Airmen strike Bizerte in heavy raids across North Africa
Allied air forces bombed Bizerte with four Fortress raids and P 38 fighters. The strike, among the war's heaviest on the port, killed several enemy ships and disrupted docks while other American bombers hit targets along rail lines and airfields in the region. Allied command reorganizations included Major General Carl Spaatz to lead the front air force, with RAF and French units under new supervision.
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North Africa
United Les Air Force
Bizerte
Aht D. Eisenhower
Mander
Carl Spaatz
RAF
Pantz
U. S. Air Force
James H. Doolittle
William L. Welsh
Rnd
Tripoli
Kairan
Gabes
London
el Gatrun
Murzuch
Ibyan
Jac
Red Army presses advance in Caucasus amid harsh weather
In cold rain and melting snow, four Russian armies push a giant enveloping move on the Eastern Front. Red Star reports thousands of land mines neutralized, with gains toward Restov and Strakhov as Rokossovsky and Vatutin’s groups advance. German defenses crumble in hand to hand fighting around Zimovniki and the Stalingrad area as Soviet artillery and shock troops push back counterattacks.
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Moscow
Caucasus
Red Army
Red Star
North Osetia
abardino-Balkaria
Stavropol
Stalingrad
Restov
Constantin Rokossovsky
Strakhov
Don River
Yeremenko
Zimovniki
Kotelnikovski
Salsk
Tikhoretsk
Rokossovsky
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Stalingrad-Likhaya
Don
Army Journal
Puppet Nanking Government Declares War
Premier Hideki Tojo announced that Wang Ching Wei’s Nanking National Government declared war on the United States and Britain. He called the move a great step forward in Greater East Asia war aims. The Chungking government dismissed the act as a puppet show by Japan.
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Tokyo
Genwai Hideki Tojo
Wang Ching-Wei
China
Nanking
United States
Greater East Asia
CBS
New York
Shanghai
Tojo
Japan
Chungking
Ching Kai-Shek
London
Bombers Hit Japanese Bases in Solomon Islands Raid
American bombers attacked a Japanese base in Rekata Bay Solomons starting fires in shore installations. The Navy issued a communiqué detailing new air strikes against enemy bases at Bougainville and Kiska.
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Washington, Dan
Rekata Bay
Solomons
Navy
Bougainville
Kiska
China’s wartime economy drains lifeline from abroad
The piece from Chungking details China's crippled economy under war. Prices soar, inflation devalues the dollar to about five cents, and the government maintains an exchange rate near one seventh. Industry stalls due to material shortages and damaged infrastructure, with foreign supplies the essential lifeline.
Aerial Activity Rises Over Libyan Battle Area
RAF planes attacked Rommel’s withdrawing transports along the coastal road to Tripoli between Homs and Ziliten. Three Axis planes were shot down and another destroyed by anti air fire. Heavy RAF bombers raided Tunis strongholds as ground fighting stalled in mud.
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Rommel
Cairo
RAF
Field
Erwin Rommel
Tripoli
Homs
Ziliten
Homsis
Libya
Tunis
Sfax
Tripolitania
Messerschmitt
Comiso Socey
Tunisian
Cut In Fuel Oil Closes School And Brings 5 Day Week
New York public schools will close for a week starting February 1 to conserve fuel oil while Rhode Island contemplates a five day work week for non war businesses. Officials note widespread compliance with the Atlantic Seaboard pleasure driving ban as gas and fuel oil shortages press state actions. Public crowds at sports events show mixed impact, with some large turnouts and others canceled. The New York City school board expects to save about 195000 gallons of oil by giving pupils a Foster vacation instead of the usual break.
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New York City
Rhode Island
Atlantic Seaboard
District of Columbia
Office of Price Administration
Massachusetts
CPA
Bob Montgomery
Chester Rice
Madison Square Garden
Cornell
Yale
New Haven
Conn
Buffalo
N. Y
OPA Checkers
Board of Education
Post War Fund Gains Favor Of Committee
In Raleigh on January 9 1943 the North Carolina Senate appropriations committee endorsed a post war reserve fund bill. The amendment sets a $22 million reserve from the state surplus rather than $20 million. Senator Taylor introduced the measure and Senator Weathers reported the approval. The Senate adjourned after five minutes with five members present. The House met briefly with twenty two members and adjourned after order. OPA official T S Johnson said extra gasoline allocations may be used for trips related to legislative business but not for personal or private matters. The assembly plans to reconvene Monday night at 8 with House committee appointments to be announced.
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Raleigh
General Assembly
Senate Appropriations Committee
Taylor
Anson
Senator Weathers
Cleveland
Senate
Ballentine
Wake
House
T. S. Johnson
OPA
Johnson
Assembly
John H. Kerr
House Committee
Navy reports sunk merchant ship by enemy submarine
The Navy announced that a medium sized United States merchant vessel was sunk by an enemy submarine late in November in the Indian Ocean. Survivors were landed at Norfolk Virginia.
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Washington
Jan
Navy
United States
Norfolk
Battered Jap Convoy Given Huge Pounding
Allied forces pounded a damaged Japanese convoy at Lae New Guinea with heavy air support. The action targeted transports and escort planes, with reports of more enemy losses, while MacArthur praised American and Australian troops and awarded several distinguished service crosses for courage and performance in the Papuan campaign.
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Australia
Pacific
Lae
New Guinea
Southwest Pacific Air Force Command
New Britain
Buna
Sanananda
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Fighting French Capture Axis Army Outpost in Libya
London dispatch reports Jacques Leclerc’s Fighting French stormed and captured the Axis outpost of El Gatrun southeast of Murzuch in the Libyan desert. The post surrendered with 177 officers and men. the Bretagne squadron destroyed enemy hangars and workshops at Sebha, and a nearby munition dump was destroyed.
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London
Jacques Leclerc
el Gatrun
Murzuch
Libyan Desert
Tripoli
Umm el Aroueb
Leclerc
Tured
Lake Chad
Sarazac
Sebha
11 Bodies Taken from Mine Fire
Morgantown West Virginia officials report rescue crews recovered 11 bodies from the Pursgrove Mining Company No 15 mine after an underground fire trapped 13 miners. One worker Frank Robinette remained missing as search continued for the last victim. Guy Quinn’s body was found hours after the blaze trapped 13 of 78 workers on the night shift.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Pursgrove Mining Company
Frank Robinette
Guy Quinn
House may reopen draft rules to favor single men
The House Military Affairs Committee may reopen the whole Selective Service issue to place draft supervision in the War Department and curb drafting of married men while eligible single men are available. Chairman May said no proposals exist yet but changes could be pursued, with May favoring War Department control over who is drafted. Eastman urged cab use be limited in the eastern oil shortage area to keep gasoline use down.
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Washington
Selective Service
House Military Affairs Committee
War Department
May
D-Ky
Selective Service Headquarters
War Manpower Commission
Paul V. McNutt
Kentuckian
Department
House
Senate
Kilday
D-Tex
Patten Named Acting AA Official in North Carolina
In Raleigh on January 9 the State AAA executive committee named H A Patten acting assistant to the State AAA office and acting secretary to the committee. He succeeds F E Y Floyd who resigned to head the plant institute. Patten has served with the AAA office since 1936, previously Craven County farm agent and led the AAA field force for five years. A Wyoming native and Cornell graduate.
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Raleigh
AAA
H. A. Patten
FE. Y. Floyd
Plant
Patten
Craven County
Wyoming
Cornell University
Demands For Farm Parity Rise in Congress
Washington Jan 9 demands for higher farm parity grow as farm bloc members join four national farm groups in seeking legislation to raise prices and manpower. Senator Thomas warned that if Roosevelt administration leaders reject such a program a fight in Congress could end war unity. The four groups O’Neal Goss Teague and Brandt urged labor costs be included with no ceiling, farm machinery priorities, and resale of farm labor draft.
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Washington
Congress
Thomas
D-Okla
Roosevelt
Administration
Congressional
Edward A. O'Neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
Alberts. Goss
National Grange
Charles C. Teague
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
John Brandt
National Cooperative Milk Producers Federation
Leaders Push Pay as You Earn Tax Plan at Source
Washington reports three Senate Finance Committee leaders endorse a widened tax at source to finance wartime needs. They back Beardsley Rum's plan to tax current income and collect in periodic installments, arguing timely collection prevents delinquencies after the war boom ends.
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Washington
Jan
Roosevelt
Senate Finance Committee
George
D-Ga
Lafellette
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Beardsley Rums
New York
Lafollette
Flynn's Move Stirs Circles of Speculation
Washington dispatch reports Edward J. Flynn leaving the National Democratic leadership to seek an ambassadorship in Australia. The move prompts questions about who will replace Flynn and whether Nelson T. Johnson or Clarence E. Ga rty will be reassigned, with Postmaster General Frank Walker cited as a potential successor.
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Washington
Edward J. Flynn
National Democratic
Australia
Nelson T. John
China
Flynn
Roosevelt
House
Ton Johnson
Uncanf
Clarence E. Gs
Frank Walker
Usua
Partes
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