Germans Attack Cassino Hotel As Allies Hold Line
In the Cassino area on March 21 Allied forces report stiff German resistance as they defend the Continental hotel from a first parachute division counterattack. NZ troops plant two enemy tanks in the ruined lobby to block the south approach while reinforcements pour into the town.
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Mt. Cassino
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Toland
Cassino
Castle Hill
Tery Hill
Rategy
U S Submarines Sink 15 Japanese Vessels in Pacific
Secretary of the Navy Knox announced 15 Japanese ships destroyed by U S Navy submarines in Pacific actions off Sumatra and near Sabang. Admiralty in London added seven Japanese vessels sunk by British submarines, including two tankers and several freighters. The communique lists large and medium transports and freighters among the losses.
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London
Knox
U. S
Admiralty
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Sabang
Sumatra
Phce
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Heana
Oe Aalines
Navy
United States
Navy Department
Alaska task force bungling claim sparks hearings
Miller (R Mo) says two sailors will back a story that a U S task force was trapped by Japanese in Alaskan waters due to bungling of communications. He accuses a federal agency official of silencing Admiral Hooper and alleges a force misinformation chain during hearings on a disputed report.
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Miller
R-Mo
Alaskan
Commis
Charles R. Denthief
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Federal Communion Commission
Hooper
Re. Order
U S Ships and Bombers Hit Mili and Ponape in Pacific Raids
American forces renewed Central Pact offensives in the Central Pacific shelling Mili in the Marshalls and bombing Ponape in the Carolines. Navy and army planes also hit five other atolls with no loss reported, as Admiral Nimitz announced.
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Bat
Japan
Marshall Islands
Mili
Army
Navy
Ponape
Carolines
Marshalls
Chester W. Nimitz
Majuro
U. S
Nimitz
Central Pacific
Marianas Islands
Guam
Truk
Carolina Chain
Seventh Airforce
Finland Rejects Russia Peace Terms Rocks Axis Talks
London reports diplomats considered the Finnish rejection of Russia’s peace terms may push the United States to sever relations with Finland and give Hitler leverage in the axis Allies diplomatic tug of war.
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London
United States
Finland
Russia
Hitler
Japs Press India Drive as Allies Take Sumprabum
Allied troops captured Sumprabum in Northeast Burma and reoccupied Pinsan amid a Japanese push toward India from the Chindwin crossing. The Southeast Asia command said fighting continued in the Chin hills and a tank action occurred in the Kabaw valley as the general movement of the enemy persisted.
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Are Bum
Burma
India
Chindwin River
Southeast Asia
Joseph W. Stillwell
Sumprabum
Pinsan
China
Yunnan
Southeastern Asia Command
Chindwin
Chin Hill
Chin Hills
Chindwin River i
Annou
Kabaw Valley
Homalin
Toll rises to 14 in Passaic River bus plunge
In Passaic New Jersey on March 21 the known dead toll reached 14 after an interurban bus plunged from an ice covered bridge into the Passaic River. Six passengers and one rescue worker were pulled from the water in good condition. search crews continued for possible additional victims.
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N. J
Passaic River
Destruction By Mt Vesuvius Surpasses Man Made Weapons
Edward Kennedy reports from Naples on March 21 about a lava flood from Mount Vesuvius moving at 40 miles per hour. The molten river destroys San Sebastiano Massa De Somma Cerecola and a bridge, with a 30 foot high, 200 yard wide flow and growing fear among Italians tired by war. The blast surpasses any man made device in terror and pace.
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Edward Kennedy
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Naples
San Se
Bastiano and
Massa de Somma
Cerecola
San Sebastiano
Ford predicts war end in two months
Henry Ford predicts in a copyrighted interview with the Atlanta Constitution that the war will end in eight weeks. He offers no reasoning for his timetable while noting German weakness and Allied air superiority eroding Hitler’s war machine.
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Henry Ford
Atlanta Constitution
Ford
Hitler
Fuehrer
Colla
Cassino
Hungary
Russia
Luftwaffe
England
British Seaman Recalls Nazi Aircraft Shadowing Convoy
Ken Backhouse, a British sailor on leave in Atlanta, recalls a North Atlantic convoy incident. A long range German fighter shadowed the convoy for days, circling out of gun range. After four days the crew asked politely for a diversion and the Nazi answered with one word Okay and turned away.
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Atlanta
Ken Backhouse
North Atlantic
Prison Heads Probe How Escapees Obtained Hack Saw
The state penal division opened an investigation into how three long term prisoners got a home-made hack saw used to saw their way to freedom early Saturday afternoon. A three-state search continued for Ralph Scott Robert M Bridges and Wallace Riggsbee described as potentially dangerous by Warden Me n and Penal Director Pitts. They are believed to have fled toward Virginia after abandoning a stolen car near Creedmore.
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Raleigh
Ralph Scott
Robert M. Bridges
Wallace Riggsbee
Ralph Men
McLean
Oscar Pitts
Virginia
Creedmore
Reds Reach 50 Miles From Rumanian Border in Bessarabia
Soviet forces pushed to within about 50 miles of the Rumanian frontier after driving from Soroki through Bessarabia. Red Star reports Russian troops crossed the Dniester with tanks and heavy artillery, pushing across pontoon crossings and seizing key river positions. Far north, Zhukov's First Ukrainian Army approached Lwow within 57 miles, with Brody potential action looming.
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Dniester
Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Red Army
Soroki
Bessarabia
Prut
Red Star
Anelev Podolski
Gregory Zhukov
Lwow
Poland
Brody
Liberators raid Pas sais rocket coast and France targets
Britain based American liberators heavily bombarded the Pas sais rocket coast area across the channel. RAF heavy bombers attacked the Angouleme explosive works in Southern France and Mosquito planes hit Western Germany. An Gouleme is 60 miles northeast of Bordeaux. Six ton factory busters struck a Bergerac plant. Other targets included a Michelin rubber factory at Clermont Ferrand and a bearing factory in Southern France.
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London
Passais
Channel
Angouleme
France
Germany
Bordeaux
Bergerac
Michelin
Clermont-Ferrand
Hengelo
Holland
Five-Ship Jap Convoy Wiped Out
Allied headquarters report that American airmen swept to the attack near Wewak New Guinea and wiped out all five Japanese ships in the convoy. The action cost three Allied planes but killed an estimated 1,500 enemy, with two transports and three corvettes sunk. The convoy had earlier been attacked near Hollandia, with additional ships damaged.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
Wewak
New Guinea
Hollandia
Fifth Army Airforce
Olen Clements
Associated Press War
Bor Wewak
Britain Receives 38 Escort Carriers Under Lend Lease
Washington dispatch reports that 38 escort aircraft carriers built in the United States were delivered to Great Britain under the lend-lease program. Secretary Knox said the carriers will join the anti submarine fleet of allied nations and play a key role against German submarines in the Atlantic.
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Washington
Knox
United States
Great Britain
Atlantic
Knox urges action against oil firms blocking Arabian pipeline
Secretary of the Navy Knox argued that selfish oil companies should not hinder the trans Arabia pipeline to move Saudi oil for the United Nations. He said the project, a military and strategic move, aims to secure a billion barrel oil reserve to fuel naval craft and aircraft, and reduce tanker use by supplying Europe and the Far East.
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Sec
Knox
Washington
United Nations
Mediterranean
Red Sea
United States
Hitler Moves To Strengthen Balkan Line
London reports heavy German forces exceeding 100000 moving toward Hungary to bolster the Balkan front as Russian troops already advance in the region. Unconfirmed hints of Hungarian resistance and possible regent Horthy detentions surface amid civilian rule concerns.
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Hitler
Balkan
William Smith White
London
Hungary
Marabia
Danube Basin
Stockholm
Hungarhlon Redio
Nicholas Horthy
Russia
Balkans
Arad
Ln Imredi
Finland Rejects Kremlin Armistice Terms in Peace Bid
Stockholm March 21 Finland’s government affirmed its desire for peace with Soviet Russia but rejected the Kremlin armistice conditions. The communique says Russian terms demand troop withdrawal and German forces in Finland, not aligning with Finland’s national security.
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Stockholm
Russia
Kremlin
Helsinki
Moscow
Finland
Oere
Finand
Bulletin
Roosevelt Remains Inside White House With Head Cold
President Roosevelt was treated for a head cold and stayed in the White House residential quarters for a second day. He canceled all appointments and had no engagements, with the White House confirming the illness this morning.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
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