Attu Island Encirclement Narrows Japanese Stand
U S forces close in on Attu Island trapping Japanese troops in Holtz Bay area and Chichagof Harbor. Reports say enemy forces retreat toward a last ditch stand with snipers remaining as American units seize anti aircraft guns and press the pursuit toward Chicago Harbor.
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Associated Press
Washington
Attu Island
Navy
North Pacific
United States
Holtz Bay
Massacre Bay
Chichagoi Harbor
South Pacific
Rekata Bay
Santa Isabel Island
Knox
Chichagof Harbor
Chici&goi Harbor
Chicago Harbor
Allied Bombers Hit Pantelleria and Sicily in Major Raids
Allied air forces struck Pantelleria with 100 tons of bombs damaging docks warehouses and harbor vessels. P-40 Warhawks hit the airfield while B-25s and B-26s targeted ships jetties and gun positions. Defending Luftwaffe and Italian planes engaged the raid, with losses on both sides and continued operations over Sicily.
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North Africa
Pantelleria
Cap Bon
Tunisia
U. S
Trapani
Sicily
Messerschmitts
Focke-Wulfs
Sicilian Straits
Malta
Army Reassures No Shortage of Ammunition for Troops
Col T C Gerber, field director of government owned contract operated plants, tells Midwest editors there will be no ammunition shortage for American troops. He cites plant operation success and notes industry costs totaling about two billion two hundred million dollars for buildings and equipment with annual operating costs near one billion.
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Chicago
T. C. Gerber
Midwest
Gerber
Inland Daily Press Association
Col. Gerber
RAF Pounds Germany In Eighth Raid
Allied air forces conducted their eighth straight round the clock raid on German targets as a large formation pummeled the Ruhr and Weser regions while Mohne and Eder reservoirs flooded German industry. Observers on the southeast coast saw RAF groups cross the channel in bright moonlight and hear heavy detonations along the French coast.
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Boulogne
Cape Gris Nez
Mohne
Eder Re
Germany
Ruhr and
Weser
NBC
London
RAF
Don Hollenbeck
Churchill Pledges British War Effort In Joint Fight
Prime Minister Churchill addressed a joint session of Congress pledging Britain will fight alongside the Allies until Japan's war industries and cities are destroyed. He called for unity with Roosevelt Stalin and Chiang Kai-Shek to press forward and said Allied air campaigns bolster the push against Germany.
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Washington
Churchill
Japan
Pacific
Congress
Roosevelt
Stalin
Russia
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Germany
British Commandos Key Invasion Plans For France
A wartime briefing notes a large combined operations force from Army Navy and Air, led by the famed Commandos. Their role is amphibious assault and securing a coastline bridge-head under heavy enemy fire, before regular troops land. They are elite shock troops skilled in land, sea, and air cooperation.
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Britain
Rance
Combined Operations Command
Army
Navy
Air
France
Hilary St. George Saunders
Food Parley Opens With Hope and Realism in Va
The United Nations food conference begins in Hot Springs with a Roosevelt message urging all to provide daily bread and a minimum adequate nutrition. Judge Marvin Jones is elected permanent chairman as 45 delegations assemble, pledging global economic and political cohesion to end want.
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Hot Springs
United Nations Food Conference
Roosevelt
Marvin Jones
Jones
U.S. Forces Brace For Jap Counter Stroke In Pacific
Washington dispatch reports American forces in the Pacific brace for a possible Japanese counter stroke to offset losses at Attu Island. Observers note Tokyo delayed reinforcements during the first week after May 11 and may try to reinforce Kiska or launch a face saving thrust elsewhere.
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U.S
Pacific
John M. Hightower
Washington
Attu Island
United States
Aleutians
Tokyo
South Pacific
Guadalcanal
New Guinea
Kiska
Attu
Chile Breaks Relations With Four Countries
Chile announces the severance of diplomatic ties with Vichy France Romania Hungary and Bulgaria over collaboration with Axis war efforts. Foreign Minister Joaquin Fernandez cites loss of sovereignty under occupation as the reason for the action, joining earlier breaks with Germany Italy and Japan.
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Santiago
Chile
France
Rumania
Hungary
Bulgaria
Joaquin Fernadez
Germany
Maly
Japan
Midwest Floods Forcing Thousands From Homes Across States
Floodwaters from rivers and streams inundate parts of Indiana Missouri Illinois Arkansas and Oklahoma. At least seven deaths reported with four in Indiana and three in Missouri. Tens of thousands homeless as 10 000 in Indiana alone. Army engineers and Coast Guard evacuations underway.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Southwest
Indiana
Missouri
Illinois
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Coast Guard
Army
St. Charles
Lake Michigan
Army Engineers
Malcolm Elliott
State Guard
West Terre Haute, Ltd
Texas
Ilinois
Army to power new bombers with 2000 horsepower engine
Washington May 19 The Army may use America's newest liquid cooled engine, the 2000 horsepower Allison, to power its large bombers. The engine has been approved and accepted and will be used once a suitable bomber design is ready, likely among the bigger bombers planned for operations over Europe by Maj. Gen. Ira C. Baker and Gen. H. H. Arnold.
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Washington
America
Army
Ira C. Baker
8Th Air Force
Europe
H. H. Arnold
Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentences In Several Rapes
The North Carolina Supreme Court affirmed death sentences for Harry Hunt and Purcell Smith in rape cases and upheld other second degree murder convictions including Damon Austin in Guilford and Grady McKinnon and Henry Kendrick in Moore. A new trial was ordered for Pete Miller and A B Miller in a Robeson gunfight case. self defense claimed by defendants.
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Raleigh
State Supreme Court
Harry Hunt
Purcell Smith
Carl
Paul Lippard
Mecklenburg County
Damon Austin
Guilford County
Grady Minter McKinnon
Henry Kendrick
Moore County
M. W. Barnhill
Pete Miller
A. B Miller
Robeson
O. D. Grimsley
W. G. Grimsley
A. B. Miller
Italian Tenor Schipa Rates Bomb Sounds as Terrifying
Italian tenor Tito Schipa, arriving in Lisbon from Italy, said listening to Allied bombs exploding near his home was worse than facing audience stage fright. He recalled his fright the night before leaving Ostia for Lisbon and compared bombs to the fear of losing voice on stage.
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Lisbon
Tito Schipa
Italy
Schipa
Chicago Opera
Ostia
Soft Coal Wage Fight Moves to War Labor Board Panel
Washington May 1944 A three man War Labor Board fact finding panel hears the soft coal wage dispute ahead of a May 31 contract deadline. The UMW led by John L Lewis has refused to sit on the panel. Interior Secretary Ickes warns any contract requires WLB approval as mass meetings erupt in coal fields.
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In Law of Labor Board
Washington
War Labor Board
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
UMW
WLB
Ickes
Lewis
Mass Meet
Nazi Censors Withhold Details Of Dam Flood After Blitz
Stockholm reports German officials censored details of flood damage from Moehne and Eder reservoirs causing hundreds dead and many towns evacuated. Berlin says military reasons require secrecy while observers note power plants and factories hit and farmland ruined aggravating food shortages.
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Stockholm
Moehne
Eder
RAF
Gereman
Berlin
Ruhr
Weser
Berelin
Waser
Germany
Reds Stave Off Stiff Nazi Attacks
London May 19 The Soviet mid day communique says German attacks northeast of Novorossisk and near Lishchansk on the Donets were repulsed with Soviet countermeasures. More than 100 Nazis killed at Novorossisk a mobile gun and a tank destroyed, and four boats attempting river crossings were sunk. Heavy fighting left many German casualties in Sevsk and pillboxes and sniper fire accounted for hundreds more.
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London
Novorossisk
Black Sea
Lishchansk
Donets
Associated Press
Lower
Kuban
Sevsk
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