Italian Navy Is Taken Over By Allies
Moscow reports Red Army forces rout German units along a 400 mile front from the Sea of Azov to Bryansk. Russians imperil east of the Dnieper, threatening the Crimean garrisons. The German retreat turns into a rout with 300 towns abandoned and about 6800 German officers and men killed.
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Salerno
Moscow
Sea of Azov
Bryansk
Ukraine
Red Army
Dnieper
Crimean
Mariupol
Chapline
Dnieprospetrovsk
Volnovanka
Stalino-Mariupol
Varvenkovo
Stalino
Kharkov
Zaporozhe
T Desna
Novgorod
Seversky
Gome
Kiev
Moscow War Bulletin
Conflicting War News Guides Italy Face of Front
Front reports stress German attempts to shore up Hitler regime while Allied forces press in Italy and capture key ports. News notes Milan, Rome, and Naples fighting alongside British, American, and Soviet actions as Ma riupol, Chapline, and other objectives fall to the Soviets and Allied forces, with German defenses breaking in several sectors.
Allied drive seals Salerno bridgehead in Naples area
Allied headquarters report the Fifth Army seized Salerno and repelled German armored counterattacks as British forces advancing in the south press toward the Gulf of Squillace. Heavy fighting rages along a Naples Salerno arc with many German prisoners taken and naval guns backing ground troops.
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Edgar Kennedy
North Africa
Fifth Army
Salerno
Naples
Italy
Berlin
Malta
Mark W. Clark
Salferno
U. S
Eighth Army
Gulf of
Squillace
Sant’ Eufemia
Nazis Sink One Italian Battleship In Air Sea Fight
Allied headquarters in North Africa reported a 30 minute air sea battle off Corsica in which a modern 35 000 ton Italian battleship was sunk. Four other battleships were safe in Allied hands at Malta and another reached Palma De Mallorca for neutral sanctuary.
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Malta
Palma de Mallorca
Balearics
Corsica
North Africa
London
Italy
Associated Press
Deliv
Stroyers
Gibraltar
Pa’ de Mallocra
Palma
Disoo
Bern
Switzerland
Fall Of Jap Base On Lae is Imminent
Allied dispatches report the imminent fall of the Japanese air base at Lae New Guinea as enemy positions are described as desperate. Australian and American forces close in from multiple directions with heavy shelling and airlifted units mounting pressure toward Lae’s outskirts and nearby Narakapor, while battleships and cruisers reinforce in the region.
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Lae
South Pacific
New Guinea
Huon Gulf
North Africa
Busu
Malahang
Markham Valley
En Stanley Mountains
Narakapor
Army pursuit plane crash kills Lt Francis Vanderulis near Morris Field
Charlotte dispatch reports that First Lt. Francis C. Vanderulis of Upper Darby Pennsylvania was killed instantly in a late yesterday crash near Morris Field. Vanderulis, 22, a technical inspector, received his commission last November and had been stationed at Morris Field since January, as the son of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderalis.
Italian Chiefs Flee From Rome to Sicily
London dispatch reports Berlin radio saying King Victor Emmanuel III Pietro Badoglio and Crown Prince Umberto fled Rome to Allied held Sicily before capitulation. German forces claim to have captured Pola and Rhodes as they push through Milan Turin and Padua amid clashes with Allied troops near Salerno.
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Associated Press
London
Berlin
Vittorio Emanuele
Pietro Badoglio
Umberto
Rome
Sicily
Foreign Office
Pola
Adriatic
Rhodes
Dodecanese
Milan
Turin
Padua
Titan
Salerno
FDR and Churchill urge Italy to fight Nazi aggressors
In a joint statement President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill called on Marshal Badoglio and the Italian people to strike against Hitler and the Nazis after Mussolini's removal. They ignored King Victor Emmanuel III and sent the message by shortwave to Italy as Allied forces press the German presence.
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Churchill
Italy
Washington
Pietro Badoglio
House of Savoy
Roosevelt
Badogna
Mussolini
Victor Emmanuel III
Rome Radio
Umberto
United Nations
Badoglio
Attu Island Base Under Construction for Japan Attacks
Attu in the Aleutians is being developed as a key U.S. base for operations against Japan. Raids on the Kurile Islands have begun. Quonset huts and offices rise as Jurmin Pass is named for Capt. John Jurmin of Lincoln Nebraska, who led a landing and was killed later in the fighting.
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Attu Island
Aleutians
Pacific
North America
Japan
Kurile Islands
Chicago Harbor
Jurmin Pass
John Jurmin
Lincoln
Neb
Massacre Bay
Little Falls
Times Warns British on Adolf's Talk
The London Times warned Britons not to underrate Adolf Hitler's appeal to German soldiers and people after his six month gap in public address. The editorial said his speech showed Germany would fight to defend Italy and Rome, with a pledge to avenge air raids and a claim the ring of steel on the home front would not break.
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London
London Times
Adolf Hitler
Leander
Italy
Rome
Hitler
Times
Germany
Penicillin Wins War Bond Dollars Back to Bedside
A NEA report traces $50 War Bond money to a needle delivering penicillin to Pvt. Roy Wheelock at Walter Reed. The drug saved his leg and life, funds ailing hospitals say, as officers and nurses push for more bonds to help wounded soldiers.
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AL Segal
NEA
Washington
Roy Wheelock
Mary Dougherty
Wheelock
Africa
Signal Corps
Walter Reed Hospital
Pencillin
Pvt
Deploy Shows Efficiency Of Germans
Washington reports the German army rapidly shifting forces for Italy demonstrates the efficiency expected of a major war machine still among the world’s strongest. Berlin’s Rome claim adds no new factor to Eisenhower’s outlook after Italy’s surrender, as Montgomery’s Eighth Army and Clark’s forces push to counter Nazi moves, aided by supply operations and German dispositions in the south and central regions.
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Washington
Italy
Berlin
Rome
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Vatican
Bernard L. Montgomery
Mark Clark
Naples
Price Ceiling Violator Fined $700 by Omaha Judge
Municipal Judge Dennis O’Brien ordered Angelo Digiacomo to pay $700 in damages to seven soldiers for charging 56 cents over the price ceiling on 14 bottles of beer, plus $140 to the soldiers’ attorney. The case, under federal price control, may be appealed to the district court.
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Omaha
Mnicipal
Dennis O'Brien
Angelo Digiacomo
Ern
O'Brien
Giacomo
Diefs
Hugh Boyle
Boyle
OPA
Louis Ca Zo
Digiacomo
William A. Hayw
Ghost voice disrupts Berlin Nazi broadcast in New York
In New York on September 11 the FCC reports a "ghost voice" interrupted a Berlin news broadcast. The intruder made statements claiming Hitler's army on the eastern front is routed and Russians are driving the Hitler army, then shouted All candidates death during a reading of decorated Nazi officers' names.
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New York
Fede Communications Commission
M Iters
Berlin
Hitler
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Pninsula
Balkans
Europe
Mediterranean
Novorossisk
Caucasus
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E. D. Ball
Attu
U.S. Base
Adolf
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