Parachute Combat Team Completes Sicily Landing Mission
American parachute troops, led by Col. from Mount Carmel, Pa., jump over the Sicilian coast and fight through heavy German and Italian resistance. The raid around Vittoria sees losses and gains as they press long range objectives despite rough dawn conditions and misdrop.
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John Thomson
United States Press
Associated Press
Sicily
Siily
U.S. Army
Geering Grenadiers
Anks
Hem
Rom
Vichy Sees Axis Sicily Situation as Serious
Vichy radio calls the Axis position in Sicily extremely serious as Allied pressure grows in the Catania plain. Gen Monts Eight Army massed on the Catania plain with artillery tanks and air support while Rome says Allied attacks are repulsed. Italian reports claim aerial raids on Palermo Messina and Naples causing building damage. Torpedo planes reportedly sank four ships and damaged a heavy cruiser and two merchants while an Allied destroyer fell to an Italian torpedo boat. Axis air effort reportedly down 50 percent from early invasion days and may shift to mainland fields.
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London
Vichy
Sicily
Berlin
Rome
Catania Plain
Bernard L. Montiss
Catania
Associated Press
Ted
Palermo
Messina
Naples
Gerbini
Race hate and Congress echo on editorial page
The piece contends that murderers become heads of nations while race hatred persists at home. It cites Congressman Rankin’s insertions in the Congressional Record alleging that Detroit riots were caused by communistic Jews and Negroes and laments Congress’s loss of respect. An abrupt note adds that an electric torpedo fish can briefly disable a person.
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John FE
Ground troops land in Sicily amid heavy resistance and confusion
Allied troops breach the coast and inland strongpoints in a chaotic Sicily landing. Flares from a transport ignite and explode, several personnel are wounded, and the unit fights through pillboxes and Italian defenses as they push northwest toward Vittoria. The correspondent recalls brutal combat and a strenuous, uphill march.
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Sicily
Trs
Vittoria
State Guard To Hold Fort Bragg Encampment This Sunday
The North Carolina State Guard about 2000 members will encamp at Fort Bragg for 10 days of field training starting Sunday. An advance detachment will precede the main force to prepare the camp. The program covers extended order drill scouting patrolling camouflage first aid map reading and more with a governor's review and banquet set for July 24 at the post officers mess.
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Raleigh
North Carolina State Guard
Fort Bragg
J. van B. Metts
114Th Field Artillery
William S. Pritchard
Revival services to open at Fayetteville Pentecostal church
Rev J W Berry pastor evangelist of Fayetteville will open revival at the local Pentecostal Holiness Church on Highland Avenue tonight. The revival runs nightly through next week with services at 7 45 each evening. Rev Thomas T Lindsey is the church pastor. The rest of the text notes a shark behavior and a population hypothetical about Puerto Rico not connected to the revival story.
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J. W. Berry
Fayetteville
Highland Avenue
Thomas T. Lindsey
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