Allied Bombers Hammer Dutch and French Luftwaffe Airfields
American and British air forces pounded Nazi held airfields at Vissingen and Gou-Rijen in Holland and Poix Amiens-Glissy in France. The August 2 raids brought total Allied losses to eight fighters and four bombers, with 34 German aircraft downed and strong escort support from Thunderbolts Spitfires and Typhoons.
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U. S
Vissingen
Flushing
Guxe-Rijen
Holland
Poix
Amiens-Glissy
France
Europe
Dover Strait
U. &S Thunderbolt
RAF
Dominion
U. S&s
English
Channel
Amiens-Grisey
Eighth Air Support Command
Poin
Germany
Schweinfurt
Hitlers
Mediterranean
Double Ring Ceremony Threatens Jewelry Supply
New York Aug 19 The double ring wedding tradition amid wartime shortages pressures jewelers nationwide. Industry figures say demand for men's rings grows as 1941 weddings rose to 1.3 million with 15 percent double rings and 1943 forecasts hit 2 million with 70 percent double rings while production is cut by half by WPA limits. Also, the Swiss press reports the Duke of Spoleto abdicated as puppet king Aimone of Crete.
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New York
Wo Watersenwab
Tag War Production Board
Schwab
Puffet
Bern
Switzerland
Neue Zuerener Zeitung
Spoleto
Italy
Croatia
Aimone
Créepiia
Triumvirate of Hitler Seeks Power in Reich Report
Spanish dispatches claim Reichsmarshal Goering will become Germany's new leader with Field Marshal Keitel and Grand Admiral Doenitz forming a three man government. The report suggests Hitler’s influence waning as the trio moves to control the regime.
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Europe
Hitler
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Germany
Wilhelm Kietel
High Command
Karl Doenitz
Admiral Train Speaks at Frederick Navy School Finals
Rear Admiral Harold C. Train, director of Naval Intelligence, praised the WAVE graduates at the AME tar qausd USA Opt Administration school in Frederick. He lauded women volunteers and noted potential for more Navy schools there, citing notable service in various roles and commending Commander Fitzpatrick for leading the program.
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Frederick
Harold C. Train
Naval Intelligence
Washington
USA
John Ro Fitzpatrick
Naval Counter-Es jpinaAge
Bung
Tos
Naval Reserve
McAfee
Navy
Francis Sextt
Acre
Tame
Tres
Frodustek
Heshp
Fitzpatrick
Naval training at Camp Mackall cited in wartime note
Report mentions Camp Mackall North Carolina hosting a training course for aviators and a Naval Intelligence branch formation in 1362, highlighting a unique eight class program and a first trainer course. Also covers arrests of aliens August 10 and a French order related to gold exports during the war era.
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Cney
Feveh
Naval Intelligence
United States Navy
Admast Teah
State Bank of
Morwsea
French Committee of National Trustation
North Africa
Bert
Desoubry
Germany
Yahs Toe
Food Crisis Deepens Across Northern Italy Amid Bombing
Reports from Como Bergamo Varese and Paglia describe hundreds of thousands of Milanese homeless after Allied bombs seeking refuge amid a worsening food shortage. Dispatches note interrupted telegraph links with Switzerland but restored lines gradually. Observers in Rome warn of Axis concessions as Anglo-Saxon Russia differences press for a peace offer. Pedestrian fatalities drop 15 percent from the previous year.
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Rome
Como
Piedmont
Lombardy
Bergamo
Varese
Pagia
Switzerland
Italy
Tribune de Geneve
Germany
Thgse
Quebec World War Strategy Revealed In Public Session
The first night spokesman Brendan Bracken told reporters that Allied High Command plans aim to bomb burn and ruthlessly destroy war makers in Germany and Japan. He linked European and Pacific fronts as one war and stressed inevitable invasion of continental Europe.
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Quebec
Anglo-American High Command
Germany
Japan
Brendan Bracken
Roosevelt
MacKenzie King
Lelaua Akn
Churchill
Great Britain
Bracken
Europe
Washington
Rathless
Anthony Eden
Hull
Jones Sentenced in Brunswick for Drunkenness
Convicted Thursday in Brunswick, Howard Marvin Jones was fined and jailed for 15 days for the drunkenness charge. Ted McClain received the same sentence.
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Madishalé Howard Marvin Jones
Brunswick
Ted McClain
No Agreement On Wage Rates
Miners and operators adjourn wage talks with no agreement on raises. United Mine Workers plan to present their case to the War Labor Board in Washington, while Major Inglis says operators offered 64 cents per day, but the union would not negotiate further.
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New York
Pennsylvania
W Ws Inglis
United Mine Workers
War Labor Board
Washington
WLB
Ingis
Pennsylvanian coal talks end in mutual adjournment
The dispute over daily wages settled by mutual consent of the United Mine Workers negotiating committee and the coal operators group. About 80,060 anthracite trainers were mentioned in the noisy text as part of the context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennssvenia
UMW
Republicans To Start Attacking New Deal
Baltimore on August 19 1944 a local plan calls for Sunday afternoon half hour radio programs to attack the New Deal. Harry Q Levin former Maryland State Tax Commission chair announces broadcasts reserved each Sunday until the November 1944 election to denounce OPA OWI and other bureaucrats.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Harry Q. Levin
State Tax Commission of Maryland
OPA
OWI
Levin
Induction Plans for Prewar Fathers and Army Size Projections
War manpower officials said October draft quota will near 212000 with non-deferrable fathers likely first. Navy figure shows armed forces could reach 11,061,000 by January 1, excluding nurses and college reserves. Army target is 8,200,000 by year’s end, including nurses. Union urges government to buy and slaughter five million cattle to boost meat and leather supplies.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
Inc
Navy
Knox
Marines
Coast Guard
United Shoe Workers
CIO
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