Rome Raid Seen As Outstandingly Successful
Allied headquarters in North Africa reported the Rome assault a major success. Over 500 American bombers took part with five planes lost, striking Littoria and San Lorenzo rail yards, the Tabonelli steel plant, and Alarge chemical works in a two and a half hour raid. Wrecked Ciampino and Littoria airports, plus extensive bomb damage, were shown in official photos.
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Allied
North Africa
Allied Headquarters
Rome
U. S. Air Force
Cairo
Littoria
San Lorenzo
Imperial City
Tabonelli Steel
Alarge Chemical Works
Carl A. Spaatz
Northwest African Air Forces
James H. Doolittle
Strategic Air Force
Spaatz
Middle East
U. S
Ciampino
Russians Take 130 Villages In Orel Drive
Russian siege guns shell Orel as Soviet forces push toward the fortress from three sides. West of Orel a column penetrates 30 miles into the German rear, seizing 130 more villages for a total of 240 since the counteroffensive began. The German communique reports heavy tank losses and continued stiff resistance around Orel amid linked offensives on Kuban Krimskaya and the Donets.
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Moscow
Baston
Orel
Red Army
Ilinskoye
Kuban
Krimskaya
Mius River
Donets
DNB
World War II Updates From Rome to Russia and Pacific
From Rome reports say 500 U S bombers hit the city with aerial photos showing Littorian marshalling yards destroyed. Allies claim military objective but Catholics noted as targets. In Sicily Italians mutiny against Nazi officers as US and allies push toward Enna. Catania sees German counterattacks. In Russia Red armies advance beyond Orel threatening Bryansk rail lines. In the Pacific US forces widen Munda bridgehead and hit Macassar Celebes. Washington says the navy plans for war against Japan to 1949.
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Associated Press
Rome
U. S
Littorian
Rome bombing stated as necessary to end war quicker
The piece argues that Allied raids on Rome aimed to spare Italian and Allied lives by shortening the war, noting Mussolini failed to declare Rome an open city and alleging his betrayal of neighbors. It references warnings, religious sites, and mass movement to the capital, with parallel notes on Eastern front fighting and German resistance near Orel and Lyovo.
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Axis
Rome
Italy
Mussolini
Hitler
France
Duce
England
Westminster Abbey
St. Paul's
Canterbury Cathedral
Vatican City
Russian forces advance on German base from three sides
Moscow radio said early tonight that several dozen more populated places on the Orel front have been captured as Russian armies push toward the German base from three sides.
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London
Orel
Moscow
Warning to evacuees as Rome suffers air raid damage
Swiss dispatches report fascist Italy orders nonessential workers to leave Rome due to lack of air raid shelters and overcrowding from evacuees. The bombed city endures massive destruction in San Lorenzo Preastina Tiburtino and University City with casualties and delayed bombs still being searched.
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Bern
Switzerland
Rome
Dispatches
Vatican City
Italy
San Lorenzo
Preestina
Tiburtino
Ferdinand of Savoia
Termini
University City
Gazette de Lausanne
Navy Foresees Six More Years Of War In Pacific
Vice Admiral and Secretary Knox spoke at a press conference urging realism about a prolonged war. They warned against early victory talk, stressed building bases, and predicted no Europe collapse. They cited large Allied manpower and production needs, with steel output hit by a coal strike and production targets slipping.
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Knox
Pacific
Germany
Horne
Tokyo
Sicily
Europe
Charles FE. Wilson
War Production Board
Wilson
Allied Drive Shatters Nazi Tank Attacks in Sicily
Allied forces press into Western and Central Sicily as Italian mutinies against German officers rise and British Eighth Army halts brutal Nazi tank assaults around Catania. Patton's Seventh Army advances toward Palermo while Italian units surrender in large numbers.
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Y Daniel’ de Luce
North Africa
Catania
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Ramacca
Goering Grenadier
U. S. Seventh Army
George S. Patton, Jr
Palermo
Giulio Cessara Gott Porcinari
Napoli
Libya
Piazza Arminera
15Th Armored Division
Mt Etnago
Messina Strait
Cape Passero
Messina
Randozzo
Mt. Etna
Caltanissetta
Allies Raid Macassar in Long Distance Air Strike
Allied bombers from the Southwest Pacific flew Liberators over Macassar, Celebes, in a bold round trip mission. Reports say fires towered in the harbor area while Allied forces also pushed a limited advance at Lilo, near Munda airfield, with Japanese casualties cited.
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Netherlands East Indies
Macassar
Celebes
Lilio
Soloomons
Munda
Avenger
Bairoko
Jula Gulf
Lambeti
New Guinea
Mount Tambu
Salamaua
Kahili
Ballale
Buin-Fai
Yank Raid Puts Pressure On Jap's Northern Bases
Washington reports Liberator bombers hit Paramushiro in the northern Kurile chain, near Amchitka in the western Aleutians. The raid, coordinated with actions elsewhere, aimed at Japanese northern defenses and involved a formation possibly a dozen planes.
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Washington
Navy
North Pacific
Paramushiro
Amchitaka
Aleutians
Amchitka
Japan
Kurile Chain
Tokyo
New Guinea
Knox
South Pacific
Canton Island
Canton
Phoenix Group
Pearl Harbor
Samoa
Kiska
Kiska Island
Gertrude Cove
UMW Chiefs Seek Return To AFL Fold
John L Lewis and five UMW executives met with AFL vice presidents to discuss the union rejoining the AFL. The talks block on jurisdiction pits UMW operations against AFL organized sectors including progressive miners of America as the 200-man policy committee reviews the anthracite coal bargaining.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
UMW
American Federation of Labor
AFL
Lewis
Progressive Miners of America
Mine Union
Congress of Industrial Organizations
CIO
Hitler and Mussolini Hold North Italy Talks on Military Matters
The Fuhrer Adolf Hitler and Premier Benito Mussolini met Monday July 19 in a city in upper Italy to discuss military questions the Berlin radio reported. The last meeting occurred April 7 to 10 at Hitler's headquarters when complete agreement was announced. The pair have faced disasters from Tunisia to Sicily and the Ruhr. Gen Henri Giraud arrived in Britain as cochairman of the French Committee of National Liberation.
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Adolf Wither
Mussolini
Berlin
Associated Press
Hitler
Fuhrer
UH Duce
Italy
Tunisia
Ruhr
Sicily
Ickes Pins War Program Failures on Dollar Year Men
Interior Secretary Ickes blamed dollar a year businessmen for frictions in the war effort and defended officials and brain trusters. He said new hands from private life caused machine clankings and clashes among war efforts, not brain trusters or bureaucrats. He cited Knudsen, Nelson, and Stettinius as examples of dollar a year men.
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Ickes
New York
Sales Executives Club of
Knudsen
Nelson
Stettinius
Washington
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