Americans Bomb Berlin By Daylight In Major Raid
Daylight raid on Germany involved more than 700 four engine bombers with long range fighters. Losses were reported as 59 American bombers and five fighters, with over 100 enemy fighters destroyed. Targets included Magdeburg and Halberstadt, and Berlin was also struck in a heavy air battle described as one of the war's greatest.
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ONDON
C.P
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Gladwin Hill
Associated. Press
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Halberstadt
Stockholm
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R.A.F
Leipzig
London
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Piraeus
Athens
Greece
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Sofia
Bulgaria
MARSHALL ISLANDS
WASHINGTON
A.P
Kwajalein island
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navy
Sarny Taken by Nazis Evacuated Before Red Army
Soviet forces under Stalin announced capture of Sarny a key fortified railway junction 350 miles inside Poland after crossing the Sluch river. Red Star dispatches described heavy German counter-attacks and continued Soviet westward push toward Brest-Litovsk and the Odessa Warsaw railway.
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Warsaw-Odessa
ONDON
Ukraine
Sarny
Stalin
Poland
Sluch
Polessoe
Moscow
Eddy Gilmore
Associated Press
Meco
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Odessa-Warsaw
Red Star
Nikolai Vatutin
Berdichev
Into Battle as Marines Storm Tarawa and Cassino Push
Photo shows Marine Corps photographer Obie Newcomb landing with the first wave at Tarawa. Allied forces seize more high ground toward Cassino in Italy, with Cervaro near Cassino reported in enemy hands but not confirmed by Allied HQ. Luftwaffe and naval air power hit the Balkans, with Piraeus and Sofia struck. bombers scorch harbor areas as fighters clash across fronts.
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Obie Newcomb
U.S. Marine Corps
Tarawa
Joseph Dynan
Associated Press
LGIERS
Italy
Cassino
Rome
Cervaro
Garigliano
Castelforte
Smallpox in Bengal famine linked outbreak in Calcutta
Maj. Gen. Douglas Stuart, Bengal commander, disclosed that an 8 smallpox epidemic has followed the Bengal famine, with a grave shortage of inoculators and vaccinators. Cholera remains present but on the decline.
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CALCUTTA
C-P. Reuters
Douglas Stuart
Bengal
Stuart
Mark Twain Fire Alarm Encounter Across the Street
Mark Twain and his wife moved into a new home when he looked from an upstairs window and saw a fire across the way. He politely introduced himself to the resident and warned her, “your house is on fire.” In London a separate obituary notes Joseph Adams as a famed gentleman’s gentleman to Lord Halifax, serving 50 years across three generations.
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Mark Twain
humorist
Clemens
New York Herald Tribune
LONDON
Joseph Adams
Adams
Lord Halifax
Washington
Halifax
Hickleton Hall
Doncaster
Mulock Near His Century
Sir William Mulock, turning 100 on January 19, remains active in public life, recalling a long career from Liberal MP for York North in 1882 to postmaster general, Ontario premier, and chief justice. He cites Canada as a world power, praises unity, and notes his pride in Canada now versus earlier.
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C.P
William Mulock
Canada
University of Toronto
Dominion
William
York North
federal labor department
Ontario Supreme Court
Sir William
Canadian Pacific Railway
Ontario
Russians Knock Off 60 000 Germans In 1944 Drive So Far
London report notes that in the first ten days of January the Russian 1st and 2nd Ukrainian armies reportedly disposed of more than 60,000 Germans and captured over 1,700 towns and hamlets. The claim comes from a Moscow radio commentator on Tuesday night.
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LONDON
Moscow
Nazis Admit Slav Power Campaign Moves Reported
London reports a Nazi military announcer said Germany would launch a new Yugoslav campaign against partisans in central and western Bosnia while Tito’s headquarters claimed a fresh German push. An Allied communique noted guerrilla aid and a Skoplje raid by heavy bombers on a key German supply base in southern Serbia.
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Yugoslavia
Tito
Bosnia
Algiers
Skoplje
Serbia
Military authority required for flying in northwest route
Ottawa reports that all flying operations in the northwest staging route area now require approval from military authorities. An order in council declares Yukon Territory and parts of Alberta and the Northwest Territories as prohibited areas under defence air regulations to enable military control over air transport. BC and the Maritimes were already brought under the regulations.
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Yukon Territory
Alberta
Northwest Territories
British Columbia
Maritime provinces
Madrid train crash near Arevalo leaves casualties
London dispatch reports that a Madrid area express and a passenger train collided near Arevalo, five miles northwest of Madrid. DNB says that one or more people were killed and more than 100 injured in the early yesterday accident.
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Jan. IL
Hews
Arevalo
Madrid
Jet inventor Whittle promoted to wing commander Hailed RAF figure
Acting Group Captain Frank Whittle 36 of the Royal Air Force, inventor of the jet propelled plane, has been promoted from squadron leader to wing commander.
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Frank Whittle
R.A.F
Aussies Gain in New Guinea advance
Allied communique from New Guinea reports Australian forces using mortars artillery and tanks to drive Nipponese from trench lines. The advance narrows the gap to about 60 miles from US 6th Army at Saidor as US marines fend off attacks on Cape Gloucester and a US naval aircraft hits a Japanese convoy near Kavieng.
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United. States 6th Army
Saidor
United States
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Vitiaz strait
Dual island
Kavieng
New Treland
Savannah bus signs urge passengers to move to rear
In Savannah on January 12 a witty transit notice appears on bus placards claiming the rear and front sections are hitched and should arrive together. The sign tells riders to move to the rear to align arrival.
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SAVANNAH
Poland and Russia may seek joint front against Germany
London dispatch says Polish cabinet held two meetings with Foreign Secretary Eden and a possible working agreement with Russia emerged. A statement on Moscow’s border proposal may be issued, while Poland weighs reconstituting its government to please Moscow. Russia’s concession of a modified Curzon life could help lead to settlement.
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Eden
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Poland
Moscow
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Canadians Proved Themselves In Moro Ortona Battles
Canada’s 1st Division drove Germans from Ortona after the Moro Valley fight ended December 27. Padre Maj Roy Durnford praised the troops for courage, noting Christmas Day in Ortona with church turned to aid body and spirit. The town was a house to house front as Canadians aided, sang carols, and kept morale despite heavy fighting.
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C.P. Cable
Canada
Moro
Adriatic
Ortona
Roy Durnford
Prince. Rupert
B.C
Mediterranean
Cana
Miller 99 is named medical officer at Nos 10 district depot
Capt Irving Earl Miller a 99 year old former Toronto physician has been appointed medical officer of Nos 10 district depot in active army at Lakehead. His wife and parents were advised. He studied at Jarvis Collegiate and the University of Toronto graduating in 1937. His brother Irwin Miller is in training for air crew at Guelph.
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TORONTO
Irving Earl Miller
the lakes
Arthur
Jarvis
University of ‘Toronto
Irwin Miller
Russians Drive New Offensive On Pripet Marshes
Soviet broadcast claims a heavy Russian push in the Motor sector breached enemy lines for over 18 miles and reached nine miles in depth, liberating more than 30 towns near the Pripet river 100 miles southwest of Gemel, signaling a drive around the Pripet marshes.
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PRIPET
LONDON
C.P
Mosur
Gemel
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