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Patoka Register

Location

Patoka, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jan 07, 1944

Page

3

Year opens with wartime advances and Casablanca accord

The year starts with key events: January 1 Velikye Luki captured, a major railway hub. January 6 the 78th Congress convenes. January 23 British forces enter Tripoli. January 25 Russians push to Voronezh. January 26 the Casablanca conference declares unconditional surrender terms for Nazi Germany.

Velikye Luki Tripoli Libya Voronezh Casablanca U. S. Department of War Information Saunas U. S Africa Naples Italy Rendova Solomons Syracuse Palermo Marsala Trapani Mussolini King Emmanuel Hamburg Hanover Essen Iigacet Party

World War II Timeline Highlights From Late 1942 to 1943

A chronicle of Allied advances and Axis reversals notes Velikye Luki recaptured by Russians, U.S. and British moves in North Africa and the Mediterranean, Tokyo and Berlin air raids, key battles in Tunisia, Sicily, and Italy, and Allied summits in Cairo Teheran and beyond with mentions of major troop landings and capitulations.

U. S Ploesti Catania Sicily Munda Solomons Ukraine Messina Vera Lavella Kiskatebec Mountbatten Allied Southeast Asia Command Taganrog New A No. 2 Italy Reggio Calabria Opure Palmi Delianova Stalino Steel Center Taranto France Rom Salerno Surlamaua U. 8 Lisk Reca Jazi Engels Crimean Peninsula Bougainville Island Solmons Dusseldorf Germany Kiev Eighth Army Leghorn Pescara Zhitomir Yangtze River Berlin Makin Island Een Gomel Tarawa Rome RAF Roosevelt Churchill Chiang Kai-shek Cairo Egypt Japan Stalin Teheran Iran Marshall Islands Changteh Rice Bowl Turkey Malta Greece New Britain United Nations Sixth Army Arawe New Britain Island Southwest Pacific

Roosevelt Urges Unity and War Postwar Planning

President Roosevelt calls for Allied unity and stresses the supreme necessity of planning postwar Europe. He orders a 48 hour work week in shortage areas and outlines wartime measures including rationing, lend-lease actions, and inflation controls while Congress and agencies adjust to the ongoing global conflict.

Roosevelt U. S. Supreme Court Thomas Pendergast Kansas City Congress Samuel Rayburn U. S Britain China Navy Marines Coast Guard Army Europe Japan Chiang Kai-Shek Agriculture Wickard U.S Chile Naval Casablanca Aie Davis Camacho Mexico United Mine Workers Union Martinique Gripsholm Goa Portuguese India Churchill Washington William Jeffers Mackinac Island Mich William Coleman Quebec Edward Stettinius Jr Lend Lease Sumner Wells Treas Western Union Postal Telegraph Companies Weather News National Bor Board American Federation of Labor United Mine Workers Neerly War Industries Treasury War Labor Board John Lewis Enate Bernard Baruch Office of War Mobilization House

Fatal Fire and Disasters Across Cities Reported

A compilation of multiple incidents details Chicago bowling alley fire killing six and injuring 100, coastal plane crashes in jungles and Alaska, deadly train wrecks in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York, and numerous floods, riots, and maritime accidents across the United States, with hundreds of fatalities and wide damage.

Chicago Urinam Dutch Guiana Carlyle Wash Flomaen Ala Seattle William Upshur Charles Paddock Navy Sitka Alaska Yuma Ariz Texas Gulf Coast American Airlines Trammell Congressional Pennsylvania R. R Philadelphia Twentieth Century Limited New York Central R. A Canastota N. Y Houston Tex Naval Air Station Norfolk Army Sip Maxton

Notable deaths and year end list of prominent figures

The year closes with obituaries for Lin Sen and Lin Sen aged 79 scholar and artist. Bascom Slemp 72 former Republican figure. Lieut General Wright 79 WWI leader. Dr. William Lyon Phelps 78 Yale. John C. Cudahy 55 former ambassador. Rear Admiral Walton Sexton 66 Navy board leader. Sir Kingsley Wood 62 British chancellor. Patrick Nash 60. Samuel H. Carnegie institute head. Ben Bernie 52 bandleader. Dr. J G Rilom and Jesse G. Bula medical developers. Rep J W O Penn and Rep H B Steagall noted. Also Billy Hayes Indiana U coach and Rev Dr William A Brown 77 founder world council. Roosevelt’s return and army landing cited as year-end events.

China Lin Sen C. Bascom Slemp Poland John C. Cudahy Walton Sexton Navy General Board Sir Kingsley Wood

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