Russians Drive Southwest Push From Melitopol In War Front Update
Soviet forces press toward Melitopol in fierce fighting as German troops defend the Crimea. Reports say 2,000 Nazis killed or wounded, with advances near Kiev and Gomel. Soviet air power targets rail and supply lines while hand to hand combat rages in Melitopol.
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London
Feodor Tolbukhin
Melitopol
Crimea
Dnieper
Kiev
Ukraiian
Moscow
Monitor
Gomel
Stalingrad
Malinovsky
Nikopol
Zaporozhe
Red Star
Allied Forces Break German Lines At Volturno Front
Allied Fifth Army and British Eighth Army surged along the Volturno front driving back German counterattacks. Cerreto Amorosi and Campobasso area towns fell as inland rail and road links were seized, threatening the German flank. Allies poured troops and armor across swollen rivers while air superiority limited German opposition.
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Volturno
Fifth Army
Radio France
Algiers
London
Eighth Army
Calore River
Cerreto
Calore
Campobasso
Vinchiaturo
Caiazzo
Amorosi
Mark W. Clark
Fifth
Eighth
Castel Campagnano
Telese
San Giuliano
U. S
Germans Launch Major Front Against Tito in Yugoslavia
Berlin reports place 12 German divisions and 9 Bulgarian divisions in Yugoslavia to confront Tito’s Liberation Army as Rommel targets Belgrade and the Sava river valley. Heavy fighting centers on Sevnica and a key Sava railway junction with Montenegro and Dalmatia also in focus.
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Belgrade
Erwin Rommel
Liberation Army of Tito
Josip Broz
Sava River
Zagreb
Istanbul
Yugoslavia
Cairo
Associated Press
Mark W. Clark
Bernard L. Montgomery
Italy
London
Balkans
Dalmatian
Tito
Sugetor
Slovenia
Styria
Sava
Sevnica
Ljubljana
Zidanimost
Austria
Belgrade-Zagreb
Zenica
Zara
Sava Plain
Draja Mihailovic
Slav
Montenegro
Hercegovina
Andrijevica
Navy Faces Tough Test as Top Teams Hold Fast
The nation's leading college teams maintained a blistering pace with Navy the sole unbeaten in the Big Five taking a hard 14 to 6 win over Penn State on a rain soaked field. Notre Dame Army and Purdue rolled. College of Pacific beat Del Monte Pre Flight 16 to 7. USC routed in 34 0. Duke beat North Carolina 14 to 7. Glenn Davis starred for Army in a 52 0 win over Columbia.
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New York
Navy
Notre Dame
Associated Press
Army
Pennsylvania
Purdue
Kansas
Annapolis
Penn State
Mid-West
East
Little College of Pacific
del Monte
Southern California
Cisco
Duke
North Carolina
Yankee Stadium
Wisconsin
Angelo Bertelli
Muddy Baker
Glenn Davis
California
Columbia
Quakers
Lakehurst Naval Training Station
Labor Front Seethes With Strikes And Wage Bows
In Philadelphia and Washington the day features deepening labor unrest as John L. Lewis urges coal miners to return to work with word the War Labor Board may approve a broad industry contract. Simultaneously, an airship collision off Barnegat Inlet leaves eight missing and a Navy search under way as a separate wartime aviation accident is reported.
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Philadelphia
U. S. Navy
New Jersey
Lakehurst
N. J
Naval Air Station
Fourth
Naval District
Navy
Harley Charles Hunter
Yacob
Wash
Barnegat Inlet
Associated Press
Washington
John L. Lewis
War Labor Board
Alabama
Indiana
United Mine Workers
Roosevelt
Fred M. Vinson
Kearny
Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Cramp Shipbuilding Company
CIO Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers
WLB
Lewis
London Air Raid Alert Ended Quietly
London endured a brief air raid alert early today with the all clear issued shortly after no gunfire was heard. Earlier German planes struck a southeast coast town, the first warning in London since Oct 8 when German raids occurred.
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London
Reprisals Across Argentina as Ramirez Dismisses Officials
President Pedro Ramirez discharged all government employees who signed a manifesto calling for constitutional democracy and hemispheric obligations. The purge targets salaried and honorary staff, as Ramirez vows no tolerance for tampering amid a reshuffled cabinet seen as more reactionary.
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Buenos Aires
Pedro Ramirez
A_Monteviedo
Ramirez
Imne
Likie
Aerial raids reshape invasion prep in Europe
Washington dispatch reports the air offensive against Germany shifting toward crippling industrial hubs. Schweinfurt ball bearing plants and Ploesti oil refineries are cited as pivotal blows reducing German production and delaying the Nazi war machine. General Arnold notes Schweinfurt knocked about half of Germany’s ball bearings.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Europe
WN Africa
Ploesti
Henry H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Schweinfurt
U S Planes Prove Best In Battle Record
The Office of War Information released its second report on U S combat plane performance. American warplanes and crews have downed 7 3 1 2 enemy aircraft while losing 1 8 6 7 and better equipment is on the way. From Pearl Harbor to Sept 1 the ratio was nearly four Axis planes per American plane lost. In the last six months March through August more enemy planes were destroyed than in the prior 15 months, totaling 5 389 enemy planes at a cost of 1 239 American craft.
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Washington
Office of War Information
United States
Pearl Harbor
Negro Soldiers Face Trial on Mutiny Charges
A court martial in Paignton Devon heard 14 American Negro soldiers charged with mutiny. Prosecutors alleged the men intended to kill and fired on two military police sergeants from their camp march, wounding the officers in the legs by chance as the MPs ordered surrender.
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Paignton
Devon
England
Moscow Parley Seeks Postwar Talks Before Second Front
Izvestia says three power talks in Moscow will cover postwar political and economic issues alongside military questions, with priority given to securing a decisive second front. The piece notes a warm conference mood and preparations for foreign ministers, while Pravda stresses wartime aims.
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Moscow
Russia
Izvestia
Communist Party
Pravda
Europe
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