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Patrolman H M Anderson suspended for being intoxicated while off duty after slaying F McCrink and wounding S Murphy
Dewey expected to outline reorganization plans in message to Legis
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 3 -- The ground forces were still bogged down by mud in Tunisia, but the American and British air forces had their most successful day in the air yesterday against the Germans and Italians.
downing of 32 Jap planes and sinking of 4 Jap warships in Nov 14 Savo Is battle by unidentified US warship described; ship commanded by Capt T L Gatch; he comments
1943Doris Kearns Goodwin, American historian and author[†]
Doris Helen Kearns Goodwin is an American biographer, historian, former sports journalist, and political commentator. She has written biographies of numerous U.S. presidents. Goodwin's book No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1995. Goodwin produced the American television miniseries Washington. She was also executive producer of Abraham Lincoln, a 2022 docudrama on the History Channel. This latter series was based on Goodwin's Leadership in Turbulent Times.
1943Hwang Sok-yong, South Korean author and educator[†]
Hwang Sok-yong is a South Korean novelist.
1943Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Greek-Polish swimmer and water polo player (born 1911)[†]
Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz was a Polish-Greek athlete who fought as a saboteur in the Greek Resistance during World War II and was executed by the Germans.
1943Marina Raskova, Russian pilot and navigator (born 1912)[†]
Marina Mikhaylovna Raskova was the first woman in the Soviet Union to achieve the diploma of professional air navigator. Raskova went from a young woman with aspirations of becoming an opera singer to a military instructor to the Soviet Union's first female navigator. She was the navigator to many record-setting as well as record-breaking flights and the founding and commanding officer of the 587th Bomber Aviation Regiment, a women's aviation regiment which was renamed the 125th M.M. Raskova Borisov Guards Dive Bomber Regiment in her honor. Raskova became one of over 800,000 women in the military service, founding three female air regiments, one of which eventually flew over 30,000 sorties in World War II and produced at least 30 Heroes of the Soviet Union.