Allies Outflank Toulon as Third Army Advances in South France
Allied forces push from St Maximin toward the Rhone valley as French tanks and American infantry break through near Marseille and Aix en Provence. Grasse and Bastide areas seen in reach, with German retreat rapid along the Mediterranean coast.
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Toulon
France
Noland Norgaard
Rome
Fay
St. Maximin-Ste. Baume
Marseille
Les
Aix-en-Provence
Rhoneer
LIES AGREE ON PLANS FOR PEACE IN FOUR-POWER TALKS
Washington reports indicate no serious obstacles to agreement on postwar world security among the United States United Kingdom and Russia with China to join later. Hull will open the Soviet American British phase as four power talks begin in Washington following the Moscow declaration.
Chinese Advance Near Hengyang Repels Japanese Attacks
Chinese forces gain high ground east of Hengyang and repulse Japanese assaults. A Japanese column moving southwest from Siang-Siang, about 60 miles north of Hengyang, is said to have suffered heavy casualties after contact with Chinese troops.
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Chungking
Hengyang
Siang-Siang
Vichy Forces Said To Control Courts In Algeria
London dispatch notes United Nations radio from Algiers reporting that French interior forces supposedly hold control in Vichy and have set up their own courts in Algeria.
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London
Ations Radio
Algiers
Vichy
Soviets Advance Ten Miles Along East Prussian Line
Soviet forces push up to ten miles into East Prussia northeast of Warsaw threatening Lomza and Ostrow Mazowiecki as Berlin reports a breach in major depth. Dual Red Army offensives totaling 300000 troops drive toward the Prussian border with multiple localities captured.
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London
Lomza
Ostrow-Mazowiecki
Berlin
Moscow
Ivan Cherniakhovskys
Reich
G. F. Zakharov
Warsaw
East Prussia
Wisna
Kolomija
Bialystok
Czyzewo
Praga
Vistula
Ivan S. Konev
First Ukraine
Komorna
Sandomerz
Penchiny
Galkowice
Sandomierz
Riga
Ivan Maslennikov
Fires Rage as RAF Bombers Supply Poles in Warsaw
London reports great fires in Warsaw as Royal Air Force bombers fly from Mediterranean bases on long rounds to drop guns and ammunition to Polish fighters. Twenty one planes reportedly shot down by German defenses amid a tense polarization with Soviet forces nearby.
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London
Warsaw
Mediterranean
Britain
Bor
Soviet Union
Bombers Harass Retreating Nazis Across France
Allied air forces use Thunderbolt rocket tanks and Typhoons to attack German armor and transport near the Seine. Over three days, more than 7,000 vehicles and tanks were destroyed or damaged, with 615 military vehicles and 62 tanks knocked out in a single day. R A F Lancasters hit an oil depot at La Pallice as U S Ninth and Allied air forces press the retreat and target oil resources.
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London
Seine
Second Tactical Air Force
Ninth Air Force
Secon Tactical Air Force
Falaise-Argentan
United States
Hitler
Ploesti
Romania
German Officials See From Paris Amid Paris Front Retreat
Paris reports say Laval and Abetz fled the city as Axis troops face American tank thrusts south of Paris. Vichy contemplates leaving the capital while interior forces may seize control. Berlin cites reconnaissance moves and hints at a German withdrawal from France.
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Associated Press
Vichy
Paris
Berlin
France
Panama actor Icaza held on illegal entry charge in Los Angeles
Antonio Icaza a 32 year old Panama born actor who sued Tommy Dorsey for 40000 dollars was arrested by immigration authorities in Los Angeles on illegal entry claims Icaza said he was injured in a fracas at Dorsey’s apartment on August 5 along with Jon Hall U S Attorney Charles H Carr held Icaza without bond awaiting Office investigation Icaza arrived at the port July 1 as a seaman aboard a ship immigration officials said
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Los Angeles
Antonio Icaza
Panama
Tommy Dorsey
United States
Icaza
Dorsey
Jon Hall
Charles H. Carr
President orders navy to seize San Francisco war plant network
President Roosevelt directed the secretary of the navy to take over 99 machine shops around San Francisco producing war materials after a union overtime ban. George W. Taylor of the War Labor Board urged seizure to end the eight hour cap as contract talks faltered.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Secretary of the Navy
San Francisco
White House
George W. Taylor
War Labor Board
Lodge 68
The
International Association of Machinists
Taylor
Navy
Nazis Resort To Retreat To Victory Doctrine At Home
In a week of sharp reversals across the East and West Nazi home-front leaders urged a retreat to victory rhetoric. They promised new armies and weapons while avoiding hard truths of battles in East Prussia and France as Allied forces advance and French resistance grows.
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Hitler
France
East
Prussia
Seventh Army
Vichy
Seinees
Riviera
First Allied pilots describe Nazi ME-163 jet fighter
Three American pilots report the German ME-163 rocket propelled fighter in combat near Leipzig. They say the jet wing achieved the fastest controlled dive seen, leaving a dense white trail and appearing as a bird shaped wing swish past Flying Fortresses.
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Franklin Banker
Britain
John Murphy
Tulsa
Okla
Aleutians
Cyril W. Jones Jr
Athens
Tenn
Jimmy C. Shoffit
Fort Worth
Tex
Leipzig
Point Blank
Arthur F. Jeffrey
San Francisco
Planes continue attack on Japs in Pacific theater
Allied air forces pressed operations across the Southwest Pacific in mid August. Liberator bombers damaged a small Japanese freighter off Davao while patrols hit Halmahera Palau and Vogelkop peninsula destroying barges near Manokwari. Air strikes targeted Amboina Ceram Berse and northern islands while Nimtz reported wide air raids south of Tokyo and in the Marianas and Carolines.
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Southwest Pacific
Philippine
Davao
Halahera
Guardian
Philippines
Vogelkop Peninsula
New Guinea
Palau
Menokwari
Dutch New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Mindanao
Pilau
Halmahera
Banda Sea
Abboina
Ceram
Berse
Davao Gulf
Amboina
Benda Sea
Pacific
Japan
Chester W. Nimtz
Volcanic Islands
Tokyo
Marianas
Carolines
Maquis Liberate Interior Towns Amid Allied Resistance
French interior resistance forces known as the Maquis have freed 70 villages southeast of Paris and are taking control of several departments. Police in Saone and Loire have joined, and German garrisons at Thonon Evian Lefayet and Chamontix are negotiating surrender amid growing Maquis coordination.
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London
Paris
France
Joseph Pierre Koenig
Saone
Loire
Thonon
Evian
Lefayet
Schamonix
German Fleet Scuttled in France Bay of Biscay and Gironde
German naval and mercantile vessels scuttled in the Bay of Biscay and the Gironde river near Bordeaux after departures from Bayonne and St Jean de Luz. The fleet, including torpedo boats, light submarines, armed trawlers and coastal freighters, crews abandoning ships by lifeboat.
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Iran
Spain
France
Bay of Biscay
Gironde
Bordeaux
Bayonne
St. Jean de Luz
Allied Advance From Normandy Aims To Crush Hitler Army
Allied forces report no Normandy pocket left as German units race east toward the Seine. American Third Army patrols near Paris and strides toward Mantes and Vernon fold into a wider drive to destroy the German Seventh Army and its armor. Air power slows German salvage while the Falaise gap remains sealed and Paris looms as a prize to be taken.
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William Smith White
France
Normandy
Seine
Omar N. Bradley
Hitler
Seventh
U. S
Chambois
Argentan
Paris
Gladwin Hill
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Seine River
George S
Sea
Falaise
Dreux
Seventh Army
Calais
Associated Press
Wiliam S. White
Nazis Maintain Italian Defenses Near Florence Front
Allied patrols probing the Gothic Line found German forces dug in around Pisa Florence and the Adriatic coast and fought off patrol incursions. Field Marshal Kesselring is said to command about twelve divisions as Allied moves threaten retreat and reinforcement routes along the French Riviera and toward Paris.
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Florence
Auz
France
Pisa
East Ward
Adriatic
Arno
Albert Kesselrin
French Riviera
Paris
Monroe Sergeant Feeds Eisenhower At Normandy Camp
In Normandy Aug 19 Sgt Eugene Brandon of Monroe Louisiana supplies eggs and local produce to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. He trades farm gifts for meals, aided by Sgt Ludwig Wolfe who bakes biscuits and cakes in a gas-powered field oven. The carrier trail brings fresh food and cleanup from nearby farmers.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Normandy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gless
Eugene Brandon
South Grand Street
Monroe
Ludwig Wolfe
New York City
Small Nazi Force Holds Balkans Across 600 Miles
An examination of reports indicates a German field under 60 divisions controls the Balkans from the Black Sea to Krakow with about a dozen divisions south of the Danube. The force relies on central and northwestern Yugoslavia with two thirds spread along mountains and rail hubs amid Allied bombing strains. The Luftwaffe, aided by Romanian Hungarian and Bulgarian units, may muster 800 to 1,000 fighters in the region to defend refineries and war works.
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Italy
Balkans
Russia
Black Sea
Krakow
Poland
Danube
Yugoslavia
Germany
Ploesti
Hungary
Austria
Romania
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W. W. Hercher
Ploesti Fields
South
Signal Corps
U. 5. 10
Interpretan
Nips
Maquis
Eisenhower
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