Americans advance toward Grenoble in southern France
Allied forces reported rapid progress as Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's column neared Grenoble 58 miles southeast of Lyon. French interior troops aided the push toward Lyon and the Rhone valley, with Grenoble a key rail center on the Paris-Lyon-Marseille route and near the Italian frontier.
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Department of
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Elba
Rbons
Napoleon
French Alps
Lend-Lease Aid Exceeds 28 Billion Through June 30
A government report shows lend-lease supplies and services valued at 4.045 billion for the quarter ending June 30, bringing total aid since March 11, 1941 to over 28 billion. It notes 30,900 planes, 1,400 naval vessels, 511+ ships, 26,900 tanks, 637,600 ordnance vehicles, and 270,000 trucks gifted or leased to Allies, with the United States retaining substantial assets.
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England
Russia
United Kingdom
Lendlease Ramn
Allies
United States
Open City Paris Remembered Amid Armies Advance
Gen Ge Catroux ordered dispatch of the tri color and church bells to ring. Libéraux will be celebrated in Algiers at 6 p.m. with salvoes and sirens. Paris was declared open city as German armor entered the capital past the Arc de Triomphe. Streets were silent and residents stayed indoors.
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Ge Catroux
Algiers
Paris
Arc de Triomphe
Champs Elysees
Palace de la Concorde
Red Army advances amid Romania panic and supply gaps
The Red Army pushes toward Jelgava and into Romania as panic spreads in Bucharest over Prime Minister Antonescu and peace talks. Reports say many ruined German and Romanian lines leave 147 cars of munitions and food abandoned in rail yards while Romania’s breadbasket and oil reserves draw attention.
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Romania
Bucharest
Antonescu
Ria
Yugoslavia
Germany
Red Star
Prut
Allied Trap Captures Up to 50,000 Germans in Normandy
Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force reports 40,000 to 50,000 prisoners taken from the Argentan trap in Normandy. American Third Army under Lt Gen George S Patton is marching from Fontainebleau toward Paris, with a bridgehead across the Seine earlier announced in the Fontainebleau area.
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Allied Expeditionary Force
Argentan
Normandy
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Third Army
Fontainebleau
Paris
Seine
U S Aid Breakdown Shows Heavy Goods Transfer
A government report details aid furnished since the program began including 36,500 tanks and 1.5 million military vehicles. Goods account for 87.8 percent of total aid with munitions 53.6 percent of goods valued at $15.16 billion while industrial materials reach $6.03 billion and agricultural products $3.63 billion.
Navy planes hit multiple Pacific targets in late war raids
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reported operations near Halmahera and Marcus Island where two supply ships burned after Liberator attacks. Other aircraft struck Ponape Truk Yap Wake Nauru and bypassed the Marshalls as fires and explosions erupted across those areas.
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Truk
Yap
Nimitz
Wake
Marshalls
Nauru
Robots Pound South England In Early Hours
London reports a heavy dawn barrage as flying bombs and buzz bombs strike across South England. Antiaircraft fire is described as the heaviest yet, with casualties in residential areas. An American officer was killed waiting for a bus, and relief efforts by volunteers and Red Cross aid stations are noted.
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England
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Seine
Channel
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Women's Volunteer Service
Red Cross
United States
Weather Outlook for North Carolina
Partly cloudy and moderately warm conditions continue Wednesday and Thursday. Scattered showers are expected mainly in the afternoon across parts of the state.
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North Carolina
5000 Miners In Pennsylvania Idle On Strike
Five thousand Western Pennsylvania soft coal miners stayed idle as a strike to win recognition as collective bargaining agent for supervisory employees spread. The National Labor Relations Board reports strike votes filed by supervisory workers from six mines. Union head John McAlpine said the drive would reach all mining districts and notices are being filed quickly.
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Pennsylvania
National Labor Relations Board
Ee Oervisory
United Clerical, Technical and Supervisory
United Mine Workers of America
John McAlpine
Suit seeks dissolution of two railroad associations
The United States files a suit to dissolve the Association of American Railroads and the Western Association of Railway Executives, seek injunctions to halt offenses and a plan restraining trade under the Sherman act. Assistant Attorney General Berge notes war delays and a federal probe into southern railroads for freight-rate collusion with no evidence of a Lincoln suit plan. Defendants include AAR directors Champion McDowell Davis and Legh R. Powell Jr. along with Ernest E. Norris.
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Association of American Railroads
Western Association of Railway Executives
Western Systems
Western Commissioner
Committee of Directors
Wendell L. Berge
Nnve Riments
Berge
Justice Department
Southern
Lincoln
Champion McDowell Davis
Wilmington
N. C
Association American Railroads
Ernest E. Norris
Wington
D. C
Southern Railway Co
Fire rips through village wreckage killing many
Fire brigades battled flames in wrecked buildings after a plane crash near a village of 1,438 residents. An eyewitness described a sea of flames surrounding the center as debris ignited schools and shops. Forty three children were at the school with few reported alive. Navajo legends tie Shiprock to a bird that guided the tribe to New Mexico.
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New Mexico
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