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- From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
- Subject: 50 Years Ago: Thursday, 21 January, 1943
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- Organization: NCR Corporation -- Law Department
- References: <1991Dec9.022615.7834@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:34:28 GMT
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- From military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
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- Thursday, 21 January, 1943
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- Soviet forces capture Gumrak airfield in the Stalingrad pocket. This was
- the last airfield available to the German garrison, and further supplies
- must be dropped by parachute. The Red Army also liberates Voroshilovsk.
-
- The American 1st Armored Division begins an attack in Tunisia's Ousseltia
- Valley.
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- Montgomery receives an Ultra intercept of the German plans and changes his
- axis of advance; the 8th Army is now to drive for Tripoli along the coast
- road instead of swinging to the south.
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- The British and American Combined Chiefs of Staff issue the Casablanca
- Directive, setting the priorities for the Allied strategic bombing campaign
- in Europe.
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- "Before we got this gun [the M7 self-propelled 105mm] we were unable to
- master the enemy tanks with our tanks... Then we came back with this new
- development... Thanks be to President Roosevelt and the American arms
- factories, we are getting all we want." - General Bernard Montgomery
-