RAF Bombs Targets In Rhineland
London reports a fresh allied air offensive across the channel with light formations following a heavy Leverkusen strike. The raid, part of a four day surge, targeted German chemical centers while heavy bombers again hit Ludwigshafen and other sites. several bombers were lost and Canadian crews participated.
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London
Channel
RAF
Leverkusen
Britain
Trlmn
Ludwigshafen
Chemical Pa
Can
Royal Canadian Air Force
Pease
Berlin
Sweden
U.S
New Heights
William E. Kepner
U.S. Eighth Airforcee
Germany
Slavs Repel Heavy German Attacks in Croatia and on Islands
Yugoslav guerillas claim repelling heavy German assaults across Croatia while retreating in central Bosnia after fierce battles that left Nazi casualties. Reinforcements landed on Krk island as Tito’s partisans report ongoing fights near Sen and Crk, with strong defense near Gracanica in Bosnia.
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London
Croatia
Bosnia
Yugoslav Liberation Army
Krk
Sen
Josip Broz
Tito
Fiume
Crew
Tula
Belgrade
Gracanica
Dinner Date In Evanston Ends With Supposed Prowler
Evelyn Fellows reported a prowler entered her home and ate her planned dinner. Edgar Fellows, a motorcycle officer, later said he lunched at home, found Evelyn away, cooked the meal, and ate it, then took her out to dinner.
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Evanston
Ill
Evelyn
Edgar
Evelyn Fellows
Edgar Fellows
Aussies Break Through Jap Lines In New Guinea Assault
Allied reports say Australian forces pressed northwest from Finschafen toward Sattelberg with artillery and heavy air support. In Bougainville actions, Japanese bombers hit Empress Augusta Bay as American Corsairs shot down and damaged planes, while efforts to repair bombed bases continue.
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Southwest Pacific
ST Pai
New Britain
Solomon
Bougainville
Douglas MacArthur
Empress Augusta Bay
New Guinea
Huon Peninsula
Rabaul
Finschafen
Sattelberg
Adm
William F. Halsey
Raids On Japs Rival Attacks In Europe
In the Central Pacific, Seventh Air Force notes heavy bomber raids against Gilbert and Marshall island outposts. Targets such as Mili Atoll and Jaluit faced concentrated loads as raids sought to threaten Tarawa and Telewaras network, with limited Japanese fighter response and scant defenses.
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Seventh Air Force
Central Pacific
Gilbert and
Marshall Islands
mid-Pacific
Mili Atoll
Arshall
Gilbert Islands
Truk
Philippines
Tarawa
Gilberts
Jaluit
la Strip
The Army Miner Koenig Aids War Mines in Allied Depths
In Algiers on November 18 the Army Miner, Bob Koenig, a former Indiana coal mine operator turned lieutenant colonel, heads mining division efforts for the army. He helps revive Mediterranean mining communities and trains troops in mining expertise despite limited formal army drills.
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Allied
Algiers
Hoosierdam
Bob Koenig
Bob
Indianapolis
Army
Koenig
Washington
American Carriers Expand Offensive In Central Pacific
American air craft carrier task force pushes into waters southwest of Hawaii adding its planes to army bombers in a major expansion of daily air attacks on Japan mid Pacific bases.
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Central Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Japan
mid-Pacific
Nauru
Gilberts
Betio
Tarawa Atoll
II Islands
Poin Teday
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Willis H. Hale
7Th
En Air Force
Conon Elheainas Labundey
Mili
Marshalls
German advance in Balkans widens war drift and Turkish tilt
Nazi aims in southeastern Europe appear to widen the war as Germany nears control of Aegean islands and eyes a barrier against Allied support to Russia. Turkey shows signs of leaning toward the Allies, possibly offering moral and material aid. Americans report Pacific raids against Nauru and other Japanese bases as the Central Pacific offensive gains momentum.
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Germany
Serve
Balkan
Aegean
Near East
Balkans
Hitler
Fuehrer
Europe
Ankara
Turkey
John C. Merrill
Easton
Pennsylvania
Naxos
Lemnos
Smyrna Hinteland
Germans Make Invasion Stab At Samos Isle
London reports Ankara radio said Germany began an invasion attempt on Samos the Greek island near the Dodecanese after Leros fell. German forces claimed to hold Ikaria Patmos Lipsos while a fourth island remains contested with British control at Castelrosso close by.
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Samos Isle
London
Ankara
Samos
Dodecanese
Leros
Castelrosso
Ikaria
Patmos
Lipsos
Urni
U S Planes Aid Chinese Offensive
U S fighter planes supported Chinese ground forces in attacks on Japanese positions around Tungting Lake and the Salween river. The sorties killed about 60 Japanese cavalry and 40 horses near Shihsien and set fires at Chunghai and Pingka while Chinese forces claimed around 400 Japanese casualties en route to Ichang before withdrawal after Japanese gas and artillery use.
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Chungking
Tungting Lake
Salween River
Joseph Stilwell
Langho River
Shihsien
China
Chunghai
Pingka
Salween
Yangtze
Ichang
Yanks and British Advance in Italy Amid Mud and Flood
Allied Fifth and Eighth Armies report gains on the Italian front with the British advancing five miles to seize Perano in the Sangro valley. American troops push north of Venafro amid heavy artillery fire while air operations hinge on weather. Concurrent raids target Split, Cassino, Barrea, and surrounding fronts with several enemy aircraft downed.
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Algiéré
Perano
Sangro
Ed Bernard L. Mons
Eighth Army
Archi
Adriatic
Sangro Fighth
Rionero
Bombay
Fifth Army
Venafro
Xest Araay
Comae
Italy
Split
Cassino
Mignano
Barrea
Isernia
Pescara
Metkovic
Yugoslavia
Durazzo
Albania
Italian Prisoners Work At University
Forty Italian prisoners of war from Camp Butner near Durham began work as waiters in the Le Noir dining hall at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. The university needed staff in kitchens and dining halls and arranged the program through Colonel T. L. Alexander, commander of Butner War Prisoners Camp, with duties governed by international regulations on employment of prisoners of war.
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Chapel Hill
Camp Butner
Durham
Lenoir
Navy
University of North Carolina
T. L. Alexander
Butner
Pers
Allied Governments Win Diplomatic Battle In Turkey
In Ankara on November 19 Allied governments claim a decisive diplomatic victory in Turkey. The Turkish policy shifts toward aiding the Allies while remaining non belligerent. Ambassadors Lawrence A Stenhardt and Hughe Knatchbull Hugessen led the effort against von Papen, with Turks showing approval despite possible war participation.
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Turkey
Ankara
United Nations
Frankz von Papen
Roosevelt
Churchill
Lawrence A. Stenhardt
Slim
Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen
von Papen
Africa
Sicily
Italy
Europe
Soviets Withdraw From Zhitomir Front in Ukrainian Battles
Report from Red Star says Soviet forces abandoned Zhitomir a major rail hub southwest of Kiev after heavy German counterattacks along the Dnieper front. Germans pressed in Cherkasi and Ovruch sectors as Red Army planned to regroup and reinforce left flank.
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Henry C. Cassidyoscow
Pinsk
Dnieper
Red Star
Zhitomir
Kiev
Red Army
Gener
Rmans
Cherkasi
Ovruch
Odessa - Leningrad
Korosten
Koroster
Ukraiian
grad-Odessa
Der
Dnepropetrovsk
Ukraine
Russia
Patterson sees Leros strike as sign of will to resist
Washington Pa November 20 German capture of Leros is not of great military importance but is a significant answer to doubts about resistance. Secretary of War Patterson in a Jefferson College talk reviewed fronts, urged a year of decision in 1944, noted slow war movement, and cited allied road constraints and heavy German losses since Stalingrad. In the Pacific, U S forces push the Japanese from one stronghold to another but remain far from Tokyo.
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Washington
Leros
Dodecan
Robert P. P.terson
Jefferson College
Patterson
Jerson
Sian
S Grad
Stalingrad
Ge Industry
Pacific
Tokyo
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Marianas
Guam
Caroline Islands
Admiralty
Kavieng
Pac
Ponape
New Ireland
Solomon ~ Islands
Marshall Is
Maury
Gilbert
Santa Cruz
Mille Atolls
Makin
Gilbert Group
Fifth Air Force
Kara
Bougainville Island
Solomons
U. S
South Pacific
Hal V. Boyle
Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Ord
Maloelap
Jauluit
Admiral Nimitz
Ellice Group
Hawaiians
Shitomir
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