Mosquito Bombers Hit Ludwigshafen and Western Reich
Britain’s wooden mosquito bombers raided Germany for the seventh night running striking targets in the western Reich with no losses reported. A strong American daylight attack was said by Swedish reports to have delivered a death blow to Ludwigshafen, the chemical city.
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W. W. Hercher
London
Britain
Germany
Western Reich
Ludwigshafen
Stockholm
Mannheim
Allied and Axis Clash Sparks in Yugoslavia War Talk
Stockholm reports Allied troops invading Yugoslavia prompting quick denial from Algiers and a push by Britain and the United States to aid Marshal Tito. The Balkans, Turkey’s stance, and a Russian drive toward Romania shape the crisis as U S and British air forces strike Ludwigshafen, Mannheim, and the Franco area with large bomber formations.
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Stockholm
Yugoslavia
Algiers
Marshal Tito
Hitler
Balkans
Rumania
Marshall Tito
Pew
Aeria
Balka
Turkey
Bulgaria
America
Russia
Britain
Ankara
Red Army
Romania
Bessarabia
Rumanian
Balkan Peninsula
FDR Refines Annual Message to Congress
President Roosevelt to deliver the annual message to Congress with no public engagements besides a lunch with Basil O’Connor of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. White House secretary Stephen Early noted a likely in person delivery at the Capitol on Tuesday with final timing to be decided after talks with congressional leaders.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Basil O'Connor
National Foundation For
O'Connor
Law
Stephen Early
White House
Ross T. McIntire
Mr. Roosevelt
Capitol
Early
Army lane crash near Kellogg air base reported
Sergt. C. B. Miller of the Michigan state police said a large army lane crashed and exploded on a farm two and a half miles south of the Kellogg air base at 9 30 this morning. Kellogg Field authorities had no immediate comment.
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Battle Creek
Mich
C. B. Miller
Michigan State Police
Kellogg Air Base
Kellogg Field
Mrs. Hoover Dies Suddenly in New York
Mrs. Herbert Hoover, former first lady from 1929 to 1933, died in New York after a heart attack. She had returned from a concert with her husband and appeared well before suffering a stroke minutes later. Her sons Allan Hoover and Herbert Hoover Jr were notified.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
America
Ralph H. Boots
Allan Hoover
California
White House
Hoovers
Palo Alto
Calif
Ray Lyman Wilbur
Stanford University
Hoover
Youthful Nazis Create Terror Reign In Germany
A neutral engineer returning from Germany says the Hitler Youth, empowered by a manpower shortage, have begun a terror reign. They denounce adults for anti Nazi or pro allied views, prisons fill, executions rise, and even parents fear their own children.
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Madrid
Germany
Hitler
Reich
Hilter Jugent
Leaves From War Correspondent's Naples Street of Death
Naple s Street of Death describes a parade of ornate black funeral wagons along a main avenue leaving Naples toward the cemetery. The piece notes pomp in Neapolitan funerals, scarce transportation, and a city crowded with petty crime as Allied troops advance and life remains unsettled.
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Naples
Paris
Romania Manages Evacuation Ahead of Red Army Advance
From Bern dispatches, Romania begins rapid dismantling of Bucovina and Bessarabia factories near the frontier. Peasants load goods in carts and cattle columns flee inland while civilians lose rail access to aid troop withdrawal and defense efforts. Rumanians fear Soviet advance and possible reprisals for past annexations, with Bulgarians hoping for Stalin leniency.
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Thomas F. Hawkins
Bern
Switzerland
Rumania
Bucovina
Bessarabia
Budapest
Basler Nachrichten Toony
Basler Nachrichten
Russia
Marshal Stalin
Britain
Thrace
Macedonia
Balkan Peninsula
Two German Submarines Sunk by Royal Navy Depth Charges
The Admiralty announced that two German U boats were destroyed within hours while on patrol northwest of the Azores. Depth charge attacks caused their final minutes to include breaking up noises and deep underwater explosions audible to British crews.
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London
Azores
Admiralty
Brazilian and U S Fleets Sink German Raider
Brazilian and United States naval forces reported sinking a German surface raider in the South Atlantic. The announcement came from Recife via the Agencia Nacional news service.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Agencia Nacional
Recife
United States
South Atlantic
Heavy Winter Storm Hits West and Southwest
A massive blizzard battered Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle with heavy snow and subzero temperatures. Five towns report up to 12 inches of snowfall, drifts up to six feet, and at least one death. Dozens of motorists were rescued as transmission lines failed and livestock losses mounted across the region.
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Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle
Southwest
Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Amarillo
Perryton
Tex
Jerico
Panhandle
Dalhart
Kansas
Garden City
New Mexico
Colorado
Vesuvius Erupts with Two Lava Flows Near Naples
CBS heard a BBC report that Vesuvius, near Naples, was erupting with two lava streams descending the northern slopes as of January 8, as reported by Frank Gillard.
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New York
British Radio
Frank Gillard
Naples
CBS
Soviets Rout Five German Divisions In Major Offensive Push
Moscow January 8 news reports that the first and second Ukrainian armies broke through large German gaps in swift advances. Red forces trapped at Kirovograd closed to within three miles of the city in one Dnieper Bend sector as the winter offensive continued.
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Henry
Cassidy
Moscow
Kirovograd
Dnieper
Red Army
Kirovograd Captured By Soviet Forces
Stalin announced the capture of Kirovograd in Ukraine by the Second Ukrainian Front after breaking through enemy defenses. The city, a major industrial and rail center on the Dnieper bend, was seized on January 8.
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London
Dan
Kirovograd
Dnieper Bend
Joseph Stalin
Moscow
Second Ukrainian Front
Env
Ukraine
Stalin
Advances by Soviet Forces Reach Rovno and Near Krivoi Rog
Soviet units pushing from the northern thrust toward Rovno Province press 12 miles from the target while others near Knovka within 18 miles. Va tutin and Konev groups south of Kiev close in, with Kirovograd under fierce shelling as Nazi forces hold the Dnieper Bend.
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Klesow
Rovno
Old Poland
Kirovograd
Dnieper
Knovka
Krivoi
Kiev
Konev
High Command
British Broadcasting Company
CBS
Skipper Boyington Missing After Bold Pacific Mission
Advance dispatch from South Pacific base reports Major Gregory Boyington leader of the Marine Black Sheep Squadron failed to return from a mission. He had just earned his 26th kill, tying the American record, as two accompanying pilots witnessed his plane go down in St George's Channel near Rabaul.
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South Pacific
Gregory Boyington
Marine
Okanogan
Wash
Ace
St. George's Channel
Rabaul
New Britain
Aeington
G. M. Ashman
Greg
Two Barges Sunk as Allied Planes Hit Japs in New Guinea
Allied fighter planes from the Solomons sunk two barges loaded with Japanese troops at Blanche Bay near Rabaul. MacArthur reports 100 enemy dead or wounded. In Kavieng, New Ireland, a destroyer was bombed. at Cape Gloucester fighting diminished. on Huon peninsula Australians advance toward Saidor and Kelaroa with pockets of Japanese troops remaining 65 miles inland.
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Rabaul
Blanche Bay
Solomons
Douglas MacArthur
New Britain St
Kavieng
New Ireland
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Borgan Bay
Huon Peninsula
Saidor
Kelaroa
Sel
Health conditions described as remarkably good on Bougainville
Navy spokesman says Americans on Bougainville report remarkably good health with almost no mosquitoes and no malaria cases, contrasting earlier Guadalcanal casualty concerns.
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Guadalcanal
Jan
Bougainville Island
Navy
Bougaiville
De Seversky Predicts Jet Rocket Planes in Invasion War
Major Alexander P. De Seversky forecasts jet propelled aircraft as a major Axis weapon and possibly used in a western invasion of Europe. He envisions rockets enabling faster takeoffs, higher speeds, and long range, with B 29s and carrier use as potential platforms.
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de Seversky
Europe
Steven Williams
New York
Alexander P. de Seversky
U. S. Army Air Forces
RAF
United States
Japan
Russia
Baltic Sea
Yanks Storm Nazi Lines At Cassino
Allied reports say American troops massed around San Vittore and stormed the outer defenses of Cassino, advancing along the Via Casilina. San Vittore fell after a brutal 40 hour house to house battle, with Giusto and Mt Porchia key positions in the push toward Cassino. Western units pressed from Mt Maio as the Cassino front entered its fourth day amid heavy mountain fighting and ongoing air strikes.
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Wes Gallagher
Algiers
San Vittore
Cassino
Rome
Via Casilina
Associated Press
Don Whitehead
communi+que
Fifth
Giusto
Rome Road
Mt. Porchia
Fifth Army
Tured
Mt. Maio
Viticuso
Mt. Raime
Italy
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Germany
Postman Rings For March War Talk Stirring Nation
Washington dispatch reports Peyton C March 79 year old former chief of staff has drawn letters calls and telegrams after warning the nation of a shock in the war ahead He argues truth builds resolve and cites his 1918 leadership and cross channel experience as essential in facing Japan and Germany through upcoming battles.
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Washington
Peyton C
World One
Exchief
March
Europe
Lis
van Dyke
Germany
U.S. Army
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