Japanese Defenses Fall as Marines Take Betio Atoll
U S Marines complete seizure of Betio on Tarawa atoll after four days of fierce fighting. Desperate Japanese counterattacks fail as American forces push to secure airfield facilities and prepare for future operations against Makin and other atolls in the Gilbert Islands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Pearl Harbor
Kert Islands
Belio
Julian C. Smith
Rusk
Makin
Abemama
Betio
Arawa
Actua
Navy
Tarawa
Marshall Islands
War Today Reflections on postwar Japan and Germany
The column quotes Rear Admiral Thomas L. Gatch on ending the war, debates Japan’s postwar fate versus Europe. It notes public unease over Japan after Germany’s surrender and considers whether a shift to the Orient could delay final decisions. Former ambassador Grew is among few voices discussing Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pershing
Berlin
Unter den Linden
Tokyo
Thomas L. Gatch
Navy
U.S.S
Germany
Japan
Solons Call Mayors In On Subsidies
Senate leaders plan to bring New York Mayor LaGuardia and other big city mayors to testify next week on the anti subsidy bill. They aim to argue for consumer relief as the House earlier passed the measure 278 to 118. Mayor Kelly of Chicago and southern city leaders are among those slated for Friday December 3.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
Roosevelt
Senate
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
New York
LaGuardia
Banking Committee
House
Wagner
Gillette
D-Ia
North Carolinians cited for wartime air medals in Southwest Pacific
Three North Carolinians among Fifth Air Force members awarded decorations by Lieut. Gen. George C. Kenney. Second Lieut. James F. Steele, Salisbury, received the Air Medal for 25 operational missions. Staff Sergeant Ralph T. Morris, Lexington, earned an oak leaf cluster for 25 missions. Technical Sergeant Hodge J. Collins, Nashville, received the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism on a Wewak New Guinea flight, aiding formations and shooting down one enemy fighter. The crew destroyed 13 fighters and probably seven more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest Pacific
Allied Headquarters
Fifth Air Force
George C. Kenney
James F. Steele
S. Lee Street
Salisbury
Air Medal
Steele
Ralph T. Morris
West Center Street
Lexington
Hodge J. Collins
Nashville
Wewak
New Guinea
Thanksgiving in War Time 1943 National Observance
Amid ongoing military operations thousands of Americans pray for loved ones and victory as Thanksgiving is celebrated in homes and churches. Soldiers abroad and workers at production lines dine modestly while leaders including President Roosevelt and allies mark the day with unity and relief efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Roosevelt
America
Yugoslavia
Hihailovich
Free
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Atlantic City
Three Allied Leaders Consider Joint War Peace Plea
A House of Commons member proposed that Churchill Roosevelt and Stalin issue a joint statement to the German leadership urging an end to the war. Reports last week indicated the chiefs of the big three contemplated such a move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Churchill
Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
British Secure Sangro River Bridgehead in Italy Push
Allied forces under Gen Sir Bernard L. Montgomery battered through German defenses to establish a 9,000 yard wide bridgehead across the Sangro River near the Adriatic. The operation, amid rain, mud, and stiff opposition, marks a significant early breach of Hitler’s winter line as German troops withdraw slowly from the river’s northwest bank.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allied
Bernard L. Mout
Sangro
Adolf Hitler
Bernard L.try
Adriatic
Montgomery
Eighth Army
Italian Army To Be Reorganized By Marshal Messe
Marshal Giovanni Messe, new Italian chief of staff, pledges complete reorganization to purge incompetent and dangerous officers and create an effective fighting force. He notes Italian mountain troops in the Alps fighting Germans, brigades cooperating with Yugoslav partisans in Slovenia, divisions opposing Germans in Montenegro and Albania, and Italian units allied with the British in Greece and the Mediterranean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Itanian
Italy
Giovanni Messe
Messe
Tunisia
Alps
Slovenia
Montenegro
Albania
Greece
Pinerola
Mediterranean
NLRB Orders Ballot At Greensboro Plant
The National Labor Relations Board ordered a secret ballot of Armor Fertilizer Works employees in Greensboro North Carolina to decide if they want United Gas Coke and Chemical Workers of America CIO as their bargaining agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, Navy
National Labor Relations Board
Armor Fertilizer Works
Greensboro
N. C
Armour and Company
United Gas, Coke and Chemical Workers of America
CIO
Nazi Attacks Stopped By Russians
London reports that Russian forces hold a stiffened line west of Kiev as Field Marshal von Mannstein’s drive to recapture Ukraine stalls. The Russian communique claims German efforts failed with heavy losses to gunners, infantry and tanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Kiev
Fritz von Mannstein
Berlin
Brusilov
Zhitomir
Chernyakhov
Red army repels last gasp German attack near Kiev
After twelve days of fierce fighting along the Kiev bulge in western Ukraine the Red army reported repulsing assaults near Brusley and Chernyakhov and improving positions west of Kiev while Berlin claimed capture of the two towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Red Army
Kiev
Ukraine
Brussley
Chernyakhovv
Berlin
Germans Halt Short of Kiev as Soviets Claim Heavy Losses
Soviet dispatches report 1,500 German dead and 32 tanks destroyed in repulsing attacks near Kiev, with 4,000 Nazis and 30 tanks counted in actions from Gomel to the Dnieper. Paris radio says Von Runstedt halted near Kiev and Vatutin’s counteroffensive gains reinforcements, while Gomel sees fierce fighting and Khoiniki is seized as Red Army advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiev
Gomel
Dnieper
von Mannstein
Nikolai Vautin
Paris
Associated Press
Zhitomir
Vatutin
Red Army
Khoiniki
Kalinkovichi
Fastovas
Krem
Berlin Bombing Destroys Large City Core in RAF Raids
Eyewitness reports from Berlin describe two nights of heavy RAF bombardment reducing the capital to ruins. Firefighters battled widespread blazes as water mains failed, with vast districts from Ruhleben to Tegel and Reinickendorf heavily damaged and the Wilhelmstrasse area left in ruins. Northern suburbs like Spandau face massive evacuations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Berlin
Ruhleben
American Ships Unhit In Battle Off Solomons
United States warships fought a two hour clash near Bougainville and New Britain sinking four Japanese destroyers and damaging a fifth while advancing toward Rabaul. Capt. Arleigh Burke led the destroyers which returned unscathed as MacArthur and Halsey press onward in the Northern Solomons. Liberators later sank an 8000 ton freighter near Halmahera.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Southwest Apcific Allied Headquarters
America
United States
Rabaul
St. ‘S Channel
New Britain
New Ireland
Adm
William F. Halsey
Buka
Bougainville
Lomons
Gilberts
New Guinea
Solomons
Choiseful
Shortlands
Ce Ee
Comby
Arleigh
Burke
Nanay Vo D. C
MacArtie
Em A Ta Bay
Ainville
Halsey
MacArthur
Force Oo
Philippines
Halmahera
Dutch East Indies
Mindanao
Christmas liquor ration bonus eyed for North Carolina
Raleigh reports the State Board of Alcoholic Control may grant a Christmas bonus to liquor ration coupon holders if December supply allows. Chairman Carl Williamson noted registration for new ration books rose sharply to about 450,000, with decisions on continuing the one half pint per four coupons for December to be made at a later board meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
North Carolina
Carl Williamson
State Board of Alcoholic Control
Williamson
RAF Pounds Berlin For Third Night
British Mosquito bombers conducted a third straight raid on Berlin, dispersing a yellow smoke plume 300 miles from the city as part of a repeated offensive against the war-torn capital. Only one Mosquito failed to return, while the operation aimed to harass Berlin’s defenders and test morale amid the heavy bomber attacks on prior nights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Britain
Berlin
Patriots Halt German Push
London reports Yugoslav Liberation army bulletin says Germans push in Serbia Bosnia and Croatia halted by partisan forces. Dalmatian coast battles as Germans seek Adriatic coastline. Serbia battle leaves about 180 German dead with renewed assaults. Bosnian drive toward Pryepolje continues. two Nazi columns driven back in Croatia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Serbia
Bosnia
Croatia
Yugoslav Liberation Army
Dalmatian
Pryepolje
Adriatic
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U.S
Dewitt MacKenzie
4. M. Roberts, Jr
Solons
Lexington Air Medal
The
Tripartite
NLRB
Reds
Reich
By Edwin Shanke
Tegel
Reinickendorf
Pankow
Weissensee
Wilhelmstrass
Eft
Wilhelmstrasse
Wilhelmsplatz
Unter den Lieden
RAF
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