Fifth Army presses Cassino drive in Italy frontline
Heavy artillery and patrols mark Canadian and Allied actions on the Cassino front. British and American forces push across pececia river and seize heights near Cassino as they close in on the town. American forces take Mount Chiaia and Mount Porchia while diversions and air raids continue along the line. Pola harbor raids by US bombers from Italian bases hit the Istrian port, aiding Yugoslav partisans and targeting German supply routes to the Balkans.
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DOUGLAS AMARON
ITALY
Cable
San Tommaso
Ortona
Arielli
Dynan
Associated Press
iens
Fifth Army
Cassino
Peccia river
Peccia
Mount Maggiore
5th Army
Rome
Mount Maio
Catena Vecchio
San Vittore
CHIAIA oo
Chiaia
Cerraro
Mount
8th Army
Pola
Balkans
Trieste
Fume
Yugoslavia
Germany
Yugoslav
Villar Perosa
Turin
Soviet Drive Near Sarny and Odessa-Warsaw Line
Soviet forces surged across Ukraine advancing to within five miles of Sarny and 33 miles of the Odessa Warsaw railway. Vatutin and Konev troops pushed west and south, threatening German lines and trapping units in the Smela Gap while seizing towns and war materiel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry C. Cassidy
Associated Press
OSCOW
Red army
Ukraine
Sarny
Poland
Odessa
Warsaw
Nikolai Vatutin
Bug river
Vinnitsa
Bug
Dnieper
Smela gap
Dnieper river
Ivan
Konev
Alexandrovka
Kirivoerad
Vatutin
Zornische
Zhornische
Odessa-Warsaw
Transnistria
Rumania
Schastlivaya
Wilno-Rovno
Brest-Litovsk
Zhernishche
Russia
Polonnoe
Kaments Podolsk
Zhitomir
Shepetecka
Korosten-Tarnopol
Sperdichev- Rovno
Naming Sleeping Cars A Railcar Nomenclature Tale
The Toronto Telegram explains how Pullman sleeping cars adopted a formal naming system as fleets expanded. Early cars carried numbers and names like Pioneer, then city and region based names appeared. Observation cars use Mt or Mountain, Lake series runs ten sections, plus drawing rooms and parlor cars shifted from floral names to city names along operating lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pullman
Toronto Telegram
George M. Pullman
Point Hope
Pullman Company
Wagner Sleeping Car Company
Wagner
Richmond canthen
Chicago Public Library
U S Raiders Bomb Sofia In Fifth Heavy Raid
A large force of American heavy bombers attacked Sofia the Bulgarian capital in a noon raid, following yesterday's operation against Pola. The raid targets Germany’s troop and supply routes in Yugoslavia Romania and Bulgaria with limited details released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ALGIERS
Sofia
Bulgaria
Pola
Adriatic
Yugoslavia
Romania
Ciano Sentenced to Death by Nazi Treason Trial
Berlin reports Count Galeazzo Ciano Mussolini’s son in law and former foreign minister was condemned to death by a Nazi sponsored treason trial. Nineteen Fascist Grand Council members faced verdicts with six present, including Ciano, while others escaped. The Verona trial followed earlier erroneous reports of executions.
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LONDON
C.P
Galeazzo Ciano
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Germany
DNB
grand council
Mussolin
Tullio Cianetti
Ciano
Mussolini
Edda Mussoliini
Berlin
Verona
Emilio Bono
Ethiopia
Carlo Pareschi
Giovanni Marinelli
Cianett
Endangered Lady Nelson in Algiers Exploding Ship
Staff Sgt. J G Buckle based in London said the Canadian hospital ship Lady Nelson was endangered in Algiers when a nearby vessel exploded, killing 400 people. One ship separated the Lady Nelson from the blast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LONDON
New Britain War Flares Across New Guinea Front
United States Marines on New Britain Island resumed the attack around Borgen Bay east of Cape Gloucester as bombers and fighters from the South Pacific command raided enemy installations. In the clash near Cape St George, at least 10 Japanese planes were shot down and attackers suffered six losses.
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ALLIED
New Guinea
United States
New Britain Island
Borgen Bay
Cape Gloucester
south Pacific command
Cape St. George
New Ireland
Aled
Silimati Point
Bergen Bay
Solomon Island
Cape St George
RABAUL
GUADALCANAL
A.P
Bougainville
New Britain
Tito calls Yugoslav officers to join liberation army
Marshal Tito urged all Yugoslav officers and men in German service or aligned with puppet leadership to report to Yugoslav liberation posts. He cited battles near Banja Luka Travnik and Banija where German units suffered heavy losses as partisans pressed resistance across eastern Bosnia Croatia and Slovenia.
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LONDON
Yugoslavia
Josip Broz
Tito
Nedic
Pavelic
Rupnik
Yugoslav army of liberation
Croatia
Banija
Slovenia
John Dafoe Dies Dean of Canadian Journalism at 77
John Wesley Dafoe, 77, editor in chief and president of the Winnipeg Free Press, died suddenly from a heart attack on the way to hospital. A renowned figure in Canadian journalism, he declined honors yet shaped national editorial policy and international affairs coverage. Funeral services are set for Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WINNIPEG
John Wesley Dafoe
Dafoe
Winnipeg Free Press
Manitoba
Queen’s
Alberta
Columbia
University of Manitoba
Combermere
Ont
Montreal Star
Canada
Dominion
Canal Project Criticized. War Dept. Navigates Final Fate
Senate Truman committee branded the Canal oil project a grave error from its start and urged negotiating fair terms with Canada and Imperial Oil if it is to proceed. It left ultimate decision to the War Department, noting potential savings of under 17 million if abandoned now and criticizing haste in 1942 contracts as improvident.
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Co. R. BLACKBURN
WASHINGTON
C.P
Canal
northwest
Canada
war department
senate
Truman committee
Imperial Oil Company
United States
Imperial Ou
Air Raiding At Minimum
Allied air activity against continental targets eased to small forays with no last night raids announced. Heavily armed RAF and RCAF bombed Stettin on Jan 5, sinking a German warship about 4,000 tons in the harbor after direct hits. Other vessels were wrecked per a Stockholm report quoted by BBC via CBS.
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LONDON
Vichy
RAF
RCAF
Baltic
Stettin
Stockholm
BBC
CBS
New York
Gable Bruised in Auto Collision in LA
Captain Clark Gable, unharmed in bombing missions over France and Germany, is nursing bruises after a boulevard stop accident in Los Angeles. A police report said his car was rear ended by a war worker's vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LOS ANGELES
Clark Gable
France
Germany
Gable
More Money In Circulation In Canada
Ottawa reports that active bank notes in Canada have reached a record 750 million dollars. About 40 million in chartered bank notes are with the public, 710 million in Bank of Canada notes, and 163 million more Bank of Canada notes are held by banks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OTTAWA
Dominion
Bank of Canada
Russians claim 8000 Germans slain on Ukrainian front
A Russian communique reported the slaughter of more than 8,000 Germans on the 2nd Ukrainian army front. It said the Smela to Khristinovka railway line was cut by advancing Red Army and listed several towns captured including Berezno, Luvipeln, Luybar, Baranovitsa, Memirey and Makovka, with rail links damaged and supplies disrupted.
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LONDON
C.P
Smela
Khristinovka
Berezno
Sarny
Royno
Poland
Luvipeln
Zhitoma
Luybar
Vinnitsa
Baranovitsa
Memirey
Mankovka
Kiev
Yarevatka
Ukraine
Kamenka
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oh of
TAULV
hs. ei
nr lee
air command
Ancona
Aquila
Buki
Nikolai F. Vatutin
Ivan S.S. Konev
PINK
NoveOKhi
ZHITOMAR
CERNAUTI
UMAN
saint
ALPE
CRIMEA
old Poland
Kiev-Warsaw
Ivan &.Konev
Kirovograd
Krivoi Rog
M.P
C.C.F
U.S
Chief
Lhireaudeau Ruintret
Lyman P. Duff
Montreal
supreme court of Canada
Lady Nelson
Gloucester
GLEN CLEMENTS
Broz
John Dafoe
Mr. Dafoe
department of public information
Paris
Lloyd George
Great Britain
Mr Dafoe
Empire
The Canal Project
BOSNIA
Feland
Warsaw-Odessa
Wartsaw-Minsk
PAGET
Cairo
Bernard Paget
Middle East
Pasee
Norway
British home forces
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