Eight Generals Fighting Reds Feel Nazi Wrath
Reports from the French frontier and other fronts describe Hitler purges extending to Russia and France with at least eight eastern front commanders arrested or replaced. Arrests spread to officers in France, amid sporadic clashes and morale concerns, while Guderian warns of loyalty and unity among German forces.
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French Frontier
Adolf Hitler
Russia
France
Bordeaux
Limgoes
Nimes
Nantes
Reich
Hitler
Johannes Blaskowitz
Blaskowitz
Guenther von Kluge
Normandy
Heinrich Himmler
Eastern Front
Albert Kesselring
Italy
Fritz Erich von Mannstein
Baron Alexander von Falkenhausen
General von Fromm
Hugo Sperrle
Erhard Milch
Air Force
Siegmund Wilhelm List
Maximilian von
Mareshals
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Runstedt
Wilhelm Kietel
Fedor von Beck
Walter von Brauchitsch
Ludwig Beck
Gestapo
Germany
Kiel
Stettin
Munich
Bremen
Koenigsberg
Prussia
BBC
CBS
Berlin
Stockholm
RedS Trust Own Tanks Not German Generals
Ilya Ehrenburg declares Germany’s fate will be decided on the battlefield by its enemies, not by its generals. He says Hitlerite Germany will fall to tanks and bullets from Allies, praising Soviet force and predicting Berlin gates by American and Soviet troops. A Pravda note cites Japan’s cabinet resignation signaling a crisis, blaming waning German and Japanese power and navy superiority gaps.
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Moscow
Iilya Ehrenburg
Russia
Germany
Berlin
Ehrenberg
Japan
Yanks Land on Tinian Amid Pacific Invasion Push
U S Marines landed on Tinian as part of the Marianas campaign. Adm Nimitz said the Second and Fourth Marines with carrier and land based air and naval artillery established beach heads against light opposition. Guam harbor appeared within reach after three days of fighting with 1,958 American casualties. Nimitz reported 348 killed 1,500 wounded and 110 missing. a counterattack killed about 250 Japanese.
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Associated Press
Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
United States
Tinian
Marianas
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
the Pacific
Guam
Nimitz
U. S
Saipan
Marianas Islands
Pacific
Orote Peninsula
First
Marine Brigade
Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr
la Jolla
Cal
Apra Harbor
Shepherd
Third Marine Division
Allen H. Turnage
Widewater
Cabras Island
Piti
Port Apra
Cabras
Third Marines
Agana
Turnage
Tinian Island
Thunderbolts
Pagan
Bombers Strike Near Philippines In New Guinea Offensive
MacArthur announced heavy bombers operating from New Guinea sank a Japanese coastal vessel about 70 miles southeast of Mindanao in the Philippines. The action marked the first Far Eastern Air Force strike on the Philippines and followed reduced returns from Saipan.
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New Guinea
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Far Eastern Air Force
MacArthur
Corregijor
Mindanao
Noemfoor Island
Dutch New Guinea
Noemfoor
Aitape-Wewas
Potter County election yields close constable and precinct 1 races
Incumbent Lewis Meritt defeats J D Duke by 77 votes in a tight constable contest, 2142 to 2065. Lon Sellars leads for commissioner of Precinct 1 with 1674 votes, ahead of W N Thomson. E F Finch wins Democratic chair in Potter County with 2674 votes to 1745 for Flem raing.
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Potter County
Lewis Meritt
J. D. Duke
Meritt
Lon Sellars
W. N. Thomon
Haskell S. Beavers
Sellars
Morris Browning
E. O. Northcutt
E. F. Finch
Bob Stone
Finch
M. L. Flemraing
Airmen Slash Nazi Lifelines Behind Normandy Front
Allied air forces resumed raids behind the Normandy front with 750 U S bombers dropping 275 tons on more than six railway targets between the front and Paris. Thunderbolts and Denes escorted unopposed. one aircraft reported missing from bridge-busting missions.
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London
Normandy Battlefront
U. S
Ninth Air Force
Paris
Three Texas Congressmen Head To Runoffs In Primary
Texas primary results show nine incumbents renominated while Rep. Richard Kleberg lost. Runoffs indicated in three districts as incumbents like Sam Rayburn and Hatton Sumners face stiff challengers amid vigorous campaigns. Governor Stevenson leads large against Minnie Cunningham.
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Dallas
Texas
Richard Kleberg
Texas Election Bureau
Nat Patton
Tom Pickett
Palestine
Sam Rayburn
Hatton Sumners
Congress
Wright Patman
Lyndon Johnson
Bob Kage
Fritz Lanham
Eugene Woriey
George Mahon
Albert Thomas
Rayburn
Sumners
Coke Stevenson
Gossett
US Fighters Fly From Red Bases
American air forces conducted an all fighter shuttle from bases in Italy through Romania to Soviet bases. P-38 Lightnings and P-51 Mustangs struck Bazan and Zilistea airfields, destroying 41 aircraft on the ground and igniting fuel dumps. Ground targets included six locomotives two trucks and three railway cars. Five American planes were reported missing.
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U. S
Russia
Romania
Eastern Command
U. S. Strategic Air Forces
Europe
Bazan
Zilistea
Soviet Union
Italy
Ploesti
Federal land to be sold in family sized plots
Washington July 23 The government will sell surplus real estate in family sized parcels to farm buyers who will cultivate land themselves. W L Clayton surplus war property administrator outlined policies to avoid speculation and to permit repurchase by former owners at current values.
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Federal
Washington
W. L. Clayton
James G. Patton
National Farmers Union
Patton
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
National Association of
RFC
Clayton
French Maquis Recruit Nazis
Reports from the Pyrenees say French partisans recruited Austrian volunteers to join the Maquis. A unit of about 350 Austrians allegedly killed four SS commanders and defected with arms and supplies. In Toulouse a German commander ordered troops to barracks as an SS division moved to police the city. Rumors of clashes remain unconfirmed.
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Andorra
Pyrennes
France
Herault Department
Montpellier
Toulouse
CAA Proposes $1 Billion Plan to Build 3000 Airports
Washington July 23. William A M Burden assistant secretary of commerce says the Civil Aeronautics Administration will urge Congress to approve a billion dollar program to create 3,000 new airports. Most will be small airparks for private and local flying, with 1,827 cities developed for commercial air service.
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Washington
William A. M. Burden
Commerce
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Congress
Burden
CBS
CAA
Air Transport Service
Massachusetts
Minnesota
House of Representatives
Britain Honors Pantex Worker Ilma Clark for Royal Medal
Mrs. Ilma Lizzie Clark, a PBX operator at Pantex Ordnance Plant and former WAAF corporal, received the Silver Loyal Service Medal from King George. Born in Kingston Jamaica, she served in England during the blitz and recently became a naturalized American citizen after arriving in Texas in February. She previously worked with the Royal Air Force Signal Corps and values her medal and citizenship.
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PBX
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Ilma Lizzie Clark
England
Auxilary Air Force
Air Wacs
Texas
Cecil Vv. E. Hall
White Deer
Kingston
Jamaica
British West Indies
Scotland
Isles
Wales
Signal Corps
Royal Air Force
George
Weather Summary for Amarillo West Texas and New Mexico
The bulletin notes Monday partly cloudy with widely scattered thunderstorms in the afternoon and early evening across Amarillo and vicinity. West Texas experiences considerable cloudiness with scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms. New Mexico reports scattered showers and thunderstorms with little temperature change. Maximums yesterday 68 to 99, minimums 43 to 68, sunrise 6 50 A M, sunset 8 56 P M.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
Aecne
Reds Unstopped In 32 Mile Polish Breakthrough
London reports a major 32 mile advance by seven Soviet armies tearing gaps along a 750 mile front from Pskov to the Carpathians. The Moscow bulletin says 1 450 towns and villages were swept, with further demoralization in German lines as Hitler's private war with his generals reached Nazi troops.
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London
Poland
San
Silesia
Pskov
Carpathian
Moscow
Adolf Hitler
Lwow
Russia
Anothe
Red Army
Lublin
Old Poland
Warsaw
Visla
Vistula
Germany
Brest Litovsk
Czernie
Yanks Take Pisa Fortified District In Push To Gothic Line
Fifth Army drives into Pisa southern district and reaches the Arno river as Allied forces press the Gothic Line. British Eighth Army advances near Florence while South African tanks move into farming country southwest of the city.
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Rome
Fifth
Pisa
Arno
Associated Press
Lynn Heinzerling
Eighth Army
Florence
Sid Feder
Monte Pisano
Italy
Germany
Junker
Nazi Party
Luftwaffe
Fifth Army
Allies Break German Line in Normandy push toward Paris
Allied forces stormed Emieville and Maltot near Caen in a renewed Normandy drive after a rain pause. Rommel’s losses topped 156,000 soldiers with 60,000 prisoners, while Allies reported 53,000+ casualties and 8,094 German burials. Maltot fell with 400 prisoners from the 271st Infantry Division.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionay Force
Normandy
Emieville
Paris
Ernieville
Caen
Maltot
Seves
Periers
Erwin Rommel
271St
Navy Projects Threefold Growth in 1940s Fleet Size
The Navy announced that by August 18 with the launch of the destroyer escort Grady the number of U S fighting ships would exceed 1 149, about three times the 383 combatant ships in mid 1940. Construction ongoing and officials note ships of all types have roughly doubled in the past year, indicating a substantial total.
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Navy
Grady
Brazilian Navy Corvette Sunk in Stormen Convoy Duty
A Brazilian Navy communique says the corvette Camaquan sank while on convoy duty due to bad weather. Part of the crew has reached Recife. The navy ministry also reports the sinking of a navy vessel by an enemy submarine yesterday.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Recife
Navy Ministry
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Spain
Heinz Guderian
Guderian
von Hindenburg
Fritzies
Gretchens
Pravda
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Guro
Islands
Caroline Islands
Black Arrow
China
Ton Sellars
Kleberg
Maquis
Britain
Ivan S. Konev
Ukraine
Tomaszow
Tarnogrod
San River
Jaroslaw
Gaita Lipa
Dneister River
Stanislawow
US Navy
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