American Bombers and Fighters Hit Gabes in Tunisia
U S. forces report a heavy air assault against Gabes with bombers and Lightning fighters claiming 26 enemy planes destroyed and 26 damaged while suffering 10 losses. Meanwhile armored units withdraw from Sened railway station 65 miles northwest of Gabes as British Eighth Army advances. Patrol activity continues in the Tunisian Libyan border area.
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London
Sened
Tunisia
Gabes
Ler
Eighth Army
Rommel
Axis Prisoners May Be Used to Tend U.S. Farms
Washington reports Axis war prisoners may work in the United States next summer to help grow food for Allied forces. J. A. Walker, head of the labor branch of the food production administration, said prisoners captured in Africa and Europe could be used where large groups can be guarded, mainly for cultivating crops and harvesting canning fruit. The plan includes recruiting 50,000 low income and under producing families from Appalachia Ozark regions and Minnesota Wisconsin areas to place on productive dairy livestock and poultry farms in the Midwest and beyond.
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Washington
J. A. Walker
Food Production Administration
Africa
Europe
Walker
Agriculture Department
Appalachian and
Ozark Mountains
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Middle-West
Aerial Victory Reported as Jap Fleet Advances on Guadalcanal
Dispatches from the South Seas describe a large Japanese naval force headed for Guadalcanal with 30 to 40 ships sighted near the island. U S Army troops press attacks on the Bonegi river positions while Allied air power bombs Buin and targets from New Britain to the Solomons as a possible UN offensive looms.
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Guadalcanal
South Seas Battlefront
Narce Whitaker
Toxana, Ky
Tokyo
Rennell Island
Washington
Prize Island
Tuesay
Navy
Bonegi River
United Nations
Solomons
Douglas MacArthur
South Seas
MacArthur
Buin
New Britain
Japan
New Guinea
Solomon
Rabaul
Pacific
U. S
Solomon Islands
Tarawa
U.S. Troops Face Heaviest Resistance on Guadalcanal
American forces advancing toward Cape Esperance encounter daily Japanese resistance. a U S destroyer shells positions while naval air and ground fire target enemy concentrations near Bonegi River and Kokumbona. Japanese troops resist dug into caves as artillery bombardment rages.
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William Hipple
U. S S
Guadalcanal
Cape Esperance
United States
Savo Island
Bonegi River
Kokumbona
General Andrews Takes Command and Plans Intensified Bombing
Lieut. Gen. Frank M. Andrews assumed command of U S forces in Europe and announced the first task to intensify bombing of Germany. The Nashville native, 59, will boost daylight raids from the United Kingdom while the RAF handles night bombing and advocates combined land sea and air operations.
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London
Frank M. Andrews
United States
Andrews
Middle East
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United Kingdom
Germany
RAF
USAAF
Hitler
Nashville
Tenn
West Point
Juggernaut Closes Flight Path To North
Soviet forces in the Caucasus cut off Krasnodar rail exits and pressed toward Rostov Kursk and Kharkov. German and Hungarian divisions near Voronezh face encirclement as Soviets push deep into Ukraine and threaten Novorossisk and Kerch strait escape routes.
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Moscow
Adolf Hitler
Red
Krasnodar
Rostov
Kursk
Kharkov
Caucasus
Starominskaya
Kanevskaya
Rostov-Baku
Azov Sea
Yelsk
Timashevskaya
Black Sea
Krasnodar-Novorossisk
I. V. Tuleniev
Germany
Novorossisk
Maneuster
Kerch Strait
Crimea
Krasny- Liman
Red Army
Ukraine
Khakov
Vorosilivgrad
Voronezh
Stalingrad
Pravda
Sea of Azov
Rationing Of Manpower For Essential Industry Launched
War Manpower Commission launches a program to prioritize labor for war industries in 32 areas of critical shortage. The plan ties millions to essential tasks, restricts worker transfers, and assigns farm hiring control to curb shifts away from agriculture where applicable. Agencies must place workers to maximize war-effort skills and give priority to key essential employers.
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Charles Molony
Washington
War Manpower Commission
WMC
WIMC
Ened
MecNutt
Area Management Labor Committee
New Rumor Hints Hitler May Be Dead Again
Joseph E. Davis says Germany's mourning after Stalingrad and Hitler’s missed anniversary speech raise talk he is dead though a London foreign office spokesman calls the notion nonsense. Davis notes the Nazi leadership would persist if Hitler is gone and Nazi power endures via Goebbels propaganda.
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New York
Joseph E. Davis
Soviet Russia
Germany
Hitler
Foreign Office
London
Stalingrad
Davis
Washington
Nazi
Goebbel
United Nations
New York Daily News
Berlin
Tojo Denies Dictatorship Calls Himself Moon’s Reflection
Premier General Hideki Tojo told a Berlin radio broadcast via Tokyo that he is not Japan’s dictator, likening himself to the moon receiving light from the sun emperor. He said dictatorial measures are needed in war to boost production and win. The remark followed a parliamentary question about power.
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Hideki Tojo
Japan
Tokyo
Berlin
Associated Press
Tojo
FDR seeks 4 billion for Navy expansion program
President Roosevelt asked Congress for an additional 4 billion dollars in cash and 210 million dollars in contract authorizations for the Navy. The proposal funds miscellaneous expenses research laboratory naval petroleum reserves reserve training education welfare and ordnance stores among others.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Navy
Naval Reserve
Bureau of Ships
Bombers Hit Burma Bridge Near Mandalay
United States bombers scored direct hits on the Myitgwe railroad bridge over the Irrawaddy near Mandalay Burma. The bridge which had been damaged before and partially repaired by the Japanese had not yet been restored to service according to the Tenth United States Air Force communique. All bomber crews returned safely.
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New Delhi
United States
Irrawaddy
Mandalay
Burma
Myitgwe
Tenth United States Air Force
Navy funds chairman vows strict budgeting in Congress
The article recounts Harry R. Sheppard named chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Navy funds who hosts Knox at a celebratory luncheon in the secretary’s dining room. Surrounded by gold braid, he jokes about keeping a clean shirt and insists on accountability, while Navy leaders foresee tough negotiations ahead.
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Harry R. Sheppard
House
Frank B. Knox
California
Harry
Chicago
Congress
John S. McCain
Bureau of Aeronautics
F. J. Horne
Naval Operations
Admiral Horne
Army-Navy Club
RAF strikes Turin Spezia Ruhr and Lorient in joint raid
The RAF bombed Turin and the Spezia naval base in Italy and attacked the Ruhr and the Lorient submarine base in France in a heavy, wide sweep. Three bombers were listed as missing as weather was favorable and damage varied by target. The raid marked a long alpine-exposed mission by home based bombers returning from December.
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RAF
Turin
Specia
Ruhr
Lorient
London
Italy
France
Air Ministry
Bomber Command
Spezia
Rhur
High Command
Comunique
Rome
Alps
Mussolini
Genoa
Milan
Sepzia
Motion Picture Operators And Bottlers Tax Slashes Are Approved By Committee
Raleigh February 5 The joint finance committee approved tax reductions for motion picture theater operators and soft drink bottlers. The committee also backed a new tax scale for bottlers and movie operators, estimating a $60 000 annual revenue loss. The joint appropriations group added 343 256 to advisory budget recommendations for 15 state departments and agencies.
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Raleigh
Joint Finance Committee
Joint Appropriations Group
Advisory Budget Commission
Finance Committee
War jobs surge after latest order flooding New York offices
United States Employment Service offices nationwide report a flood of applications for war work after the new order. In New York City alone 29 802 applicants on Wednesday and 13 493 on Thursday far above the usual 8 000 per day while Selective Service head Col Arthur V McDermott cautioned against rapid changes and urged workers to know their class of work.
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New York City
Selective Service
Associated Press
United States Employment Service
U. S
Col
Arthur V. McDermott
New York
Harry Hansbrough
WMC
Louisville
Thunderous Allied Artillery Levels Axis Held Faid
American artillery pounded the Axis held town of Faid Tunisia turning it to ruins. A torrent of 105 mm shells drove away Mary IV tanks and blasted ammunition dumps as towers of flame lit the Tunisia night. The assault aimed to crush Axis momentum from the Faid pass.
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Harold V. Boyle
U. S
Faid
Tunisia
Hell
Faid Pass
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Kairns
Townsville
Australia
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Voovese
Sguadalcanal
Rennell
New Caledonia
Eo Tarawa
Gilbert
Hebrides
Fiji
Sun
FDR
Burma Bridge
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