3rd Parries
Thrusts;
Bombers Hammer
Arteries to.
Salient
With the Germans in the Ardennes
bulge digging in for a defensive and
attempting to build up strength
for a possible second lunge into the Allied
lines, the war in the air assumed
evei; added significance yesterday as some
Eighth Air Force heavies struck
against bridges over the, Rhine and Moselle
Rivers, which form a triangle
where they meet behind the Belgian-Luxemburg
battle zone.
Every
Nazi
In
Budapest
Faces
Death
An all-out Soviet offensive to
annihilate the Nazi garrison inside Budapest— by complete destruction of the Hungarian
capital if necessary—was reported underway last night following
German rejection of a Russian
surrender ultimatum by what Moscow termed "premeditated murder."
The Highlight Came
in June
Review of the
World
By the Month in
1944
JANUARY—Red army crosses old
Polish border . . . U.S. suicide rate declines
. . . Allied air fleets blacken
German skies . . . Tommies and GIs move forward in Italy . . .
West coast
motorists drain gas stations dry . . . Greater military
tonnage moves over the "
Hump " than ever did over Burma Road . . . Fourth
war loan drive . . . "
Winnie " returns to London from Middle East . . . Novgorod
captured by Reds . . . Gustav
line hammered by Fifth Army . . . Bidu Sayao cites
Brazilian woman's mission in
life: " To be beautiful and kind, to make music, to
make life pfeasant for man "
. . . Army-Navy report : 5,200 Americans died in
Philippines of starvation and
torture.
FEBRUARY—The $2,315,000,000
second war-time tax bill goes to the White
House . . . Ukrainians
encircle Nazis at Kiev . . . Tedder, pip>smoking Sent,
made air chief marshal—second in
command to Eisenhower . . . Kwajalein
Island captured by U.S. troops .
. . Tax bill vetoed by Roosevelt.
MARCH—Nimitz picks up another
atoll . . . Americans fight in Asia for
first time in this war, rolling
up 25 to 1 score against Japanese in Burma
. . . Kherson captured by
Russians . . . Irvin S. Cobb dies in New York
at 67 ... Hendrik Willem van Loon
dies at 62 ... Joseph C. Lincoln dies at 74
." . . All three literary
deaths within a week . . . Red army reaches Dniester . . .
Rumania entered by First
Ukrainian army . . . Eire refuses U.S. request to oust
German and Japanese diplomats. '
APRIL—Japanese advance deeper
into India . . . American Navy shells Palau,
gateway to the Philippines . . .
More than 60,000 German deserters reported
at large in Berlin . . . Wendell
Willkie loses Wisconsin primary; withdraws
from contest for Presidential
nomination . . . Moscow claims more than 500,000
Axis troops killed or captured in
less than two months on lower Russian front . . .
William Cardinal O'Connell,
archbishop of Boston, dies . . . Russians roll over
Crimean steppe in drive on
Sebastopol . . . Constellation, largest land plane; sets
new transcontinental speed
record, six hours, 58 minutes.
MAY— Everyone has pre-invasion
jitters . . . Allied air forces concentrate
on targets in cross-channel
defense system . . . Sebistopol falls to the
Russians . . . " Pensive
" wins the Preakness at Pimlico . . . Lillian Smith's
" Strange Fruit" barred
from mails and then reinstated " at the publisher's risk "
. . . Invasion portents : Allies
break Gustav line and lunge toward Rome; RAF and
AAF pass 30th straight day of
attacks on European targets. For first time in
25 years there'll be no Communist
Presidential nominee. . . . Cassino falls.
JUNE—D-Day—June 6—two days after
the fall of Rome . . . The invasion's
along 100-mile coast of Seine
Bay, between Cherbourg and1 Le "Havre . . . Vast
landings covered by 11,000 planes
. . . Thousands upon thousands of troops in
4,000 ships, several, thousand
smaller craft . . . 60,000 to 90,000 airborne troop; help
make beachheads secure . . .
Fifth war loan drive for S16 billion starts . . . Rudolf
Hess sued for divorce by Frau
Hess, charging: " desertion and insanity " . . .
Buzz bombs appear over England;
Hitler's " secret weapon " travels 330 miles an hour
. . . Task Force 58 prowls
Pacific. Dewey Republican nominee for president.
JULY—Americans free entire
Cherbourg peninsula . . . Nazis sent reeling on
300-rnile front in Russia . . .
MacArthur seizes airdrome $00 miles from
Philippines . . . International
monetary conference opens at Bretton Woods
. . . Dewey opens campaign . . .
deGaulle has " comforting talks " with Roosevelt
in Washington . . . Russia
strengthens family life; makes divorce more difficult,
grants financial aid to large
families . . . " Big Top " fire in Hartford, Conn., takes
more than 150 lives . . . 2,752
killed, 8,000 injured in first four weeks of robot bombing
.-. . Russians keep up
ten-mile-a-day rampage toward the Reich . . . Brig. Gen.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. keeps a
rendezvous with death in France . . . Democratic
convention : FDR's nomination was
inevitable. Sen. Harry Trunfan wins hot race
for second place on the ticket .
. . Guam invaded . . . Attempt made on Hitler's
life by an explosive; Berlin
announces three killed, would-be assassin identified
. . . Jap Premier Tojo falls. . .
Americans break through Nazi line in Normandy.
AUGUST—Russians enter East
Prussia . . . Stars and Stripes raised again on
Guam . . . Manuel Quezon, exiled
Philippine president, dies . . . Eight
German, army officers hanged for
plotting to kill Hitler . . . Second invasion of
France, from Marseilles to Cannes
and Nice . . . More than 225,000 Axis prisoners
of war in U.S. camps . . .
President returns from Hawaiian conference with Mac
Arthur, Nimitz, Halsey . . .
U-boats sunk exceed U-boat victims . . . Representatives
of United Nations meet at
Dumbarton Oaks to plan lasting peace. Florence
occupied by Eighth Army.
SEPTEMBER—Allies in Netherlands,
Belgium, Luxembourg . . . Sen. George
^ W. Norris, champion of popular
rights, dies ; . . Red Army in Bucharest . .
Russia declares war on Bulgaria,
calls it off four days later when Bulgaria joins
Allies . . . Germany invaded
(Sept. 11) . . . Russia's war with Finland ends . . .
Roosevelt and Churchill confer in
Quebec—their eighth meeting of the war . . . United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
conference in Montreal . . . Hurricane hits
Eastern Teaboard . . . Of 9,000
German defenders of Praga only one in 20 is taken
alive . . . U.S. bans American
ships from Argentine ports . . . First lady of the
turf, Mrs. Payne Whitney, dies at
68 ... Attorney-General Biddle rules CIO
Political Action Committee
violates no election laws . . . Roosevelt: " I shall not
campaign—in the usual sense
". . . Brereton's airborne landings at Arnhem isolated
. . . Few escape . . . Manila's
puppet regime declares war on U.S.
OCTOBER—Calais falls . . . Al
Smith dies in Manhattan , . . Army Air
Transport Command"
establishes direct air service between New York and
Paris . . . Reds advance across
Jugoslavia . . . British take Greece . . .
Wendell Willkie dies from
overtaxed heart. . . Nazis cave before massive Red assault
in Lithuania . . . In Toronto,
divorces are granted in appeals of Rows vs. Rows
and Loveless vs. Loveless . . .
Corinth falls to Greeks and British . . . Riga falls '
. . . St. Louis Cardinals beat
Browns in home-town world series . . •„ Cuba's new
president, Dr. Ramon Grau San
Martin . . . Reds and Tito partisans smash into
Belgrade . . .MacArthur retisrns
to the Philippines, with, the invasion of Leyte
. . . Aachen falls to Americans
on seventh day of siege . . . U.S., Great Brjtain,
Russia, China recognize
defiiaulle government . . . Churchill-Stalin conference
on peace problems . . . Russians
invade Norway . . . Japanese lose 58 ships in clash
with U.S. fleets-off Philippines.
Berlin announces death in France of Erwin Rommel.
NOVEMBER—Political harvest time:
Campaigners on both sides are bitter,
heated . . . V2 rockets hit
England . . . Gen. Stilwell, recalled, reaches
Washington; no statements . . .
Roosevelt re-elected; carries 36 states with
432 electoral votes; Dewey 12
with 99 ... Solid South vote unneeded for Democrats
to win for the fifth time since
the Civil War . . . .Democratic sweep increases party's
majority in Congress . . . Sixth
war loan drive for $14,000,000,000 . . . RAF sinks
Tirpitz . . . Eisenhower: "
More supplies are needed"... Cigarette shortage
. . . RFrench army reaches Rhine .
. . William Temple becomes first Archbishop of
Canterbury to be cremated . . .
Dead : Dr. Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, scientific
philosopher . . . Metz falls ; .
. Spectator at jitterbug session in Stockholm: " I
assume they get married
afterwards." . •. . Allies step up assaulta on western front
. . m. Superfortresses
bomb Tokyo . . . Left-right quarrels break out in Belgium and
Greece . . . International
aviation conference in Chicago . . . Secretary of State
Cordell Hull resigns because of
Hlness; Roosevelt names Edward R. Stettinius Jr.
DECEMBER—Allies hammer at German
defenses . . . Advance slowly at
terrific ^cost . . . Reconversion
halted to speed arms output . . . Lady Astor,
" Eve " of Commons, to
retire after quarter-century . . . Yanks fight way
across the Saar , . . B29s to
Tokyo again .-. . Army pigskins Navy (23 to 7) at
Baltimore . . . Wed.: Col.
Elliott Roosevelt, Faye Emerson, movie actress—his
third, her second .... State
Dept. reorganization . . . FTC joins in the search for
cigarettes . . . British tanks
fire on Greek Leftists . . . Russians; lash at Budapest. . .
Earthquake shakes Japan, Radio
Tokyo admits; seismologists throughout world
record quake as one of greatest .
. . Churchill wins vote of confidence on Greek
policy . . . Americans win Ormoc,
the foe's Leyte port . . . Sixth war loan of 14
billion over-subscribed .. . .
3,500 U.S. planes blast German targets in record day
Churchill backs Russian claim to
slice of Poland ; U.S. approves, if Poles agree. .
…New Franco-Russian alliance
reached by deGaulle and Stalin at Moscow.
…Yanks invade Mindoro: German
counter-offensive breaks through in Belgium
and Luxemburg; military strategists reckon
winter blow delayed war's end perhaps
six months. . . Churchill in Athens to
settle Greek crisis.
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