Yanks In Control Central Solomons Fifth Army Carves Out New Front
London dispatch reports American bombers and escorting fighters shot down 102 enemy planes as they blasted German transport centers at Munster and Coesfeld. The raid formed part of a weekend of large scale allied aerial activity with raids reaching deep into eastern Germany and Danzig. General Ira Eaker said top raids involved about 400 bombers, underscoring preparations for an invasion across the English Channel and North Sea.
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Boostazi
Thunderer
Muenster
Coes
Enschede
Holland
Bremen
Vegesack
Free City
Danzig
Germany
Ira C. Eaker
U. S
Eighth Air Force
English Channel
North Sea
Salerno
Eaker
RAF
Allies Break Through Italian Mud Near Pontelandolfo
Allied forces under Lt. Gen. Mark Clark press forward in Italy as the 5th and 8th Armies push through heavy mud and German resistance. Pontelandolfo, northwest of Benevento, falls, establishing a rail highway crossing and tightening a Volturno flank.
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Algiers
Mark W
8Th Army
Bernard L. Montgomery
Adriatic
Volturno
5Th
Clark
Rts
Trols
Governor Broughton Takes Week-Long East Tour
Raleigh dispatch reports Governor Broughton departed by train for a weeklong trip with three speeches. He will speak tonight in Columbus to the Ohio Savings and Loan League and will be guests of Governor and Mrs. Dewey in New York. He plans a Thursday luncheon address to the New York City Board of Trade.
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Raleigh
Governor Broughton
Columbus
Ohio Savings and Loan League
Broughton
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Board of Trade of the
City of New York
Russian Forces Move Toward Vitebsk in Baltic Push
Soviet columns claim four to seven mile advances toward Vitebsk from northeast and southeast with 140 villages taken. Krasnoe rail center on the Vitebsk Gomel line captured as Red army closes on Liuzno and aims to sever central front links. Allied air campaign against Greece and Dodecanese persists with strikes on Tatoi Araxos Maritza Calato Rhodes.
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Associated Press
London
Kiev
Dnieper
Leningrad
Red
Vitebsk
Red Army
Liozno
Krasnoe
Vitebsk-Gomel
Three Soldiers and a Horse Reported Missing at Camp Mackall
Col. Vernon G. Olsmith at Camp Mackall issued a public appeal for help locating three soldiers from the camp stockade and a thoroughbred rusty black mare belonging to Col. Orin B. Haugen of the Slith parachute infantry regiment. The disappearance was reported Saturday night and no names were released.
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Camp Mackall
Vernon G. Olsmith
Orin B. Haugen
Slith Parachute Infantry Regiment
Col
Olsmith
Two Islands Occupied By Americans
Allied forces completed capture of Vila Airfield and Kolombangara Island in the Central and Southern Solomons with no resistance. General MacArthur said the operation began October 6 and ended October 9, finding wrecked enemy aircraft and supplies as well as evidence of a hasty retreat by Japanese forces.
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Vila Airfield
Kolombangara Island
Southwest Pacific
Kolombangara
MacArthur
Vila
Tokyo
Japan
Vella Lavella Island
Rendova Island
New Georgia
Munda
Guadalcanal
Choiseul
Bougainville
Nazi Submarines Reported in Kara Sea Operations
German radio claimed submarines were active in the Kara Sea near Novaya Zemlya within the Arctic Circle and attacked ships across the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean. It said ten merchant vessels, three ore carriers, and one escort ship were sunk in the engagement.
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Associated Press
Kara Sea
Arctic Circle
Russia
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Novaya Zemlya
Government Strikes Stymied by Smith Conally Act Mystery
Washington reports the Smith Conally anti strike act leaves gaps in data as no agency including the BLS fully knows its impact. BLS lacks a complete tally of strikes since June 25 and OWI clipping service cuts threaten long term statistics. Prior monthly strike counts hovered around 400 with private boards offering partial views.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
United States
The
OWI
Congress
Agnecy
White House
Office of War Mobilization
N. Arnold Tolles
National Industrial Conference Board
New York Research Organization
Red Army drives on in Europe and the Dnieper front
The article describes renewed Soviet autumn offensives from Europe to the Dnieper area with emphasis on capturing key Nazi strongpoints for a winter push. It notes Russian stamina despite rains and mud, questions if Allied invasion plans influence Moscow, and cites Lt Gen Ira C. Eaker predicting a Channel and North Sea invasion. Bomber fleets pound Hitler's fortress to aid Soviet operations.
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Europe
Solomons
23 Soldiers Killed In Naples Blast
Twenty three American officers and men died and over thirty were injured when a delayed action mine exploded in a Naples building wing. The blast demolished the wing as crowds passed to a cathedral. German planners are suspected, with at least two tons of dynamite in a cellar via a concealed tunnel. Army engineers inspect many Naples buildings for explosives.
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Naples
Yugoslav Partisans Expand Hold On Recovered Territory
Guerilla fighting in Slav ia intensified as Tito’s partisans report capturing three towns in Slavonia Sloven ia and eastern Bosnia. They claim control of Cacea Bijeljina and Kamnica with derailed German trains on the Zagreb Vinkovci rail line while targeting key rail routes and harbors along the Adriatic coast.
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London
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Drug Tito
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Slovenia
Bosnia
Second Croat
Cacea
red-Vinkovci
Bijeljina
Vinkovci
Belgrade
Kamnica
Brecica
Slo
Strel Rtisan
Greb
Ogulin
Lijubljana-Trieste
Gorizia
Fiume
Susak
Free Yugoslav Radio
Trieste
Adriatic
Wake Island Falls Under Record Two Day Assault
Wake Island suffered massive damage after a two day Navy air and sea attack led by Rear Admiral Montgomery. More than 61 Japanese planes were destroyed and two ships were left in ruins, with 320 tons of bombs dropped on the atolls. The operation cost 13 American planes, with heavy losses on Wake Island.
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United States Navy
Pacific
Wake Island
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Nimitz
Navy
Alfred E. Montgomery
Tirpitz Hit By British Submarines
British midget submarines damaged the Nazi battleship Tirpitz in Altenfjord Norway on September 22. The attack, carried out in safe anchorages, involved underwater damage and prompted later reports of a successful operation despite earlier claims of a repulsed assault.
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Norway
Geman
Tirpitz
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