Red Army Drives Gains Across Caucasus and Near Stalingrad
Soviet communique reports major advances with Remontnaya and Elkhotovo seized 117 and 30 miles from Stalingrad respectively. Supplies captured include German tanks and stores as Russians push toward Tikhoretsk and Elista amid heavy fighting from Velikie Luki to the Caucasus.
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London
Red
Causcasian
Kotelnikovski
Remontnaya
Stalingrad
Moscow Radio
Elkhotovo
Nalchik
mid-Caucasus
Sal River
Tikhoretsk
Elista
Kalmyck
Comunique
Set
Russia
Velikie Luki
Moscow
Allies Break Japanese Hold in Buna Area Campaign
Allied ground forces in New Guinea broke the Buna line of Japanese resistance with a general assault. Australians pushed from the right to seize Gir opa Point, Americans widened a wedge toward Buna Government Station, and the left flank secured a beachhead. Air raids on Lae and Rabaul supported the drive, with B 26s and fighters pounding runways and hangars. In the Caucasus Elkotovo fell after street fighting, while Rostov approaches and Stalingrad trenches were pressed.
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Australia
New Guinea
Buna
Giropa Point
Buna Government Station
Government Station
Girepa Point
Douglas
Lae
Fuel Oil Rations Cut Ten Percent in East
Price Administrator Leon Henderson announced a 10 percent reduction in Eastern fuel oil heating rations. Beginning 12:01 a.m. Monday, small home owner coupons drop to nine gallons and large coupons to 90 gallons, with period two unaffected in some cases.
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Ducati
Washington
Leon Henderson
Henderson
Petroleum Administration
Nazis Scuttle Ship as Crew Surrenders to British
London dispatch reports a 10,000 ton German blockade runner scuttled by her crew after being overhauled in the Atlantic by British naval patrols. German losses include a destroyer sunk on the Russian convoy route north of Norway. Berlin confirms the destroyer’s loss.
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London
Atlantic
Admiralty
Sea Lords
Norway
Berlin
Arctic
Murmansk
Henderson Says Price Controls Saved U.S. 31 Billion
Former price administrator Leon Henderson claimed price controls saved the public and government 31 billion dollars. He said rationing and controls must work, noting savings of 6.0 billion for families and 25.0 billion for contracts, while inflation risk was warned in a concurrent government pamphlet.
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Henderson
U.S
Washington
Leon Henderson
Derson
Office of War Information
Oregon Floods Curtail Ship Production
The Willamette River flood reached Portland limiting naval shipyard output. Debris logs of 1,000,000 board feet and another mass threatened bridges and river facilities. Weather officials forecast peak levels with high water affecting low piers and prompting closure of some shipyard work. No crew was aboard when a towboat and barge breached a dam gap near Oregon City.
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Portland
Ore
Willamette River
Navy
Salem
Oregon City
Weather Bureau
13Th Naval District
Britain's Eighth Army to Push Rommel in Libya
Britain’s Eighth Army aims for a sizable attack on Rommel’s German Italian tank force in the next days as the Axis withdraws from the Wadi Bei El Chebir area. Allied air raids hit Tunis Sfax Sousse and Bone while ports and rail yards suffer damage.
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Associated Press
London
Britain
Eighth
Libya
Marshal Rommel
Berlin
Cairo
Wadi Bei el Chebir
Tripoli
Wadi Zem-Zem
Bei el Chebir
BBC
CBS
Rommel
Egypt
Tunisia
Tunis
Bone
Sfax
Sousse
Eighth Army
Wadi Zem- Zem
Misurata
Bane
Algeria
Nelson Sets Billion Dollar Goal for War Contracts
In Washington the Smaller War Plants Corporation aims to place at least 1 billion dollars in contracts in 1943 led by Donald M. Nelson. WPB officials see possible total contracts up to 4 billion. Directors may be reshuffled as the agency moves to use its contracting authority with Army Navy and other procurement agencies.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
Donald M. Nelson
War Plants Corporation
War Production Board
Congress
WPB
Nelson
Army
Navy
Armed Services
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Allied observers note early 1943 weaknesses in German Japanese war machines with reduced striking power and supply failure. Hitler boasted Luftwaffe would bomb Britain but raids have diminished. U boats still threaten shipping while allies ferry troops to Eisenhower, MacArthur and Stalin.
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Hitler
Luftwaffe
France
Holland
Belgium
British
England
Isles
Russia
North
Africa
Tokyo
Solomons
Burma
China
United States
United Nations
Atlantic Seaboard
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Stalin
Guadalcanal
Morocco
Soviet
Seven Japanese Ships Sinkings Reported by U S Submarines
The Navy announced new air strikes against Japanese targets in the Aleutians and Solomons and noted seven merchant-type Japanese ships sunk by American submarines. Allied aerial raids also damaged a Japanese destroyer as forces press the Guadalcanal campaign and target Kiska in the Aleutians.
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Aleutians
Solomons
Washington
Navy
Near
Het
Japanese Base At Shwebo Hit Hard By Yanks
The Japanese air base at Shwebo Burma was heavily bombed on New Year’s Day by American bombers from China. The raid followed a prior strike from India and destroyed the runway and dispersal areas while enemy antiaircraft fire remained silent. Pilot First Lieut Lucien Youngblood led one of the bomber groups and witnessed a large explosion on impact.
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Aleutian Islands
Kiska
Navy
U S
Solomons
South Pacific
Guadalcanal Island
J. Reilly O'Sullivan
China
Shwebo
Burma
India
Lucien Youngblood
Waco
Tex
Flood Waters Threaten Dyke At Portsmouth
Ohio Valley flood nears crest threatening Portsmouth Ohio where 40 400 residents wait behind a protective dyke as Army troops and coast guardsmen pile sandbags to keep the city dry. Forecaster says crest near 61 feet above flood stage with cautious optimism despite a tight squeeze.
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Portsmouth
Ohio Valley
U.S. Army
Coast
Pittsburgh
Wheeling
Broad River
John Hagan
Cincinnati
Ohio
German diplomatic shake-up maps new Tokyo Madrid envoys
Adolf Hitler recalled and replaced ambassadors to Tokyo and Madrid and the minister to Stockholm in a broad reshuffle. Eugen Ott and Eberhard von Stohrer are moved, while Henrich Georg Stahmer, Hans Adolf von Moltke, and Hans Thomsen assume Tokyo Madrid and Stockholm posts amid Germany’s war pressures and Spain’s neutrality.
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Lewis Hawkins
London
Adolf Hitler
Japan
Spain
Sweden
Berlin
Hijer
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Eugen Ott
Tokyo
Viktor Zu Wied
Stockholm
Eberhard von Stohrer
Madrid
Henrich Georg Stahmer
Nanking
Hans Adolf von Moltke
Hans Thomsen
Washington
Erich Kordt
Hitler
Russia
Siberia
Germany
Stahmer
Geremans
Far East
Ott
von Moltke
North Africa
Franco
Poland
Helsingin Sanomat Denies Pearl Harbor Film Misrepresentation
The Helsingin Sanomat accuses the American press and radio of misrepresenting a Finnish government tea party with Japanese guests who viewed Pearl Harbor attack films. The paper says applause and thanks were polite, not political demonstrations. The U.S. War Office had reported Finnish ministers attended and congratulated Japan, a claim disputed by Helsinki.
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Helsinki
Finland
Helsingin Sanomat
National Progressive Party
United States
Radio Tonight
Pearl Harbor
Office of War Information
Jukka Rangell
Progressive Party
Japan
Washington
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