Britain Says It Will Not Need Lend-Lease After War
British minister to the United States Harold Butler told reporters Britain could recover by 1960 without post war civilian lend-lease. He noted the empire is not broke and warned imports must fit Britain’s ability to pay, signaling no immediate grant in aid.
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Washington
Harold Butler
United States
Britain
Butler
Winthrop Aldrich
New York
Scandinavia
Russia
Atlantic
Radar device and smoke screens revealed in London
In London a radar device nicknamed Mickey has been disclosed as a tool permitting bombing through dense clouds and smoke screens. British and U S airmen used it to strike German targets through three miles of cloud cover. The instrument sends radio waves that hit surface objects and return to a receiver to outline cities, coastlines, ships, railroad yards and other targets. Individual buildings can be brought into focus.
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London
United States
Prisoner Captures by 21st Army Group Reach 222 735
From D-day on June 6 to November 24 the 1st Canadian Army took 102 438 prisoners including 1 986 officers and 100 452 other ranks. The British 2nd Army captured 100 297 with 1 357 officers and 98 940 other ranks. Combined with 20 000 taken by French interior forces the total for the 21st Army group stands at 222 735. In Toronto the Soviet Union ships direct fur to the Russian Fur Company valued at about 25 000 dollars, a first for Canada and expected to cut local prices by up to 25 percent.
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1St Army Group
1St Canadian Army
2Nd Army
Interior
21St Army Group
Toronto
Soviet Union
Russian Fur Company, Ltd
Canada
York
Human Torpedo Sinks Italian Cruiser in Spezia Harbor
British sailors SubLt Malcolm Causer and Able Seaman Harry Smith used a human torpedo to attach a warhead to the Bolzano, last of eight inch gun cruisers, sinking it in Spezia harbor on June 21. Causer was captured. Smith remains missing. Awards issued for gallantry.
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London
Malcolm Causer
RNVR
Harry Smith
Bolzano
Spezia
Admiralty
Causer
Smith
Dso
Ulpio ‘Traiano
Palermo
Pilot from Airways Corp completes 100 Atlantic crossings
Montreal reports Capt. W. L. Stewart of British Overseas Airways Corporation became the first pilot to fly the Atlantic 100 times. He landed at Prestwick Scotland aboard a Liberator after a nonstop 3,150 mile Montreal run. Lt. L. V. Messenger also reached his 100th trip, finishing a few hours behind.
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Montreal
W. L. Stewart
British Overseas Airways Corporation
L. V
Buddy) Messenger
Capt
Stewart
Prestwick
Scotland
Messenger
Canada Meets UK Beef Pact With Record Shipments
Ottawa reports the Canadian meat board has bought 108 million pounds of beef for shipment to Britain, meeting the two year minimum of 100 million pounds for 1944 and 1945. About 234,000 cattle equivalent are involved with potential final shipments several times the minimum.
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Eam
United Kingdom
Canada
Ottawa
Canadian Meat Board
Dominion
Gardiner
German generals captured at Strasbourg fortifications
Allied headquarters announced the capture of two German generals in Strasbourg. General major Franz Waterrot, the military commander of the city, and General major Wilhelm Utterspergen, the engineer commander responsible for fortifications, were taken in the action.
BBC Plans Improvements for UK Radio Fans
W J Haley director general of the British Broadcasting Corporation pledged upgrades to UK radio, aiming to lead listeners worldwide while preserving the power of the written press. He told the Radio Industries club that the spoken word complements but cannot replace written text, and noted dominion sister organizations would meet in London in February.
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London
W. J. Haley
British Broadcasting Corporation
BBC
United Kingdom
Haley
Radio Industries Club
Dominions
Valuable Mineral Deposit Found Near Yellowknife
Northern prospector Gus de Staffany reports locating a large tantelite ore deposit on the shore of Great Slave Lake in the Yellowknife district. He says the ore contains scarce metal with wartime uses. 700 pounds were shipped to a Washington commercial company.
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Yellowknife
Edmonton
Gus de Staffany
Nwt
Great Slave Lake
U.S. Commercial Company
Washington
Prinz Eugen Damaged in Baltic Port Reported
Paris radio quotes Swedish reports that the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen was damaged and taken to a Baltic port. Russians had recently claimed damaging a German cruiser evacuating troops from Svorbe peninsula, with Paris broadcasting hinting it could be the Prinz Eugen.
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London
Paris
Svorbe Peninsula
RAF officer fined for pheasant killing without license
An RAF officer in a Lincolnshire town was fined twenty dollars after being convicted of killing game without a license. The magistrate praised his marksmanship for killing two pheasants with one shot and congratulated him.
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Kestevan
Eng
Lincolnshire
RAF
Poor Harvest Hits Inverness North East Scotland
A wet summer and a wetter autumn led to the region's worst harvest in 50 years with 10 to 25 percent of the grain crop left in the fields as farmers faced poor yields across Inverness and northeast Scotland.
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Inverness
Scotland
Shipping Losses Of The Allies And Neutrals
Washington reports totals for Allied and neutral shipping losses from the start of the Second Great War through 1943 at 5,738 vessels and 22,161,000 gross tons. Britain suffered 2,921 ships, 11,643,000 gross tons. U.S. losses reached 753 ships, 3,311,000 gross tons. Despite high losses, U.S. shipyards built about 20,000,000 deadweight tons, partly offsetting the damage.
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Washington
Office of War Informtion
Britain
United Nations
War Shipping Administration
United States
Maritime Commission
Ths
Jnst
Pact with India Ottawa Mutual Aid Agreement
Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced the conclusion of a mutual aid pact between Canada and India. A large portion of Indian army motor transport supplies are being furnished by Canada and future war supplies to India will include automotive equipment for its military forces under the agreement.
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Ottawa
Mackenzie King
Canada
India
Canda
Strike Violence Report From Europe
New York reports cite Arbeiter Zeitung stating 200 German workers were shot during a strike at Mann erheim and that several hundred more were massacred during a popular revolt at Dusseldorf.
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New York
Arbeiter-Zeitung
Mannerheim
Sv Eral
Dusseldorf
Vichy Militia Members Executed in Paris
Two young Vichy militia members faced a firing squad at Fort Montrouge for the July assassination of Mandel the interior minister in Daladier’s cabinet. The killings followed the collapse of the French government and marked a stark postwar measure by the occupying regime.
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Paris
Vichy
Fort Montrouge
Mandel
Daladier
France
Blinded soldiers arrive in London for instruction
The first group of blinded soldiers who recently returned from France are being instructed by veterans who were blinded in the First Great War. The program pairs injured men with experienced peers to teach daily living, rehabilitation, and skills.
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London
France
Channel Islands relief talks under way via ICRC aid
Negotiations are under way to send relief to the British civil population of the German-occupied Channel Islands through the International Red Cross. The move aims to provide essential aid to residents facing wartime hardship.
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London
Channel Islands
Inter Honal Red Cross
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