http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/jan1943/f19jan43.htm
Red Army Reports over 50,000 Prisoners
Tuesday, January 19, 1943 www.onwar.com
Axis prisoners march into captivity [photo at link]
On the Eastern Front... The Soviet Voronezh Front continues to make rapid progress toward Kharkov. Valuyki and Urazavo are captured. In the rear of the advance, a pocket of Hungarian troops is driven from Ostrogozhsk. The Soviets have taken more than 50,000 Axis prisoners in this drive. Only 2500 are Germans.
In New Guinea... Japanese General Yamagata orders his troops to pull out of Sanananda. Heavy fighting continues.
In North Africa... The British 8th Army’s offensive continues. Tarhuna is captured and the Axis defensive line between here and the Mediterranean is outflanked.
In Morocco... The Casablanca Conference. The Anglo-American strategy discussions continue.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/frame.htm
January 19th, 1943
GERMANY:
U-542 launched
U-170 commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.S.R.: Stalingrad: The siege of the German Sixth Army is holding down 90 out of 259 Soviet formations.
MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Destroyer HMS Antelope and corvette HMCS Port Arthur sank Italian submarine Tritone while escorting Convoy MKS-6 off Bougie, Algeria. (Dave Shirlaw)
BURMA: Donbaik: Havildar Parkash Singh (b.1913), 8th Punjab Regt., rescued three carriers and two wounded men; he had already, under heavy fire, rescued two carrier crews on 6 January. (Victoria Cross)
CANADA: Federal cabinet order-in-council grants Custodian of Enemy Alien Property the right to dispose of Japanese Canadians’ property without owners’ consent. (Jack McKillop)
Minesweeper HMCS Mahone arrived Liverpool, Nova Scotia for refit. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: Aleutians: Attu Island is subjected to a naval bombardment, by a US fleet of two cruisers and four destroyers.
Destroyer escorts USS Hebert C Jones, Whitman and Otterstetter launched.
Destroyer escorts USS Blair and Inch laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)