Allied Tankmen Round Up Nazis in War Talk Portends Invasion
Russian dispatches report over 1,000 German troops killed on the Leningrad front in the last 24 hours as the line along the front broadens from Leningrad to Novorossisk. The Red Army holds the initiative, while air and artillery raids target German positions near Novorossisk and the Kuban region.
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Leningrad
Novorossisk
Red Army
Izvestia
Germany
Lower
Kuban
Donets
Lishchansk
Voroshilovgrad
Volkhov
Rostov
Sevsk
Kursk
Ger
Military Staff Arrives With Prime Minister in Washington
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill hold a war council as Allied plans for Europe and the Pacific loom large. Churchill arrives with a large staff of military and naval experts amid Tunisian victory momentum. Benes of Czechoslovakia also expected to meet Roosevelt in Washington to discuss postwar federation ideas. Beaverbrook presence unclear.
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Joan M. Hightower
Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Europe
Pacific
United Nations High Command
AXIS
Hitler
White House
Japan
Germany
Casablanca
Giraud
de Gaulle
London
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovol
Woo Ugton
Benes
Central
Soviet Russia
Beaverbrook
Roosevelt Churchill
U.S
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Last Resistance Of Axis Fiercely Pounded By Allies
Allied forces pin the last Tunisian pocket southwest of Cap Bon in a near circle, with Eisenhower announcing heavy hammering from all sides. More than 37,000 prisoners taken in Cap Bon area, including 33,498 Germans, as Axis troops resist in mountains west of Rades and Enfidaville and along the Zaghouan corridor.
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Axis
Cap Bon
Edward Kennedy
North Africa
Dwight PD. Eisenhower
K. A. N. Anderson
U.S
French Free Corps
Giovanni Messe
Tunisia
Bernard Freyberg
New Zealand
Ro Fida
Enfidaville
Germans Raise White Flags on Cap Bon Peninsula
On May 11 at Cap Bon in Tunisia, tens of thousands of German troops surrendered to British armored cars near Haouaria. The retreating force abandoned rifles, machine guns, and artillery along a 40 mile road to the peninsula tip, as a Goering division captain admitted the unit was complete.
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Capron Peninsula
Tunisia
Cap Bon
Lighthouse Hill
Haouaria
Bon
Tunis
Pay-Go Bill Faces Senate Debate After Quick Passage
A Pay-as-you-go tax bill moved to Senate debate as the Finance Committee quickly rewrote it to abate 1942 or 1943 income taxes for individuals, favoring windfall incomes from war. The House had approved a simpler version a week earlier, and the committee vote was 13 to 8. International brief follows: Uruguay breaks relations with Vichy after arrival of Luis Dupuy, former chargé d affaires in France.
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Senate
Senate Finance Committee
House
Finance Committee
Montevideo
Uruguay
Vichy
Luis Dupuy
France
Bombers Hit Catania Harbour In Sicily Raid
American heavy bombers escort RAF fighters bombarded Catania harbor in Sicily. An ammunition ship blown up, a tanker set afire, docks and installations damaged, one mole demolished, and enemy aircraft shot down. Also two Axis ships damaged in Aegean raids and two Junkers-52s downed.
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Cairo
Catania
Sicily
Middle East
Aegean
North Africa Proved Tactics Shape Allied Drive to Berlin
James M. Long notes North Africa as the proving ground for Allied attack methods. He cites training of combat groups, air superiority over supply routes, mobile artillery, and coordinated aerial infantry with tank power as the core factors guiding future invasion across Europe.
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James M. Long
London
North Africa
el Alamein
el Agheila
Wadi Akarit
Mateur
Berlin
Churchill sees allied strides widen war aims from Tunisia
In Washington and Moscow talks the Allies plan intensified strikes on Hitler while extending operations against Japan. Allied production soars, Mediterranean gains aid MacArthur, and Roosevelt signals a tough line on unconditional surrender as Churchill warns of heavy fighting ahead. John L. Lewis is out of town and letters delaying coal wage contract talks.
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Mediterranean
MacArthur
Cap Bon
Second
Bowie
Lewis
New York
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
OPA Sets New Lower Meat Price Ceilings Nationwide
The Office of Price Administration announced lower retail ceilings for specific beef veal and mutton cuts effective Monday with zones and grade separation to enforce the rule. Affected processed hams also drop, while high volume retailers may set prices ten percent below ceilings.
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Washington
OPA
Brown
Battle of Germany hinted as Churchill meets Roosevelt
London reports Axis propaganda seeking calm as Churchill’s Washington talks with President Roosevelt frame a looming battle for Germany. Berlin radio claims Churchill’s arrival caused no surprise and notes Stalin’s absence shaping the political scene.
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London
Germany
Churchill
Washington
Roosevelt
Cairo
Berlin
Stalin
House Group Pushes For Action On Toughest Labor Bill
House Military Committee pressed for prompt action on stringent labor legislation to bolster the War Labor Board. The bill would allow subpoenas, impose a 30 day cooling off period, certify strike votes, require unions to file financial statements, bar certain disputes, and enable enforcement through the attorney general. Chairman May urged quick clearance as the committee approved the measure 21 to 0.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
House Military Committee
Congressional
Pearl Harbor
House
Connally
Senate
War Labor Board
Secretary of Labor
National Labor Relations Board
John L. Lewis
May
Navy reports Pacific air attack on Kahili and Rekata Bay
The Navy said American bombers and escorting fighters attacked Japanese positions in the central and northwestern Solomons on May 11. Fires were started at Kahili air base on Bougainville and a seaplane was set aflame at Rekata Bay on Santa Isabel, with two barges strafed. All planes returned.
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Navy
Tood
South Pacific Command
Solomons
Kahili
Rekata Bay
South Pacific
Army Flying Fortress
Bougainville Island
Shortland Island
Dauntless
Wildcat
Santa Isabel Island
U.S
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