Gothic Line Breached Opening Po Valley Gate
Allied forces break the Gothic line on a 20 mile western Adriatic front. British Eighth Army and American Fifth Army advance from Florence toward the Po valley with Polish and Canadian troops aiding. Negro fighters of the 92nd and Japanese ancestry units support river crossings near Pisa and Arno defenses, while air forces provide strong support.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Italy
Florence
Adriatic
Maly
Fifth
Arno
Ninety Second Infantry Division
Pisano
Pisa
Pisano Pass
Germany
Albert Kesselring
Brenner Pass
Po River
Brenner ‘Pass
Metauro River
River Po
Desert Air Force
Fifth Army
Livorno
Leghorn
Air Force
Bologna
Pesaro
Foglia
Allies Close In On Lyon Amid Rain Delays
Allied forces of the Seventh army pressed toward Lyon in southern France, despite rain hindering advances. American troops east of Nice reportedly reached seven and a half miles inside Italy. More than 55,000 prisoners taken since the landing include 35,000 French troops.
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Rome
Seventh Army
Lyon
New York
Nice
France
Italy
Alexander M. Patch
Marseille
Toulon
Contes
Riviera
Patch
Grenoble
Voiron
Rhone Valley
Valence
Rhone
One Killed Four Hurt in Highway 136 Collision
Miss Elsie Ripperton 24 of Onslow died in a head on crash on highway 136 between Onslow and Wyoming shortly after midnight Friday. Four others were injured and hospitalized in Anamosa, including parents Frank and Mrs. Ripperton and siblings Tim, Lee, and Grace Ripperton. The Kremer siblings Dorothy 22 and Cletus 24 from Cascade suffered minor injuries.
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Anamosa
Elsie Ripperton
Onslow
Highway 136
Wyoming
Anamosa Hospital
Frank Ripperton
Elsie
Cletus Kremer
Dorothy Kremer
Cascade
Lee Williams
Grace
Yarlam
Monmouth
Ten flyers killed in Liberator bomber crash
All ten crew members died when the Liberator bomber crashed Friday near Muroc Army Air Field. The victims included no Iowans.
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Muroc - Airfield
Conf
Ins
Marshall Urges Small Standing Army After War
General George C. Marshall says a wartime force may be needed after victory but peacetime armed forces should be the smallest possible. He proposes universal military training and organized reserves to defend the nation, warning against a large professional class that concentrates political power.
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Washington
Germany
Japan
George C. Marshall
Marshall
Congress
Citizens’ Army
1 023 Freed U S Flyers Flown Out of Romania
In a dramatic rescue mission 54 U S Fortress bombers evacuated 1 063 released airmen from Bucharest camps to Bari Italy. Lt Col James Gunn led the operation after Romanians capitulated. many prisoners were wounded and some died in actions over Ploesti.
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Bucharest
INS
U.S
Italy
Romania
Ploesti
Russia
Red Army
U. S. Air Force
James Gunn
Kelseyville
Calif
San Antonio
Texas
Gunn
Messerschmitt
Cantacucini
Col
Bari
Watt
Deaths and news briefs from the Courthouse section
Fragments show notices and items from the courthouse desk including deaths and brief society notes. Names such as Marquis Childs David Lawrence Marion Moyles Drew Pearson appear in the jumble of the page.
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Marquis ‘Childs
Ewee Cveseeeeeare
Bulgaria in Crisis as Reds Reach Border Front
Radio Cairo reports Red troops crossed into Bulgaria while riots in Sofia demand war on Germany. Premier Ivan Bagdanov resigns amid stalled armistice talks with Britain and the United States. a new government is to be formed. Soviet forces press the Danube region and Ploesti area as Romania and Hungary fronts shift amid war tensions.
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Daniel de Luce
Moscow
Bulgaria
Germany
Sofia
Red Army
Balkan
Black Sea
Danube
Giurgui
Ruse
Ivan Bagdanov
Great Britain
United States
Cairo
Bagdanov
Ploesti
Giurgiu
Yugoslavia
Greece
Romania
Geza Lakatos
Hungary
Budapest
Transylvania
Bucharest
Poland
Baltic
Stalin
Red
Praga
Warsaw
Reich
Marshal Tito
Serbia
Associated Press
Joseph Morton
Stalingrad
Russia
Hitler
Allied Ships Shell Bonins and Attacks Reported
The Tokyo radio said Allied warships and carrier planes shelled Chichi Jima in the Bonins with 100 carrier planes bombing Friday and Iwo Jima attacked by over 100 planes. Davao was attacked by 40 B 24 Liberators. The broadcast noted Japanese nerves over MacArthur plans to recapture the Philippines and warned to watch Davao.
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Associated Press
Chichi Jima
Bonin Islands
Tokyo Radio
Iwo Jima
Davao
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Davao Bears
Sensational Speech By Hitler Planned For Sunday
London reports Hitler will deliver a sensational speech Sunday as Allied armies advance toward Germany on all fronts. German diplomats in Lisbon provided no further details or timing for what broadcast to the nation might occur in what is described as Germany's darkest hour of the five-year war.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Lisbon
Germany
Reich
Hitler
German secret weapon a composite aircraft seen over England
London reports a new German secret weapon labeled composite aircraft. Two enemy planes reportedly launched at night caused no casualties or damage. Earlier attempts near Normandy and a cave near Rouen reveal mass production of robots, with British forces securing the area but not disrupting the factory.
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London
England
Air Ministry
Ministry of Home Security
France
Junkers
Messerschmitt
Holland
Belgium
Rouen
Allied Armies Reach Frontier With Belgium and Germany Nears
American and Allied forces pressed toward and possibly crossed into Belgium and Germany. Patton's Third Army probed Metz and Alsace Lorraine while Hodges's First Army advanced along a 65 mile front toward Charleville and the Belgian border. Allied air forces blasted German columns, tanks, and supply cars as the race to the Rhine accelerated.
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Alsace
Lorraine
Germany
Lens
Lille
Arras
Pas de Calais
Belgium
Transocean
Thionville
Moselle
Saar River
Siegfried Line
Maginot Line
Luxembourg
Low Countries
Fifteenth Army
Adolf Hitler
Volkischer Beobachter
Reich
France
Eighth Air Force
United Press
Robert Richards
Meuse
Verdun
George S. Patton
Third Army
Metz
Patton
Nancy
St. Mihiel
Commercy
Courtney Hodges
Sedan Gap
Mons
Hodges
Charleville
Hirson
Goering Reported Ousted by Hitler
Geneva Tribune reports Hitler stripped Hermann Goering of air defense command and entrusted it to Nazi chiefs. An informant says Goering under house arrest at Karinhall and suspected due to coworkers involved in the July 20 attack. several coworkers were executed.
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Basel
Switzerland
Geneva Tribune
Hitler
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Germany
Goering
Karinhall
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eVarona Scatenier
Nisei
Salern
Coast Guard
NEA
LST
Coast-Guard
Gen. Marshall
U. S
Frank Conniff
America
NBC
Max Hill
Iowan
Carl Lar[ee
Bode
Ian Minervini
Bronx
N. Y
Reds
Radio
Tokyo
Radio Atlantic
Namur
Char Ieroi
Ardennes
Forest
Sedan
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