The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 3, 1944, Page 6

PAGE SIX ON A PORCH IN TEHERAN — Marshal Joseph Stalin, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill at epochal conference. Earlier meetings saw FDR at Casablanca, Quebec and Cairo! OVER NEW GUINEA_Gen. Douglas MacArthur, look- ing out of a Flying Fortress gun port, poin‘s to paratroops drop- ping into the Markham Valley to start a successful drive on_Jap forces in the Lae-Salamaua sector. STORM — Siapping of a wounded U. S. soldier in Sicily, for which Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. (above) later apol- ogized, led to a stormy dispute and outcries in congress. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— JUNEAU, ALASKA ———enonororr e 1943 - YEAR'S HIGHLIGHTS IN A GLOBAL WAR - 1943 MONDAY, jANUARY 3, 1944 CHIEF — The name of Gen. George C. Marshall (above), chief of staff of the U. S. Army, . figured prominently in reported T é : g preparations for an Allied land 7 s o invasion of Europe. v o % i g ON TARAWA'’S BLOODY SHORE_U. S. Marines battle Japanese on the atoll in the Gilbert Islands which cost more than 1,000 American dedd before it fell to Yank attackers, ~ OVER EAST PRUSSIA_u. s. Flying Fortresses bomb the German Focke-Wulf assembly 7 * plant at Marienburg, as rising Allied air might presses the attack on Hitler's “fortress Europe.” ON A HOSPITAL TRAIN—An Army nurse, Lt. Alice E. Hall, cares for Elmer Mitchell, a casualty of the American landings in Ita!”, as wounded from the Mediterranean fighting z¢-.2 return home for medical care, AT HITLER'S HEADQUARTERS— Benito Mussolini, discredited and deposed Duce, shakes hands with Adolf Hitler wupon arrival at the latter’s headquarters following his “liberation” #rom Italians who had placed him under yuard, ON THE ATLANTIC — Allied ships and planes put a crimp in Hitler's U-boat campaign. Here a depth bomb explodes on a Nazi submarine, another (circle) drops alongside. PR EM I ER — Marshal Pietro ‘Badoglio (above) surrendered to the Allied invaders of Ifaly, . i, 4 o i then formed a new Ifalian gov- ernment in which he became premier. The new regime, co- operating with the Allies, soon declared war on Nazl Germany, ON THE WAY TO SALERNO-U. S. troops of the Fifth Army, nearing the Italian shore to open & new chapter in the Italian invasion, keep 3 watch aloft for German plaues. ~ . IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF STALINCRAD—Rufiiu: sol?leuu;med.wlg: rtflettl;re lrom?ehl:n:%lulnlmbbleh { fighting that turned the tide against the Germans and started Hitler’s long retreat to the west. In succession the Nazis were driven i sirest Dy out of the vital Caucasus fegion and the important Russian cities of Rostov, Dnepropetrovsk, Kln. rkov and Kiev.