Allies push 8 miles in southern France and near Paris
Allied forces widened the push toward Paris as German Seventh army retreats near Falaise. US Third Army drives east toward Chartres, threatening encirclement with the Seine behind. Berlin reports German pockets and crippling blow to Normandy lines, while Allied air power targets supply and retreat routes.
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Paris
London
Seventh Army
Falaise
Berlin
Third Army
Chartres
Seine
Atlantic St. Seine
Nadians
Iderry
von Kluge
Cherbourg
Interior
Uis
Brittany
Paimpol
Nordic
Seine-Loire
Enth Army
German Seventh Army Isolated in Normandy Breakthrough
Paris, Aug 16. The Third Army reports the Seventh Army is breaking up guerrilla bands and massing to try a Seine crossing. Normandy is collapsing as German forces are trapped in a widening pocket near Falaise and Argentan. The Third Army claims 39,000 Germans captured and 11,000 killed in the Argentan sweep, with another 2,000 cut off on the Brest peninsula.
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Falaise
Argentan
France
Brest Penlain
Nazis Report Raid Repulsed In Gulf of St Tropez
The Berlin radio claimed German bombers sank a fully laden tank landing craft and damaged several Allied vessels in the Gulf of St. Tropez. It said Allied air drops near St Raphael and Frejus were cut off from town communications, with shore batteries forcing minor enemy units to retreat.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Gulf of St. Tropez
Cap Negro
Frejus
St. Maxime
Gulf
St Raphael
Toulon
Transocean
Ludwig Sertorius
Nice
Cannes
Montgomery still deputy commander of Allied forces in Europe
An official SHAEF statement today confirms Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery remains Dwight D. Eisenhower's deputy commander in the field and field commander of all ground forces under Eisenhower. Eisenhower travels toward France but remains not in direct personal command. Allied forces in the south under Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. The south force is expected to move north and link with Eisenhower’s western theater as operations progress.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Bernard L. Montgomery
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Montgomery
Eisenhower
Twelfth Army
Omar N. Bradley
Twenty-First Army
France
Henry Maitland Wilson
Wilson
Mediterranean
Japanese Mako base bombed by American Liberators
American Liberators bombed Mako naval base in the Pescadores Islands as the first attack on those islands between Formosa and China. Taka harbor near Formosa was also bombed by B-24s from General Chennault's Air Force in the night raid.
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Mako
Pescadores Islands
Formosa
China
Taka
Claire L. Chennault
United States Mth Air Force
Make
Tokyo
Philippines
Roosevelt
Churchill
Cairo
Pacific
Compensation Bill Up Again in Washington Fight
A group of liberal house members pushed for a headcount before deciding whether to renew efforts for unemployment compensation. They favor federal added aid and aim to replace the Senate bill with a federal state program boosting payments. The 50 liberal members plan a meeting to set strategy while the CIO backs the federal aid measure.
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Washington
House
George
Georgia
Senate
Celler
New York
C. I. O. National Executive Board
Allies Rout Nazi Forces at Empoli
Rome Aug 16 Allied Eighth Army troops mopped up German resistance in Empoli on the Arno river west of Florence. The Italian front remained largely unchanged. German shelling of Florence tapered off as the Allied military government feeds about three quarters of Florence’s population, with tens of thousands still cut off from food in some suburbs.
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Rome
Eiiehth
Empoli
Arno River
Florence
Nelson pressed on civilian production plans
Don ald M. Nelson testified before a Senate War Investigating Committee, urging a return to pre war civilian output even while Japan fights. He outlined plans to boost civilian goods after Germany is defeated, estimating a 30 percent rise from current levels and a 40 percent munition cutback.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
Japan
Senate
War Production Board
Mead
Democrat
New York
War Investigating Committee
Ferguson
Michigan
Nelson
Germany
Carey Letter Promotes CIO Record Amid War Effort
National CIO propaganda circulates a James B. Carey letter defending the union’s war record including strikes and logistics impact. It credits Carey and praises Mrs R by linking her to a Guadalcanal rumor then denying it, in a charged editorial tone.
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James B. Carey
Joe
Navy
Seabees
South Pacific
France
Carey
Guadalcanal
Russians Push Warsaw Drive
Moscow dispatch reports the Red Army pressing a major attack on Warsaw through Praga across the Vistula with heavy resistance and significant German losses in tanks and troops. Soviet forces threaten the Polish capital while widening pressure toward East Prussia, claiming large German deaths and captures in a broad summer offensive.
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Moscow
Red Army
Warsaw
Praga
Vistula
East Prussia
Lyck
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Ivan S. Konev
Krakow
Thirry
Navy Executes Daring Plan to Pave Way for Landings
At dawn tens of thousands of American and French troops landed on a forty mile front in southern France under heavy naval gun cover. Commandos and Rangers silenced coastal batteries before daybreak to allow troop transports in. The operation, once deemed impossible by the navy, relied on surprise landings aided by a torpedo boat flotilla led by Lt. Gilbert Reid.
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Associated Press
Cambine American Press
ADM
Lyal Davidson
Navy
France
Levant
Port Cros
Gilbert Reid
Kalamazoo
Mich
Davidson
Unprecedented demand for military ballots in Louisiana
Secretary of State Wade O. Martin Jr reports a surge in military ballot applications in Baton Rouge. Last Saturday alone 2174 applications arrived, then more than 1000 daily. Clerks of court also receive some applications, which are forwarded to the proper courts for ballots and instructions. Ballot requests may be received until September 11, with ballots returned to clerks afterward.
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Baton Rouge
Wade O. Martin Jr
Martin
Vatican Sees Allied Victory Likely in World War II
The Vatican City paper L Osservatore Romano expressed belief in an Allied victory and said the world is now dominated by Allied armed forces. It urged the Atlantic Charter principles to be realized in international life.
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Vatican City
L'Osservatore Romano
L'Osservatore
Allied invasion lands reach southern France in week of assault
Allied forces report eight miles inland after initial objectives seized in southern France. British and American airborne units block reinforcements while large air and sea lift continue. Casualties described as light as landings proceed between Toulon and Cannes with heavy naval and air support.
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Edward Kennedy
RCME
France
United States
Richard T. Wright
Arlington
Toulon
Cannes
Mediterranean
Nice
la Suisse
Geneva
Marseille
Cap Negre
Frejus
St. Tropez Gulf
Italy
Berlin
Great American armada bombs central German targets
Allied air forces sent thousands of Flying Fortresses and Liberators to strike Leipzig Magdeburg area in Germany and targets across southern France and Italy. The mission focused on air equipment depots bomber plants engine works oil facilities and rail bridges as part of a campaign to weaken the Luftwaffe.
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London
Germany
Leipzig
Magdeburg
Italy
France
Liberators
Friedrichshafen
Ferlin
Reich
Alps
Tyrol
Bavaria
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Delitzsch
Schkeuditz and
Haile
Dessau
Kothen
Zeitz
Bohlen
Mag
Harrison denies he has resigned
Baton Rouge report said Claude Harrison planned to resign after giving 30 days notice. He confirmed plans to leave but said he had not yet formalized resignation and discussed bringing O M May to oversee work. He noted ongoing projects and departmental reorganization under consideration.
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Baton Rouge
Claude Harrison
State Department of Institutions
Monroe
Harrison
May
Advocate
R. L. Petit
East Baton Rouge Parish
New Revolt Against Hitler Is Probable
A France based informant reports that German military leaders may try to overthrow Hitler after Allied landings in southern France. The goal is to negotiate peace and preserve the image that Germany was defeated by internal collapse, not in battle.
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Iran
Spain
France
Adolf Hitler
Germany
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