Allied Air and Ground Actions Hit Axis in Italy and the Balkans
Allied forces in Italy seized key positions near Venafro and Sammucro Ridge while Indian and U.S. troops advanced on nearby fronts. In the Balkans, Fifth Army gains, and U S 15th Air Force aircraft struck Bulgarian yards and Doboj, Sarajevo rail complexes, as bomber escorts repelled enemy glider and train targets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard G. Maslock
Algiers
Italy
Bulgaria
Vlavia
Fifth Army
Venafro
Sammucro
San Vittore
Rome
Eighth Army
Saka
Travnik
Sarajevo
Dupnitsa
Germans Evacuate Ex Headquarters in Ukraine Drive
German troops evacuated the eastern Berdichev area near Zhytomyr as red forces advanced through central Ukraine. Moscow reported strong Soviet pressure along rail and road lines from Belaya Tserkov to Novo Ukrainka, with German forces retreating to avoid encirclement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ukraine
Moscow
Nikolai Vatutin
Belaya Tserkov
Fritz von Mannstein
Tsvetokovo
Odessa-Lwow
Smela
Novo Ukrainka
Odessa
Zvenigordka
von Mannstein
Berdichev
Red Army
Kiev
Dnieper
Berlin
Zhitomir
Vitebsk
Cherkasy
FSA Chief Seeks Loans to Family Farm Operators
Frank Hancock newly named head of the Farm Security Administration tells 11 000 county committeemen loans should go to family type operators unable to obtain credit elsewhere. He urges loans be kept to good business standards and repaid, targeting worthy low income families capable of producing.
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Raleigh
Jan
Frank Hancock
Oxford
Farm Security Administration
United States
Hancock
America
Pagene Fsa
Ancock
Chinese Forces Capture Outlying Port Near Tungting Lake
Chinese troops have taken surrounding Onchihkow, the Japanese port on the Yangtze north of Tungting Lake, and push toward suburbs of the city as reported by the high command.
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Chungking
Onchihkow
Yangtze River
Tungting Lake
High Command
Leese Replaces Montgomery as Eighth Army Commander
Gen Sir Oliver Leese is named new commander of the British Eighth Army in Italy, succeeding Gen Sir Bernard Montgomery. Leese led corps during the El Alamein to Tunis advance. Montgomery goes to London to head British ground forces under Gen Eisenhower for upcoming European invasions. Dispatch says Leese already in the field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allied
Algiers
Oliver Leese
Eighth Army
Italy
Bernard L. Montgomery
Leese
el Alamein
Egypt
Tunis
North Africa
Montgomery
London
Mander
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
New American Bombing Raid On Bulgaria
London reports a new American bombing raid into Bulgaria south of Sofia. Flying Fortresses hit the Dupnitsa railway yards and a bridge, while Sofia was bombed earlier but without bombs dropped this time. Berlin claimed many casualties. Allied and Turkish legations moved, and rumors swirled about a government upheaval and German control of Sofia.
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London
Bulgaria
Dupnitsa
Sofia
Alers
Berlin
Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau
Ile
Dobri Bojoliv
Associated Press
Istanbul
Bojilov
Denmens
Twining Takes Command Of 15th Air Force
Maj. Gen. Nathan F. Twining arrives to lead the 15th U. S. Air Force based in the Mediterranean theater. He vows increased pressure on Germany with strategic targets within range, combining attacks from the south and Britain. Twining, Wisconsin born and West Point 1918 graduate, has long served with fighters. his wife and two sons are noted in the report.
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15Th Air Force
Nathan F. Twining
Solomons
15Th U. S. Air Force
Germany
Twining
Pacific
Wisconsin
West Point
Army of Occupation
Germany And Japan Can Stand Much Punishment Before Fall
OWI warns Germany and Japan can absorb heavy losses due to slave labor reliance and secret police. While allied advances total 550000 square miles liberated, the report cautions that further gains near enemy heart will face stiffer defenses and prolonged war, with axis power still strong in manpower industry and fuel reserves.
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Washington
Germany
Japan
Office of War Information
OWI
France
Belgium
Pte
Nippon
Hitler
Pacific
Pravda Attacks Willkie Over Russia Poland Baltic States Article
Pravda accuses Wendell Willkie of muddying the waters to gain support from distrustful groups as it denounces his New York Times piece on Russia and the Baltic states. The paper says the Baltic issue is Soviet business and warns Willkie not to interfere.
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Coast Guard
Gustave Delannoy, Jr
Wovensocket
R. L
U. S
New York Bay
Delanney
Staten Island
Moscow
Pravda
Communist Party Now
Wendell Willkie
New York Times
Russia
Poland
Baltic States
Pats
Zaslavsky
Oi- Sentai
Soviet Union
Baltic
Willkie
Finland
Balkans
Republican Party
Stalin
Spaniards Fight With Germans Despite Recall on Volkhov Front
A Moscow broadcast cited by US monitors says Spanish soldiers still battle with Germans on the Volkhov front in northern Russia. It quotes prisoner Jesus Peres Sanchez claiming the blue division and the 250th division were re formed into a Spanish legion that arrived on the Soviet-German front in 1943, despite Francoist claims of a home recall.
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New . York
Volkhov
Russia
Francisco Franco
Tony
Moscow
United States
Jesus Peres Sanchez
Sanchez
Volkhov Front
Spain
Board Called To Settle Rail Claims
President Roosevelt orders reconvening of an emergency board to decide unsettled wage claims of 1.1 million non operating railroad employees. The board will consider additional pay or alternatives to overtime, after carriers restricted arbitration to overtime only.
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Washington
Jan
Roosevelt
Drop In Liquor Revenue Hits Virginia Budgets
In Richmond Virginia a nearly 48 percent drop in liquor sales over the first six months of the fiscal year threatens local budgets. If the trend continues the year’s total sales may fall to about 26 million dollars versus 42.8 million in the previous 1942-43 fiscal year.
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Virginia
Richmond
Berlin Hit By RAF Mosquito Bombs Across Northern France And Kiel
RAF Mosquito bombers struck Berlin and Kiel with night raids as part of a daylong allied assault on targets in Northern France and Northwestern Germany. The operations involved ~1500 planes with American and British fighters supporting, reporting heavy fires at Kiel and ongoing strikes on Muenster and shipyards.
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Austin Bealmear
London
Ggam
France
U. S
Muenster
Germany
Air Ministry
Berlin
Spleen
Nan
Kiel
RAF
Nantages Peeves
Iman
Airborne unit to strike in Sandhills during blackout test
CAMP MACKALL Jan 5 More than half an airborne division comprising airborne infantry artillery engineers signals and medical units will hop in tonight in the first wave of a five day exercise in the Sandhills area. Some 4 000 troops will be dropped by parachutes and gliders to seize key airfields while an infantry division advances to relieve them. UN observers witness second test within a month under Gen Leo Donovan and Gen Frederick W Evans.
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Camp Mackall
Sandhills
United Nations
Leo Donovan
Airborne Command
Frederick W. Evans
Roosevelt Recovers from Grippe Begins Annual Message
President Roosevelt, recovering from the grippe, starts work on his annual message to Congress. He has no appointments and remains in his bedroom while preparing the speech.
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Roosevelt
Grippe
Washington
Congress
Obligations By Roosevelt Not Binding On Successors
Analysis argues that commitments from Washington Cairo and Teheran are not binding on future leaders. The piece notes successors may freely walk away from allied accords and that only the original wartime leaders had clear authority. It contrasts personal influence with formal power among Roosevelt Churchill Stalin and Chiang Kai-shek.
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Roosevelt
White House
Frank L. Weller
Washington
Churchill
Stalin
Chiang Kai-shek
Quebec
Cairo
Teheran
High Command
Molotov
Voroshilov
United States
Great Britain
Hitler
Russia
U. S. Army
Tito Claims Nazi Drive is Smashed
Tito announced that Yugoslav partisans broke the German offensive in Eastern Bosnia and retook enemy territory including Vlasenica near Sarajevo. He said fighting continued around Banjaluka and along a strategic railway while German and Croat forces reinforced the western sector.
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London
Marmshal
Josip Broz
Tito
Bosnia
Vlasenica
Sarajevo
Free Yugoslav Radio
Banjatuka
Adriatic Sea
Italy
Reconversion to be hard Batt declares
Chicago speech by War Production Board vice chairman William L. Batt warns reconversion after World War II will be harder than the 1942 shift to a wartime economy. He cautions about pressures to resume civilian production, postwar job hopes, and the need for a broader view on international trade to avoid future conflicts.
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Chicago
William L. Batt
War Production Board
WPB
Chicago Association of Commerce
Batt
U. S
Germany
Half of Berlin Destroyed by Allied Bombings
The Basler National Zeitung reports that Allied bombing has destroyed about 50 percent of Greater Berlin with another 25 percent badly damaged. Much of the remainder lost windows and roofs, and several square kilometers were wiped out. air raid shelters kept deaths at 20 000 to 30 000.
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Bern
Switzerland
Basler National Zeitung
Greater
Berlin
Cannon Mills seeks wage increase approval from War Labor Board
Kannapolis based Cannon Mills asked the War Labor Board for authority to raise hourly pay by 7 cents for 20 000 workers and to grant similar increases for piece work.
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Raleigh
Cannon Mills
Kannapolis
War Labor Board
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English Channel
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U. S. Army Air Forces
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Jerry
Harry L. Smith
Bethesda
Claude A. Skinner
Pinehill
Ala
Smith
Vatutin
James M. Long
Zhito
Mir
FSA
Sir Oliver Leese
Reich
Gen. Twining
Hatch
Ball
United Nations Council
Ple
World Organization
European Advisory Commission
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