Government defers key workers in WPB production list
An official list from the production board names key men aged 22 to 25 for deferment in WW2. It targets those in the most urgent roles tied to vital war items such as amphibious craft, aircraft components, radar and ammunition, and major ships or aircraft development. Deferments are limited to irreplaceable workers in extreme or highly specialized jobs.
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WPB
Army
Navy
Commission
Allied air forces report large enemy losses in 1943
Secretary Stimson disclosed figures showing Allied air forces destroyed 2,809 enemy planes in the air and 76 on the ground in 1943. Total enemy losses reached 9,463 with 2,743 probably destroyed or damaged in air combat and 575 damaged overall.
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GTON
Stimson
Ters
Miners Idle as Yorkshire Coal Strike Expands
Report notes 70 000 miners idle across Yorkshire with 50 pits affected. Britain’s coal strike widens as apprentices at shipyards strike and Labour leader Ernest Bevin labels a few irresponsible ring leaders. Some exemptions drafted under a new provision.
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Yorkshire
Britain
Ernest Bevin
Izvestia Rejects Italy Recognition in Exchange
Izvestia states that exchanging envoys with Italy under Badoglio does not equal Soviet recognition. The editorial urges quick settlement of the Italian question to hasten victory, criticizing British and American papers for implying support of undemocratic Italy and noting discussions among the three allies at Moscow and in council tables.
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Moscow
Izvestia
Pietro Badoglio
Britain
United States
Italy
Germany
Badoglio
Rome
Churchill
Commons
Vittorio Emanuele
Tevestia
House of Commons
Zarief quadruplets born premature in New York report active first days
The Zarief quadruplets two girls and two boys born a month early at Sloan Hospital are described as nice active babies. They had their first formula feeding at 9 a.m. and rest comfortably in air conditioned oxygenated cribs as staff recounts.
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New York
Zarief
Sloane Hospital For Women
New York City
Eleanor Zarief
Sloane
Harry Zarief
Benjamin L. Watson
Churchill Wins Vote Of Confidence
Winston Churchill secured his eighth confidence vote in four years in the House of Commons. The tally was 425 to 23 as MPs showed continuing support for the government amid a minor domestic dispute and looming allied offensives. The chamber cheered the result.
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Churchil
House of Commons
Churchill
Britain
America
Russia
London
Winston Churchill
White Paper Seen As Hitler Victory
Dr. Israel Goldstein of the Zionist Organization of America says the 1939 Palestine White Paper closing immigration is a moral victory for Hitler. He argues 300,000 lives could have been saved if entry had been allowed and compares Munich and the 1939 policy as unwise appeasement.
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Washington
Israel Goldstein
Zionist Organization of America
Palestine
Hitler
Goldstein
Europe
Mussolini
Near
Middle East
Munich
Death penalty asked in Lonergan murder case
New York March 30. Assistant District Attorneys Jacob Grumet sought the death penalty for Wayne Lonergan the Canadian aircraftman accused of killing his wealthy wife in what prosecutors call a cold blooded murder after being cut off from her money.
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New York
Wayne Lonergan
Jacob Grumet
Chinese Under Gen. Stillwell Cut Vital Road
Glider borne air commanders slash Japanese communications in northern Burma and hit Mohyin near Myitkyina. Stillwell’s Chinese forces push toward Myitkyina cutting the main road inside the Mogao valley and encircling Japanese units as heavy fighting continues along the India Burma border. British advances in Arakan clear Maungdaw tunnel fortifications near Akyab. Japanese losses rise as bombers strike Rangoon's northward supply area.
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Charles H. Grumich
New Delhi
India
Burma
Mohyin
Myitkyina
Louis Mountbatten
Kio Yhyin
Mandalay
Joseph W. Stillwell
Moga Valley
Laban
Shaduzup
Kaiming
India-Burma
Imphal
Somra Hills
Arakan
Maungdaw-Buthedaung
Akyab
Maungdaw
Subalonne
Tamu-Pale
Victoria Lake
Rangoon
Cassino Attack Boss Admits Allied Setback at Cassino
Secretary Stimson acknowledged that German forces halted Allied advances at Cassino noting the fortress town remained in German hands. He said rains and terrain limited tank use while caves and rubble aided German defenses and emphasized lessons learned for future operations.
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Stimson
Cassino
Baranadie
Mediterranean
Italy
Europe
Germany
Russia
England
Luftwaffe
Berlin
Two Attacks On Beachhead Repelled At Anzio
Allied Fifth Army reports two small enemy assaults on the Anzio beachhead repelled yesterday as Allied air forces ranged across Italy. Bombers hit targets near Rome Turin and Bolzano and attacked Sofia in Bulgaria. Operations included rail raids in Northern Italy and attacks on Viterbo and Adriatic targets. German attempts at Cassino were met by counterfire and river crossings were repelled with limited success.
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Naples
Fifth Army
Anzio
Italy
Rome
Turin
Bolzano
Adriatic
Sofia
Bulgaria
Viterbo
Cassino
Pamerge Hotel
Casualties Rise in Week in War Report
War department figures show total American casualties reaching 173,239 for army and navy, up 4,947 in a week. Army losses total 130,619 through March 15, with 22,570 killed and 53,124 wounded. sea services total 42,620, including 28,043 navy and 14,123 marines. Prisoners number 27,742 with 1,675 reported dead of disease. Durham listeners note NC aeronautics commission hearings on aviation problems begin Tuesday.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Stimson
Marines
Coast Guard
Sea Services
L Army
Allies Unhook Aerial Punches At Japanese Over 3500 Mile Warfront
U S Pacific Fleet reports Allied airmen harassing 3500 miles of Pacific front from the Central Pacific Marshalls to the Dutch East Indies. Coronado plane bombed Pakin near Ponape while Lib erators hit Hollandia and Timor fires started. Bougainville forces shell east of Empress Augusta Bay as Beightler predicts enemy collapse within days. Hodge cites roughly 20,000 Japanese still on Bougainville.
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Pacific
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Central Pacific
Marshalls
Dutch East Indies
Coronado
Paking Island
Ponape
Carolines
Navy
Marine
Ant Island Atoll
Truk
Japan
Fifth Airforce
New Guinea
Penfoei
Timor
Douglas MacArthur
Hollandia
Dutch New Gui‘nea
Karkar
Madang
Rabaul
New Britain
Empress Augusta Bay
Bougainville
Solomons
Green Islands
Obert S. Beightler
Associated Press
Charles McMurtry
37Th
John R. Hodge
Germans Cut From Polish Supply Bases
Czernowitz in Bucovina fell to the Red Army after a storm capture, isolating German supply lines from pre war Poland and linking northern defense centers to the Danube oil hub at Ploesti. Stalin hailed the victory as strategic and political, while other fronts pressed toward Czechoslovakia and Lwow amid heavy fighting around Stanislau and along the Lwów–Bucharest railway corridor.
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Czernowitz
Bucovina
Balkans
Red Army
Stalin
Berlin
Rumania
Prut
Lwow
Old Pola
Iasi
Jasey
Galetz
Danube
Ploesti
Cur
Poland
Moscow
Cime
Rman
Hungary
Ukrainian Bug
Odessa
Carpathian
Czechoslovakia
Kolomea
Bucharest
Baltics
Vitebsk
Chausy
Gregory K. Zukov
Carpathians
Carpatho-Ukraine
Hitler
RAF Bombers Attack Railways and Factory in France
RAF Halifaxes attacked rail targets at Vaires near Paris and Lanecasters raided an engine works at Lyon in Southern France. Mosquitos bombed Kiel. One bomber was lost. It was the first time since Sunday night four engined bombers were used, marking the RAF's 12th attack of the month on French targets in Hitler's invasion program.
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London
Vaires
Paris
Lanecasters
Lyon
France
4-Fs as Labor Corps Would Be Last Resort
Washington March 30. It is essential to draw 4-F men into the war effort but induction into the army as a labor corps would be a last resort. Secretary Stimson said he agreed that the war effort suffers when this group is underused and noted Patterson’s statement on 4-F inductions.
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Washington
Stimson
Cassino
Army
Robert P. Patterson
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