Broken remnants of Axis armies in Tunisia are being driven back by Allied armies, fleeing up the Cape Bon peninsula. https://t.co/VKRx9VYNnv
Allied Atlantic convoys are now equipped with anti-submarine tactics & a new weapons to destroy German U-boats, from long-range bomber patrols to "Hedgehog" mortars, which fires 24 charges, each loaded with enough TNT to blow a hole in a sub's hull. https://t.co/CmBXjPde8p
Allied convoy ONS-5, heading from Liverpool to Halifax, has decisively fought off a German submarine attack in the North Atlantic: the merchant convoy & its warship escorts has sunk 7 U-boats & seriously damaged 7 more, turning tables on Kriegsmarine "wolfpacks". https://t.co/1nVRHytiQi
British troops have advanced into Tunis, capturing the Tunisian capital five minutes after the American II Corps took control of Bizerte; the two remaining Axis-controlled port in North Africa are in Allied hands. https://t.co/rcMx3BcVPO
The unknown woman diarist in Warsaw: "Everything is engulfed in fire. It looks like the end of the world." Read her diary: https://t.co/MQZ6wuylxz
SS forces & their Fascist auxiliaries are sacking the Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Warsaw, crushing hidden bunkers, & capturing hundreds of Jews in hiding; those not shot are sent to Treblinka concentration camp. https://t.co/G0HRs9batM
American, British & French armies are closing in on the last Axis holdout in North Africa; Italian & German forces are being shipped out slowly via remaining ports of Bizerte & Tunis, but Luftwaffe have withdrawn across Mediterranean, leaving Allies with complete air superiority. https://t.co/pX9R5XZ2Jj
British diplomats demand Spanish authorities turn over documents carried by “Major Martin”; as hoped, German intelligence are interested, & are pressuring the Fascist-aligned Spanish to let them see secret letters found in a briefcase handcuffed to the corpse. https://t.co/ZbAg0RHVvo
Glyndwr Michael died earlier this year after eating rat poison: now his body, dressed in a Royal Navy uniform, has been dropped off the Spanish coast by a British submarine. Attached to the corpse are faked documents suggesting the Allies plan to invade Greece (not Sicily). https://t.co/UwGBiOAhxY
"National War Labor Board" negotiates between employers & unions, & is supposed to forbid strikes in vital industries; but powerful UMW union has ignored President's order to return to work. More: https://t.co/4mKYbSA9qa https://t.co/KpClC2Ma2H
The US government has seized control of all coal mines to try & keep producing fuel during a massive labour strike. 480,000 American miners have struck, ordered by the United Mine Workers union. https://t.co/kAvhOvVp1B
To celebrate May Day, artist William Gropper produces poster showing soldiers of all the Allied nations dancing around an enormous maypole, their ropes strangling Hitler, Mussolini & Tojo, leaders of the main Axis powers. https://t.co/Z0gITz0cFD
Port Darwin, northern Australian, has been bombed: Japanese planes & Zero fighters have struck the town, wrecking its airstrip. Royal Australian Air Force, flying brand new Spitfire fighter planes, were battered by Japanese as they tried to fight off attackers. https://t.co/VKfSLJ5m1l
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