Bombers Hit French Airfields Across 110 Mile Front
United States Flying Fortresses bombed air fields at Mardyck and Penin with heavy fighter cover in 1943 actions. Marauders and Bostons hit Pas De Calais targets including Mazingarbe and Serqueux freight yards while RAF units engaged. Four enemy aircraft were destroyed. losses included one Fortress and two fighters.
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London
United States
Mardyck
Penain
U. S. Army
Air Ministry
Pas de Calais
Mazingarbe
Serquex
R. A. F. Dominion
Serqueux
Dieppe
Calais
Denain
Lille
Dunkerque
Allies Blast Targets on Italian Toe
Allied bombers struck targets along the toe of Italy near Sicily as North Africa headquarters reported. R A F bombed Reggio di Calabria area while American B-17s and fighters supported five missions, with no opposition encountered, disrupting highways and railways to halt civilian and military movements.
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North Africa
Italy
Sicily
Strait of Messina
Europe
R. A. F. Bostons
Reggio di Calabria
End of Cotton Shortage Seen
New York reports a hopeful outlook for cotton textiles with shortages expected to ease by year end, contingent on skilled labor availability not worsening in the remaining quarters of 1943. If labor holds, denims and cotton workwear may become less scarce by January 1, according to trade authorities.
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New York
Scoreboard NATIONAL AND AMERICAN League Standings
National league games show Brooklyn 4 New York 5 Chicago 3 Cincinnati 0 Boston 3 Philadelphia 2 over 10 innings with no other scheduled games. American standings list Cleveland 2 Chicago 1 Detroit 5 St Louis 4. Detroit 8 St Louis 5. Eastern clubs Albany 6 Springfield 2 Wilkes Barre 10 Elmira Binghamton 3 Scranton 2 Hartford 11 Utica 10 Hartford 13 Utica L.
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National
Brooklyn
New York
Chicago
Cincinnati
Boston
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Detroit
St. Louie
St. Louis
Albany
Springfield
Wilkes-Barre
Elmira
G. Binghamton
Scranton
Hartford
Utica
Five Red Armies Plunge Westward to Kiev Rail Junction
Five Red Armies moved westward breaking the Bryansk Kiev railway 150 miles from Kiev and driving German forces back in a Donets Basin advance. Ukrainian Sumy fell to Gen Nikolai Vatutin while Krolo vets and Yampol were captured. Lishchansk Voroshilovsk Slavyanoserbsk Budenovka seized as Germans retreat toward the Dnieper. over 9,000 German deaths reported in two days as Russians push along a 600 mile front.
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London
Russia
Bryansk-Kiev
Kiev
Smolensk
Donets
Mianshel Ctaliete
Phrredav
Ukraine
Sumy
Kharkov
Nikolai Vatutin
Krolovets
Yampol
Bryansk
Hirlev
Lishchansk
Voroshilovsk
Slavyanoserbsk
Red
Germany
Red Army
Stalingrad
Konotop
Kursk
Butter and Meat Ration Revisions Announced
The Office of Price Administration raises creamery butter to 12 points per 2 pounds and lowers other staples. Two point increases for butter, a one to two point drop for fresh meat, and reductions across lamb mutton bacon pork beef cuts are outlined as production lags. Continued on Page Nineteen.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
War Plants Need 90,000 More Women Workers
The War Manpower Commission said 90,000 additional women must be recruited for civilian and war jobs by July next year, boosting total nonfarm female workers to about 18 million. About 17.1 million women are employed today, with 5.6 million potential nonfarm housewives aged 20 to 55 without children under 16. The commission notes retention challenges and urges more support services for working wives and mothers, including child care and better facilities.
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Washington (P
War Manpower Commission
WMC
Generals Arnold and Lee Arrive in Britain for Air Operations Study
Generals Henry H. Arnold and William C. Lee landed in London to meet with British and American air leaders. They will confer with Air Chief Marshal Portal and Gen. Devers about the European theater air plan and inspect American air bases, hospitals, and combat stations.
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London
Henry H. Arnold
U. S Army Air Forces
William C. Lee
Britain
United States
Eighth U.S. Aaf
Arnold
Arthur Portal
Jacob L. Devers
Ira C. Baker
Eighth Air Force
Ciano Holdings Seized by Rome in Graft Probe
Rome seized the fortunes of Count Galeazzo Ciano and his wife Edda as part of a graft investigation. Stefani reported a government committee ordered the seizure of their Rome villa and large amounts of cash and jewels.
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Madrid
UPI
Galeazzo Ciano
Mussolini
Edda
Pietro Badoglio
Stefanii
Rome
Aurelio Challenges Substitute Nominees In New York
District Attorney cites racketeer links to Aurelio's nomination for state Supreme Court as both parties reconvene conventions to replace him. George Frankenthaler named by Republicans. Tamany Hall leaders press to repudiate Aurelio amid legal leave of absence and ongoing grand jury probes into Costello involvement.
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New York (P
Thomas A.” Aurelio
Supreme Court
George Frankenthaler
New York City
Aurelio
Tammany Hall
Michael J. Kennedy
Frank
Hogan
Frank Costella
Henry H. Curfran
Costello
Howard Cohen
City Board of Elections
John Doe
Allied raids blow up Japanese fuel and munitions stores in Madang
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said Allied bombers dropped more than 200 tons of bombs on Madang above Salamaua, New Guinea, destroying warehouses and headquarters. Fires rose 1,500 feet as heavy and medium bombers pounded Ma gang Amron Mission and Alenis Hafen, with 90,000 rounds of machinegun and cannon fire. No Japanese planes were downed in the Madang area.
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Southwest Pacific
Madang
New Guinea
Salamaua
Douglas MacArthur
Magang
Amron Mission
Alenishafen
Wewak
Afterwar gasoline advances to boost car efficiency
New York chemists predict peacetime aviation gas will surge and raise ordinary motorist fuel quality. W M Carney of Lion Oil foresees 90 to 95 octane cars and 30 percent better mileage. Technical experts say aviation fuel developed for war could lift car power 70 to 100 percent.
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New York
Lion Oil Refining Co
W. M. Carney
Dutch Lock Gates Hit by Hurricane Bomber Attack
British Air Ministry News Service reported that Hurricanes with Typhoons destroyed the Hansweert Canal lock gates at the south end of Holland’s waterway to Antwerp. The raid damaged three tugs a coastal vessel and nearby sentries while debris damaged a planes in the air. three Hurricanes and one Typhoon are listed as missing.
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London
Hansweert Canal
Holland
Air Ministry
Antwerp
Artillery Duel Across Channel Near Dover
Heavy cannonading broke out on the British side of the English Channel near Dover just after 10 p.m. and lasted about 15 minutes. British coastal batteries fired at a rate of about one shell per minute. Around 11:15 p.m. enemy guns from the French shore replied, with coastal fortifications issuing shellfire warnings.
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London
English Channel
Dover
Dover Strait
War Council Discusses Russian Front Retreat Plans
The Daily Mail, via Madrid, reports Hitler's top advisers held a four day war council at the Fuehrer’s headquarters. A plan to evacuate Ukraine and pull back behind the Pripet Marshes was floated but not adopted in full, with focus shifting to Smolensk Kiev and Dnieper.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Madrid
Adolf Hitler
Fuehrer
Mail
Ukraine
Pripet
Hitler
Reichmarshal Jiermann Goering
Smolensk
Kiev
Dnieperopetrovsk
Dnieper
Milestones To Defeat Milestones To Defeat
Timeline of World War II Africa and Mediterranean campaigns from 1940 to 1942. Italy declares war, British offensives push from Egypt to Tobruk, Somaliland falls, Addis Ababa, Mogadiscio, and Tunis battles mark pivotal shifts. Casablanca conference seals surrender policy. Final drives reduce Italian possessions in Africa.
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Associated Press
Italy
Great Britain
France
Italian East Africa
British Somaliland
Sidi Barrani
Egypt
Greece
Albania
Tooruk
Bengasi
el Agheila
Dan
Wi— Haile Selasaie
Ethopia
Tobruk
Mogadiscio
Addis Ababa
Bernard L. Monibre
el Alam
Tunis
United States
Noth Africa
Itals
el Agheia
Tripoli
Africa
Montgomery
Eighth Army
Roosevelt
Churchill
Casablanca
Tunisia
Finis
Cape Bon
Pantelleria
Lampedusa
Allied Forces Land on Italian Mainland at Messina
Allied British Canadian Eighth Army under Eisenhower captured the Strait of Messina and landed on mainland Italy early today. American Seventh Army aided western Sicily mopping up, with air and sea support, as the invasion marked movement toward Berlin on the war’s fourth anniversary.
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North Africa
Dwight D. Ehower
Strait of Messina
Ious
Siciy
Berlin
Eighth Army
Sicily
Seventh Army
Norway
Mesina
Eisenhower
Italy
Great Britain
Germany
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Arnold and
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Ciano
Pearson
Pulse of the People
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Java
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Australia
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Zealand
Sint of
Mes
Ici
Allied
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Avesi
Quebec
Mutual
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Tyrrhenian Sea
Cape Rasocolmo
Gulf
Patti
Randazi
Cape Milazzo
San Teresa
Taormina
Viardini
Milazzo
Tex
Mai Messina
Fiumefreddo
Point Faro
Acireale
Ataly
Melito Point
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