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Attends Pacific War Council session; comments; meets with Roosevelt
Brit mil sources view drive as plan to force Gers back to Dnieper
Internatl Red Cross repts R P Post was killed in bombing raid over Ger, Feb
Brit Air Ministry rept on damage to Genoa, Milan and Turin in Aug 7 raid
1943Javeed Alam, Indian academician (died 2016)[†]
Javeed Alam was an activist and thinker who served as Chairman of the Indian Council for Social Science Research from 2008 to 2011.
1943Vittorio Sella, Italian photographer and mountaineer (born 1859)[†]
Vittorio Sella was an Italian photographer and mountaineer, whose photographs of mountains are regarded as some of the finest ever made.