Allied victory in Sicily secures Mediterranean hold
Allied leaders announced the 38 day conquest of Sicily was accomplished with limited cost. They estimated total Allied casualties would not exceed 70,000, including 2,184 American KIA in Tunisia, securing airfields and a strengthened Mediterranean sea route against Axis strongholds in Europe. General portion of the dispatch notes strategic gains.
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Strait of
Messina
Sicily
Mediterranean Sea
Europe
Allied Invasion of Messina Marks Sicily Breakthrough
Allied forces enter Messina after dawn assault as 27th Infantry of the Third Division leads the advance. Axis troops retreat to the Italian mainland, while British Eighth Army columns push in despite minefields. Artillery and bombers target rail and road networks behind the lines, with cleanup operations underway as civilians return.
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Dwight D. Fisenhower
Mediterranean
Messina
Grover Wilson
Washington, D. C
Eighth Army
Italy
Americans claim heavy air battles over Europe
London dispatch reports American Thunderbolt fighters shot down two enemy planes in violent battles over Europe while supporting B 17 Flying Fortresses in what officials call the greatest operations in U S aerial history conducted yesterday.
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London
U.P
Europe
United States
Adams Funeral Held for Arlas E. Adams in Mobeetie
Funeral services for Arlas E. Adams 36 were held Monday in Mobeetie. He died in San Angelo while training as a nurse and would have graduated next spring. He was son of the late Rev. and Mrs. J. R. Adams of Panhandle and survived by three brothers A B Adams Panhandle FE Adams Hale Center J FE Adams Sunray two sisters Mrs E E Johnston Mobeetie and Mrs Raymond Waters Lubbock.
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Mobeetie
Adams
George Robertson
San Angelo
J. R. Adams
Panhandle
A. B. Adams
FE. FE. Adams
Hale Center
Funeral services for O E B Cutter set this afternoon
Funeral services for O. E. B. Cutter aged 43 were to be held at 4 o clock in the Memorial Chapel of the Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home with Rev. E. B. Fincher of the Ellwood Presbyterian Church officiating. Cutter died of burns yesterday morning in Fort Worth and burial was planned at Llano Cemetery.
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O. E B. Cutter
Blackburn- Shaw Funeral Home
E. B. Fincher
Ellwood Presbyterian Church
Cutter
Fort Worth
Llano
Funeral services set for 15 year old Sarah Alkano
Funeral services were to be held at 4 45 this afternoon for Sarah Alkano 15 of New York who was killed in an automobile accident near Adrian last Sunday The services would be in the memorial chapel of Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home and burial will be in Llano Cemetery
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Sarah Alkano
New ‘York
Adrian
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
Llano Cemetery
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