Cologne Hit Again in Daylight Raid by RAF Bombers
British heavy bombers struck Cologne in a daylight foray described as the heaviest in weeks, part of a larger assault on German targets along the Rhine. The raid involved Blenheims and other craft, met with little opposition, as observers noted the city’s war industries and Gothic cathedral in the target area.
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Belgium
Rhine
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England
Bride Fails Farewell At Federal Prison Gates
Lewisburg Pa Aug 12 Bride Florence Osbeck Johnson chased her husband Eneeh L Nocky Jennson to the gates of the federal prison but was barred from a last goodbye as he entered to begin a 16 year tax evasion sentence. The 11 day marriage ended at the penitentiary as Jennson was handcuffed and ushered inside after a six hour ride from Trexlertown New Jersey.
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Eneeh L. “Nocky" Jennson
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Ecrval
Mercer County
Tremlon
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Offleigh Cat
Florence Osbeck Johnson
Elaborate Red Air Defense Seen Over Moscow
Henry Cabside reports from Moscow on August 12 that Soviet air defenses responded to a large Nazi raid with searchlights barrage balloons and anti aircraft fire. He notes 10 raiders shot down, two reaching the city, and describes a vast illuminated defensive perimeter around the capital during a four and a quarter hour night raid.
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Mos
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Loucon
Japs Continue Chungking Raids Over City Alarms Persist
CHUNGKING China August 32 UP Japanese planes resumed raids on the besieged capital with a native assault that kept residents in underground shelters for an hour and 35 minutes. Observers say the city has endured 42 hours and 26 minutes of alarm since July 9, when three waves began. The longest alert yesterday lasted nine and a half hours.
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China
Germans Concede Attacks by Soviets and British
Berlin reports the high command acknowledging assaults on the Reich by Soviet and British air forces. It says Red air force raids were largely ineffective in Northeast Germany while the RAF damaged buildings in Western localities, notably Duisburg. This marks the first designation of attacking planes as Russian by the Nazi high command.
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18 Killed in Suez Alexandria Raid
Cairo August 12 The Suez canal area and the approaches to Alexandria were raided last night according to an Egyptian government communique. Eight killed and 12 injured in the canal zone and four injured in Alexandria. Some damage reported in the canal area and slight damage at Alexandria.
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Suez Canal
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Canal Zone
Alexandria
Cannal
Lalian Sortie in Ethiopia Reported
Aug 12 report from Rome states a Fascist air raid on Culquabert in Northern Ethiopia caused heavy casualties as Italian forces launched another sortie against British troops. In North Africa, reports describe continued aerial activity and artillery exchanges around the Libyan port of Tobruk.
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Culquabert
Ethiopia
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Tovrui
Soviet gasoline shells ignite bunkers on Montsh front
Stockholm dispatch says the Furiang on the Montsh front are loaded with gasoline shells that burst 200 meters from the ground and ignite fires. A shower of these shells is followed by a heavy artillery barrage to prevent the flames from spreading.
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Montsh Front
Tanks Thunder Into DeSoto Parish War Games
In Mansfield Louisiana a large U S armored division arrives to join war game exercises under Maj Gen George S Patton Jr. The 2nd Armored division, arriving from Fort Herning Georgia, will train with UNT Army corps and include vast equipment such as 4244 vehicles and 642 motorcycles. The action marks its first participation in large scale Army exercises and aims to study tactics against mixed forces.
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France
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George S. Patton Jr
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Red Armored
Eos Ste
Fort Herning
Legless RAF Ace Missing After Daring WWII Feats
London reports indicate legless RAF ace Flight Lieutenant R. Bader, famed for 15 confirmed German aircraft and bold wartime exploits, and fellow ace G. Malan, with 30 victories, are missing. Bader, who lost both legs in 1931, returned to service using artificial limbs and earned the Distinguished Service Order and Distinguished Flying Cross. Malan, “Lockie,” decorated after nine kills in a week and wounded in battle, also held the DSO and DFC with bar. Both men had served over the channel and in France during the war.
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Fragmentary military unit description from a historic page
A garbled passage outlines a quartermaster battalion and an old Hida battalion with a medical battalion. It mentions a basis echelon the shrinking forces as an armored brigade including one regiment of medium tanks two regiments of light tanks and a regiment of highly mobile armored field artillery.
Turkish cabinet shakeup eyed as reform pressures rise
Rumors say Prime Minister Sukru Saracoglu may quit to be replaced by Refik Saydam, with Tevfik Rüştü and Barzoglu also considered for top posts. Observers expect Turkey to maintain its defensive policy despite any government changes.
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Turkey
People's Party
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Sukre Saracoglu
Refik Saydam
Anid
Tevik Rusty
Ammbassador
London
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Baracogl
Germany
Britain
Germans Held In Detroit Immigration Case
Detroit August 12 FBI announced the arrest of Carl Schultz, 43, and August Baecker, 57, for reportedly acting as German government recruiters in the United States. Baecker faces a federal register violation. the pair allegedly recruited technicians in Detroit for dispatch to Germany. Baecker, a naturalized citizen from 1928, worked as a ton and die maker in a Detroit factory. Schultz was employed by Nach-Kelvinator, linked to defense orders, and arrested on a warrant for freight car theft prior to deportation to Germany in 1922.
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Germany
Baecker
FBI
Volkswepen
Schmidt
Nach-Kelvinator Corporation
British Deny Peage Threat In World War
London reports a false claim that Lord Beaverbrook warned Britain would seek peace with Germany if the United States did not enter the war within 30 days. An authoritative denial labels the tale a canard from enemy sources, stating no peace negotiations or threats exist.
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Lord Beaverboo
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Lord Beaverbrook
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