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The News of the Week in Review
The Commander in Chief and the Invasion Commander (photo) – 11
Goals for 1944 – 12
Fifteen News Questions – 13
The Pattern of Winter War along the Russian Front (map) – 14
Germans Still strong along Russian Fronts (Parker) – 15
M’Arthur is an Enigma in Political Shuffling (Hurd) – 17
Southern Bolt is Held Unlikely (Dabney) – 18
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/dec1943/f26dec43.htm
Duke of York defeats Scharnhorst
Sunday, December 26, 1943 www.onwar.com
HMS York firing a salvo from her main guns [photo at link]
In the Arctic... In the morning the Scharnhorst and her destroyers encounter the 3 cruisers of the covering force for convoy JW-55B. Bey chooses to break off the engagement. At midday the two forces encounter each other again and Bey breaks off the engagement. However, as Scharnhorst retreats the HMS Duke of York, under Admiral Fraser, appears and engages it in a gun dual. The Scharnhorst is reduced to a wreck and sinks. Only 36 of her almost 2000 crew survive. There are now no large German surface ships operational to threaten the Arctic convoys.
On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces in the area of Kiev capture Radomyshl.
In the Bismarck Archipelago... The US 1st Marine Division lands on New Britain, without incident, after a preliminary bombardment. Task Force 76 (Admiral Barbey) provides naval support along with two other groups of cruisers and destroyers. An American destroyer is sunk by a Japanese air attack.
In Italy... The US 5th Army clears Monte Sammucro and the surrounding hills of German forces.
Merry Christmas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_North_Cape
The Battle of the North Cape was a Second World War naval battle which occurred on 26 December 1943, as part of the Arctic Campaign. The German battlecruiser Scharnhorst, on an operation to attack Arctic Convoys of war matériel from the Western Allies to the USSR, was brought to battle and sunk by superior Royal Navy forces—the battleship HMS Duke of York plus several cruisers and destroyers—off Norway’s North Cape.
The battle was the last battle between big gun capital ships in the war between Britain and Germany. The British victory confirmed the massive strategic advantage held by the British, at least in surface units.
“Christmas Spirit Lightens Tragedy of World at War”
Only if you didn’t read the paper that day.
“Thomas Jefferson’s full works to be given to the nation”
Well that is cool. Too bad people didn’t read his thoughts on debt and public banks.
“Shortage of pork in 2 months likely”
Muslims don’t care, heartless bas...
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200 towns and 600 prisoners taken in a day! Now that was a Russian Christmas present.
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Gorodock!!
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Another German massacre, who’d have thunk it?
House to house fighting on Christmas, reports from Algiers and citing Cairo Radio about battles in Italy, heh.
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All east coast home guard on alert? They thought there would be an attack on the holiday. Okay, someone fire the editor who wrote “Christmas Spirit Lightens Tragedy of World at War”
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30 fewer Japanese planes for the cost of 4
on the road to Tokyo (a lot of really short roads between large expanses of water)
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“Christmas Spirit Lightens Tragedy of World at War”
You are on my crap list dude!
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Knitted helmets, Trayvon would have loved one
Americans in Britain had turkey!
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Bad weather gives Reich Yule rest from Bombing
(That explains the headline? traitors!)
Dewey has quiet Yule
Resting up for his big defeat of Truman
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radio chatter
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Stuff we already told you about and we think you need reminded about.
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FDR sets out his goals for 2014... I mean 1944
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A quiz to make sure you are paying attention
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A map
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Germans remain strong on Russian front
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cartoon making fun of Goebbels
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Thinking about the possibility of McArthur running for President. Ain’t he a bit busy??
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“But many Democrats point to signs of independence”
Those were the days, where the D’s pretended not to treat their President like a messiah, at least in public.