Red Army Drives Toward Smolensk Kiev in Rapid Advance
Soviet forces under Gen. Yeremenko break through toward Smolensk and push westward along a 700 mile front. The campaign nears Kiev and Zaporozhe as villages fall, rail lines are cut, and German positions along the Dnieper come under heavy pressure.
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Stalingrad
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ank
Roslavl
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Germans Flee From Sardinia
Allied forces report the 5th Army controls the south side of the Bay of Naples by seizing the Sorrento peninsula and surrounding islands Capri Ischia and Procida. Sardinia is reported evacuated by German forces as Allied advances push from Salerno toward Bari and Naples.
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Wes Gallagher
Associated Press
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Defeat Japs In Air Fight Over Solomon Islands
Allied headquarters reported 14 Japanese fighters destroyed in a fresh air battle over the northern Solomon Islands. The action involved 60 interceptors challenging torpedo and dive bombers targeting Ballale airfield on Bougainville. Japanese losses near 100 aircraft in three weeks. Allies tallied two bombers and four fighters lost.
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Solomon Islands
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The Left Hand Corner War Reports From France
The piece recounts radio broadcasts from Vichy about rising violence in France as guerrillas clash with gendarmes in Ariane and Picardy. It notes deaths of a gendarme and assassinations of court officials, with fires and executions reported, and hints at a forthcoming song related item on the back page.
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Seine-et- Marne
Yanks Bomb Tarawa and Nauru Islands in Pacific Raid
American naval forces attacked the Japanese airbase on Tarawa Island in the Gilbert group and Nauru Island west of the Gilberts. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced the strikes carried out Saturday night and Sunday with carrier-based torpedo planes and dive bombers. The offensive targeted the eastern spearhead of Japan’s Pacific defenses, following the Marcus Island raid earlier in September.
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Gilbert group
Nauru Island
Gilberts
Chester W. Nimitz
United States Pacific fleet
Japan
Pacific
Marcus Island
Tokyo
Trapped In Lake Two Fliers Saved From Wreckage
Buckingham Quebec September 20 Two fliers trapped in their aircraft after a crash into Big Lake fourteen miles northeast of here were rescued by Joe Roos and his son by motorboat just before the plane disappeared. The men were hauled from two feet of water and freed from harness straps. They were taken ashore and treated by Dr. P N MacLachlan for shock and minor injuries.
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here
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P N. MacLachlan
Allied Balkan Drive Near
Allied war fleet reportedly steamed up the Aegean Sea off western Turkey amid talk of a Balkan invasion. Refugees said Castelrosso in the Dodecanese was occupied, with earlier reports of Samos Leros and Cos, while Rhodes faced German control after Italian collapse. 25,000 Italians on Rhodes were said to be out-numbered.
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ERNEST AGNEW
Associated Press
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Mediterranean
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B T Coon Dies In City
Benjamin Tyler Coon 62 longtime general manager of Lethbridge Collieries Limited died at Galt Hospital at noon today after a week long illness. He was a leading figure in western coal mining circles and had served as an official in the industry since 1938.
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Benjamin Tyler Coon
Lethbridge Collieries Limited
Galt Hospital
Churchill Home Plans Early Review of War To Commons
Prime Minister Churchill returns to Britain after a six week Canada and United States trip and begins a war review for the house of commons to open a two day debate. Details awaited include Italy surrender and proposed Britain United States and Russia conferences. Churchill and family greeted by crowds on arrival.
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Six Italian ships surrender to Allies at Haifa Harbor
An Italian gunboat, a minesweeper, and four other small naval craft sailed into Haifa Harbor on Sunday to surrender to Allied forces. The event marks a formal capitulation of Italian naval units in the Palestine theater.
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HAIFA
Palestine
Allied air sweeps hit Nazi targets across France and Holland
British and American aircraft escorted by fighters including the Royal Canadian Air Force struck Nazi air fields and industrial sites in France and Holland. Mosquitos and RC AF planes previously targeted the Rhineland, with Lille and Bethune among sites hit. Three Allied fighters were lost and several German planes downed as Canadian and other air crews provided cover.
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Robert A. Buchman
Vancouver
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Two Yanks Visit Rome In Bold Post Armistice Mission
Two American officers Brig Gen Maxwell Taylor and Col William Tudor Gaithrint visited Rome under German eyes hours before the Salerno invasion. They met Marshal Badoglio and Italian commanders, traveled by car with no caps, and returned to North Africa after a 20 hour, coastal voyage.
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Calgarys Dam-Buster Missing After Overseas Mission
Calgarys Dam Buster FO Harlo Taerum of the RCAF is reported missing following operations overseas on Sept 13. Decorated for raids on elder dams, he served as navigator in a plane led by Wing Commander Gibson. His mother received the official word Saturday.
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Resignation Talk Tufts Thomson At Canadian Broad Casting Board
Discussion centers on the possible resignation of Rev J S Thomson general minister of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Thomson, appointed in 192? after Gladstone Murray, may step down with potential replacement by Rene Morin of Montreal as board chair and DD Thomson as successor.
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J S Thomson
Cannadian Broad iting Corporation
teeve
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Tnonson
Gladstone Murray
University of Saskatchewan
Rene Morin
Montreal
DD Thorson
Badoglio Urges Italians to Fight Beside Allies
Allied dispatch reports Premier Marshal Pietro Badoglio appealed to Italians to join the British and Americans against the Germans, calling it their absolute duty. The message, broadcast Sept. 16 on Radio Italiana, was released after arrival from the Italian mainland and marks a split from Mussolini’s regime.
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Russians Near White Russia Frontier and Crimea Advance
Front line advances see Velikhy captured 65 miles northwest of Smolensk bringing Red Army within 16 miles of the White Russian border. A town near Melitopol fell, Bolshaya-lokmak near Zaporozhe also captured as the drive widens to 7350 miles. Hundreds of villages seized as Russian forces press westward through the Crimea corridor.
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