Reds Push Toward Romania and Poland Headlines
Southwest Pacific Allied Headquarters reports reinforcements of U S Army troops landed safely and joined marines on Bougainville to drive back decimated Japanese force in a counterstaged operation.
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Armistice Day War Outlook and Pacific Offensives
A wartime briefing outlines allied plans across Europe, Asia, and the Pacific. It discusses synchronized invasions into western France and southeastern Asia, Burma operations, and a multi pronged push toward Japan with Bougainville and Empress Augusta Bay actions.
Nazis Wreck 2 Italian Harbors
Allied reports detail Fifth Army advances routing German forces on Mount Rotondo near Mignano and gains across the Apennines. Germans reportedly damaged harbor facilities at Leghorn and Pescara as Allied air forces hit railway yards near Bolzano and rail routes into Italy.
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Algiers
Fifth Army
Mount Rotonda
Mignano
Wenserome
Mount Rotondo
Board Valley
Cassino
Berlin Reports Great Air Battle In Solomons
Berlin radio dispatch says a third great aerial battle raged off Bougainville in the Solomons as Imperial Japanese Navy units clashed with American Army forces. The broadcast estimates American losses at at least 10,000 sailors.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Tokyo
Ees
Bougainville
Solomons
Imperial Navy
Casualties In Italy Reach 8556 Since September 9
Secretary of War Stimson reported that American casualties in Italy since the Salerno landing on September 9 total 8,556, with 1,259 killed, 4,764 wounded and 2,497 missing. He noted British losses were somewhat larger though exact figures were unavailable.
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Washington
Stimson
Salernod
Italy
Gregg Cherry Seeks NC Governor Nomination
Major Gregg Cherry of Gastonia told Wilmington crowds that public indifference to government problems hinders progress. He urged awakening public interest and warned against shifting local and state issues to Washington, stressing solutions should come from North Carolina communities and state.
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Wilmington
Gregg Cherry
Gastonia
Cherry
North Carolina
Washington
Judge Sure Evidence Not Faked in Bahamas Murder Trial
Chief Justice Sir Oscar Daly urged Bahamas Supreme Court jurors to give Alfred De Marigny the benefit of reasonable doubt in the Sir Harry Oakes murder case. He said there is no evidence of fabrication and cautioned that circumstantial proof must show no one else could have committed the crime. The defense questioned a fingerprint source from a bedscreen and challenged investigators' testimony about burned hairs on De Marigny’s hands.
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Bahamas
Oscar Bedford Daly
Supreme Court
Alfred de Marigny
Harry Oakes
Godfrey Higgs
de Marigny
James ©. Barker
Miami
Barker
E. W. Melchen
Harry
Sir Oscar
Junior’s Tag Mixup Stumps Army Clerk
At the anti-aircraft artillery school identification tag room a clerk struggled with long name Nacaberdonza For titudineus Oelschlaegenberger. He devised a method to fit the name on dog tags before the soldier pipes up that he is a junior.
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Camp Davis
Nacaberdonza Fortitudineus Oelschlaegenberger
Allied Air Strikes Hit German Rail Lines via Brenner Pass
Allied air forces from Britain and the Mediterranean targeted Germany’s rail routes funneling into northern Italy. RAF four engined bombers struck Modane and Bolzano on the Mont Denis tunnel route, while American Flying Fortresses hit Bolzano yards. Daylight missions across northern France and western Germany followed with heavy bomber and fighter sorties.
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Pescara
Eighth Army
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London
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Mediterranean Theater
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France
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English Channel
Fortress of Europe
Cherbourg
Survivor Arrives in Miami From Indian Ocean Submarine Action
The Navy reports a survivor from a U S merchant vessel torpedoed and sunk an enemy submarine late in September in the Indian Ocean has reached Miami Florida. The event highlights ongoing Allied naval actions and reconnaissance in the region.
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Washington
Navy
U. S
Indian Ocean
Miami
Fila
Congress Hears Report on Lend-Lease Aid From Britain
President Roosevelt reports the British Commonwealth contributed 1.1749 billion dollars through reverse lend lease through last June to defend the United States. Britons supplied goods and services including corn, socks, plane repair, airports and hospitals for American forces, with Canada noted as a cash payer.
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Congress
Roosevelt
British Commonwealth
United States
British Isles
Britain
India
Canada
Armistice Day Observances Altered by War Urgency Worldwide
Armistice Day celebrations shift from pageantry to wartime focus as officials emphasize production and combat effort. King George VI, Roosevelt, and Devers urge intensified labor and fighting, while Smuts calls youths to stay true to guiding vision amid expanding forces and grim casualty estimates.
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Associated Press
George VI
Britain
Eden Reports Moscow Conference Gains Warmth and Confidence
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons that the Moscow conference exceeded his hopes and brought warmth and mutual confidence to dealings with the Soviet Union and the United States. He praised Molotov and Hull for steering the talks, noted progress in war shortening measures, and called military discussions the most fruitful part of the conference.
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London
Anthony Eden
Moscow
House of Commons
Commons
Vyacheslav Molotov
Cordell Hull
United States
Eden
Urges Closer Ties Between U S and Britain
Lord Halifax British ambassador to the United States says the United States and Great Britain must join hands in postwar cooperation or risk failing again after 1918. He urges a concrete, effective Anglo American collaboration beyond mere friendship to secure peace.
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New York
United States
Great Britain
Viscount Halifax
Lord Halifax
Academy of Political Peace
Germans Fail In Crimean Assaults
London dispatch reports German forces on the Eastern Front suffering from rain snow and fog as Soviet offensives advance in western Ukraine toward Poland and Romania. Berlin says Russians attack with tanks and planes near Gomel and along the Dnieper while claiming 217 German tanks destroyed and limited gains near Zhitomir Kiev and Kerch.
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Ukraine
Poland
Rumania
White Russia
Gomel
Berlin
Soa River
Dnieper
Zhitomir
Moscos
Kievamlun
Crimea
Kerch
Perekop
Narres
Krivoi Rog
Chernigov
Kiev
Smolensk
Marovka
Korosten
Armistice Recalled By 340th Machine Gun Battalion
In San Francisco on November 11 the 340th machine gun battalion recalls the 1918 armistice along the Meuse. A field telephone at their command post captured the moment as orders came to cease fire and draw maps of positions at 11 a.m. local time, ending four years of war.
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San Francisco
France
Meuse
Sedan
Sherman
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