Marines Expand Beach-Head on Peleliu and Morotai
American forces report successful landings on Peleliu and Morotai with light casualties. Marines fought tanks and artillery while hammering a beach-head of about 1.5 miles at Peleliu and MacArthur’s infantry reached inland on Morotai with no organized resistance.
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Pearl Harbor
Peleliu Island
Morotai Island
Philippines
Palau Islands
Chester W. Nimitz
Peleliu
Douglas MacArthur
Halmaheras
Morotai
MacArthur
Pitu
United Press
Ralph C. Teatforth
Pacific
Peleliu Isle Beaten Back After Heavy Naval Bombardment
Marines on Peleliu fought ashore under a sea and sky bombardment that pounded the island for hours. Japanese defenders, estimated above 10,000, held firm in rugged limestone and cliffs as US ships and rockets supported the assault. Jet fighters, battleships, and destroyers unleashed crushing fire in a daring land-sea operation to clear the last barrier to the Philippines.
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Richard W. Johnston
Palau
Navy Radio
Peleliu
Philippines
Pacific
Tarawa
Kwajalein
Eniwetok
Saipan
Pereliu
LCI
Finns Repel German Assault on Suursaari Island
German forces faced a Finnish defense on Suursaari Island in the Gulf of Finland. The action ended with Finland capturing over 700 prisoners, including 200 wounded, after Germany attempted multiple landings and a provisional bridgehead was eliminated. Russian air support aided the Finnish victory.
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Stockholm
Helsinki
Suursaari
Gulf of Finland
Suurkylae
Services Monday For Christenson Accident Victim
Donald P. Christenson 17 of 1231 Tenth Street SE was fatally injured in a hunting accident near Ely Friday morning. Funeral services will be at Janeba Funeral Home at 2:30 PM Monday with Rev. Frank H. Ward officiating and burial in Oak Hill Cemetery. Deputy Sheriff Larry Condon corrected an earlier report, confirming the fatal bullet came from Andrew Cowsky 20 of Chicago who had been living in the Christenson home. Christenson reportedly fired at a squirrel and stepped into Cowsky’s line of fire on the John Farmon farm west of Ely. he died before a doctor arrived.
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Cedar Rapids
Donald P. Christenson
Tenth Street SE
Ely
Janeba
Frank H. Ward
Oak Hill Cemetery
the Gazette
Christenson
Elmer Trachta
Larry Condon
Andrew Cowsky
Chicago
Condon
Cowsky
John ‘Farmon
George Motycka
Hitler
Kolb
Lawton
Aachen Forest
Aachen
Pigeons to be released in Cedar Rapids practice flight
Six thousand homing pigeons arrived in Cedar Rapids from Chicago and will be released at the Union Depot at 6 30 a m Sunday in a practice flight. Railway Express officials announced the event as a training exercise for birds used in service.
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Cedar
Siegfried Breakthrough Opens Path Into Germany
Allied infantry under Lt Gen Courtney Hodges drives 6,000 yards in 24 hours breaching the Siegfried Line east of Aachen. Capt Richall Richmond and 21-year-old Lt Frank Kolb lead amid light German resistance as tanks and engineers support the advance toward Aachen, Germany.
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Germany
Aachen
Courtney H Hodges
U. S
Siegfried Line
France
Belgium
Richall Richmond
Windsor
Frank Kolb
Kentucky
John Lawton
Glendale
Calif
Rhine
London
United States First Army
Reich
Berlin
First Army
Trier
Prum
Deaths and Notices Highlight Local Aides and Marion Events
Local index lists Marion events and aides with brief death notices and courthouse items. Short entries mention community figures and upcoming schedules alongside film and sports briefs.
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Marquis Childs Comics
Ae Courthouse
David
Lawrence Aides Tee
Marion
Sevitoesae
TER
TCE
Ee Drew
Pearson Wiser
Eqeaense & Radio
Ale Fey Bers
Epiyan
Coats Srsea
Roosevelt and Churchill Prepare Press Conference in Quebec
President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill will reveal some secrets of their meetings at a press conference in Quebec at 2 30 p m Saturday.
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Quebec
Roosevelt
Churchill
Junction of Red Troops With Czechs
Czechoslovak forces in eastern Slovakia report contact with advancing Red Army units. Russian troops crossed the Slovak border and Czech aircraft took part in the battle against the German air force. Heavy fighting persisted in the Nitra valley as German tank assaults were repulsed with heavy losses.
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London
Slovakia
Red Army
Nitra
Red Armies Cross Vistula Move on Warsaw Front
Soviet and Polish forces pushed from Praga across the Vistula and probed German lines as they repelled a major Nazi armored assault on the east bank of Warsaw. Eleven localities north of Praga fell to Red troops, signaling intensified fighting in the Praga area and on the eastern front. In the Carpathian foothills Reds advanced to Plonna, ten miles from the Czechoslovak border near Sanok.
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Moscow
Red
Vistula
Praga
Warsaw
East Bank
Reds
Poland
Sanok
Carpathian
Plonna
Aachen
Charlemagne
Lammerscrof
Berlin
United States Third Army
Nancy
Rhine
Vosges Mountains
Vosges
Moselle
Sure River
Bitburg
Trier
Third Army
France
Cedar Rapids Sees Sunshine Break as Temperatures Rise
Cedar Rapids logged a milder day with skies clearing after clouds broke this noon. Temperature rose to 83 degrees with 50 percent humidity at 2 30 p m as winds shifted from the morning. Friday’s high reached 77 degrees while overnight readings ranged from 64 to 71 degrees.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers Inskeep
Chambers
Robots Bombs Return Over Britain Dark London Anew
German flying bombs return to southern England ending a 15 day lull as London braces for a dimmed lights plan. Reports say bombs hit southern counties including the London area with damage and casualties. Authorities note uncertainty over bomber routes and expect only a subdued twilight rather than full lighting.
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London
England
France
Lord Woolton
Woolton
Piccadilly Circus
Whitehall
Oxford Street
Mall
Regent Street
Yanks Six Miles East Of Aachen
Staff Sgt. Bill Campbell 27, a combat cameraman with the Fifth Air Force, died Sept. 8 in a Hollandia New Guinea hospital. He served 68 missions, was a Gazette photographer, and was praised for movie and still aerial work. He was to be sent home on furlough and had recently fought near Wewak and Lae. The Gazette notes his awards, war features, and deep connection to the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
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Bill Campbell
Fifth Air Force
Southwest Pacific
Hollandia
New Guinea
War Department
W. S. Campbell
Fourteenth Street
Marion
Campbell
Sgt. Campbell
Australia
MacArthur
Philippines
George C. Kenney
The
Gazette
Far Eastern
Cedar Rapids
Wewak
Lae
Air Force
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Bean
Island
Adolf Hitler
Finland
C.R
Don Whitehead
F.d.r.-Churchill Press
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Britain
Sgt
Yanks
U. S. First Army
Paris
Brest
Belfort
Schelde
Karl Rudolph Gerd von Rundstedt
Walther von Model
Luxembourg
Diekirch
Wallendorf
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