Stalin Misses Conference With Roosevelt and Churchill
In Quebec on September 11, President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill announced Marshal Stalin could not attend their war talks. Stalin, preoccupied with Soviet offensives, sent a message saying he cannot travel from the Soviet Union to join the conference. The leaders expressed understanding of his duty on the front.
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Canada
Quebec
Can
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Roosevelt
Churchill
Pacific Theater
Stalin
Stephen Early
Early
Soviet Union
Rusia
Tastaantinenen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Imperial General Staff
RAF
Charles Portal
Air Staff
R. &. Laycock
Combined Operations Command
Hastings Ismay
Anthony Eden
Bay 130 Planes Battle With The Nazis
Allied air forces claim a major two day attack against Germany with 130 enemy planes destroyed as 1 000 American bombers fly from bases in England Italy and South France. The aerial battle follows a pattern of heavy losses on both sides and signals more large raids with Mosquitos and Liberators striking targets such as Merseburg Lutz and Misburg amid favorable weather.
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Germany
Reich
Luftwaffe
Es Bag
Ger
England
Italy
France
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Merseburg
Lutzf
Misburg
Ilin
Berlin
De Gaulle reshapes French cabinet in provisional government
Paris reports General De Gaulle’s provisional cabinet revised to share posts between Paris based and Algiers based National Liberation groups. New line up lists Orges Bidault as foreign affairs minister and includes key figures from the Resistance and Algiers committee across interior, war, navy, economy, production, and education portfolios.
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Paris
Charles de Juile
Rene
Algiers
Yesday
Th Group
Orges Bidault
Christian Demotic Resistance
Parhad
Rene Masli
Gaulle
Jules Deanley
Imber of Deputies
Mem
Left Democratic Parjustice
Francois de Menn
Christian Democratic Reance
Vice
Algiers Committee
Ken Tixier
War
Ken Diethelm
Algiers Comtee
Navy
Louis Dacquinot
Nocratic Alliance
Depair
Charles Tillon
Colnist
Paris Re- 1
Pierre des-Vrance
News Freedom Proposal May Be Made Soon
A U S State Department plan seeks global free and honest news. It aims to guarantee reporters the right to gather, transmit, and receive news without country hindrance. The proposal aligns with Rep Fulbright’s resolution urging Congress to back world news freedom to foster understanding and avert wars.
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Washington
United Nations
State Department
House
Fulbright
D-Ark
Congress
Yank Planes In Attack On Philippines
General Headquarters reports describe the Philippines battle in fiery terms while Tokyo broadcasts give unconfirmed details. MacArthur lists a single patrol plane raid as Allied action, with carriers sending 300 fighters and bombers over Mindanao.
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General Headquarters
Southwest Pacific
The
Philippine Approaches
Philippines
Mindanao
Tokyo
Berlin
Douglas MacArthur
Gen Von Medel Named New German Commander on Western Front
The Swedish press reports Field Marshal Gem Walther von Medel as the new German commander in chief on the Western front. He is described as an unspectacular but capable leader from middle-class stock and not a Junker, with previous cautions about loyalty to Hitler yet a declared faith in ultimate victory.
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Associated Press
Gem Walther von Medel
Western Front
Guenther von Kluge
March
Hitler
von Model
On Model
London Residents Return Home Amid Watchful Warnings
London crowds flood back into the capital despite government pleas to stay put and civil defense warnings. Lord Dudley cautions about possible new raids while officials note about 800,000 bombed homes needing repairs and 40,000 returning Sunday.
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London
Lord Dudley
Midland Civil Defense
French Take Dijon After Long Battle
French forces from the south after a 24hour battle have occupied Dijon 150 miles southeast of Paris. American units under Lt. Gen. Patch reached Vesoul on the outskirts and closed a German pocket as they push 20 miles north of Besancon. Allies report French troops advancing toward Rougemont and Blamont while clearing the Jura passes toward the Swiss frontier and capturing Arnay le Duc.
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Rome
Dijon
Paris
Dwight D. Eisenhower
France
Alexander M. Patch
Seventh
Mediterranean
Vesoul
Nancy
Moselle
Besancon
Doubs
Saone
Visoul
Belfort
Seventh Army
Rougemont
Germany
Jura
Blamont
Saulieu
Autun
Arnay-Le-Duc
Three New Poliomyelitis Cases Reported in State
Raleigh reports three new infantile paralysis cases today, total 679 since June 1. Buncombe Caswell and Forsyth counties each reported one case.
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Raleigh
State Health Department
Buncombe
Caswell
Forsyth
Road to Berlin fronts distances by theater
The report lists Allied front distances to Berlin from key points on four fronts. Russian front 812 miles from Pulatsk, Western front 335 miles from Verviers, Eastern France 453 miles from midway between Besancon and Belfort, Italian front 583 miles from below Rimini.
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Associated Press
Pulatsk
Verviers
France
Besancon
Belfort
Rimini
Red Army drives Germans from Carpathian strongholds
Soviet forces under Marshal Malinovsky press from northeast and southeast into southeastern Transylvania and the Carpathian high country. German and Hungarian units retreat as 60 towns fall and crossings open toward the Danube. Front reports also note Krosno evacuated in Poland as German forces pull back from Vistula approaches.
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Moscow
Red Army
Eastern
Carpathians
Russia
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Cluj
Hungary
Austria
Danube
Iron Gate
Serbia
Turnue Severin
Feodor Tolbukhin
Aegean Sea
Marshal Tito
Transylvania
London
Poland
Krosno
Cvzecho
Slovakia
Berlin
Carpathian
Krakow
Silesia
Vistula
President of Mexico Relieves Flood Sufferers
President Manuel Avila Camacho ordered aid to flood hit areas in Mexico. In Parral Chihuahua 45 bodies were recovered and 100 people listed as missing. Dr Gustavo Baz was authorized to fly in relief supplies to the mining town 700 miles from the U S border as floods devastate western Mexico.
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Mexico City
Manuel Avila Camacho
Mexico
Parral
Chihuahua
Gustavo Baz
U. S
Hard Fighting on Italian Front Expands Allied Advance
Allied forces push north from Florence and reach the Gothic line while the US Fifth Army advances toward Osella and Pistoia. American troops secure high ground near Lucca as German defenses retreat toward the northern Apennines. fighting continues along the Adriatic coast near Rimini.
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Rome
Adriatic
Rimini
U. S
Fifth Armmy
Florence
Fifth Army
Osella
Flore
Great
Po Valley
Gologna
Pistoia
92Nd
Zezzera
Lucca
Apennines
Allied Drive Through Siegfried Line Frontline Log
The war report outlines fierce battles near the Siegfried Line as Allied forces press from the north through Belgian ports toward Aachen and Cologne. It notes Canadian, British Second, American First, Patton’s Third, and Seventh Armies advancing to breach the German defenses and open routes toward Berlin.
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Channel
Wissant
Calais
Zeebrugge
Albert Canal
Belgium
Cleve
First Army
Aachen
Cologne
Germany
Berlin
Luxembourg
Patton
Third
Metz
Moselle
Seventh Army
France
Belfort
Ich
Japanese Troop Reinforcements Struggle Near Lungling
Gen Stilwell reports near total Japanese loss of 2 000 at Sangshan after three month siege opening Burma road to Lungling. Nine prisoners at Lungshan. Japanese reinforce around Lungling Tengchung while U S planes claim several enemy kills. Mth Army begins offensive in Arakan sector of lower Burma.
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Stilwell
China
Joseph W. Stilwell
Sangshan
Lungling
Lungshan
Pine Mountain
Salween
Burma Frontier
Tengchung
Lungwan Temple
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Mth
Arakan
Burma
Civilians in Mattoon seek gas sprayer after eighth attack
Civilians armed with shotguns and clubs roamed Mattoon streets seeking the operator of a gas spraying spree. Two more victims were added Saturday night bringing the total to 35. Women theater patrons and others reported fumes and nausea but doctors attributed symptoms to hysteria. Mrs Lucy Stephens 26 and her nephew Jimmy Hardin 9 woke coughing after smelling fumes in the Hardin home.
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Mattoon
Lucy Stephens
Jimmy Hardin
Hardin
Luxembourg Falls as Americans Reach Siegfried Line
The U S First Army pressed into the Siegfried Line’s first barrage zones and minefields while British forces breached into Holland. American advance brought troops within ten miles of the German frontier at two points and they captured Luxembourg, the capital.
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London
U. S
Siegfried Line
Holland
Alebert Canal
Geremans
Larxembourg
Allied planes reportedly land on German soil from armored division
New York dispatch reports American reconnaissance planes from an armored division may have landed on German soil. Harold Peters from London cautions that he did not confirm whether the landing was in force or unopposed. If unopposed, it suggests unprotected stretches along the German frontier.
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New York
Blue Network
Harold Peters
London
Peters
US forces press toward Aachen and Limburg in wartime advance
American troops push from Nancy through Luxembourg toward Limburg as Lt. Gen. Hodges First Army shells German soil for the first time near Aachen. They face heavy German guns on the Moselle and encounter major minefields near Liege while the British cross into Holland toward Eindhoven after a three day battle around Bourg Leopold Bechtel and the Albert canal, capturing 12 000 prisoners.
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Rhineland
Saarland
Aachen
Nancy
Meiz
Pate Ton
Luxembourg
Limburg
Netherlands
Courtney H. Hodges
First
Moselle
Liege
Normandy
Reenees
Supreme Headquarters
Holland
Eindhoven
Antwerp
Associated Press
Schelde-Meuse
Bourg-Leopold
Bechtel
Albert Canal
Former Leipzig Mayor Goerdeler Identified in Nazi Plot
Berlin broadcaster said Dr. Karl Friedrich Goerdeler, 60, former Leipzig mayor, was named ringleader in the July 20 plot to kill Hitler and to head a new German government. He and six others were condemned to death by a people's court. other conspirators, including military figures, reportedly were executed.
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Karl Friedrich Goerdeler
Leipzig
Adolf Hitler
Goerdeler
Berlin
People's
Gordeler
Ulrich von Hassell
Rome
Count Wolf Hendrick von Helldorf
Trott Zu Solz
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Paul Lejeunedung
Wilhelm Leuscher
Josef Wirmer
Transocean
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