Churchill Meets Roosevelt in North African Conference
Churchill and Roosevelt met in a ten day North Africa summit to map a war plan for 1943. They endorsed unconditional surrender for Germany Italy and Japan and worked to unite French forces led by De Gaulle and Giraud. Stalin and Chiang Kai-Shek were kept informed as Britain and the United States pledged aid to Russia and China.
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Wes Gallagher
Associated Press
ASABLANCA
Morocco
Germany
Italy
Japan
Churchill
Roosevelt
United States
Atlantic Ocean
Winston Churchill
Charles De Gaulle
Henri Honore Giraud
North Africa
Britain
Giraud
De Gaulle
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Stalin
U.S.S.R
Chiang Kai-Shek
China
Abraham Lincoln
Casablanca
Harry Hopkins
TRAC
W.A.A.C
Louise Anderson
Denver
Colo
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hopkins
Elliott Roosevelt
Robert Murphy
De Caulle
Mr. Roosevelt
Munitions Program Reaches Full Capacity In Speech
Ottawa January 27 The throne speech read by Justice Thi Baudeau Rinfret deputy for the governor general states that the munitions program has reached full capacity within available manpower and materials. The document highlights increased US Canada cooperation for western hemisphere defence and notes joint operations in the Aleutians and Alaska along with highway and airport construction. It also mentions cooperative development of northern air routes to Europe and Asia and reviews successes in North America.
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OTTAWA
C.P
Noah
Thibaudeau Rinfret
Supreme Court of Canada
United States
Canada
western hemisphere
Aleutians
Alaska
Europe
Asia
North
Nazis Still Holding Out At Stalingrad Twenty thousand to twelve thousand survivors
Allied reports say German forces in Stalingrad have been reduced from 22 divisions to about 12,000 men. Russian communiques claim continued destruction of trapped units, with 1,467 Germans captured elsewhere and vast Soviet gains on multiple fronts. Tass notes Germans faced reverse and warnings of collapse.
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Eddie Gilmore
Associated Press
OSCOW
A.P
Stalingrad
Prapuressenna
Red army
London
mags
Voronezh
Tass
Parachutist Fitness Requirements Addressed by Army Medical Corps
Captain David E. Thomas of the Medical Corps outlines essential traits for paratroopers in a Science Service report. He stresses fast thinking, proper technique, muscular obedience, and emotional stability, noting tall or heavy men face deployment challenges and equipment risks. Vision without glasses and accurate landings are vital as dropped bundles may be visible by color coded parachutes.
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David E. Thomas
Medical Corps
U.S. Army
Science Service
oor
Thomas Splains
Naples Bombed At Dawn By Single Plane
Naples was bombed last night in a dawn raid reported by an Italian communique. Messina on Sicily also said to have been bombed, with four engined bombers. The report notes combat in western Tripolitania and a repulsed attack in a Tunisian sector on the North African front.
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LONDON
C.P
Naples
Rome
Associated Press
Messina
Sicily
Tripolitania
Allies regain lost positions in Tunisia operations
Allied forces in Tunisia report holding and consolidating positions in the Ousseltia valley and eastern mountains after Axis advances were checked. The communique notes two Allied planes lost, two Axis bombers destroyed near Algiers, and enemy fighter bombers shot down over the Tunisian war zone. British troops sweep after Field Mar—Rommel’s position.
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North Africa
Tunisia
Ousseltia
Pont Du Fans
Algiers
Tunisian
ROMMEL
CAIRO
Mar
Roosevelt flies to Casa Bianca by Clipper
A Daily Mail dispatch reports President Roosevelt traveled to Casa Bianca aboard a Clipper aircraft. The briefing notes the London departure date January 27 and highlights the swift transatlantic journey as part of ongoing wartime diplomacy.
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LONDON
C.P
Roosevelt
Casa Bianca
Daily Mail
Co-ordinate Armies To Defeat Axis In Tunisia
London sources say Casablanca conference will yield first major strategic result a Tunisian command plan. Churchill and Roosevelt discussed coordinated air force efforts and Montgomery likely to lead 8th Army into Tunisia. MPs expect important, soon to be disclosed decisions amid talk of unconditional surrender.
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Axis
Tunisia
Montgomery
8th Army
1st Army
Churchill
James King
Associated Press
ONDON
London
Casablanca
Roosevelt
R.A.F
TULL
Bernard Montgomery
Britain
Roosevelt Visits North Africa Troops in Casablanca
President Roosevelt flew to French Morocco in wartime for the first U S leader to leave the United States and fly the Atlantic. He rode a jeep past surprised troops at Port Lyautey near Kasbah Mehdia, wreathing the U S cemetery and later viewing battle sites as rain began in Casablanca.
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WALTER LOGAN
North Africa
Associated Press
CASABLANCA
Roosevelt
United States
Atlantic
French Morocco
Africa
Kasbah Mehdia
U.S
Roosevelt awards Medal of Honor to Brig Gen Wilbur
President Roosevelt decorated Brig. Gen. William H. Wilbur with the Congressional Medal of Honor during a Casablanca ceremony attended by Prime Minister Churchill. Eisnhower’s citation credits Wilbur with planning contact with the French commander, landing at Fedala, driving under fire, infiltrating 16 miles of hostile territory, and leading a tank platoon to capture an enemy battery.
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CASABLANCA
French Morocco
Roosevelt
Churchill
William H. Wilbur
United States
Wilbur
Dwight D. Eisinhower
North Africa
armi- Sire
Hoe
Fedaia
Radicals Cannot Build Credit Unions Says Ontario Minister
Toronto January 27 Hon P M Dewan Ontario agriculture minister told the Toronto Municipal Employees Credit Union that persons with extremely radical views cannot build successful credit unions or co operatives. He called for avoiding radicalism and stressed sound business principles in cooperative management.
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TORONTO
Hon. P. M. Dewan
Ontario
ald
Toronto Municipal Employees’ Credit Union
Bordeaux And Lorient Bombed In Allied Raid
London reports say the French port of Bordeaux and the U-boat base at Lorient were bombed by the RAF after a short pause. The air ministry noted fires in Lorient docks while RCAF and US fighters hit targets in northern France and Belgium. Four enemy fighters fell. Allied losses include one RAF craft missing.
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LONDON
Jan
Bordeaux
Lorient
RAF
Gironde
air ministry
RCAF
RAP
United States
France
Belgium
Bruges
R.CA.F
R.CASP
bomber command
R.C.A.F
coastal command
2.C.4.P
107 678 Fit Men Drafted OTTAWA Jan 27 1943
Compulsory mobilization delivered 107 678 fit men to the Canadian army from March 20 1941 to Dec 26 1942 against requisitions for 150 390. Defence and labour departments release shows the up and down pattern with May 1942 ahead of demand, later months slipping. This excludes earlier Oct 2 1940 to March 19 1941 figures of 107 638 fit men.
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OTTAWA
defence and labor departments
Yanks Raid Nazi Bases First U S Air Attack on German Homeland
London dated report says United States four engined bombers attacked naval installations in Germany. It was the U S Army Air Force's first attack on the German homeland, with Fortresses and Liberators targeting German U boat centres though the precise location was not disclosed.
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LONDON
United States
Germany
United States army air force
Reich
Allied drive in North Africa and early WWII reports
Allied troops north of Ousseltia clear 10 to 15 kilometres and help French forces to advance and capture about 50 prisoners in mountainous east. U S bombers raid Wilhelmshaven naval targets in Germany. Japanese accuse of using poison gas in Chungking area. Coal Creek miner killed in a cave-in in Fernie British Columbia. brief stray item about a newswire fragment.
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TUNISIA
North Africa
AP.1
Ousseltia
high command
WILHELMSHAVEN
LONDON
United States air force
Germany
Reich
CHUNGKING
A.P
Britain
United States
China
Hungtung
Shaned
Jan
COAL CREEK
FERNIE
B.C
John Ridyard
James Brown
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Caucasus
Niewera
GEN. DE GAULLE
WENRI GIRAUD
CLIPPER
Port Lyautey
Frederick De Rohan
Washington
Bordeaux And
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