Guadalcanal advances amid Japanese opposition in Solomons
American troops on Guadalcanal push lines forward slowly with limited enemy resistance as motor torpedo boats sink a destroyer and air attacks damage Japanese cruisers and destroyers. Army and Marine forces move toward Meta Nonno River near Kili Point while aerial strikes hit Japanese positions and a U.S. auxiliary vessel is damaged by a torpedo. In New Guinea, MacArthur’s forces press toward Buna amid looming labor-control questions for wartime economy.
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Hitler’s Munich rally hints at waning power in war
DeWitt MacKenzie’s column notes Adolf Hitler’s return to the Munich venue of the beer hall putsch amid evident defeat. Glenn Babb describes a Wagnerian gloom as the Fuehrer exhorts his guard while the Allies push forward in Libya and Rommel retreats. An American force reappears in Europe, echoing 1918.
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Libya
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Roosevelt Proclaims Armistice Day Observance
President Roosevelt proclaimed November 11 as Armistice Day urging the nation to honor World War I dead while continuing the war effort. He stressed fighting to final victory and building a just peace with freedoms protected by the United Nations. A brief Arlington Cemetery address was planned to rededicate Americans to the war goal and a free world.
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Roosevelt
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Hitler Promises Retaliation and No Flight From Germany
London reports Adolf Hitler speaking to top Nazi officials in Munich on the anniversary of the 1923 putsch. He pledged retaliation against Allied forces in North Africa, vowed Germany would not capitulate, and asserted the final victory would come from those who deal the last blow. He minimized Egypt defeats, warned Roosevelt will not speak the final word, and recalled Kaiser’s 1918 collapse to argue against surrender.
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Africa
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Algeria
Morocco
Roosevelt
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Axis Hit At Hellfire Pass Near Halfaya Pass In Libya
Remnants of Rommel’s retreating Africa corps fled across Halfaya Pass into Libya as British and American air forces pummeled the line. British advances followed the rear guard into Libya within hours, while Allied pilots blasted Axis trucks and attacked retreating columns. Prisoners included the commander of the Italian Pavia Division. six Italian divisions said captured earlier.
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French Consul in Boston Resigns Post
Francois Briere, French consul at Boston since 1937, resigns stating the American offensive in North Africa is a step toward liberation of France. He sent his resignation to Gaston Henry-Haye and notified Under-Secretary Sumner Welles.
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Sumner
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Germans Fail To Crack Nalchik In Caucasus Fight
Moscow reports German forces pushing toward the Georgian highway in the Caucasus faced Russian tank counterattacks near Nalchik. Soviet communique says a German infantry battalion was wiped out in three days and about 1 700 Nazis died in the Nalchik region amid cold autumn weather.
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Axis U-boats Sink Another British Vessel
The Associated Press reports another British merchant ship was sunk by Axis submarines off South America. Sixty-eight men perished with 60 survivors rescued, boosting Allied losses to 519 in Western Atlantic since US entry. The piece also notes heavy fighting near Stalingrad and Allied air raids on Lille Abbeville and Genoa, with aircraft and ground actions across multiple fronts.
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Republicans Ride Coalition to Power in Key States
Ray Tucker reports Republicans gained momentum as coal miners and District 50 members backed allies in Pennsylvania Kentucky West Virginia Ohio and Illinois. Voter sentiment centered on labor favoritism and antiwar issues, with a blunt rebuke to the administration at recent party conventions.
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October Score Of Axis Planes Is 141 To 10
BOSTON Nov 9 Robert P Patterson undersecretary of war announced October box score of 141 planes to 10 for United States Army airmen in fighting Axis forces. He spoke at the CIO convention noting across fronts American air forces destroyed 1411 enemy planes at a cost of only 10 of our own. Patterson outlined 1943 aims including submarine menace, re taking Burma, and reopening the Burma road. He praised labor and cited Libyan tank performance of Eight tanks with minimal failures.
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Royal Air Force
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Murmansk
Burma
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African Drive At a Glance
African Drive at a Glance reports U S forces closing on bases in French North and West Africa with land sea and air actions. Vichy cuts relations with Washington as Allied air attacks claim hits on French vessels. De Gaulle and Giraud urge mobilization while Rome warns of an impending crisis for Italy.
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West Africa
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de Gaulle
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Vichy summons leaders for final stand
In Bern on November 93, the Vichy government, after severing relations with the United States, mobilizes limited resources to resist U.S. forces advancing into its North African possessions. Marshal Petain convened advisers to assess a grave situation as General Weygand travels from the Riviera to confer with Petain and Laval. DeGaulist uprisings loom while Colonial garrisons pledge support and the U.S. envoy receives formal notification of severed ties.
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House Rejects Training Bill For Teen Soldier Draft Age
Washington November 9 The House declined to back a Senate plan to give teen aged draftees one year of training before combat, voting down Rankin's motion to instruct conferees to accept compulsory training. The outcome leaves conferees free to negotiate and may lead to elimination of the Senate provision opposed by the president and military leaders. President Roosevelt likely to veto if the amendment reaches him. Undersecretary Patterson warned that adopting the amendment would weaken the army and cost lives. A joint conference will determine House and Senate differences. Rankin plans to push the instruction, while Minority Leader Martin opposed locking the conference.
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