Bombers Hit Frankfurt Coblenz and Ludwigshafen Front
Allied air forces attacked German western targets including Frankfurt Coblenz and Ludwigshafen with 1,200 heavy bombers and fighter escort. RAF and US aircraft bomb Calais and rail yards in support of Patton’s forces near Nancy. Large German Junkers 52 transports were destroyed near Athens and Calais suffered heavy bombing despite a channel storm.
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London
Frankfurt
Coblenz
Ludwigshafen
Germany
Rhine
Luxembourg
Diekirch
Moselle
Belgium
Fortifica Ludwigshafen
Metz
Calais
Thunderbolts
Ne Patton
Nancy
Italy
Greece
Att &S
Athens
Skaramanga
Proeus
Holland
Finns Drive Germans Out Of Country In Finland War Update
Helsinki reports slowed but steady Finnish progress to expel German forces from northern Finland as armistice terms with Russia loom. Communique cites occupation of Mussalmi area and capture of Haukipuda Puolanka. Soviets poised to observe terms from Pisinki hotel as other details await.
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Helsinki
Finland
Russia
Mussalmi
Finand
Haukipuda
Poulanka
Lapland
Haukipudas
Bothnian Gulf
Oulu
Kemi
Puolanka
Suomussalmi
Stockholm
Soviet Armistice Commission
Pisinki
Nnns
Prac- Gs
U S Pacific Fleet reports success against Jap forces in the Philippines
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced that heavy carrier raids have driven Japanese naval units to new bases and "broken" the Philippine air force. He noted 200 planes destroyed or damaged in Manila Bay and 29 ships sunk, with 906 aircraft destroyed since September 8.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Philippines
Tokyo
Island Air Force
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Manila
Manila Bay
Luzon
Mindanao
Central Islands
Third Fleet
Nimitz
Fifth Fleet
Japs Press Filipinos to Fight Yanks, Laurel Declares
Japanese puppet regime pledges aid to Laurel government as war is declared against the United States. Filipino leader calls on people to oppose invaders if American forces return to the Philippines amid heavy Allied air attacks on Manila targets.
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Ray Cronin
Associated Philippines
United States
Philippines
Nippon
Tokyo
Comei
Jose P. Laurel
Laurel
Manila
Poe
America
Philippine Republic
Japan
Chaos Spreading Among Nazi Troops In Balkan Lands
Chaos spreads among German forces in southern Greece, Albania, and Yugoslavia as units abandon coordinated retreat. Reports say Bulgarian troops were said to have suffered losses while leaving heavy equipment behind, with fighting across the region and Germans unable to communicate due to damaged lines. Experts warn of similar disarray in western Germany as the Wehrmacht collapses and Balkan partisans press actions.
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Cairo
Greece
Albania
Yugoslavia
Germany
Prilep
Macedonia
Berlin
Iron Gate
Danube
Carpathians
Balkans
Romania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Yuglavia
Iexperts
Red army closes in on Riga as East Prussia drive mounts
Soviet forces push toward Riga in a Baltic offensive climax while battles flare on the Lithuanian border of East Prussia. Cherniakhovsky readies a decisive strike as Govorov concentrates units. Paldiski seaport falls amid wider maneuvers threatening German positions.
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Daniel DE Luck
Moscow
Riga
East Prussia
Junker
Estonia
Leonid A. Govorov
Leningrad
Gulf
Baltic
Paldiski
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Prussian
Reich
Cherniakhovsky
Hungary
Bucharest
Yanks Break Gothic Line Advance Near Rimini Italy
Fifth Army troops pushed toward the Via Aemilia as they smashed the Gothic Line in Italy near the Po valley. Eighth Army met heavy resistance near Rimini and Bologna rail line with paratroopers and armored forces. Canadian corps reached Pedrera Grande northwest of Rimini while resisting a strong German counterattack.
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Noland Norgaard
Rome
Fifth Army
Logna
Rimini
Po Valley
Eighth Army
Broad Plains
Italy
Adriatic
Firenenzuela
Monte la Fine
Della Croce
Monte Cucca
Porarra
Kesselring
Pederer Grande
Rimini-Bologna
San Giustina
Rubicon River
New Life-Line Road For China Now In Use
SEATTLE Sept 25 Usability of Chinas new life line the Ledo road was disclosed The road extends from the Ledo rail head in eastern India through Burma to Yunan Province at Trunghka It is described as an amazing feat of construction with many bridges and a gravel surface carried by Indian women and rising to elevations up to 4300 feet Built by army engineers under Brig Gen Lewis A Pick begun December 1942 and known as Picks Pike
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Seattle
China
Ledo
U. S. Army Engineers
Washington
D. C
Yunan
India
Rhern
Burma
Trunghka
Army
Lewis A. Pick
Huge Volume Of Supplies Flown To Partisans
The Allied air command disclosed that over the past two years more than 5,000 tons of guns, ammunition and supplies have been flown to Yugoslav partisans and to patriots in central and southern Europe. Secret landing fields exist in Yugoslavia, Greece, Albania and other nations, with Royal Air Force units in charge of the operation.
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Rome
Allied Air Command
Yugoslavia
Greece
Albania
Royal Airforce
Marshal Tito
Dewey Considers Pearl Harbor Topic For Campaign
Washington Sept 25 Gov Thomas E Dewey reportedly gathering data on the Pearl Harbor probe to decide if the topic should headline a major campaign speech. The move signals potential focus on administration handling of the attack as part of a political bid.
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Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
Pearl Harbor
Berlin forecasts early resumption of U S Third Army Rhine drive
Berlin reports Nazi expectations of an early restart to the U S Third Army advance for the Rhine. High command may foresee a climactic multi-front push as Russia weakens in the east while Allied forces consolidate in the west and prepare for further operations through Holland and Italy.
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Berlin
U. S
Rhine
Hitler
Reich
Baltic
Balkan
East Prussia
Krakow
German
Silesia
England
France
Holland
Arnhem
Italy
Germans Shove Odds And Ends Into Battle
Allied dispatch describes German efforts to slow the First Army advance in Germany with hordes of improvised units. Civilians and elderly troops are deployed near Aachen to fortify positions as heavy artillery targets rail hubs and supply lines. American heavy guns strike Duren and rail centers while air strikes hit enemy rear lines. the pace and resolve of German defense are noted as the front tightens.
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Germany
Rhine
Reich
Aachen
Normandy
First Army
Duren
Doughton Opposes Postwar Plan to Erase Corporation Tax
House tax chief Doughton says complete elimination of corporation income taxes is impractical without a rigid profits tax. He will convene the joint Taxation Committee after November 14 to pursue postwar tax revision, urges economy in peacetime spending, and cautions against selfish proposals while aiming to ease individual and business burdens.
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Washington
Doughton
D-Nc
House
Ways and Means Committee
Joint
Senate House Taxation Committee
Congress
Coughton
Fecar
British Aid Invasion Drives Toward Rhine Front
British and American wedges thrust across the German border toward Kleve in a push to seize the Siegfried Line. The British Second Army widened a bridgehead near Arnhem with airborne support as Eisenhower called for action and warned German workers to hide until resistance supplies reach them.
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James M. Be
London
Kleve
Ruhr
Germany
Second Army
Rhine
Arnhem
Red Devils
Aireborne
Deurne
Endhoven
Volkel
Reich
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Everest
Japanese Try To Outflank Kweilin
Chungking reports Chinese high command says Japanese moves aim to outflank Kweilin by advancing from Chuanhsien along the Hunan Kwangsi rail line and from Kwanyang. Aims include threatening Liuchow and cutting the line below Kweilin as Chinese recaptured Sunhing and Chinese forces fought near Wuchow.
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Chungking
S Ing
Chuanhsien
Hunan-Kwangsi
Kwangsi
Kweilin
Kwanyang
Liuchow
High Command
Wuchow
Sunhing
Canton
Kwantung Province
Yunnan
Burma
Mangs Shih
China
Tengcehung
Sungshan
London Suffers Two Flying Bomb Attacks
London and surrounding counties faced two flying bomb strikes in one night with casualties. Eleven people were injured when a bomb hit a rural Roman Catholic boys' school complex, demolishing roofs and shattering windows. The government seeks volunteers to repair about 900,000 damaged London homes before winter.
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James F. King
London
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