Yanks Sink 10 More Jap Ships In Carolines Raid
Allied forces struck the Japanese Carolines in a two day operation July 24 to 25 sinking a destroyer and an oiler, escort vessels, seven cargo ships and many smaller craft. Twenty six Japanese planes were destroyed while five U S planes were lost and four pilots saved. Islands attacked included Arakadesan Peleliu Angaur Malakal and Koror in Palau and Yap Ulithi. Admiral Nimitz announced the raid as part of broader Allied advances across Palau Truk Sabang and China fronts.
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Hengyang
Palau
Truk
Sabang
China
Caroline
U. S
Arakadesan
Peleliu
Angaur
Malakal
Koror
Yap
Ulithi
Guam
Adm
Chester Nimitz
Women of the War on Display in Logan Victory Center
In 1944 the local Victory Center unveils 15 pictures of women serving in WACS WAVES SPARS Army and Navy Nursing Corps. Two are overseas and the rest are stationed at camps and hospitals in the United States. The display honors Logan County women contributing to the war effort.
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Logan
Victory Center
WACS
WAVES
SPARS
Army and Navy Nursing Corps
Hocking County
United States
General McNair Killed Abroad On Normandy Front
Washington July 28. Lt. Gen. Lesley J McNair commander of Army ground forces and a key architect of the ground army was killed by enemy fire on the Normandy front while observing the Allied offensive. He had previously served in Tunisia and was the highest ranking American officer killed in action in this war.
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Washington
Lesley J. McNair
Normandy
France
War Department
McNair
Tunisia
Marshall
Three Killed in Thursday Storms Across Regions
At least three people died and a fourth succumbed to a heart attack as storms swept from Mississippi to Kansas. A 90 mph gust levelled buildings at Greenwood Army Air Base in Mississippi, killing Cpl. William A. Hall of Lucas, Ohio, and injuring a dozen. Pvt. Teofilo Salinas of Holtville, California, died from injuries after a tree toppled by high winds struck him at Camp Robinson, Arkansas. Two of the dead were soldiers.
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Mississippi
Kansas
Cpl
William A. Hall
Lucas
Ohio
Greenwood
Miss
Army Air Base
Teofilo Salinas
Holtville
Calif
Camp Robinson
Ark
Americans Break Through German Lines In Normandy Drive
Allied dispatches report little German resistance as U S tanks advance across a 25 mile front from St Lo toward the sea. Coutances may fall soon with estimates of 50 000 to 75 000 Germans could be trapped in a Coutances-Les ay pocket though unverified.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Normandy
St. Lo
Coutances
London
Coutances-Lessay
Lessay
Vire
Des Hayes
Marigny
Bois de Seulles
Canisy
St. Lo-Periers
Soulle
Sienne
Tessy-sur-Vire
le Mesnil Herman
Cerisy la Salle
Broken Hearted Pistol Head Home For Rehabilitation
Pistol Head the cocker spaniel with 48 combat missions is en route to Brooklyn New York for rehabilitation after a husband Lt Col S T Willis went missing in action over the Marshall Islands. The dog will stay with Mrs Eileen B Willis while soldiers hope he regains purpose.
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San Francisco
Pistol Head
Eileen B. Willis
Brooklyn
N. Y
Marshall Islands
United Air Lines
Ten Killed in B-24 Crash Near Augusta Georgia
A B-24 Liberator bomber crashed and burned about ten miles south of Augusta killing ten Air Corps servicemen from Chatham Field including John Taafel of Newark Ohio, assistant engineer on the craft. Taafel was the son of Mrs. Mary E. Taafel of Newark.
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Savannah
John Taafel
Newark
Air Corps
Chatham Field
Augusta
Taafel
Mary E. Taafel
Helldivers Key Role In Saipan and Philippines Action
The Navy disclosed that a squadron of Ohio produced Helldiver dive bombers faced the severest test in the Pacific Fleet during the Saipan invasion and the battle of the eastern Philippines. A dispatch from Lt. Kenn Clayton credited the Helldiver with a key role in these actions. The aircraft is manufactured at Curtiss-Wright in Columbus, Ohio.
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Washington
Pacific
Saipan
Philippines
Navy
J.G
Kenn Clayton
Arlington
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Columbus, O
Bulgaria Seeks Exit From War Through Allied Talks
Ankara reports Bulgaria negotiating with the Allies to exit the war. The talks align with concurrent Turkish developments and reflect a possible shift in regional wartime positions.
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Ankara
Bulgaria
American Fortresses Raid Central Germany in Large Air Sweep
American Flying Fortresses 1,000 strong, with equal escort fighters, hit targets in central Germany today. Berlin radio described great aerial battles with Nazi pilots as raids continued despite cloudy Normandy weather that limited air operations, forcing overcast aiming.
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London
Germany
Berlin
Normandy Battlefront
Reich
Secret Weapons Talk Triggers War Analyst Warnings
Associated Press war analyst DeWitt MacKenzie reports Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels asserts Germany has secret weapons that unnerved Britain. Churchill warns of greater trials as Germany touts rockets and a looming total war. Allies note advancing fronts but seek proof of novel devices beyond the flying bomb.
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DeWitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Goebbels
Germany
Britain
Hitler
Churchill
Europe
Normandy
Nazrs
England
Lle
Mackey Quits Post as Las Athletic Coach
Logan High School remains without an athletic coach after Clarence Mackey chose to remain with Logan rather than accept a higher bid from Painesville High School. Mackey’s decision ends weeks of negotiation as Painesville raised its offer, but Logan matched it. Since 1942 Mackey built two Southeast Ohio basketball titles and a second place football team in 1943, while also managing the city pool in summer. Football practice at the new post is set for August 1, with timing for departure still to be decided.
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Logan High School
Clarence Mackey
Painesville, O
Northern Ohio
Mackey
Painesville
Logan School
Logan Post
Logan
Wilds search for lost pilots near Moosehead Lake
Greenville Me July 28 Fifty Royal Canadian Air Force and U S Army planes searched the wilderness north of Moosehead Lake for three small training planes carrying four Ohio pilots reported downed along the Canadian U S border. The nine planes, listed as excess materiel by the RCAF, were purchased by Dayton Aircraft Exchange and were all piloted by Ohioans. Missing fliers are Ben Thyson Earl Ashelford James Curl and Kenneth Tidd.
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Greenville
Royal Canadian Air Force
Moosehead Lake
U.S
RCAF
Dayton Aircraft Exchange
Dayton
John Golob
Dayton Concern
Ben Thyson
Exchange
Air Mail
Earl Ashelford
Rockford
Ill
Urbana, O
James Curl
Salem
Kenneth Tidd
Cleveland War Plant Razed By Flames
A rambling auxiliary plant of the National Smelting Co. in Cleveland was destroyed by a spectacular fire. The blaze caused an estimated loss between 150000 and 500000 dollars, with continuous dull explosions rattling a two square mile area for five hours as water sprayed magnesium scrap and powder.
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Cleveland
National Smelting Co
Russians 30 Miles Outside Warsaw
London reports Brest Litovsk and Kaunas abandoned as Soviet forces push toward Warsaw and Berlin. Russians reach 30 miles from Warsaw with advances along the San River and into East Prussia and Silesia, claiming major victories and rapid front gains across the Baltic states and Poland.
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London
Brest Litovsk
Warsaw
Kaunas
Lithuania
Berlin
San River
German Silesia
Baltic States
Poland
Carpathian
East Prussia
Czecho- Slovakia
Tokyo denies execution threat to American airmen
Tokyo broadcast an official denial stating that American pilots who crash on Japanese soil have not been executed and would not be. It refuted a Singapore report about a one way ticket for Superfortress crews and noted prior U S acknowledgment of some executions from the 1942 Tokyo raid.
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London
Tokyo
United States
Switzerland
Singapore
Japan
Congress Eyes Victory Soon Amid Optimistic Talks
Washington reports brisk optimism in Congress over an early German victory. Rep. McCormack cautions against premature celebration while Sen. Vandenberg cites encouraging collapse forecasts. May predicts German capitulation by December 1, and Sen. Thomas doubts Germany can last through the year.
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Washington
Germany
Congress
Rep
McCormack
D-Mass
House
Boston
Vandenberg
R-Mich
May
House Military Affairs Committee
Eighth Army advances toward Florence amid Italian battle
The Eighth Army pushed toward Florence as New Zealand veterans seized San Casciano seven miles from the city. American and German artillery clashed across the Arno in Pisa’s opening battle stage. New Zealand troops fought near Cerbaia eight miles southwest of Florence, six miles from the Arno.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Florence
New Zealand
San Casciano
Arno
Pisa
Cerbaia
Uits
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Sea OF Japan
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Valand
Bonin Islands
Marianas IS
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Naval Base
M*nair
Gladwin Hill
Gentral
LAS
WILDS
Transocean Agency
Lithu
Ania
Garwolin
Stalin
Moscow
Bug River
Minsk
Wilno
Russia
Siaulai
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