Japan Forces Advance in India Front Near Kohima
New Delhi dispatch reports Japanese forces pressing toward Kohima about 30 miles inside the border and roughly 60 miles north of Imphal. The Bengal Assam Railway corridor remains vital to Allied lines as Japanese pressure in the Ukhrul area north of Imphal is described as being contained amid heavy fighting.
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New Delhi
India
Kohima
Imphal
Southeast Asia
Naga Hills
Kohyma
Bengal-Assam
Ukhrule
Stalin Moves to Recognize Badoglio Amid Allied Frustration
Washington insiders reveal President Roosevelt pressured Churchill to drop Badoglio, with Eisenhower skeptical of the Italian leader. Stalin acted without consulting the Allies, citing minor and major factors including Ercoli’s return, Mussolini’s trade ties with Russia, and Italian fleet familiarity. The piece notes restlessness over a second front and hints at strategic shifts in the Mediterranean.
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Stalin
Badoglio
Churchill
Long
Eisenhower
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Hull
Ercoli
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Turkey
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Hastier
Capital's Big Storm Ebbing Yet Road Ahead Remains
Washington dispatch notes a possible thaw between the President and Congress as the REA contempt case and tax-veto clash prompt a rethinking of executive vs legislative power. Analysts see mollification as key to uniting branches for the public war effort, with continued debate over Daniels and political influence.
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Jack Stinnett
Washington
Congress
Senate Investigating Committee
Jonathan Daniels
Rural Electrification Administration
Senate
Alben Barkley
Daniels
Dagiels
Harry Slattery
REA
Churchill predicts Allied victory in broadcast remarks
London March 27 Winston Churchill declared in a broadcast that total Allied victory over the Axis is certain. He said German armies have been largely torn apart by Russian valor and generalship and that Britain and America may win sooner than expected. He cited the Russian drive from Stalingrad as Hitler’s undoing and noted the growing strength of American air power and the Royal Air Force.
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London
Winston Churchill
Britain
America
Stalingrad
Hitler
Churchill
Royal Air Force
Yachtsmen Ordered to Prepare for Possible Invasion Service
London March 27 British yachtsmen who aided at Dunkirk have been asked to stand by for up to six months for possible invasion duty. The Admiralty requests yachtsmen and others with small boats to be ready for service with the Royal Navy for a maximum of four weeks during that period.
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London
Dunkerque
Europe
Admiralty
Royal Navy
Assault on Cassino Stalls As Allied Fire Emphasizes Fortresses
Allied forces at Cassino stall their advance shifting to an artillery duel aimed at destroying the German positions in the southwest corner. Communique notes systematic bombardment of Continental Hotel and Hotel Des Roses now fortresses. Only ground activity from Cassino is patrols while Anzio sees two small raid incursions. Air war continues with heavy Allied bombing of northern Italy targets and seven German planes shot down.
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Naples
Cassino
Hotel Des Roses
Anzio
Italy
RAF Drops Heavy Bombs on Essen and German Targets
RAF night raids battered Essen home of the Krupp Works and hit Hannover and Courtrai targets. Mines were laid in enemy waters as nine planes were lost. Air Ministry says Essen again struck to cripple German wartime reconstruction efforts in the vital industrial center.
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London
Germany
Essen
Krupp
Hannover
Courtrai
Belgium
Air Ministry
RAF J
Ae Eee
Dewey Criticizes Administration on Three Main Issues
Gov Thomas E Dewey attacked the current Administration in a national broadcast charging a deliberate policy of suppressing news at home. He said wartime conditions aside there remains too little knowledge of foreign policy and almost nothing about diplomatic commitments.
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Three Kurile Islands Pounded by Planes At Dawn Saturday
United States Navy wartime bulletin reports Eleventh Air Force Liberators attacked the Kurile Islands Paramushiro Onekotan Shumshu and others in pre dawn raids last Saturday. A Coronado flying boat sank two small cargo vessels in the Central Pacific as Mitchells struck Ponape for the fourteenth time this month. One US plane was reported lost in the Kuriles.
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Pearl Harbor
Amy Air Force
North Pacific
Kurile Islands
Paranitiy Shiro
Onekotan Islands
Chester W. Nimitz
Central Pacific
Caroline Islands
Coronado
Paramushiro
Onickotan
Shumshu
Kuriles
United States
Ponape
Japanese Attack at Torokina Leaves 300 Dead in Jungle Battle
In the Southwest Pacific on Bougainville last Thursday two thousand Japanese troops stormed the American perimeter at Torokina. The assault ended with about 300 Nipponese dead after heavy fighting while U S losses were four killed, 47 wounded and one missing. North of MacArthur's area, cavalry advancing in Admiralty Islands occupied Amo Islet without opposition.
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Southwest Pacific
Torokina
Bougainville Island
MacArthur
Admiralty Islands
Amo
Vesuvius Spouts Fresh Clouds of Smoke and Ashes
Mount Vesuvius spouted fresh clouds of smoke and ash over the Mediterranean as lava flow stood still. Allied authorities began rehabilitation work after a 10 day eruption, with small loss of life mainly from collapses of roots under ash and rock.
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Naples
Mount Vesuvius
Mediterranean
Dimond’s Son Wounded in South Pacific
Washington dispatches report Lieut. John H. Dimond 26 Army engineer was wounded in the South Pacific. Anthony J. Dimond, Alaska delegate, was notified by a letter from his son stating he will be in hospital for some time with no further details.
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Washington
Alska
Anthony J. Dimond
John H. Dimond
South Pacific
Halibut Fleet Planned Departures From Seattle in April
The van guard of 45 halibut vessels with 360 fishermen will depart Seattle for Alaska between April 1 and April 10, heading to Ketchikan. A second group of 45 ships may leave April 12 to fish off the British Columbia coast, followed by a third group between April 13 and April 18 for Alaska, and a final group leaving April 19 to fish nearby banks.
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Seattle
Alaska
Ketchikan
British Columbia
Germans claim commando force wiped out near Laspezia
Berlin broadcasts report an American commando unit of two officers and 13 men landed northwest of the Naval base of Laspezia on the Gulf of Genoa but was wiped out. No Allied confirmation available. March 27.
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London
Laspezia
Gulf of Geroa
Rome
Berlin
High Court Rulings on Price Fixing and Mine Pay
The Supreme Court upholds constitutionality of Emergency Price Control Act price fixing and rent control provisions. It also rules that underground travel time for Alabama coal miners counts as work under the Federal Wage and Hour Act. Major opinions by Stone and Douglas with Roberts dissent.
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Supreme Court
Office of Price
Administration
Stone
Boston
Benjamin Ruttenbert
Albert Yakay
OPA
Federal District Court
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Roberts
Rutledse
Murphy
Douglas
Mate Willingham
Macon
Georgia
Chester Bowles
District Court
Willingham
Portal To Portal
Tennessee Coal and Iron Railroad Company
Sloss Sheffield Iron and Steel Company
Republic Steel Corporation
Jefferson County
Ala
Bama
Federal Circuit
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New Orleans
Ther
Soviets Poised for Major Push on Romania Front
London dispatches report Stalin announcing the capture of Kaments Pololsk near Czernowicz as Soviet forces close on Dniester. Red Army prepares to breach the Prut after a successful Dniester advance, with raids toward Odessa and Nikolaev, while Prague and Ploesti oil fields loom as strategic targets.
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Capitel
Red thrust on Warsaw is expected
Stockholm March 21 German military circles in Berlin expect a new Russian offensive aimed directly at Warsaw reports the Nazi controlled Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau. The German reports describe large masses of Red Army troops assembled east of Kovel about 170 miles southeast of Warsaw.
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Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau
Kovel
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