Allies Carve Deeper Into Italy Through Formia Capture
In Formia Italy on May 19 retreating Nazis hurled firepower as American doughboys surged along coastal Highway No 7 from Scauri to Formia’s west. German fortifications, dugouts, mines and snipers slowed the advance while long range artillery from Gaeta hit targets. Nearly 200 prisoners were taken, many with ammunition and mortars left behind. Americans completed the take in 24 hours, securing the last house and last street.
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Hitler in Private Car Faces Rising Nazi Germany Pressure
In this 1944 wartime description from Inside Germany, Adolf Hitler is shown in a private train car amid Germany's mounting defeat as Allied air raids intensify. The piece notes heavy attacks on rail facilities under Operation Strangle aimed at choking invasion logistics. It references Berlin underground anti aircraft defenses and a captured German film used in a March of Time report.
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A. Hitler
Naziland
Jlroad
Germany
Berlin
March of Time
More Than Dozen Labor Disputes Across Regions Rise
More than a dozen labor disputes in scattered areas kept about 15,900 workers idle and spurred officials to push a work or fight plan. Some plants resumed operations while others extended walkouts across the east south midwest and west. Detroit area unrest slowed war plant output though production was rebounding. A potential 45,000 member Detroit teamsters strike was averted after talks with War Labor Board officials and AFL CTO representatives.
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Michigan
Detroit
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Teamsters
War Labor Board
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CTO
Buick Motor Division
Flint
Mich
Washington
Senate Military Committee
Patterson
Navy
Forresta
War Production Board
Nelson, Patterson
Tes
Theatre Ticket Admission Invite at Strand or Dixie
The Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs Leland Price to tonight's Strand theatre presentation of Panama Hattie with Red Skelton and Ann Sothern or Two Man Submarine with Tom Neal and Ann Savage and Six Shootin Sheriff with Ken Maynard at the Dixie theatre Identification may be required and tickets presented at entry.
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Leland Price
Free Speech Core of Sedition Defense in Trial
In Washington on May 19 two words Free Speech define the defense for 29 defendants accused of a Nazi conspiracy to shape government and undermine military morale. Lawrence Dennis of New York led off with the claim that free speech is the patriotic issue, while other attorneys prepare their openings for Monday.
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Lawrence Dennis
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Alfred Rosenberg
Rosenberg
Hitler
Roosevelt
New Guinea Campaign Metaphor Describes Fast Allied Advance
Bulletin uses a geographic turkey metaphor to chart MacArthur’s progress in New Guinea. In January he held only a tail at Milne Bay, but after the Wakde invasion he controls the body, leaving Japan the neck and head as the Philippines move closer. The fading line runs from Milne Bay to Berau Peninsula across 1,600 miles.
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Philippines
Milne Bay
Berau Peninsula
MacArthur seizes Wakde Island in leapfrog attack
Advanced Allied headquarters reports Wakde Island fell swiftly as part of MacArthur’s fast naval and air campaign toward the Philippines. American forces, veterans from Hollandia and Aitape operations, secured a beachhead near Toem in northwest New Guinea within 36 hours. The offensive aims to support bomber operations over western New Guinea and pressure Halmahera Palau and the Netherlands East Indies.
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West Virginia Briefs: Gasoline Audits and Forester Appointment
West Virginia brief notes 5255 gallons debited from gasoline accounts in Fairmont and Martinsburg due to forged coupons. E W Beatty named third project forester to supervise work across 20 western and southern counties, previously with extension forestry at West Virginia University. Judge Watkins sentenced Maynard Flint to three years for evading army induction. Roxie Hall will contest the will that left $9000 to her son-in-law O C Johnson. verdict unsettled the estate. University status update promised.
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West Virginia
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Beatty
Extension Forestry Service
West Virginia University
Germans mass gliders for invasion of Britain
London reports German forces may drop at least one airborne division on Britain with six engined Dorniers and transport planes along the Channel coast. The Daily Mail cites excellent sources and notes British officials fear a counter invasion.
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Portsmouth
Plymouth
Bristol
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundsted
3000 Gallons Of Fuel Lost In Truck Upset Near Parsons
A huge trailer truck overturned on a sharp Parsons curve spilling about 3000 gallons of fuel oil into Roaring Run, the town's unfiltered water source. Firefighters extinguished flames before they ignited. Driver Howard F Reed Jr of Baltimore suffered a severe leg gash and was hospitalized in Parsons.
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Parsons Hospital
Husband’s coded confession shocks Colorado Springs couple
In Seattle Mrs Mildred Jones Hollingsworth 22 holds a paper showing a dramatic headline about her husband a private in the army confessing to police that he killed her in Colorado Springs. The man reportedly admitted to police chief I B Bruce that the coded act aimed to reunite with his wife from whom he had been separated.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
I. B. Bruce
Oregon to Pledge Votes Today for GOP State Parley
Oregon voters head to a preferential primary where write in voting will allocate the state's 14 convention votes to the winner. Dewey Bricker and Stassen are seen as leading contenders with Willkie still in the mix as delegates tally nears 900.
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Jack Bell
Associated Press
Rank and File
Thomase E. Dewey
New York
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Har
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Wendell L. Willkie
Dewey
Nebraska
Pennsylvania
Bricker
Smelly Remains Of One of Hitler's Most Disasterous Operations
Sevastopol May 19 A war correspondent views the aftermath seven miles from Chernonnes Cape where the German army, once 200000 strong in the Crimea, fell back for a doomed evacuation amid a ruined Sevastopol. Nazi prisoners numbered 25000 as American tanks aided the grim finale. The scene depicts the brutal last hours of a failed campaign and the high casualties endured by German forces in the region.
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Eddie Gilmore
Sevastopol
Chersonnes Cape
Crimea
Romania
Cherronnes
Sergei Birinzov
Fourth Ukrainian Army
Dunkerque
German bombings signal renewed Red Army push from east
London dispatch notes heavy German bombardments of rail hubs Rowne Sarny and Sholbunovo behind the Russian front. The raids imply Hitler expects an immediate Red Army offensive and coordination with a western invasion, targeting the central Polish front as the new attack point.
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London
Red Army
Hitler
Rowne
Sarny
Sholbunovo
Great Bastion of Cassino Free of Nazi Army Today
On May 19, from Monastery Hill near Cassino Italy, Polish troops and the British Eighth Army broke German resistance along the Rapido and Liri valleys. Cassino’s hill and town were declared free of Germans for the first time in over six months as Heidrich’s parachute troops retreated north.
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Eighth Army
Monastery Hill
Cassino
Italy
St. Benedict
Lirl
Adolf Hitler
Rapido
Richard Heidrich
Great Bastion
Poll shows Wallace leading in senate VP pick with 12 votes
Associated Press survey of 41 Democratic senators reveals Henry A Wallace with 12 votes for the vice presidential nomination. The rest split among 10 candidates including Barkley Rayburn Byrnes and Minton with single votes. Fifty eight senators asked. five unavailable. three ill.
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Associated Press
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Senate
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Sem Rayburn
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House
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Kentucky
Trumani
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Gillette
Iowa
O'Mahoney
Wye
Sherman Minton
Indiana
Henry J. Kaiser
J. M Broughton
North Carolina
James A. Farley
New York
Allied Forces Press Toward Key Appian Junctions
Naples dispatch reports U S and French troops driving toward the Appian way junctions as heavy fighting centers on Pontecorvo and the Liri valley. Poles of the Eighth Army push beyond Cassino toward Piedimonte while Monte Fagi dominates the Stri road, signaling a widening Allied offensive. Page 4.
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Pico
Stri
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Romé
Liri
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Stri-Picorad
Heperia
Allied drive in Italy may shift neutrals toward Allies
The War Today argues that a successful Allied push in Italy and Europe would sway neutral nations and Axis satellites toward the United Nations. It notes Sweden's ball bearing exports to Germany as a critical issue, with pressure from the major powers failing to move Stockholm. The piece concludes with a tease for THE WAR TODAY Page 1.
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Associated Press
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Europe
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United Nations
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Britain
Hasna Pee
Germany
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Stockholm
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