Allies press twin drives in Italy and Pacific air war progresses
Allied reports detail heavy air victories as Kenney claims 104 enemy planes shot down with 92 destroyed in air and 12 on ground. Oro Bay and Finshhaven attacks yield substantial Japanese losses, while Mitchell bombers raid Wewak at tree-top height with several enemy aircraft destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Say
George C. Kenye
New Guinea
Oro Bay
New Britain
Wewak
Boram
Depong Com
Reds Imperil Entire Nazi Front Line
Soviet forces launch two new offensives west of the Dnieper to seize both river banks and threaten the German front. A bridgehead forms north of Kiev in the Gomel sector as fighting rages near Kremenchug and Dnepropetrovsk with encirclement risk to Ukraine’s capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry C. Cassidy
Moscow
Red Army
Dnieper River
Dnieper
Kremenchug
Dnepropetrovsk
Kiev
Gomel
Loev
France
Netherlands
Denmark
Opelnostoye
Smolensk
Velikie Lake
Fifth Army Captures Cancello Ruviano and Nerrone
Allied forces report Fifth Army troops have occupied Cancello Ruviano and Nerrone after fierce fighting near the Volturno. British Eighth Army patrols push west toward Rome as Germans set fires in rear areas, possibly destroying dumps before withdrawal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algiers
Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Volturno
Cancello
Ruviano
Nerrone
Eighth Army
Apennine
Rome
Clark
Salerno
Caiazzo
Amorosi
Montecilfone
Termoli
Adriatic
Yugoslav Partisans Stall German Advance Near Split
Bitter fighting raged along a Yugoslav front with Partisans reporting success against German supply lines near Zenica and along railways in Slovenia. They claimed the defeat of an enemy column near Emotski, occupation of Studeni, and heavy German losses in northern Italy after a partisan derailment and artillery strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yugoslavia
Libera
Zenica
Bosnia
Balkan Ruhr
Bilo
Lasva
Free Yugoslavia Radio
Spehere
Erwin Rommel
Emotski
Studeni
Sinj
Sibenik
Bakar
Karlovac
Gospic
Canarra
Slovenia
Josip (Tito) Broz
Dalmatia
Zara
Sibenia
Montenegro
Trieste
Fiume
Italy
Tuzla
Arnold Says J. S. Getting Upper Hand
General Henry H. Arnold, head of the U S Army Air Forces, said Allied air power was gaining control in every theater. He minimized losses from the Schweinfurt raid, noting 60 bombers went down with 593 crewmen missing and an estimated $18 million in damages. He warned against assuming the war would end soon and pledged to replace lost crews while growing air strength.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
H. H. Arnold
Theinfurt
Germany
Pacific
Hun- Washington
Arn
Arnold
Iion
Howev
United States Army Air Force
Schweinfurt
Polish resistance arrests and German threats in occupied Krakow
Stockholm dispatch reports Gestapo arrests widen resistance crackdown. Nazi authorities threaten executions for every German casualty and reveal trials for 862 Germans in Krakow prisons including 30 Gestapo members, five policemen, 32 servants, and 28 officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Swit
Krakow
Gestapo
Intense Sandstorms Hamper Red Fighters
Pravda reports sand storms at Melitopol choke vision and clog rifles on the front. Troops advance with hand grenades while dust clouds whip up from the steppes and force men to carry armaments under raincoats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Melitopol
Communist Party
Pravda
No Losses In RAF Raid On Berlin
RAF Mosquitos bombed targets in Berlin and Western Germany with no losses, while fighters attacked airfields and communications in occupied territory. A large force of bombers crossed the channel, mines were laid in enemy waters, and shipping off the Dutch coast was attacked. Four civilians killed in London after bombs hit the metropolitan area.
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London
Berlin
Germany
Air Ministry
Schweinfurt
Britain
East Anglia
England
France
Family of Defeated Nazi General Interned
Moscow radio said the family of Nazi Lt Gen Schmidt, reported to have suicided after defeat at Belgo, was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp. The report cites Tass and says papers on Schmidt’s body detailed his defeat and command of the 19th tank division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Moscow Radio
Schmidt
Tass
Nazis Sitting On Labor Bombshell
Madrid Oct 18 Nazi authorities face upheaval from 12,000,000 foreign workers in the Reich as discontent grows among French Italian and Balkan labor. Himmler reportedly urged Hitler to move suspect workers to curb propaganda and sabotage rising in camps where Mediterranean laborers live.
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Charles
Foltz
Madrid
Reich
Mediterranean
Tto
Mussolini
Italy
Germany
Gestapo
Croatia
Serbia
Balkans
Himmler
Heinrich Himmler
Adolf Hitler
Opponents Open Door to Killing Major School Funding Bill
Senators claimed enough votes to pigeon hole or defeat a proposed federal funding bill granting 300 million dollars annually to common schools. Advocates, including many Southern lawmakers, warned the outcome would be close as debate resumes. Issues blocking action include tax legislation, food subsidy policy, and postwar peace resolutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Ways and Means Committee
Commodity Credit Corporation
Connally
Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Marines christen torpedo-fighter Expectant name
Laguna Beach Calif Maj Rolland F Smith and two crewmen christen their torpedo-fighter Expectant as all three men announce they will be fathers soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laguna Beach
Calif
Rolland F. Smith
Marine Corps Flier
Warren cites Army contract frauds and seeks GAO control
Lindsay Warren, the comptroller general, told the House Military Committee that Army contracting officers allowed hundreds of questionable claims including charges for false teeth liquor and juke boxes. He warned that billions may be involved and opposed giving the War Department final settlement jurisdiction, calling regulations an appeal by industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Lindsay Warren
House Military Committee
Army
Warren
War Department
General Accounting Office
Congress
Front in flux as Hitler forces reel from new retreat hints
The report sketches a volatile Russo German front with a German official noting a "big detaching movement" by Nazi forces. Speculation grows that a fresh retreat may be underway as the long frontline buckles and a southern crisis deepens.
Russians breach German line near Dnieper and threaten Crimea
The article reports a major Soviet breach above Dnepropetrovsk threatening to envelop southern Nazi forces and isolate Crimea. It notes the Isthmus of Perekop linking Crimea to the mainland and cites alleged orders to defend Crimea to the last man, with implications for control of Sevastopol and the Danube mouths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dnepropetrovsk
Crimea
Perekop
Melitopol
Hitler
Kerekop
Stockholm
Fuehrer
Black Sea
Dardanelles
Russia
Mediterranean
Balkans
Middle East
Sevastopol
Bessarabia
Rumania
Danube
Bulgaria
Japanese Column Retreats After Chinese Fire
Chungking Oct 18 One of the main Japanese columns in the push to force Chinese across the Salween has been broken up and is retreating in several directions. The Chinese high command said the column suffered severe losses from heavy Chinese fire while moving along the Burma road into southwestern China.
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Chungking
Yunnan
Salween River
Burma
China
South Still Holds Edge On Whiskey
The treasury department notes the south including West Virginia still dominates illicit liquor production with a shift to smaller stills. September 1943 seizures reached 140 in DC Maryland North Carolina and West Virginia up from 86 in September 1942 while Alabama Florida Georgia and South Carolina totaled 252, up from 239. Nationally 90 stills were seized, down from 455 last September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
South
West Virginia
Treasury Department
Tony
District of Columbia
Maryland
North Carolina
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
London Paper Defends Lend Lease in Salons Attack
The London Daily Mail rebutted US senators criticism of lend-lease reporting, arguing Britain supplied material to America with no sole claim to credit. It noted milk aid to North Africa in 1942 came from British stocks and asserted lend-lease was a two way affair with Britain giving much to America.
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London
The
London Daily Mail
America
Britain
Daily Mail
North
Africa
Red Cross
Angelians
Lendlease
U. S
L. G. Illingworth
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