Long war forecast boosts casualty scare in America
The piece cites a survey by Capt. Lowell Limpus predicting 46 million total casualties in a drawn out war, with about 10 million deaths and six and a half million American casualties including 1.5 million dead. It notes war weariness, possible Axis weakness cutting American losses, and anticipated heavy fighting through winter with campaigns moving south and Africa expected for action.
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Welizzard
Washington
Lowell Limpus
America
Defenders on The Offensive In Stalingrad Fight
Soviet and Nazi forces battled for Stalingrad with Red Army troops attacking from the northwest outskirts and in other sectors as tanks and infantry clashed among ruined streets. Berlin and Moscow reports described heavy losses on both sides as the city remained a focal point in the broader frontline actions.
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Adolf Hitler
Stalingrad
Red Army
Volga
Steel
Cibniticanliy
Miser Aid Headquarters
Berlin
Moscow
Stalin
Tass
Hitler
British Exchange Telegraph Agency
Switzerland
Red Star
Fedor von Bock
Red
Semeon Timoshenko
Voronezh
Mozdok
Caucasus
Europe
Sofia
Bulgaria
Hungary
Revolt and Sabotage Rise Across Nazi Europe
Paris report from London details rising revolt and resistance across Nazi occupied Europe. Gestapo and Quisling regimes intensify executions. hostages seized in Yugoslavia, Norway, Holland, and Luxembourg. Guerrilla actions threaten Bulgaria and Romania as unrest expands.
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London
U.P
Europe
Hitler
Gestapo
Norway
Romania
Greece
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Yugoslavia
Holland
Luxembourg
Draja Mikhailovitehh
Bulgaria
Rumania
Vidkun Quisling
Stockholm
Quisling
Djuro Keimrat
Ustachi
Mikhailovitch
Trebinje
Ragusa
Dalmatian
Mostar
Herzegovina
Mexico Promised Aerial Convoys
Mexico promised aerial convoys of cargo planes towing gliders loaded with rubber and chemicals, machine parts and medicines in north bound flights, with experts quoted in Excelsior naming the plan.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Excelsior
Clovis Man Blasts Zero in Solomons
Marine pilots in the Solomons claim 21 Japanese planes destroyed in a raid on Henderson Field. Lieut. Robert E. MacLeod, ex Dartmouth star, says the action was like shooting sleeve targets as Lieut. J. H. King and Lieut. Ken Frazier each downed bombers. Jack Morse, J. D. Lindley, and others contributed, with casualties limited to two missing Marines and one lost plane, while the field sustained only a damaged truck.
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Robert C. Miller
Solomon Islands
U.P
Robert E. MacLeod
Chicago
Dartmouth
Henderson Field
Guadalcanal
Lieut
J. H. King
Boston
Mass
King
Ken Frazier
Burlington
N. J
Arthur Pond
Jackson, Mich
J. D. Lindley
Clovis
N. M
Lindley
Pantex Bombs Shipped For Testing At Ground Breaking Milestone
Pantex bombs for special delivery to the Axis were poured yesterday at 5 35 pm and are being shipped to testing grounds today to determine their destructive value. Major P S Irvine, commanding officer, said the first Pantex Certain feed bomb was poured five months and twenty one days after ground was broken at the reservation. Samples will be dropped from bombers at a proving ground to assess hard hitting qualities of the first products. He stressed the aim to avoid duds.
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P. S. Irvine
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Irvine
Panhandle
Texas
Bombard Buna and Rabaul in Allied Air Strikes
Allied air forces pounded Buna with 35 000 rounds while heavy bombers hit Rabaul 30 miles away and Gasmata in New Britain. Submarines claimed four more ships sunk or damaged as Allied leaders stress the fight to choke Japan's supply lines. Australian and American forces manoeuvre around Ioribaiwa ridge with sporadic clashes and several jungle skirmishes reporting Japanese losses with no Australian casualties.
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Associated Press
Douglas MacArthur
Buna
New Guinea
United Nations
Rabaul
New Britain
Owen Stanley Mountains
Port Moresby
Australia
Gasmata
Japan
Navy
Washington
U. S
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Solomon
Aleutian Islands
Ioribaiwa
G. C. Kenney
United Nations Air Forces
Southwest Pacific
Hide-Go-Seek With the Japanese on Guadalcanal
Capt. W F Martin Clemens, a 27 year old Scot, long in hiding with 14 natives on Guadalcanal, recounted to U S Marines how Japanese forces sought him as he watched Tulagi Harbor bombings and endured jungle treks to reach Marine HQ. He led 16 locals in a mountainside refuge and described escape from capture while noting Japanese aircraft and troop movements.
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United States Marine Headquarters
Solomon Islands
W. F. Martin Clemens
Aberdeen
Tulagi Harbor
Coral Sea
Clemens
British Colonial Service
Solomons
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Guadalcanal
Weather Forecast for Amarillo and West Texas
Showers and cooler by mid afternoon with colder conditions tonight. West Texas experiences showers this afternoon and tonight with temperatures similar to yesterday and a cooler night. New Mexico expects showers this afternoon and tonight in the east south and northwest, with notably colder air. Temperatures from 6:30 A.M. show a 68 to 94 degree range, with noon at 78.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Japan tougher than Germany, Grew tells rally
Former Ambassador Joseph C. Grew declared at a Syracuse war rally that Japan is tougher than Germany and will not crack morally or psychologically. He warned that only utter physical destruction or exhaustion of Japan could defeat them, contrasting with Germany's potential collapse after setbacks.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Japan
Germany
Joseph C. Grew
Grew
Berlin
Tokyo
NBC
Ship Losses Reach 471 in Western Atlantic Toll
The Associated Press reports 471 Western Atlantic ship losses since Pearl Harbor after a merchantman was torpedoed by a submarine in the Caribbean last month. A U.S. naval vessel rescued 10 survivors who told how a seaman risked his life to save a shipmate whose arm was crushed by timber after the torpedo strike.
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Associated Press
Navy
Caribbean
Pearl Harbor
U.S
Parachute Troops Train in England Under Eisenhower Command
U S parachute troops train in England joining British forces for airborne operations. Units led by Lieut Col Edson Raff trained in Georgia before deployment, with many from the South and some from the North adapting to Southern accents. Jump pay and bonuses accompany minimal accident rates as skilled riggers pack chutes and W A A F personnel handle packing.
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London
United States
Hitler
England
Dwight D. Eisenhower
AE. F
Edson D. Raff
New York City
Georgia
United States Army
South
North
Alain Josephs
New York
Rivuhside
Pearl Harbor
Britain
Continent
Bruneval
French Channel
el Havre
Dieppe
C. C. Alden
Buffalo
N. Y
Louis Homoki
Richmond
C. McLaney
Hartford
Ala
WAAF
Glider Pilot Training Request by Assistant Commandant
Lt. William J. Holland, assistant commandant of students at the Advanced Glider School, asked to be relieved of duties to pursue glider pilot training. He will report for preliminary training at Smyrna Army Flying School in Smyrna Tennessee on Sept 25. Holland, a Boston native raised in Washington, previously worked for Shell Oil in Baltimore.
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William J. Holland
Silent Wings
Smyrna Army
Smyrna
Tenn
Holland
Boston
Washington
Shell Oil Company
Baltimore
Seminary Students Aid Gettysburg Apple Harvest
Gettysburg Lutheran Theological Seminary members will work with neighboring farmers on Monday to harvest a bumper apple crop. The president faculty and students will wear overalls and help in the fields as growers pay them eight cents per bucket or unit harvested.
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Gettyburg
Gettysburg Lutheran Theological Seminary
Unauthorized CIO Shipyards Strike Paralyzes Liberty Shipyard
MOBILE Ala Sept 18 A CIO Shipbuilding Union strike at the Pinto Island yard of Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Co virtually halted Liberty cargo ship production. Workers walked out in protest of a five cent Mobile ferry service to the yard replacing a free ferry deemed inadequate by the maritime commission.
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Mobile
Ala
U.P
CIO Shipbuilding
Pinto Island
Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Co
Maritime Commission
Torpedo Misses Ship And Hits Shore
An enemy submarine fired a torpedo at a passing freighter in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The torpedo missed the ship and exploded against the rocky gulf headlands of a Quebec village, shattering 123 windows and lightly damaging several buildings. The freighter proceeded on her course un harmed.
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Gulf OF ST. Lawrence
Rocky Gulf
Quebec
High Price Paid for Raid on Dieppe
Ottawa reports two thirds of the Canadian force in the Dieppe raid of August 19 were casualties dead wounded or missing. The government confirms 5,000 Canadian troops took part and total casualties reach 3,350.
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Ottawa
Dieppe
Rainy and Colder Tonight Forecast Across City
A weather notice indicates rain and cooler air arrive tonight with a high earlier 94 and morning low around 68. The forecast warns it will feel chillier, and the outlook calls for decreasing temperatures. Globe-News Want Ads offer affordable rental rooms with bus-line access and low weekly rates, citing several listings on Hayden Bowie and Victory Bus routes.
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Globe-News
Victory
Hayden
Bowie
Adea
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