New Offensive Plunges Ahead As Line Cracks
Allied forces press the invasion into Brittany and the Vire region as Americans and Canadians push south and east of the coast. German resistance collapses in many sectors while British and American columns drive toward Vire and Caen area towns, with heavy fighting near Percy and Tessy-sur-Vire. Bradley’s tanks advance. front reports note deep British penetration and encirclement of key road hubs.
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SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
Allied Expeditionary Force
France
Brittany
Vire river
Vire
trans-Normandy
Avranches
Selune river
Normandy-Brittany
Pontaubault
Ducey
Le Beny Pocagé
Torigny
Souleuvre
Caen
Tilly-la-Champagne
Percy - Villedieu - les - Pocles
Granville-Villedieu
Villedieu
Normandy
Percy
Tessy-sur-Vire
Le Beny- Bocage
Caumont
English channel
Eveque forest
Torigni-sur-Vire
Omar N. Bradley
French Patriots Threaten Enemy in Allied Front
Supremely placed communique from Eisenhower’s headquarters says French patriots in occupied France press a constant threat to German rear lines. They force heavy German artillery and air response and disrupt railways aiding Allied air operations. A 56 hour Maquis battle at Vercors repelled German attacks. defenses held in Dordogne Haute Vienne Indre and Loir et Cher.
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Allied Expeditionary Force
Eisenhower
France
Vercors
Dordogne
Haute Vienne
Indre
Loir-et-Cher
Fish and Clark Face Voters Today
The Associated Press reports two prominent incumbents face renomination today Rep. Hamilton Fish in New York's 20th district and Senator Bennett Clark in Missouri amid strong opposition. Dewey and Willkie push Fish defeat while Clark attracts rival Roy McKittrick and Truman backing, with campaigns spanning Kansas Virginia and New Jersey Arkansas contexts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
congress
Hamilton Fish
New York
Bennett Clark
Missouri
Fish
Augustus W. Bennett
Newburgh
Thomas E. Dewey
Weddell L. Willkie
house
Dewey
GOP
Pittsburgh
TRUMAN
CLARK
Springfield
St. Louis
Roy McKittrick
senate
Harry S. Truman
Forrest C. Donnell
Kansas
Virginia
Clyde M. Reed
Carl E. Friend
Patrick H. Drewry
Petersburg
L. L. Bean
South Bill
Clare Boothe Luce
R.Conn
Sidney Hillman
political action committee
senate campaign expenditures investigating committee
New Jersey
Arkansas
Escape Route Cut in India in Southeast Asia
Allied forces struck deep behind the retreating Japanese along the Tiddim road disrupting their supply line. In initial clashes Japanese transport was reported damaged and over 120 dead, Mountbatten headquarters announced.
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SOUTHEAST ASIA COMMAND
Kandy
Ceylon
Tiddim
India
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Brownell Predicts Dewey Victory In 25 States
New York Aug 1 Republican National Chairman Pi-Her bert Brownell Jr says Gov Thomas E Dewey will win at least 25 states and 311 electoral votes, defeating Franklin D Roosevelt in November. He cites Gallup and state polls from Illinois Indiana Michigan Ohio New York and Iowa showing a shift toward the Republican ticket.
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NEW YORK
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt
Brownell
Iincs
Indiana
Ohio
Michigan
Iowa
Dewey
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Idaho
Kansas
Maine
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Jersey
North Dakota
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Dakota
Vermont
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Republians
Gallup
Illinois
England Warned Of Silent Robots
London, Aug. 1. Herbert Morrison told Commons he has knowledge of horrible things and hinted Germans may have given some silence to their robots. He answered questions on a new bomb quieter than the old one and noted cases where noise was not audible during flight or when robot bombs glide silently for long distances.
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LONDON
England
Herbert Stanley Morrison
home security
Commons
Morrison
Shoe production rises for civilians by August first
Washington reports almost one million more civilian shoes were produced in the first five months of the year than in the same period of 1943. The increase reflects wartime civilian supply efforts and contrasts with earlier shortages.
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WASHINGTON
Jet Propelled Cars Stir British Debate
In London on August 1, UK inventors weigh jet propulsion for road vehicles alongside aircraft. Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee told reporters the idea is under consideration. Laborite Frederick S. Cocks criticized aloud asking if there is any desire to see vehicles with red hot tails careening across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LONDON
Clement R Attlee
copymons
Frederick S. Cocks
Broxtowe
Quezon Dies At Saranac Lake
Manuel Quezon exiled Philippine president, 65, died at a summer home in Saranac Lake from tuberculosis. He arrived from Asheville, NC, with his chief of staff. widow and children at bedside. Funeral plans unclear, likely in Washington.
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SARANAC LAKE
Pi—Manuel Quezon
Quezon
Luzon
Philippines
Asheville
N. C
America
Washington
Nazis Resume Bomb Attacks on London and Areas
German flying bombs resumed daylight attacks on London and southern counties after a night of sporadic strikes. Official counts described the overnight air raid as comparatively light but more casualties and damage were reported. Vichy radio tallied about 4000 bombs unleashed against the London area since the campaign began.
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LONDON
Vichy radio
Tito announces Yugoslav Partisans seize 144 towns
Marshal Tito said in a broad cast that Yugoslav Partisans captured 144 towns villages and strong points across the territory. The tally reflects gains against occupying forces as the fight for control continues today.
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LONDON
Tito
Stilwell Named Full General in U S Army
President Roosevelt nominates Lt Gen Joseph Stilwell to full general rank in the U S Army. The move places him among generals Marshall MacArthur and Eisenhower and signals possible expanded duties in Burma China operations under Chiang Kai shek and Mountbatten. The promotion may presage intensified Allied war effort in Southeast Asia and a strengthened Chinese army command structure.
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WASHINGTON
Aug
Roosevelt
Joseph Warren Stlwell
Burma
United States
Stillwell
George C. Marshall
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Stilwell
Burma- China
Chiang Kaishek
China
southeast Asia
Louis Mountbatten
senate
Congress Opens Another Session
Washington opens a new session as Republicans press for rapid postwar reconversion and demobilization actions. Sixteen GOP senators pledge support to Vandenberg in moving these measures from the military to the finance committee led by George W. Nye Ga. The plan shifts reconversion oversight to finance while Barkley and Reynolds urge quick Senate action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WASHINGTON
congress
Vandenberg
Michigan
senate military committee
Senate
Barkley
Reynolds
D-NC
military committee
finance committee
George D-Ga
house
Hold Tightened On New Guinea Advance
Advanced Allied Headquarters in New Guinea announced an unopposed leapfrog landing placing Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces within bomber range of the Philippines and completing the reconquest of New Guinea. Sixth Army units captured Sansapor at the northwestern tip in a 200 mile amphibious jump from Neemfoor Island and established beach holds on the Vogelkop peninsula. The operation trapped about 15 000 Japanese troops around Manokwari. The spokesman called it the last operation of the New Guinea campaign as air bases stretch from Muna Bay along the coast.
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New Guinea
Douglas Mac-Arthur
Philippines
Sixth army
Sangapor
Neemfoor
Vogelkop peninsula
Sansapor
Mindanao
Halmahera
Soreng
Manokiwari
Noemfoor island
Manokwari
Seventh fleet
Associated Press
Fred Hampson
Spencer Davis
Sansaper
MacArthur
Mune bay
Halmahera-Philippines
southwest Pacific
China
Dutch New Guinea
Death Inquiry Is Abandoned In Williams Shooting
CHICAGO Aug 1 UP The new probe into the January 19 shooting of Mrs Adele S Williams in her Drake hotel suite was abandoned after investigators told the coroner they lacked new evidence. Mrs Williams wife of Frank Starr Williams once with the American legation in Tokyo was killed as her daughter Mrs Patricia Goodbody lay nearby. A woman in a fur coat with a red hair ornament was seen fleeing the corridor but no motive or solid clue emerged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CHICAGO
Adele S. Williams
Drake
Japs Trapped In Guam Drive
American soldiers and marines pushed through southern Guam and Agana trapping fighters in the north. On Tinian, remnants sheltered in a pocket as Nimitz hailed the end of major resistance. Allied forces tightened a naval and air cordon around Port Apra and Orote airfield as Guam neared full American control.
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U. & PACIFIC FLEET
PEARL HARBOR
UPi
Guam
Agana
Tinian
Chester
Nimitz
Tinan
Agana hay
Pago bay
U. S
Japan
Port Apra
best harbor
Marianas
Orote peninsula
Peace Planning Talks Scheduled
United States will open post war peace planning talks with Britain and the Soviet Union on Monday August 14 at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington. Britain and the United States will later hold discussions with China. Acting Secretary of State Stettinius announced the procedure. Rumor says Maxim Litvinov may represent the Soviet Union. Russia and China have not disclosed their delegations.
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WASHINGTON
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
China
Stettimus
Dumbarton Oaks estate
Georgetown
Stettinius
Maxim Litvinoff
Russia
Tropical Gale Near Miami Signals Coastal Threats
A tropical storm of gale force winds swirled off the Atlantic coast with its center about 200 miles southeast of Charleston, threatening parts of North and South Carolina. TheWeather Bureau issued an advisory noting the disturbance location and potential impact along the coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MIAMI
Fla
Atlantic
North
South Carolina
weather bureau
Charleston
S.C
Driller Hits Big Gas Well But It Was Water He Wanted
EDEN Texas Aug 1 Driller B A Duffey struck a gas well producing 2 637 000 cubic feet daily of top quality dry highly inflammable gas Major M J Greens explains the crew is disappointed by the find as the drought worsens and water is badly needed in the area The report notes the gas was unexpected during the hot dry Texas summer and quotes Greens lamenting they wanted water instead of gas
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EDEN
Tex
B. A. Duffey
M. J. Greens
Warsaw in Flames as Russians Press Siege on Polish Capital
London Aug 1 Warsaw lay in flames as Russian masses pressed the northeast suburbs behind artillery and bombs. Moscow claimed siege of Warsaw with three columns assaulting Praga while Rokossovsky’s White Russian army group fired over open sights.
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LONDON
Warsaw
East Prussia
Moscow
Praga
Vistula
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Sigttstat
gestapo
Ivan D. Cherniakovsky
Insterburg
Lyck
Tilsel
Memel
Memel and 105 miles from the East Prussian capital of Konigsberg
Geremany
Riga
Baltic
Berlin
Siauliai
Filsit
great
Carpathians
Beskidon pass
Rommel Death Rumors Spread Amid Reports From Underground
In Algiers the French underground claimed Marshal Erwin Rommel and Gen Otto von Stuelpnagel died in France. Rommel supposedly fatally wounded in Normandy air attack. radio denied. Underground said Stuelpnagel killed himself after plotting against Hitler failed, conflicting with enemy reports he was seriously wounded.
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ALGIERS
Erwin Rommel
Otto von Stuelpnagel
France
committee of national liberation
Rommel
Normandy
Remmel
Stuelpnagel
Hitler
Gen. Oberg
gestapo
Paris
Berlin
Verdun
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