Red Army Breaks Into Kharkov Area As Smolensk Fight Rages
Soviet front line dispatches report Red Army entry into Kharkov streets from several directions and a firm hold on the Ukraine steel center. Northern thrusts threaten Bryansk and Smolensk as Spas Demensk defenses are tested with continuous trench lines and gun positions.
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Moscow
Red Army
Kharkov
Ukraine
Bryansk
Smolensk
Spas Demensk
Red Star
Spas Peoronk
Thorugh
Italians Declare Rome an Open City Amid Air Raids
Reuters reported Rome will be declared an open city under international law. The move follows repeated Allied air raids on Rome and aims to halt railroad use for troops, withdraw troops, stop war manufacture, and allow an Allied commission to verify obligations.
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London
Reuters
Rome
Holy See
Bombers devastate Salamaua in major New Guinea raid
Allied air forces blasted Salamaua on the northeastern New Guinea coast with 177 tons of bombs dropped in 45 minutes. The strike left the isthmus area a ruin and the large airfield inland heavily damaged. British and American troops pressed toward Bobdubi as high casualties and widespread destruction followed the Friday raid.
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Yates McDaniel
Southwest Pacific
Salamaua
Japan
New Guinea
Huon Gulf
Chinatown
Kela
Junge
Bobdubi
Observation Hill
Mubo
New Britain
Munda
New Georgia Island
RAF
Milan
Turin
Berlin
Rome
Associated Press
San Lorenzo
Littorio
Eternal City
Robert Butler
Staples, Minn
Church of Our Lady of Loretto
Rome Radio
Final Battle For Italy Takes Shape
American Liberator bombers struck Wiener Neustadt thirty miles south of Vienna in former Austria, targeting war industries as part of a broad push into southeast European industrial sites. The attack was disclosed in a Middle East communique dated August 14 by Allied sources.
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London
Hitler
Wiener Neustadt
Vienna
Austria
Liberators
Cairo
Cap Bon
Civenaica
Rome
RAF
Milan
Turin
Italy
Berlin
Associated Press
Pietro Badoglio
Lawyer Hits Rich Vein In Old Fraud Law
A Pittsburgh attorney Morris L. Marcus earned $260000 after three years suing electrical contractors under an old informer suit law. The Justice Department sees a wave of similar cases and urges Congress to outlaw such actions, arguing the government should receive future recoveries.
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Washington
Pittsburgh
Justice Department
Morris L. Marcus
Marcus
Department
Mt Etna Falls To Allied Control As Randazzo Seat Surrenders
Allied forces widened the advance across Sicily as Randazzo fell north of Mt Etna and German retreat began. British and American troops pushed toward Messina while Luftwaffe defenses and Italian shore batteries blocked evacuation efforts. Allied air and naval units bombed roads, rails, and ports, with limited losses and several enemy aircraft destroyed.
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North Africa
Sicily
Italy
Randazzo
Mt. Etna
Messina
Piraino
Floresta
Riposto
Giarre
Milo
Messina Strait
Sicilian
RAF
Cap Bon
Tunisia
Eighth Army
Why German resolve differed in Sicily and Tunisia
The piece argues German forces in Tunisia surrendered when cornered, while in Sicily they fought on with hopes of a Dunkirk escape and reunion with troops along the Po. It attributes the contrast to perceived strategic stakes and morale in each theater, noting belief in a possible return to the fatherland.
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Sicily
Tunisia
Hitler
North Africa
Reich
Messina
Italy
Germany
Top Men Of U. S. Forces Open Quebec War Talks
The Quebec military conference enters a crucial second stage with US chiefs Marshall King Arnold Leahy Somervell meeting British staff to map war plans ahead of a potential Roosevelt Churchill summit. Speculation adds Eden may attend as talks begin among Anglo American leaders in Quebec.
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U. S
Quebec
United States
Roosevelt
Churchill
Anthony Eden
Navy
George C. Marshall
Army
Ernest J. King
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
William D. Leahy
Brehon
S. Somervell
Army Service Forces
Sir Alan Brooke
FDR Sees Major War Developments
President Roosevelt says allies stand on the threshold of major developments in World War II and reiterates support for extending Social Security benefits and health protection. He marks the Atlantic Charter’s second anniversary and U S Social Security’s eighth birthday, stressing rights of peoples to choose their form of government.
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Washington
Roosevelt
U. S
Germany
Italy
Japan
Tremendous Artillery Barrage Opened Reds' Summer Drive
On the Bryansk front the Red Army opened its summer offensive with a massive artillery barrage on July 12, estimated far heavier than Verdun. About 3,000 gun barrels per mile massed for the breakthrough as Soviets push from Orel toward Bryansk, with fighting continuing in swamps and forests.
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RED Army
Bryansk
Verdun
Orel
Kharkov
Smoensk
Red Air Force
Peter Petrovich Sabennikov
Supreme Command
Sabennikov
Governor Urges Tobacco Growers to Hold Crop in South Carolina
South Carolina Governor Olin D. Johnston asked tobacco farmers to withhold their crop and refrain from selling at current prices. He spoke in Washington to press for higher ceiling prices for flue-cured tobacco, citing a proposed 7 cent per pound differential for graded and tied leaf. WFA noted a 3 cent tied-leaf differential earlier, with Georgia Florida market prices steady but inferior quality offerings. The belt’s average price slid to 35.4 cents per pound as sales reached 2,670,436 pounds for the day, and 74,419,401 pounds had sold at 39.63 cents overall through Thursday.
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Olin D. Johnston
South Carolina
War Food Administration
WFA
Georgia- Florida
Washington
Johnston
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Georgia-Florida
British raids in Burma raid rail yards and clash near Buthedaung
A British communique reports a land patrol ambush that killed nine Japanese and air raids that ripped apart two locomotives and 40 railway cars in Mandalay and Kyunguan areas. Hurricanes bombed hutments and sampans in the Maya peninsula. Patrol clashes occurred near Buthedaung and along the Chindwin river.
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New Delhi
India
Mandalay
Kyunguan
Burma
Maya
Akyab
Buthedaung
Chindwin River
Gas Rations Cut Amid West Abolition Drive Decree
Washington reports a three gallon per coupon limit for midwest and southwest motorists and a pending lifting of the eastern pleasure driving ban by September 1 if rules are followed. Interior Secretary Ickes notes a 15 percent cut in regional gasoline supply. OPA aims to build eastern stocks while honoring an honor system in the east.
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Washington
Midwest
Southwest
East
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Ickes
Petroleum
Eastern Seaboard
Atlantic Coast
Middle West
Chester Bowles
Bowles
Rocky Mountains
Dreams of Marble Halls Come True for Allied Soldiers
In Sicily near Palermo American soldiers, exhausted from duty, slept in a billet to wake on a fine marble floor with seventeenth century paintings and gilded furniture. Prince Lanzo Di Scalea, an allied sympathizer, showed Sgt. James D. Langford that the house was his and welcomed the responders.
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Allied
North Africa
Army
Stars and Stripes
Palermo
Sicily
Lanzo di Scalea
James D. Langford
Thomaston, Ga
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