A Dot-Dash Diary of Newsy 1944
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THIS PHOTOGRAPH typifies
the story of 1944—the year of
invasions. The peak amphibious
operations were the breaching
of Fortress Europe on June 6
By RICHARD TOMPKINS,
AP Newsfealures Writer
JANUARY 1944
S M T W T f s
NEW YEAR . . , Looks auspi.
clous for victory . . . Invasion
rumors . . . Red army crosses old
Polish border . . . U. S. suicide
rate declines . . . Roosevelt, bed
ridden with grippe, says: ‘‘Our
armed forces are gathering for
new and greater assaults . . . Al
lied air fleets blacken German
skies . . . Tommies and GIs move
forward in Italy . . . Germans
reel under hammer blows of Rus
sians . . . West coast motorists
drain gas stations dry . . . Great
er military tonnage moves over
the “Hump’ than ever did over
Burma Road . . . Mrs. Herbert
Hoover dies in New York City
at 68 . . . Antanas Smetona,
exiled president of Lithuania,
dies in Cleveland . . . Betty
Grable’s unborn child nominated
‘‘Babe of the Year” . . . Shall
soldiers vote? . . . Fourth war
loan drive . . . ‘‘Winnie” returns
and the U. S. return to the
i Philippines on ^ct. 19, but oth
er invasions occurred at Saidor
in New Guinea, Anzio in Italy,
Green Islands, Eniwetok in the
■ ■vAwi.-A'v.v.v
Marshall, Tinian, Admiralty
Islands, southern France, Hol
landia, Wadke, Biak, Halma
hera, Saipan, Guam, Numfor,
Sansapar, Greece, Norway and
Palau. This picture is a strik
ing panorama of the Normandy
beachhead with reinforcements
and supplies pouring ashore.
Balloons float overhead to pro
tect ships Ironi enemy straf*
ing. Headed inland from the
yawning maws of LSTs are
long files of trucks loaded with
troops and supplies.
^to London from Middle East . . .
Roosevelt: ‘‘We move toward
complete defeat of our enemies
—by land, by sea and by air’ . . .
Novgorod captured by Reds . . .
Gustav line hammered by Fifth
Army . . . Count Ciano executed
for “treason” . . . Bidu Sayao
cites Brazilian woman’s mission
in life. ‘‘To be beautiful and
kind, to make music, to make
life pleasant for man” . . . Argen
tina breaks with Axis . . . Army
Navy report: 5,200 Americans
died in Philippines of starvation
and torture . . . Nation pledges
to avenge victims . . . World’s
greatest warship, 45,000-ton Mis
souri, launched . . . U. S. ships
and planes in savage attack on
Marshall Islands . . . Dimout lift
ed in New York . . . ‘‘Tony”
(Anthony Drexel) Biddle, Jr.,
sheds civies for unirorm . . . Sec
retary Stimson: ‘‘We must accept
the casualties which are bound to
! come” . . . Congress sidetracks
President’s request for a nation
al service act . . . President is 62
... John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 70
... Gen. MacArthur, 64 ... F.
D. R. and Eleanor deed Hyde
Park homestead and 33 acres to
U. S. . . . Hollywood motorist
! Josephine Lee, fined for speed
| ing, says she had to drive that
! way to keep sailors off . . . Ty_
phus in Naples . . . Johnny (Tar
zan) Weissmuller sued for di
vorce.
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'ARY 1944 |
I
Thg $2,315,000,000 second war
time tax bill goes to the White
House . . . Army takes over seven
Fall River (Mass.) textile mills
. . . Russian bear-hug connects
with foe . . . Swift-moving Uk
rainians encircle Nazis at Kiev
. . . Movie Star Jimmy Stewart
now a major in Army Air Forces
. . . Tedder, pipe-smoking Scot,
made air chief marshal—second
in command to Eisenhower . . .
Star “Nova Pictoris’ found flat
tened at poles . . . Supreme Sov
iet provides autonomy for 16 re
publics of U. S. S. R. . . . Deb
utante Lucy Sochrane’s in Zteg
feld Follies . . . Adolf Hitler’s
Nazis anniversary speech tess
violent, less boastful . . . ^‘Gloomy
Dean” Inge: Britain as great in
dustrial nation cannot recover
from war; Britons will become
agriculturists . . . Sen. Hattie
Caraway, on birthday, gives
home-grown nuts to her Senator
colleague, John L. McClellan,
from Arkansas . . . Kwajalein Is
land captured by U. S. troops . . .
Tax bill vetoed by Roosevelt . . .
Krivoi Rog captured by Russians
. . . Wendell Willkie celebrates
53d birthday . . . Martha Raye,
j comedienne, wins Mexican di
vorce from third husband . . .
Edgar Lee Masters, 74, of ‘‘Spoon
River Anthology” fame, found
destitute in New York . . . Grov
er Cleveland Bergdoll, World
War I. draft dodger, released
from Leavenworth prison . . .
Raymond Clapper, columnist
killed in air crash . . . Soldier
vote problem complicated by me
chanics and politics . . . Predic
tion: Finland soon may make
peace with Russia . . . Stephen
Hopkins, Marine son of Harry L.
Hopkins, killed in the Pacific . . .
Divorce. Edna Marie Skelton
“dood it’ to Red Skelton . . .
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Germany’s public debt estimate:
400 billion reichsmarks. »
I MARCH 1944 |
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Nimitz picks up another atoll
... Americans fight in Asia for
first time in this war rolling up
25-to-l score against Japanese in
Burma . . . Kherson captured by
Russians . . . FBI arrests 31 p°r- •
sons in Florida in effort to end
black market in railroad res rva
tions . . . Gripsholpi homeward
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