Last Phase of War in Europe Near
Allied forces brace for the final push toward Germany as the front advances 400 miles from Brest to Belgium and into the Reich's heartland. Eisenhower and officers anticipate defeating the German West Army in France and pushing through the Siegfried line to Berlin.
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Europe
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
France
Brest
Belgium
Germany
Normandy
Paris
Belgian
Argonne
Stalingrad
Eisenhower
Siegfried Fort
Maginot
Sedan
Ardennes
Luxembourg
Verdun
Nancy
Atlantic Wall
Marne
Somme
Lorraine
Metz
Ardennes Forest
Berlin
U. S
Meuse
Rhine
Commercy
Patton
Seventh Army
American Bombers Sink One Merchant Ship
General Headquarters reports Catalina flying boats attacked Celebes waters sinking a merchant ship and damaging another as part of ongoing operations against Japanese shipping in the southwest Pacific.
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General Headquarters
Southwest Pacific
Catalina Flying Boats
Celebes
Sansapor
New Guinea
MacArthur
Middleburg Island
Halmahera
Guardian
Philippines
Fourth Balkan Regime Falls
London reports the Bulgarian government under Premier Ivan Bagdanov collapsed after three months in power. Residence talks in Cairo hint at a possible Leftist government to pursue armistice terms while a new Sofia administration forms.
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London
Ivan Bagdanov
Bulgaria
Adolf Hitler
Balkans
Cairo
Sofia
Bagrianov
Stoijan Moshanoff
Sobranje
Zhelezkov
Ankara
Baghanov
O Id
Bagranov
Foreign
Dobri Boshilov
Allied Forces Break Through Hindenburg Line On Six Mile Front
On September 2, 1918 American troops helped sever the Bethune-Soissons railway by cutting through extensive barbed wire as English Scottish and Canadian units with tanks breached the Drocourt Queant switch. In 1940 German raids over London and eight British cities prompted RAF bombings of Munich and targets in Italy the Netherlands and France.
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Associated Press
Bethune-Soissons
Drocourt- Queant
Hindenburg Line
London
Britain
RAF
Munich
Italy
Netherlands
France
Pacific flying restrictions eased for civilians
San Francisco reports that civilian flying restrictions in the Pacific Coast area were relaxed today due to improvements in the military situation in the Pacific. Pearl Harbor restrictions had limited civilian flights to commercial airlines within the western air defense zone.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
Fourth Army Air Force
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Thomas Files For New Trial In Dr. Hunt Murder Case
In Plainview a motion for a new trial is filed by Jim Thomas’s counsel after his death sentence for Dr. Roy Hunt’s murder. The six page document argues a continuance was denied and a key witness Porter Humphrey was unavailable. The court has until Oct 27 to act. Thomas is held in Lubbock jail. Dr and Mrs Hunt were slain in their sleep out of state.
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Plainview
Jim Thomas
Porter Humphrey
Thomas
Lubbock
Mrs. Hunt
Will Rogers Range Riders Rodeo Parade Opens Three Day Event
The Will Rogers Range Riders sponsor a 10 a m parade down Polk Street to launch Amarillo's three day rodeo at the Tri-State Fair Grounds with performances at 2 p m 8 p m and a 2 p m Sunday show and Labor Day finals at 2 and 8. Over 100 top contestants are competing. admission is 1 20 for adults 60 cents for children soldiers and escorts, with 60 cents extra for box seats. Tickets at Cretney Drug Amarillo Hotel news stand or Range Riders box office opens one hour before each show.
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Polk Street
Will Rogers Range Riders
Tri-State Fair Grounds
Ralph
Bill Jones
Amarillo
Jones Brothers
Southwest
Cretney Drug
Amarillo Hotel
Fair Grounds
Thousands of Downed Airmen Reborn in Bucharest Evacuation
More than 1,000 American airmen shot down in the Ploesti raids passed through Bucharest as part of a mass evacuation by the U.S. 15th Air Force. The repatriation featured paroled prisoners treated with hospitality, and returning flyers expressed relief and gratitude after brutal campaigns to deny German oil at Ploesti.
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Celebes
Sgt
L. BF. Smith
United Press
Bucharest
Romania
Ploesti
U. S. 15Th Air Force
Michael
Germany
15Th Air Base
Italy
Underground German radio urges revolt on fifth anniversary of war
The German Ministry of Information reported that the Volksender identified itself as the German people's underground radio and issued a call to all Germans in the Reich and Czecho Slovakia to revolt against Hitler. The broadcast framed the appeal as being timed for the war's fifth anniversary.
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Croatia
Hungary
Slovakia
London
Vah
Ministry of Information
Volksender
Reich
Czecho- Slovakia
Hitler
Weather Summary for Amarillo and West Texas
The forecast calls for Saturday in Amarillo and vicinity to be partly cloudy with little temperature change and strong winds. West Texas generally fair. Saturday and Sunday cooler. New Mexico fair with cooler conditions in western and northern areas. Extended period through September 6 mentions near normal temps west of the Gulf with slight rises and light scattered rainfall.
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Amarillo
Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Gulf Plains
Middie
Nerind
FDR Churchill To Map Finale In Pacific Soon
London dispatch reports Roosevelt and Churchill will meet to plan shifting Allied effort from Europe to the Pacific to crush Japan. A Quebec meeting is likely this month, with a second session possibly including Stalin to discuss Russia’s role and Europe’s future.
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FDR
Churchill
Pacific
London
Roosevelt
Europe
Japan
Quebec
Germany
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Stalin
Red Army
Soviet Union
Allied forces drive toward Metz and Belgium frontier
Allied columns push from the Argonne toward Metz and the Belgian frontier as American First Army advances toward Mons and Dieppe, while Patton’s Third Army seizes Verdun and St Mihiel. British and Canadian units seal the Channel coast and press toward Abbeville and Le Havre amid heavy Luftwaffe retaliation.
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Prussia
Rhineland
Arras
First Army
Montcornet
Laon
Stockholm
Tidningen
Brussels
Paris
Office of War Information
Belgium
Holland
Dieppe
le Treport
St. Dizier
Joinville
Belfort
Germany
Reims
Rethel
Ligny
Mons
Brest
Patton
Verdun
St. Mihiel
90Th
Fourth Armored
Seventh Armored
Flanders
Pas-de-Calais
Channel
Abbeville
Somme
England
Sedan
France
Maginot Line
London
Reds Break Through Danube Front Near Bucharest
Russian Second Ukraine Army drives westward from Romania toward the Yugoslav border, seizing Giurgiu and Ghimpati and reaching 130 miles from the Yugoslav line. Units push toward the Predeal and Buzau passes while routing German forces into the Danube Valley.
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London
Romania
Marshal Tito
Bulgaria
Danube
Giurgiu
Bucharest
Malinovsky
Second Ukraine
Ploesti
Darmanesti
Predeal
Buzan
Brasov
Carpathian Mountains
Danube Valley
Iron Gate
Hungary
Germany
Ghimpati
Ruse
Ruschuk
Calarasi
Constanta
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Blitzkreig
Stukas
Panzers
Whittle Jap Shipping
Formosa
Radio Tokyo
Takao
Bonins
Tokyo
Palau
Manokwari
The
Chicago Daily News, Inc
Ninth Air Force
Air Corps
Russell Stationery Company
United States
Washington
U.S
Siegfried Line
Argonne Forest
Third
Saar
Hodges
Vervins
Heinrich Hans Berbach
Paul Hausser
Amiens
Hebuterme
Dempsey
Longpre
le Havre
Josef Dietrich
15Th Army
Abbeyville
Comatenn
Pea
Bulgar
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