Nine Men From Lost Battalion Survive Java Escape
Daryl W. Touchstone of Abilene says only nine men from a U S artillery battalion escaped death or capture after rushed deployment to Java. Touchstone, injured in Australia, describes the raid and evacuation as Surabaya fell and they flew to Broome, Australia, then relocated to an airplane assembly field.
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Abilene
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Touchstone
Samuel A. Touchstone
Route Five
Ashburn General Hospital
Field Artillery Regiment
Broone
Air Corps
Amarillo Navy Bride Reunites With Australian Husband
Mrs. Cecil Mauck and her husband a chief warrant officer in the Navy have arrived from Sydney to visit his sister in Pleasant Valley. They met in Australia where he served on a destroyer and conducted burial rites at sea. He earned ordination in 1938 and the couple plans to bring her parents to the United States after the war.
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San Diego
Beryl Myers
United States
Cecil Mauck
Navy
Paris under manhunt after De Gaulle assassination attempts
Paris is under a post liberation manhunt as French partisans police and Allied troops search for German snipers and collaborationists. The De Gaulle entourage faced coordinated attacks in Notre Dame, around the American embassy, and near the city hall as chaos and sporadic gunfire persist in a Paris striving for order.
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Paris
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Place de la Concorde
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de Gaulle
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Howard Cowan
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de Gaullle
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hitler Drive On Bucharest Opens Second Battle Of The Marne
Nazi forces clash with Romanian and Allied units as Bucharest is encircled and communications cut. American troops push toward Chateau Thierry while Patton’s divisions spearhead the Marne advance. Bulgaria moves toward war with Germany as Slovakia descends into chaos.
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Foreign Office
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Hungary
Hugarian Council
Britain
Michael Karolyi
Slovakia
Hitler
Turkey
Austria
Americans in Rhone Valley advance crush German 19th Army
Allied forces drive into the Rhone Valley trapping about 15 000 German troops against the river as American tanks artillery and aircraft press from Avignon and Montelimar. French Maquis join the push helping to collapse the German 19th Army amid heavy losses and prisoner captures.
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Rhone Valley
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Avignon
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Monesimar
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Mortelimar
United Press War
Dana Adams Schmidt
Toulon
Marseille
Sir Henry Abided
Wilson
London
Interior
United Press
America
Allied Bombers Range Across Asia in Major Offensive
Allied air forces pounded Japanese production centers from Manchuria to Sumatra as American planes pressed invasion routes to Japan and the Philippines. British forces struck Indaröeng and Padang in Sumatra while daylight raids hit Iwo Jima Palau and Halmahera.
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Associated Press
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Philippines
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United States
China
Tokyo
Anshan
Manchurianel Center
Shanghai
Pan
Office of War Information
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Sir Bruce Austin Fraser
Indaroeng
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Iwo Jima
Palau
Halmahera
Weather forecast for Amarillo and surrounding areas
Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with warmer conditions this afternoon and tonight. West Texas eyes considerable cloudiness with occasional rain and scattered thunder showers this afternoon through Tuesday. New Mexico notes widely scattered mountain showers this afternoon otherwise fair today through Tuesday. High 79, low 54, noon 76.
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Planes strike fleeing Nazis across Europe in massive Allied raids
American fighters and bombers from the west and Italy carried out thousands of sorties striking German troops, airports, and rail targets across northern France, the Low Countries, and into Germany. Heavy U S bombers attacked oil refineries in Austria and Hungary while escorting RAF crews targeted a suspected V two rocket site along the French coast.
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News Tip Winners Named by The Globe News
Bobby Ray Harbin of 3110 West Third Avenue receives 5 dollars for a tip about savings nearly going up in smoke. Second prize 3 dollars goes to Mrs. Hugh Hinton for tipping about a twister near St Francis. Wayne Holloway of 520 Houston Street wins third for details of a moved house triggering a burglar alarm.
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Pantex Village
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Houston Street
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