Kassel Raid Puts 44 German Bombers At Risk In Heavy Allied Attack
UK air force reports a heavy raid penetrating Kassel’s defenses with 1500 long tons of bombs against a major German armament city. Frankfurt also hit by a subsidiary force as RAF losses rise to 163 for the month. The Kassel strike involved 44 bombers and faced intensified German night fighter activity in murky weather.
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Robert N. Sturdevant III
Kassesing
Frankfurt
RAF
Kassel
Air Ministry
Fish Bomber Command
Berlin
Ruhr
Henschel Locomo and Armament Works
Europe
Fieseler Aircraft Plant
Ger
Mine Chiefs Seek End to Alabama Miner Strike
United Mines Workers leaders urged 20 000 Alabama miners to return to work as War Labor Board warned of White House intervention and possible mine seizure if production did not resume by Monday. Meanwhile five operating unions threatened a 350 000 member strike over a 4 cent pay rise, calling it insufficient as talks paused on Illinois coal contract.
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Associated Press
United Mines Workers
Alabama
War Labor Board
WLB
William H. Davis
White House
UMW
Illinois
Eighty Eight Die As Blacked Out Ships Collide
The navy announced a disaster after salvaging tests. Twenty eight merchant crew and navy gunners survived, many leaping into flames and oil. Coast guard boats reached the scene within minutes as two vessels collided at night, with one ship carrying 43 crew and seven gunners and the other 73 crew and 25 gunners.
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Navy
Coast Guard
Christopher P. Finley
Miami
Joseph S. O'Brien
East
Washington Street
Indianapolis
D. Greenco
Lincoln Street
Franklin
Mass
Calvin
Jap Hopes To Hit Coast Of New Guinea Blasted
Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific repelled a Japanese effort to reach the New Guinea coast on the Huon peninsula. Australian ninth division troops and American airpower drove the enemy back from Katinka toward Sattelberg, closing the coastal corridor and inflicting heavy casualties.
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New Guinea
Southwest Pacific
Huon Peninsula
Allied von Finschhafen
Ninth Division
Sattelberg
Lae
Salamaua
Tripower Meet In Fifth Day
United States Britain and Russia hold fifth day of talks in Moscow as Hull meets Molotov separately and with Eden, Fu Ping-sang, and other diplomats. Officials describe discussions as friendly, focusing on shared goals of victory and a better world.
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Moscow
United States
Britain
Russia
Anthony Eden
Joseph Stalin
Vyascheslav Molotov
Hull
Fu Ping Sang
Molotov
Sforza Returns to Italy Blames Fascist Resistance
Count Carlo Sforza, back from exile, says fascist passive resistance continues in southern Italy as he returns to his liberated homeland.
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Bari
Italy
Carlo Sforza
Allies Hold Initiative A Year Ago At Al Alamein
The report recalls October 1942 when Montgomerys Eighth Army struck near Al Alamein and turned the tide of Africa war. Allies seized the initiative despite German advances to within 80 miles of Alexandria and readied the combined American British invasion that would follow. The piece links the desert battle to the later North Africa campaign and Eisenhower, Alexander, Patton and Montgomery's roles.
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Stephen Barber
Cairo
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
al Alamein
Egypt
Africa
Alexandria
Mediterranean
North
Haridly
Eisenhower
Alexander
Patton
Montgomery
Battle for Africa Opens as Axis Hopes Fade
A year after El Alamein the Allied offensive sweeps across North Africa Sicily and southern Italy. Axis morale collapses after a four day bombardment as 10 000 prisoners seek British captivity while lend lease routes to Russia and the Orient expand. Continued on page 2 Sec A.
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North Africa
Sicily
Italy
Sardinia
Grosica
Dodecanese
Cape
Mediterranean
Russia
Road To Rome Blocked By Nazi Army
Allied forces repelled a German counterattack in the Alife area and entrenched on the Massico Mount Matese line while the Eighth Army seized Lupara near Montecilone. Air power supported ground units with raids on rail hubs Grosseto and Orvieto and on Rhodes Maritza airfield. Navies damaged enemy vessels off Leghorn as Swift boats prowled the northwest Italian coast.
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Algiers
Albert Kesselring
Fifth Army
Alife
Massico
Mount Matese
Rome
Salerno
Eighth Army
Montecilione
Lupara
Italy
Northwest African Air Force
Grosgeto
Orvieto
Eleusis
Athens
RAF Middle East Command
Maritza
Rhodes
Melitopol Falls to Red Army After 11-Day Street Fight
The Russian Army captured Melitopol after 11 days of house-to-house combat. Soviet forces pushed south toward the Crimea in a drive to cut off the peninsula at Perekop and Kherson. German losses exceeded 20,000 with 57 tanks and 18 guns wrecked as defenders were forced back.
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Judson O'Quinn
London
Melitopol
Crimea
Moscow
Perekop
Kherson
Medi O
Monitor
Dnieper
Joseph Stalin
Lochna
Stalin
Crimean
Zaporozhe
Sea of Azov
Hitler
Soviet Monitor
Kremenchug
Krivoi Rog
Pereyaslav
Red Army
Cordell Hull
Anthony Eden
Stalingrad
Dor I. Tolbukhin
Taganrog
Perekop Isthmus
Dnie
Twenty Killed In Army Transport Crash At Fort Benning
Twenty officers and men died when an army transport plane crashed at Lawson field Fort Benning during a night parachute training flight. The aircraft carried two officers and three air corps enlisted men along with fifteen parachute troopers. Fire trapped occupants after the takeoff incident ending the routine training flight.
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Fort Benning
Lawson Field
Army Air Corps
Three Negroes Escape Wake County Jail
Jailer J R Jernigan and two white prisoners were injured as three Black inmates broke from Wake County jail on the fourth floor of the county courthouse in Raleigh. Clifton Vaughn and Jernigan suffered head injuries. none serious. Sheriff Numa Turner said Clifton Vaughn had been arrested for drunkenness earlier.
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Raleigh
Wake County
J. R. Jernigan
Charles Aughn
Doc’’ Clifton
Numa F. Turner
Clifton
Vaughn
Jernigan
Rail Unions Order Nationwide Strike Vote Among 350000
Five operating rail unions call a full vote on a possible walkout after rejecting a four cent hourly raise from an emergency board. Delegates name three representatives per union to issue ballots with results expected in 20 to 30 days. Leaders cite a 25 percent rise in living costs since 1941 and a 40 percent jump in food costs.
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Emen 5
Ses
David Robertson
Missing Shirt Stressed In Trial Of De Marigny
Nassau Bahamas October 23 1944 Nancy Oakes De Marigny 19 and torn by family tragedy watches her husband Alfred de Marigny face murder charges in the Sir Harry Oakes case Her mother Lady Eunice Oakes arrives to testify next week and Nancy learns of her absence from a planned reunion The Crown focus centers on the accused's remark to police that Sir Harry should have been killed.
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de Marigny
FE. V. W. Jones
Nassau
Bahamas
Comely
Nancy Oakes de Marigny
Nancy
Eunice Oakes
United States
Lady Oakes
George al Trolle
Raymond C. Schindler
Crowns
the Burr
Scotland i
John Douglas
Harry
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