December 29: The Red Army scores a dramatic victory along the line west of Kiev, forcing some 200,000 German troops back toward Poland. December 17: In gratitude for Chinese assistance in the Pacific Theater, President Franklin Roosevelt signs the repeal of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and allows limited Chinese immigration to the United States. The saucy, tremendously popular character was played by actress Christabel Leighton-Porter in a music-hall striptease act and in a movie. Cartoon character Sexy Jane boosts GI morale: After cartoonist Norman Pett’s wife, Jane, was asked to look after a “Count Fritz von Pumpernickel” — who turned out to be a dachshund — Pett started drawing cartoons and comic strips about Jane and Fritz. December 22: One of the last remnants of the Warsaw Ghetto is wiped out when the SS murders more than 60 Jews discovered hiding in a basement in the Polish city. During WWII, Jane the cartoon character contributed to troop morale by shedding more and more clothes and finally appearing in the buff. Wartime news in 1943 included espionage concerns, the relocation of Soviet Union factories, and even a sexy, morale-boosting cartoon character. She and other Union doctors were eventually exchanged in a prisoner-of-war swap for Confederate medical officers.

Ordnance Department strength increased from 334 officers to 24,000 officers, 4,000 enlisted to 325,000 enlisted, and 27,088 civilians to 262,000 civilians. As pressure mounted with the increasing success of the Nationalists, many civilians were executed by councils and tribunals controlled by competing Communist and anarchist groups. The Allied bombing of Berlin begins: In a November 1943 letter to Winston Churchill concerning a planned bombing of Berlin, British air marshal Sir Arthur Harris stated, “It will cost Germany the war.” The bombing of Nazi Germany’s largest city began on November 18 and lasted until the end of March 1944. Although the attacks killed more than 10,000 civilians and left hundreds of thousands homeless, it failed to destroy the city or the morale of its citizens. In addition, Constantine reduced the troops that were able to respond more effectively at the border. Late in 1944, it began patrolling the Baltic coast, where its crew bombarded Soviet troops and evacuated German refugees. The Soviet Union relocates its factories: Beginning in 1941, trains that moved Red Army troops to the front also transported thousands of dismantled Russian factories and millions of skilled workers eastward to safer locations beyond the Ural Mountains.

Rushed into production — often at considerable hardship to civilian workers — factories contributed to a surge in the Soviet Union manufacture of tanks and weapons during 1942-43. Stalin had saved Russia’s manufacturing capability, which meant that in 1943 tanks and other equipment made up for the Red Army’s manpower shortage. The speedy P-51 Mustang fighter plane refined: Although well armed, American B-17 Flying Fortress bombers were vulnerable targets for German fighters in 1943. One reason for the heavy casualties was the absence of Allied fighters with the range to accompany the B-17s to their targets. Such qualities were also expected from the Assyrian kings: in their official records, both Tiglath-pileser III and Sargon II (721-705 BC) portrayed themselves as operational fighters who personally led their men into the fray, as an episode from the account of Sargon’s eighth campaign may illustrate: “With only my own chariot and the horses which are (always) with me, never leaving my side in enemy and friendly territory, (and) the contingent of (my brother) Sîn-ahu-uṣur, I hit (the enemy army) like a terrible arrow in its heart”.

Historian Paul Lack described these men as a home guard, a “last line of defense” for the Texians. Now they were sorely needed to fill the many factory vacancies due to the shortage of men on the home front. Government worked with corporate leaders to launch a propaganda campaign in the media to entice women to fill critical gaps in the workforce. During the Depression, women had been discouraged from entering the workforce. The image of “,” a confident, muscular woman in overalls, was created by the government to entice housewives and single women to help build warplanes. British public events. Racial mixing, especially male-female pairings, sometimes drew violent responses from American Southerners in service. As black journalist Roi Ottley reported in 1944, the British did not practice racial segregation “within the doors of the British Isles,” and many British took offense at the efforts of some U.S. We offer high-quality advice and service to all of our clients, and this practice helps us maintain our high standards. The working group made numerous recommendations including the creation of a new General PAP to replace the existing Practice Direction Pre-Action Conduct and compliance to be made mandatory except in urgent cases.