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Adm King sees Ger defeat in '44 possible
Ger adm reptd replacing Finnish authorities, Petsamo
White House reporters stage war of nerves as expected momentous news announcement turns out to be notice that Roosevelt received foreign officials at luncheon in South
Allied troops reptd near Hollandia and Sentani airstrips; RAAF planes reptd using Aitape airfield; Allied bombers sink shipping, Manokwari area; reptd using Tadji airport; Japanese chased into hills, Tadji area; Jap plane causes slight damage, Hollandia beachhead; US planes bomb Jap targets, Wewak, Hansa Bay and Madang; raid Rabaul and Kavieng; US Army engineers reptd bldg road, Tanahmera Bay area; need for native workers cited; map
development of principal S Pacific naval base described
1944Richard Bradshaw, English conductor (died 2007)[†]
Richard James Bradshaw was a British opera conductor and the General Director of the Canadian Opera Company (COC) in Toronto.
1944Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (born 1893)[†]
Violette Morris was a French athlete and Nazi collaborator who won two gold and one silver medal at the Women's World Games in 1921–1922. She was later banned from competing for violating "moral standards". She was invited to the 1936 Summer Olympics by Adolf Hitler and was an honored guest. During World War II, she collaborated with Nazis and the Vichy France regime. She became known as the "Hyena of the Gestapo" and was killed by the French Resistance.
1944Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.[†]
Georgios Papandreou was a Greek politician, the founder of the Papandreou political dynasty. He served three terms as the prime minister of Greece. He was also deputy prime minister from 1950 to 1952, in the governments of Nikolaos Plastiras and Sofoklis Venizelos. He served numerous times as a cabinet minister, starting in 1923, in a political career that spanned more than five decades.
1944Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.[†]
Karl Heinrich Georg Ferdinand Kreipe was a German career soldier who served in both World War I and World War II. While leading German forces in occupied Crete in April 1944, he was abducted by British SOE officers Patrick Leigh Fermor and William Stanley Moss, with the support of the Cretan resistance.