Duisburg Target for New Allied Bombing Raids
London reports a large force of RAF Bomber Command planes bombed Duisburg, a key Ruhr Rhine junction and war industry center, with three Canadian squadrons taking part. Nazi air bases in the Low Countries were also struck, six British aircraft failing to return.
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LONDON
C.P
R.AF.R.C.AF
Duisburg
Rus valley
air ministry
Low Counties
Ruhr
Rhine
R.AP. and
Return to Channel Islands by air as occupation ends
The London Sunday Dispatch advertises a waiting list for Jersey and Guernsey Airways to fly residents back to the Channel Islands once free of occupation. June 1940 saw exile living. the plan aims to ease return home amid a debated second front. The ad notes inquiries to the company office.
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Channel Islands
London Sunday Dispatch
Jersey and Guernsey Airways, Ltd
U S Fliers Ruin Ten Jap Planes In Canton Raid
United States army bombers attacked a Japanese airdrome near Canton destroying at least ten grounded planes. A communique said the Japanese were surprised and the runways were hit. All American aircraft returned safely.
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United States army
Canton
Joseph W. Stidyell
Desert Escape: Colonel Foiled Rommel’s Troops in North Africa
A Cairo dispatch to the London Daily Telegraph recounts a British colonel’s ruse that aided his 70 plus captured Indian troops to escape Rommel’s HQ area in North Africa. He befriended Rommel, used a telegraph line, and spoke Urdu to spur a night breakout, seizing two German lorries and slipping past sleeping guards as German brigades were diverted.
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LONDON
C.P
Erwin Rommel
North Africa
Cairo
London Daily Telegraph
Rommel
Polish troops parade through Maritzburg in South Africa
The Polish telegraph agency reports about 1000 fish soldiers marching in Maritzburg, South Africa, claimed as the first continental European troops seen in the Union of South America.
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LONDON
Maritzburg
South Africa
South America
Tobruk Port Is Battered By Allied Air Attacks
In Cairo reports state United States Army Air Force bombers effectively attacked Tobruk harbor and shipping yesterday evening, following a heavy RAF raid the prior night that started fires on deck areas and allegedly hit two ships. The British communique notes limited air activity over the Egyptian front with patrol clashes and minor artillery exchanges.
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CAIRO
United States army air force
Tobruk
RAF
Middle East
Vital Allied Parley On In Moscow
United Nations representatives reportedly gathered in Moscow for a save Russia and win the war conference amid looming Soviet setbacks. British and American envoys move between Kuibyshev and Moscow as Axis and Allied sources describe grand strategy talks. A provocative Evening Standard banner and a David Low cartoon reflect hopes for coordinated action among Stalin Roosevelt Churchill and Chiang.
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E. C. DANIEL
Associated Press
LONDON
United Nations
Moscow
Russia
Archibald Clark Kerr
Kuibyshev
United States
Admiral William Stand- Tey
Lord Beaverbrook
Evening Standard
STEINHARDT
David Low
Joseph Stalin
Roosevelt
Churchill
Chiang Kai- Shek
Sky Dragons Rise as Name for US Air Forces Unit
The United States army air forces, on July 4, absorbed the American volunteer group known as the Flying Tigers. Now dubbed the Sky Dragons, Chinese admirers have pinned the nickname on the unit, reflecting a high standard of daring in its exploits.
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CHUNGHING
Sky Dragons
Flying Tigers
United States army air forces
70 Ton Ships Planned For Coast Plants
A P report says the War Production Board approved Henry J Kaiser to build 500 Mars type flying boats on the Pacific coast with an initial Navy order for 100. An additional 400 70 ton carrying planes hinge on the first phase meeting targets. Kaiser would build at Richmond California if the plan proceeds, with no other builders to participate under current plans.
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Associated Press
ASHINGTON
Donald M. Nelson
war Production board
Henry J. Kaiser
west coast shipbuilder
United States navy
Nelson
Kaiser
Pacific coast
W.P.B
Richmond
Calif
San Francisco Bay
Indians Appeal for Immediate Indian Independence
The All Indian Congress working committee voted to appeal to President Roosevelt Chiang Kai Shek and Ivan Malsky to press Britain to grant India immediate independence. Maulana Azad was authorized to dispatch the appeal after a mass passive resistance resolution is passed, Gandhi endorsing the move. Gandhi urged non violent action and India vows to mobilize its disciplined masses.
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BOMBAY
All-Indian Congress party
Roosevelt
Chiang Kai-Shek
Ivan Malsky
Britain
Great Britain
India
Maulana Badul Kazan Azad
congress
Congress committee
Gandhi
China
IIndias
ans
Prisoners of War in Germany Guarded by Cripples and Old Men
New information from Uberated prisoners of war reported by France Forever said German camps are run by women and staffed by elderly and disabled guards. Russians suffered most, with civilians among captives. Liberated prisoners described transport by cattle cars with severe starvation, high death rates, and extreme malnutrition in initial days.
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NEW YORK
Germany
France
United States
Free French movement
No Decision On Saboteurs
President Roosevelt said in two press conferences he had not finished reviewing testimony in the case of eight alleged Nazi saboteurs and did not know whether he would finish that day. White House notes said he had not concluded reading the testimony and would act as the sole reviewing authority on the tribunal’s sentence.
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WASHINGTON
Ant
Rosevelt
White House
William D. Hassett
Roosevelt
Nad
military trial commission
Hassett
Yice
Survivors Reach Coast After Allied Ship Sinking
More than 50 survivors landed at an East Coast Canadian port after their vessel was ambushed and sunk by three submarines. A fourth submarine was shelled by a Canadian warship. ten crewmen perished. The rescued include Able Seaman Percy Lambert, a Canadian who moved from Halifax to Newfoundland three years ago.
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Percy Lambert
Halifax
Newfoundland
Daring Greenland Rescues Revealed By Navy
Navy release details 15 U S fliers rescued from icy Greenland led by Lt Col Balchen and Lt A J Parunak. Thirteen crew members from a Flying Fortress were saved July 6 after crossing icefields to a lake, then Parunak picked them up. In a second operation two weeks later Parunak and Balchen rescued Col Robert Wimsatt and sergeant Gunnar Bird near the ice cap. Wimsatt was injured. the rescues were termed Greenland Cooperative Salvage Company. Balchen promoted to temporary colonel.
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Bernt Balchen
Navy
Dave
Greenland
JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
WASHINGTON
United Surtees arms
army
Parunak
Flying Fortress
navy sas
Balthen
poodle
ion
Balchen
Robert W. C. Wimsatt
Washington, DC
gunderbird
jce
utar
Jake
Wimsatt
Bajechen
Soint entre Prises
Greenland Co-operative Salvage Company
war department
rencen
wen
Parmak
army Cdomber
Tank Charges Stabilize Whole Stalingrad Front
Russian forces halt German advance along the Stalingrad front with major tank clashes and counterattacks. Reports from the Don and Kuban sectors describe fresh Soviet tank and infantry actions, with heavy fighting near Kushchevka and Kletskaya as Germans push toward key oil areas in the Caucasus.
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Stalingrad Front
Henry C. Cassidy
Associated Press
OSCOW
A.P
Red army
Stalingrad
Belaya Glina
north Caucasus
Don bend
Don
Caucasus
Sal
Don rivers
Rzhev
Moscow
Reksv
Berlin
Kuban
Maikop
Russia
Kletskaya
Kotelnikovski
Kushchevka
Rostov
Fresh Japanese land thrust checked near Sangyang
Chinese army said Friday that a fresh Japanese land thrust in coastal Chekiang near Sangyang was being held in check while fighting continued at Linchwap in Kiangsi. Other items report Canadian Open leader Craig Wood, an explosion at Excel Foundry in Fall River, Alberta farm manpower concerns, and tea stock unload violations in Winnipeg.
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CHEXIANG CHUNGRING
API
Chekiang province
Sangyang
Linchwap
Kiangsi
CALGARY
EDMONTON
EIN RCAF
Donald Ross McKinton
PO. Kemp Richinton
Canada
CRAIG WOOD
MISSISSAUGA
Port Credit
Ont
Mamaroneck
N.Y
Frank Stranahan
Toledo
Gordon Brydvon
FALL RIVER
Mas
States
Fiats River
Excel Foundry and Machine Company, Inc
MANNING
ALBERTA
E C. Manning
trade and indestre
WINNIPEG
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