War Plans Taper Off Pending FDR Churchill Meeting
A tapering off of Allied war planning emerged in Quebec as Churchill and Mackenzie King preside over talks with their staff while awaiting President Roosevelt. Churchill’s absence and secrecy around Roosevelt’s arrival mark the period as strategy parley preparations continue amid formal calls to provincial leaders.
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Churchill
Douglas B. Cornell
Quebec
Roosevelt
England
Military Interest in Tax Program Scrutinizes Incentives
Secretary Morgenthau said military authorities show interest in the proposed 12 billion dollar tax plan to keep levies low enough to sustain production incentives. He noted war and navy undersecretaries attended a tax conference over incentives and corporate taxes, with bonuses at war plants and WPB aiming to protect incentive payments. A follow up administration meeting on tax matters is expected next week, with a ready plan by early September. A statement on allied military currency in Sicily may also be issued soon.
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Morgenthau
Treasury
War and Navy Departments
Armed Services
War Production Board
WPB
Alianathen
Sicily
Stalin Talks With Allied Ambassadors
Stalin met with American and British ambassadors in Moscow as Churchill and Roosevelt prepared for an upcoming war conference in Canada. The Moscow radio gave no details, while press commentary debated Stalin’s absence and Russia’s potential participation in the plans against Italy and Germany.
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London
Joseph Stalin
Moscow
Churchill
Roosevelt
Canada
Yorkshire Post
Anthony Eden
Washington
Britain
Italy
Stalin
London Times
Daily Telegraph
Daily Express
Woman Gives Birth To Baby In RR Station
In Salisbury area, Mrs. James T. Brown of Estelle Springs Tennessee gave birth on a Spencer railroad station platform while en route to Camp Butner. An ambulance and hospital staff aided, yielding a healthy eight and a half pound baby and a content mother and child.
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Salisbury
Inquirer
Yankee Stadium
James T. Brown
Estelle Springs
Tenn
Camp Butner
Spencer
Brown
Spencer Station
July air raid casualties in Britain rise to 167 dead
London August 12 official figures report 167 civilians killed and 210 injured in July air raids across Britain.
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London
Britain
Yanks Pierce German Flanks Soviets Close On Kharkov
Russian forces hammer the Kharkov suburbs as encirclement tightens. Red troops approach within seven miles at the nearest point, cutting the Kharkov Poltava railway at Vodyanaya and threatening German retreats in the Donets basin.
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London
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Kharkov-Poltava
Vodyanaya
Algiers
Reuters
Donets Basin
Lozovaya
Barvenkova
Kiev-Stalino
Cherkasskie Tishki
Nazie Prantic
Moscow
Akhtyrka
Sumy
Smolensk
Bryansk
Alexeyevka
Sea Landing At Night Puts Yanks In Rear Of Axis
Allied report from North Africa describes a new American amphibious landing on Sicily's north coast. U.S. infantry crossed from the sea to establish a bridgehead east of Cape Orlando after dawn assault, facing German counterattacks. Warships and fighter bombers supported the operation with heavy bombardment.
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Belman Morin
North Africa
Sicily
Cape Orlando
Two Are Sentenced On War Fraud Charges
In Baltimore on August 12 Federal Judge W C Chesnut sentenced two Triumph Explosives executives from Elkton Maryland to three year prison terms and heavy fines for war contract fraud totaling about 1 4 million The judge considered probation for Gustav H Kann if full restitution of 42000 he allegedly took from the firm is made and noted his prior good deeds Kann was fined 5000 and costs plus the three year term on a mail fraud count
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W. Calvin Chesnut
Triumph Explosives, Inc
Elkton
Chesnut
Gustav H. Kann
Pittsburgh
Kann
Alliance Key Topic at War Conference Postwar Ration
In the fort conference between Roosevelt and Churchill the main issue may be shaping postwar ration among the United States Russia and Britain with the Allies. The prospect of Soviet dominance in Europe and possibly the Near East is discussed as a likely outcome of the war.
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Messrs
Roosevelt
Churchill
United States
Russia
Britain
Soviet Union
Europe
Ovent
Flying Forts Hammer At Nazi Industrial Targets
U S Eighth Air Force bombed German industrial targets across the Rhine in bright sunlight, following RAF night raids on the Ruhr and Rhineland. The German radio claimed a four engine force struck Bonn and surrounding areas, noting heavy air battles above the clouds. Bonn, a Rhine Valley railway hub, hosts a university and Beethoven birthplace, with factories, mills, and warehouses cited among targets.
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London
U. S
Eighth Army Air Force
Germany
Channel
Ruhr
Rhineland
Bonn
Beethoven
Rhine
U.S
Editor rush saves girl with penicillin aid
New York city editor answered a cry for help from Lawrence Malone in Jackson Heights. Within hours a lifesaving penicillin shipment arrived at Lutheran Hospital for his 2 year old daughter Patricia. Doctors reported improvement and the next 48 hours would determine outcome.
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New York Journal-American
City Desk
Lawrence J. Malone
Jackson Heights
Queens
Lutheran Hospital
Patricia Malone
U. S. Public Health Service
Washington
E. R. Squibb and Sons Research Laboratories
New Brunswick
American Flying Fortress Attacked German Targets
London reports United States Army Air Force bombers attacked Gelsenkirchen Wessel ing and Bonn in the Rhineland this daylight raid. Headquarters said 75 four engine bombers were lost in the three way strike.
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London
American Flying Fortress
Gelsenkirchen
Wesseling
Bonn
Germany
Rhineland
U. S. Army Air Force
RAF Mosquitos raid Kassel and Letrait shipyards noted
British flying fortresses from Britain targeted Kassel in July and attacks by two engined Marauder bombers followed with a raid on Letrait shipyards in France on August 4. An air ministry communique did not list specific targets for the Mosquitos. Mines were laid in other RAF night operations.
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Britain
Kassel
Letrait
France
Air Ministry
Evacuation of Sicily Reported by Germans Underway
A Reuters dispatch from Sicily stated that German evacuation was in full swing with thousands of troops and heavy equipment withdrawing daily. Vessels shuttled to the Italian mainland under anti-aircraft fire from hundreds of guns as the retreat continued.
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London
Reuters
Sicily
Tenacity Of Japs Demonstrated In New Georgia Action
Allied headquarters report continued resistance by Japanese forces in northern New Georgia after the Munda airstrip fell. American units from the 25th 37th and 43rd divisions and Marines overran Munda, with encirclement advancing from Rice Anchorage toward Bairoko harbor while naval results included sinking barges and damaging ships near New Ireland and Salamaua.
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Southwest Pacific
New Georgia
Munda
Bairoko Harbor
Kula Gulf
Bairoko
U. S
Douglas MacArthur
Kala Gulf
United States
New Ireland
Rabaul
New Britain
Allied push toward Randazzo as Messina deadline nears
Allied forces close on Randazzo as German defenders fight to slow the inland Sicilian drive. American Seventh Army advances from Cesare and British Eighth Army moves north from Bronte, but remnants dig in ruins and slow progress near the town.
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Cesaro
Randazzo
North Africa
Messina
Seventh Army
Cesare
Bronte
Allied push in Sicily breached Randazzo area and Etna flank
In Sicily the battle sees rapid Allied advances on all fronts. American forces trap likely German pocket near Nazo River mouth while bombing Italy’s mainland. Randazzo gun lines close. British Eighth Army advances on the Bronte Randazzo road and seizes Prajola and Zafferana Etna on Mt Etna’s eastern slopes.
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Sicily
Ternie
Rome
Randazzo
Cesaro
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Bronte
Prajola
Zallerana Etna
Mt. Etna
New York
Zafferana Fina
Germans Halt Italy Shipments
German frontier reports that Germany has halted shipments of all types to Italy with no explanation. In Rome, Badoglio’s government continues the war while awaiting fronts that could change the Italian position. Die Tat cites Italian recognition of the Churchill Roosevelt meeting and press focus on Casablanca terms.
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Bern
Germany
Italy
Badoglio
Die Tat
Zurich
Casablanca
Japs Report U S Attack on Kuriles
New York dispatch says a Japanese broadcast claimed American fliers hit the northern Kurile approaches to Japan and warned of more appearances from the north. The raid, said by Tokyo radio to involve Liberators and Flying Fortresses from Aleutian bases, followed a July 20 attack on Paramushiro.
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New York
Federal Communications Today
Kurile Island
Japan
Tokyo
Domei
North America
United States
Attu Island
Attu
Kiska
Aleutian
Churchill Leaves Canada On New Trip
Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain left Niagara Falls after a brief Canadian side visit with his daughter Subaltern Mary Churchill. He crossed to the American side by auto and boarded a six car train. He recalled first visiting the falls in 1900 and noted the water still falls as before.
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C. F. Constantine
Military District
Niagara River
Spasonacown Heights
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