Engineers Cross Vire River In Six Hours Under Heavy Fire
American combat engineers planned for three months in England and then crossed the Vire river near St. Jean De Caye in a dawn assault. They built multiple treadways under 88 mm artillery fire to support infantry and armor, while medics and support crews treated casualties and kept bridges open despite continued bombardment.
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Normandy
St. Jean de Caye
France
England
Vire
Jean de Daye
Armand Hewett
Ann Arbor
Mich
Palmer A. Hewlett
Portland
Ore
Hewett
Hugh W. Colton
Stone Bridge
Charles G. Thogge
Airgst
Roosevelt Jr. Dies Abroad While Touring Frontline Posts
Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt Jr aged 56, son of a former president, died of a heart attack aboard a captured German truck on the Normandy battlefield after a long day guiding troops of the Fourth Infantry Division. He will be buried in France as his brother Quentin was earlier.
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London
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Normandy
Fourth Infantry
France
Quentin
Roosevelt
North
Africa
Sicily
Italy
Quentin Roosevelt
Quentin Roosevelt, That “the Old Machine Is Pretty Well Worn Down.” Quentin
Calamity Town Chapter Twenty Eight Opens Doubt on Jim Haight
In Ellery Queen's Calamity Town Chapter Twenty Eight Judge Martin disrupts the prosecution's case as witnesses recount Nora Wright Haight and Jim Haight's troubled night. The district attorney presents arsenic linkage, Quicko sales, and Nora's illness, while Troy Wright's family and Alberta Manaskas offer conflicting details and dramatic cross examinations.
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Jim Haight
Eli Martin
Neno
Bradford
Newbold
Frank Lloyd
Lloyd
Martin
Wright
James Haight
Nora Wright
Judge Martin
Nora
Jim
Old Wentworth
John F
Wentworth
Rosemary Haight
Alberta Manaskas
Carter Bradford
Alberta
Milo Willoughby
Salemson
L. D
Whitey
Haight House
Emmeline DuPré
Miss DuPré
The Last Bus Home on a Pentagon Night
On a Washington bus a tall civilian man in a brown suit shares a photo of his own soldier self with a young woman beside him and then passes the picture to a fellow rider as he smiles with a childlike pride. The scene blends civilian life with military service as a wife parts at the stop and a quiet moment lingers after a long day.
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ST. Sauveur
Pierre
Underground
Germany
Hitler
Michel
George
Jean
Bernard
Bois de Limors
St. Sauveur le Vicomte
de Gaulle
J. P. Simpson
Simpson
James Haight
Jim
N.W
N. W
Nora
Martin
Washington
New Homes Predicted After War End
Frank W. Cortright of the National Association of Home Builders told the Birmingham Real Estate Board that postwar homes will resemble prewar ones. He warned against expecting immediate, radical changes in home equipment and forecast a demand for a large home building program after the fall of Germany.
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Birmingham
Ala
Germany
Frank W. Cortright
National Association of Home Builders
Cortright
Birmingham Real State Board
New Greyhound Terminal Planned in Birmingham
Southeastern Greyhound Lines buys a half block for a new Birmingham terminal. Guy A. Huguelet of Lexington Kentucky, company president, says a bus terminal will be built on the site.
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Birmingham
Ala
Southeastern
Greyhound Lines
Guy A. Huguelet
Lexington
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Yank General
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Myron Garback
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Garback
Little, Brown & Co
King Features
Ina
By James Marlow
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Pettey’s Cleaners
Southern Flour
Costy-Hodges Milling Co
Ustiause
Whitehouse
Red Circle
Bokar
Pound—Ciuntem
Marvel Fresh
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Angel Food Cakes Marble Pound Cakes
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