Italians Fight Germans as Sicily Drive Advances
Allied columns push through Sicily with Cefalu and San Stefano secured as Patton’s forces seize 90 miles west of Messina. German reinforcements rush via Brenner Pass while Mussolini’s regime faces dissolution and Badoglio outlines armistice possibilities.
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Italy
Cefalu
Messina
George S. Patton
North Coast
San Stefano
Collesano
Petralia
Calteveturo
Poizzia
Alimena
Etna
Catania
Mussolini
Hill
Reds Tighten Ring Around Orel in 16 Day Advance
Russian communique reports gains of two and a half to four miles and the seizure of over 30 towns including Stanovoy Kolodets near Orel. The line now encircles Orel from Optushka to Zolotarevo and Stnovoy Kolodets as heavy rains slow the drive and German forces fight stubbornly.
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London
Orel
Stanovoy Kolodets
Optushka
Zolotarevo
Stnovoy Kolodets
Leningrad
Belgorod
Donets Basin
Krasnodar
Associated Press
Bolkhov
Komosomolskaya Pravda
Moscow
Berlin
Kuban
Caucasus
Novorossisk
Mius
Taganrog
Donets
Lake Ladoga
Mga
Navy details Sicily invasion and fleet scale
The navy disclosed that over 2 500 U S ships and craft, with more than 40 000 personnel, took part in the Sicily landings. The operation involved landing craft, motor torpedo boats, and anti submarine vessels under Vice Admiral Hewitt and Allied command, marking the largest amphibious assault in history with extensive training and logistics.
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Washington
Navy
Sicily
Sicilian
Europe
United States
H. K. Hewitt
U. S
North African
Hewitt
Andrew Browne Cunningham
Eisenhower
United States Atlantic
Royal E. Ingersoll
Alan G. Kirk
John L. Hall
Richard L. Conolly
North
Africa
Mediterranean
North Africa
Atlantic
Roosevelt declares first crack in Axis and unconditional surrender
President Roosevelt, in a war broadcast, declares the Axis cracks appear with Mussolini to be punished and vows unconditional surrender for Germany Japan and Italy. He outlines six postwar veteran benefits and urges continued all-out war effort with plans for future domestic actions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
United Nations
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Germany
Japan
Russia
Pacific
Hitler
Tojo
Mussolini
America
Congress
Sicily
Berlin
Rome
Tokyo
Europe
Mr. Roosevelt
Liberators Bomb Wake Island as U S Slugs Back
US Army Liberators bombard Wake Island for a second time in four days as Japanese defenses exchange heavy fire. Navy reports seven Zeros shot down with bombers returning unscathed, while Aleutian airmen mount 19 raids on Kiska in 48 hours.
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Washington
Wake Island
mid-Pacific
Navy
Aleutians
Kiska
Wake
Midway
Gertrude Cove
Little Kiska
Bombers Hit Two Japanese Ships in Southwest Pacific Action
Allied bombers attacked off Cape Gloucester New Britain and Mandokwari Dutch New Guinea scoring direct hits on two vessels and damaging another cargo ship. A heavy attack targeted Munda airbase in New Georgia with forty seven tons of explosives dropped nearby. Progress of jungle fighters toward central Solomons not updated.
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Southwest Pacific
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Douglas MacArthur
Mandkwari
Dutch New Guinea
Munda
New Georgia
Solomons
OWI Meets to Align Italy Policy in War Information Drive
Washington officials from the State Department and the Office of War Information met to coordinate Italy policy. Robert E. Sherwood said the aim was to get policy on the beam. Attendees included Hull aide Michael McDermott and liaison Robert Pell. the session followed Roosevelt’s rebuke of an OWI broadcast.
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State Department
Office of War Information
Italy
Robert E. Sherwood
OWI Overseas Service
Hull
Sherwood
Milton Fisenhower
OWL
James P. Warburg
OWT
New York
Michael McDermott
Robert Pell
Roosevelt
Vittorio Emanuele
Pietro Badoglio
Forts Make Deepest Raid Into Germany
Allied air foray penetrated deepest into Germany to strike Oschersleben near Magdeburg and Hamburg in tandem with Kassel target hits. United States bombers damaged Belgian sites while fighters contested northern France and Belgium air bases. Over 2 300 tons of bombs fell on Hamburg as Fortresses logged series of strikes, with 69 to 24 victory score for Allied air forces.
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London
Germany
Oschersleben
Berlin
Hamburg
Kassel
United States
Belgium
France
Air Ministry
U. S
RAF
Europe
Madgeburg
Hitler
Zeebrugee
Courtrai
Melville
Amsterdam
Holland
Messerchmitts
Haken
Hanburg
Rommel Reported in Greece Amid Axis Strain
A German radio report says Erwin Rommel is in Greece amid the Axis vulnerabilities as Italy may collapse. The dispatch notes Greece as a gateway to the Balkans with Italian troops largely garrisoning area and hints at Italian troops possibly returning home. Berlin has guarded Rommel’s prestige after the Africa campaign and Allied pressure in the Middle East continues to threaten the region.
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Reuters
Milan
Rome
Benito Mussolini
Fascist Party
Badoglio
Grand Council
Special Tribunal
London
House of Commons
Churchill
Roosevelt
Italy
Badoglo
Madrid
Switzerland
Svenska Dagbladet
Sweden
Brenner Pass
Istanbul
Turkey
Balkans
Albania
Greece
Ministry of Economic Warfare
Germany
Reich
Ankara
Reuters News Agency
Sicily
Raffaele Guariglia
Numan Menemenologlu
Ismet Inonu
Erwin Rommel
Balkan
DNB
Rommel
Middle East
France
Berlin
Nile Valley
Eighth Army
Egypt
Africa
Jurgen von Arnium
Tunisia
Ten Million Dollar Hurricane Leaves 21 Dead on Texas Coast
A tropical hurricane along the Texas Gulf Coast from Houston to Port Arthur left twenty one dead or missing and extensive damage estimated at ten million dollars. The U S Weather Bureau said the storm was diminishing as reports noted 18 of 55 crew on the dredge Galveston missing after it sank near Bolivar Roads. Coast Guard units rescued several aboard and Houston Galveston and Port Arthur each reported one fatality.
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Italy
Milan
Madrid
Turin
Badoglio
Ankara
Rome
Bern
Switzerland
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Texas Gulf Coast
Port Arthur
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Nova- Sota
Southwestern
U. S. Army Engineers
Galveston
Col
Robert A. Neyland
Bolivar Roads
Coast Guard
Comdr
W. G. Etheridge
Boy Falls From Windmill Tower Critically Hurt
Five year old Billy Wayne Murray of River Road Community sustained a concussion after slipping from a windmill tower ladder. He fell about 12 feet while two friends played nearby and was rushed to St. Anthony's Hospital in critical condition. An older boy who followed him attempted to help and led responders to the scene.
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St. Anthony’s Hosiital
Billy Wayne
W. F. Murray
River Road
Beter
Griggs
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