SOVIETS GRAB BIG POW TOLL IN ROMANIA GAINS
Soviet forces push deeper into Romania with 47 000 prisoners taken in five days and near Ploesti. Malinovsky Tolbukhin armies advance within 35 miles of Galati gap defenses guarding Danube and Bucharest as tens of thousands more fall to red armor and infantry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel DE Luce
Moscow
Romania
Galati Gap
Danube
Bucharest
Ploesti
Rodio Y. Malinovsky
Feodor Tolbukhin
Chisinau
Kishinev
Red Army
Army couple follows wife to Courtland air field station
Civilian Herbert T. Watt moved to Courtland to be with his wife Wac Pvt Mary M. Watt. Their all military wedding at Malden Army air field last spring linked his GI mechanic work to a civilian job after his discharge.
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Courtland Army Air Field
Herbert T. Watt
Courtland
Wac Pvt
Mary M.watt
Malden
Army Air Field
Army
Herb
Tear Gas Siege at Duval Jail Ends in Five Surrender
In Jacksonville Florida civilian officers and troops fought a six hour siege at the Duval county jail as five men led a failed breakout. Two prisoners were wounded while the escape plan involved an imitation soap pistol and rifles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Fla
Duval County
Broward Carlton
Carlton
H. J. Deche
G. P. Jowers
B. Sweat
J. D. Flowers
Ted Mains
Roy Sands
J. C. Whittle
William W. Seawood
Jimmy Cassenbach
Memphis
Tenn
Whittle
Seawood
Sweat
Revival to Begin at Flint Methodist Church
A revival at the Flint Methodist church will begin Sunday morning August 27 at 11 oclock. Services will be held twice daily at 10 30 A M and 8 P M for the week. Rev G C Corley of Memorial Drive Methodist church Decatur will preach. Everyone is invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flint Methodist Church
G. C. Corley
Memorial Drive Methodist Church
Decatur
Wounded British Pilot Rescued After Eight Days
Ernie Pyle describes a British pilot trapped in a damaged plane for eight days on the Western Front. A medical team arrived after a short trek, administered morphine, and prepared to extract him with calm efficiency as the captain assessed his condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernie Pyle
Trapped Pilot Rescued After Battle Ground Pulls Him Free
Amid a crash scene soldiers freed a trapped pilot whose strong will kept him awake while morphine was delayed. Medics and troops worked ten minutes to release his foot and secure him as back pain limited strength. The unit expressed gratitude for the effort and vigilance.
Allies sweep Marseille can't Cannes and Grasse gains
Allied forces captured Cannes and Grasse and drove toward the Italian frontier and Arles as Eight miles from Arles and the Rhone river. General Patch's forces pressed west of Marseille while French troops ringed the Toulon naval base and captured the arsenal area.
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Noland Norgaard
Rome
French Riviera
Cannes
Berlin
France
Lyon
Marseille
Grasse
U.S
Salon
Arles
Rhone
Alexander M. Patch
Grenoble
Geneva
Grenole
Draguignan
Toulon
Ollioules
Japs Report New Invasion Near Philippines
Allied troops reported a new island assault near the Philippines with Tokyo broadcasting the claim without confirmation. The same source said 28 carrier planes attacked Western Sumatra while Mountbatten and Fraser arrived in Asia to boost operations. Gen. Stilwell reported 10 000 square miles retaken in Burma with over 20 000 Japanese killed and MacArthur’s air force dropping 156 tons on Halmahera.
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J. B. Krueger
Associated Press
Philippines
Tokyo
Sumatra
Dutch East Indies
Pacific
London
Japan
Southeast Asia
Adm
Louis Mountbatten
East Asia
Britain
Bruce Fraser
Ceylon
James Somerville
Mapia
St. David
Mapias
Manokwari
New Guinea
Palau
Sabang
Singapore
Joseph Stilwell
Burma
Halmahera
MacArthur
Iting
Nimitz
Paramushiro
Hengyang
Hankow-Canton
Paris Liberated as Allied Forces Enter City of Paris
Allied columns enter Paris amid joyous crowds as American and French units advance from the south. French Second Armored Division and Gen. Le Clerc move through key districts while fighting continues around the capital. Reports confirm Paris appears in Allied hands with significant forces in the city.
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Paris
Luxembourg
Gestapo
Notre Dame
London
Eisenhower
Jacques le Clerc
Joseph Pierre Koenig
Interior
Omens
Erc
Koenig
FFI
Hotel de Ville
Rue de Rivoli
Versailles
Paris- Etamps
Arc de Triomphe
Palais Luxembourg
le Clerc
Orleans
Pont de Severes
Pace
Trial Shift For Rape Case Near Gainesville
Three Negro defendants Fred Lane aged 19 James Davis 16 and James Willis 26 charged with raping a white woman near Quincy Fla see trial moved to Gainesville 175 miles away due to fear of bloodshed. Governor Holland reports militiamen and patrols were on duty around the Quincy courthouse with a highway blockade incident nearby. The case was sent to Gainesville and the defendants moved to Raiford prison as guards remain tight. The assault occurred July 30 the victim a 20 year old Army sergeant’s wife survived and will testify.
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Quincy
Fla
Gainesville
Gadsden County
Spessard L. Holland
Tallahassee
Holland
W. May Walker
Raiford
Fred Lane
J Davis
James Willi
Allied Air Power Stages Major Assaults Across Europe
More than 1,100 American heavy bombers and fighters hit ten North German targets including the Peenemunde station and Brest fortifications. RAF Mosquitoes attacked France and Belgium as 5,000 Allied planes targeted oil and industry from the Baltic to the Balkans. Mediterranean forces flew about 1,500 sorties against Northern Italy, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia with 53 enemy planes destroyed for 155 in three days.
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London
Preenemunde
Berlin
Brittany
Brest
Eisenhower
France
Belgium
Britain
Italy
Baltic
Balkans
RAF
Gournay
Paris
Dieppe
Mediterranean
Hitler
Bologna
Po Valley
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Berlin Admits Some Romanian Units Quit Fighting
The Cairo radio said Romania declared war on Germany and German planes heavily bombed Bucharest. Germany announced that some Romanian troops had stopped fighting as Moscow described local clashes between Nazi rear guards and King Mihai's army. Soviet advances toward Galati Gap neared the Danube delta as Romanians sought armistice by fighting alongside the Red Army.
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New York
Cairo
Romania
Germany
Bucharest
FCC
Wade Werner
London
Moscow
Mihai
Balkan
Galati
Carpathians
Danube
Soviet Union
Red Army
Bulgaria
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Greece
Finland
Prut
Siret
Hitler’s Determination Shown as War Talks Rattle Optimism
The piece argues Hitler’s forces may retreat but will fight to the end, warning against over-optimism about an imminent European end. It cites Montgomery’s outlook and Eduard Beneš predicting disintegration into small units, with fighting for each place continuing after Allied advances.
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Hitler
Paris
Bernard Montgomery
France
Eduard Benes
Benes
Germans in headlong retreat across Seine pocket
Allied forces close in on German lines as Von Kluge pulls back toward the Somme and Marne. Canadians take Honfleur while RAF reports heavy armor losses and disarray in German ranks near the Seine. Allied columns push toward Paris with Brest’s siege renewed by Ninth Air Force bombers.
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Wes Gallagher
Mareshal
Guenther von Kluge
Somme
Marne
Channel
Paris
Seine
Honfleur
Seine Bay
le Havre
RAF
von Kluge
France
Somme-Marne
Normandy
Rhine
Abbeville
Maxime Weygand
Pas-De-Calais
England
George S. Patton
Third
Germany
Sens
Troyes
Romilly
Brest
Brittany
Ninth Air Force
America
Britain
Steeet
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