Russians Break Through East Prussian Border Near Virballen
Transocean Berlin report says Soviet forces pierced the East Prussian frontier north of Virballen near Virbalis, with heavy fighting described as ongoing. The Red Army also advanced toward Krakow, crossing Vistula tributaries and nearing Silesia, as Rokossovsky and Konev’s forces linked on the upper Vistula.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Berlin
Virgalis
Kaunas-Konigsberg
Virballen
Virbalis
Moscow
Rede
Krakow
Silesia
Vistula
Nida
Wisturia
Red Army
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Ivan S. Konev
Szczucin
Rennes Wastes No Time In Handling Collaborationists
AP photographer reports Rennes crowds cheering the American entry and rallying against French collaborationists. In a tense street scene, French resistance jeeps and gendarmes drag in captured collaborators for display and possible execution, with crowds shouting they are traitors and demanding swift punishment.
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Rennes
Pete Carroll
Associated Press
France
Salvation Army Head to Leave Frederick for Baltimore Post
Capt. Glenn E. Stovall who has led Salvation Army work in Frederick County since June 1941 will depart about September first to head the Baltimore Temple. He and Mrs. Stovall have been prominent in local affairs, with his fund-raising accomplishments and her service with Zonta Club. The move comes as officer shortages rise due to chaplaincy service, shifting him to a more pastoral role at divisional headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn E. Stovall
Salvation Army
Frederick County
Baltimore Temple
Baltimore
Salvation Army Corps
Stovall
Frederick
Salvation Army Advisory Board
S. A
Zonta Club
Frederick County Council of Church Women
Capt. Stovall
Lions Club
Frederick County Council of Religious Education
Junior Chamber of Commerce
City
County Ministeriuma
Wounded Sgt Raymond Sellman Wends War Tour to Rome
Sgt. Raymond M. Sellman of Clarksburg tank corpsman, twice wounded in Africa and France, convalesces in an Allied hospital in Rome after his tank was blown by mines in France. He bears the Oak Leaf Cluster and Purple Heart, inductee in 1941, training at Fort Knox, overseas since May 1942, living with Linwood Jones on his Clarksburg farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Italy
France
Raymond M. Sellman
Clarksburg
Rome
Sellman
Sgt. Sellman
Sgt
Army
Fort Knox
Linwodd Jones
Poolesville High School
New Allied Air Force Formed for Balkans Operations
A new Allied Air Force has been formed to support Marshal Tito's Yugoslav Partisans and other resistance groups in the Balkans. It operates from bases in Yugoslavia, Italy, and Africa, and includes British, American, Italian, Polish, and Greek units with Yugoslav airmen joining later. RAF Air Vice Marshal William Elliott commands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balkan
Mediterranean
Marshal Tito
Balkans
Yugoslavia
Italy
Africa
RAF
William Elliott
Gibraltar
Twenty Five Called For Early Induction Notice
Seventy five men including twelve white, ten white and two colored with one colored transfer were summoned by Draft Board One for imminent induction. First call sends twelve white to Fifth Regiment Armory in Baltimore for branch assignment. second call includes ten white, two colored, and one transfer. Names and addresses cover Maryland and nearby towns, with most inductees in the youngest registration cohort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Regiment
Baltimore
Joseph Emory Mercer
Second Street
Robert Lee Easterday
Mt. Airy
John Henry Schwartz
Burkittsvile
Ruby Lawrence Marsh
Middletown
Thomas Eugene Miller
Patrick Street
Jack Denman Wood
North Market Street
Lawrence Thomas Hiltner
Winchester Street
Harry Robert Baer
Jefferson
Robert Lincell Slagle
West Church Street
Paul Edward Main
West Fifth Street
Charles William Williams
East Fifth Street
Glenn Earl Routzahn
Braddock Avenue
Grayson Edward Wise
Norman Joshua Despeaux
Church Street
Earl Franklin Miller
South Street
Harry Ashby Young, Jr
Fourth Street
Daniel Howard Easterday
Frederick
Benjamin Hezekiah Fox
Richard Leon Hebb
South Market Street
Lawrence Harold Hagan
D/1
Brunswick
Raymond Daniel Smith, Jr
Center Street
Wallace Earl Kemp
George David Brown
West All Saints
Leon
Henry Jackson
Mantz Sucius Jones
DeGrange Street
Loudoun County
U S Heavies Strike Nazis Over German Targets
U S Liberators and Flying Fortresses attacked Dollbergen Hannover and Brunswick plus oil refineries and aircraft plants in Germany. Allied air forces reported good weather and ongoing raids across Europe with Italy based Lightnings and Mustangs hitting Romanian communications and Soviet bases as announced from Moscow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Germany
Dollbergen
Hannover
Brunswick
Hiller
Europe
U .S
18Th Air Force
Romania
U. S
Moscow
U. S. Strategic Air Forces
Japan to arm entire people for total war cabinet declares
Domei news agency reports the Japanese cabinet decided to mobilize the popu lation for total war. A new Supreme War Council was formed to handle crises from Allied advances in the Marianas and the front in New Guinea, India and Burma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ANE Associaicg
Domei
Supreme War Council
Marianas
Japan
New Guinea
India
Burma
Countian One Of 28 Killed In Crash Of Big Plane
Countian Lieut. Gerald C. Keller 21 of Bolivar was among 28 men killed when a C-47 transport crashed near Napier Nebraska en route from Bruning to Pierre Army base. No survivors. Keller educated in Middletown and worked at Fairchild plant before Army service. Brother wounded in Africa, grandfather E B Keller lives near Bolivar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald C. Keller
Albert J. Keller
Bolivar
Napier
Nebr
Associated Press
Bruning
Pierre
5. D
Army Air Base
D. D. McAllister
Bruning Army Air Field
Lieut. Keller
Phoenix Field
Arizona
Nebraska
Niobrara
Lieut
Keller
Middletown
Fairchild Airplane
Hagerstown
Army
96Th College Training
Oshkosh
Wisc
Africa
Kermi
Friendlier To Spain? Washington reacts to Jordana death
Washington on August 5 voiced possible easing of U S policy toward Franco Spain. The State Department issued two statements on Foreign Minister Jordana’s death, praising his actions and signaling potential closer ties with Madrid. The remarks followed speculation about whether Washington seeks friendlier understanding with Franco’s government or aims to acknowledge Jordana’s cooperative gestures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Francisco Franco
Jordana
Churchill
Spain
Franco
Madrid
State Department
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Tragic A C L Wreck Kills Dozens Of Negro Rail Laborers
Stockton Ga Aug 5 At least 46 to 47 Negro laborers died when a westbound Atlantic Coast Line passenger train collided with a freight engine on a siding near Stockton. Many dead were workers from Doctortown returning to Alabama. Wreckage destroyed two passenger cars and another was crushed. injuries reported.
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Stockton
Here
Alabama
H. L. Tomlinson
Doctortown
Tomlinson
Turner Rockwell
The
Valdosta Times
Rockwell
Wilmington
N.C
C. G. Sibley
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Waycross
Montgomery
Ala
Pennsylvania Guard Mobilized As Philadelphia Strikers Defy Orders
Philadelphia residents report three Pennsylvania State Guard regiments fully armed and mobilized to maintain order as 6,000 transit workers strike amid racial tensions over five days. Army orders to end the stoppage remain resisted, with negotiations and possible troop use to operate transit vehicles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania State Guard
U. S. Army
Philadelphia Transportation Company
Solomons Island Chief Claims Japanese Were With Woman
In a dispatch from Los Angeles on August 3, Navy Countrol officer Myron W. Graybill, a Pacific veteran, cites a Solomons Island native chief who asserts the Japanese force occupying his area included a woman. The chief explained his certainty with a brief remark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Solomons Island
Navy Coundr
Myron W. Graybill
Graybill
Pacific
West Front Ripped Wide Open By U S Army Forces
Allied aerial observations show the western front opened by American armored breakout from the Normandy beachhead. There is no evidence of a fixed German line beyond the Maginot and Siegfried lines, though cautious notes warn Germany may still attempt a mobile defense and counterattacks along a Seine Loire axis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Normandy
Maginot
Siegfried
Germany
France
Hitler
von Rundstedt
Rommel
Seine-Lotre
Paris
Erwin Rommel
Rudolf Karl von Rundstedt
Bernard L. Montgomery
Orne
Caen
Jerry
Taneytown Soldier Killed In Action
Kenneth W Crumbacker, 22, of Taneytown, reported killed in action in France on July 15. He entered service Feb 11, 1943, at Fort Meade, served at Alabama and Wisconsin, shipped overseas May 10, 1944, and landed in France July 3. His last letter dated July 7 said he was OK. mother Mrs. Carrie Bankert received the telegram. His brother Ralph serves in the Marines at Cherry Point, North Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pfe
Kenneth W Crumbacker
Carrie Bankert
Taneytown
France
War Department
Kenneth
Ft. George G. Meade
Alabama
Wisconsin
Bankert
Ralph
Cherry Point
Carolina
iHe
Two Soldiers Seriously Wounded in France Reported
War Department letters reveal two soldiers seriously wounded in France and two slightly wounded on the European front. Pvt Clinton V Rhodes of Thurmont and Pvt John H Eigenbrode of Rocky Ridge are listed as seriously wounded with no dates. Pte James J R Lightner of North Market Street and Sgt David H Roelkey of Route 1 Knobleville are slightly wounded. Rhoss and Eigenbrode have recent hospital notices in England. Lightner’s wife is Charlotte Summers. Roelkey writes of a right arm injury in a hospital in England. Pfc Paul W Elworthy of East South Street is seriously wounded in France on July 11.
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War Department
European
Clinton V. Rhodes
Charles G. Rhodes
Thurmont
France
John H. Eigenbrode
C. H. Eigenbrode
Rocky Ridge
Camp Pope
England
Q. M
Charles Albert Rhodes
Red Cross
Earl Russell, Rhodes
Philadelphia
Q. M. Rhodes
Pvt. Rhodes
Blue Ridge Rubber Company
Littlestown
English
Eigenbrode
Pvt. Eigenbrode
Pvt
Elgenbrode
Rosenour
Pfc
Kenneth B. Anders
Lightner
Fort Jackson
S. C
Frederick
Route 5
Charlotte Summers
Sgt
Roelkey
Camp Bowie
Tex
Elsie L. Elworthy
East South Street
Paul W. Elworthy
Capture Of Nantes Port Near Nazis Hurled Back
Allied forces in France push toward Nantes and Brest as British and Canadian troops retake ground in Normandy. American units reach Loudeac and near Chateaubriant while threatening the U-boat base at St Nazaire, with heavy losses recorded since D-Day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nantes
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Breton
Brest
Normandy
Odon-Orne
Caen
Seine River
Paris
Villers Bocage
Orne River
Villers-Bocage
Noyers
Esquay
Evrecy
Villers-Bocage Falls
Odon
Orne
Omar N. Bradley
Loudeac
Pontivy
St. Nazaire
Derval
Chateaubriant
Suburbs Of Florence Held By Eighth Army South Of Arno
Allied forces report the Eighth Army has occupied suburbs south of the Arno and advances along a 25 mile front press the enemy back toward the river. Florence is largely in Nazi hands only for military use with bridges blown except Ponte Vecchio. No heavy fighting yet inside the reached suburbs but crossing the Arno on both banks is being contested.
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Rome
Eighth Army
Florence
Arno
Harold Alexander
Ponte Vecchio
No Man’s Land
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East Prussia
Upper Vistula
Tarnow
Czechoslovakia
la France
de Gaulle
Captain Stovall
Temple
Allied Air Force
U.S
Countian
G. C. Keller
A.C. L
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Philadelphia Army Public Relations Section
Altoona
West Front
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