Jungle-Wise Yanks Drive Near Munda Airdrome
Allied forces report substantial gains in the Munda offensive on New Georgia as American troops push from Tetere to within 2100 yards of the airfield. In New Guinea, heavy Allied air strikes on Salamaua and Lae target enemy positions with large bomb loads.
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Southwest Pacific
Munda
New Georgia
Solomons
Douglas MacArthur
Tetere
MacArthur
New Guinea
Salamau
Lae
Mount Tambu
Salamaua
Mitchell
Six More Towns Fall To Americans
American Seventh Army troops advance along a north coast thrust toward Messina after capturing Cefalu and Alimena. Four additional towns Collesano Petralia Calteveturo and Polizzia fell as Canadian and British forces press the line. Etna line Germans hold positions from San Stefano to Nicosia while Italian survivors retreat to trenches.
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Daniel Deluce
North Africa
Seventh Army
Sicily
Cefalu
Messina Strait
San Stefano
Alimena
Petralia
Collesano
Calteveturo
Polizzia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eighth Army
Catania
EF Alamein
Egypt
Mareth Line
Tunisia
Brideghead
Etna
Nicosia
Agira
Catenanuova
Milan Battles Rage as Milan Declared Under Siege
Reports from the frontier said Milan faced a grave outbreak of unrest amid a state of siege. Mobs clashed with troops, fascist resistance persisted in suburbs and prisons, with workers retreating from factories and streets echoing calls for liberty and peace.
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Milan
Serge
Corriere Della Sera
Canale
Cellulare
Vatican City
Italy
Reds Close In On Orel After Stiff German Resistance
Soviet dispatches from Moscow report German retreat toward Orel continuing while villagers are pressed into labor and trenches. Russian fronts press from three sides around Orel with savage battles near the Bryansk railway and encirclement efforts intensifying.
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Moscow
Orel
Red Army
Sesemnismston Somoneneet
Guenther von Kluege
Bry
Tass
Nine Paroled By Broughton In Raleigh
Governor Broughton parole nine inmates including Bennie Harrell for second degree murder in Pitt county in 1940. Others freed are Samuel Williams James Hunt J C Gay Carrie Mae Richardson Louis Lowry Bynum Childers Rufus Jenksin and David Scott. supervision by K T Futrell noted.
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Raleigh
Bennie Harrell
Pitt County
Hubert Harrington
Broughton Harrell
K. T. Futrell
Samuel Williams
Vance
James Hunt
Robeson
J. C. Gay
Mecklenburg
Carrie Mae Richardson
Franklin
Louis Lowry
Bynum Childers
Caldwell
Rufus Jenksin
Wilson
David Scott
Maisky Named Soviet Vice Commissar in Foreign Affairs
Moscow reports Ivan Maisky Russian ambassador to London now in Moscow has been appointed Soviet vice commissar of foreign affairs. The move, announced today, may not preclude his return abroad. Maxi Litvinov was named a vice commissar as he went to Washington as ambassador, and five other vice commissars also exist.
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Moscow
Ivan Maisky
London
Maisky
Maxi Litvinov
Washington
RAF Assault Turns Hamburg To Hamburger
RAF bombers hit Hamburg in a fourth consecutive night attack with about 5000 tons dropped since Saturday. American daylight raids joined, targeting Ruhr and Holland while fighters patrolled over Germany France and Holland.
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Hamburg
Hamburger
London
RAF
Germany
Britain
Trthe Ruhr
Air Ministry
United States
Triqueville
France
Rome Dissolves National Fascist Party After Cabinet Meeting
Rome announces the National Fascist party is dissolved by the new Italian cabinet led by Marshal Pietro Badoglio. The measure abrogates the 14 year old law creating the Fascist Grand Council and ends the special tribunal for defense of the state. Cases will move to military courts during wartime.
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Associated Press
Rome Radio
National Fascist Party
Pietro Badoglio
Grand Council
Special Tribunal For
Turkey seen as possible mediator in Italy UN talks
Secret Istanbul meeting between Italian Foreign Minister Guariglia and Turkish Foreign Minister Menmencioglu signals a potential Turkish role as mediator between the United Nations and Italy. Guariglia plans to head to Rome. Turkey's neutral stance and ties to both sides boost mediation prospects amid Axis alliances.
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Istanbul
Turkey
United Nations
Italy
Rafaele Guariglia
Numan Menmenccogu
Sea of Marmora
Menmencioglu
Ankara
Guariglia
Benito Mussolini
Rome
Moda Club
Moda Bay
United States
Great Britain
Berlin
Fascist Party
U S Airmen Pummel Kiska with Nineteen Raids in Two Days
U S Pacific Command reports 19 raids on Kiska Island over Monday and Tuesday, boosting total attacks this month to 60 as American forces press toward the island. Wake Island also raided, with Liberator bombers claiming several Japanese aircraft and the Zero defense tasking 25 fighters.
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Washington
Pacific Command
Kiska Island
North Pacific
Navy
Wake Island
Central Pacific
Kiska
Army
Midway
Wake
Crisis Threatens French Committee Unity
Algiers reports Gen. Henri Giraud objects to recent moves by the French Committee of National Liberation while absent in the United States and Canada. Giraud and Gen. Charles De Gaulle co lead the body and he opposes lowering officer age limits and several colonial appointments as the committee meets daily to resolve the dispute.
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Algiers
Committee of National Liberation
Henri Giraud
United States
Canada
Giraud
Charles de Gaulle
No Reply on Capitulation Requests From Allies
In London on July 28 Prime Minister Churchill said no official reply had been received to the messages from Roosevelt and himself asking Italy to capitulate. He added that only Mussolini’s disappearance might count as a reply, prompting laughter in the House of Commons.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
Roosevelt
Mussolini
Roosevelt to address nation on war progress after long hiatus
President Roosevelt drafts his first war report in five and a half months. He will broadcast tonight at 9 30 Eastern War Time on all networks, outlining Allied advances in the Mediterranean Pacific Russia and Europe while cautioning on wages prices manpower and production goals for 1943. He signals no change in unconditional surrender policy and hints at Mussolini's downfall as context.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
Forwa
Benito Mussolini
Roosevelt
White House
Pacific
Russia
Europe
Whiteouse Correspondents’ Association
Tunisia
Sicily
Mussolini
Italy
Hull
War Department
Bowles Takes Over OPA Duties with Declared War
Chester A. Bowles becomes OPA chief in Washington and issues a blunt wartime declaration. He vows to oppose profiteers and speculators and says OPA must stand up to selfish pressures. Bowles says he did not seek the job and accepted at Price Boss Prentiss Brown’s urging.
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Bowles
OPA
Washington
Husky Chester A. Bowles
Office of Price Administration
Big Shouldered
Connecticut
Price
Prentiss M. Brown
Brown
One Dead 40 Injured In Wake Of Texas Storm
A Texas gulf coast hurricane subsided after sweeping Houston Galveston Goose Creek Baytown and Pelican areas with winds averaging 75 mph and gusts over 100 mph. One five year old Negro child drowned in a ditch and about forty people were injured. Damages estimated at one million dollars in Houston and in Galveston and similar in the Goose Creek Baytown Pelican trio.
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Texas
Houston
Tex
Texas Gulf Coast
Galveston
Goose Creek
Baytown, Pelly
Houston Municipal
Hitler may withdraw to defensive lines as Allies advance
The piece forecasts a possible Hitler withdrawal to fortified borders on multiple fronts as Allied pressure increases. It notes expected moves from Russia to the Dnieper and into Poland, with western lines including Maginot and the West Wall primed for defense, while Allies aim to breach through air power.
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Hitler
Fuehrer
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