Allied Air Attacks Hit Suburbs of Paris and German Targets
American heavy bombers supported by U S and RAF fighters struck targets in France with raids on the Paris region and possible chemical works at Ludwigshafen. RAF Mosquitos attacked western Germany and northern France as 1943 ends. The log notes heavy German losses and ongoing Red Army advances near Kiev. Roosevelt cancels Friday press conference due to a cold.
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London
France
Paris
Caudron-Renault
Ault
Messerschmitt
BBC
Renault
Seine Island
Billancourt
Ludwigshafen
Germany
U. S
Reich
United States
Pas de Calais
Folkestone
Dungeness
French
Gloucester airdrome falls to Marines in New Britain push
Allied forces press the Cape Gloucester operation as U S Marines overpower pillbox defenses with flame throwers and artillery. Troops secure the airdrome ahead of sweeping mopping up of remaining Japanese at the northwest New Britain strong point as air and sea forces attack Bougainville and Rabaul.
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United States
Cape Gloucester
New Guinea
New Britain
Walter
U.S. Sixth Army
Gloucester
Tee Aireucceeeee Cme
Mttee
Krueger
Bergen Bay
Cape
New Guinea-New Britain
Arawe
Bismarck
Rabaul
Solomons
Adm
William F. Lsey
Bougainville
Halsey
Marshalls
Maloelap
Mili
Kwajalein
Dutch Royal Address Marks New Year Amid Sumatra Conflict
London dispatch reports Dutch forces still clashing in Sumatra as Queen Wilhelmina announces New Year greetings to subjects. She vows to rest only after victory is achieved and the great plan foreseen by the Netherlands is fulfilled.
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London
Sumatra
Nether- East Indies
Jae
Elmina
Netherlands
Shipyards Double Tonnage In Wartime Output Rise
New York December 31 American shipyards using mass production to meet the victory goal have delivered in two years more than twice the prewar U S merchant fleet. By end of November output stood at 25 284 000 deadweight tons with December still to count, and 1 688 ships totaling 17 194 387 deadweight tons built in eleven months of 1943.
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New York
Roosevelt
United States
Howard L. Vickery
U. S. Maritime Commission
Emory . Land
Maritime Commission
Surgeon Dr Lee Cohen Dies at Johns Hopkins Hospital
Dr Lee Cohen, 69, a pioneer in plastic surgery at Johns Hopkins, died after a lengthy illness. He was among the first U S surgeons to perform nasal plastic surgery and designed several instruments for plastic operations.
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Baltimore
Lee Cohen
Johns Hopkins Hospital
America
Buccaneers Of Bari Pirates in the Bari Waterfront
Hal Boyle recounts Spanish main era pirates in Bari Italy where young street urchins nicknamed pirates press soldiers with offers of candy and a one lira extortion while dodging in town. The vignette captures the chaotic humor and danger of wartime street life.
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Hal Boyle
Bari
Italy
Allo
Johnny
Kidd
Joe
Finito
Seven Get Long Terms In Extortion Scheme
Seven men tied to the Capone network were sentenced for conspiring to extort in a million-dollar shakedown of film magnates. Federal Judge John Bright imposed ten-year terms on six alleged Capone lieutenants, while Louis Kaufman of Newark, a labor leader, received seven years. Each defendant was fined ten thousand dollars.
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New York
al Capone
John Bright
Capone
Louis Kaufman
Newark
N. J
Chinese forces recapture villages near Owchihkow restore border sector
Chinese high command says more than ten villages around Owchihkow in Hunan Hupeh border have been retaken restoring the area to pre Rice Bowl campaign conditions. Enemy remnants near Owechihhok were being mopped up.
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Chungking
Owchihkow
Hunan-Hupeh
Owehihhok
Ithe
Fifth Army Raiders Strike West Coast of Italy
Allied announces a large scale Fifth Army raid along Italy west coast north of the Garigliano river. The operation reportedly used a phibious leapfrog and aimed at controlling the coastal road to Rome via the Pontine Marshes. Minturno and San Vittore are key locations in the fighting.
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Wes Gallagher
Algiers
Fifth Army
Italy
Garigliano
Harold Alexander
Rome
Pontine
Berlin
Minturno
Tenth Army
Garigliana
Ponte Fiume
Eadquarters
San Vittore
Cassino
Mignano
Eighth Army
Surgeons Salvage Wounded in North Africa Brain Operations Save Prisoner
Allied reports from Algiers describe brain surgeons in the North African theater salvaging hundreds of wounded soldiers with exposed brain injuries. Neuro-surgeons perform in evacuation and general hospitals, returning many to duty. An operation by Maj Henry G Schwartz and Capt George Roulhac used brain wound cleansing and tissue grafts to prevent paralysis.
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Allied
Algiers
North African Theater of Operations
Edward D. Churchill
Boston
Mass
Harvard
Henry G. Schwartz
George Roulhac
St. Louis
21St General Hospital
Powerful Russian Armies Lash Nazis On 185 Mile Front
Russian forces push through a major Nazi breach on the southern central front near the Bug river advancing toward the river and threatening the Odessa Lwow rail line. Gen Vatutin’s units approach the old Polish border and Dniester while counterattacks around Kirovograd and Zhytomir continue with prisoners and booty reported.
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Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Bug River
von Mannstein
Bug
Germany
Dnieper
Kiev- Zhmerinkane
Nikolai Vatutin
Dnies
Romania
Warsaw-Smela
Kazatin
Dniester
Kirovograd
War Housing Catches Up With Needs
Washington reports National Housing Administrator Blandford says war housing generally meets needs. Exceptions occur where new plants come into production or existing plants raise employment. He argues civilian housing must grow in 1944 and hints at a limited postwar civilian housing program.
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Washington
John B. Blandford, Jr
Blandford
Rail Unions Reject Roosevelt Arbitration Basis
Fifteen railroad non operating unions rejected President Roosevelt's arbitration basis for their wage dispute insisting on a ruling on overtime independent of other terms. They argue six cents extra for overtime and a 4 to 10 cent scale cannot be tied to overtime rates and oppose any arrangement that could reduce overtime pay. Army control of the seized railroads looms as a possible outcome amid stalled settlements.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Vinson
Italian Town San Vittore Falls to American Artillery
In a heavy barrage described as a serenade of death, American guns pounded San Vittore near San Pietro, destroying the fortress town as Maj. David Frazier of Houston led Lt. Richard Dashner of Waco in a patrol to secure the shattered streets after twenty minutes of bombardment.
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San Vittore
San Pietro
Rome
San 'Vittore
Serenade
David Frazier
Houston
Tex
Richard Dashner
Waco
Hoover Finds Something FBI Can't Do
Washington dispatch reports J Edgar Hoover claims the FBI cannot do all its war duty dactylography and keep up with civilian demand for fingerprints. It notes 1943 daily civilian fingerprint requests rose to 2,000, total on file reached 78,000,000, and 9,000 bodies were identified by morgue records last year.
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Washington
Hoover
FBI
John Edgar
Potter's Field
Gunners Claim Victories Over German Warplanes
Allied HQ in Algiers reports Liberator crew credited with shooting down ME109s during Tuesday battle over Vicenza. Ser geant Wesley J. Hardison of New Bern North Carolina and T E Mack of Union South Carolina named among aces.
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Algiers
Vicenza
Wesley J. Hardison
RFC 4
New Bern
N. C
T. E. Mack
Union
S. C
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