British Brace For Attack On Egypt Japs Advance
Soviet and Axis forces clash on the Crimea as Sevastopol faces a new German wedge. German losses total around 100000 in three weeks, while Russian defenses retreat to stand their ground along the Black Sea base. Front reporting notes repeated waves of assaults, encirclement, and heavy artillery as the battle enters a climactic stage.
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Crimea
Kharkov
Crimean
Sovietia
Russia
Michael Kalinin
Soviet Information Bureau
Leningrad
Kalinin
Ukraine
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Swerenaja Bay
High Command
Severnaya Bay
Tobruk
Reorganization of WPB Likely In Near Future
WPB to undergo a full overhaul with top officials shuffled and production tied closer to military strategy. William Harrison to move to the War Department while Donald Nelson coordinates with army and navy chiefs to standardize equipment and align US and Allied production.
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Washington
War Production Board
WPB
William H. Harrison
War Department
Service of Supply
Donald M. Nelson
Army and Navy Chiefs of Staff
Oliver Lyttleton
Nelson
United Nations
United States
Senate Defense Investigating Committee
Luther Gulick
Columbia University
School of Business Administration
Gas Shortage Probe Approved Amid Rationing Talks
Congressional leaders backed a five member special committee with a $5000 appropriation to probe gasoline and fuel oil shortages and delivery methods. The plan focuses on eastern states with hints the inquiry may affect any future nationwide rationing, though senators doubt such action. Dry pumps stranded thousands along the Atlantic seaboard as Philadelphia reported all 3,500 stations closed by Sunday afternoon.
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Washington
Maloney
D-Conn
Connally
D-Tex
Thomas
Dokla
Wheeler
D-Mont
Atlantic Seaboard
Philadelphia
25 Ships Sunk In Atlantic In Past Week
The United Nations counted 25 merchant ships sunk in the Atlantic last week as Hitler orders intensified U-boat activity. The toll rose to 290 since Pearl Harbor with one more ship sunk in the Gulf of Mexico. Sen. Hill urged huge cargo submarines. three US ships were launched. Over 100 sailors and passengers lost, 650 rescued, 80+ missing. Sunk vessels included nine US ships and multiple foreign carriers.
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Atlantic
Hitler
Sun
Gulf of Mexico
Pearl Harbor
West Indies
Ireland
Europe
Sen. Hill
D-Ala
U. S
West Coast Resort Is Shelled
Japanese forces conducted rapid shellings along the North American mainland with attacks on Estevan Point Vancouver Island and coastal Oregon near Seaside and Astoria, while a Seaside area shelling caused no casualties. A Kiska Aleutian claim reported a cruiser damaged and a transport sunk by army bombers.
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British Columbia
Oregon
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Astoria
Columbia River
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Vancouver
Puget Sound
United States
Pacific Coast
Plant Explosion Kills Three at Liberty Powder Plant
An explosion at a Liberty powder plant unit near Uniontown Pennsylvania, a division of the Olin Corporation, killed three men and injured two others. Fire and rescue crews responded to the blast at the southwestern coal region facility.
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Uniontown
Liberty Powder
Pennsylvania
Olin Corporation
Pair Bound To Court In Extortion Case At Kingsport
Kingsport man S F Godsey and Bristol resident Glenn Barbe, both 31, faced extortion charges filed by Dr A M G Wallace. Magistrates set bonds at 5000 each as they bound the pair over to the grand jury after a preliminary hearing. Wallace testified the men pressured him at Tri Cities airport and a cemetery, threatening his life and coercing him to sign checks for 10000 and 2000.
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Kingsport
Glenn Barbe
Bristol
A. M. G. Wallace
Gate City
T. Mackerron
George E. Bradley
Wallace
Tri-Cities
FDR Churchill Talks Near Statement as Nations Conference
White House says Roosevelt and Churchill push day and night talks with military experts. They expect a joint statement once a public briefing is ready, while ongoing discussions remain off the record with staff and other parties.
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Roosevelt
Churchill
White House
United Nations
Stephen Early
Europe
North
Africa
Early Said
Tobruk Fall Opens Way For Rommel
British reports say Axis forces crushed Tobruk, with 25,000 Allied troops captured or missing. German and Italian columns moved toward Fort Capuzzo and Bir El Gobi as Rommel eyes an assault on Egypt. Desert fighting left Allied armor weakened and coastal bombings continued.
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Middle East
Libya
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Sidi Barrani
Fuka
Ritchie
Berlin
Bir el Gobi
Erwin Rommel
Libyan Disaster Threatens Second Front and Prolongs War
British reports warn a Trafalgarlike Libyan defeat may derail attempts for a second front in Europe this year. Tobruk’s siege collapse alarms allies as Rommel’s armored drive tests Auchinleck’s Eighth Army within 60 days.
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Germany
Middle East
Far East
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House of Commons
United States
Tobruk
Claude Auchinleck
Eighth Army
Erwin Rommel
Vichy Premier Langues On Europe In Radio Address
Pierre Laval declared in a radio talk that France must join the new Europe led by Hitler or face being cheated. Across the Channel, distant guns and bombs from France and surface-ship firing echoed through heat haze as clashes continued near the coast.
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Pierre Laval
London
English Channel
France
Senator Pepper defends war victims aid measure
Washington Senator Pepper of Florida told the senate today that his bill authorizing government benefits to civilian victims of war action aligns with President Roosevelt's policies and aims to support those harmed by conflict.
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Pepper
D-Fla
Senate Today
Roosevelt
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