Leipzig Blitz Marked First Major German Target Of War
Air raids hit Leipzig and Dueren as RAF and RCAF forces press a wide German offensive. The Leipzig attack, the first big strike on the city, followed by strikes on Hannover and Dueren, with heavy bomber losses reported by both sides. Mosquito and Lancastrian aircraft supported the operation amid a high escort strength.
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London
Leipzig
Reich
RAF
Hannover
Dueren
Schwein
Ger
Eng
Germany
Berlin
Kassel
Gilze-Rijen
Rncan
Raf Spit
Japanese American unit fights along road to Rome in Italy
Secretary Stimson reported a Japanese American unit, the 100th Infantry, participated in the Italian mainland assault near the Appian Way. Capt. Taro Suzuki from Honolulu described the advance under heavy fire, sinking or swimming through blown bridges and engaging German machine guns as scouts moved ahead.
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Washington
Tunisia
War Stimson
Rome
100Th Infantry
Italion
Italy
Taro Suzuki
Honolulu
Suzuki Ried
War Department
Nazis Claim Sinking Seven Allied Ships
German high command reports seven allied ships totaling about 54 000 tons sunk from Mediterranean convoys by U boats. Berlin broadcasts claim attacks occurred east of Mar and between Sicily and Salerno, raising allied losses to over 80 000 tons, though no independent confirmation is provided.
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Associated Press
High Command
Mediterranean
Berlin
Mar
Sicily
Salerno
War Secretary Denies War Department Waste Charges
Undersecretary Robert P. Patterson rejected claims of inefficiency in the War Department during a House military committee hearing. He cited 99.95 percent audit approval for four months ending August 1943 and argued most disallowances are temporary or corrected before review, refuting charges of reckless handling of funds and property.
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Washington
Robert P. Patterson
House Military Committee
War Department
United States
Warren
General Accounting Office
Patterson
Comptroller General
Darren
Keitel Leads High Command at Pivotal Nazi Conference
The high command gathered in a Keitel called meeting amid reports of Germany facing its war’s darkest days. Observers note Keitel’s central role as Hitler’s trusted military adviser shaping rebalance of strategy and morale.
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Hitler
Germany
German News Agency
DNB
Thefuehrer
Wilhelm Keitel
Keitel
Tuehrer
Kitel
Fuehrer
War labor grants overtime to Sears supervisory staff
Washington reports that war labor today authorized time and a half pay for Sears Roebuck supervisory employees nationwide for work beyond the basic week. The measure matches overtime for non supervisory workers, reversing a prior rule that required six extra hours before OT.
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Washington
Sears-Roebuck S
Nazi Allied Prisoner Exchange Reaches Completion at Sea
In GOETBORG Sweden on October 21 approximately 5,000 wounded British Canadian and Australian soldiers and 14 Americans were exchanged for a similar number of German invalids. Hospital ships Atlantis Empress of Russia Ruegen and Drottningholm sailed for Britain and Germany. Among the 14 Americans were 10 airmen one parachutist and two infantrymen with one more Canadian. Pvt Robert M Scott of Greensboro NC was among the returning Americans.
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Goetborg
Sweden
Britain
Germany
Meteor
Kaiser
Atlantis
Robert M. Scott
Greensboro
N. C
Sicily
Famine Claims 25 000 Lives in Bengal and Delhi Toll Rises
A Calcutta dispatch reports 25 000 deaths in Bengal over four months due to famine. New Delhi records 2 154 deaths in the last week as mortalities climb in India.
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Calcutta
Bengal
India
Acme
Frank Cancellare
War Picture Pool
London
Daily Mail
New Delhi
Coroner Testifies On Sir Harry Oakes Death Details
Nassau Bahamas October 21 Coroner L W Fitzmaurice described in minute detail the wounds and burns that killed Sir Harry Oakes last July to a Bahamas supreme court jury. The testimony came on day four of Alfred de Marigny trial for murder as defense cross examined the first physician and prepared to call two young women who attended the cottage dinner the night of the slaying.
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Nassau
Bahamas
L. W. Fitzmaurice
Bahamas Supreme Court
Harry Oakes
Alfred de Marigny
Fitzmaurice
de Marigny
Harry
Nancy
Godfrey Higgs
H. A. Quackenbush
Harold G. Christie
Oakes
Higgs
Dr. Quackenbush
French Patriots Raid German Arm Warehouse Near Limoges
French patriots in captured Vichy youth uniforms raided a German arms depot near Limoges to seize land mines blamed for an assassination attempt on Fernand De Brinon. De Brinon disclosed the attack in a DNB interview broadcast from Paris, saying a splinter injured him and his secretary was wounded.
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Madrid
Vichy
Limoges
Fernand de Brinon
Chantilly
de Brinon
DNB
Paris
Germans Withdraw from Crimea to Avoid Russian Trap
London reports German armies in Crimea began a mass withdrawal via the Perekop land bridge to escape a powerful Russian advance threatening their retreat. Soviet forces push west and south, racing toward Krivoi Rog with more than 1,500 Nazis said slain. capture would seal off tens of thousands in the Crimea.
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Associated Press
London
Crimea
Perekop Land Bridge
Moscow
Krivoi Rog
Dnemap
Dnieper
Melitopol
Russians Break Through Front Near Chernihiv Front
A German propaganda broadcast reported eight Russian rifle divisions and several hundred tanks broke a three mile gap northwest of Chernihiv. The breakthrough was said to be at the eastern edge of the Pinsk marshes between the Sozh and Doleper rivers, south of the Kiev Gomel area.
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London
International Information Bureau
German Propaganda Agency
Chernigov
Pinsk
Sozh
Doleper
Kiev
Gomel
Battle Front Shifts as Red Army Presses Toward Crimea
Front dispatches report heavy fighting inside a city as the army advances at Bayonet Point. The elimination of German forces in the Dnieper bend appears near assured, paving the way for a Red Army drive to Perekop and the Dnieper mouth at the Black Sea. If Nazis escape Crimea, a debacle comparable to Stalingrad looms.
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Dnieper
Perekop
Black Sea
Crimean
Stalingrad
Operators oppose coal wage pact framed by unions
Appalachian coal operators denounced the proposed portal-to-portal wage agreement between the United Mine Workers and Illinois operators as radical and a subterfuge. The hearing before the War Labor Board drew operators, UMW officials, and spectators as Edward R. Burke cited objections including inflationary impact, higher coal costs, and disruption of wage competition. John L. Lewis was reported ill with influenza.
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Washington
United Mine Workers
UMW
Illinois
War Labor
WLB
Thomas Kennedy
John L. Lewis
Edward R. Burke
Nebraska
Japs Advance In Bloody Battle For Finschhafen
Allied reports describe a large scale clash north of Finschhafen New Guinea as Japanese and Australian troops fight inland from Sattelberg and near the Song river with Tokyo forces seeking a coast bound line while Australian forces push toward Madang and Bougainville air actions intensify with heavy aerial losses for both sides.
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Southwest Pacific
Finschhafen
New Guinea
Sattelberg
Song River
MacArthur
New Britain
Salamaua
Lae
Shortland Island
Bougainville
Solomons
Brown Quits Price Control Head as OPA Chief
President Roosevelt accepted Prentiss M. Brown’s resignation as price administrator of the Office of Price Administration. Brown said in a six page letter that price control is well defined in laws and orders and the main task now is administration. The White House plans to nominate Chester Bowles to succeed him as OPA head. Bowles was previously OPA director for Connecticut. Brown, a former Michigan senator, took over from Leon Henderson less than a year ago.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Prentiss M. Brown
Brown
Senate
Chester Bowles
Office of Price Administration
Bowles
OPA
Connecticut
Michigan
Leon Henderson
Casualties At Volturno Put At 6 774
In Washington on October 21 Secretary of War Stimson said revised estimates of American casualties in Italy from September 8 to the Volturno battle period total 879 killed 3047 wounded and 2848 missing for a grand total of 6774. The figure is lower than the October 7 preliminary tally of 8307.
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Washington
Italy
Volturno River
Stimson
Fifth Army
Japan builds airfields in the East Indies near Australia
Allied reconnaissance reports rapid Japanese airfield construction across Timor Celebes Amboina Doom Kai Tanimbar Selaroe and Ceram. The sites in Arafura and Banda seas lie within an hour of allied bomber bases in northwestern Australia as Japan shields SW Pacific forces.
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Australia
Netherlands East Indies
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Admr
Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia
Timor
Celebes
Amboina
Doom
Kai
Tanimbar
Selaroe
Ceram
Arafura
Delinquency Shifts From Rural NC to Industrial Areas
A. W. Cline, Forsyth welfare superintendent, reports a study of juvenile delinquency in 92 of North Carolina's 100 counties shows cases moving from farm communities to industrial sections. The rise in all juvenile court cases is mainly in Forsyth Mecklenburg Durham Wake and Buncombe counties and in congested war industry centers. Cline notes the increase reflects case shifting between counties and highlights jail detention use in many counties. Sam E. Leonard chaired a panel on correctional institutions with state officials in attendance.
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Raleigh
A. W. Cline
Forsyth County Welfare
North Carolina
Cline
24Th Public Welfare Institute
Forsyth Welfare
Forsyth
Mecklenburg
Durham
Wake
Buncombe
Sam E. Leonard
Harmonious Session Hints of Second Front at Tri Partite Parley
Moscow talks run four hours with U S and British advisers present hinting at a western land front. Hull Harriman Deane Eden Ismay Mostov Golikov Litvinoff attend as Moscow press urges closer military coordination for war and postwar order while London and Moscow expect decisive plans.
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Moscow
Europe
U. S
John R. Deane
Hastings Ismay
RED Press
United States
Ussia
Great Britain
Moscow News
West
Cordell Hull
JW. Averell Harriman
Allied Gains Engulf Two More Towns
Allied forces press gains north of the Volturno River as Fifth Army probes German positions near Massico Ridge. Montgomery’s Eighth Army seizes Busso and Oratino while patrols continue along the Adriatic front above Termoli.
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Edward Kennedy
Algiers
Fifth Army
Volturno River
Massico Ridge
Mark W. Clark
Eighth Army
Bernard L. Montgomery
Vinchiaturo
Busso
Campobasso
Oratino
Baranello
Balkans
Nis
Yugoslavia
West Wen
Mont
Isernia
Italy
Venafro
Massico
Adriatic
Termoli
Volturno
British Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound Dies in London
Admiral of the fleet Sir Dudley Pound, 66, resigning due to ill health earlier this month, died in London. He steered Britain's navy through four critical war years, shaped modern naval policy, and served beside Churchill at key conferences before illness ended his tenure as First Sea Lord. He once commanded HMS Colossus at Jutland and led the Mediterranean fleet in 1935.
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London
Dudley Pound
Dudley
Britain
Quebec
Andrew Cunningham
Mediterranean
Sir Dudley
Royal Masonic Hospital
E Long
Churchill
Roosevelt
H. M. S. Colossus
Jutland
Italy
Germany
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