Flying Forts Extend Operations Attu Victory Report
American troops capture Fishhook Ridge on Attu, a key Japanese stronghold, with forces scaling 60 degree ridges above the clouds. The gain tightens American lines toward Chichagof Harbor as weather hampers air activity and further operations continue in the Pacific theater.
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Washington
Fishhook Ridge
Fish Hook Ridge
Chichagof Harbor
Navy
Chichagof Valley
Holtzy Pass
Khlebnikof
Lake Cories
South Pacific
Munda
New Georgia Island
Solomons
Red Army Drives Germans From Kuban in Bitter Campaign
Red Army forces engage in heavy fighting to expel German troops from the lower Kuban, with broader Soviet offensives reported in Smolensk and along the Leningrad-Khar kov railway corridor. Air and artillery actions accompany ground clashes as Russian forces claim successes near Vitebesk and Rostov while Japanese positions north of Chichagof Valley show strategic activity.
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London
Lower
Kuban
Ae Oviel Tay Cotmmunkuue
Novorossisk
Smolensk
Kharkov
Orel
Leningrad
Monitor
Germa
Vitebesk
Smolensky
Lisichansk
Donets
Lower Caucasus
Rostov
Red Army
Chichagof Valley
Chichagof Harbor
Lake Corios
Fish-Hook Ridge
Chichagol-Holtz Bay
China’s Communists vow to aid Chiang against Japan
The Chinese Communist Party pledges to stand with Chiang Kai-shek’s government until Japan and the Axis are defeated and an independent democratic China is built. This pledge defers internal clashes, key as China faces a crisis with a weakened war effort and potential Allied aid delays.
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China
Japan
Chiang Kai-shek
United Nations
Communist Party
Chiang
Kuomintang
Yangtze
Chungking
Sur
Allied bombs strike three Japanese airfields in New Guinea
Allied forces blasted three Japanese airdromes in the Wewak sector New Guinea. Flying Fortresses Liberators and escorts flew 325 miles up the coast despite storms, dropping 21 tons of munitions on Boram Dagua and Wewak. Fire burned several planes with no Allied losses. Spitfires repelled raiders near Millingimbi causing bomber losses and damage to others.
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Allied
Australia
Southwest Pacific
Europe
Wewak
New Guinea
Lae
Boram
Dagua
Millingimbi
Darwin
Police Hunt Negro For Holdup Attempt
Granville County and state patrolmen hunted a Negro suspect after a holdup attempt at a service station near Oxford. Len D. O'Brian was wounded in the face when the intruder fired as he dropped behind the counter. The assailant fled in O'Brian's car with J. E. Owen and O'Brian's son escaping.
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Oxford
Gran- Ville
Len D. O'Brian
O'Brian
J. E. Owen
Stalin Says Dissolution of Comintern Ends Hitler Myth
Stalin declares the dissolution of the Comintern ends Moscow intervention myths and aids a united anti Hitler front. He frames it as exposing Bolshevik claims, quelling labor movement calumny, and enabling a common international camp to defeat fascist tyranny. A Moscow dispatch notes readers have not yet heard the interpretation but experts expect broad agreement.
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London
Joseph Stalin
Soviet Russia
Communist International
Moscow
Harold King
Reuters
Stalin
Mr. King
Comintern
Three Hamlet Men Die In Train Crash
Engineer Leon Lionel Simms of Hamlet N C was killed when a northbound Seaboard freight collided with a southbound freight at Hemingway South Carolina. Fireman Bascom Haley Brett and Brakeman Thomas Woodrow Hough, both of Hamlet, were injured and hospitalized. Traffic expected to resume in the afternoon as investigators probe the cause.
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Norfolk
Mary
Leon Lionel Simms
Bascom Brett
Thomas Woodrow Hough
Hemingway
S. C
Seaboard Railway
Hamlet
J. C. Wroten
Seaboard
S.C
Charleston
N.C
Bascom Haley Brett
Coal Miners Resume Pay Talks Under Government Control
John L. Lewis prepares to brief the United Mine Workers policy committee as soft coal operators and union leaders reopen bargaining over underground travel pay. The miners seek time and a half for 90 minutes daily travel, while operators offer 48 minutes. The dispute, under wartime government supervision led by Harold Ickes, aims to set a wage baseline for surface and underground workers.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
UMW
War Labor Board
Secretary of Interior
Harold Ickes
Congress Applauds Byrnes Appointment to War Board
Congress members hailed James F Byrnes move to head the War Mobilization Office. They urged compulsory draft power and a separate civilian supply agency to rival the Army and Navy. A mobilization committee would coordinate policy and curb duplication. Byrnes said he would control home front policy with Roosevelt approval and direct resource use and civilian economy adjustments for wartime needs.
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Associated Press
Pampston
Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
Congress
Office of War Mobilization
Byrnes
Army
Navy
Stimson
Knox
Harry Hopkins
Munitions Assignment Board
Donald Nelson
War Production Board
Fred M Vinson
Mr. Roosevelt
Truman
D-Mo
Senate War Investigating Committee
Ambassador To Moscow May Resign
The New York Times reports Admiral William H. Standley has told President Roosevelt of his wish to resign as ambassador to Moscow. The dispatch says Standley is dissatisfied with conditions of his mission and may receive another post, abroad or at home.
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New York
The
New York Times
Washington
William H. Standley
Roosevelt
Moscow
Standley
Joseph E. Davies
Stalin
Times
Admiral Standley
U.S
Russia
Davies
Leghorn Bombed In Distant Allied Strike On Italy
Allied dispatches report almost 100 Flying Fortresses bombed Leghorn from North Africa, hitting oil refineries, docks, and shipyards. Simultaneously two dozen Liberators hit Foggia, dropping 80 tons on the air base as RAF and US air forces targeted Sicily and Sardinia.
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Edward Kennedy
North Africa
Italy
Leghorn
Rome
Cairo
Foggia
Naples
London
Livorno
Harebor
RAF Airmen Press Axis Air Assault Across Channel
May 2 Allied planes cross the English Channel in continued RAF air assault on northern France. Six German motor gun boats off Cherbourg Peninsula were sunk or damaged by six bomb-carrying aircraft. RAF heavy bombers pounded Ruhr targets in Germany, delivering nearly 5,000 tons in a week, including Dortmund and Essen raids.
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English Channel
France
RAF
Dover Strait
Channel
Air Ministry
Fleet Air Arm
Cherbourg
Europe
Dortmund
Ruhr
Moehne
Eder
Sinsabehhnet
Essen
Krupp
RAF Heavy Raid On Mandalay In Burma
New Delhi report says four British bombers attacked Mandalay with large fires seen in marshalling yards. RAF planes hit airfields and river traffic in western and central Burma, with fighters focusing on Heho Kalemyo Bu Theda sectors. One aircraft missing presumed lost. Regent submarine overdue and presumed sunk. commanded by Lieut W N R Knox.
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New Delhi
Mandalay
Burma
Heho
Butheda
Kalemyo
London
Regent
Admiralty
W. N. R. Knox
Attu Commanders Boost Morale After Heavy Fighting
General Landrum reports continued pressure on Japanese forces at Attu May 18. He notes massed casualties from cold and exposure, heavy Japanese fortifications abandoned, and strong Navy and Air Force support aiding the ground advance through Massacre Pass and Holtz Bay toward Chichagof Valley.
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Eugene Burns
Landrum
Massacre Pass
Attu
Eugene M. Landum
Barcelona
Pensacola
Fla
Holtz Bay
Massacre
Holtz
Navy
Massacre Valley
France Q. Wilson
Abilene
Kas
Move to Link Farmers Through International Cooperatives
Delegates from more than 30 countries at the United Nations food conference advanced a move to create an international agency of producer marketing cooperatives. They seek a global cooperative banking system for farmer credit and urge the final conference to recommend establishing such structures alongside the proposed international agricultural authority.
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Hot Springs
International Agricultural Authority
Murray D. Lincoln
United States
Lincoln
Cooperative League of America
Scandinavia
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