Allies Press North Africa Offensive With Coastal Raids
Allied air forces continued the North African push striking ports across the mid Mediterranean. British submarines reported sinking four ships off the Italian coast while B 29s Marauders and Liberators beat off fighter opposition and scorched targets in Messina Gabes and Souse. American and RAF losses totaled 250 with 607 enemy planes destroyed in three months of action.
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London
North Africa
Poirts
Mid - Mediterranean
Middle East
Messina
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Souse
Gabes
Reuters
Berlin
Tunisia
Eisenhower
Gafsa
Montgomery
Faid Pass
Air Force
Sicily
Africa
United States Air Force
RAF
Naples
Mediterranean
Strait of Messina
Italy
Tripolitania-Tunisia
Eighth Army
War talk cools as Pittsfield leaders leave town
Pittsfield Illinois with a population around 8000 sees its political scene unsettled as Mayor Clarence Benson takes a war plant job in Louisiana Missouri. Aldermen Delbert Irwin and Marshall Mink serve in the Army while Owen Metz moves to Birmingham Alabama. Ray Adams and Harry Reineke retire at term end in April leaving Charles Kreigsharser as the lone holdover unable to meet due to a quorum shortage.
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Pittsfield
Clarence Benson
Louisiana, Mo
Delbert Irwin
Marshall Mink
Owen Metz
Birmingham
Ala
Ray Adams
Harry Reineke
Charles Kreigsharser
Liberators Bomb Messina and North Carolina Sales Tax Plan
Allied B 24 Liberators hit Messina in daylight strikes targeting oil storage tanks and port facilities as part of a broader Mediterranean campaign. A separate Raleigh bill proposes five percent commissions for merchants collecting North Carolina's three percent sales tax, estimated to add 750000 dollars annually to merchants.
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P-24 Liberators
Weathers
Messina
Cairo
Associated Press
Raleigh
Senator Weathers
Cleveland
Shelby
Churchill Promises Commons Statement On War Situation
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons he would soon make a statement on the war situation and a United Nations war council. He returned from North Africa and the Middle East and received enthusiastic applause. He discussed supplies to Russia, food reserves, and the forthcoming Beveridge social security debate, and reported to King George at Buckingham Palace.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
United Nations War Council
North Africa
Middle East
Commons
Treasury
Lord Beaverbrook
Russia
Britain
Anthony Eden
William H. Beveridge
King George
Buckingham Palace
Berlin Reports Action Brewing In Tunisia
Berlin asserts large scale movements by British forces in the Tunisian border region with Allied airstrikes on Rommel’s retreat. British patrols cross from Libya and the Eighth Army advances along the coastal road into the former French post as Axis forces retreat.
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London
Vichy Radio
Associated Press
Tunisian
Tunisia
Libya
Rommel
Eighth Army
Edward Kennedy
Tripolitania
Kenedy
Cairo
Pisida
Bill seeks 2.6 billion for war agencies in new relief bill
The House appropriations committee sent a 2,621,104,379 relief bill to the House for next week action. It earmarks 887,017,000 for the Veterans Administration 1,289,780,000 for the Maritime Commission 888,000,000 for the Public Roads Administration and 19,454,500 for the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics. The total is 6,448,206 below prior estimates and 212,906,193 under current year appropriations.
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Washington
Maritime Commission
House
Appropriations Committee
Veterans Administration
Public Roads Administration
National Advisory Committee On Aeronautics
Kursk Falls as Red Army Breaks German Bastion
Soviet forces storm Kursk and overrun the Kursk Army, advancing from multiple directions toward Kharkov and the Donets basin. Col. Gen. Vatutin’s units push from Kramatorsk toward the Sea of Azov while German defenses retreat and Prague Pravda notes the Kursk Army’s dissolution.
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Red Army
Kursk
Berlin
Associated Press
Lower
Don
Donets
Caucasus
Kharkov
Azov
N. F. Vatutin
Kramatorsk
Sea of Azov
Rostov
Don River
Pravda
Communist Party
Schneider
Stalingrad
Shehigh
Tim
Zorino
Kursk-Lgov
le Biazhie
Axis Peace Feelers Reported From Neutral Capitals
Indications persist that another Axis peace offensive is forming or underway through neutral capitals. Mussolini’s ambassador to the Vatican signals channeling to seek terms, while the aim includes dividing the Allies from Russia and exploiting the Bolshevist fear to win concessions.
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Glenn Babb
Associated Press
Europe
United Nations
Knox Urges Pacific Bases To Disarm Japan After War
Secretary of the Navy Knox told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the United States must acquire air and naval bases across the Pacific to keep Japan disarmed at sea after the war. He urged extending lend lease aid, calling it vital to war plans and allied cooperation, and cited transfers of ships and equipment totaling hundreds of millions of dollars as proof of the program’s utility.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Pacific
Japan
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Knox
Lend Lease
United Nations
Axis
Tobacco dealers oppose ceilings on weed lot ceilings
Tobacconists from the Carolinas Georgia and Virginia backed the warehouse auction system and rejected federal efforts to cap individual lot prices. The stance followed state legislative resolutions urging federal authorities to maintain OPA price ceilings based on buyers' averages used in 1942 flue-cured sales. Government graders set per-basket ceilings on the burley crop.
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Raleigh
Carolinas
Georgia
Virginia
De Gaulle Calls Giraud Regime Artificial and Baseless
In London on February 9 Gen Charles De Gaulle denounced Giraud's North Africa government as artificial and baseless. He urged a return to the laws of the French republic and warned against Vichy officials remaining in North Africa while stressing UN aims.
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London
Charles de Gaulle
North Africa
Henri Giraud
de Gaulle
Giraud
Republic
Vichy
France
North
Africa
United Nations
W S Man Given Award For Duty In Pacific Area
Vice Admiral Calhoun awards 44 officers and sailors aboard the destroyer Farehnolt at Pearl Harbor for service in the Pacific. He praises relentless destruction of the Japanese, citing 14 Navy Crosses 25 Silver Stars 3 Distinguished Flying Crosses and other decorations among recipients including submarine and patrol wing personnel.
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Farenholt
Pearl Harbor
William L. Calhoun
Pacific
Cal
Japanese evac Guadalcanal ends long Solomons campaign
Secretary of the Navy Knox announced the Japanese evacuated Guadalcanal in the Solomons and that resistance there has ceased, opening the way for U S forces to strike other major Japanese bases. Buna in New Guinea is also said to be evacuated, with a 15 000-man Japanese force reportedly annihilated.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Knox
United States
South Pacific
Australia
Eddie Rickenbacker
Buna
New Guinea
Port Moresby
Navy
Berlin
Tokyo
Solomon Island
Henderson
Women Guard Prison Tower at North Carolina Facility
Four women now guard towers at the North Carolina women's prison in Raleigh replacing male staff sent to Central Prison. The new guards Bessie Williams J C Massengill Estelle Cosby and Carver Jackson join one male guard remaining with maintenance workers also employed. A fifth female guard is expected soon.
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Raleigh
Women’s Prison
Oscar Pitts
State Penal Division
Central Prison
Bessie Williams
J. C. Massengill
Estelle Cosby
Carver Jackson
Pitts
Estelle Strickland
J. M. Harrison
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