Russians Open New Offenses Near Strasbourg In Winter Fight
The U S Seventh Army struck German forces north of Strasbourg as 10 000 troops massed at the Rhine bridgehead and connected with forces to the north. American air power hit armor while troops pushed Germans back across the Zorn river nine miles north of Strasbourg. On a 75 mile front the front line burned as Allied and German forces race to start their stalled offensives this winter.
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Rhine
Paris
U.S. Seventh Army
Strasbourg
Zorn
France
Germany
Second
German Panhandle
Aachen
The
Reich
Roer River
Dusseldorf
U. S. First Army
St. Vith
Ardennes Salient
U. S. Third Army
Luxembourg
Diekirich
Duchy’s
Life Returns to Warsaw Rubble
Moscow dispatch reports Warsaw's liberation bringing life back to a desert of wreckage. Red Army and Polish resistance raise red and white flags amid broken buildings and uprooted infrastructure as tractors clear debris and repair begins. Mexico City notices follow, delaying the inter American conference from Feb. 15 to Feb. 21 due to requests from invited nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Warsaw
Poland
Germany
Mexico City
Mexico
Ha’d
Nazi Ardennes Offensive Termed Failure
Allied headquarters in Paris on January 19 announced the German Ardennes counteroffensive failed and did not seriously affect Allied plans. The official review blamed Hitler and Von Rundstedt, tallied German losses around 120000 to 55421 for Allies, and described the aim to reach the Meuse and Antwerp as unsuccessful.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
Ardennes
Friay
Hitler
von Rundstedt
Meuse
Liege- Namur
Aachen
Antwerp
Belgium
Holland
The
Siegfried Line
American Embassy in China Burns
A fire destroyed the new 44 room two story American colonial style embassy in Chungking seven months after completion. The blaze on a high ridge above the Yangtze and Kiliang rivers overwhelmed 200 firemen as water pressure failed. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley lived nearby and was not told of the fire initially. Early arrivals saved first floor furniture but the second floor safe and valuables were not moved.
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Chungking
Yangtze
Kiliang
Patrick J. Hurley
Counterattacks by Japs Are Repulsed
Gen. MacArthur announced that Japanese counterattacks near Rosario on Luzon’s left flank were bloodily repulsed. American forces pressed the Manila to Baguio highway at Binalonan and Santa Ignacia, with Urdaneta reports signaling a continuing push inland toward Tarlac.
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MacArthur
Luzon
Rosario
Douglas MacArthur
Baguio
Philippines
Damortis
Peleliu
Palaus
Binalonan
Manila-Baguio
Santa Ignacia
Camiling
Tarlac
Urdaneta
Lingayen Gulf
Roosevelt Opens 4th Term Today
President Roosevelt prepares to begin his fourth term with a pared down ceremony at the White House on January 20. Wartime constraints limit guests to 5 000 and a 500 word address, while Vice President Truman joins the oath on the same day.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Capitol
Lincoln
Sen
Harry Truman
Missouri
Tucker
Harlan Stone
Truman
John Nance Garner
Henry Wallace
Wallace
Commerce
Big Three meet to include foreign ministers for first time
Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr will accompany President Roosevelt at the upcoming Roosevelt Churchill Stalin talks. Prime Minister Churchill will bring Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Soviet Foreign Commissar Molotov is expected to attend with Stalin. This marks the first time a secretary of state joins a war parleys abroad and follows Roosevelt's fourth inauguration.
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Washington
U.P
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
V. M. Molotov
Josef Stalin
Eden
Molotov
Teheran
Cordell Hull
Moscow
Hull
Quebec
Yanks Lose Only 22 Planes in Strike Against China Coast
U S Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor reports 22 American planes lost in a three day strike against the China coast from Hong Kong to Formosa. Enemy losses totaled 30 ships 104000 tons and 87 planes. No clear word on Third Fleet maneuvers or carrier strikes for the past two days.
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China Coast
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
U.P
South China
Hong Kong
Formosa
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Nimitz
William F. Halsey
Quick-Thinking Yank End German Guard Duel
In Alsace Jan 19, 7-Lt Wilbur Madison of Anderson South Carolina faced a German sentinel in a street standoff. Madison calmly offered a grenade he carried and the German seized it, resulting in the German’s death. Madison survived.
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Seventh Army
Wilbur Madison
Madison
Anderson, S. C
Penalties Fixed by House Group for Draft Dodgers
Washington notes the House military committee approved penalties up to five years in prison and fined up to 10 000 for men 18 to 45 leaving essential war jobs. The panel substituted civilian penalties for draft induction into Army labor battalions and set similar penalties for those refusing war jobs on draft orders. A final vote to report a national service bill was postponed to Monday amid opposition and worries over broader manpower legislation. Senator Ferguson called Norfolk Navy yard revelations shocking, signaling further investigations into war and navy plant manpower.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Kilday
Texas
House
Roosevelt
Senate
War Investigation Committee
Ferguson
R-Mich
Norfolk
Navy Yard
Detroit
Cleveland
Superfortresses Strike Kawasaki Aircraft Plant at Akashi
United States B-29s from the Mariana islands bombed the Kawasaki aircraft plant at Akashi near Kobe in daylight. The raid damaged final assembly hangars and nearby airfields with slight fighter opposition and moderate anti aircraft fire. This attack marks the fourth major Japanese aircraft center hit in the Superfortress campaign.
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Washington
U.P
Mariana Islands
Tokyo
Kawasaki Aircraft Plant
Akashi
Kobe
Haywood S. Hansell
Honshu
20Th Air Force
Kawasaki
Omura
Kyushu
21St Bomber Command
Marianas
Mitsubishi
Nagoya
Musashino
Willow Run
Japan
Cooper county jury convicts Jewett Martin of second degree murder
A Cooper county circuit court jury convicted Jewett Martin of second degree murder in the May slaying of his grandmother Mrs Edward M. Jewett. The court fixed his punishment at 20 years in a Missouri prison. In Chicago, Mrs Helen W. Nelson was granted a divorce from Donald M. Nelson, a former War Production Board official, on desertion grounds.
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Boonville, Mo
Cooper County
Jewett Martin
Edward M. Jewett
Chicago
Helen W. Nelson
Donald M. Nelson
Roosevelt
War Production Board
Huge Pincers Is Clamped on East Prussia
Soviet forces opened two major offensives pushing into Poland and reaching the Silesian frontier near Breslau. They seized Lodz and Krakow, pierced toward East Prussia, and claimed 2,750 towns fell on an 800 mile front from the Baltic to Budapest. The German news agency warned the winter offensive could decide Germany’s fate as the push continued.
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London
Red Army
Berlin
Poland
Lodz
Krakow
East Prussia
Reich
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Moscow
Ukraine
Silesia
Pruszka
Breslau
Wielun
Praszka
Baltic
Budapest
Solons to Visit Warm Springs
Helena January 18. As the 29th Montana Legislature pauses for a long weekend, more than 30 House members plan a Saturday inspection trip to Warm Springs state hospital to assess current conditions. Bills propose moving senile patients to Dillon and creating a new state hospital by a governor appointed three member commission.
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Helena
Montana Legislative Assembly
House of Representatives
Warm Springs
House
George O'Connor
Rcarbon
Montana Normal School
Dillon
James F. O'Connor
Livingston
Montana House
Thomas J. Walker
Butte
State House
Senate
Red Army Advances Raise Hope of Fast German Collapse
London reports suggest Soviet offensives may crush Germany within weeks. Military circles see diversions in central Poland and pressure at Czestochowa and East Prussia while massing strength for a decisive blow in Poland. Observers note German fervor over homeland as fronts shift.
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London
Russia
Germany
Red Army
Poland
Czestochowa
Aircraft Carrier Escort to Be Launched Jan.25
SEATTLE Jan. 19 U P An other huge aircraft carrier escort the U S S Maioko of the Com mencement bay class second largest in the United States Navy will go down the ways to the Todd Pacific Tacoma Wash shipyards Jan 25 the 13th Naval district announced Friday night The big carrier named after a savage battle fought by Marines and Army forces against the Japs on the northwest coast of New Georgia island July 20 1943 will be sponsored by Mrs John J Ballentine wife of Rear Adm J J Ballentine commander fleet air Seattle
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Seattle
U.P
John J. Ballentine
J. J. Ballentine
Fleet-Air
Montana Weather Turning Warmer Sunday After Snow Flurries
West of divide shows considerable cloudiness through Sunday with scattered snow flurries Saturday and rising temperatures by Sunday. Highs range from 25 to 29 on Saturday. East of divide improves with snow ending in the southeast forenoon and clearing Saturday and Sunday as temperatures rise. Northeast sections near zero to 25 in the extreme west.
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Montana
Divide
Japanese submarine sinks John A. Johnson off Pacific coast
Navy reports a Japanese submarine torpedoed and sank the Liberty ship John A. Johnson between California and Honolulu in November 1944, machine-gunned and rammed survivors, killing ten and wounding six. Ten of 70 crewmen were killed in the attack and subsequent atrocities as survivors were hunted at sea.
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Roger A. Johnson
San Francisco
Pacific
John A. Johnson
California
Honolulu
Navy
Johnson
Oregon
Tokyo Radio
Salt Lake City skipper recalls Johnson torpedo hit
Lt. (jg) Wynn Del Yates of Salt Lake City, commander of the Johnson crew, recounts the torpedo strike amidships while talking with Second Lt. Raymond Schissler of the Army transport service. Schissler was later killed by submarine gunfire as the wardroom was flooded and the crew manned their guns.
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Wynn del Yates
USNR
Salt Lake City
Utah
Johnson
Yates
Raymond Schissler
Army Transport Service
Schissler
Floating fragment drifts from the Johnson manuscript
A stray fragment mentions something about the Johnson document or object drifting outward, with unclear context. The readable text hints at movement or passage but lacks concrete details, leaving the exact subject and location unspecified.
Submarine Attack Sinks Liberty Ship. Survivors Rescued by Argus
The Japanese submarine sank a Liberty ship after machinegun fire maimed crew members. Sixty survivors hid under flour sacks as the sub raked lifeboats and fired on them. They were later rescued by the Navy motor yacht Argus, then operating under Western Sea Frontier.
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Argus
Western Sea Frontier
Max Fleischmay
Santa Barbara
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Yank
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W. W. Hercher
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William Frye
Elmer Burman
Brook Park
Minn
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Frank E. Boling
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