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- From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
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- Subject: 50 Years Ago: Saturday, 23 January, 1943
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- Date: 24 Jan 93 15:52:43 GMT
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- From military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
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- Saturday, 23 January, 1943
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- Montgomery's 8th Army enters Tripoli, abandoned by the Axis.
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- Aircraft from the carrier USS Saratoga join the cruisers USS Nashville and
- Helena in bombarding a Japanese airfield on Kolombangara Island in the
- Solomons. On Guadalcanal, the Americans capture the strongpoint of Gifu,
- ending Japanese resistance on Mount Austen, and press the Japanese
- troops as they withdraw toward Cape Esperance.
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- Soviet forces recapture the Caucasus city of Armavir and enter Voronezh.
- Inside the Stalingrad pocket, the German 6th Army is surviving on daily
- rations of 1 3/4 ounce of bread and 1 3/4 pints of vegetable soup per man.
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- "Last week the Houdry Process Corporation and the Standard Oil Company of
- New Jersey announced the successful development of methods for the
- production of gasoline compared with which the ordinary kind sold by
- filling stations is a feeble milk-and-water concoction... Heavy bombers and
- passenger planes carrying unprecedented loads and traveling unprecedented
- distances without refueling, automobiles covering forty miles on a gallon of
- super gasoline... all this and more was promised." - Waldemar Kaempffert,
- "Science News in Review," The New York Times, describing the new process of
- catalytic refining
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