
Funao Miyakawa
Russia
Berlin
Tokyo
First Negro Parachute Unit Activated at Fort Benning
The first Negro parachute unit in the American Army will be activated at Fort Benning Georgia. It will serve under Brigadier General Leo Donovan and is designated as the 555th Parachute Infantry Company.
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Washington
Fort Benning
Boa Department
Toay
Leo Donovan
Airborne Command
555Th Parachute Infantry Company
Army Air Forces mulls naming plane Kill Devil
General H. H. Arnold has advised Governor Broughton that a request to name a new type of airplane Kill Devil will be considered. The name honors the coast hill near Kill Devil, where the Wright brothers conducted their first flight about 40 years ago.
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Raleigh
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Broughton
Wright Brothers
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Garigliano
Villa Santa Maria
Sangro
Castel di Sangro
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Dewitt MacKenzie
William Irye
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