Churchill Threat In Italy Sparks Massive Northern Bombing
Allied raids battered Milan and Turin as Churchill warned Italy would be “scared scarred and blackened” if it stayed in the war. The assault involved 1,000 fighters and bombers, with Berlin also struck by Mosquito aircraft. Canadian and Royal Air Force units joined the operation, while Italian and German capital targets faced heavy attacks.
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Ernest Agnew
Associated Press
A.P
Churchill
Italy
Milan
Turin
Berlin
Rome
North Africa
Fiat aero engine
royal arsenal
chemical
Caproni aircraft works
Breda armament Works
England
R.A.F
US Air Fleet Bombs Rome In Large Daylight Raid
A large force of United States bombers attacked Rome in daylight today targeting the San Lorenzo and Littorio railroad yards with Maj Gen Jimmy Doolittle commanding. Fighters accompanied the raid as medium bombers aided in hitting the Littoilio yards and San Giovanni sidings, part of a broader Mediterranean campaign effort.
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Relman Morin
Associated Press
North Africa
A.P
United States
Rome
San Lorenzo and
Littorio
Jimmy Doolittle
ium
Rote
RAP
Halifax
Liberators
Middle East
San Giovanni
Italy
Messina
Sicily
San Lorenzo
Littoilo yards
strategic air force
James H. Doolitzie
beforre
air force
Florence
Sicily Silent On Canadians
Toronto report states Canadians in Sicily are not mentioned openly as they are kept as a military secret. War correspondent Peter Stursberg says they may still be there, resting after the capture of Adrano, with activity hidden from Allied communities.
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TORONTO
Peter Stursberg
CEC
Algiers
Sicily
Starsburg
Aderno
Memphis mother held for axe murders of three children
Frail 37 year old Mrs. Mauldred Davidson was jailed on three counts of murder after police said she confessed to killing her three children with an axe in Memphis Tennessee.
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MEMPHIS
Tenn
Lord of the Manor in Market Bosworth Crowns Toll Rights
W J Hatton, a barber grocer draper and cafe owner at Market Bosworth Leicestershire explains to an Army officer that the Lord of the Manor holds toll rights. He bought such rights for 240 pounds and collects a 6d parking fee, netting about 20 pounds a year. The rights affect cattle show crowds and Market days as he runs his saloon.
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W. J. Hatton
Market Bosworth
Leicestershire
London Sunday Express
Mr. Hatton
Bosworth
Churchill Chats With Railmen on Canadian Trip
OTTAWA Aug. 13 Prime Minister Churchill praised resolve on his rail journey from Montreal to Toronto telling railwaymen We will have to get that old song We Have the Hun on the Run going again The visit included his daughter Mary who chatted with a brakeman as she enjoyed her first trip to Canada and was delighted by the trip autographs were signed for railway employees.
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OTTAWA
Churchill
Montreal
Toronto
Mary
kbrakeman
Canada
Kharkov Falls as Soviet Drive Nears Encirclement
Soviet forces pressed final assaults around Kharkov as German defenses collapsed. Chuguev fell, clearing a path toward encirclement, with Red Star noting battles along the Kharkov Poltava line and Kilontaey reported captured.
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HENRY C. CASSIDY
Associated Press
MOSCOW
Kharkov
Ukraine
Chuguev
Red Star
Kharkov-Poltava
Kilontaey
Verskala
Poltava
Donets
Most Violent Raid on Swiss Italian Frontier
Milan newspapers describe a RAF attack on Industial Milan as the war’s most violent raid. Night fighting echoed from Chiasso with two planes seen aflame. The Palazzo Marino burned, a cathedral spire hit, and whole blocks leveled near Porta Venezia, with many casualties feared.
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RAF.-R.C.AF
Milan
Chiasso
Palazzo
Anderson Returns From Canada and Washington Trip
Sir John Anderson lord president of the council has returned from Canada and was with Prime Minister Churchill in Quebec this week. He also said he had been in Washington talking with War Secretary Henry Stimson and General George C. Marshall, U.S. chief of staff.
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LONDON
John Anderson
the
cornci
Canada
Joan
Churchill
Quebec
Washington
Henry Stimson
George ©. Marshall
U.S
Grounded steamer Corvus freed at Sault Ste Marie
The steamer Corvus of the Packana, Mather Line, ran aground last night at Big Point above the Sault but was released today by the Great Lakes Towing and Wrecking Company. No injuries reported.
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SAULT STE MARIE
Ont
Corvus
Packana, Mather Line
Big Point
Sault
Great Lakes Towing and Wrecking Company
Why Russia Is Not Concerned In Meet
Moscow officially stated Soviet participation in the forthcoming Churchill Roosevelt conference at Quebec was not envisaged and no invitation was received. London commentary suggested talks would focus on the war with Japan. The Tass release noted the nature of the conference as the reason for absence, while observers pondered Japan’s role and potential strategic moves amid the Pacific war.
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C. P
Moscow
Quebec
Japan
Tass
Russia
Pacific
Stalin
Douglas Brownrigg
London Evening News
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goenng
Brownrigg
Germany
Manchuria
Allies Take Cape Orlando Cape Orlando falls to Allied forces in North Africa drive
Allied announces the U S Seventh Army captured Cape Orlando, the German coastal stronghold about 40 miles west of Messina after a sea landing. American troops link with forces to the east and west, overrunning Naso and Brolo as 130000 Axis prisoners are reported. General Fiumara of the Napoli Division captured. Allies push toward Randazzo and Messina as evacuation lines tighten.
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7th Army
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Naples
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Taormina
Italy
Randazzo
Mussolini Died in Sub? Post Claims in New York
The New York Post reports Mussolini reportedly drowned like a trapped rat while attempting to escape Italy aboard a submarine from Leghorn. Allied airmen allegedly spotted and bombed the sub, sending it to the bottom, with no official word on his whereabouts since resignation and ongoing uncertainty over his fate.
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C.P
New York Post today
Benito Mussolini
Mary
Italy
Mussolini
Leghorn
Mussoliini
Mutosclini
Germany imposes cordon as probe of August raid
In Istanbul on August 11 report says Germany orders a military cordon around the Proesttoff fields while awaiting investigation results into who was to blame for the August 1 American raid. An eye witness says Romanian guards were largely off duty, leaving only a skeleton force.
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ISTANBUL
Germany
Churchill's dambuster Gibson recalls May raid and war view
Wing Commander G P Gibson VC tells reporters in Quebec that the Mohne and Eder dam raid will show its true effect late next month. He notes 174 operations without a scratch and credits British engineering with the raid's success. He expects six weeks in Canada and perhaps four more in the United States before returning.
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JOHN DAUPHINEE
QUEBEC
C.P
G. P. Gibson
D.I.C
Bar
D.F.C
dambuster
Churchill
Mohne
Eder
Britain
campo
Gibson
Ruhr
Canada
United States
Atlantic
Churchil
Mine Blast Death in Kerralta Mine Under Inquiry
A coroner's jury ruled four Kerralta mine workers died from concussion burns and carbon monoxide poisoning following an explosion whose origin remains unknown. Dr. J. Wray presided.
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Kerralta
J. 3. Wray
Calgary Flier Awarded D F C
Ottawa announces the third Distinguished Flying Cross to Face Lt. F C Colborne of Calgary for service at a Canadian operational station. The release also lists two George Medals and four British Empire Medals awarded to R C A F personnel serving in Canada.
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OTTAWA
Air Force
R.C.AF
Canada
F.C Colborne
Calgary
R.C.A.F
RAF training plane crash claims two lives at Moose Jaw
Two Royal Air Force airmen attached to No 32 SFTS were killed when a training plane crashed near the school on Wednesday night. Next of kin have been notified and names will be announced shortly.
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MOOSE JAW
Royal Air Force
No. 32
S.F.T.S
R.AP
Soviet central front offensive targets Smolensk
A new Soviet operation began near Spas Demensk in the central front aimed at Smolensk. The attack advanced from areas northwest of Spas Demensk and southeast of the town toward the northwest, breaking the German line on a 22 mile sector as troops moved south.
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LONDON
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Spas Demensk
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Sicily
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Daily Express
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C.P. Cable
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