Allies press to trap 7th Army as Normandy crisis grows
The column notes Allied aims in France center on destroying the German 7th army in Normandy and then outflanking along the Channel coast. Eisenhower moves his HQ to Normandy to coordinate fast, decisive action to trap the enemy and clear robot bomb nests while sustaining air superiority.
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Paris
France
Normandy
English Channel
Guenene
Channel
England
Eisenhower
Britain
7Th Army
Caen
Avranches
Seine River
Seine
Montgomery
Two Soviet Armies Endanger German Left Flank in East Prussia
Moscow reports two Soviet formations advanced through 250 captured settlements along a 100 mile front toward East Prussia. Red Star says they beat back reserves in hand to hand combat while pushing toward Lomza and near Warsaw, threatening encirclement of German forces from East Prussia to the Vistula.
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Moscow
East Prussia
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Warsaw
Zakharov
Bialystok
East Prussia-Lithuanian
Red Star
Ivan Masiennikov
Pskov
Ioss
New Dios
Petseri
Baltics
Red Army
Riga
Lomza
Tykocin
Dobre
Pniewnik
Kocrytnica
Vistula
Poland
Krakow
Bombers Hit Besieged Brest as RAF Strikes Range in France
Allied air power targeted French rail hubs and airfields from Brest to Laon with heavy American bombers and RAF Lancasters. Attacks hit Metz, Le Perthe, Chamant, Athies, Covron, Juvincourt, and a rail bridge at Etaples while Brest endured a third heavy raid in a week. RAF raids on Berlin and Givors accompanied the strikes.
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London
Metz
France
Toulouse
Britain
Russia
Italy
Berlin
Givors
Paris
Rhone
Lyons
RAF Bomber Command
Mediterranean
Mediterranean Allied Air Force
Marseille-Lyons-Paris
Pas-De-Calais
Etaples
Secrecy marked Allied moves in drive toward Paris
Allied forces pressed a two pronged threat to southern France while keeping operations west of Paris highly secret. American armored units crossed the Loire south of the city and heavy bombers hit Mediterranean coastal defenses as Allied commanders expanded the northwest France sweep and hinted at avoiding a direct Paris objective.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
France
Paris
Guenther von Kluge
West Wall
Caen
Peace Movement Forms Provisional Romanian Peace Government
In Bucharest a provisional peace government is formed by Peasant Party Chief Juliu Maniu and allies. Antonescu allegedly cannot block it and may become army chief of staff. Four parties participate as leaders seek a unified program for armistice with Russia Britain and the United States.
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Istanbul
uPi
Juliu Maniu
Bucharest
Marshal Ion Antonescu
Bern
Antonescu
Moscow
Berlin
Romania
Russia
Britain
United States
Ancient Cradle Of Art Spared Demolition
Rome reports German forces withdrew from Florence saving the city’s art heritage. Allied troops helped civilians on the south bank while Germans retreated north of the Mugnone canal. Eighth Army massed west of the Arno for an assault as skirmishes continued along the Italian front.
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Rome
Florence
Arno
Remai
Mugnone Canal
Eighth Army
Col
Fuchs
Pavolini
Alessandro Pavolini
Mussolini
Fibbiena
Empoli
Montelupo
San Colombano
Adriatic
Cesano
Pesaro
Castelleone di Suasa
Fifth Army
France
Italy
Yugoslavia
Explosion Kills Twelve in Shawneetown Illinois
An explosion in Shawneetown Illinois on August 12 killed twelve people, including six children, when gasoline fumes from a levee breach ignited 300 foot flames. Victims include Joseph Rider 48 and his family members Betty Jo 12 Clara Donna 10 Mrs Harold Back 23 Mrs Wayne Roark 17 and two month old, Wayne Roark, plus Illinois Farm Supply Co. workers William Scott and Logan Tharp.
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Shawneetown
Ohio River
Joseph Rider
Betty Jo
Clara Donna
Harold Back
Wayne Roark
Rider
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Illinois Farm Supply Co
William Scott
Logan Tharp
Aston Mines
Sea Triumphs Claimed By Germans
German broadcasts claim Allied ships tried to attack Lorient, the Brittany base, but the assault failed. Berlin reports U boats off the invasion coast sank four Allied freighters totaling 22,000 tons and two mine sweepers, and torpedoed three ships and a destroyer.
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London
Lorient
Brittany
Road To Berlin Distances From Front Lines
The update lists three fronts with distances from key reference points. Russian front is 322 miles from Warsaw outskirts, Italian front 603 miles from Florence, and French front 626 miles from Seignolles.
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Associated Press
Warsaw
Florence
Seignolles
Roosevelt to Speak Over Air From Bremerton Yard Tonight
President Roosevelt will radio his first post nomination address from the Bremerton navy yard at 5 p m Pacific time 8 p m Eastern time. The broadcast will be carried by four networks as he completes a Pacific war tour with visits to Pearl Harbor the Aleutians and meeting top war chiefs.
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Seattle
Wash
Roosevelt
Bremerton Navy Yard
San Diego
Calif
Pearl Harbor
Chester W. Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
Pacific
Aleutians
Honolulu
William D. Leahy
Joint Chiefs of Staff
White House
Washington
Alaska
Norman Bell
Associated Press
Aleutian Island
Mr. Roosevelt
Liberators Hammer Jap Bases Across Pacific Battlefronts
U S forces report Libera tors raid Saipan Iwo Jima and Halmahera as MacArthur notes heavy land based strikes and carrierless operations. Nimitz confirms 47 ton payloads and air defense interruptions while Marines hit Mil i atoll and Australian fighters disrupts parade near Sorong.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Saipan
Jabose
Philip Dia White
Douglas MacArthur
Mindanao
Chester W. Nimitz
Volcano Islands
Halmahera
Nimitz
Iwo Jima
Tokyo
Mili
Marshalls
MacArthur
Samate
Sorong
Dutch New Guinea
Grandmother Murder Case Heads to Missouri Trial
Durham reports Edward J. Martin a 24 year old Charlotte chemist held since May 18 on murder charges in the slaying of his 67 year old grandmother Mrs Edward M Jewett of Boonville Missouri. Authorities say Jewett died near Chapel Hill and Martin will be returned to Missouri for trial. Evidence includes blood spattered car items and a macabre array of clues found by police.
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Durham
Edward J. Martin
Charlotte
Edward M. Jewett
Booneville
Missouri
William H. Murdock
University of Missouri
Eastwood Lake
Chapel Hill
Boonville
Martin
State Liquor Sales In July Reach 1.86 Million
Legal liquor sales in the state's 25 counties totaled 1 857 017.75 for July, up from 1 659 109.95 in June. New Hanover led with 317 028.25, followed by Durham 237 918.65 and Wake 189 000 plus. Cumberland 144 000 plus. Other counties show smaller totals across the region.
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ABC Board
New Hanover
Durham
Wake
Cumberland
Beaufort
Bertie
Carteret
Chowan
Craven
Dare
Edgecombe
Greene
Halifax
Moore
Nash
Onslow
Pasquotank
Pitt
Tyrell
Vance
Warren
Washington
Wilson
Death Trap Looms Over Nazi Army In Allied Drive
Allied forces widened a western European front from Norway to Italy with heavy bombing of French and Italian coast defenses and a Brittany to Loire push by American armored units. Montgomery’s troops and British Canadians threaten Paris while naval air attacks hit Norway coastal defenses from carrier aircraft.
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Dwight Pitkin
Associated Press
Europe
Norway
Italy
Mediterranean
France
Hetly
Brittany
Louie River
Loire
Bernard L. Montgomery
Normandy
Seine
Paris
Trondheim
Guerrilla Warfare Reported Inside Germany
A Nazi correspondent in Madrid says escaped prisoners of war and foreign workers have formed guerilla bands in southern Germany. Terrorists are said to burn homes, wipe out families, and steal supplies while German police seek and isolate groups in the mountains. An Austrian dispatch notes attackers overpowered four policemen, and Voelkischer Beobachter reports Germans slain in a village as defense against raids and uprisings grows.
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Madrid
Germany
Werner Gilles
Guerrilas
Austria
Adolf Hitler
Voelkischer Beobachter
Fire at Wildwood Oceanfront Burned Block Near Boardwalk
A block-long row of buildings along the Wildwood New Jersey oceanfront including Strang motion picture theatre and seven stores burned in the early hours. Ten persons were injured while firefighters battled the blaze, with Mayor Benjamin C. Ingersoll estimating damage above $250 000.
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Wildwood
N. J
Strang Motion Picture Theatre
Benjamin C. Ingersoll
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