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Stalin orders of day and salvos announce Nikopol capture and clearing of Gers from lower Dnieper east bank by Malinovsky army; other USSR units gain in Cherkassy area and Luga and Latvia drives
LONDON, Wednesday, Feb. 9 --The methodical big-scale smashing of German industrial power within the Reich and German military strength in northern France was resumed yesterday with the United States Army Air Forces' bombers and fighters playing the leading role in a dawn-to-dusk battle.
AT THE FIFTH ARMY BEACHHEAD, South of Rome, Feb. 8 -The Germans forced a slight retirement in the British sector today while continuing fierce pressure at a number of other points on the fan-shaped beachhead.
London repts 6 out of 7 Ital merchant ships at met Spanish ports released, 3 sailed after Duke of Alba return to Madrid; separate negotiations on warships
Sec Hull warns Finns to quit war
1944Derryn Hinch, New Zealand-Australian radio and television host and politician[ā ]
Derryn Nigel Hinch is a New Zealandāborn media personality, politician, actor, journalist and published author. He is best known for his career in Australia, on Melbourne radio and television. He served as a Senator for Victoria from 2016 to 2019.
1944Alice Walker, American novelist, short story writer, and poet[ā ]
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry.