JANUARY
Hitler Sees Victory In 1941, Disavows World Conquest; 2 Italian Transports Sunk
R.A.F. Strikes Hard At Italy, Raids Taranto, Naples, Libya; Greeks Pierce An Inland Line
Eire Raided Four Times, Dublin Hit; R.A.F. Sets Vast Fires In Bremen; Nazi Plane Corps Is Sent To Italy
British Open Assault On Bardia, Capture 5,000, Fourth Of Garrison; Eire Protests German Bombings
British Capture 3,000 More At Bardia As Fleet Helps To Shatter Defenses; Boris Reported On Way To Germany
Bardia Falls To British Assault; 25,000 Troops, 6 Generals Seized; Soviet Calls In Its Balkan Envoys
Roosevelt Asks All-Out Aid To Democracies; To Send Them Ships, Planes, Tanks And Guns; British Moving On Tobruk; Nazis Stir Balkans
British Capture Airport Of Tobruk; Greek Destroyers Bombard Valona; Italy To Fight On, Cabinet Proclaims
1942 Defense Budget $17,485,528,049; Funds For British To Be Sought Later; U.S. Setting Up Three Naval Fleets
British Sweep On In Libya And Attack In East Africa; R.A.F. Raids Naples Heavily
Bill Gives President Unlimited Power To Lend War Equipment And Resources; British Pound Ports In Mass Day Raids
Germans Help Italians Bomb British Warships Off Sicily; London Repels Fire-Raids
Willkie Endorses ‘All-Out’ Aid Bill With Time Limit On President’s Power; Will Fly To Britain To Make A Survey
House Gets Bill To Limit Aid To British For 2-Year Term; Administration Wins Test
House Hearings On War Aid To Open With Cabinet Views; President Angered By Critic
Hull Urges Fullest Aid To Britain Lest We Meet The Fate Of Norway; Morgenthau Sees Exchange Limit
Illustrious Bombed Again; Cruiser Southampton Sunk; R.A.F. Blasts Nazi Navy Base
Churchill Calls For U.S. Weapons, Not Big Overseas Armies, In 1941; Stimson Sees Crisis In 90 Days
Knudsen Urges Full Aid To Britain; Willkie Sees Party Ruin In Isolation; Kennedy Asks Curb On Lease Power
Roosevelt Has A Talk With Willkie And Gives Him Letter To Churchill; To Take The Third-Term Oath Today
Roosevelt Inaugurated For The Third Time; Winant To Be Named Ambassador To London; British Invade Eritrea; Dictators Set Course
British Smash Tobruk Defenses; U.S. Lifts Plane Ban For Soviet; Riots Sweep Rumania, Nazis Move
Tobruk Captured By Australians; Rebels Gain In Rumanian Fighting, Demand Return Of Transylvania
Lindbergh Sees Stalemate, So Urges Negotiated Peace; Doubts Air Invasion Of U.S.
Roosevelt Meets Halifax In Bay As He Arrives On New Battleship; Thousands Die In Rumanian Riots
British Patrols At Derna; Sima Caught, Rumania Says; Axis Reports Warships Hit
Isolationists Seek To Force Nations To State War Aims
Limitations In Aid Bill Are Forecast As Leaders Confer With President; Willkie Sees Churchill, Tours Ruins
Britain Must Quit Unless We Aid, Morenthau Tells Senate Group; All-Out Attack By Axis Forecast
End Of Lease-Lend Bill In June, 1943, Voted By House Committee Majority; Defense Costs Put At $28,500,000,000
Hitler Tells US Not To Interfere; Will Torpedo Aid Ships, He Says; Lease-Lend Bill Goes To House
FEBRUARY
Knox Tells Nazi Plan To Attack Britain With New Plane And Gas; Day Raids On London Increasing
Aid Bill Expected To Pass In House By 50-Vote Margin; Stiffer Senate Fight Seen
British Pursue Foe Deep In Eritrea; R.A.F. Blasts Nazi Channel Bases; Vichy Sends Aide For Hitler Terms
Nazis Force Vichy To Restore Laval; British Pound 4 East African Fronts; House Debates The Lease-Lend Bill
British Take Cirene In Libya And Cut Off Seaplane Base; Laval Delays Trip To Vichy
R.A.F. Blasts Invasion Ports, Fights Off Nazis Over Channel; Italians On Run, Say British
House Provides Way To End War Aid; Rejects Other Republican Curbs; Lindbergh Insists Britain Can’t Win
British Take Bengazi, Trap Thousands; Crush Foe’s Effort To Break Through; Weygand Bars Nazi Deal For Bizerte
House Votes Lease-Lend Bill, 260-165; Defeats Moves To Limit Future Aid; Landon Attacks Roosevelt’s Policy
British Warships Attack Genoa; Churchill Confident Of Victory With U.S. Materiel; Needs No Men
British Ends Releations With Rumania; Prepare To Block Nazi Balkan Move; Franco Is En Route To See Mussolini
Send Britain Bombers, More Destroyers, Willkie Urges; Gives President His Data; R.A.F. In Wide Attack, Navy Shells Ostend
Franco Meets Mussolini, Reports ‘Identity Of Views’; Talks With Petain Today
Bulgria To Accept Nazi Occupation; Yugoslave Leaders Go To See Hitler; Crisis Is Seen Rising In The Far East
Hitler Gives Yugoslavs His Terms; No Accord Reached, Belgrade Hears; British Put Rumania On Enemy Basis
British Capture Somali Port; Admit ‘Chute’ Raid In Italy; R.A.F. Attacks Invasion Bases
Britain Is Mining Zone Off Singapore; U.S. Aid Can Beat Hitler, Says Hopkins; Italians Lose Last Sudan Foothold
Japan Offers To Mediate To End War, Suggests We Restrict Our Activities; Sofia, Ankara In Non-Aggression Pact
Big Australian Force At Singapore; U.S. Urges Deeds, Not Words, On Japan; Nazis Said To Press For Greek Peace
House Votes To Fortify Guam Base; Japan Strongly Criticized In Debate; Tokyo Sounds London On Mediation
U.S. To Speed War Planes To Pacific; Japan Is Reported Warning Britain; Hopkins Named To Production Board
Bulgarian Tension Mounts As German Entry Is Feared; ‘Relief’ Troops Go To Spain
Nazi Staff Officers Move Into Sofia As Bulgar Students Protest Entry; British Mining Mid-Mediterranean
Mussolini Puts Faith In Nazi Might; Admits Defeats, Gibes At U.S. Fears; Turkey Warns On Her ‘Security Zone’
Hitler Threatens Fierce U-Boat War; Ready To ‘Mobilized Half Of Europe’; Matsuoka Asks ‘Oceania’ For Japan
Roosevelt Bars Aid Curbs; No Peace Talk Till Victory; Defense Inquiry Is Sought
Roosevelt Moves To Transfer Arms To Britain From Arsenals And Yards; C.I.O. Strikes At Bethlehem Plant
British And Turks Report Accord; London Envoy Warns Sofia Of War; Tokyo Demands Vichy Accept Today
MARCH
Bulgaria To Join The Axis Today; Reich Troops Are Moving South; Vichy Lets Tokyo Time Limit Go
Nazi Troops Occupy Sofia And Key Bases As Bulgaria Enters Alliance With Axis; British Hint Bombing; U.S. To Freeze Funds
Nazis In Bulgaria Reach Greek Line; Turks Close Straights, Fleet Sails; Yugoslav Axis Tie Reported Likely
Soviet Reproves Bulgaria On Nazis; Turks Said To Hold Sofia Pact Void; British Expected To Sever Ties Today
Hitler Mission Takes Note To Turks; Greek Relations ‘Not Good,’ Say Nazis; British Break Ties With Bulgaria
Greece Stands Firm With Britain; Nazis Pour Tank Units Into Sofia; 100,000 Reported Massed In Libya
U.S. Bids Italy Close Two Consulates And Curbs Movement Of Aides Here; Yugoslavs, Circled, Seek Compromise
Cabinet Crisis In Belgrade As Nazi Pressure Is Fought; Greeks Mass Against Reich
Senate Passes Aid-To-Britain Bill 60 To 31; Final House Action Expected Early In Week; Yugoslavia Reaches Compromise With Hitler
Yugoslav-Soviet Amity Pact To Accompany Axis Tie-Up; British Sink Italian Raider
Walkout Halts 1,305 Buses, No Settlement Is In Sight; Throngs Jam Subways, Cabs
President Signs, Starts War Aid; To Ask $7,000,000,000 Fund Today; British Sea Losses Rise Sharply
Washington Speeding Aid To Britain; Includes Planes, Tanks, Ships, Food; Commons Cheers ‘New Magna Carta’
R.A.F. Uses New Type Planes In Raids; Berlin Fires Set In Fiercest Attacks; Nazis Blast Liverpool And Glasgow
R.A.F. Pounds Hamburg, Bomb Ships; Nazis Again Batter Glasgow Area; British Offer Terms On French Food
Roosevelt Asks ‘All Out Effort’ By Business And Labor On Arms; 100,000 British Reported In Greece
Hitler Holds No Aid Can Save Britain; Says He Now Will Ease Italy’s Load; British Heartened By Roosevelt Talk
Yugoslav-Turkish Talks Reported On Army Move If Nazis Enter Greece; U.S. Prepares To Send Food To France
Churchill Says Nazis Raid On This Side Of Atlantic; Turks And Greeks Confer
Nazis Bomb London 6 Hours In Heaviest Raid Of Year; Eden Reaffirms Turkish Tie
Yugoslav Cabinet Weighs Nazi Terms; Reported Assent Threatens Strife; Waves Of Planes Hammer Plymouth
Army And Navy Consider Taking Over Allis-Chalmers If Strike Continues; House Votes 4 Billion Defense Funds
Nazi Battleships Report 22 Sinkings; Latest Sea Toll Put At 224,000 Tons; Yugoslav Anger Rises At Nazi Pact
Anti-Nazi Rallies Sweep Yugoslavia As Regime Fails to Fill The Cabinet; British Report Great Air Reserves
C.I.O. Starts Strike At Bethlehem, Fights Harvester Plant Reopening; Senate Votes 7 Billion Aid Measure
State Police Rout 1,000 Pickets In Sharp Disorders At Bethlehem; Yugoslavs Sign, Nation Protests
Knox And Knudsen Order Reopening At Once Of Allis-Chalmers Plant; Picketing Resumed At Bethlehem
Army Overthrows Pro-Axis Yugoslav Regime; Peter In Power, Paul Seized, 1,200,000 In Arms; Nazis Ask Explanation; U.S., Britain Pledge Aid
Yugoslavs Insist On Neutrality, Will Respect All ‘Open’ Treaties; Berlin Protests Anti-Nazi Riots
British Batter An Italian Fleet, Damage A Battleship, Cruisers; Roosevelt Asks For Unity To Win
U.S. Seizes 28 Italian, 2 Nazi, 35 Danish Ships; French And British Fight Battle Over Convoy; London Reports 5 Fascist War Vessels Sunk
APRIL
Axis Protests Seizure Of Ships; German Envoy Quits Yugoslavia; Army Ready, Simovitch Declares
Rome Efforts To Curb Nazi Failing As Berlin Rages At Yugoslav ‘Terror’; U.S. To Reject Axis Ship Protests
Belgrade Sees War At Hand As Rome Efforts Collapse; Fast Nazi Units At Border
Croats Rally To Serbs’ Side; Hungary’s Premier Suicide; British Evacuate Bengazi
Nazis Mass On All Yugoslav Borders As Belgrade Regime Plays For Time; U.S. Plans Aid; Will Drop Red Sea Ban
Germans Invade Yugoslavia And Greece; Hitler Orders War, Blaming The British; Moscow Signs Amity Pact With Belgrade
Nazis Advance In Yugoslavia, Bomb Belgrade; Greeks Resisting Strongly In Struma Valley; U.S. Pledges Quick Aid; British In Addis Ababa
Yugoslavs Capture Scutari In Albania; British Bomb Sofia, Break With Hungary; Nazis Reach Sea On Turco-Greek Border
Germans Near Salonika, Trap Greek Force; Drive Across South Yugoslavia To Skoplje; Italians Battered On Two Fronts In Albania
Salonika Falls, But Trapped Greeks Fight On; Nazis Near Albania In Drive To Join Italians; Churchill Stresses Need For U.S. Navy Convoys
U.S. To Protect Greenland, Set Up Bases There; Shipment Of Arms To Halifax Is Considered; British, Greeks Await Nazis At Mt. Olympus
Nazis Attack Anglo-Greek Flank At Florina, Join Italian Lines, Report Yugoslavs Routed; Roosevelt Ends Shipping Ban In Red Sea Zone
Greeks Beat Back German Panzer Assault; Russia Rebukes Hungary Over Yugoslavia; Denmark ‘Voids’ U.S. Accord On Greenland
Russia And Japan Sign A Neutrality Treaty; Germans Capture Bardia, Push Into Egypt; Yugoslavs Counterattack, Greeks Hold Firm
British Retire To New Greek Line; Berlin Says They Are Evacuating; Axis Forces Take Town In Egypt
Allies Hold On New Greek Lines After Nazi Advance Of 50 Miles; Yugoslavs Recapturing Towns
British Sink Eight-Ship Italian Convoy; London Battered For 8 Hours By Bombers; Nazis Drive Deep Into Anglo-Greek Front
Germans Drive Greeks Back In Heavy Battling; Reich Announces Yugoslav Army Capitulates; R.A.F. Raids Berlin As London Counts Losses
Allies Hold Shorter Greek Line, With Nazi Pressure Increasing; British Counter Attack In Africa
Nazis Claim Olympus And Larissa; Allies Retreat, But Deny Break; London Suffers Brief Heavy Raid
U.S., Canada Join For War Output; Nazis Gain On Plains Of Thessaly; Rumania, Defying Axis, Asks Land
Nazis Report Sinking Five Ships Evacuating British From Greece; London Ready For Balkan Reverse
King Leaves Athens For Crete; One Greek Army Quits Struggle; Nazis Driving On Thermopylae
British And Greeks Resist North Of Athens; Nazi Planes Bomb Ports To Block Evacuation; Berlin Reported Demanding The Dardanelles
British Hold Thermopylae; Nazis Bring Up Heavy Guns; Blast Ships In Greek Ports
Nazis Near Athens, British Leave; Vast Equipment Reported Saved; U.S. Will Patrol Wider Sea Areas
German Troops Entering Athens; Defenders Fight Hard To Last; Senate Poll On Convoys Is Close
Churchill Sees Victory With U.S. Sea Aid; Nazis Hold Athens, Enter Peloponnesus, Harry British On Sea; Axis Gains In Egypt
B.E.F. In Greece Getting Out; Axis Suez Drive Expected; ‘Free French’ Press Jibuti
Roosevelt Plans Patrols In War Zones Or Anywhere Necessary For Our Defense
MAY
80% Of B.E.F. Out Of Greece; 48,000 Get Away Under Fire; 5,000 Captured, Says Berlin
Iraqis Defy British On Reinforcement; Mass At Airdrome
Iraqi Troops Attack British, Reported Seeking Hitler Aid; Tobruk Repels Axis Assault
26 American Ships Reported At Suez Loaded With Materiel For British; Iraqis Beaten Off In The Basara Area
U.S. ‘Ever Ready To Fight Again’ For Democracy, Roosevelt Says; Hitler Defies Any War Coalition
President Orders Huge Bomber Fleet To Give Democracies Command Of Air; British Smash Iraqi Planes And Guns
Stimson Calls For Use Of Navy To Escort Supplies To Britain; Stalin Becomes Soviet Premier
House Votes 266-120 To Seize Ships After Isolationists Attack Stimson; Nazis Blast Liverpool For 7th Night
Nazi Bombers Swarm Over Britain, 50 Planes Are Downed In 30 Hours; Berlin Protests Plans To Seize Ships
300 Planes Smash At German Ports, Set Big Fires In Hamburg And Bremen; Allied April Ship Losses 488,124 Tons
British Shoot Down 33 Nazi Bombers As Hundreds Of Them Batter London; Rhine Cities And Berlin Attacked
Bombs Wreck Commons Chamber, Unroof Abbey, Hit British Museum; R.A.F. Blasts Hamburg And Berlin
Hess, Deserting Hitler, Flies To Scotland; Berlin Reported Him Missing And Insane; Darlan Meets Hitler; R.A.F. Pounds Ports
Churchill To Face Hess For Talk; Flight Shocks The German People; Nazis Declare Red Sea A War Zone
Hess Sought To Bring Peace, London And Berlin Agree; Vichy Bows To Nazi Terms
Roosevelt Cautions Vichy, Appeals To People; U.S. Holds French Ships; Seizure Bill Passed; German Planes Enter Syria To Assist Iraq
Roosevelt Defies Nazi Blockade, Cites Our Two Undeclared Wars; British Bomb Germans In Syria
German Planes Bomb British In Iraq; R.A.F. Hits Back, Raids Syrian Bases; Hull Calls Vichy’s Reply Rhetoric
Hull Defines Our Post-War Program, Wants Raw Materials, Trade For All; Aosta’s Force In Ethiopia Asks Terms
Zamzam ‘Presumed Lost,’ London Says; 138 Americans Aboard, 35 Children; British Take Alagi, Italians Give Up
Gliders Drop Germans On Crete; British Report Attack Crushed; All On Zamzam Safe In France
Germans Pour Into Crete By Air, Bomb British Warships Near By; U.S. Asked To Recall Paris Envoys
Nazis Win Crete Foothold, R.A.F. Leaves; Berlin Reports British Warships Sunk; Roosevelt Weighs Neutrality Act Change
Nazis Blasted From 2 Cretan Towns; Still Arrive By Air, 5,000 Drown In Sea; Darlan Says France Chooses ‘Life’
New Nazi Battleship Bismarck Sinks The Hood In North Atlantic Duel; British Give Chase; R.A.F. Flies To Crete, Blasts 14 Air Transports
Raeder Says Convoys Mean ‘Shooting’; Nazi Influx In Crete Is Reported Cut; British Claim Hit In Bismarck Chase
British Fleet Engages Bismarck, Hit In Chase By Aerial Torpedo; Crete Invaders Gain Near Canea
Roosevelt Proclaims Unlimited Emergency, Will Resist Any Hitler Effort To Rule Seas; Bismarck Sunk, Pounded By Fleet And Planes
Nazis Take Crete’s Capital; British Bomb French Tunisia In Attacking Italian Convoy
Nazis Get Suda Bay And Candia, Crete; Italians Land; British Plan Retreat; Eden Sets Peace Aim Of Curbing Reich
Nazis Report Capture Of Crete Near; British At Outskirts Of Iraqi Capital; Air Bombs Kill 30, Hurt 100 In Dublin
JUNE
Iraqis Bow To British, Sign Armistice; Deposed Regent To Form Government; Nazis Mopping Up Crete, Berlin Says
British Evacuate 15,000 From Crete, But Admit ‘Severe’ Losses There; Regent In Baghdad, King Believed Safe
Hitler And Mussolini Chart War Moves In 5-Hour Talk; British Mass Around Syria
‘Gasless’ Sundays Urged To Save Oil
British Bomb Beirut, Syria Is Tense; U.S. Asks Vichy To Clarify Position; Winant Reports On British Situation
Hull Warns Vichy, Hints At Break; French Planes Raid Trans-Jordan; Nazis Streaming Into Syria By Air
U.S. Plans To Take Over N.A. Aviation Unless California Strike Ends Soon; President May Appeal To Workers
Free French, British Entering Syria; Move Follows Nazi Infiltration; Troops Of Vichy Regime Massed
Allies Open 3 Syrian Drives; French Resist The Invaders, Report Sea Landing Foiled
U.S. Ship Sunk In Atlantic, Reported Victim Of U-Boat; Allies Nearing Damascus
Aluminum Strike Settled By Board, Subject To Ratification By The Union; C.I.O. Ends California Aviation Tie-Up
Allies Spear Deep Into East Syria; Nazi Pressure On Soviet Is Reported; $4,277,412,879 War Aid Funds Allotted
Nazis ‘Undoubtedly’ Sank Robin Moor, Aware She Was U.S. Ship, Consul Says; Fall Of Damascus Is Believed Near
Nazis, Defiant, Threaten New Sinkings; Allied Troops Surrounding Damascus; British Blast Ruhr In Heaviest Raid
Roosevelt Freezes Axis Assets; Welles Spurns Berlin ‘Bluster’; Early German-Soviet Crisis Seen
Allies Take Saida, Beirut Evacuated; Key To Damascus Defense Also Falls; Italy Freezes U.S. Funds In Reprisal
U.S. Orders All Nazi Consulates Closed; Robin Moor Survivors Safe In Cape Town; British Open Heavy Offensive In Libya
Germans To Be Held Here Pending Further Decision; Berlin Protests Ousting
Turks And Nazis Sign Amity Pact; German-Soviet Showdown Near; Allies Open Attack On Damascus
Reich And Italy Expel U.S. Consuls; Allies Press Damascus, Gain On Coast; German-Soviet Tension Is Unabated
Won’t Yield Seas, Roosevelt Says, Branding Germany As An Outlaw; Finland Orders Full Mobilization
Hitler Begins War On Russia, With Armies On March From Arctic To The Black Sea; Damascus Falls; U.S. Ousts Rome Consuls
Smashing Air Attacks On Six Russian Cities, Clashes On Wide Front Open Nazi-Soviet War; London To Aid Moscow, U.S. Delays Decision
Nazis Take Brest-Litovsk, Gain In South; Soviet Claims 5,000 Prisoners, 300 Tanks; U.S. Hits Communism, But May Aid Russia
Turks Mass On Syrian Line, Menacing French; Soviet Fliers Blast Warsaw And Constanta; Roosevelt To Give All Possible Aid To Russia
Russians Counter Tank Attacks; Finns Take War Steps, Cite Raids; U.S. Waives Neutrality For Soviet
Nazis Within Fifty Miles Of Minsk After Smash At Russians’ Center; French To Quit Syria, Turks Hear
Russians Admit Armies Retreat To Prepared Defensive Positions; R.A.F. Intensifies Raids On Nazis
4,000 Red-Nazi Tanks Battle At Luck; Moscow Reports Minsk Drive Slowed; R.A.F. Keeps Pounding German Bases
Germans Report They Have Passed Minsk; Claim 4,107 Red Planes, 2,233 Tanks To Date; Soviet Says ‘Humbug,’ Sees Nazi Tanks Cut Off
JULY
Russians Battle Nazi Drive Behind Minsk; Berlin Claims City’s Capture; Lwow Falls; R.A.F. Blasts German Ports By Daylight
Nazis Drive Back Russians East Of Minsk, Capture Riga And Advance Beyond Lwow; British Shift Wavell From Levant To India
Stalin, On Radio, Rallies The Soviet; He Insists Hitler Will Be Crushed; Germans Report Red Army In Chaos
Soviet Reports Foe Halted In Fight On Road To Moscow; Germans Gain In Baltic Area
Roosevelt Urges US To Pledge Lives As Well As Work To Human Freedom; Nation United In Celebrating Fourth
Russians Slow Main German Drive, Hurl Enemy Back Near Latvian Border; Nazis Claim To Be At The Dnieper
Russians Report Counter-Attacks With Foe On Defensive In One Area; Nazis Claim 52,000 More Captives
U.S. Occupies Iceland To Thwart Nazi Peril, Navy To Clear Sea That Far For British Aid; Russians Repel Drives, Germans Take Cernauti
Soviet Reports A German Rout In Bessarabia; Nazis Stress Heavy Fighting, Red ‘Trickery’; Roosevelt To Act Wherever Defense Requires
Nazis Pound 3 Sectors, Advance In Baltic Area; Russians Say Lines Hold; Finns Gain In North; Vichy Asks Syria Truce, Beirut Gets Ultimatum
Soviet Reports Lull In War With Rout Of Nazi Divisions; Reich Lists 400,000 Captives
Soviet Reports Nazis Held For 2d Day, Germans Silent; Vichy Rejects Syria Terms
Germany Claims The Stalin Line Is Broken ‘At Decisive Points,’ Gains Near Leningrad; Russians Report No ‘Important Changes’
Britain And Russia Sign Mutual Aid Accord; Bar Separate Peace; U.S. Aid Is Stressed; Soviet Reports Nazis Held In Great Battles
13 Nazi Troopships Sunk In Baltic, Russians Report; Foes Strike For Leningrad
Germans Smash Nearer To Leningrad, But Soviet Reports Column Crushed; Nazis Hurled Back In Center, Says Reds
Nazis Approach Smolensk On Road To Moscow, Move Toward Leningrad, Checked Near Kiev; Japan’s Cabinet Quits In Dilemma On Policy
Germans Report Fall Of Smolensk, But Russians Dent Foe’s Line There; Kiev Is Menaced, Kishinev Captured
Russians Admit Forces Withdraw At Smolensk, But Counter-Attack; U.S. To Keep Sea Lane To Iceland Open
Germans Claim Gains On Wide Front, Reported 200 Miles From Moscow; Russians Fight Hard To Stem Drives
Russians Report Nazi Drives Halted In Four Sectors With Heavy Losses; Germans Claim Advance Continues
Roosevelt Asks That Trainees Be Retained; Wants Congress To Acknowledge ‘Emergency’; Russians Report Lines Are Holding Firmly
U.S. Plans Economic Curbs On Japan To Counter Any Indo-China Invasion; Scores Die In New Air Raid On Moscow
Vichy Yielding To Japanese Demand For Bases In Southern Indo-China; Nazis Admit Russians Slow Drives
Roosevelt Hints At Oil Curb On Japan As Welles Condemns Her ‘Aggression’; Russians Holding Germans In Check
U.S. And Britain Freeze Japanese Assets; Oil Shipments And Silk Imports Halted; Russians Still Hold As Nazis Renew Drives
Roosevelt Puts Filipino Forces In U.S. Army As Japan Freezes American, British Funds; Russians Report 3 German Divisions Crushed
Russians Inflict Heavy Casualties As Germans Attack In Two Sectors; Japanese Now Threatening Thailand
Russians Report Offensive Is Breaking German Drives; Dutch To Limit Oil To Japan
Germans Dislodged Near Smolensk And In The Ukraine, Russians Report; Churchill Sees US On ‘Verge Of War’
Bombing Of U.S. Gunboat Sharply Protested To Japan; Russians Continue Attacks
AUGUST
7 P.M. Curfew On Gasoline Sales To Be Imposed On Eastern Seaboard; Wallace Gets Key Economic Post
U.S. Aviation Fuel Barred To Japan As Roosevelt Order Curbs Exports; Silk To Be Banned For Civilian Use
U.S. Denounces Vichy On Indo-China; Petain Resists New Reich Demands; 6 Nazi Divisions Broken, Soviet Says
Nazis Blocked In New Drive For Kiev, Moscow Reports; Fires Sent In Berlin By R.A.F.
Full U.S. Aid Pledged Russia; Japan Halts Sailings Here; Nazis Again Driving On Kiev
Meeting Of Churchill And Roosevelt On President’s Cruise Is Reported; Japanese Mass Troops At Thai Line
U.S. And Britain Warn Japan On Thailand; Germans Report Reds’ Losses Near 4,000,000; Nazis’ Kiev Spearheads Broken, Russians Say
Russians Repulse German Assaults; Put Losses At 600,000, Foe’s 1,500,000; Vichy’s Answer Fails To Satisfy U.S.
25 Soviet Divisions Lost In Ukraine Trap, Nazis Say; Russians Raid Berlin Twice
Germans Are Forcing Russians Back In The Biggest Battles Of Their War; Berlin-Vichy Anti-Soviet Pact Seen
Australia Chiefs See Crisis Near; Condemn Japan
Nazis Advance In Ukraine; Tokyo Invokes War Powers; U.S. Bars Orient Compromise
House For 2 1/2 Years Army Service By One Vote; Petain Yields, Pledging To Work With Hitler; Nazis Reported At Black Sea, Odessa Cut Off
Roosevelt-Churchill Decisions Are Expected In Announcements To Be Made This Morning; Nazis Gain In North; R.A.F. Sets Fires In Berlin
Roosevelt, Churchill Draft 8 Peace Aims, Pledging Destruction Of Nazi Tyranny; Joint Steps Believed Charted At Parley
U.S., Britain And Soviet To Confer In Moscow On Speeding Joint Aid For ‘Complete Victory’; Russians Retire In Ukraine, Slow Foe In North
Roosevelt Declares U.S. Is No Nearer War; Reveals Full Accord On World Conflict; Russians Speed Parley, Acclaim Eight Points
Nazis Take Naval Base Near Odessa; London Opens War Credit To Moscow; Iran Gets New Anglo-Soviet Warning
U.S. Planes To Be Flown To British In Near East; Ferry System To Run By Way Of West Africa; Russians Quit Town 70 Miles From Leningrad
Nazis Gain Near Leningrad; Claim Land West Of Dnieper And Say Odessa Is Besieged
Dnieper Dam Reported Blown Up By Russians; Citizens Arming On Appeal To Save Leningrad; U.S. Considers Extending Credit To Moscow
British And Russians Poised To Move Into Iran; Germans Smash Ahead On 3 Fronts In East; 6,000 Held, 2 Executed In Paris Anti-Nazi Riots
Drive On Leningrad Checked, Barricades Rise In Streets; Pressure On Iran Continues
Russians Attack At Gomel; Leningrad In Terrible Peril, Soviet Marshal Declares
Churchill Warns Japanese To ‘Stop’ Or Face British-American Coalition; Russians Press Attacks In Center
British And Russians Go Into Iran At 5 Points; Aim To Oust Nazis, Disavow Designs On Nation; Leningrad Defenders Retire, Hold New Line
Russia Warns Japan Not To Halt Ships As Tokyo Threatens To Block U.S. Aid; British Seize Vital Oil Centers In Iran
Hull Says We Insist The Pacific Be Free; Laval Is Gravely Wounded By Assassin; Nazis Report Crossing Of Lower Dnieper
Tokyo Ambassador Sees Roosevelt; Bears Konoye Note; Wide Talk In View; Soviet Confirms Blasting Of Big Dam
Dictators In 5-Day Parley Form Plans To Counter Our Aid In East And West; Nazis Take Tallinn, Sink Russian Ships
Roosevelt Sees Peril To U.S. Growing, Says Peace ‘Isn’t All In Our Keeping’; Russians Counter-Attack On Dnieper
SEPTEMBER
Nazis Acknowledge Blows By ‘New’ Russian Armies; Leningrad Defenses Holding
Roosevelt Calls For ‘More Energy’ To Defeat Hitler’s ‘Insane Violence’; Russians Report Some Nazi Retreats
Russian Offensive Forces Foe Back On Fronts Near Smolensk And Gomel; Nazis Reported In Leningrad Suburb
Soviet Reports 30-Mile Gain In Center; Counter-Blows Stem Leningrad Drive; Konoye Sees Japan In ‘Gravest’ Crisis
Submarine Attacks U.S. Destroyer Greer; Latter, Undamaged, Drops Depth Charges; Leningrad Ringed, Say Nazis; Soviet Denies It
Fleet To ‘Eliminate’ Attacking Submarine; Greer Crew Think Their Bombs Sank U-Boat; Nazis Shell Leningrad As Russians Attack
Nazis Say Greer Shot First, U.S. Navy Denies It; Roosevelt To Address The Nation Tomorrow; Russians Drive Foes Back From Leningrad
Defenders West Of Leningrad Yield; Foe Repelled At Other Approaches; All Volga ‘Germans’ Exiled To Siberia
R.A.F. Blasts Berlin In Second Heavy Night Raid; Allies Raid Spitsbergen, Destroy Coal Mines; Leningrad Ring ‘Sealed,’ Russians Gain In Center
Action Against Sea Raiders Expected To Follow Sinking Of American Ships; Russians Drive On Toward Smolensk
Roosevelt Likely To Announce Navy Will Protect U.S. Shipments On Seas; SPAB Orders Study Of War, Civil Needs
Roosevelt Orders Navy To Shoot First If Axis Raiders Enter Our Defense Zones; Patrol To Protect British Ships Also
Another American-Owned Ship Torpedoed; Roosevelt Reported Assured On Pacific; Nazis Attack Speech, Threaten Initiative
Russians Still Pushing Nazis Back After Saving Bryansk In Big Battle; U.S. Freighter Damaged In Suez Raid
R.A.F. Unit Arrives To Aid Soviet; Russians Yield City East Of Dnieper; Finnish Official Foresees Peace Soon
Navy Begins Protecting War-Aid Ships Today; Roosevelt Says Help Will Flow In Torrent, Consults Leaders On Neutrality Act Repeal
Big Loan By RFC For Russia Planned; Stettinius To Rule Lease-Lend Funds; Contracts Let For 2,831 Naval Ships
Nazi Drive Imperils Crimea; Kiev Ring Reported Closing; R.A.F. Sweeps North France
Nazis Report Speed In South And New Trap At Smolensk; R.A.F. Bags 16 Planes, 4 Ships
German Armies Enter Kiev, Take Poltava And Push Toward Kharkov And Donets Basin; Hull Says U.S. Will Speed Help To Russia
Russians Fighting In Kiev’s Suburbs; Nazis Shoot 12 More Paris Hostages; U.S.-Japanese Talks At A Standstill
Nazis At Sea Of Azov, Cut Off Crimea; Report 150,000 Captured, Claim Oesel; Petain Appeals For End Of Disorders
U.S.-Owned Ship Sunk In Iceland ‘Defense’ Zone; Soviet Navy Bombed In Baltic And Black Seas; Italian Mosquito Boats Raid Gibraltar Harbor
President Plans To Arm Our Merchant Ships And Supply Guns To Other American Nations; Russians Report Checking Drive On Kharkov
11 Allies Map Post-War Aid; U.S. To Help In Big Food Pool; Nazis ‘At Gates’ Of Leningrad
Nazis Attack Crimea By Sea, Land, Air; Russians Strike Back At Leningrad; Axis Moves To Quell Yugoslav Rising
Crimea Land Drive Blocked, Nazis Pour In Parachutists; Driven Back At Leningrad
Nazis Claim 665,000 Captives With ‘End’ Of Kiev Battle; Stukas Destroy Serb Town
Czech Premier Seized To Bar ‘Treason,’ Nazis Declare Emergency In 6 Areas; Russians Report Naval Successes
R.A.F. Blasts Northern Italy And Sicily; Mass Arrests In Bulgaria Reported; 24 Czechs Shot For Separatist Plot
OCTOBER
Churchill Reports Britain Is Gaining, But Foe Has Initiative Except In Air; Nazis Execute 58 Czechs, Shell Serbs
Knox Predicts Action To Defeat Axis, Says We Must Help Police The World; Nazis Kill Czech Premier, 2 Generals
Nazi Raids On Britain Grow; Leningrad Defenders Gain; 57 More Czechs Executed
U.S.-Owned Tanker Torpedoed, Sunk, Off Brazil; 18 Of 37 American Crew Rescued By Freighter; Hitler, In Speech, Declares Russia ‘Broken’
Russians Attacking On All Fronts; Claim 18-Mile Advance In Ukraine; Hull Calls Latest Sinking ‘Piracy’
Russians Keep Up Pressure; Put Nazi Losses At 3,000,000 And Their Own At 1,128,000
Nazis Strike For Moscow In Twin Thrusts By 3,000,000; Gain 12 Miles At One Point
Soviet Admits Heavy Blows In Center; Nazis Claim Two Ports On Sea Of Azov; U.S. Prods Finns As They Rebuff British
Nazis Drive Back Moscow Defenders, Take Orel; Russians, Outnumbered, Report Fierce Battles; Berlin Claims Collapse Of Foe In The Ukraine
Roosevelt Asks For Authority To Arm Ships; Nazis Claim Vast Victory; Reported Checked; Panama President Out, Pro-U.S. Regime Set Up
Output Of Tanks Crippled By Inter-Union Row In Ohio; Rubber Industry Faces Halt
U.S. Seizes Nazi Radio In Greenland; Germans Are Forcing Russians Back In Furious Drives Toward Moscow
Nazis Reported Closer To Moscow; Russians Announce Loss Of Bryansk; Beaverbrook Calls For 30,000 Tanks
Roosevelt Spurs Aid To ‘Brave’ Russia; Nazis Win Vyazma, But Push Is Slowed; Cabinet Men Ask Neutrality Repeal
Nazis Drive On Moscow From North; Repulsed 60 Miles West Of Capital; Lease-Lend Shipments Rising Rapidly
Moscow Rallies For Decisive Stand; Nazis In Kalinin; Set To Storm Capital; U.S. Studies New Tension In Far East
Konoye Out, Japan Seeks ‘Crisis’ Cabinet; Roosevelt Sees Military Aides On Orient; Envoys Quitting Moscow; Odessa Falls
U.S. Destroyer Hit By Torpedo Off Iceland; Arming Of Ships Voted By House, 259-138; Ships In Pacific Ordered To Safe Ports
Russians Hold Foe West Of Moscow; Nazis Report Eight Armies Crushed, Claim Sinking Of 12 Ships In Convoy
The Kearny Reaches Port, 11 Missing, 10 Injured; Stalin Orders Moscow Defended To Last Man; Germans Smash To Within 40 Miles Of Rostov
Russians Smash Tank Drives Before Moscow; 3 Republicans Move For Neutrality Repeal; Hull Denounces Attack On Destroyer Kearny
Two More U.S.-Owned Freighters Sunk; Reds Hold At Moscow; Nazis Gain On Azov; 50 Frenchmen Slain In Nantes Reprisal
Russians Attack As German Drive Ebbs; U.S. Re-Routes Aid From Vladivostok; All Aboard Sunken Lehigh Are Saved
Russians Report Moscow Lines Hold; Soviet Shifts Its Army Commanders; 150 More Frenchmen Face Execution
Knox Warns Of A ‘Clash’ With Japan; Moscow’s Defenders Push Foe Back, But Nazis Press Forward In Donets
Germans Capture Kharkov, Renew The Drive On Moscow; Duce Shifts Industry Heads
Nazis Ram Rostov Defenses; Soviet Admits Donets Peril; Tanks Held In Moscow Area
‘Shooting’ On, Roosevelt Says; Bares Nazi Plot On Americans; Asks End Of War Zones Ban
Curb On Strikes Planned By President And Congress; Steel Men Would Mediate
Roosevelt Gets Compromise To Pave Way To Open Mines; Union Calls Off Plane Strike
Roosevelt Takes Over Air Associates Plant After Resentful Workers Oust Strikers; Coal Mines Reopen Under Truce Until Nov. 15
NOVEMBER
U.S. Destroyer Sunk, 44 Of 120 Crew Rescued; President Sees No Change In Foreign Policy; Germans Gain In Drive Southwest Of Moscow
Hitler Says U.S. Started Shooting; Navy Still Seeks Missing Men; Nazis Claim Gains Near Moscow
Roosevelt Places The Coast Guard Under Navy Orders For Emergency; Nazis Report Taking Crimean Capital
U.S. Demands Finns End War; Reuben Games Toll Put At 97; Nazis Bar Robin Moor Claim
La Guardia Wins A Third Term By 133,841; His Ticket Elected, Gets Estimate Board; County Reform Adopted; Harvey Loses
Tokyo Rushes Special Envoy To U.S. With ‘Last’ Proposals; 17 Americans Lost In Sinking
U.S. Lends $1,000,000,000 To Russia; Stalin Forecasts Second Front; Roosevelt Asks Full War Effort
Senate Votes To Put Arms On Ships And Permit Sailings To War Ports; Russians Push On West Of Moscow
Fire Only If U.S. Attacks, Hitler Says; Biggest R.A.F. Raids Sweep Continent, Nazi Bases Blasted, 52 Planes Lost
British Sink 11 Ships In 2 Convoys, Defying Bigger Italian Sea Force; Russians Gaining West Of Moscow
Churchill Promises To Join U.S. ‘In Hour’ If Japan Fights; Says Big Ships Are Available
Nazis Fought To Standstill In Russia, Berlin Indicates; British Blast 12 More Ships
Roosevelt Calls Lewis, Mine Owners, As Strike Stir Revolts In Congress; House Neutrality Action Imperiled
House Votes 212-194 To Amend Neutrality Law After Pledge By Roosevelt To Quell Strikes; Navy Ready To Arm American Merchant Ships
Roosevelt Bars Order For Union Shop; Lewis, Mine Owners Continue Parley, With Strike Still Set For Midnight
Coal Strike Order Stands, But Parleys Resume Today; Government Ready To Act
U.S. Cruiser Seizes Axis Ship Displaying American Flag; Winter Grips Nazi Armies
Roosevelt Silent On Strike As Lewis Rallies Miners; Action In Congress Pledged
Roosevelt Disputes Lewis Argument But Takes No Action On Coal Strike; Moves To Avert Tie-Up Of Railroads
British Attack 130-Mile Libyan Line; Thrust 50 Miles In Sea-Air-Land Drive; Nazis Reported Encircled Near Rostov
British 10 Miles From Tobruk Forts; Report Little Resistance To Sweep; Weygand Out, U.S. Studies Vichy Break
Showdown On Strike Expected Today; 12 Miners Shot In Pennsylvania Riots; Murray Says Rich Men ‘Raid’ Defense
British Take Fort Capuzzo; Tobruk Garrison Emerges; Germans Capture Rostov
British In Bardia, Set New Traps; Nazis Rush Planes From Europe; Russians Fall Back Near Moscow
United States Troops Sent To Dutch Guiana; British Capture Gambut, Axis Base In Libya; Nazis Take Village 31 Miles From Moscow
Nazis Strike Back In Libya; Both Sides Pour In Infantry; Russians Gain Near Rostov
U.S. Gives Terms To The Japanese; Plan Clings To ‘Basic Principles’; British Columns Join In Libya
Roosevelt Sees Tokyo’s Envoys As Japanese Mass In Indo-China; British Force Meets Tobruk Unit
Japan Warned We Can’t Tolerate Any New Attacks In The Orient; British Trap Axis Force In Libya
Russians Rout Nazis At Rostov; Tojo Would ‘Purge’ Orient Of U.S.; Roosevelt May Curtail Vacation
DECEMBER
Roosevelt Hurries Back In Crisis; Hull To See Tokyo Envoys Today; Russians Press On From Rostov
Japan Renews Talks, But Capital Is Skeptical; British Beat Off Attacks On Tobruk Corridor; Russians Claim 102 Nazi Planes In Rostov Rout
Roosevelt Asks Japan’s Aim In Indo-China; New British Fleet Steams Into Singapore; Nazis Unite In Libya, ‘Pursued’ At Rostov
Russians Smash To Taganrog; Turks Get Lease-Lend Help; Hull Not Hopeful On Japan
Tokyo Reports Hull Plan Impossible; Japanese Hand In Their Reply Today; Russians Press The Retreating Nazis
Army Sent South Only To Check China, Tokyo Replies To Roosevelt Inquiry; Britain Declares War On 3 Nazi Allies
Roosevelt Appeals To Hirohito After New Threat In Indo-China; Germans Trapped At Taganrog
Japan Wars On U.S. And Britain; Makes Sudden Attack On Hawaii; Heavy Fighting At Sea Reported
U.S. Declares War, Pacific Battle Widens; Manila Area Bombed; 1,500 Dead In Hawaii; Hostile Planes Sighted At San Francisco
Roosevelt Sees A Long, World-Wide War; Japanese Invade Luzon, Fight In Malaya; 2 Big British Warships Sunk, Tokyo Says
Luzon Invasion ‘In Hand’ Our Forces Say; Japanese Are Halted At Hong Kong Also; British Lift Tobruk Siege, Take Gambut
U.S. Now At War With Germany And Italy; Japanese Checked In All Land Fighting; 3 Of Their Ships Sunk, 2d Battleship Hit
Japanese Pounded In Luzon, Warships Chased, Russians Rout Nazi Armies On Moscow Front; House Gets Bill To Register All Men 18 To 64
Japanese Forces Wiped Out In Western Luzon; Midway, Wake Resist; 3 Italian Cruisers Sunk; Russians Continue Advancing On All Fronts
U.S. Fliers Sink Four Transports Off Luzon; Hong Kong Scorns Ultimatum; Wake Fights On; Russians Report Foe Cut Off In Wide Retreat
Knox Reports Battleship Sunk At Hawaii, 5 Other Craft Lost, But Main Fleet Is At Sea; President Lays Perfidy To Japan’s Emperor
Japanese Ships Shell Two Hawaiian Islands; Navy Reports Successes By Our Submarines; Congress Speeds Bills For Huge War Effort
Hawaii Naval, Army, Air Commanders Ousted; Enemy Lands In Borneo, Harried At Hong Kong; House Votes To Fix Fighting Ages At 21 To 44
U.S. Submarines Blast Transport And Warship; Foe Claims Hong Kong Gain; Axis Rout In Libya; Senate Votes 79 To 2 To Lower Draft Age To 19
Big Japanese Force In Mindanao, Battle Rages; British Hard Pressed In Hong Kong, Hold Hills; Congress Passes Bill To Draft Men From 20 To 44
Enemy Submarines Are Off Both Our Coasts; Hard Fighting At Davao; Foe’s Transports Sunk; U.S. Seeks ‘Unity Of Action’ In Anti-Axis Drive
80 Japanese Transports Appear Off Luzon; U.S. Sank Or Damaged 14 U-Boats In Atlantic; Hitler Ousts Army Head, Takes Full Control
Churchill In Unity Talk At White House; 80,000 Japanese Attack On Luzon Coast; Our Tanks And Artillery Pound Invaders
Japanese Land Strong Force South Of Manila; Roosevelt, Churchill Work On Pacific Action; Petain Reported Out Under German Pressure
Free French Seize St. Pierre And Miquelon; Two More Enemy Landings Menace Manila; Wake Lost After 14-Day Stand By Tiny Force
Manila Declared Open City; Capital Moved; Hong Kong Yields; U.S. Fliers Sinks Submarine; St. Pierre 98% De Gaulle; Washington Objects
Tank Battle South Of Manila, Losses Heavy; New Enemy Force 175 Miles Above Singapore; Churchill Predicts Huge Allied Drive In 1943
Japanese Bombs Fire Open City Of Manila; Civilian Toll Heavy; Invaders Gain In Luzon; Roosevelt And Churchill Fix War Strategy
Roosevelt Reassures The ‘Gallant’ Filipinos; Our Fleet ‘Is Not Idle,’ The Navy Declares; Manila Bombed Again, Chutists In Sumatra
Japanese Bomb Manila Bay Forts 3 Hours; American Lines Hold; 2 Enemy Ships Sunk; Foe Drives Spearhead Deep Into Malaya
Japanese Driving On Manila ‘In Great Force,’ Our Lines Being Pushed Back, M’Arthur Admits; Russians Recapture Two Key Points In Crimea
News Source: New York Times
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