Local notices and personnel changes in Courtland area
Weather insights from today show a 92 degree high and 72 degree low with partly cloudy skies and scattered thundershowers in the far south. Promotions raise two local officers to lieutenant colonel and first lieutenant while a Naval training camp team from Camp Wallace beats Biloxi and Keelser Field by 160 to 116.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courtland Army Air Field
Louis T. Barry
Barry
Decatur
Everett J. Blanchard
R. W. Carrell
U. S. Naval Training and Distribution Center
Camp Wallace
Carrell
Frm
Army Air Corps
Keelser Field
Biloxi
Mississippi
Soviets Hammer At German East Wall
Soviet forces pummeled the German East wall from Krakow to East Prussia as eleven army groups attacked with artillery and bombers. Drohobycz fell after a rout toward the Carpathians, with Red planes destroying six trains at the station. Warsaw endured brutal fighting as Rokossovsky probing for Vistula crossings.
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Daniel DE Luce
Moscow
Germany
Krakow
Warsaw
East Prussia
Drohobycz
Carpathian
Red
Reich
Man kills mother then commits suicide in Long Beach
In a seventh floor Long Beach apartment yesterday Dudley W. Burriss 30 pushed his mother June K. Burriss 55 from a window and leaped to join her witnesses said. Police Inspectors S W Tubbs and O E Whittelsey reported the sequence as neighbors heard the argument before the fall. Three women on a nearby roof described the struggle and the mother clinging to the sill before tragedy. John Murray Burriss the husband and father said both were in ill health and he was away arranging his mother in law’s funeral.
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Long Beach
Calif
Dudley W. Burriss
S. W. Tubbs
O. E. Whittelsey
R. A. Pinson
Burriss
June K. Burriss
June K. Burriss, 55, Arguing. He Heard Mrs. Burriss
Mary F. Whitty
Grace R. Seely
Frances W. Barnes
General Nelson M. Walker Killed in Normandy Assault
Brig. Gen. Nelson M. Walker a native of Pittsfield Massachusetts and assistant commander of a U S infantry division was killed in Normandy while leading an assault on a German machinegun position. The 55 year old general died from a machinegun wound to a thigh artery after inspiring troops at the hedgerow fight. He had been recommended for a posthumous Distinguished Service Cross.
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Normandy
Nelson M. Walker
Pittsfield
Mass
War Today Looks at Hitler's Normandy Flank
The piece notes the fractured Normandy line and the Allied drive through Brittany toward Paris. It cites Montgomery's staff on possible critical weeks for Germany, Hitler’s rear security concerns, and the Reich’s morale issues amid Eastern and Western front holes.
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Hitler
Normandy
Brittany
Paris
Mayenne
Seine
Loire
Caen
Montgomery
Germany
Reich
Fuehrer
Florence under shellfire as Allied forces push to secure city
Allied reports say German shells hit the southern Florence area while Gen Sir Harold Alexander vows the city will not be turned into a battlefield. South African troops contact the Arno north bank as mopping up continues east and west of Florence. More than 50 000 prisoners are listed in the Cassino to Florence offensive. fighting centers on the Arno bends and ridge near Pontassieve with limited Arno crossings. Indian and British units advance despite rugged terrain near Contineey.
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Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky
Niemen River
Tilsit
Baltic
Memen
Moscow
Warsaw
London
Ghetto
Vistula
San’s Mouth
Tarnobzeg
Noland Norgaard
Rome
Florence
Harold Alexander
Arno
Fifth
Eighth
Cassino
Montelupo
Pontassieve
Alexander
Monte Pisano
Pisa
Livorno
Contineey
Germany
France
Castrop-Rauxel
Ruhr
Cologne
Air Ministry
Berlin
James H. Doolittle
U. S. Tactical Air Force
Brittany
Paris
Orne
Caen
Breton
Brest
St. Nazaire
Nantes
Lorient
St. Malo
Chateauneuf
Eady
Auray
Vannes
Dinglais
St. Nessie
Loire
St. Nazai Shoving
Nan
St. Brieuc
Two Found Dead In Car In Baltimore Mystery
Baltimore police investigated the deaths of Norman E. Bosley aged 29 of Stockton and Virginia Nighan 39 of Baltimore found in a parked car on Woodbourne Avenue. Bosley died from a fractured skull and Nighan from a .22 caliber bullet to the head. Authorities discounted an earlier theory of self inflicted deaths and kept the case open with all angles examined. Both victims worked for a Towson contracting firm and were described as a family man and mother of a Navy son respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Woodbourne Avenue
Joseph Wallace
Oscar Rich
Norman E. Bosley
Gedten National Bank
Be. Ing
Neer and Corn
Navy ranges near Tokyo strike Bonin islands in two day raid
Allied warships pounded the Bonin islands 600 miles from Tokyo destroying Chichi Jima and other targets. The mission damaged or sunk 41 ships in a two day carrier strike, with 16 American planes lost and 19 airmen killed.
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J. B. Krueger
Associated Press
Bonin Islands
Japan
Chichi Jima
Tokyo
U. S
Nimitz
Bonins
Adm
Chester Nimitz
Pacific
New Guinea
Hengyang
Bon
Kazan
Chichi
Haha
Muko
Ane
Iwo Jima
Kazans
Oil Plants in Reich Targeted by Bombers
Allied air forces struck deep into Germany targeting synthetic oil plants and rail hubs across the Reich as bombers from the United States and Britain joined in raids. Heavy bombers hit two plants near Breslau while Liberators and Fortresses bombed in France and the Balkans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reich
London
U. S
France
Fifteenth Air Force
Mediterranean
Blechhamer
Breslau
Pyle in Normandy Reports Final Preparations for Breakout
ERNIE PYLE describes the Normandy breakout plan amid mid day reconnaissance and detailed orders. Officers gather in an orchard behind a farmhouse as the regiment reviews the frontline schematic, with Maj. Gen. Raymond Barton arriving to oversee final preparations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernie Pyle
Normandy
Raymond O. Barton
Fire destroys cadet hospital at Southern Airways camp
A fire at the Southern Airways camp hospital caused $15,000 in property damage to Defense Plant Corporation assets and Army property. The undetermined blaze destroyed the frame building, windows blew out, and cadets aided Decatur firemen before it was controlled at 2 am with no injuries reported. Patients would be housed temporarily in barracks and admin buildings. the hospital will not be rebuilt.
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Defense Plant Corporation
Army
Southern Airways
Carey
Courtland
Decatur
Childs shot kills woman in Birmingham
An 11 year old girl playing with a 38 caliber pistol fired the fatal shot that killed Mary Helen Williams 30 a Mobile shipyard worker in Birmingham Investigating detective W E DeGroat said the weapon was brought by a guest and the bullet struck Williams in the back of the head Survivors include her husband Tracey Williams a 13 year old son and three brothers and three sisters Funeral plans were delayed awaiting a brother from New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
W. E. DeGroat
Mary Helen Williams
Mobile Shipyard
G. L. Hendrix
West End
DeGroat
One Negro Shot and Another Held in Decatur Incident
Willie Richardson, Negro, was treated at Decatur General hospital after a Sunday 12:30 a.m. shooting following an argument with Ed Jones, Negro, on Madison Street. Jones was jailed this morning in Morgan County on a charge of assault with intent to murder. The case was investigated by Patrolmen Kilgore and Carter.
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Willie Richardson
Decatur General Hospital
Ed Jones
Richardson
Jones
Madison Street
Morgan County
Kilgore and
Carter
Four Strike Chiefs Fired In Philadelphia Walkout
The Army ended a citywide walkout crisis in Philadelphia by firing four strike leaders James H. McMenamin Frank P. Carney William C. Dixey and Frank Thompson. They face Smith Connally act charges and bonds set at 2500 dollars as hearings set for August 14.
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Philadelphia
Army
James H. McMenamin
Frank P. Carney
William C. Dixey
Frank Thompson
Philadelphia Transportation Company
Philip Hayes
PTC
Hayes
CIO Transport Workers Union
Roosevelt
U. S
War Manpower Commission
WMC
War Production Board
National Selective Service
Robert P. Patterson
OPA
Biddle
Army Public Relations Office
Wagadios McMenamin
Ion Wca
Centinesé
En Page Tveh
Hurricane of Lead Sweeps German Units
Allied forces press the offensive as intense artillery and machine gun fire disrupt German positions. Reports from the front describe heavy shelling and rapid advances by advancing troops, with close air support aiding breakthroughs.
Germans Launch Major Counterblow in Brittany Normandy Front
Allied dispatches report a fierce German counterattack along an eight mile front from Mortain to Lourdeval in Brittany aimed at splitting Bradley's American spearheads from the British in Normandy. American forces recaptured Vire and pressed the coast as Britons drove toward Paris, with Brest and St Malo still under assault.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Avranches
France
Paris
Omar N. Bradley
Brittany
Normandy
Mortain
Bradley
Domfront
Lourdeval
Aches
Juvigny-Le-Tertre
Cherence-Le-Rousse
Vire
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Southwest Pacific
Camp Shelby
Miss
Conrad Strickland
Oklahoma City
Hot Springs
Hugh Strickland
Little Ock
Lynn Christopher
Morgan County National Bank
Mr. Christopher
Joe Sneed
Alexexander City
Limestone County
First National Bank
Edmund P. Garrett
Edmund Garrett, Sr
Belle Mina
Garrett
Freeman Field
Seymour
Indiana
Falkville Christian Church
Otto Hendon
Betty Walker
Eighth Avenue East
Baugh’s Infirmary
Mattie Jones
East LaFayette Street
Elsie Taylor
Decatur 3
William W. Smith
Decatur 2
Robert Epley
Falkville 2
R. E. Payne
Hillsboro 3
N. P. Wiley, Jr
Moody Field
Lt. Wiley
Betty Sue Johnston
Austinville
Fourth Avenue East
Ottis Beatty
Gordon Lane
Akron
Ohio
Ernest Templeton
Hartselle
Templeton
By Ken Reynolds
Daily Want
German East Wall
Konstantin Rokvussovsky
Hutting
German Silesia
Red Army
San Vistula River
Joseph Stalin
Galicia
Prussia
Poland
Guernsey
ST. Nazan
U.S
Loire River
St. Nazaire- Nantes
Mother
By Dewitt MacKenzie
NAVY
Balkan
Balkans
Alibunar
Belgrade
Danube
Novi Sad
Belgarde
Bordeaux
Amiens
Miscow
England
Rahmel
Gdynia
RAF
Hazebrouck
Dunkerque
Upper Silesia
Moravia
Lower Austria
Pyle
Sissy
Hind
Frech
Cadets
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