Allied Bombers Hit Japanese Vessels Near New Guinea
Allied air forces reported direct hits on two ships off northwest New Guinea and attacked a third vessel under escort near Rabaul. Bombers also struck Lae harbor area and Amboina base, with other attacks on Beliao Island and Gazelle Peninsula targets.
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Marlin Spencer
Australia
New Guinea
Rabaul
New Britain
Lae
Cape Vanderbosch
Dutch New Guinea
Kaimana
Liberator
Gazelle Peninsula
Madang
Astrolabe Bay
Beliao Island
Finschafen
Huon Peninsula
Amboina
Darwin
Kai Islands
Langgoer
Douglas MacArthur
Faan
U S Bombers Hit Kiska In Double Raid
U S Army bombers from the Aleutians blasted the Kiska garrison in two raids on Thursday using Liberator heavies and Mitchells with Lighting Escorts. All aircraft returned. In the South Pacific Wildcat fighters strafed Munda on New Georgia Island with planes returning. No enemy resistance noted.
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Washington
Aleutians Command
Kiska
Navy
South Pacific
Munda
New Georgia Island
Solomons
North
Chinese Forces Take Hwajung
The Chinese Central News Agency reports Hwajung, northwest of Tungting Lake, was recaptured at noon after Japanese forces took it days earlier. Chinese entry followed heavy artillery bombardment and rapid street fighting yesterday. The town sits near the rice-growing area west of the lake, where dikes were leveled to destroy the next crop.
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Chungking
Hwajung
Tungting Lake
Brest Radio Goes Off Air As Allied Offensive May Resume
Nazi broadcasts from London report the Brest station in France went off air during a March 20 transmission, a moment possibly signaling the resumption of the Allied air offensive.
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London
Brest
France
Gark
Bill To Outlaw Strikes Ready If UMW's Walk Out
UMW leaders and Southern Coal Producers spar over wage talks as Congress weighs immediate anti strike legislation. House leaders warn a coal walkout would trigger swift federal action to outlaw strikes during wartime and compel government interference if needed.
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Bill
UMW
Washington
John L. Lewis
s+ ae
Mott
R-Ore
Congress
House
Martin
Rep
Ramspeckk
D-Ga
House Labor Committee
Cox
Keefe
R-Wis
Moroney
D-Okla
Axis Believed Preparing For Decisive Battle
Allied dispatch from North Africa reports Patton's divisions solidifying positions at Gafsa and El Guetar as rains ease and dust storms persist in the south. Analysts anticipate a decisive push via the Mareth Line, with Rommel’s supply routes at risk if ridge crossings can be negotiated.
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Daniel DE Luce
Herarters
North Africa
Tunisian
Patton
Gafsa
el Guetar
Oiny
Mars Erwin Rommel
Mareth
Eighth Army
Guetaria
FE Guetar
Algiers
Henri Giraud
Berlin
RAF Bombers Hit Belgian Rail Targets at Dusk
RAF Mosquito bombers attacked railway tracks at Louvain and other Belgian targets at dusk. A Lancaster bomber dropped explosives on a railway target at Leer in northwest Germany during a dawn recon flight. All aircraft returned safely, the Air Ministry reported.
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London
RAF
Louvain
Belgium
Air Ministry
Leer
Germany
Food Merchant Secretary Urges Potato Rationing
A. F. Guckenberger, executive secretary of the New York State Food Merchants Association, said the group urged the U S Department of Agriculture to ration potatoes to curb a black market. He noted retailers now receive about one tenth of normal supplies and pay 50 cents to one dollar extra per bag over the regulation price.
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New York
A. F. Guckenberger
New York State Food Merchants Association
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Wickard
Guckenberger
Bloodless Coup Brings French Guiana to Allied Side
A peaceful March 16 coup in Cayenne backed by soldiers and civilians places French Guiana with the Allies. Governor Rene Weber resigns and flees to Surinam as the colony proclaims joining the United States and Brazil in the war against the Axis.
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Cayenne
French Guiana
San Juan
Giraud
de Gaulle
France
Rene Weber
Paramaribo
Dutch Guiana
Weber
Surinam
United States
Guiana
North Africa
London
Martinique
United States of America
Brazil
CIO UMW Leaders Leave For Taste Of Army Life
Nearly 250 leaders of United Automobile Workers war plant unions depart Detroit for Camp Atterbury Indiana invited by the War Department. They will undergo three days of military discipline living and training with troops to learn how the army uses weapons from their plants. Undersecretary Robert P Patterson calls the visit an unparalleled chance to understand the army and its needs.
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Detroit
United Automobile Workers
CIO
War Department
Camp Atterbury
Indiana
Robert P. Patterson
Death of Frank O. Lowden 82, former Illinois governor
Tucson reports the death of Frank O. Lowden aged 82 in El Conquistador Hotel where he was a winter visitor. Lowden, a World War I era governor of Illinois, died today.
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Tucson
Ariz
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
el Conquestador Hotel
Equal Peace Rights Proposal Seeks War and Peace Role
Senator Pepper of Florida backs constitutional amendment to give both House and Senate equal power in declaring war and shaping peace. He notes current treaty ratification needs two thirds, while peace terms could be blocked by a bare Senate quorum. The proposal aligns with Ball Hatch Hill and Burton on a UN role and postwar policing.
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White House
van Horn
Washington
Pepper
D-Fla
House
Senate
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Ball
Rminn
Hatch
D-Nm
Hill
Dala
Burton
Ohio
United Nations Organization
United Nations
British Navy Bombards Burma as Ground Battle Advances
British Indian forces fend off a Japanese counterattack near Donbaik north of Akyab after a heavy naval bombardment that sparked fires in the jungle stronghold. Marshall Wavell notes ongoing fighting in Arakan and gains toward Donbaik while coastal guns are silenced. Hurricane fighters hit Japanese positions at Huzwe with bombers supporting strikes on Magwe, Pinlebu, and related targets. one bomber is reported lost.
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New Delhi
Donbaik
Akyab
Arakan
Marshal Wavell
Mayu Peninsula
Donbai
Rathedaung
Mayu River
Mayu
Huzwe
Magwe
Pinlebu
Mandalay
Mu River
Mother and son drown in flooded Kentucky River
Mrs. Gracie Dickerson, 22, and her three year old son were swept to death when they stepped from a stalled bus into the flooded Kentucky River four miles north of Bedford. Sister Lurlyne Sutton, also of Madison Tennessee, was rescued as the party traveled from Detroit to Madison.
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Bedford
Kentucky
Gracie Dickerson
Madison, Tenn
Here
Lurlyne Sutton
Dickerson
Detroit
Mich
Madison
Steel Group Recommends 48 Hour Week Across Steel
The War Production Board advisory committee led by Philip Murray urges a 48 hour work week for the steel industry to boost wartime output and offset labor losses to the armed forces. The group includes six United Steel Workers officials and aims to maximize production for the war.
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Washington
Steel Labor Advisory Committee
The
War Production Board
Philip Murray
CIO
WPA
Armed Services
Murray
United Steel Workers of America, Cio
World War Correspondence Across Fronts in Africa Europe and Asia
Counterattacks by Soviet forces threaten German lines in Donets Basin as Berlin claims Sevsk and Chuguev captured. Smolensk and Staraya Russa see continued Soviet advances while Tunisian clashes weigh weather and a potential decisive battle. US bombers strike Kiska in the Pacific as Chinese forces recapture Hwajung near Tungting Lake and British ships bombard Donkai Burma.
House Group Raps Ruml Plan and Sees 6 Years Toll on Rich
The House Ways and Means Committee backs a pay as you earn style tax plan arguing it uses true and tried methods. It claims the Ruml proposal would mainly benefit about 60 taxpayers with million dollar incomes by at least 854000 each, shifting burden and hurting war morale. The committee favors withholding at source and a six percent discount for 1943 taxes paid on 1942 liabilities, with 1942 levies skipped.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Peter
Paul
Morgenthau
Beardsley Ruml
Germans Suffer Heavy Casualties in Donets Region
Soviet reports say Russian counterattacks restored positions near Kharkov while inflicting heavy losses on German reserves and tanks. Sevs k and Chuguev were claimed by the German radio but not confirmed by the Soviet front. Red Army gains included a widening bridgehead on the Upper Dnieper and claims of surrounding 800 Germans with 15 tanks in the Donets region.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Kharkov
Sevsk
Chuguev
Chugenev
Donets
Red Army
Dnieper
Smolensk
Vyazma-Smolensk
Timoshenko
Lake Ilmen
Staraya Russa
Kursk
Belgorod
Germans Sink City Of Flint In Atlantic
The City of Flint, an American merchant ship seized by Germany in 1939, was torpedoed and sunk in the mid Atlantic in late January. Seventeen of its 65 crew were lost, and survivor William Mills recalled the sudden attack and evacuation after fire broke out.
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Washington
Flint
Atlantic
Navy
United States
mid-Atlantic
City of
William Mills
Milano
Mass
Philadelphia
Europe
City of Flint
Greman
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