Messina’s long history of tragedy and conquest
The article traces Messina’s storied past from ancient piracy and Carthaginian wars to Roman and Norman sieges. It chronicles repeated calamities from earthquakes to plagues, including a 1908 quake that killed about 84,000, and notes the city’s role in Sicily’s wartime Allied push and postquake urban shift. It lists rulers, invasions, and major dates from 831 to 1860.
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Associated Press
Messina
Sicily
Strait of Messina
Italy
Cumae
Timoleon
Richard I
England
Richard
Tancred
Garibaldi
Old City
Old Town
Axis Forces Plunder Pattern in Sicily Faction Tales
Randazzo and Cesaro show Nazi and Fascist plunder methods in Sicily. Lieutenant Conick describes systematic looting in Cesaro, with hospitals split into four groups seizing valuables. In Randazzo, Fascists used nepotism and political control, arresting anti Fascists while fleeing as Allied troops advanced.
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Harold V. Boyle
Randazzo
Sicily
Cesaro
Charles BE. Conick
Pittsburg
Conick
Cantania
Allies broke Axis claim Sicily impregnable in World War II era rhetoric
Axis propaganda insisted Sicily was impregnable from 1937 through mid 1943, citing Mussolini and broadcasts about a fortified island. The material portrayed Sicily as a formidable fortress with coastal batteries and strong defenses, yet Allied invasion proved the opposite.
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New York
Sicily
Mussolini
Palermo
Area Boys Helped Shell Italian Coast
News of the Sicily invasion opening the bombardment of coastal Italian guns in Messina era. Pfc Albert Keep of Atoka Tennessee fired the first shell from an American Long Tom. crew led by Lieut William Dougherty under Col George Halliday. Sergt Elmer Wilbert ordered the firing.
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R. Cunningham
Messina
Tennessee
Straits of Messima
Italy
Pfc
Albert
Keep
Atoka
Tenn
William B. Dougherty
Dallas
Tex
Sicily
Elmer Wilbert
Butler
Heep
George Halliday
West Lafayette
Ind
Purdue
Ther Rifle
Court House room prospects revive for City Court return
With the Rensselaer County Rationing Board removed, the old court room resumes its status. Bar Association members push a formal request to the Board of Supervisors for the Troy City Court to reoccupy the space. Supervisors remain non-committal as a meeting approach looms. County building superintendent doubts occupancy timing. City Court judges favor the current Municipal Health Center site, while many lawyers seek the county building for convenience.
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Rensselaer County Rationing Board
Court House
County Bar Association
Board of Supervisors
Troy City
The
Bar Association
Supervisors
Thomas J. Graulty
Edward L. Nugent
John J Sweeney
Municipal Health Center
City Court
State Street
Seventh Avenue
MacArthur Lock Speeds Soo Canal Completion
The $14,000,000 MacArthur lock on the Soo canal was finished in 13 months, beating the planned 20 month schedule and enabling faster transport of iron ore down the Great Lakes.
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MacArthur
Soo Canal
Great Lakes
Whispering death Long Tom honors on Tunisian front
The No 1 gym crew included Pvts Joseph Talar Albany and Salvatore Morbito Amsterdam NY as soldiers prepare for action. The famed Long Tom howitzer, eight and a half feet tall, earns the nickname whispering death from German troops after British Tommy observers dubbed it so in Tunisia.
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Eran
Tunisia
Sicily
Pvts
Joseph Talar
Albany
Salvatore Morbito
Amsterdam
N. Y
Navy, Marine and Coast Guard Strength Reported
Washington reports the total officer and enlisted strength of the Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard at 2 666 500. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced the figures after a conference where he estimated Navy enlisted strength at 1 700 000. By year end an additional 1 194 500 will be added to reach 2 216 000. The current Navy strength stands at 2 150 000 officers and men. The Marine Corps figure is noted in the release.
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Washington
Marine Corps and Coast Guard
Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox
Knox
Navy
Marine Corps
Military strength projections for three services
The report cites funding or personnel figures: the Navy at 2,200,000, the Marine Corps at 399,000, and the Coast Guard at 472,000 by year end. It notes earlier figures of 360,000 and 156,500 as context for the service scale.
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Oc Guard
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Marines May Up. Coconuts disrupt Japanese defense in Solomon Islands
Howard H. Hout of San Francisco reports a Solomon Islands battle where Marines used coconuts with hand grenades against entrenched Japanese. Japanese in caves hurled grenades as Marines threw both grenades and coconuts, delaying return fire as defenders puzzled over the incoming projectiles.
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San Francisco
Solomon Islands
Howard HB. Hout
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Radio Zeesen
Mediterranean
Duetsche Allegemeine Zeitung
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Dieppe
Italian Coast
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Aln Tan
Connie
Arator
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Coats
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