Russians Press Toward German Soil By Week End
U S troops battle Nazis near St Lo as new assaults launch with British and Canadian forces halting in Caen. American forces destroy 20 plus German tanks, advance toward Lessay and St Lo, while Caen sector sees heavy clashes and terrain gains around Hill 192 and nearby villages.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
St. Jean de Caye
la Haye du Puits
Angeville Sur Ay
la Bourdonnerie
Lessay
Caen
Odon
Orne
Louvigny
Marshall Erwin Rem- Mel
trans-Odon Salient
Esquay
Panzer Grenadier
Hill 112
Maltot
Louvigney
Orne River
le Meé&nil
Eterville
Eterville-Esquay
Athis and
Allied Gains In Normandy Are Definite And Concrete
Washington reports the Normandy campaign, five weeks in, shows definite and concrete gains. Allies landed with light casualties, established a firm beachhead, seized Cherbourg, and expanded the bridgehead while inflicting heavy enemy losses. Local advances continue as weather delays hinder full exploitation, but Allied initiative remains strong.
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Normandy
Washington
Bernard L. Montgomery
Cotentin
Caen
Carentan
30 Leave And 26 More Are Called By Board No 1
Thirty registrants who passed pre induction exams left for Baltimore for induction into the armed services. Twenty white registrants, three white transfers, and nine colored men proceed to service with several fathers among them. A pre induction call lists nineteen white men and seven colored men. The group includes some older men but is largely youths around eighteen.
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Baltimore
Armed Services
Fifth Regiment Armory
Richard L. Hargett
Morgan R Webber
Kenneth McC. Woerner
Warren H. Axline
William L. Halter
Ralph E. Stine
Melvin H. Main
Damon L. Barnhart
John M. Anderson
Daniel L. Esworthy
Paul O. Merchant
James E. Higgs
Homer L. Rice
James T. Schultz
Calvin P. Shafer
Alfred G. Mackley
Ernest L. Perkins
Walter C. Eiker
Robert K. Castle
Carl F. Rice
Elmer J
Fifth Army Near Livorno Close to Castiglioncello Advance
American light armored units moved two miles along the Italian west coast and captured Castiglioncello, bringing the Fifth Army within eight air miles of Livorno. Inland, infantry faced stiff resistance advancing from Casale toward Pastina as German forces aimed to slow progress.
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Rome
Castiglioncello
Fifth Army
Livorna
Leghorn
Casale
Pastina
Poggibonsi
Robot bombs go silent in new glide threat
London reports a shift in flying bombs as some now glide silently toward southern England and the capital. A house was destroyed and a fatality caused by a long, slow glide described as feather like while the engines stop before impact. The daytime air raid lulled briefly into quiet, then continued with further robot activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
U S Requisition of Turkeys for Armed Forces Dinners
The War Food Administration announced plans to requisition turkeys to supply Thanksgiving Christmas and New Year meals for armed forces overseas. The move aims to ensure sufficient meals for service members during holiday periods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Food Administration
Quartet Arrested in Joitering Case Across Baltimore Area
Police report the arrest of Baltimore man John Bryan, a Washington woman Josephine Conrad, and a sailor Paul Brown from a nearby military post at 3.15 a.m. on charges of joitering. Each posted five dollars collateral. the soldier faced intoxication charges, held on collateral, and turned over to military police. Pomthers Boone, Carty, Shook, Phebus and Burras made the arrests.
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Baltimore
Washington
John Bryan
Josephine Conrad
Paul Brown
Pomthers Boone
Carty
Shook
Phebus
Burras
Horses Drag Burning Wheat From Barn Near Middletown
A wagon load of wheat caught fire during threshing about two miles south of Middletown. Horses pulled the burning wagon from the barn to a stream, where Middletown Volunteer Fire Company extinguished the blaze. The wagon was saved but the wheat load was badly damaged. The fire began around nine o'clock, likely from a spark from the threshing machine. Firemen drew water from the stream to finish extinguishing the fire.
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Harry Bussard
Middletown
County Over Top For Fifth War Loan
Frederick city and county surpassed their Fifth War Loan quota, reaching 109 percent with a total of 2,192,190 dollars raised. County chairman W. Clinton McSherry praised volunteers and noted E bond progress remains below target while overall county and city have topped quotas in prior drives.
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Frederick
W. Clinton McSherry
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
McSherry
Frederick County
Frederick City
County
Paratroopers Describe German Atrocities in France
Pvt. Kenneth P Knight, hospitalized at McClosky General, recalls Allied paratroopers hung by their necks with feet in air and beheaded by Germans during the invasion of France. He, a former pro baseball player from Kansas City, says he bayoneted three Germans in the initial fighting push and witnessed a trooper's headless body with a wife’s photo in his helmet.
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Kansas City
Kans
Few Words Tell A Lot London July 12
German communique on Russia states Our troops retreated in continued hard fighting. Report notes ongoing combat and strategic pressure on fronts with no hopeful breakthrough. Military observers interpret statements as indicating attritional tone and opposing forces sustaining heavy losses.
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London
Russia
German Oil Production Curtailed By Air Attacks
American air attacks on 64 German oil installations have curtailed petroleum output, hampering Nazi mobility. A senior U S Air Force officer said the objective of crippling German mobility was achieved as Luftwaffe strength waned in France and Germany. Since January U S Strategic Air Forces have hit oil facilities, synthetic plants, and aircraft factories, destroying thousands of planes while facing American losses. The alliance of the United States, Britain, and Russia prioritizes targets, with continued attacks on fighter and bomber industries to enable future invasions.
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Supreme Headquarters
Alled Expeditionary Force
U. S
United States
France
Germany
Reich
Britain
Italy
Russia
U.S
London
Wheat bounty swells as rail, mills strain under harvest
Bountiful harvest fills granaries, elevators, and mills across Kansas City area. Railroads and the Army struggle to move the grain as drives to unload box cars and workers falter. Sen Clyde M Reed and officials meet to tackle the surplus problem.
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Kansas City
Clyde M. Reed
Rlas
Reed
Accused of Pretext by RNC Leader in Albany
Albany July 12 Herbert Brownell Jr chairman of the Republican National Committee charges President Roosevelt uses the role of commander in chief as a pretext to perpetuate himself in political office.
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Albany
N. Y
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Republican National Committee
Roosevelt
Cigarette Shortage Until War Is Over
New York reports ongoing cigarette shortages likely to persist until the European war ends. Factors include tax free exports to build military stockpiles, tight leaf tobacco inventories, and a case container shortage. Harvests next month through February 1945 are expected to be bumper, but government export allocations remain uncertain.
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New York
Bombers Strike Munich as Allied Air Forces Bomb South France
About 1,200 American heavy bombers attacked Munich for a second day, targeting communications and rail bottlenecks as part of a wider raid that also hit four rail targets in southern France. Allied air power, including British and Italian bombers, struck Munich, Toulon, and northern France while RAF Mosquitoes pounded Ruhr targets.
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London
Munich
Maly
France
Nazi Party
Germany
Italy
German Communitee
Normandy
Reich
Ruhr
Sky Feets
Britain
Toulon
Mediterranean
May Heat Eases Slightly As Thundershowers Hint At Relief
A nine day heat wave may break by tomorrow night with scattered thundershowers possible bringing needed rain to wilted crops and strained water supplies. No general rain is anticipated yet, while Brunswick officials urge residents to cut water use. The Brunswick council will allow pool use for toilet and drinking for one week and pool water will not be replenished amid dry conditions.
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Mercury
Brunswick
Fishing Creek
Brunswick Council
Tthe
East Prussia Border Now Only 49 Miles From Soviets
Moscow reports the Ry Army driving west from near the East Prussian border toward German soil at a pace that could push fighting across into Germany by week’s end. Soviet advances threaten Kaunas and Grodno as German retreats widen, with heavy losses for German forces and air attacks crippling retreating columns.
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Moscow
East Prussian
Alytus
Lithuania
East Prussia
Kaunas
East Prussia-Rrea
Baltic
Berlin
Wilno
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Swalki Triangle
Grodno
Latvia
Pripyat
Yeserday
Red Army
Bialystok
Daugavpils
Pinsk
Kurt Dittmar
Office of War Information
Stockholm
Afton Tidningen
Germany
White
Russia
Tried To Make Peace One Dead Two Wounded
Three men were shot early today amid an attempted reconciliation between a man and his wife leading to one death. Waldo Barnes 17 Cleo Beard 18 and Benjamin Franklin 18 were wounded. Russell Denny 48 was charged with murder. The victims shared the same address as Denny.
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Washington
Waldo Barnes
Cleo Beard
Benjamin Franklin
Russell Denny
Beard
Denny
Barnes
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