Italy and Axis Collapse Shape 1943 World War II
A retrospective recounts 1943 turning points from Mussolini's resignation to Italy's surrender on September 8 and Kesselring's defiance. It notes Casablanca and Quebec plans, Allied campaigns in North Africa, Sicily, Salerno, and Rome, and the Pacific push under MacArthur with battles in the Solomons and New Guinea.
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AL Jedlicka
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Duce
Tokyo
Dwight Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
Europe
Churchill
Quebec
South Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Solomons
New Guinea
Philippines
Roosevelt
Casablanca
Bernard Montgomery
Eighth Army
Erwin Rommel
North African
Tunisian
U. S
Bizerte
Tunis
North Africa
Montgomery
El—Alamein
Egypt
Rommel
Fox
Desert
Alexandria
Morocco
Algeria
Sicily
Salerno
Eisenhower
Pietro Badoglio
Albert Kesselring
Kesselring
Naples
Mark Clark
Rome
Victor Emmanuel
Germany
Stalingrad
Sixth Army
Fourth Tank
Frederick von Paulus
Orel
Belgorod
Ukraine
Dnieper
Kiev
Krivoi Rog
Cordell Hull
Anthony Eden
Vyacheslav Molotov
Moscow
China
Japan
League of Nations
Hamburg
Cologne
Dusseldorf
Essen
Berlin
London
Southwest Pacific
Bataan
Corregidor
MacArthur
Salamaua
Lae
Finschhafen
Munda
New Georgia Island
Kolambangara
U.S
Rabaul
New Britain
Pacific
George C. Marshall
Hold the Line and Wage Fight Shape 1943 Home Front
President Roosevelt issued the Hold the Line order in April 1943 directing no food price ceilings unless needed by law and pushing subsidy cutbacks to lower consumer costs. John L. Lewis and 460,000 United Mine Workers pressed for higher wages, finally winning a $1.50 daily increase on November 3 after four pits closures and two mine seizures. Lewis then sealed the deal with U S Mine Custodian Harold Ickes.
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Roosevelt
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Government
Lewis
U. S
Interior
Harold Ickes
Marines in LDS service photo draw wide letters of support
A World War II era Marine group photo shows Mormon Battalion members conducting a Sunday service led by Pvt. Howard Bennett. Parents nationwide identify their sons in the picture, including PFC Dan Auger and PFC Vergrown Hulse, with Mrs. Anna E. Watson sharing a heartfelt letter from California mothers grateful their sons serve.
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Mormon Battalion
Howard Bennett
Thatcher
West Coast
PFC
Dan Auger
William H. Auger
Vergwrong Hulse
William Hulse
Bennett
Compton
California
Pacific
Pvt
Harold D. Watson
States
Phillippines
Track Buyers Must Show Essential Need For New Services
Bert Trask, District Manager of the Office of Defense Transportation in Boise, urges track buyers to prove war necessity before obtaining a certificate for new operations under a conservation order. The order, effective Octo ber 25, limits new services unless clearly contributing to the war effort or civilian welfare. Certificates require showing positive need and conservation of transportation facilities for vital war and civilian use.
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Bert Trask
Office of Defense ‘Transportation
Boise
Trask
Idaho Butter Declines in October Output
Idaho creamery butter production in October was about 2,695,000 pounds, down 7 percent from September and 7 percent below October last year. American cheese output reached 1,440,000 pounds, up 1 percent from September and 20 percent above October last year, and 88 percent above the 1932-41 October average.
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Boise
Idaho
Citizen Subscriber Seeks Renewal for Portland News
John A. Morrison of Portland Oregon requests renewal of his The Citizen subscription. He notes the paper usually arrives Monday afternoon and says he looks for the mailman on that day for hometown news.
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The
Citizen
John A. Morrison
Portland
Oregon
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