Italian Rails Are Hard Hit
Allied air attacks on Italy concentrate on the toe of the peninsula with fighter bombers, targeting rail cities like Aversa and Iglesias. Bombers hit Cape Spartivento and Grottaglio while weather kept many medium and heavy squadrons grounded. No allied planes lost. strikes aimed at communications and defensive works along the southern front.
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Associated Press
ALLIED
North Africa
Italy
R.A.F. Wellington
Aversa
Naples
Iglesias
Sardinia
Sicily
Middle East
Grottaglio
Taranto
Cairo
tce
Briish
Bostons
Baltmores
Dane Leader Defies Nazis
Danish prime minister Eric Scavenius, who resigned as Germany established a military dictatorship, declined an offer to form a new Danish government. Refugees in Stockholm report he refused to meet the Nazi cabinet members and Hannecken seeks a Danish civil authority.
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JOHN H. COLBURN
Associated Press
STOCKHOLM
Eric Scavenius
Germany
Denmark
Scavenius
Hermann von Tannecken
Hannecken
anasious
Four reasons to feed liberated counties after war ends
Herbert Lehman of the Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations urges after war aid to liberated areas. He cites humanitarian impulse, bolstering underground resistance, aiding ongoing military efforts, and ensuring a stable peace through rehabilitation, with food rations likely continuing for a year or two.
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NCLE SAM
Santa Claus
Hitler
Herbert H Lehman
Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations
American Magazine
Lehman
U S Minesweeper Sunk By Own Depth Charges
The U S Navy reports the mine sweeper Wasmuth wrecked in the Aleutians last December after two depth charges exploded beneath the stern when torn from racks by a gale thirty miles off the islands. Nine officers 125 men and two passengers were rescued.
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WASHINGTON
United States navy
Aleutians
Aleutian islands
British Military Mission In US Heads for Pacific War Study
A 28 man British mission led by Maj. Gen. J. S. Lethbridge arrived in the United States to study weapons and tactics for defeating Japan. The group will assess needs from New Brunswick to Panama and from Washington to San Francisco, then move to Hawaii and South Pacific theaters. They aim to advise London Washington and Ottawa with recommendations after on the ground assessments.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Japan
J. S. Lethbridge
United States
Germany
New Brunswick
Panama
Washington
Pacific Coast
Hawaii
South Pacific
Pacific
Europe
Africa
New Guinea
New Georgia
London
Ottawa
Canerra
U.S. Merchant Vessel Sunk by Submarine in July
The navy said a medium sized United States merchant ship was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine in the South Atlantic in July. Survivors landed at Minny Florida from the sinking.
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U.S
WASHINGTON
navy
United States
South Atlantic
Minny
Fla
Winnipeg Naval Barracks Scuttled
Winnipeg officers and men of the HSM C.S. Chippawa scuttled their ship despite the skipper's fears it had been scuttled. A north west wind and rain drove water into the hold causing an SOS to the fire department who helped pump the hold dry, narrowly averting a drowning tragedy on dry land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WINNIPEG
C.P
HSM. C.S. Chippawa
Beurling Joins RCAF After Malta Ace Transfer
Verdun born Canadian ace George Beurling, famed for 29 enemy planes, transfers from RAF to the Royal Canadian Air Force in London. He explains the move lets him return to active air duty after serving as an instructor post Malta combat.
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LONDON
C.P. Cable
George Buzzi
fseurling
Verdun
Canada
Malta
R.C.A.F
Beurling
R.A.F
R.C.AF
R.C AF
BSO
Britain
Anti-Fascist Writer Stabbed in New York
New York report says Ettore Manfredi, 61, an anti fascist writer for Italian language newspapers, was stabbed in the left side of his face on Wednesday. His condition is listed as serious.
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NEW YORK
Ettore Manfredi
Carlo Tresca
Ti Martello de Memmer
Sicilian Diary Here 15 Ross Munro’s Day Before Sicily Landing
Ross Munro narrates a diary from the Sicilian campaign showing the Malta Tripoli Turnis triangle rendezvous with invasion fleets, patient nerves, and the dawn of air and naval bombardment. July 9 and 10 entries describe convoys, craft assembly, and a blazing Pachino as ships approach the Sicilian coast.
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Ross Munro
Malta-Tripol-Turnis triangle
Malta
Spitfire
Pachino
AWAIT RUSS ENEMY PULLS PARLEY REPLY FROM DONETS
Washington reports Churchill and Roosevelt debating war politics amid hope for a Moscow reply to Anglo American calls for a three power wartime conference. No clear sign from Moscow on whether it favors such a meeting this year, while Washington seeks on the record responses to the overtures.
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JOHN H. HIGHTOWER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
Churchill
Roosevelt
Russia
Despit
Moscow
Quebec
White House
Canada
Gen McDonald Dies Suddenly in Banff
Ottawa reports Brig General WH F McDonald CMG DSO chaired the Canadian Pensions Commission and advised Air Minister Power. He died suddenly while on vacation in Banff Alta after a recent Ottawa hospital check up. He traced lineage to Hudsons Bay Company history and North West rebellion era events.
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OTTAWA
WH. F McDonald
CMG
Canadian Pensions Commision
Air Minister
Power
Banff
Alta
pensions department
McDonald
Archibald McDonald
Hudson's Bay Company
Fort Qu'Appelle
Sask
Middleton
OLD WEST
dave
Acre
North West
Destroys Holland Canal Locks By Hurricane Bombers
RAF using Typhoons destroyed the gates at the Hansweert Canal end, blocking cross river shipping between Holland and Antwerp. Debris and sea waves disrupted the area as storms surged toward the continent.
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RAF
HOLLAND CANAL
LONDON
Hansweert Canal
Holland
air miniutiry
Antwerp
English Channel
DONELS
Moscow
Donets
Sldovanosevsk
Smolensk
GERMANY
OTTAWA
C.P
Verv Dunning
C. A. Dunning
finance
HL Ambrose
C.P. Cable
Evening standard
Francisco Franco
Samacl Meare
ignity
Spain
Brodeur Cites Allied Pincers on Japan in Pacific
Rear Admiral Victor Brodeur says Allied forces trap Japan in a pincer across the South Pacific and Aleutians and outlines a routine appointment upon arriving from Washington. He returns to command at the Pacific coast after succeeding Commodore W I R Beech as Canadian naval officer in London.
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VANCOUVER
Pacific
Aleutians
Japan
Victor Brodews
RON
Washington
Brodeur
Paffic coast
W. I. R Beech
London
Chinese Forces Recapture Hengli After Heavy Japanese Losses
Chinese forces recaptured Hengli near Canton and killed over 200 Japanese, according to a Chinese high command communiqué issued Wednesday. The report confirms a significant victory in the Hengli sector with continued Allied coordination in the region.
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CHUNGKING
Hengli
Canton
Wednenaday
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Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail
Wayland
N.Y
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WIT AIRFIELDS
Wake Island
ASHINGTON
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Kuriles
Reuters
WILLIAM F. BOND
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Salamaua
alro
andiom
Francisco river
Roosevelt Ridge
Scout Ridge
Laurier
F.C. Beurling
RGAF
Pachino town
Ontario
Hastings
SICILLAN
RUSS
Sumy
Kharkov
Lishchansk
Kursk
Moscow radio
Soviet monitor
Joseph Stalin
Bryansk
Grushkovo
KIEV
Smolensk-Moscow
Sea of Azov
Red army
Ukraine
Stalin
Poltava
Stalino
Orel
Belgorod
monitor
Taganrog
Stalingrad
Gen. McDonald
PWSPA
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