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.
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Libya
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Casablanca
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Trapani
Mussolini
King Emmanuel
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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.
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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.
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Washington
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Mackinac Island
Mich
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Weather News
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Neerly
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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.
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Twentieth Century Limited
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Houston
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Norfolk
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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.
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C. Bascom Slemp
Poland
John C. Cudahy
Walton Sexton
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Sir Kingsley Wood
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