Nazis Fight to Check Allied Advance on Industrial Center
Western front analysis centers on Nijmegen where Britain's Second Army under Miles Dempsey fights to breach the Siegfried Line and reach the Ruhr. German forces stiffen defense with air support as rail and road supply lines near Eindhoven are contested. Meanwhile Patton's Third Army presses toward the industrial Saar basin and allied forces push across Lorraine toward Germany.
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Nijmegen
Britain
Miles Dempsey
Ruhr
Luftwaffe
Dempsey
Second Army
Nijmeren
Eindhoven
Arnhem
Neder Rhine
Siegfried Line
Courtney Hodges
First Army
Aachen
Cologne
Nancy
George Patton
Third
Saar
Belfort
Vosges Mountains
France
Switzerland
Alexander Patch
Germany
Yugoslavian
Red
Baltic
Estonia
Latvia
East Prussia
Czechoslovakia
Transylvanian Alps
Rake Philippines and Allied Forces Press On in Pacific
In the South Pacific phase, Philippines troops tighten holds on coastal outposts while Morotai and Palau advance under heavy Japanese resistance. Naval air strikes hit enemy shipping near Philippine shores as B 29 raids target Anshan Manchuria. Washington debates Germany postwar policy with Morgenthau’s plan vs regulatory approaches, amid mixed allied views.
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South Pacific
Philippines
Morotai Island
Moluccas
Palaus
Philippine
Anshan
Manchuria
Japanese Empire
Remembering Buddies and the Guadalcanal graves
A Marine sergeant from Pondam New York recalls burying four comrades on Guadalcanal in 1942 and returning two years later to honor them. The piece notes butter stockpiles, with government controls and a shift to powdered milk as it plans to withdraw from the market next month. Civilian butter storage is unusually low at 12 million pounds versus the typical 178 million.
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Merton F. Taylor
Pondam
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Guadalcanal
Sergt. Taylor
American Dairy Association
Civil Jeans
FOLLOW FOOTSTEPS Back Near Rhine
Americans battling their way into western Germany with the other Allied forces are following the footsteps of an earlier generation of fighting men. In 1918 the American army of occupation logged a strong presence in Germany to the Rhine in accordance with the armistice terms following the Kaiser’s formidable war machine.
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Germany
Parity Prices for Cotton and Wheat Promoted by WFA
The War Food Administration plans to buy all 1944 loan cotton and wheat at parity, with the Commodity Credit Corporation allowed to sell at equalization prices. Wheat purchases include unredeemed 1944 loan wheat through May 1, 1945, at parity minus storage charges, with equalization priced at loan rate plus 15 cents. Grain futures rose on the parity announcement, lifting corn and other grains while some revisions loom for oats and rye.
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Congress
War Food Administration
WEA
Commodity Credit Corporation
WPA
WFA
Cigarettes Boost Tobacco Quota
War Food administration allocates 624 million pounds of flue cured tobacco to manufacturers for this marketing season as a result of a 1944 crop of 1 billion 47 million pounds. Production estimates rise above a billion pounds and allocations near last year’s usage, just 2 percent below 1939 record levels, with allied nations receiving 391 million pounds.
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War Food Administration
Allied
War Production: Items Lag in 1944 Eight Months
War production shows lag in early 1944 with only 45 percent of heavy truck goals met and 41 percent shell output and 28 percent bomb output still needed. August brought peak output for heavy fires, B 20 and 8 32 super bombers, and heavy artillery ammo. Average hourly wages rose to 91.07 in July, edging up 8 percent since January 1941, per the national industrial conference board.
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WPB
Sation Industrial Conference Board
Reed
Pia
Syria
Occupation Plans for Germany by Allied Forces
The war department has completed detailed plans for the occupation of Germany by American, British, and Soviet troops. Demobilization will prioritize homeward transports, with a point system to determine who goes first, and tours of Europe for soldiers awaiting discharge. Some GIs may study at European universities or take tours under army auspices. The note cautions against delays and notes difficulties with age allowances. Inside Germany notes no honest anti-Hitler revolt and flags potential sabotage by slave laborers. Capital Chaff recalls a 1912 Baltimore convention telegram episode involving Bennett Clark and Palmer.
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Germany
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France
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Sorebonne
Oxford
Cambridge
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Army of Occupation
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Poland
Russia
Belgium
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Bennett Clark
Mra
Mitchell Palmer
Baltimore
A. Mitchell Palmer
Woodrow ‘Wilson
New Jersey
Bennett
Champ Clark
Palmer
Wilson
Clark
Oddities and anecdotes thread through wartime memory
A collage of clipped anecdotes recalls a shell fragment misprint involving a soldier’s dog tag, a Nor mandy tale about an RCAF batman named George McMillan, and a Patton wives feature. It blends showman Ziegfeld reminiscences, Disraeli and Gladstone quips, FBI busts a Nazi-themed joke, and capsule criticisms of theater and cinema from Herold Benchley and Hepburn.
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Normandy
George McMillan
Nova Scotia
The
Herald Tribune
Gen. Patton
Notes on magazines and misprints in popular culture
A compact survey of magazine culture and media quips. Mentions Newsweek, Seventeen, Everybody's Digest, American Mercury, and The Women magazine with remarks on criticism, circulation, and content. Includes a naval officer’s quip at a Waldorf dinner and a prison escape anecdote from Indianapolis.
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U. S
Seventeen
Earl Wilson
Everybody's Digest
Pic
America
American Mercury
John Roy Carleon
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