Eighth Airforce Report Highlights 1943 German Losses
Britain based U S Airforce destroyed 4,100 German planes in 1943 and dropped 55,000 tons of bombs on Nazi occupied Europe with under four percent losses. Lt Gen Ira C Eaker announced gains including a record December 1943 bombing load and growth of heavy bombers and long range escort systems.
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Gladwin Hill
London
U. S. Airforce
Europe
Iva C. Eaker
Mediterranean
Eighth Air Force
Ira C. Baker
Theer Scosbers
Americans Advance On New Britain
Marines push a mile and a half beyond the Cape Gloucester airdrome on New Britain amid heavy fighting. Allied estimates count over 1,000 Japanese dead with total losses likely higher. Fifth Air Force bombs Madang and part of northeastern New Britain while Japanese counterattacks at Tauali are repulsed. No Allied losses reported.
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Marlin Spencer
New Guinea
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
MacArthur
Fifth Airforce
Madang
Solomons
Rabaul
Tauali
Adm
William F. Halsey
Fifth Army Advances Toward Rome In Snowbound Campaign
Allied forces push through icy rains toward Rome with American troops seizing three more heights near San Vittorio while Canadian units press along the Adriatic. British raiders behind German lines demolish a railway and highway near the Garigliano, aiding a retreat route to the Appian Way.
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Richard G. Maslock
Algiers
Rome
San Vittorio
Adriatic
Garigliano
Appian Way
Fifth Army
Harold Alexander
Italy
Viticuso
Cassino
Mt. Samucro
Bari
Marshal Badoglio
Via Cassino
T Dian
Eighth Army
Pescara
USS Perkins Sinks After Collision in New Guinea Area
The U S Navy announced that the destroyer USS Perkins was sunk in a collision off New Guinea on November 29, 1943. It also reported the transport APC 21 sunk by enemy aircraft off New Britain on December 17, 1943. Next of kin notifications will be sent as soon as possible.
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Washington
Perkins
New Guinea
Navy
New Briton
U. S
Britain
New Britain-New Guinea
Vy Knox
1944 Decisive Year In Course Of Civilization
Gov. John W. Bricker in a New Year broadcast says 1944 may determine civilization's course for centuries. He notes battles between evil and freedom and warns of decisions that will affect individual rights and government power as the war continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Ored
Destroyer Maro Vain Launched for French Navy
Wilmington launch of destroyer escort Maro vain at Dravo yards marks fourth wartime ship built for France. Sponsor Miss Anne Moen Bullitt, daughter of William C. Bullitt, attends with Vice Admiral Raymond Ep eard and Admiral’s daughter Denis present for ceremony.
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Wilmington
Del
Marovain
Dravo Corporation
Dravo
Anne Moeneitt
Washington
William C. Bullitt
France
Russia
Navy
Knox
Bullitt
Raymond Eenard
Denis
Soldier killed as jeep overturns near Memphis
A soldier from the Fourth Ferrying Group was killed and five others injured when their jeep apparently overturned near Memphis today. The incident occurred as they traveled in the area, prompting investigations and dispatch of medical aid to the scene.
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Memphis
Danes Executed by Nazi Court Martial for Sabotage
German censored Copenhagen dispatches report seven Danes executed yesterday after convictions by a Nazi court martial on charges of sabotage in occupied Denmark.
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Stockholm
Jan
Copenhagen
Italian puppet government names new economic chief
Berlin radio reports Silvio Gai resigns as minister of economic affairs in Mussolini’s puppet government due to ill health. Angelo Parchi named his successor.
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Gal
Associated Press
Berlin
Silvio Gai
Benito Mussolini
Angelo Parchi
King Peter Leaves Cairo for Secret Destination
King Peter of Yugoslavia, exiled and disavowed by Tito, reportedly left Cairo for a secret destination. A Yugoslav government spokesman had said Mihailovic’s guerrilla army would not join the fight until an Allied Balkan invasion. The trip may signal new efforts to settle the monarchy crisis.
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Associated Press
London
Peter
Yugoslavia
Josip Broz
Tito
Cairo
Balkan
Draja Mihailovic
Balkans
Red Journal Claims Japan Loses Pacific Initiative
The Soviet trade journal War and the Working Class argues Japan has lost strategic initiative in the Pacific. It calls Italy’s capitulation a blow to the axis and notes Germany can no longer rely on Japan. The piece says Japan must forgo reliance on German support and questions Tokyo’s past vassalage to Berlin.
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Moscow
Japan
Pacific
Germany
Soviet Union
Italy
France
Great Britain
Jeapan
Soviet
French Prefect Marion Assassination Report Denied by Vichy
Swiss radio claimed General Marion a French prefect for Upper Savoy was assassinated in Annecy with two German officers wounded. Vichy radio denied the report.
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London
Marion
Upper
Savoy
Vichy
Annecy
Invasion Leaders Work Toward Year Of Victory
Allied commandos push for victory in Europe with holiday urgency as air power over Europe intensifies. Spaatz arrives to lead strategic bombing with Eisenhower's briefing team while raids on Ivry Bois de Colombes Cognac are reported and losses listed.
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ANIS
Europe
North Africa
Italy
Germany
Dwight D
Ivry
Bois de Colombes
Paris
Cognac
France
Carl A. Spaatz
Eisenhower
Spaatz
Ira C. Baker
Eighth Air Force
Mediterranean
Air Ministry
U. S. Army Air Force
U. S
RAF
Capitol Talks Of Stiffer War Strike Laws At Capitol
Washington lawmakers weighed harsher penalties to criminalize wartime strikes amid warnings that rail and steel stoppages aid the Axis. Some urged Roosevelt leadership on new statutes, others criticized White House handling as unions defended their production efforts. A simple anti strike bill was hinted, likely targeting government workers and essential war industry, with possible review by military and naval committees.
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Associated Press
Washington
Capitol
United States
United Nations
Germany
Ome
Roosevelt
White House
Hitler
United Steel Workers
Rep. Smith
D-Va
Rep. Manasco
D-Ala
Couness
Military
Naval Committee
Congress
Ernest J. King
Naval Operations
George C. Marshall
Army
James F. Byrnes
House
Senate
New Year Run Quiet in Naples as WAC Delivers Baby
In Naples on New Year’s Eve a WAC, Pvt Evelyn Colonese, helped deliver a baby after Italian neighbors announced labor. Soldiers fired rifles as bells rang, winds howled, and guards sheltered from rain. The Brushoff Club held its first meeting of signal corps men brushed off by the girls.
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Naples
WAC
Red Cross
Evelyn Colonese
Clinton Ave
Bronx
N. Y
Pvt
Colonese
New York
Signal Corps
Vandegrift Toasted As Commandant Of Marine Corps
Washington January 1 Lt Gen Alexander A Vandegrift became the eighteenth commandant of the Marine Corps in a century old ceremony with a serenade and toasts of hot buttered rum The Marine Band first played martial music before a new commandant’s quarters around 1801 establishing the tradition
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Washington
Marines Corps
Alexander A. Vandegrift
Marine
Demoralized Nazis Throw Away Guns near Poland Front
Red Army forces push toward the Polish border amid German retreat and gun abandonments. Vatutin’s first Ukrainian army seizes Belokorovichi and advances about 28 miles from Korosten, with 1,500 German deaths reported and villages captured west and northwest of Nevel as part of a broader Kiev front breakthrough.
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James M. Long LO
Red Army
Stalingrad
Moscow
Nikolai Vatutin
Belokorovichi
Kiev-Warsaw
Novograd Volynski
Poland
Ukraine
Monitor
Korosten
Kiev
Vatutin
Berdichev
Zhitomir
WPB Orders Major Cut in Aluminum Output
The War Production Board ordered a 40 million pound monthly reduction in aluminum output. Two lines closed at Burlington New Jersey and two of eight at Maspeth New York, both plants run by Aluminum Company of America. Within 30 days further curtailments may total 40 million pounds.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
Burlington
N. J
Maspeth
N. Y
Defense Plants Corporation
Aluminum Corporation of America
Arthur H
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