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November 30, 1943

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AMERICAN PLANES BATTER REICH PORT; Month's Third Bremen Attack Costs 13 'Forts,' 16 Fighters -- Airfields in Belgium Hit

By David Anderson

US fliers bomb Bremen; 13 Fortresses and 16 fighter planes lost; 35 Ger planes downed; Allied fliers bomb airfields at Chievres and Moorsel, Belgium, and ry targets, northwestern Ger; G Schroeder, Goebbels spokesman, cites possibility that Allies may destroy Berlin and other cities; govt rejects plan to evacuate Berlin

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RACE FOR ZHLOBIN; Red Army 11 Miles From Goal -- 40 Villages Fall Northwest of Gomel

By the Associated Press

USSR forces advance to within 11 mi from Zhlobin; take 40 villages northwest of Gomel; launch new drive below Cherkassy to cut Dniepropetrovsk-Fastov ry at Smela; repel Ger attacks in Chernyakhov and Brusilov areas; continue gains southwest of Kremenchug; threaten Nikopol in Krivoi Rog area; map

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BALBOA, C.Z., Nov. 29 -- An American Liberty ship was torpedoed and sunk with the loss of sixteen lives and an American tanker was sent down with the loss of twelve lives in the same general area after the sinking of the Colombian inter-island motor schooner Ruby, the Fifteenth United States Naval Headquarters announced today.

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WAR PLANT BLAST DOWNTOWN; 50 HURT; Western Electric Building on Hudson St. Damaged -- 500 Workers Endangered

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NYC plant tank explodes; damage and casualties; inquiry

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Notable Births

1943Norma Alarcón, American author and professor^[†]

Norma Alarcón is a Chicana author and publisher in the United States. She is the founder of Third Woman Press and a major figure in Chicana feminism. She is Professor Emerita of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

1943Terrence Malick, American director, producer, and screenwriter^[†]

Terrence Frederick Malick is an American filmmaker. Malick began his career as part of the New Hollywood generation of filmmakers and received awards at the Cannes Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, and Venice International Film Festival, and nominations for three Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Cesar Award, and a Directors Guild of America Award.

Notable Deaths

1943Etty Hillesum, Dutch author (born 1914)^[†]

Esther "Etty" Hillesum was a Dutch Jewish author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation. In 1943, she was deported and murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.