Yanks Hold Guam Harbor as Invasion Advances
American forces push along Guam harbor as the Third Marine Division advances five miles from Agana toward Cabras Island. Navy chief King declares fleet can strike Japan and the Philippines from Saipan to the China coast, while Yap and New Guinea actions continue.
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Guam
Adm
Ernest J. King
Pearl Harbor
Marianas
Japan
Philippines
China Coast
U. S
C Ter W. Nimitz
Pacific
Saipan
Nimitz
Port Apra
King
Marshalls
China
Third Marine
Agana
Piti
Caberas Island
Alifan
Agat
Southwest Pacific
Yap
Riak Island
New Guinea
Provisional Marine Brigade
War Today analyzes Axis leadership turmoil and its impact on WW2 duration
War analyst Kirke L. Simpson discusses events in Germany and Japan that signal potential wartime duration. The Tojo cabinet’s fall, Nazi panic, and a shakeup in Tokyo are portrayed as attempts to stave total defeat, with Hitler summoning Himmler and a mounting internal revolt cited as proof of deep unrest.
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Germany
Japan
Europe
Pacific
Tojo
Jokyo
China
Hitler
TOIO
Tokyo
Axis
Himmler
Allies Wade Through Mud To Extend Normandy Front
Allied troops pressed through muddy terrain along the Normandy front extending gains after repulsing German counterattacks. Canadian forces near Caen secured Maltot area back from enemy control while moving west to push a German salient. American units crossed the Seves river near Periers forming a new advance that threatens the Carentan Periers road as the drive continued northeast.
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Normandy
Gladwin Hill
Herarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
St. Louis
Caen
Orne
Btavaux
Eterville
Maltot
Cross River
Periers
Seves
Carentan-Periers
Plane Crash Claims Life Near Seymour Johnson Field
Lt Merlin G Ratliffe, 22, of Texas was killed when his aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from Seymour Johnson Field near Goldsboro. He was the sole occupant of the plane.
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Goldsboro
Merlin G. Ratliffe
Ten
Tex
Seymour Johnson Field
Four Asheville Hotels Seized as Army Redistribution Centers
The federal government will take over four of Asheville’s five major hotels Grove Park Inn Battery Park George Vanderbilt and Asheville Biltmore plus the city auditorium basement to serve as a soldiers redistribution center. About 1 000 soldier accommodations and a permanent staff of 400 will operate there with leases signed for wartime use plus six months. Openings span August to August with notices to vacate given to guests and shop tenants.
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Asheville
City Auditorium
Washington
Army
War Department
Asheville-Biltmore
Vanderbilt
Battery Park
Grove Park Inn
Allied Forces Close On Florence As German Lines Hold
Allied columns press toward Florence with a Fifth Army push from Tavernelle and the British Eighth along the Arno valley. American patrols guard the Arno approaches while Polish units advance toward Senigallia, capturing towns along the way.
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Florence
Tavernelle
City
Eighth
Arno
Sangiovanni
Castel Fiorentina
Fifth Army
Gothic Line
Adriatic
Senigallia
Misa River
Montemarciano
Glass Splinter Fatal To Boy in Manlius
Gerald Mann age nine died after a glass splinter pierced his heart when he fell through a neighbor's garage window. He ran about 50 yards to his home and died in his mother's arms. Coroner Dr. H Ernest Gak said the glass piece went completely through the heart.
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Manlius
N. Y
Gerald Mann
H. Ernest Gak
Thirty German Divisions Face Capture As Russians Advance
London July 23 Soviet First Baltic Army raced toward Riga and captured Panevezys 5 miles south of the Latvian capital. Stalin called Panevezys an important stronghold guarding the road from the Baltic to East Prussia. The fall brings Soviet columns within 80 miles of East Prussia and 40 miles of Siauliai rail junction, threatening up to 300,000 German troops.
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London
Ivan C
Sith
Baltic
Panevn
Tvian
Riga
Baltic Sea
Joseph Stalin
Panevezys
East Prussia
Siauliai
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Lublin
German Silesia
Poland
Stalin
Pskov
Finland
Moscow
Russia
Suchava
Chelm
Warsaw
Bug River
Brest Litovsk
Motherless Twins to Fly 1300 Miles on TWA Flight
In Los Angeles on July 22 23 day old twins Stephen Lloyd and Sharon Loy Bair born July 1 Long Beach Calif depart with 14 bottles of formula and a nurse as TWA hostess supports their 1300 mile journey to Elkhart near St Louis Mo to stay with relatives while their father a war worker sends them for safety.
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Los Angeles
TWA
St. Loui
Stephen Lloyd
Sharon Loy Bair
Lioyd Bair
Long Beach
Calif
Elkhart
St. Louis
Kitty Zukas
Hannegan Reelected DNC Chairman Aims Unity for Roosevelt Victory
Robert E. Hannegan of St. Louis was reelected chairman of the Democratic National Committee in Chicago. He pledged to weld all party factions for a November victory for Roosevelt and Trujan as the cash balance stood at 116000 dollars.
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Chicago
Robert E. Hannegan
St. Louis
Democratic National Committee
Roosevelt-Trujan
Allies Readying Decisive Allied Blow In Normandy Front
AP chief reports Allied forces mass near Caen St Lo and Cherbourg with vast stores and shells flooding in. Front lines show German inability to halt the approaching assault as Eisenhower commands massive manpower and matériel for a decisive strike.
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Robert Bunnelle
Normandy
Germany
Associated Press
Dwight D. Eisenhower
le ‘Haye
St. Lo
English Channel
Caen
Cherbourg
Firms Ordered To Produce Army Jackets
Washington reports six clothing firms were mandated to produce troop field jackets after refusing to meet a fair share. Eighty-six other firms volunteered to supply all but 152,090 packets as directed by General Eisenhower for European theater troops. The WPB and WLB ordered loom conversions to tenting materials and civilian-fabric redos, with 40 percent of corduroy yarn diverted to duck substitutes.
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Washington
War Department
Eisenhower
WLB
WPB
Konigsberg martial law report from Moscow and Stockholm
Moscow radio reports martial law in Konigsberg capital of East Prussia with Nazi troops en route. Aftontidningen says a state of emergency is proclaimed and fighting near the Masurian Lakes pits Nazi elite guard troops against thousands of internees.
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London
Moscow Radio
Konigsberg
East Prussia
OWI
Stockholm
Aftontidningen
Masurian Lakes
East A
Marcel Deat Declares Civil War in Occupied France
Marcel Deat, minister of labor in the Vichy government, told a Paris radio broadcast there is civil war in France. He accused the French interior forces of wrecking transport and disrupting the food supply while vowing the Vichy militia fights to impose socialist and national order.
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London
Marcel Deat
Paris
France
Dent
Vichy
Junker Revolt Deeply Rooted in German Army
Adolf Hitler urged loyalty from a revolt-torn German army as top leaders vanished from public pledge. Rumors of a rival regime led by Keitel Brauchitsch Halder and von Bock spread, while purge claims and Nazi loyalty messages followed.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Europe
Junker
Hitler
Moscow
Atlantic
Wilhelm Keitel
High Command
Walther von Brauchitsch
Franz Halder
Fedor von Bock
First Army Group
von Brauchitsch
Halder
Army
Marshal Goering
Karl Doenitz
Air Force
Navy
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Navy seeks 383000 more enlisted men to 1945 war pace
Navy Secretary Forrestal announced a need for 194000 additional enlisted personnel by December 31 and a possible 189000 more by June 30, 1945 to meet the accelerated war tempo against Japan. Most will come through selective service as the Navy plans to raise total strength to 3389000, with new manpower key to amphibious and auxiliary ship operations.
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Washington
Navy
Forrestal
Japan
Pacific
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Mainland
Leo Ard
Harry S. Truman
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Truman
Henry A. Wallace
Kirke L. Simpson
Rome
Pisa
Wallace
D. Harold Oliver
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