Laval Orders 200000 1942 Draft for Work
Laval announced on Paris radio that 200000 workers from the 1942 class must be mobilized for work under a Germany France convention from March 1 to July 1. He warned strict measures for evasion and cited volunteer demands on the eastern front. Berlin officials boasted of May war production highs.
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London
France
Pierre Laval
Laval
Paris
Germany
Hitler
Vichy
Berlin
Albert Speer
Home Front
Joseph Goebbels
Associated Press
Goebbels
Thes
Allied air raids push deep into Italy and Pantelleria
A combined strike by American and Allied air forces reported heavy bombing of Catanzaro Pangora Syracuse and Pantelleria with multiple targets hit. Commanders noted low enemy resistance and only two allied planes lost in the operations. Colonel Keith K. Compton praised the precision and effectiveness of the Cairo mission.
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United States
Keith K. Compton
St. Joseph
Cairo
Quiker
Carl A. Spaatz
Northwest African Air Force
Catanzaro
Italy
Pangora
Syracuse
Sicily
Mito
Favignana
Pantelleria
R. A. F. Wellington
Spaatz
Milo
Senate Conferees Seek Strong Labor Strike Controls
Senate and house leaders discuss a bill to curb strikes in government run mines and plants. The measure would bar inducing strikes with up to a $5000 fine and one year in prison. Connally backs reinserting a clause to empower the president to take over struck mines and war plants. Leaders expect speedy conference action.
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House
Connally
Texas
Senate
Airman and crew credited in brave WWII air combat report
Wisconsin sergeant Buchholz manned a radio gun and shot down a Focke Wulf 199 despite injuries. Indiana staff sergeant Privett fired 11 rounds into the enemy, was wounded, then continued until the plane fell. Pilot Baird landed in southern England after a tense dogfight. Other crew: Ward navigator from Jacksonville and Hill right waist gunner from Arkadelphia.
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Wisconsin
Buchholz
Harry E. Privett
Muncie
Indiana
Baird
England
George P. Ward
Jacksonville
Florida
Ben E. Hill
Arkadelphia
Arkansas
Navigating PBYs Save 95 From Torpedoed Ship
Two U S Navy PBY bombers piloted by Chief Machinist S B Tetreault and co pilot J J Tucker Jr found 95 survivors in the mid Atlantic after a torpedo attack on an American cargo ship. The rescue occurred at night with no moon as dawn broke. The ship’s captain and 27 gun crew members were among the rescued. The submarine was not sunk. Tetreault and Tucker returned after over 14 hours aloft.
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Washington
iPi
PBY
mid-Atlantic
Navy
Atlantic
S. B. Tetreault
J. J. Tucker, Jr
Tetreault
Tucker
Middle Atlantic
West Springfield
Mass
Chattanooga
A. E. Tollison
Moorehead
Miss
R. L. O'Flaherty
Richmond, Va
Churchill returns to England after secret war talks
Churchill lands in London at dawn after a perilous Biscay crossing backed by air cover amid fears of German attacks. Eden and Brooke accompanied him as he met Eisenhower in Algiers and visited Tunis and Allied forces in northwest Africa. The day sparks invasion talk in England with plans for Italy’s islands under discussion and a Commons report anticipated.
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Britain
Awipok Eles
Ae Ele
Portugal
Howard
Churchill
Anthony Eden
North Africa
Alan Brooke
Imperial General Staff
Washington
England
Sardinia
Sicily
Pantelleria
House of Commons
United States
Africa
No. 10
Downing Street
Gibraltar
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Algiers
Eden
Tunis
Cunningham
Mediterranean
Giraud
de Gaulle
French Committee For National Liberation
Deaths Mrs Lucy G Madden Winnsboro Louisiana
Mrs Lucy G Madden dies at her home in Winnsboro Louisiana survived by husband James E Madden six children and sixteen grandchildren plus two sisters and a brother. Funeral services set for Sunday at 5 pm at Boeuf River church Liddieville with Rev Tom Ratcliffe officiating and burial in Ogden cemetery under Mulhearn Funeral Home Winnsboro. A bomber has around 102090 parts not counting rivets nuts and bolts.
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Lucy G. Madden
Winnsboro
EB. E. Straughn
Lake Charles
C. £. Goodson
Shreveport
J. L. Taylor
Sikes
Boeuf River
Liddieville
Tom Ratcliffe
Ogden Cemetery
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Argentina's Castillo Overthrown in One-Day Revolt
A military uprising against President Castillo toppled his regime after brief clashes, leaving a three man junta led by Rawson Ramirez and Sueyro. Castillo resigned and ministers were jailed. cast in exile, the junta calls for order as anti Axis ties and Pan American solidarity shape policy.
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Argentina
Rosa
Ixsiel
Rawson
Castillo
Miguel Calaciati
la Piats
Daniel Amadeo Y. Videla
Montevideo
Uruguay
Federal Penitentiary
Government House
Cassullo
Rio de la Plata
Srar Que Ruiz Guinszu
Rio de Janeiro
Fiesia
Caster
Heaty
Guillermo Rotie
Riz Ginnavu E
Rothe
Plaza de Mayo
Cuiadati
Cestillo
Navy
Mario Fincat
Drummond
la Plata
Buenos Aires
Puerto Belgrano
Casio
Castilla
Redical
Churchill and Allied planners map how to fastest victory
Wartime talks in Washington with Churchill Roosevelt and top officers outlined long range plans to deploy Allied armies efficiently. Eisenhower Alexander Tedder Cunningham and others joined in reviewing strategies and on the ground scenes ahead of final victory in Africa. A separate note reports Howard R Betz 72 died after being hit by a motorcyclist on Jefferson Highway in Baton Rouge. Rubber chemists warn tires from recent years can last four years in a garage with only light deterioration.
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Churchil Weve
Washington
United States
Churchill
Roosevelt
Britain
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Harold Alexander
Arthur Tedder
Admral
Andrew B. Cunningham
Walter B. Smith
Eisenhower
Baton Rouge
Howard R. Betz
Jefferson Highway
North Africa
Pantelleria
Cunninghy
Cunningham
Messina
Attu
Aleutians
Japan
China
Coun
Yangtze
Yuy
Kwan
Ichang
Othe Ivaders
Yangie
Aowie Feont
Duaparone
Wura Kwan
Chungking
Hun
Tunagine Lake
Yongter
Allied Leaders Plan Major Strike Across Mediterranean Front
Glenn Babb reports Allied high command met with top army air and naval chiefs along the North African coast to discuss a decisive blow against the Axis. The talks centered on softened targets in Pantelleria Sicily and Sardinia while preparing for a broader push toward Italy, with heavy air and naval bombardment ongoing.
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Eden
Churchill
Italy
Axis
Carthage
Mediterranean
Pantelleria
Sicily
Sardinia
Goebbels
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