R A F Moves Against Italy Again
London reports the Royal Air Force strikes over Turin and northern Italy with heavy bomb loads and incendiaries. Swiss alarms sounded as the raid followed Tuesday night’s assault, with Italians acknowledging major damage including a university and hospital. One plane reportedly crashed in Turin. one British crewman missing.
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London
Switzerland
Britain
Italy
Alps
Turin
Basel
Zurich
Germany
Mussolini
Merchantman Sinks Raider in South Atlantic Battle
A U S merchantman fought a 20 minute duel with enemy raiders in the South Atlantic and sank one enemy surface craft while taking heavy damage. The ship went down with colors flying. 10 crewmen and 5 Navy gunners survived among 41 merchant mariners and 5 sailors.
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Washington
South Atlantic
Weather forecast for Wednesday and Thursday
Light snowshowers expected with little temperature change. Wednesday highs near 31 and lows around 18, with similar conditions continuing into Thursday.
Wickard seeks to expand food dehydration facilities
Secretary of Agriculture Wickard will ask the War Production board for a large pool of strategic materials to expand dehydration plants. He notes UN war needs will exceed current capacity, prompting new plants and expanded freezing packaging storage of vegetables for military use and lend-lease efforts.
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Washington
Wickard
War Production Board
United Nations
Executions Rise in Nazi Occupied Europe as Reprisals Grow
Reports from London Bern and Paris say 49 people were executed and 500 rounded up in Europe amid Nazi terror. In Lyon 100 residents await execution after attacks on German troops. Prague Vienna and Berlin also report executions for treason and falsification of rations.
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London
Europe
France
Paris
Bern
Zagreb
Lyon
Place Belle Coeur
Protectorate
Prague
Vienna
Berlin
Tanker reportedly escapes after submarine shelling in Falklands
German radio said a United States tanker was shelled by a Japanese submarine in a channel near the Falkland Islands and escaped. The report, aired Wednesday night, had not been independently confirmed.
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London
United States
Falkland Islands
South America
Atlantic
Plane Missing Over Idaho Airspace
Boise Idaho December 9 an Army plane carrying two officers is missing in southern Idaho according to Gowen Field operations officer Captain P H Parley. The search extended across remote areas as rain and wind hindered tracking efforts.
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Boise
Idaho
P. H. Parley
Gowen
Army
Volunteer Officer Candidate Plan Not Affected by Executive Order
The War department said suspending voluntary enlistment does not stop the Army's volunteer officer candidate program. No man over 38 will be accepted, but those ordered to report by December 5 will be trained. Deferred candidates may volunteer for training, complete 12 weeks of basic training, and may seek release if not qualifying for a school or commission.
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Washington
Army
War Department
Selective Service Board
Australians Kill 113 Jap Soldiers in Gona Fight
Australian troops killed 113 Japanese and captured seven as they broke through near the beach in the Gona sector of northeastern New Guinea. Allied air forces claimed ten enemy planes shot down and four more probably downed in a running fight off the north coast.
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Brydon Taves
M’arthur
Australia
Gona
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Gena
Buna
Vilage
Sanananda
New Britain Island
Women's Land Army urged by Mrs Roosevelt in broadcast
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed creating a voluntary women's land army to augment agricultural labor in the United States. She cited Britain’s example and urged national postwar planning, praising British courage and urging Americans to stretch horizons while men serve abroad.
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Great Britain
Blue Network
Roosevelt
Beveridge ‘Social Security
Soviet Airmen Destroy 68 Nazi Transports Near Stalingrad
Russian airmen claimed 68 Nazi transport planes destroyed over two days while the Red Army near Velikie Lukie killed more than 6,000 from the 246th infantry division. The midnight communique noted no major territorial gains, but captured a locality and seized a 105 mm battery and two tanks. Also reported were 900 German casualties in Stalingrad operations and losses of six German tanks, six guns, 15 machine guns, and six trucks. Fighting resumed in the Nalchik Caucasus sector.
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Moscow
Stalingrad
Red Army
Volga River
Nalchik
Caucasus
North Africa Fronts Brace for New Allied Offensives
War dispatches report a lull in North Africa as Allies prep to strike from east and west. Eisenhower and Montgomery bolster transport, guns, and air power, aiming for an early breakthrough at Tunis, Bizerte, and El Agheila despite Axis mine and trap defenses.
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Eisenhower
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Libya
Rommel
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Montgomery
Eighth Army
Agheila Narrows
el Agheila
el Alamein
Wounded Marine Vows Guadalcanal Stand Until All Marines Safe
Ramon J. Maxwell, 19, wounded at Guadalcanal, says he would have joined North Africa action if he could. He recounts being shot four times, a radio shack bombing that killed his comrade, and that as long as one Marine remains alive, they can keep the Japanese off the island. Maxwell plans to return home to Brute near Sacramento after recovery.
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Sacramento
U.P
Ramon J. Maxwell
North Africa
Solomons
Maxwell
Radio Shack
Brute
Youths to Sign Friday for War Registration in Silver Bow
Silver Bow county begins its sixth selective service registration Friday. Boys turning 18 between July 1 and August 31, 1924 must sign at Addis A. McGrath county clerk office and three Lewisohn building draft boards. Registration runs Friday to Thursday with offices open for a week and continues to December 31.
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Silver Bow County
Addis
American Planes Blast Jap Invasion Thrust
American air and sea forces struck at Guadalcanal last Thursday sinking an enemy cruiser or destroyer and damaging four other ships while shooting down ten aircraft. The raid cost the U S Navy only three planes, amid reports of intensified Allied artillery fire west of Henderson Field and a surprise visit by Lt. Gen. Delos Emmons to the Hawaiian command.
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Washington
U.P
Guadalcanal
Henderson Field
Delos OC. Emmons
Hawaiian Department
General Staff
Pacific
Navy
Bad Weather Restricts Land Action
Allied and German patrols fought brief battles in bad weather along the Axis defense line near Bizerte as British and American forces rushed tanks guns planes and men to the Tunisian front for a major showdown. Twenty German tanks were destroyed in a hill clash southwest of Tebourba. fighting shifted to patrols and artillery exchanges.
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London
Bizerte
Tunisia
Wes Gallagher
Associated Press
North Africa
Tebourba
Reuters
Tunisian
U. S
Dwight Eisenhower
Tunis
Morocco
Rome
Higgins Wins War Dept Contract to Build Cargo Planes
Andrew J. Higgins, New Orleans shipbuilder, awarded a War department contract for 1,200 Army cargo planes to be built at the Maritime Commission shipyard in New Orleans leased to Higgins for 1 dollar a year. The first plane is due for completion next October. contract signed at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio.
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Washington
U.P
Andrew J. Higgins
New Orleans
War Department
Maritime Commission
Higgins
Defense Plant Corporation
Alfons Landa
Landa
Russia
Joseph E. Davies
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
Camp Fire Girls Campaign Reaches $1200 in Butte Drive
Camp Fire Girls report $1200 raised with less than half the contact list completed. August Grunert leads over 100 volunteers canvassing Butte to reach a $3000 goal. A mid drive rally is scheduled at 5:30 PM Thursday at the YMCA for progress reports.
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Butte Camp
August Grunert
Grunert
Camp Fire Girls
America
Butte
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