Tank breakthrough widens Normandy advance near St Lo
Allied armored forces punch a deep breakout south of St Lo pushing to Avranches and Coutances. They carve a nine mile advance in two days, capture Canisy and Le Mesnil Hermant, while fighters hammer Nazi tanks. German counterattacks surge near Caen with Esquay recaptured.
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Allied Expeditionary Force
Normandy
St. Lo
Avranches
Coutances
Periers
St. Gilles
Canisy
Vire
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Lessay
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Marigny
Esquay
Caen
Verrieres
Local War News And Social Updates In Decatur
Weather outlook calls for partly cloudy skies with scattered thundershowers this afternoon and Friday. Max 93, min 71. Army and Navy families report transfers, travel and casualties in Europe and the Mediterranean theater. Community notices include church events, prayers for armed forces, reopening of Hotel Lyons dining room, and local civic meetings. Continued on Page Two.
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Hotel Lyons
Alabama soldiers join first major American armored advance in France
Hal Boyle reports Allied troops break German lines with Sherman tanks during a pivotal armored march in France. Capt. Cecil E. McMahan of Florence and Steven Kennedy of Greenville, both Alabama natives, are among those credited with key actions such as clearing road mines under shellfire aboard the tank unit.
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France
Cecil E. McMahan
Florence
Ala
Steven Kennedy
Greenville
Appollo
Allied Advance Broadens Front 40 Miles East of St Lo
Lt Gen Omar Bradley reports the American first army battlefront widened to about 40 miles. Doughboys seize a town northeast of Periers and Montrabot near Caumont, 13 miles east of St Lo. In 48 hours at least 15 villages fell as tanks push beyond Canisy while German rocket gunners are targeted.
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Omar N._ Bradley
French Patriots Aid The Allied Advance
French patriots repel German tank raids and disrupt enemy lines. A communiqué reports 116 German trucks destroyed in Saone-Et-Loire, Normandy rail disruption, and canal locks damaged. Pryenees forces halted armored columns, German reinforcements sent. Oil and fuel depots targeted, barges carrying 19 000 gallons blown.
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Allied Expeditionary Force
Supreme Command
Saone-Et-Loire
Maquis
Normandy
Pryenees
War progress in Pacific with Saipan push noted
The article reports Allied advances in the Pacific including Saipan, Guam, and Tinian with U S heavy bombers within range of Japan and the Philippines. It quotes Admiral King and Admiral Halsey on continued Japanese resistance and describes growing Japanese concern over new U S naval bases and looming operations.
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Argentina Is Quarantined By United States Stand
The United States declared Argentina will not be recognized until it abandons a pro Axis policy for a pro Allied one. Washington cited open aid to the Axis and actions against hemispheric defense since Pearl Harbor. Argentina retorts it will continue its present conduct as State Department isolates Buenos Aires diplomatically.
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United States
U. S
State Department
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Farrell
Pearl Harbor
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Peluffo
Department
Doctor Grosfeld Heard by Civitan Club
Dr W M Grosfeld of Morgan County tuberculosis sanatorium spoke at a Civitan meeting at Woodalls on tuberculosis prevention and cure. He was assisted by technician Miss Mildred Malone. Bruce Young of Sherwin Williams joined as a new member after the address. Meeting adjourned for next week at the Hotel.
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Morgan County Tuberculosis Sanatorium
Civitan Club
Woodalls
Mildred Malone
Ray
Bruce Young
Sherwin-Williams
Allied attack destroys Sabang harbor fortress
Allied forces pounded Sabang, sinking a freighter and wrecking jetties and workshops in a 35 minute raid. Mountbatten says shore batteries silenced as American troops press on in the Pacific, with Guam and Tinian thudding Japanese positions and expanding beachheads amid heavy casualties.
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Associated Press
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Sabang
Dutch East Indies
Singapore
Southeast Asia
Louis Mountbatten
Tokyo
Collapse of Polish Front Closer as Brest Litovsk Falls
London dispatch reports Stalin announces Russian capture of Stanislawow and Brest Litovsk as German defenses collapse along the Vistula corridor. Moscow claims breakthrough near Brest Litovsk. German lines fall back near Bialystok and Warsaw amid heavy fighting on the Vistula plains.
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Russians Storm Across The Vistula River
Moscow reports Soviet infantry advancing across the Visla river near Warsaw in thousands of amphibious units under heavy artillery fire. Premier Stalin declares Bialystok captured after two days of fierce fighting, describing it as a key railroad junction and fortified area on the road to Warsaw.
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Visla
Warsaw
Silesia
Stalin
Bialystok
London
Three Bands to Play in Sunday Delano Park Concert
Three bands will perform Sunday afternoon from six to seven at Delano Park. The Courtland Army air field band Decatur high school band and the Delano Park song flute band will appear in the hour set aside for the public.
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Earle Calvin
Courtland Army Air Field
Decatur High School
Three German Generals Named Plotters In Berlin Broadcast
British radio reported on July 26 that reports from German forces in Poland accuse Field Marshal Ernst von Busch, until recently commander of the central front, of death by his own hand in a suspected act of suicide. The AP Wirephoto notes the broadcast naming him among plotters.
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Poland
Ernst von Busch
Central Front
Goodyear Decatur Mills To Get Army Navy E Award
Major General Harry F. Hazlett will present an Army Navy E award on August 4 to Goodyear Decatur Mills employees for production excellence. The Decatur plant, a Goodyear subsidiary in Alabama, employs nearly 2,000 and makes fabric for military tires and nylon and rayon fabrics. Cedartown and Rockmart plants have already received E awards.
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Harry F. Hazlett
Army Ground Forces
Birmingham
Goodyear Decatur Mills
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Cedartown
Rockmart
Cartersville
E. J. Thomas
Cliff Slusser
Goodyear
S. A. Steere
Fabrice Division
C. W. Young
Decatur
South
Pearl Harbor
Tax study urged for Alabama tax equalization commission
Alabama Revenue Commissioner H. G. Dowling proposed creating a commission to study taxation and issue recommendations aimed at equalizing the tax load, a suggestion announced in Montgomery on July 27.
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Alabama
H. G. Dowling
Three German generals named in Hitler bomb plot
German radio reports say Col Ludwig Beck, Gen Friedrich Olbricht, and Maj Gen Erich Hoepner participated in the July plot. Beck reportedly died by his own action. Olbricht and Hoepner were said to be arrested or executed, with Olbricht shot in Berlin’s Bendlerstrasse courtyard.
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Berlin
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General Lesley J. McNair Dies in Action in Normandy
Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair, former commanding general of Army ground forces, was killed by enemy fire in Normandy while observing front line action. At 61 he helped train overseas troops and was praised by General Marshall as “the brains of the Army.”
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Lesley J. McNair
Arm
Normandy
War Department
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Army
Marshall
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Ghould-Baan
Allied fleet massed for Italian coast landing near Genoa
Berlin radio reports masses of Allied warships transports and landing craft poised for a new invasion across the Tyrrhenian coast. Troop concentrations were said to be gathering around La Spezia and Genoa for an imminent northern Italian landing.
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Tyrrhenian Sea
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Genoa
Battle for Florence Escalates as Allied Drive Fights German Counterattacks
Allied forces smash German counterattacks eight miles from Florence as heavy fighting intensifies. Indications point to Pisa as a forthcoming major battle ground with Germans erecting barricades and using the leaning tower and church steeples for observation.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Pisa
Arno
Nazi Air Losses Soar As Budapest Target Struck
Allied air battles over the Mediterranean theater push German losses to a three day record of 193 planes. Heavy bombers hit the Manfred Weiss steel works in Budapest, Hungary, with Liberator and Fortress crews reporting a well hit, smoky strike.
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Manfred Weiss
Budapest
Hungary
Liberator
Artillery Roars as Fifth Army Presses Front Along Arno
American long range guns pounded the Arno front from San Romano to the sea destroying a railway cannon several tanks and self propelled guns and enemy dumps during a day long shelling. German resistance persisted in the Pisa area as pockets along the Arno embankment near San Romano were cleared and remaining troops were cleared from house to house.
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Arno
San Romano
Horseshoe
Pisa
Lions Club Horse Show Plans Near Completion at Benson Field
Preparations for the Tennessee Valley Horse Show to be held Friday night at Benson Field progressed today. Box seats are nearly sold out and general admission tickets are selling strongly at multiple outlets. Ticket chairman Carter Dobbs urged advance purchases to avoid entrance delays. Carpenters led by John Buck McBride completed arena work and box construction with assistance from R B Red Freeman and the Decatur City Electric Company. Sherrow, the manager, credited Gene Bailey and the program committee for the show’s smooth progress.
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Lions Club
Tennessee Valley
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