Marines Advance On Gilbert Islands In Air Raid Surge
RAF leaves Berlin and the Pacific battlefront notes that 1000 planes took part in a raid on the Gilbert Islands as Marines push forward in a fresh offensive. Red Army claims of counterattacks fade as they regain initiative near Kiev while Germans widen strikes in Ukraine.
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RAF
Berlin
Gilbert Islands
London
Stalingrad
Red Army
Kiev
Dnieper
White Russia
Yugoslav Partisans Halt Rommel Drive Amid Balkan Victories
Yugoslav communique says partisans repelled German and Albanian attacks in Serbia while inflicting heavy losses in Bosnia and Montenegro. It notes a mixed German Chetnik column annihilated and Rommel’s northern Montenegro offensive stymied, with 60 Chetniks killed and 40 wounded in Eastern Bosnia.
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London
Erwin Rommel
Bosnia
Montenegro
Serbia
Breko
Belgrade
Yugo
Bulletin
Americans land on Abemama amid Pacific advance
United States marines extend the Gilberts campaign by landing on Abemama atoll while Makin and Tarawa remain under heavy ground and air assault. Navy and army units push toward Truk and Bougainville as Admiral Nimitz confirms further reinforcements and names key commanders and observers among the landing forces.
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Pearl Harbor
United States
Gilberts
Abemama Atoll
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Makin
Tarawa
Japan
Truk
America
mid-Pacific
Arawa
Abemama
Boungainville
Huon
New Guinea
Colonel Roosevelt
Admiral Nimitz
Central Pacific
Ray‘mon A. Spruance
Indianapole
Ambious
Richard Kelly Turner
Teaker
War News Across Pacific and Europe From The Front
Allied landings at Ma kin Tarawa and Abemama signal a strong push in the Gilbert area as Admiral Nimitz eyes Truk and a possible clash with Koga’s fleet. In Europe Soviet forces press a counteroffensive near Kiev while Romanians and Germans clash around Chernyakhov, Zhitomir, and Gomel with heavy losses reported.
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Kiev
Chernyakhov
Zhitomir
Korosten
Leningrad
Odessa
Kiev-Warsaw
Fritz von Mannstein
Rechitsa
White Russia
Constantin Rokossovky
Gomel
Berezina
Dnieper
Krivoi Rog
Niko
Moscow
Remending
Nikolai Vatutin
Dnepropetrovsk
Red 'A
Small Army Welcomes Sister at Allied Headquarters
Allied Headquarters in Algiers reports Capt. Charles Parker, former Raleigh News and Observer editor, in contact with his sister Lt. Elizabeth Parker of the WACs. They discovered they had been working in adjacent buildings for two weeks before reuniting at the Red Cross Officers Club for ice cream. Lt. Parker, secretary to Maj. Westray Battle Boyce, notes she joined the WACs a year ago at Armistice Day and has moved up from private.
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Allied
Algiers
Charles Parker
Raleigh
N. C
News and Observer
Elizabeth Parker
Wacs
Parker
Allied Control Comission
the Red Cross Officers’ Club
University of North Carolina
WAC
Westray Battle Boyce
Rocky Mount
Washington, D. C
Knox Foresees New Gilbert Campaign From Central Pacific
Secretary of the Navy Knox described American landings on Tarawa, Makin, and Abemama as the start of a new campaign aimed at driving Japan from the Gilberts and shortening supply routes to the southwest Pacific. He noted heavy bombing beforehand, diversionary attacks on Marshall sites, and no Japanese fleet seen nearby with Truk as the nearest major fleet base.
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Tarawa
Abemama
Gilbert
Nimitz
Japan
Truk
Guadalcanal
Koga
Earl
Battle of the Gilberts
Central Pacific
Indian Ocean
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Washington
Knox
Pacia
Jo Anid
Mandated Islands
Pacific
Southwest Pacific
Navy
Marshall Slands
Gilberts
Cific
Former Virginia Governor James H Price Dies at 61
James Hubert Price, 61, former governor of Virginia, died at his Richmond home from a cerebral hemorrhage after a first attack Thursday afternoon. Price had served as governor from 1938 to 1942 and was Imperial Recorder of the Shrine since 1927.
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Richmond
James Hubert Price
Virginia
Allied leadership plans and possible big three talks outlined
Plans center on closing percoeemans innerworn under the Deen Neb coamate in Moscow and the Anglo-American supreme staff led by General George C Marshall in London. An appointment for Hardwell to an Allied leadership post is seen as likely. China’s role in United Nations action and a possible Chiang Kai Shek meeting with Roosevelt Churchill Stalin are discussed alongside a potential four power or three power summit and a definition of unconditional surrender for Germany.
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Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Cairo
Mena House
Germany
International
Unter den Linden
Alexander Platz
Friedrichstrasse
Zurich
Stockholm
Berlin
Hamburg
John M. Hightower
Pheologe
Percoeemans
Deen Neb Coamate
Moscow
Supreme Staff
George C. Marshall
London
Hardwell
United Nations
China
Allied World Organization
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang
Russia
Pacific
British Beat Back Sharp Nazi Attack Northwest of Agnone
Allied front reports say a German counterattack on the British Eighth Army near Agnone was repelled after two hours of fighting. Agnone was captured Sunday by Montgomery’s forces as Fifth Army patrolled Mount Camino and shelled the Mignano area.
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Noland Norgaard
Algiers
Eighth Army
Agnone
Agnore
Bernard L. Montgomery
Akledena
Rugs
Cane Prea
Nitiates
Montaquila
Fifth Army
Mount Camino
Mignano
Alert
Landis Ousts Cox For Bets On Ball Games
In Chicago on November 23 Commissioner Landis declared Philadelphia Phillies president William D. Cox permanently ineligible for betting on baseball games. Cox admitted placing bets and submitted his resignation, bypassing a December hearing in New York.
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Chicago
William D. Cox
Philadelphia Phillies
K. M. Landis
Landis
Cox
The
Phillies
New York
Philadelphia
Patton apologizes after Sicilian incident
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr apologizes to officers and men of the Seventh Army for striking a wounded soldier during the Sicily campaign. Eisenhower issues a harsh reproof but does not relieve him. Patton also apologizes to the hospital commander and others present. The episode, debated since last August, ends with Patton defending his action as driven by nervous strain and declaring he will continue to lead.
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Allied Headquarters
Algiers
George S. Patton, Jr
Seventh Army
Patton
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Sicily
Verely
Eigenhower
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