Lightning US Tank Breakthrough Drives Toward Coutances
US armored columns shattered the German western Normandy line in a major breakout, driving toward Coutances within five miles and threatening the 84th corps. Columns advanced from Canisy and Lessay, with heavy armor, air support, and rapid captures of multiple communities in 48 hours as Allied forces push deeper into France.
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Normandy Line
Supreme Headquarters
Dace
U. S
Normandy
Coutances
84Th Corps
Lessay
Periers
Caniss
France
George S. Patton
St. Lo
Cherbourg
Yidger
Cerisy la Salle
Canisy
Camprond
le Mesnil- Herman
St. Gilles
Cassino
Boyle
Lessay- Periers
St. Lois
Beef Rationing Values Extended to August Thirteenth
Washington reports current point values on rationed beef and dairy will stay in effect at least until Aug 13. The Office of Price Administration postponed two weeks the War Food Administration mandate to remove most beef steaks and roasts from rationing. It allows restoration of point values for pork loins and hams while enforcing only top two beef grades under rationing. The conflict between OPA and WFA continues with a stalled August chart printout.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
War Food Administrations
OPA
WFA
Fred M. Vinson
James F. Byrnes
Berlin Silence Unexplained
London reports Berlin was cut off from the outside world last night under circumstances similar to the prior night following the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler. The Daily Mail from Stockholm says there is no immediate explanation for the shutdown in communications amid ongoing Mosquito bomber raids.
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London
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
The
Daily Mail
Stockholm
Talkative Cops Have Red Glow
Fort Worth July 27 The red glow hadn t entirely disappeared from the faces of City Patrolmen J B Davis and J A Davis As they ride and talk they discuss politics the war and fellow officers After an hour two more patrol cars join and tell them their two way radio mike was alive and their chatter could be heard city wide Correct wedding Invitations Russell Stationery Company
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Fort Worth
U.P
J. B. Davis
J. A. Davis
Davises
Japan Loses Ten Ships To U S Carrier Fleet
Allied air and naval actions in the Pacific report heavy carrier based strikes sinking a destroyer escort oiler seven small cargo ships and smaller craft in the western Caroline Islands. Marines reach one third of Tinian including Mount Lasso as bombardments continue in Truk Palau Yap Ulithi and Dutch New Guinea fronts.
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Associated Press
Caroline Islands
Navy
Tinian Island
Mount Lasso
Army Thunderbolt
Siapan
Marianas
Tinian
Truk
Seventh Army Air Force
Palau
Yap
Ulithi
Carolines
Adelup Point
Anae Island
Guam
Pacific
New Guinea
Cherbourg Port Still Useless To Allies In Normandy
Secretary Stimson said Cherbourg, captured a month earlier, is so wrecked it remains almost useless for Allied supply lines. He noted beaches must still land most personnel and matériel for the invasion while hedged fields and flooded low ground hinder operations.
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Washington
Normandy
Stimson
Cherbourg
John Co. H. Lee
France
U. S
Weather and ads glance from Amarillo and West Texas
Frid ay fair with little temperature change and Saturday partly cloudy. West Texas remains generally fair and hot Friday and Saturday. New Mexico shows little change with Friday temperatures. Yesterday high 65, max 95, sunrise 6 33 am, sunset 6 53 pm. Kitchen position wanted by 31 year veteran with best references and full time, no holidays, Mrs Tucker's Creamy Shortening ad.
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Amarillo
WITTY
West Texas
New Mexico
Russians Cross Vistula River Take Six Cities
Soviet forces surge westward across the Vistula cutting German escape routes. Lwow, Bialystok, Stanislawow fall as 1,635 towns are captured. Garwolin near Warsaw, Siauliai in Lithuania, and other key rail junctions fall in a major summer offensive. Santa Fe names Gurley president in a separate dispatch.
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London
Warsaw
Lwow
San River
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Bialystok
Stanislawow
Moscow
Daugavpils
Rezekne
Latvia
Siauliai
Lithuania
Baltic States
Oder River
Vistula
Poland
Silesia
Berlin
Oder
Garwolin
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Red Army
Siedlce
Joseph Stalin
Stalin
Riga
Memel
East Prussia
Baltic
Ivan Bagramian
Nazi
Lindemann
Prussia
Estonia
Liepaja
Libau
Brest Litovsk
Kaunas
Brest Litovski
Europe
Carpathian
Czechoslovakia
Ivan
Konev
Ukraine
Lwon
Krakow
German Silesia
Delatyn
Old Poland
Carpathian Mountains
German East Prussia
G. F. Zakharov
Andrei Yeremenko
Second Baltic
Allied fleet massing for new landing in Northern Italy
Berlin radio reported masses of Allied warships transports and landing craft concentrated with several divisions in the Tyrrhenian coast near La Spezia and Genoa for an imminent landing in Northern Italy.
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London
Berlin
Tyrrhenian Sea
Italy
la Speala
Genoa
Poles Advance Adriatic Drive Near Rimini and Pesaro
Allied dispatches say Polish troops pushed 17 miles beyond Ancona to seize Senigallia at the Misa River mouth, 22 miles from Pesaro, as part of the Adriatic advance toward the Gothic line. British New Zealand and South African forces cut toward Florence and Arno area, with heavy fighting and Tiger tanks neutralized.
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British New Guinea
Driniumor River
Aitape
Rome
Adriatic
Italy
Ancona
Senigallia
Misa
Pesaro
Rimini
Florence
Arno
Highway No. 2
San Casciano
Greve
Provence
Eighth Army
Montelup
Fiorence
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Caen
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Hal Boyle
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Russell Stationery Company
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Dutch New Guinea
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Orote Peninsula
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Ushi Field
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Nimitz
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Gurley
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Fred A. Gurley
Santa Fe System
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