Invasion to Admiralty Islands Expands Allied Reach
Allied forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur land in the Admiralty Islands, reaching the Bismarck Sea region. The move bypasses Rabaul, brings airfields within 250 miles of Kavieng, and cuts the Truk to Wewak supply line while opening sea lanes toward the Philippines and threatening New Guinea and New Britain from the northeast.
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Associated Press
Admiralty Islands
Douglas MacArthur
Bismarck Sea
New Britain
New Ireland
Rabaul
Kavieng
Truk
Wewak
New Guinea
Philippines
Admiraltys
Don Caswell
Southwest Pacific
Mar
U.P
U. S
Vultee Strike Hinges on WLB Action in Plant
Union leaders threaten a 30 day strike at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Tucson plant over nine point grievance list. WLB decision expected to resolve disputes including union shop access, wage reviews, and training. Invasion forces reach Admiralty islands near Truk as U S advances in Southwest Pacific.
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Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation
War Labor Board
W. D. Lewis
Tucson
Aeronautical Mechanic Lodge No
International Association of Mechanics
Consolidated Company
Lewis
California
Vultee
Army Colonel Fails To Oust Argentine Head
Argentine government quells a revolt as Lt Col Tomas Duco’s infantry regiment confronts President Edelmiro Farrell in Buenos Aires. Duco is arrested after a conference with Farrell and War Minister Peron, the uprising ending without control of the capital.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Edelmiro Farrell
Tomas Duco
Pedro Ramirez
Farrell
Buenos Aires
Juan Peron
Argentina
War Ministry
Duco
Lomas de Zamora
Molinari
Ramirez
Supreme Court
Soviets Push Near Pskov In Baltic Front Action
Russian troops fought on the outskirts of Pskov as the battle for the Baltic route intensified. Soviet communiques claim advances and 250 towns captured, with forces near Pogorelka and Kutuzovo while probing across Lake Peipus and toward the Latvian border.
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Baltic
Red Army
Pogorelka
Pskov
Kutuzovo
Helsinki
Stockholm
Peipus
Malkova
Polotsk
Bombers Set Records With Month of Aerial Raids
RAF Mosquito bombers attacked western Germany with no losses, as U S and Allied raids on Brunswick and Pas de Calais continued a record month. The eighth air force strikes reduced German opposition, with limited German losses and a retaliatory London raid.
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London
Germany
Air Ministry
U. S.S
Brunswick
Pas-De- Calais
France
U. S
Eighth Air Force
Pas-De-Calais
Fury Of Germans' New Assault Subsidies As Secret Weapon Fails
Adolph Gutman a 49 year old restaurant owner was fined 250 dollars after admitting a health department charge that he bought 75 pounds of garbage for use in his restaurant. He bought three bushels of rotten produce for 50 cents from Gustave Herman 58 who was sentenced to 30 days in the workhouse after pleading guilty to violating the sanitation code. Gutman was caught in his 80 seat eatery following a complaint by an unidentified soldier about unwholesome produce.
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New York
Mar. i
Adolph Gutman
Munnicipal
Health Department
New Jersey
Gustave Herman
Gutman
Jet Planes Not Ready Yet For Combat
Washington March 1 Captain Ezra Kotcher of the Army air forces engineering division says jet propulsion promises about 100 mph more speed for future fighters. He notes the aircraft is in production for training purposes and not yet combat ready, detailing turbo-thermal operation and external power start.
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Ezra Kotcher
Army Air Forces’ Engineering Division
Air Force
Kotcher
Britain Ok s Russian Peace Plan To Finns
Allied troops beat back a German armored thrust on the Anzio front as rain and heavy shellfire slowed the attack. In London and Moscow, Britain accepted Russia’s peace terms for Finland, calling for ceasefire, break with Germany, restoration of 1940 borders, and internment of Nazi forces.
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Britain
Alex H. Singleton
London
Great Britain
Russia
Finland
Germany
Moscow
Juho K. Paasikivi
Sweden
Mme
Alexandra Kollontay
Bulgars Said To Be Set To Sue For Peace
Reports from neutral capitals indicate Bulgaria seeks armistice terms from the United States and Britain as Finland may exit the war within a month. The Sofia move lacks details, but officials warned of startling developments. Meanwhile, brutal fighting continues around the Anzio beachhead with German tanks and troops attacking Allied lines and new robot tanks reportedly employed by the Nazis.
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Robert V. Vermillion
Naples
Mar
U.P
5Th Army
Anzio
United Press
Reynolds Packard
High Command
Cisterna
John A. Parris
London
Europe
Finland
Bulgaria
United States
Britain
America
Sofia
Turkey
Sevov
Ankara
Times
Aprilia
14Th Army
Albano
Tucson War Refugees Face Rent Profiteering
Two newly arrived Tucson women told witnesses of steep rents for small rooms near the county line. They described sharing a single living room with a cot in a tenant’s bedroom and no kitchen privileges, despite OPA controls setting a $50 ceiling for a double room. The tale highlights damage to Tucson’s reputation amid wartime population growth.
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Tucson
Visitors’ Club
Thelma McQuade
OPA
Mountbatten Routs West Burma Japs
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten announced Allied forces killed or wounded about 4500 Japanese soldiers since February 4 as they routed an 8000 strong enemy unit aiming to encircle the Fifth and Seventh Indian divisions in western Burma. British artillery supported a west Buthedaung advance while airstrikes hit Mandalay Akyab Monya yards and Pakokku HQ. West African troops pressed in Kaladan valley and Chin hills as Japanese stragglers were rounded up.
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New Delhi
Louis Mountbatten
Burma
Akyab
Buthedaung
Kaladan
Chin Hills
Hukawng
United States
Mandalay
Monya
Pakokku
RAF
Rep Thomas Cullen Dies at 75 in Washington
Representative Thomas H. Cullen, chair of the Brooklyn Democratic faction, died at Walter Reed Hospital after several weeks of illness from uremia. The New York congressman, aged 75, had served in the House of Representatives.
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Washington
Thomas H. Cullen
Brooklyn
New York
House of Representatives
Walter Reed Hospital
U S Bombers Target Wake Island Base in New Raid
U S bombers attacked Wake Island at very low altitude, strafing and bombing airfield installations. Liberty of fleet air wing 2 reported destroying or heavily damaging six planes on the ground and returning safely. Navy search plane also bombed Nauru while Mitchell bombers and fighters hit eastern Marshall islands bases.
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Washington
Mar
Wake Island
Pacific Fleet
Liberators
Fleet Air Wing 2
Nauru
7Th Army Air Force
Fleet Air Wings
Marshall Islands
Honor Arizona Brothers At Luke Field Ceremony
Two Arizona brothers who served together in the Army Air Forces and were listed as missing in action were honored at Luke Field. A. F. Stanifird of Taylor received duplicate Air Medals with Oak Leaf clusters for his sons Second Lts. Frank and Gyll Stanifird who completed ten missions over Europe last fall. Their plane was believed to have forced landed on a later mission.
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Phoenix
Mar
Arizona
Army Air Forces
Luke Field
A. F. Stanifird
Taylor
Frank
Gyll Stanifird
Gyll
Europe
Allies Tighten Pacific Pincers Crush Japs in Momote Gain
Allied forces seize the strategic Momote airport in the Admiralty Islands. General MacArthur vows to press toward liberating the Philippines as Japan’s supply lines to New Guinea bases are cut. About 50,000 Japanese casualties anticipated amid ongoing Pacific operations.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Pacific
Asia
Archipelago
Burma
Japan
Gen. MacArthur
Momote
Admiralty Islands
Bismarck Archipelago
New Guinea
Rabaul
New Britain
Philippines
MacArthur
Sweden warns foreign planes overflight risk after bombing
Stockholm reports Sweden will fire on foreign military planes flying over its territory unless aircraft are clearly in distress. The move follows the February 22 bombing of Stockholm when attackers reportedly fired distress flares before dropping explosives.
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Stockholm
Sweden
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Innis P. Swift
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