French Threaten To Outflank Nazi Line And Castelforte Fight
Allied reports from Jan 21 describe 5th Army advances along the Appian Way capturing Minturno and pressing toward Castelforte and Ventosa inland from the Tyrrhenian. British cruisers and destroyers shell Nazi shore defenses while air forces strike Ciampino Centocelle Guidonia and other targets.
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Appian Way
Wes Gallagher
Associated Press
LGIERS
A.P
Rapido river
Il Lago
Cassino
Italy
5th Army
Minturno
Rome
Sant’ Elia
Adolf Hitler
Gustav belt
Royal Navy
Bth
Terracina
Slav Town Recaptured by Yugoslav Partisans
Tito announced Yugoslav partisans recaptured Jajce in western Bosnia, former patriot army HQ, and pushed Germans 30 miles southwest toward the Dalmatian coast. In the past year rail wrecking units destroyed 600 truckloads of wheat, 80 locomotives, 480 freight cars, 15 bridges and three tanks, with over 1,000 enemy killed.
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LONDON
Josip Broz
Mrkonjigrad
Glamoc
Jajce
Dalmatian
Iran at War Allies Saw Route Through Iran for Lend Lease
The piece notes Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin praised Iran’s cooperation at Teheran. It explains the Iran route via the Indian Ocean and Gulf, used to supply the Soviet Union with food and war materiel, and contrasts it with the Arctic route hindered by ice and submarines. Iran’s geography and resources are outlined, including petroleum output of about 78 million barrels annually.
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Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Russia
Turkey
Science Service
Tran
Soviet Union
United States
Great Britain
Hitler
Arctic
Murmansk
Archangel
Iran
Atlantic
South Africa
Indian Ocean
Gulf
Persia
Louisiana
Texas
Oklahoma
Arizona
New Mexico
Indus
Tigris
Caspian Sea
Iraq
Gulf of Persia
Arabian Sea
Britain
axis
Edmonton Unemployment Service Reports 1943 Placements
Edmonton branch of the Unemployment Insurance and Selective Service Commission placed 59 157 in 1943. Acting manager A O MacLachlan said 36 873 were men and 22 284 women, with over 2 000 more in part time work. Most placements occurred in construction.
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EDMONTON
Unemployment Insurance and Selective Service Commission
A. O. MacLachlan
Fire in St Hyacinthe destroys four stores
A fire in St Hyacinthe Quebec was brought under control after five hours with help from Montreal firemen. Four stores were burned down and damage was estimated at about $200,000. An unidentified sailor was taken to hospital with burns.
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ST. HYACINTHE, Que
Montreal
Reds cripple Narva as Finnish supply port hit
Stockholm dispatch notes Svenska Morgenbladet reports Russian bombers crippled Narva a key Nazi defensive point on the Gulf of Finland southwest of Leningrad and damaged the rail line supplying German troops in the Leningrad sector.
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STOCKHOLM
Svenska Morgenbladet
Narva
Gulf of Finland
Leningrad
Jap Cruiser Sunk By Sub
London reports Lt Cmdr L W A Bennington in His Majesty's submarine sank a Kuma class Japanese cruiser in the Indian Ocean near Malacca, with two torpedo hits while within a mile. The same submarine also sent three large Japanese supply ships to the bottom. Bennington, famed for Malta relief, commanded the Porpoise earlier.
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LONDON
C.P
Mediterranean
admiralty
Indian Ocean
Malacca strait
Malaya
Dutch East Indies
Sumatra
Cmdr
L. W. A. Bennington
Bennington
Malta
Jane’s Fighting Ships
Kitekami
L. A. Benningtor
Dover Guns Sink Vessel Near Cap Gris Nez
British coastal batteries fired on Nazi shipping in Dover Strait for a second time in 15 hours after dawn shelling targeted a convoy from a French port. The large Nazi ship was hit, and the action forced residents to shelter. Churchill congratulated the coast artillery on its good shooting.
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LONDON
Cap Gris Nez
Dover Strait
French channel
Dover
Churchill
coast artillery
channel
Associated Press
Hell Fire Corner
Britain to grant relief funds for liberated Europe
London reports Britain will immediately set aside nearly £100 million about $450 million for relief of countries liberated from the Nazis. The Daily Express said the amount is earmarked to aid devastated Europe and speed reconstruction efforts.
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BRITAIN
EUROPE
LONDON
Daily Express
800 Bombers Ravage Berlin in Desert Storm Style Raid
RAF and RCAF Lancasters and Halifaxes dropped over 2300 tons of bombs on Berlin in the night raid, the biggest fleet so far, with 35 bombers missing. American heavy bombers then targeted Pas de Calais as daylight attacks continued, bringing total Allied bomb weight in less than 24 hours to about 4300 tons.
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Pee Jan
A.P
R.A.F
R.C.A.F
Berlin
Reich
Pas-De-Calais
France
air ministry
Brunswick
Pas De Calais
R.A.P
Germany
Europe
R.AF
R.AP-B.C.AF
Quake Mercy Plane Crashes Killing Nurses and Crew
Santiago report says a Chilean National Airlines mercy plane carrying doctors and nurses to quake victims in San Juan Argentina crashed after takeoff from Mendoza. All 12 aboard died including three doctors four nurses two pilots two mechanics a Chilean Air Lines representative and a soldier. Initial dispatch says the transport struck trees and caught fire in the crash.
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SANTIAGO
Chile
government information bureau
Chilean National Airlines
San Juan
Argentina
Air
Ines
Mendoza
Three Canadian Sailors Missing at Sea
Ottawa reports three naval ratings missing after being washed overboard from a Canadian ship. Missing are PO Frank W. Lawrence 23 of Victoria B C native of Toronto AB W R Mennell 20 of Winnipeg and OS Robert R Phillips 20 of Calgary. No details were released.
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OTTAWA
CPI
naval headquarters
Frank W. Lawrence
Victoria
B.C
Toronto
AB. W. R. Mennell
Winnipeg
Robert R. Phillips
Calgary
U F A Urges War Land Laws To Halt Enemy Aliens
At Calgary the United Farmers of Alberta convention passed a resolution urging the federal government to enact wartime laws prohibiting land purchases by enemy aliens and pacifists. J K Sutherland warned Alberta farmers that loyal sons abroad left land vulnerable as pacifist groups like Hutterites bought farms. Federal disallowance blocked provincial rules already in place.
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CALGARY
C.P
J. K. Sutherland
United Farmers of Alberta
Alberta
Mr. Sutherland
U F.A
Baltic Fleet Freed as Red Army Advances Near Leningrad
Soviet forces push from Leningrad free the Baltic fleet after years in port. In the Strelna corridor German troops are sealed off as Red armies trap 250,000 in a salient, with Novgorod and Krasnogvardeisk key gains unfolding near the Gulf of Finland.
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MOSCOW
Red army
Leningrad
Russia
Bay of
Kronstadt
LONDON
Strelna
Novgorod
K. A. Meretskov
Volkhov front
Estonia
Leonid A. Govorov
Oranienbaum
Gulf of Finland
Kasnoye Selo
Govorov
Krasnogvardeisk
Krasnoye Selo
Nizhnaya
U S Submarines Sink 12 Jap Ships in New Report
Washington January 21 The navy announced that United States submarines have sunk 12 more Japanese merchant vessels, bringing total sunk or damaged to 558 since the war began. Of these 558, 408 were definitely sent to the bottom, with 36 additional believed sunk and 4 damaged. The 12 ships were freighters tankers and transports operating in distant Pacific waters.
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ALLIED
New Guinea
Wewak
Rabaul
New Britain
central Pacific
United States
Army air force
WASHINGTON
Pacific
London Guns Mount Heavy Barrage In Air Raid
London reports the heaviest anti aircraft barrage in months during a nighttime raid on the capital after an alert in the suburbs. Spectators saw tracer fire during orange flares and heard planes pass overhead as veterans recalled darker days.
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LONDON
C.P
LENINGRAD
Red army
Mga
MARSHALL ISLANDS
WASHINGTON
A.P
United States
Maleolep
navy
Gilberts
ALBERTA FLIER
C.P. Cable
D. C. Thomson
Fort Assiniboine
Alta
English channel
Thomson
air ministry
RCAF
coastal command
TORONTO
C.F
Ontario
Minnesota Co
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New Britain Island
South Pacific
Gustav Line
Castelforte
Ventosa
Garigliano
Ciampino
Centocelle
Guidonia
Viterbo
Leghorn
Carsoli
Adriatic
LITTORIA
REDS
Gladwin Hill
U.F.A
GOVERNMENT
Red Navy
U.S.Subs Bay
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