Reds Drive On Pskoy As Nazis Count Hugo Losses
Eight Benedictine monks and an unknown number of refugees were in Monte Cassino monastery when Allied bombs reduced the abbey to rubble. Italian civilians reported most monks had left earlier. some sheltered refugees said Germans blocked exits after the air attack. A German observation post was outside and another inside the abbey. The raid follows leaflets urging monks to flee as bombardment began. Police and refugees offered varying accounts of casualties and German use of the site.
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Cassino
Monte Cassino
London
Berlin
DNB
Gregorio Diamare
Four Freighters and Two Destroyers Sunk Near Jap Base
Allied forces, using assault troops and air power, attacked Rabaul and Kavieng, sinking four merchant ships and damaging two destroyers and a tanker. Bombardments left Rabaul in flames as shore batteries were silenced. Kavieng docks burned after naval strikes. MacArthur announced the operations and earlier raids on nearby bases.
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Jap Base
New Britain
New Ireland
Rabaul
Kavieng
Bers
Truk
Tokyo
Pacific
Eniwetok Atoll
Engebi
Carolines Islands
Simpson Harbor
Blanche Bay
Douglas MacArthur
Lemons
Lenient Terms Sought by Hull in Finnish Peace Efforts
Secretary of State Hull and allied press indicate readiness to urge lenient terms for Finland. Helsinki would surrender if needed but prefers a Russia Finland accord. Stockholm talks focus on a formal armistice only, not unconditional surrender, with a broader Europe peace to follow.
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Washington
Hull
Army and Navy Journal
Stalin
Finland
Helsinki
Russia
Stockholm
Juhn K. Paasikivi
Soviet Union
Europe
Germany
Congress Deadlock On Soldier Vote Enters 2nd Week
Washington reports a congressional deadlock on service voting legislation as Senate and House conferees enter a second week seeking a federal absentee ballot compromise for uniformed voters. State laws face uncertainty, delaying practical absentee ballot bills and risking lack of time to enact changes before the election.
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Washington
Senate
House
House Representatives
Joint Committee
Two Washington youths indicted in kidnapping case
Federal grand jury indicts Daniel F. Reedy and Joseph Hockenberry of Washington D C on charges of kidnapping Mrs Thomas Henry Bohler 19 of New Orleans La. She was forced into a car in New Orleans February 6 and freed five days later after being driven to Birmingham.
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Birmingham
Ala
Washington, D. C
Daniel F. Reedy
Joseph Hockenberry
Thomas Henry Bohler
New Orleans
Robert W. Gwin
Vast Nazi Espionage Ring Uncovered In Argentina
In Buenos Aires police report Gen Friedrich Wolff German military attaché is named as leader of one espionage ring. Three Axis groups allegedly operated in Argentina with targets across the Americas including the United States. Japs Admiral Katsumi Yukishita and Capt Tadashi Kameda also released from house arrest with repatriation plans.
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Buenos Aires
Friedrich Wolff
Argentina
Information
Wolff
America
United States
Katsumi Yukishita
Tadashi Kameda
The Army Way military career of Lawrence Anderson
Lawrence Anderson enlisted in the army on December 4 194 and reported for duty in April 1943. He was discharged in April 1943 due to a missing trigger finger and later drafted at Fort Lewis on July 18 1943. He received a mustering-out check on February 19 1944 and a 1-A draft classification notice on the same date.
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Seattle
Lawrence Anderson
Army
Fort Lewis
Berlin denies Diet orders for Finnish retreat
Berlin radio and the German foreign office denied reports that Col. Gen Eduard Diet commander of Nazi forces in Finland had orders to prepare for a possible retreat. The English broadcast to North America called the reports a clumsy Allied attempt at a war of nerves. A separate Berlin transmission noted that discussion of the Finnish question remains banned in German newspapers.
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New York
Berlin
Foreign Office
Eduard Diet
Finland
North America
Federal Communications Commission
Associated Press
Evacuation of Civilians From Anzio Beachhead Reported
United Nations radio broadcast via CBS stated Allies began evacuating about 18 000 civilians from the Anzio beachhead to move them outside bombardment range. The CBS taped report from Algiers quoted the UN radio as the source.
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New York
United Nations Radio
Algiers
CBS
Anzio
Labor Leaders Contest Living Cost Report
Labor leaders say the Bureau of Labor Statistics index distorts wartime living costs. AFL's George Meany and CIO's R J Thomas released a report claiming costs have risen about 43.5 percent since January 1941, vs 24 percent in the BLS index. White House Press Secretary Stephen Early noted the full committee has not reported, and the claim remains ex parte.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics Index
White House
George Meany
AFL
R. J. Thomas
CIO
Stephen Early
Early
Labor Department
American Statistical Association
Grim Allies Still Holding Anzio Lines
Allied dispatches report American and British forces holding firm at the Anzio beachhead after heavy German assaults. Fifth Army units prevented a breakout while inflicting heavy losses, with Luftwaffe raids repelled by fighters and bombers totaling multiple enemy aircraft downed.
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Anzio
Richard G. Maslock
Naples
Fifth Army
Rome
Mark W. Clark
Clark
Carroceto
Yugoslav Leader Urges Recognition of Marshal Tito
Gen Dusan Simovic returning from retirement urged formal recognition of Marshal Josip Broz Tito and predicted allied help for the Balkans this year. He spoke as a soldier not a politician and warned that opposing the national liberation movement would aid Tito’s enemies and harm the allied war effort.
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London
Dusan Simovic
Peter
Josip Broz
Tito
Balkans
Simovic
National Liberation Movement
National Army of Liberation
Draja Mihmirovic
Air Alarms Reported in Budapest After Russian and Allied Attacks
Stockholm dispatches say two air raid alarms sounded in Budapest Saturday night with no other details. Hungary has faced past attacks by Russian and Allied forces, and a Moscow broadcast warned Budapest would share Helsinki’s fate unless Hungary ends its war.
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Stockholm
Budapest
Moscow
Helsinki
Hungary
Allied plane crews survive Anzio air saga with five crashes
Naples dispatch recounts five wartime aircraft losses near the Anzio beachhead. A B-24 Liberator with two engines hit bailed-out crew. a Marauder with damaged controls crashed after a perilous emergency landing. two P-40 Warhawks suffered engine failures. a British Spitfire flown by a South African ace suffered terminal damage but minimal injuries.
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Kenneth L. Dixon
Naples
Velvet
Anzio
Italian Junta Demands Ousting King and Badoglio
Six anti fascist parties forming the Italian liberation committee ask the allied control commission to replace King Vittorio Emanuele and Marshal Badoglio with a new government. The memorandum, kept as a secret document, seeks leaders who would assume power once the monarch and premier step aside.
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Naples
Italian Liberation Committee
Italy
Allied Control Commission
Vittorio Emanuele
Pietro Badoglio
Junta
Stalin Disinterested In European Conquest
The Sunday Observer quoted Premier Stalin telling a Moscow diplomatic contact that Russia has no plans to expand into Central or Western Europe. He said those who predict conquest misread his sense of reality and noted reports comparing him to Hitler reveal a lack of political understanding.
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London
the Sunday Observer
J.oh Stalin
Moscow
Russia
Europe
Stalin
Hitler
Tokyo Tells Japs To Keep Faith In Navy
New York dispatch reports Tokyo radio urging Japanese people to trust a navy that can force its way into key battles. Broadcasts claim decisive Pacific battle is in actual phase and warn of American raids on Truk while noting U S landings at Eniwetok.
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Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Truk
Engebi Island
Eniwetok Atoll
Japan
Central Pacific
Rabaul
Tokyo
New York
Pacific
United States Navy
Marshall Islands
United States
Sence
Truk Ses
Roosevelt Proclaims Red Cross Month in 1944
President Franklin D Roosevelt designates March 1 1944 as Red Cross month urging Americans to donate to the Red Cross 1944 minimum war fund of 200000000 to support troops overseas and wounded and families at home in a nationwide appeal.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Red Cross
Relief Agency
United States Armed Forces
Army
Navy
L. Franklin D. Roosevelt
American National Red Cross
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Tuleblya
Staraya Russa
Kharino
Wilhelm Stemmermann
Ring
Eniwetok
Ralik
Kwajalein
Seoncer K
Namu i
Ailinglapala
Jaluiti
Namorik
P.bikar
Geerinix
Honolulu
Maloel AP
Narif
RADAK
South Pacific
Marshall Group
Arrow
Nip
Congress
Charles H. Guptill
Marshall Tito
Thomas A. Scott
Honea Path
S. C
Jesse Bradley
Huntsville
Louis Robbins
Fort Lauderdale
Scott
George A. Stanley
Nashville, Tenn
Carraceto
Ralph L. Peters
Salem
Charles T. McGugan, Jr
Dunn, N.C
Badoglio
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