Nazi Armored Unit Smashed In Offensive
Allied forces report major success in Tunisia as one third of a German armored column is destroyed and German tank attacks are repelled near Bizerte and Tunis. American British and French units advance toward both coast cities while heavy fighting escalates with dive bombers and low fighters supporting the assault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wes Gallagher
North Africa
Bizerte
Tunis
Tunisia
Gulf of Tunis
Hitler
War Today: Mackenzie Reports Pacific Strip Battles
Glenn Babb continues the war briefing from the Middle East front, noting renewed Japanese defeats in the Solomons and New Guinea. MacArthur's dispatches hint the Papuan Peninsula push toward Port Moresby nears a setback, while Allied sea forces tally significant Japanese losses. The piece cautions that balance in the Pacific remains unsettled as Round Three looms.
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Dewitt Mackenzie
Glenn Babb
MacKenzie
Middle East War Zone
MacArthur
Port Moresby
Australia
Buna
Gona
South Pacific
Byrd vows deep cuts as federal payroll nearly doubles
Senator Byrd chairman of the joint economy committee declares the federal payroll has almost doubled in the past year and pledges to prune expenses across government. He cites an executive staff payroll in Washington and outside districts and notes possible abolition of the WPA, while highlighting wartime and emergency agencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Bell Washington
Byrd
D-Va
Joint Economy Committee
White House
Roosevelt
District of Columbia
Office For Emergency Management
Woodrow Wilson
County Agricultural Committee
Essential Munitions Workers Will Be Deferred
President Roosevelt announced a forthcoming manpower plan to defer essential munitions plant workers from the draft. He ordered no enlistments or commissions for federal workers and urged uniform action by draft boards, emphasizing a management element to balance needs and exemptions. He indicated little new legislation would be needed and said the policy would target only exceptional cases.
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Washington
Roosevelt
War and Navy Secretaries
FDR Promotes Halsey and Doolittle to High Ranks
President Roosevelt nominates Vice Admiral William F. Halsey Jr to full admiral after his Pacific victory. Brigadier General James H. Doolittle is advanced to major general with his Tokyo raid career noted. Rear Admiral Henry K. Hewitt is named vice admiral for North Africa operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wiliam F. Halsey, Jr
Southwest Pacific
Roosevelt
James H. Doolittle
North Africa
Doolittle
Tokyo
Air Corps
Henry K. Hewitt
Officer Takes Charge When Superiors Die
Lieut. Commander Bruce McCandless of Long Beach California took command of the cruiser San Francisco during the Solomon Islands battle on November 13 after his senior officers were killed and he was wounded and temporarily unconscious The Navy noted his actions as President Roosevelt cited the case in a radio address The San Francisco crippled a Japanese battleship and withdrew to port with casualties McCandless is based at the San Diego destroyer base, Washington native.
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Washington
Bruce McCandles
Long Beach
Calif
Navy
San Francisco
Solomon Islands
Daniel J. Callaghan
Cassin Young
McCandless
Roosevelt
Admiral Callaghan
Washington, D. C
San Diego
Allied Airmen Hammer At El Agheila In Libya Drive
Allied airmen continued hammering the El Agheila corridor as Montgomery's Eighth Army pressed on Benghazi from both sides. Bombing hit an airfield south of El Agheila and a Macron airfield further south while Axis fires and damage spread at Benghazi. American fighters claimed six enemy planes destroyed as stores and vehicles were seized along the Martuba Slonta stretch.
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Associated Press
Cairo
el Agheila
Erwin Rommel
B. L. Montgomery
8Th Army
S Bengasi
Martuba
Slonta
Montgomery
Bengali
U. S. Army
Macron
Agheila
Mar‘shal
Gen Lejeune Former Marine Chief Dies in Maryland
BALTIMORE November 20. Lt General John A Lejeune former commandant of the U S Marine Corps died at Union Memorial Hospital at 9 45 am He had been seriously ill for about three weeks His wife Ellie Harrison Mur dau gh of Portsmouth Virginia and three daughters were at his bedside Survivors include his widow and the three daughters He served as superintendent of the Virginia Military Institute Lexington Virginia from 1929 to 1937 In 1932 he fractured his skull on the VMI campus and required brain surgery affected his health thereafter.
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Baltimore
John A. Lejeune
U. S. Marine Corps
Union Memorial Hospital
Lejeune
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington
Ellie Harrison Murdaugh
Portsmouth
Glennon
James B. Glennon
U. S. Navy
Laura T. Lejeune
Eugenia D. Lejeune
Vali
Jap Defeat Termed Most Disastrous Of Conflict
The United States navy issued a report calling the recent three day sea battle against Japan the most disastrous naval defeat in modern times. Enemy losses were put at 28 ships destroyed and 10 damaged, including battleships light cruisers and transports. News of further Allied losses and suspected Japanese heavy warship sinks followed as the Guadalcanal campaign expanded.
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Solomons
Knox
Pacific
Washington
United States Navy
New Guinea
Guadalcanal
United States
Six Federal Workers Fired For Activity
Attorney General Biddle reported to Congress that since August 22 six federal employees were discharged and one disciplined for membership in subversive organizations. The three month report, under FBI budget provisions, covers 1943 and shows 4,612 cases taken and 2,130 completed reports sent to agencies.
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Washington
Biddle
Congress
House Committee On
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Bureau
House Committee On Un-American Activities
Rep. Dies
D-Tex
Strategy Hopes for Pacific Victory With New Carriers
The American high command outlines plans to exploit recent blows to Japanese forces by building aircraft carriers and using planes from sea bases to attack Japan. Congress and naval experts favor these “flat tops” over battleships, aiming to cripple Tokyo’s mainland and life lines. A major shipbuilder is contracted to produce about fifty carriers while another firm delivers hundreds of landing boats for service by next spring. The Alaska highway project would aid large scale supply movement.
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High Command
Pacific
Guadalcanal
Washington
Tokyo
Congressional
Alaska
Jap Cruiser Destroyer Sunk At Buna
Allied airmen sank a Japanese cruiser and a destroyer off Buna near Gona in New Guinea as ground forces and bombers pressed the counter offensive led by General MacArthur. Three Japanese Zero fighters were shot down. remaining enemy ships fled under heavy bombardment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Yates McDaniel
MacArthur
Australia
Buna
Gona
Port Moresby
New Guinea
Owen Stanley
Prisoner Kills Inmate In State Pen
Raleigh NP Nov 20 A prison director reports Clarence Oliver 19 of Wayne County died from head injuries after David King 19 of Wake County struck him with a pick handle during a transport dispute to a road crew. King on death row at Central prison awaiting Wilson County trial. Oliver convicted November 1941 for temporary larceny. King previously sentenced August 28 in Wake County for larceny with prior records and a Richmond Va highway robbery status.
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Raleigh
Oscar Pitts
Pitts
Clarence Oliver
Wayne County
David King
Wake County
Wilson County
King
Oliver
Central Prison
Richmond
U S Spending Near 6 Billion Dollars Month
Washington reports war costs rising to almost 6 billion dollars per month as December borrowing plans reach about 9 billion dollars. A reworked tax program including compulsory savings is expected to be submitted to Congress next year. The treasury will mobilize a broad building and borrowing effort with the victory fund committees and 350000 volunteers to float the loan.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Treasury
Congress
Victory Fund Committees
War Savings
Germans Routed in Caucasus as Soviets press drive
Soviet forces renewed pressure in the Caucasus after routing a major German force near Ordzhonikidze. About 5,000 Germans killed with heavy losses reported elsewhere on the Volkhov front near Leningrad. Soviet communiques hailed the victory as a turning point and sign of renewed offensives along the front.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Red Army
Caucasus
Grozny
Caspian Sea
Tran Caucasus
Ordzhonikidze
Volkhov
Leningrad
Izvestia
Alagir
Mozdok
Stalingrad
Lost Squadron in Africa Fire from French Boats
Four American assault boats escaped a French destroyer attack near Casablanca during the Fedhala landing attempt. Surviving crewmen, including Second Lieutenant Edward W. Wellman, were captured after two boats were sunk. 19 casualties reported over three days of fighting.
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Harold V. Boyle
United States
Casabdlanca
French Morocco
Fedhala
Edward W. Wellman
New York City
Wellman
New York Daily News
Casablanca
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Outfit
England
W.F. Halsey
Rommell
Bengasi
Mussolini
Gulf of
Sirte
Gen. Lejeune
Marine
John H. Wiggins
Ray Tucker
U.S
Africa
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