Aerial Assaults Ramp Up Against Japan in July Bombing Blitz
Allied air power delivers a major strike over Japan with more than 1,500 carrier and land based planes. Daily totals report 2,300 Superfortresses across five July strikes and 1,200 fighters from Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Tokyo presses warn of invasion precursors as 80 airfields targeted.
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Guam
Japan
Nippon
Third Fleet
Tokyo
America
Okinawa
Iwo
Osaka-Kobe
Kyushu
Nimitz
Navy
Adm
William F.bulb Halsey
Omnipresent Suitor Allegh in Tokyo Air Mastery Report
Admiral Nimitz announced a massive Allied air assault over Tokyo with one thousand planes destroying or damaging 154 Japanese aircraft and claiming control of the skies. He noted no fleet damage and negligible enemy air activity, with airfields over Tokyo impregnable and no enemy planes downed in the air by McCain's carriers.
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Guam
Tokyo
Nimitz
Adm
John C. McCain
Hellcats
Helldivers
Avengers
Bay Area Control Falls to Allied Forces in Borneo
Manila reports Bay Area anchorages now in Allied hands as General MacArthur announces control of Balikpapan Bay. Australians hold Pandansari north of Balikpapan with a final amphibious link completed near Dinnabora after successful Cape Penadjam to Dinabora landings aided by naval gunfire.
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Manila
Balikpapan
Broad Bay
MacArthur
Pandansari
Balkipapan
Borneo
Milford
Cape Penadjam
Dinnabora
Cape Telektebang
Truman speeds to Potsdam aboard cruiser in mid Atlantic
President Truman travels with James Byrnes and William Leahy aboard a two ship task force toward Potsdam for talks with Churchill and Stalin. The mission aims to lay groundwork for Germany peace terms including boundaries reparations and rehabilitation as the voyage covers thousands of miles.
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U.S
Truman
Europe
Potsdam
Japan
Churchill
Stalin
Read
Allan R. McCann
James F. Byrnes
William D. Leahy
Debarkation
Berlin
San Franccisco
Ima
Missouri
Germany
Washington
Army Port of Embarkation
Newport News
White House
British Lose Burma Outpost
British say Japanese counterattacks through mud and water forced them from Nyaungkashe an outpost on the Lower Sittang River bend 170 miles northeast of Rangoon. The assault aimed to aid a Japanese retreat toward Thailand while SEAC reports heavy Japanese artillery and losses to Allied air and ground forces.
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Southeast Asia Command
Nyaungkashe
Sittang River
Burma
Rangoon
Sittang
Thailand
Fish
Pegu
Adar
Louis Mountbatten
Irish Conservatives Win Belfast Election Victory
Northern Ireland reports that the Conservative government led by Prime Minister Sir asil Brooke was returned to power after the Northern Ireland general election held on June 14. The July 10 declaration confirms the unionist conservative success in Belfast and across the region.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Sirasil Brooke
Weather summary for Amarillo and West Texas region
Cloudy to partly cloudy Wednesday and fair Wednesday night with rising temperatures. West Texas sees partly cloudy Wednesday and Thursday with scattered thunder showers from Pecos Valley eastward to Del Rio Eagle Pass. Temperatures largely above normal. cooler late Saturday with scattered thundershowers across Panhandle and south Plains. Precipitation light to moderate.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Pecos Valley
del Rio-Eagle Pass
Texas
Gulf Plains
Panhandle
South Plains
Pecos Vaniley
Lehigh Storms Kill Six Across NJ and PA
Severe storms swept the Lehigh Valley causing six deaths across Phillipsburg Bethlehem Allentown and surrounding areas. A landslide near Phillipsburg halted recovery of bodies while downed power lines flooded homes and blocked trains and roads.
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Phillipsburg
N. J
Lehigh Valley
New Jersey-Pennsylvania
Northampton
Bethlehem
Allentown
Finnish Missionaries Say Japan Conditions Very Hard
Finnish missionaries arriving home report Tokyo food conditions extremely poor and air raids making the city uninhabitable. Nimitz cites fleet planes sinking or damaging six small enemy surface craft off Honshu and Korea. MacArthur tally lists ten enemy vessels sunk or damaged from Formosa to Java.
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Associated Press
Japan
Tokyo
FCC
Nimitz
Honshu
Main
Korea
MacArthur
Formosa
Java
Fleet Air Wing 18
Okinawa
Fourth Marine Aircraft Wing
Tactical Air Force
Kikai Island
Ryukyus
Omura
Kyushu
CIO Wins Representation At Santa Fe Railroad
Maintenance of Way and Miscellaneous Empl oyes Inc claims representation for 13 923 Santa Fe employees after an election from May 28 to July 9 supervised by the National Railway Mediation Board. President R K Corkhill of Topeka Kan states ballots were mailed for counting.
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Chicago
Maintenance of Way and Miscellaneous Employes, Inc
CIO
Santa Fe
Union
R K. Corkhill
Topeka
Kan
CIO Union
Corkhill
National Railway Mediation Board
Peace Feelers Brushed Aside by Grew Assertion
Grew denounced peace feelers as attempts to divide the Allies and test terms for Japan. He cited four alleged approaches, urged continued unconditional surrender, and tied talks to German tactics and deteriorating Japanese conditions.
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United States
Far East
Grew
Japan
State Department
Tokyo
Troop Arrivals From Europe Reported By AP
Army units arriving in the United States from Europe include engineers and artillery regiments in New York and Boston, with mechanized reconnaissance and port engineer detachments. Scheduled arrivals in New York and Hampton Roads list hospital units, infantry regiments, artillery battalions, and support troops.
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Associated Press
United States
Europe
New York
Eighth
Fourth Division
Eighth Infantry Regiment
Third Cavalry
77Th Ordnance Battalion
Boston
809Th
32Nd Cavalry
394Th Field Artillery
18Th Cavalry
1055Th Engineer Port
103Rd General Hospital
Eighth Air Force
Hampton Roads
22Nd Infantry
Berlin Food Crisis Over Ends Four-Power Kommandature Plan
Berlin, July 10. The United States Britain and Russia agreed to a four power Kommandature for Berlin with each occupying power rotating 15 day control to coordinate food and fuel supply from all zones. Soviet Gorbatov will lead the first session as the coalition forms a joint administration to feed the city and unlock coal shortages.
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Berlin
United States
Britain
Russia
Floyd L. Parks
Germany
Zhukov
Nazi U-boat Surrenders Near Mar Del Plata
A 700 ton German U boat surfaced inside the Mar del Plata breakwater after 18 weeks at sea and surrendered to the Argentine base commandant. Commander Otto Wormoutt and 54 crewmen climbed ashore with a handbag insignia before being placed in custody.
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Mar-Del-Plata
Argentina
Atlantic
Mar- Del-Plata
Otto W:rmoutt
City to Pay Expenses for Amarillo Murder Case Return
The Amarillo City Commission orders funds to cover costs to bring Miron E. Thompson and Elbert Day from federal custody to Amarillo for murder trials. The men were convicted in federal court for kidnapping and transporting a stolen car tied to the death of city policeman Lem Savage. Thompson faces 99 years. Day five years.
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Amarillo
Miron E
Eddie) Thompson
Elbert Day
Federal Penitentiary
Lem Savage
Thompson
Day
Savage
Federal District Court
T U. S
Texas Attorney General
Potter County
City Commission
Miron E. Thompson
A. P. Hancock
James G. Lumpkin
Attoreny
William Lampe
U. S
New Mexico
Meat Kept From OPA Crew Condemned in Poplar Bluff
Poplar Bluff Missouri health officials ousted OPA inspectors from a frozen food locker over missing health certificates. City Health Engineer Claude Murray said the agents will not handle more meat and intends to condemn all such meat for human consumption. Murray and Police Chief John Sims plan to appear before Judge Rubey Hulen to explain contempt charges.
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Poplar Bluff
Murray
OPA
John Sims
United States District
Rubey Hulen
St. Louis
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