The War Today: Axis Strain as Egypt Campaign Shifts
War Today column notes the Axis alliance under pressure as Rommel’s troops face supply limits while the Eighth Army presses the pursuit in Egypt. British commanders acknowledge a turning point in the Africa campaign, with Rommel’s forces likely losing momentum and prospects of near miracles fading.
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Eighth Army
Foch
Britain
Africa
Egypt
Rommel
Montgomery
London
Rome
Greensboro Army project to cost over two million
Representative Carl T. Durham announced that hospital facilities to cost in excess of 2,000,000 will be built with the Army Air Force installation at Greensboro North Carolina. The air force installation is also expected to cost more than 2,000,000 and the U S Army Engineers Corps district office in Wilmington, North Carolina will supervise construction.
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Washington
Carl T. Durham
Army Air Force
Greensboro
N.C
Durham
Wilmington
N. C
U. S. Army Engineers Corps
Russian Counter Attack Raises Stalingrad Garrison Position
Russian reports say counter attacking garrison troops in the North Stalingrad area improved positions as Red Army pressed on Black Sea fronts and the Central Caucasus fight left 1,000 Nazis dead. Artillery and air actions destroyed eight tanks and 13 artillery batteries, while nine German dugouts and blockhouses fell to Soviet shells. A Moscow radio letter from Stalingrad defenders urged Stalin, vowing to fight to the last breath and demanding a second front.
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Caucasus
Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Stalingrad
Red Army
Black Sea
Central Caucasus
Steppes
Stalin
Armistice Declared in Madagascar Campaign
Vichy forces opposing the British in southeast Madagascar asked for an armistice and hostilities ceased at 2 p.m. Madagascar Time yesterday, an authoritative source announced. The armistice effectively ends the Madagascar campaign after limited fighting in the southeast.
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London
Vichy
Madagascar
Indian Ocean
Three Germans Captured Near Bowling Green Kentucky
Police report three German escapees from army guards were arrested in a barn about six miles from Bowling Green. Names given were Hans Richard Jonat 27 Karl Luft 19 and Paul Theodore Hitzegrad 38. They surrendered without resistance and were turned over to FBI agents after discovery by local residents.
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Bowling Green
R. E. Monahan
Hans Richard Jonat
Karl Luft
Paul Theodore Hitzegrad
Jonat
Luft
Hitzegrad
Camp Forrest
Tenn
Here
Monahan
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hanes Knitting Wins Army-Navy E Award
Winston Salem reports the P H Hanes Knitting company received yesterday the Army Navy E award for production. The honor recognizes the plant's output of millions of underwear items for the fighting forces.
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Winston-Salem
P. H. Hanes Knitting Company
Navy publicist uses football metaphor to explain delays
Captain Leland Lovette, recalled from Pearl Harbor to manage Washington publicity, likens slow reporting of naval losses in the Solomon Islands to withholding a substitute in a football game. He cites the carrier Wasp and cruisers Quincy Astoria Vincennes, arguing delayed news can be justified due to distant bases and strategic needs.
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Ray Tucker
Leland P Lovette
Solomon Islands
Pearl ‘Harbor
Washington
Wasp
Quincy
Astoria
Vincennes
Lovette
German Gains Blamed On Absence
MOSCOW November 6 Joseph Stalin warned Russia's allies that delaying a second front could bring catastrophe to them and stressed that an Allied offensive would come sooner or later. He spoke as Allied pressure and talk of a new front dominated war dispatches from Moscow.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Volga
Stalingrad
Caucasus
Red
Stalin
Europe
Saratov
Vhuibyshev
Berlin Nazi reprisals warned by Tokyo radio
The Berlin radio reported Japan would retaliate against British POWs if Britain does not change its stance on German captives. The broadcast claimed Tokyo noted British mistreatment of German and Italian prisoners and linked this to past Nazi and British prisoner punishments around Dieppe and Sark Island.
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New York
Berlin
Tokyo
Japan
Foreign Office
Dieppe
Sark Island
United States
Canada
China
Orient
Domei
Weer
U. S
Six More Vessels Reported Sunk By British Subs
The admiralty in London reports six Axis ships sunk and two large supply ships damaged by British submarines in the Mediterranean. Coastal vessels laden with food were boarded and destroyed after their crews abandoned ship. A submarine sank a medium supply ship despite two destroyers, and two small ships plus a tugboat were also sunk. A large beached supply ship was halted from salvage by a submarine strike, with two hits on a big tanker and potential further damage to a destroyer by a torpedo.
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London
Admiralty
Mediterranean
Major Victory In Africa Seen By Roosevelt
President Roosevelt said the Allied North Africa campaign shows major victory potential in the Egyptian Libyan area. He noted most equipment for the assault against Rommel came from allies, with only a small portion American origin, during a press conference in Washington.
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Washington
Roosevelt
North Africa
United Nations
Erwin Rommel
United States
Hard-Pressed Americans In Slight Gains
Hard-pressed American forces pushed at bolstered Japanese troops on Guadalcanal in a two pronged attack, piercing one flank deeper and threatening another. Marines and soldiers repulsed a counteroffensive near the airbase while tallying 350 Japanese killed and several captured artillery pieces. meanwhile New Guinea fronts saw Japanese forces retreat under Allied pressure as Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s command reported continued gains.
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John H. Wiggins
Washington
Guadalcanal
Navy
South Pacific
Solomons
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Heavy Storm Aims at Gulf of Mexico From Caribbean
A tropical disturbance moved from the Caribbean toward the Gulf of Mexico threatening central and southern Bahama Islands and parts of Florida southward from Melbourne to Palm Beach and Miami with heavy gale winds. Forecasters warned the worst may pass south of Miami with preparations in place along the coast and Nassau. Maritime areas ferried ships to port and storm shutters were secured along the Atlantic coast.
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Miami
Fla
Caribbean
Cuba
Straits
Gulf of Mexico
Florida
Bahama Islands
Melbourne
Palm Beach
Ernest F. Carson
Key West
Long Island
Bahamas
New Providence Island
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Nassau
Government House
Atlantic Coast Line
Allied Drive 104 Miles Up Africa Coast
Allied forces led by Lieut. Gen. Bernard Montgomery drove two wedges into Rommel's positions near El Daba as the Eighth Army pressed to El Alamein. British officials indicated the battle neared Matruh, with Rommel retreating and tanks in pursuit. Casualties and tank losses were mounting as Rommel’s northern African corps faced tighter encirclement.
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North Africa
Eighth Army
Associated Press
Cairo
Bernard L. Montgomery
Rommel
A Avice Hief
Se Octk
Matruh
el Alamein
el Daba
Daba
Montgomery
Desert
London
Axis Wary Of New Allied Blows In Africa
London dispatch notes Axis caution as Rommel retreats west in Egypt under threat from British forces. Daily Telegraph says enemy uneasiness grows about Allied south and west movements from Libya while rumors persist of UN ships at Gibraltar. Paris radio claims more RAF operations.
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E. C. Daniel London
Rommel
Egypt
Eighth Army
Axis
Africa
Mediterranean
Libya
London Daily Telegraph
United Nations
Gibraltar
Paris
RAF i
Roosevelt Assails Election as War Effort Drives Unity
President Roosevelt told a press conference that Congress should win the war as he does and that he has been meeting with leaders from both parties. A Capitol Hill coalition idea emerged to back Roosevelt against partisan politics while seeking war aims.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Washington
Gator
Capitol Hill
Nazis Rushing Rommel Aid By Planes Says Ankara
Ankara reports German efforts to bolster Rommel in Egypt with more than 3500 planes moving troops from near Athens to an African base. Trainloads from the eastern front passed through Athens, with planes speeding reinforcements since Tuesday. A separate report said Tokyo refused an Axis naval strike on Madagascar or South Africa due to weaker naval strength. Vichy French ships were said to head toward the Turkish straits to aid German forces in the Caucasus and ease Axis rail routes.
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Ankara
Turkey
Greece
Rommel
Egypt
Athens
Rumania
Yugoslavia
Africa
Crete
Berlin
Hitler
Tokyo
Madagascar
South Africa
U. S
Southwest Pacific
Turkish
Black Sea
Vichy
Caucasus
Germany
Romania
Turkish Straits
N C Fliers Get Ratings As Air Aces
WEW DELHI India Nov 6 With two fliers already rated as aces 13 more American pilots in the China air task force are on track to bag at least five Japanese planes Capt Albert J Baumler of Baysonne WN J first U S Army Air Force ace Sept 3 Col Robert L Scott of Macon Ga joined the list by Sept 25 and has since added a victory Four of the 13 pilots have less than five wins and are former Flying Tigers now in the Army Air Forces Their records since July 4 when inducted include Major David L Tex Hill Con on VPage 2 Col 3
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Delhi
India
China Air Task Force
CBI
AEF
Albert J. Baumler
Baysonne
WN. J
U. S. Army Air Force
Robert L. Scott
Macon
Flying Tiger
American Volunteer Group
Flying Tigers
U.8. Army Air Forces
Army
David L
Tex” Hill
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