Roosevelt Visits Pearl Harbor With Nimitz and MacArthur
President Roosevelt ends three days of wartime conferences in Honolulu after arriving from San Diego. He meets Admiral Nimitz and General MacArthur and outlines Pacific war aims, including retaking the Philippines and driving Japan to unconditional surrender. He visits military installations, reviews units, and speaks to service members.
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Associated Press
Honolulu
Roosevelt
Alurbor
San Diego
Calif
Hourdeta Cruser
Mulder
Pacife
Chester W. Nimity
Douglas MacArthur
Pole
America
Philippines
Japan
Doug
MacArthur
Navy Yard
Nimitz Mm
William Falsey
Robert
Rich~on, Jr
Central Pacific
Army Innander
Pacific
Mac
Juhgle
Saipan
Marshalls
Beventl Diviston
Alli
Kiska
Kryajalein
United States
Hawaii
Panama
Planes Hit Paris Area As Allied Front Advances
Allied air forces attacked Paris area oil depots and airfields as Britain, the United States, and other Allied nations stepped up raids ahead of D-Day. Lancasters struck targets south and northeast of the city while Mediterranean aircraft hit objectives inland. About 600 planes took part, with a broad daylight and night operations pattern continuing across the channel and into the French coast region.
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Paris
Allied Front
London
Tewry Bormbers
Britain
Lothy Wille Mother Reet
Italy
Berlin
Romania
Wight
RAP Lancasters
English Channel
Europe
Normandy
Brittany
Caudelieu
le Havre
Seine
Florence Faces Hostile Snipers as Aid Arrives
Vatican aid reaches Florence to relieve civilians facing shortages. Allied forces press a drive along the Misa river line while Italian and Polish troops push toward Francavilla near the Cesano. Snipers and hostile elements are being cleared as Canadian and South African troops regain areas in southern Florence. General Potente of the Garibaldi Brigade is reported deceased in a skirmish south of the city.
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Ay Associated Press
Rome
Vatican
Inday
Florence
Adriatic
Misa River
Cesano
Rimini
Via del Sermgli
Via Romana
Eighth Army
Thie
Eighth
Fifth Army
Arno
Tithntry
Potente
Garibaldi
Multiple World War II News Bits From August Reports
This bulletin compiles brief items: Hengyang fell with defenders killed to the last man, a Polish exile premier met Stalin seeking reconciliation in Warsaw, mass suicide reported in Vit tel France after rumor of further Jewish persecution, Harrisburg area war materials strike measures extend into day five, Tokyo radio notes a small Japanese unit on Guadalcanal and guerrilla activity, a Red Star correspondent claims Blum died at a Nazi death factory near Lublin, and a Treasury August report shows receipts and expenditures with total debt.
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Moscow
Konstantin Simoney
Red Star
Leon Blum
France
Lublin
Edward Wolcott cited for D-Day paratrooper carrier flight
Edward O Wolcott of Corry Pennsylvania is cited after promotion to first lieutenant and serving as co pilot on a C 47 troop carrier that dropped paratroopers deep into German lines on D Day He earned a second Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal for combat missions in the Mediterranean theater and is the son of Mr and Mrs Floyd Wolcott of Corry The release notes the aircrafts role in the invasion of France and the Cherbourg peninsula scenes
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Edward
Woicate
Floyd Wolcott
Oly
Pitt Olone
U.S
Dday
Ninth Air Force
Edward O. Wolcott
Corry
Germany
Cherbourg
France
Bert
Mediterranean
Policy change restores added points for meat and fish
The Office of Price Administration announces ration changes for August. Utility grade beef steaks and roasts may be removed from rationing due to high cattle movement, while pork values are restored for loin and ham. Utility grade lamb gains a higher ration rating to spur demand alongside increased cheese and butter values. Canned fish return to rationing amid nationwide shortages, with new red stamps valid monthly. A new ration period begins September 2 with points totaling 30 or 40.
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Associated Free Washington
Office of Price Administraion
Tables Opa
OPA
Bowles
Robots Now Are Incendiaries
London reports that German robot bombs now carry incendiaries. Each rocket bomb that fell in southern England contained about 20 incendiaries. The Home Security Ministry warned evacuees to take their gas masks and warned that winged bombs had returned to southern England, including London, at dawn after nearly a day.
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Associated Press
London
Ministry of Home Security
England
Sub Station 10 to Close September 1 in Corry
The Pennsylvania State Police will close Sub Station 10 in Corry September 1 due to personnel shortages after wartime cuts. Lt. Bricker announced the Lawrence Park district will maintain barracks and headquarters, but three bases cannot be sustained in the county. The move follows a plan for broad reorganization and reduced sub stations.
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Pennsylvania
Ihal
Corry
Jose
Tiene. Bricker
Lawrence Park
American Legion
Cpl. Gehr
Wilhelm
Té Way Inter
Mach One
Throuhout
Bricker
Harrisburg
Cyl
Lehr
Byler Coming Not As Coach In Corrybu School
Community reaction followed the Board of Education move to reshuffle the five man coaching staff for Senior and Junior high. Officials announced Russell Byler, long respected athletic instructor, will join as a teacher at the Junior High and may take up history classes. He did not accept the special athletic contract, so his coaching duties will be limited to academic work next year.
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Tis
Board of Education
Byler
Russell Byler
Corry
Tingan
Ninime
Hin & Contract BS
Iene
Germans Counter Attack To Hold Off Red Forces Massing For New Drive
German forces press a counter offensive on the eastern front to blunt a Soviet buildup aimed at East Prussia and Warsaw. Soviet spearheads threaten Liepaja as Rokossovsky pushes a bridgehead toward Krakow and Warsaw while communications rely on battered lines. The report notes renewed Soviet activity west of the Narew river with a continuing drive near the Baltic coast and a possible new Nanking threat.
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Prigsia
Berlin
Vaenks Vpwarts
Liepaja
Mullek
Rokossovsky
Vistulaiver
Warsaw
Agaiutines
Krakow
Bowslers
Latyi
Jucay
East Prussia
Warsaw i
Narew River
Nuirewiver
Wersether
Palkenhayn
War Prisoners Clark and McCracken Held in Same Camp
Lieut Edwin T Clark a war prisoner in a German camp is reported to be held in the same facility as Lt John McCracken son of Mr and Mrs J H McCracken Both youths from Erie are among other captured American airmen The War Department notice to Clark's wife Marjorie confirms the status and notes the earlier missing in action listing The bomber mission over Germany occurred May 30 with Clark later confirmed as a prisoner of war The Erie firm Continental Robber Works sues the government for 14124 76 in wrongly collected taxes from Oct 1941 to Mar 1944
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Edwin T. Clark
Blsley Luft TL
Marjorie Clark
War Department
Liewi Clark
Litut
Jom McCracken
J. H. McCracken
Nso
Corry
Germany
Clark
Stalag Tir
ERIE
Pittsburgh
The
Continental Robber Works
Federcourt
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Conquest of Guam Complete Amid Pacific Victory
U S Pacific Fleet reports Guam fully reconquered after 19 days of fighting. Nimitz states all Japanese forces on Guam are eliminated except a small inland pocket near Pail Point. Operations continue to mop up with aerial, naval, and artillery fire as British New Guinea fronts note Japanese casualties and retreat.
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Associated Press
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Guam
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
Pail Point
Altape
British New Guinea
Douglas Macarthur
America
Driniumor
Tukui
Marianas Islands
Ie Bonin
Kazan
Marianis
Helma
Nazi Ambush Kills Cherbourg Commander and Escorts
London reports Capt Norman Ives, 47, director of Cherbourg waterfront protection, and several officers died in a German ambush near Granville as they journeyed to St Malo to assess waterfront damage. A three hour battle followed a ruse, with Ives’s command fighting from covered positions before tanks and armored units finally relieved survivors.
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Cherbourg
Associated Pr
London
Norman
Ives
U. S
Granville
St. Malo
Navy
Washington
Bay of
Mont St. Michel
Crahville
Iver
Tyes
Troy & W8
Armoress Istom
Rocket Typhoon Planes Knock Out Nazi Tank Units
Allied reports say American and British forces drive toward Paris from Brittany as a widening front encircles German units. Advancing along a 175 mile arc, U S and British troops move within 60 miles of Paris with Brittany and Loire valley targets secured or threatened. Cities such as Angers and Lorient are mentioned as surrounding targets while ground operations press toward the German coastal base and inland defenses.
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Gladwin Hill
Allied Expeditionar
To Sainte
Pitts
Americ
Yolen Lil
Paris
CBS
le Mang
Moyne Pattleline
Stmor
Brittany
Ante Neules
Loire
Angers
Lorien
Sh Malo
Shimg
Lieutenant Joseph, 18 Years in Army Arrives in City
Lieut Paul Joseph and Mrs Joseph, a Tacoma native, visit his parents on Euclid Street after eighteen years in the regular army. He rose from noncommissioned ranks to lieutenant last year and is said to hold one of the longest service records among local armed forces members. He has been in a sharialist’s service overseeing army bases and redistribution centers for returning servicemen, with plans to proceed to Pine Camp and later Duke Placid District for a development project.
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Paul Joseph
Joseph
Tacoma
Wash
Frauke Joseph
Euclid Street
Regular Army
Ayer
Tle
Len &T
Duke Placid
Foreign Service
Gheeh
West
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Hengyang
Stanisław Mikolajonyke
Stalin
Liverpool
Vittel
Liemont
Lisbon
Drottninghalm
Warrisburg
Harrisburg-Lancaster-York
Tokyo Radio
Guadalcanal
Treasury
E. 1. Clark
McCracken
War Dept
Nimitz
Burpars
Advant
Coen
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary
Dorve
Aug
Arup
Herp
Fyris
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