Allies Crown Kiska Occupation After Undisturbed Invasion
U S and Canadian forces seized Kiska Island August 15 without opposition as Japanese troops fled. Navy reported no Japanese found after two weeks of heavy bombing and shelling, concluding North American territory was freed from Japanese forces. Roosevelt and Mackenzie King welcomed the occupation in Quebec, noting it ends the last Allied holdout in North America.
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Washington
Kiska
North America
Aleutian
North Pacific
Tokyo
Roosevelt
W. L. Mackenzie King
Canada
Quebec
Japs Aleutian Venture Costs in World War II Campaign
Washington reports the Aleutian campaign from June 3 1942 to the December end cost Japan hundreds of aircraft thousands of men and at least 15 ships sunk with eight probably sunk and 36 damaged. American air and naval attacks pummeled Japanese positions with 24 strikes in one day and heavy shelling including a single bombardment of 2300 shells. The timeline covers key operations on Attu Adak Amchitka and Kiska including landings and retreats by both sides.
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Washington
U.P
Japan
Kiska
Dutch Harbor
United States
Aleutians
Attu
Agatta
Adak
Andreanoff and
Amchitka
Recapture of Kiska Opens Northern Route to Japan
ADAK Aleutian Islands Aug 19. Vice Admiral Thomas G. Kinkaid declares the recapture of Kiska opens the northern road to Japan and completes air and naval bases two thirds to Tokyo. He credits the victory to bombing and says several Japanese ships evacuating troops were sunk in fog and night. He notes Attu linkage blocked supplies to Kiska and that had Japan fought, casualties would have been higher.
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Kiska
Japan
Adak
Aleutian Islands
Thomas G. Kinkaid
North Pacific
Tokyo
Admiral Kinkaid
United States
Attu
Eleventh Air Force
Kinkaid
Pacific
Paramushiro
Air Assaults on Japan Seen as Kiska Is Taken
Washington reports that Japan faces possible devastating air raids on the homeland after the Aleutian evacuation of Kiska. The U.S. and Canada thus gain a crucial base 938 miles from Paramushiru, with Attu nearby, plus a closer submarine base and a strengthened line to guard northern U.S. approaches.
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Japan
Kiska
Washington
U.P
North Pacific
United States
Aleutians
Paramushiru
Kurile Islands
Attu
Officer Who Lost Both Legs in Africa Flies Again
Allied North Africa report confirms Colonel Graham West, 31, who lost both legs two months ago, has received artificial limbs in England and will fly again. West, a Spitfire group commander from Portland, Oregon, was wounded while helping combat a booby trapped German plane during a grass fire in Tunisia. He vowed to fly again, and the statement marks his return toward duty. A Madrid dispatch notes Signora Rachele Guidi Mussolini arrived near Alcoyante in eastern Spain.
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Allied
North Africa
U.P
Graham West
England
West
Portland
Ore
Tunisia
Cap Bon
Russians List Nazi Losses This Summer
Moscow reports Soviet forces killed wounded or captured at least 1,000,000 German troops and destroyed 6,000 tanks in 47 days of heavy fighting on the eastern front. Over 300,000 Germans killed since July 5 as the Red Army advances in Donets basin Voroshilovgrad Kharkov Bryansk and Spas Demensk sectors with 25,600 Germans captured.
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Robert Musel
London
U.P
Red Army
Moscow
Kursk-Belgorod-Orel
Soviet High Command
Donets
Voroshilovgrad
Kharkov
Bryansk
Spas Demensk
Information Bureau
Soviet Relieves Envoy to United States in Surprise Move
The Soviet government dismissed Maxim Litvinoff as ambassador to the United States and named Andrei A. Gromyko as his successor. The change follows Ivan Maisky's transfer to a foreign affairs post in London. No reason was given in Moscow radio broadcasts.
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London
Maxim Litvinoff
United States
Andrie A. Gromyko
Washington
Ivan Maisky
Red
Moscow Radio
Soviet Monitor
Litvinoff
Russia
Danes Urge Halt to Sabotage Under Nazi Occupation
The Danish government urged Danes to stop sabotage aimed at German overlords, warning continued acts would devastate Danish life as Nazis could cut off food and coal. Premier De Scavemius and King Christian X endorsed a proclamation calling for loyalty and restraint to avert reprisals. A strike threat in Copenhagen was noted as potential German reprisals loomed.
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Stockholm
Denmark
Erik de Scavemius
Christian X
Copenhagen
Messina Aftermath Card Sends Word from Angelo Gioe
Angelo Gioe, Chicago chemist and Messina resident, writes on Allied bombing of Messina. He describes near nonstop attacks, destruction of the city’s main ferry service, docks, and rail hub, with every building damaged and a rush to begin rebuilding.
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Angelo Gice
Chicago
Cleveland
Youngstown
Midland
Messina
Angelo Gioe
Allies Destroy 67 More Jap Planes In Wewak Sector
Allied air units in New Guinea destroyed at least 67 Japanese planes in a Saturday raid on Wewak, with 34 left burning on the ground. American Mitchell bombers and P 38 Lightning fighters also targeted air bases and a nickel mining center at Pomelaa, while Liberators flew 2000 miles for the long-range strike.
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Southwest Pacific
Wewak
New Guinea
Pomelaa
Gulf of Bone
Dutch Celebes
Solomons
Salamaua
Celebes
Kendari
Maccassar
Darwin
Australia
Munda
Shortland Islands
Bougainville
Santa Isabel Island
C E S Installs New Officers In Montana Grand Chapter
Mrs Olive May Flachsenhar and Henry E Rakeman Jr of Ennis were installed as grand matron and patron of the Montana Grand chapter of the Order of Eastern Star at the end of the 54th annual session in Billings. Final registration reached 1000 delegates and visitors. Next session planned with Montana Masonic Grand lodge. time and place to be set by the Masonic executive committee.
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Billings
Olive May Flachsenhar
Henry E. Rakeman, Jr
Ennis
Montana Grand Chapter
Order of Eastern Star
Grand Chapter
Montana Masonic Grand Lodge
Masonic
Nellie Yale Hauberg
Helena
J. J. Ping
Hardin
Eunice Brown
Missoula
Hattie Hadzer
Butte
Mildred Graeter
Deer Lodge
Palma Coon
Flachsenhar
Esther Shaw
Plentywood
Sybilla Schwartz
Anaconda
Kathleen Walford
Nellie Lou Busch
Baker
Eunice Slayton
Lavina
Frances Halverson
Cut Bank
Grand Esther
Lucy Marlow
Harlem
Wanda Morse
Drummond
Maybelle Fremming
Thompson Falls
Grand Warder
Betty Coleman
Great Falls
Grand Sentinel
Weather Slows Allied Air Assault Over Europe
Murky weather slowed the six day air campaign against Hitler’s fighter plants and war production, but Allied fighters kept sweeping occupied France. Two Canadian Mustangs reached Le Bourget and downed a German JU-88 while damaging a tug and four freight engines. one British fighter was lost over France.
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London
Hitler
France
le Bourget
Air Ministry
Allied Planes Rip Into Naples Area
Allied air forces from North Africa strike the Naples corridor as part of the campaign after Sicily. Bombers and patrols target rail and highway links around Naples while naval forces shell Gioia Tauro and scalesa. In heavy air battles, Allied bombers cripple rail bottlenecks at Foggia and hit Aversa Benevento and Villa Literno, with German fighters clashing as 14 enemy aircraft fall and 10 Allied planes are lost.
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Allied
North Africa
Italy
Sicily
Sir Arthur Tedder
Pantellaria
Naples
Navy
Gioia Tauro
Messina
Scalea
Reggio Calabria
Foggia
Aversa
Benevento
Villa Literno
Soong to Join Quebec War Conference with Roosevelt and Churchill
Chinese foreign minister T. V. Soong is expected to join the Quebec meeting within 48 hours for talks with Roosevelt and Churchill on China's role in upcoming Pacific offensives. News of Soong's arrival follows word that a combined American Canadian force seized Kiska island, Japan's northern Pacific stronghold, without resistance.
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Quebec
T. V. Soong
Roosevelt
Churchill
China
Japan
Soong
Pacific
Washington
Ottawa
Kiska Island
North Central Pacific
Stephen Early
Early
Stimson
William J. Donovan
Office of Strategic Services
Frank Knox
Kiska
Lord Leathers
Lewis Douglas
United States War Shipping Board
Malcolm MacDonald
Canada
Sheila MacDonald
Brendon Bracken
Prime King
Beat Cordell Hull
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Alcicante
John Colburn
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