Clark Forces Forge Ahead in Italy's San Pietro Advance
Allied veterans report Fifth Army pushing beyond San Pietro toward San Vittore on the Adriatic front with gains in the mountains northeast of the Sangro line. Montgomery’s Eighth Army overran a coast defense, captured Consalvi near Orsogna, knocked out German tanks, and pressed inland. French units engage a mountain pass as Germany suffers heavy losses, including the 90th Light Division.
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Algiers
Mark W. Clark
Fifth
San Pietro
San Vittore
Cassino
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Consalvi
Orsogna
Montgomery
Sangro River
Italy
Fifth Army
Venafro
Nanmre Fayvane
Gaid
Erwin Rommel
Africa Corps
Corsica
Peruglia
Arezzo
Terni
Foligno
Rome
Civitavecchia
Arce
Pasman Island
Zara
Pro Allied Bolivian Regime Overthrown in Coup
In La Paz on December 20, the pro Allied President Penaranda's government was toppled by the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement. Victor Paz Estenssore led the coup, seizing the governor's palace and halting newspaper publication as Penaranda and key officials were arrested. The group comprises army and youth elements, opposing U.S. policy. Penaranda, 51, had allied Bolivia with the Allies in World War II and previously led the army in the Paraguay war.
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la Paz
Bolivia
Enrique Penaranda
Nationalist Revolutionary Movement
United States
Penaranda
Miguel Candia
Antenor Ichazo
Pedro Arce Zilvetti
Victor Paz Estensore
America
Roosevelt
Detroit
Paraguay
Penabanda
Military College
United Nations
Republic
Yugoslav Partisans Use Allied Tanks in Bosnia Clash
Yugoslav forces backed by Allied air support and supplies fought in Bosnia as Partisans reportedly deploy tanks against German lines. Berlin said 5 668 Allied casualties and 3 000 German dead in snowy mountain battles, with heavy matériel shifting to Marshal Broz's forces.
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London
Erwin Rommel
Yugoslavia
Bosnia
Broz
Berlin
Asi
Adriatic
Marshal Broz
Jap Bombs Strike U S Air Base With Minor Damage
Bombing of a main defense base of the 14th U S Air Force caused only minor damage. Eighteen medium bombers escorted by about 40 Zeros attacked the base, while American fighters claimed four Zeros shot down. Liberators hit Nam sang Burma and B 25s struck Nanhsien and Tung Ung. Chinese High Command reported heavy casualties inflicted south of the Li River.
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U.S
Chungking
U.S. Air Force
Joseph AW. Stilwell
Namsang
Burma
Nanhsien
Tungung
Chinese High Command
Li River
Lihsien
Bombers Hit Militancy Targets in Northern France
United States Marauder bombers escorted by Allied fighters attacked militancy objectives in Northern France. An Allied aviation headquarters announced the daylight raid.
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London
United States
France
eArmy
Concessions May Avert Rail Walkout
Washington December 20 concessions to railroad workers beyond higher base wages are under review to avert a nationwide strike set for December 30. A mediation session at the White House ended without a final deal but will resume tomorrow with leaders from the operating brotherhoods and 15 carrier spokesmen present. The White House said the talks clarified issues and may include layover expenses and paid vacations as possible concessions.
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Washington
Roose
West
White House
Chicago
James F. Byrnes
Fred M. Vinson
Plane crashes into peak killing nine Pacific fliers
A four engined Army bomber, returning home for Christmas from a Pacific base, crashed in fog on a hillside near Hamilton Field, killing at least nine airmen and a dog. Nine bodies were recovered and next of kin notifications were pending.
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Hamilton .Field
Calif
Dee
PRA
Christ Imas
Pacific
Sausalito
Hamilton Field
Where to Find It RETRO MARGARINE listing
A fragmentary want ad notes a margarine product for Coristman baking. The text mentions a location or source, but details are incomplete and unclear.
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Coristman
Yanks Strike At Battered Reich Again
Allied airmen raid northwest Germany lifting the tempo of daylight bombing from the west. American Liberator and Flying Fortress formations supported by fighters struck targets around Munich and Innsbruck while allied Mediterranean-based planes hit Augsburg. The raid marked deeper penetration from the south and west, reinforcing the belief that Germany faces sustained American bombardment from multiple fronts.
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London
Germany
Innsbruck
Augsburg
Munich
Brenner ‘Pass
Hitler
North Sea
R. A. Fs
Mediterranean
Cairo
Churchill Showing Satisfactory Grain, Doctors Announce
London bulletin reports Prime Minister Winston Churchill's temperature normal and pneumonia improving. Physicians say he is making satisfactory progress and no pulse irregularity noted, despite prior heart specialist concerns.
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Churchill
London
Winston
Middle East
Italians in Trapani Face Trial for Fascist Plot
Sixteen Italians including Maria d Aili a Rome law student and 19 year old Cataldo Grammatico face trial in Trapani Sicily on charges of sabotaging the Allied war effort and reestablishing Fascist cells. Grammatico admitted cutting communications. Pietro Cardillo confessed plans for an armed revolt. First indications of anti Allied organization appeared Oct 14 with mimeographed bulletins on Trapani walls.
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Allied
Algiers
Trapani
Sicily
American Counter-Intelligence Corps
Maria d’Ali
Rome University
Italy
Cataldo Grammatico
Gioventu Habiana del Littorio
Pietro Cardillo
Saido
German rocket gliders in Allied convoy sighting
Eyewitness reports from London describe German radio guided rocket gliders released from eight bombers during a convoy attack. Officers say the 25 foot long gliders with 15 foot wingspans dove on ships, failed to hit targets, but produced black smoke and bright red lights in a daylight operation.
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London
Spain
Robert Daley
Daley
Vanguards Reach Arawe Airstrip as 6th Army Advances
American forces pushed deeper into New Britain near the Arawe peninsula and pressed up Bougainville’s Torokina River region. Gen. MacArthur’s headquarters said Sixth Army vanguards neared the Arawe airstrip four miles east of the Ra baul fortress, while heavy shelling forced the enemy to evacuate the river mouth on Bougainville.
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6Th Army
New Britain
iNew Guinea
Rabaul
Arawe
Torokina
Bougainville
Douglas MacArthur
Sixth Army
Arawe Peninsula
Umtingalu
Torokina River
Reinstated Seamen Recovered From Racial Discharge
Six Negroes and one Chinese rehired by United States Lines on the Calabre after FEPC inquiry in New York. Edward Lawson said the seven were discharged for race and given adequate explanation. FEPC officer Samuel Risk boarded for on the spot check, confirming discrimination.
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Ship Line
FEPC
New York
United States Lines
Edward Lawson
President's Committee
New York City
Baltimore
Lawson
Samuel Risk
War Crime Trial Hangings In Kharkov Market Square
In Kharkov amid cheers from about 50 000, three German officers and one Russian traitor were hanged at 11 15 A M for mass killings of Russian prisoners and civilians. Four trucks carried the condemned as Maj. Gen A N Myasnikovy presided and read the sentence.
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Kharkov
Red Army
Gestapo
Mikhail Petrovich Bulanov
William Langheld
Hans Ritz
Reinhardt, Ratzlaw
Russians Drive Deep Break Through to Open Baltic Front
Soviet Baltic front forces under Gen. Ivan Bagramyan smashed the German line below Nevel and opened a wide break through across 50 miles of front. In five days of fighting the Red Army overran 500 towns, killed 20,000 Germans, and advanced toward Vitebsk and Riga while threatening key rail junctions and梧 the Leningrad corridor.
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Moscow
Ivan K. Bagraman
Baltic Front
Tarmay
Vitebsk
Nevel
Gront
Fough Red
Stalin‘grad
Don
Serce
Berlin
Dnieper
Kherson
Nikopol
Polotsk
Moscow-Riga
Leningrad-Odessa
Konstantin Rokossovsky
White Russia
Mogilevorska-Zhlodin
London Daily Telegraph
Bern
Riga
Leningrad
Baltic States
Invasion Hints Grow in Algiers Amid Italy Surrender Turn
The War Today column notes Allied HQ in Algiers reports the Italian campaign behind schedule with its main gain a land air base network. It says other theaters now take priority, Rome’s capture less crucial, and Allied planners question the rush to Rome while weathering difficult terrain.
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Wes Gallagher
Associated Press
Mediterranean
Yonger
Rome
Tunisia
Algiers
Alles
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