American Troops Advance in Brittany and Loire Valley
United States forces are reported fighting in Brest Brittany and have captured Vannes, with armored thrusts reaching toward Lorient and St Nazaire. A Loire crossing near Nantes isolates the peninsula as Allied operations push southward. Villers Bocage and Aubigny are reported captured as British lines retract.
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United States
Brest
Brittany
Vannes
Cherbourg
Avranches
Lorient
St. Nazaire
Loire
Nantes
Villers Bocage
Aubiy
the Lyne
Red forces press toward Cracow as Berlin war report widens
A second Red Army unit breaches the Vistula and moves southwest threatening Cracow, while Koniev’s forces advance from Jaroslaw toward the San River. Moscow may still not claim East Prussia, and German news notes reinforced Soviet lines near Wirbalis and Schaken. Allied actions in the Pacific and Africa proceed as Guam battle intensifies with U.S. tanks driving Japanese remnants from Guam. Florence reportedly in Allied hands as South African troops penetrate central Florence. A German communique cites withdrawal north of Florence to spare the town. Hitler conducts a purge of the army with expulsions and trials for suspected plot links.
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Vistula
Warsaw
Cracow
Silesia
Marshal Koniev
Jaroslaw
San
Moscow
East Prussia
Wirbalis
Schaken
Eiat
Fsat
Guam
Americal
U.S
Driniumer
New Guinea
The Basis of Man's Security
The passage argues that everyday security relies on others saving and sacrificing. It explains that before post offices, railways, factories, or new capital can exist, people must save earnings to fund public works or private ventures. It notes that capital is loaned to the nation for war or peace and to individuals for homes or productive industry.
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Pamela Blake
Dean Jagger
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Donald Meek
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James Ellison
Charlie Ruggles
Charlotte Greenwood
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Edmond O'Brien
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Arthur Treacher
Frieda Inescort
Elizabeth Risdon
Red River
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