Jan 15 Japanese driven off Guadalcanal

Jan 23 British 8th army marches into Tripoli

Jan 30 Hitler promotes Friedrich von Paul to General - field marshal

Jan 05 USS Helena (CL-50) fired first proximity fused projectile in combat and shot down Japanese divebomber in southwest Pacific.

Jan 13 Russian offensive at Don under General Golikov

Jan 15 Work is completed on the Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense.

Jan 01 Negro League star Josh Gibson suffers a nervous breakdown

Jan 21 Vice-Admiral Cunningham appointed British Admiral of Fleet

Jan 29 Battle of Wau in New Guinea starts

Jan 20 Operation-Weiss Assault of German, Italian, Bulgarian & Croatian

Jan 31 General Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad

Jan 18 Moscow announced the 16-month Nazi siege of Leningrad was lifted.

Jan 01 Count Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel

Jan 05 Teams agrees to start season later due to WWII

Jan 03 The first missing persons telecast (New York City NY)

Jan 05 USS Helena (CL-50) fired first proximity fused projectile in combat and shot down Japanese divebomber in southwest Pacific.

Jan 31 Chile breaks contact with Germany &Japan

Jan 27 The first US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)

Jan 13 HMCS Ville de Quebec (Corvette) make Canada's first U-Boat sinking in the Mediterranean

Jan 10 The first US President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco

Jan 20 The Coast Guard Air Station, Floyd Bennett Field had experimented with a helicopter used as an airborne ambulance

Jan 04 Tom Wilkinson football player; CFL QB, Edmonton Eskimos, was born

Jan 13 British premier Winston Churchill arrives in Casablanca

Jan 23 Detroit Red Wings scores NHL record 8 goals in 1 period

Jan 19 The birth of Janis Joplin, American rock singer

Jan 11 US &Britain relinquish extraterritorial rights in China

Jan 05 Scientist/educator George Washington Carver dies in Tuskegee, Alabama, at age 81.

Jan 24 Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death

Jan 03 The first missing persons telecast (New York City NY)

Jan 13 Hitler declares "Total War"

Jan 05 William H Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces

Jan 14 Heinrich Himmler views Warsaw

Jan 30 USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean

Jan 23 Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured

Jan 12 Frankfurters replaced by Victory Sausages (mix of meat &soy meal)

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