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January 23rd, 1944 (SUNDAY)

FRANCE: Paris: Marcel Bucard of the Franciste party (French Fascist) writes in the newspaper Le Franciste, "If everything cracks up, the men from Moscow will be cutting off our heads."

ITALY: 50,000 men are now ashore at Anzio. A German air attacks sinks the British destroyer HMS JANUS at 41 26N, 12 38E and damages her sister ship, HMS JERVIS. An air-launched torpedo sets off the magazine of JANUS and she blows up with heavy loss of life. There are 162 casualties. (Alex Gordon)(108)

Pte George Allen Mitchell (b.1911), London Scottish, took two gun posts alone and led two further assaults before being killed - by a soldier who had surrendered. (Victoria Cross)

U.S.A.: Minesweeper USS Swerve commissioned.

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