Marines Close On Cape Gloucester Airfield In New Britain
United States Marines approach within one and a half miles of the main airfield at Cape Gloucester New Britain as Gen Douglas MacArthur reports. In a heavy raid over Ar awe sixty miles southeast of Cape Gloucester Japanese planes are believed shot down tallying thirty seven. The assault on outposts is repulsed and continued fighting noted.
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New Guinea
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Douglas MacArthur
Sixth Army
Arawe
Navy bungling slows Italian invasion plan bottlenecking barges
The column criticizes Navy and Bureau of Ships for overruling Andrew Higgins on tank landing barges, causing delays in barge production. It notes Congress seeks over a billion dollars to fund more landing barges, with Italy’s peninsula campaign cited as a case for sea landing tactics. The piece recalls a 1941 White House order to boost tank landing boats amid barge shortages.
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Washington
Navy
Andrew Jackson Higgins
Congress
Malay
Singapore
Bureau of Ships
Andrew Higgins
White House
Atlantic
Wotje Island in Marshalls Gets Bombed
Pearl Harbor Dec 29 Heavy air raid by Seventh Air Force on Wotje Islet in the Marshalls drops over 50 tons of bombs. Wotje, a major enemy base, hosts an air field and anchorage. Six Zeros intercept. two heavy bombers lost. Ventura and Hellcat air wing No. 2 participated. A separate low altitude strike hit Jaluit shipping on Dec 26. Nearly one tenth of Holland’s population displaced by war.
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Pearl Harbor
Seventh Air Force
Wotje Islet
Marshall Islands
Chester W. Nimitz
Marshalls
Wotje
Jaluit Atoll
Ventura
Air Wing No. 2
FBI Faces Longest Nonexecutive Week in Federal Service
Washington dispatch reports the FBI identification division will adopt a 60 hour work week with overtime after 40 hours. The move targets handling about 80 million fingerprints amid ongoing investigations and political scrutiny in Washington.
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Washington
FBI
Post Office
F.B.I
Three German Destroyers Sunk in Bay of Biscay Action
London reports a British naval communique announcing the sinking of three German destroyers in the Bay of Biscay and the crippling of other German naval craft. The full Bay of Biscay operation details are expected, with a larger scale action presumed ongoing after the sinking of the battleship Scharnhorst.
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London
Bay of Biscay
Scharnhorst
France
Spain
Roosevelt Rejects Fourth Term Talk With Picayune Quip
President Roosevelt deflected a question on a fourth term, calling it picayune, and praised the New Deal while contrasting internal recovery with external war wounds. He cited about 30 New Deal laws and mocked critics who’d ignore them if internal sickness recurred, as Bert Andrews pressed for a term declaration.
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Roosevelt
Picayune
New Deal
Pearl Harbor
New York Herald Tribune
Bert Andrews
P—picayune
Stocks and Dow Jones Averages Report
Closing quotations list Alaska Juneau mine at 5 percent Am Can 83 Bethlehem Steel 55 Commonwealth and Southern Il 16 Curtiss Wright 5 International Harvester Tl Kennecott 3044 New York Central 15 Northern Pacific 144 United States Steel 58 Pound 4.04 Dow Jones Industrials 134.64 Rails 32.93 Utilities 21.40.
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International Harvester
Kennecott
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Northern Pacific
United States Steel
Down Jones
Marines Capture Target Hill Under Lt. Col. Weber
U S Marines on Cape Gloucester report success when Lt. Col. John E. Weber of Seattle led his men to storm and take the Japanese held Target Hill after landing. Weber, born in Valdez Alaska, is 34 years old.
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Cape Gloucester
Target Hill
John E. Weber
Seattle
Weber
Valdez
Alaska
Reds Retake Ground Lost in Kiev Area
Six days after resuming the offensive General Vatutin’s forces push toward Zhitomir and Korosten, key junctions on the Leningrad Odessa Railway. One spearhead nears Zhitomir within 10 miles after advancing through Korostishe v Smolovyka. Artillery batteries threaten defenses as other units seize Zlobichi and Bakhi near Korosten with continued break of frontline lines.
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London
Vatutin
Zhitomir
Korosten
Leningrad-Odessa
Kilev
Korostishev
Smolovyka
Zlobichi
Bakhi
Allies name more commanders of invasion forces
London dispatch reports the Allied High Command for the western European invasion taking shape with two Britons named to naval and air roles under Gen. Eisenhower. Admiral Ramsay will head naval operations and Air Marshal Mallory will lead fighter air forces, enhancing Britain’s top command positions.
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London
Western
Europe
Dwight Eisenhower
Bertram Ramsay
North Africa
Mediterranean
Trafford Leigh Mallory
Royal Air Force
Sir Arthur Tedder
Eisenhower
Britain
Supreme Command
Canadians Win Eight Day Battle At Ortona
Allied reports confirm Canadian troops have seized Ortona after an eight day bitter house to house battle in the Mediterranean campaign. Allied forces push along the coast in snow toward Pescara while bombers hit airfields near Rome. On the Fifth Army front German forces attack the coast near Ponte di Garigliano as French Moroccan troops gain ground on a 3,000 foot mountain. American units advance on San Vittore the key road to Rome.
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Algiers
Ortona
Mediterranean
Rome
Adriatic
Pescara
San Vittore
Allied bombers strike airfields near Rome
Airfields near Rome were shelled by Allied medium bombers as Nazi broadcasts claimed the attack targeted the capital. Allied HQ in Algiers confirmed the raid and described damage to Rome’s outskirts, with Garbatella near Vatican City cited as a bombardment site visible from the Pope.
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London
Rome
Algiers
Paris
Garbatella
Vatican City
President Roosevelt Retains Quarters With Cold
President Roosevelt suffers a head cold and remains in the White House quarters per his personal physician Rear Admiral McIntyre. No appointments were scheduled today.
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Washington
Roosevelt
McIntyre
White House
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