British Extend Bridgehead Across The Sangro River
Allied fronts report the British eighth army pushing forward to widen the Sangro bridgehead as the river swells two feet and spans up to a thousand feet. American fifth army repels two German thrusts west of Venafro as air forces strike rail targets and enemy bases across Italy.
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Algiers
Eighth Army
Sangro
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Venafro
Recco
Genoa
Rimini
Adriatic
Mediterranean
Red Army crosses Berezina as Gomel siege tightens
The Red Star reports Soviet forces under Rokossovsky push west of the Dnieper after breaking through at Gomel. Russians sever Kalinkovichi rail lines and drive German troops from the Berezina riverbank while advancing toward Kostyukovka and Minsk. Two more Red armies move in for the kill as Propoisk’s breakthrough isolates the garrison.
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Henry C. Cassidy M
Red Star
Berezina
Napoleon
Moscow
Gomel
Constantin Rokossovsky
White Russia
Dnieper
Zhiobin
Kalinkovichi
Red Starr
Red
Nizhnia
Olba
Sever
Rokossovsky
Pinsk
Litvosk
Polesie
Gomel Gap
Red Army
Kostyukovka
Brobruisk
Minsk
Raids on Berlin Atrocity Toll Mounts In War News
New York reports outline Allied air raids on Berlin with death tolls running into thousands. Estimates from British and neutral sources detail civilians killed and injured during the September to November bombardments, with figures in the tens of thousands for Hamburg Cologne Essen and other targets.
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New York
Berlin
Ham
Reich
Winston Churchill
Halifax
British Isles
Chungking
Cologne
Essen
Hamburg
London
RAF Heavy Bombers Split Berlin Defenses In New Raid
London dispatch reports the RAF and allies struck Berlin with a major two city blow last night along with Stuttgart in the southwest. About 1,000 planes attacked Bremen and Berlin with heavy losses on both sides. The Berlin raid marked the fifth successive attack on the capital and Stuttgart’s sixteenth raid to date.
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Mignanore
Fifth Army
Mount Camino
Rome
Eighth Army
Recco
Rimini
Adriatic
Ancona
Grosseto
Cissino
8Th Army
Sangro
London
RAF
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Reich
Stuttgart
Air Ministry
Frankfurt-am-Main
North Sea
Bremen
USAAF
Wilhelmshaven
France
Duesseldorf
Ham
Germany
Italy
Friedrichshaven
England
Strickland Paroled in Raleigh From High Point Larceny Case
Jerry Strickland, one of ten inmates paroled by Gov J Mellville Broughton, was convicted in High Point municipal court in March 1943 on three larceny counts and sentenced to 16 months.
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Stickland
Raleigh
State
Marines win Tarawa battle through determination tenacity and courage
Lt Colonel Evans F. Carlson cites determination tenacity and courage as the key to the Tarawa victory. Leathernecks captured Tarawa in 76 hours despite heavy enemy fire with naval and air support and a planned, blood and guts assault led by Marine battalions.
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Tarawa
Charles H. Mamurtry
Earl Harbor
Col
Evans F. Carlson
Nicaragua
Makin
Guadalcanal
Gilberts
Carlson
Marine Corps
Japan
Betio
Tarawa Atoll
Navy
Small Boys Sail On Russian Vessels
Three boys under 16 arrived in Seattle as apprentices on a Russian ship. The 13 year old Gena Logovoy trained as a ship’s electrician after his bomber pilot father was shot down. Elora Philipoff, 14, studies engineering hoping to be chief engineer, and Allen Feadoroff, 15, plans to become a seaman.
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Seattle
Gena Logovoy
Russia
Gena
Elora Philipoff
Allen Feadoroff
Youth Killed by Army Truck Near Fort Bragg Road
Ernest Van Buren Curtis, 15, was killed when struck by an army truck on the Fort Bragg road last night. Sheriff N H McGeachy said today that Curtis was alone at the time of the accident.
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Fayetteville
Ernest van Buren Curtis
Fort Bragg
H. McGeachy
Colombia Declares War On Germany
The Colombian Senate approved a government statement recognizing a state of belligerency with Germany after the sinking of the schooner Ruby by a German submarine. Foreign Minister Lozano said Colombia will not deploy troops but seeks closer participation with the United Nations.
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Bogota
Colombia
Senate
Germany
Ruby
Mediterranean
Carlos Lozano Y Lozano
Lozano
United Nations
Fighting 45th Division Shines in Sicily and Salerno
Allied reports reveal the Fighting 45th Infantry at Salerno and Sicily, a Colorado Oklahoma and New Mexico unit with many Native American soldiers. Debuting in Sicily, they pierced north coast lines, sliced Sicily in half, and marched 140 miles in 14 days while sustaining heavy combat. Sergeant Herb Fish of Canyon City Colorado and a Denver Mexican sergeant led veterans in heroics on Bloody Ridge as Germans feared their fierce assault.
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Allied
North Africa
Salerno
45Th
Sicily
Colorado
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Africa
United States
Messina
Gela
San Stefano
Sicilian
Herb Fish
Canyon City
Colo
Denver
U S Fleet Doubled In 11 Months Amid War Buildup
Washington November 27 The United States fleet has doubled in 11 months and now includes 817 fighting ships with more than 40 aircraft carriers Navy Secretary Knox announced the addition of 419 new ships in the last 11 months surpassing one ship per day The total combat strength reaches 838 vessels with 230 destroyer escorts in action The report highlights rising carrier and submarine totals and a DE production rate over 40 per month as part of war mobilization.
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Washington
United States
Navy
Knox
Japan
Ihage Hen
Eek Ae Newee
London Shelters See Decline as War Skyight Returns
London reports shelter use at a low level despite four consecutive air raid alerts. Gunfire and searchlights persist overhead as German planes reconnoiter, but the public shelters are sparsely used with only an elderly or memory-bound minority seeking refuge.
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London
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Jim Crowe
Gen. Patton
Jack Bell
Senate Military Committee
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
George S. Patton, Jr
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Johnson
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