Pacific War Casualty Totals Back Nimitz Preinvasion Drive
Official reports count about 1.58 million Japanese killed or captured to clear the way for the preinvasion stage off the Pacific. Some 600,000 more cut off or bypassed. thousands dead in China. Navy and army tallies show land fighting and transport strikes by American and British forces accounting for the bulk of losses, with further naval losses adding to the total. The Philippines campaign wipes out 419,009 of 450,000, while Turman and other campaigns bring heavy tolls as fighting drives through the Solomons and New Guinea and continues across the Pacific theater.
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Wfl
Nimitz
Pacific Islands
China
Ohiang Kai-Shek
Turma
Solomons
New Guinea
Jossés
Oriniwe
Mastangs
Iwegina
Gilbert-Marshalls Islands
Palau
Borneo
Aleulians
Ams
Billy van
Linda Watkins
Artie Conroy
Bea Lillo
Cliff Hall
Harry Rose
Pat Lane
Harriet Page
Charlie Stoweari
Joy Hodges
Josephine del Mar
Josephine
Nermiandy
Howard Hebbs
Pottsville
USO
Hebby
Paris
Pacific
Alr
U. S
Mobbs
Chaton
Chato
Bam
USO Paris HQ sights and squad morale noted at Chato
A wartime visitor describes the USO center in Chato near Paris, praising its entertainment scope and the mix of performers and troops. He notes stars such as Lantania Fontanne and Bozo Sader, crowds in uniform, and a lighthearted lunch with friends. He recalls Howard Hebbs leading the USO and shares humorous souvenirs chatter and French morale.
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France
Central
USG
Lantania Fontanne
Bozo Sader
Constance Dowling
Reginald Gardiner
Cutton Fadiman
John Keran
F. P. Ad
Fight for Free Enterprise probes eyed in Rio Grande Valley
Rio Grande Valley shippers report refusing to fund Fight for Free Enterprise which seeks an investigation of I. I. O. activities in the Valley. Texas Citrus Vegetable Growers and Shippers Association manager Austin Anson says no contribution but supports probe of union activity. Walker and Fight for Free Enterprise finances are also under scrutiny. State Industrial Union Council secretary-treasurer W. M. Akin says I. C. O. has no objection to an inquiry if it covers Walker and the group’s fundraising. Grover Sellers has not received the petition but will consider it. Fight for Free Enterprise, started in 1914, claims 8000–9000 Texas adherents. Walker described as retired lawyer in Texas. Headquarters are in San Antonio with advisory board members in 22 Texas cities.
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Fy Ine Associaten
Ires
Rio Grande Valley
Shito Persuare
Fight For Free Enterprise
Grover Sellers
CG. I. O
Austin Anson
Harlingen
Texas Citrus Vegetable: Growers and Shippers Association
Valigas
Une Valley
Ine Petiton
W. M. Akin
State Industrial Union Council
Walker
William Walker
Texas Vit and Vegetable Growers Unit
Glad
Hopkins
Texas
New York
Cologan
T He
Oklahoma
San Antonio
Sh-m
Reds Hit Argentine on Hitler Report
Reports published abroad claim Hitler has fled to Argentina and is in hiding. Soviet press reprinted the item with a Red Star cartoon showing Germans swimming to an Argentinian shore and a sign offering shelter for war fugitives marked not given, highlighting alleged Nazi escape routes.
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Musuow
Hitler
Army Organ
Red Star
Argentina
Red Posters Vanish From British Sector in Berlin
In Berlin on July 19 British authorities began removing Soviet era red posters from the British sector. A British military spokesman cited conservation of lumber as the reason. Similar billboards vanished in the American sector with no official statement from American authorities. The red, white, and black boards along main boulevards praised Stalin and denounced race war while declaring Hitler has come and gone.
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Berlin
Stalin
Red Army
Hitler
Jap-Cussing Case Lands Filipino Wife in Jail
In Sacramento County a Walnut Grove woman, Wilma Insigne, 24, was jailed on charges of disturbing the peace and using vulgar language after a tirade against a Jap American family. Judge Milo Dye suspended most of the sentence, ordering the woman to leave the county after 30 days. The case drew attention from public officials who noted the broader context of anti Japanese sentiment during wartime.
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Sacramento
Sololar
Wilma Insigne
Walnut Grove
Calif
Sustter Milo Dye
Ickes
Lndig
Army Pvt
Yoshio Mataoka
United States
Ratsuoka
Dye
Mrs. Insigné
Suit Filed to Force Building Permit in Alamo Heights
A. A. Shepherd, contioneer, sues Forty-fifth District Court to compel Alamo Heights to issue a building permit for two two story duplexes in Bluebonnet Hills. He states he bought four lots and drew plans, claims the 1928 zoning ordinance excludes apartment houses with three or more families. He notes council amended zoning on July 10, 1945 but argues provisions are vague and void, seeking a court mandamus against council to issue the permit.
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Alamo Heights
Forty-fifth District
A. A. Shepherd
Bluebonnet Hills
Shepherd
G. Villaret
Along Heights
Mandathe
German Mines Burst Kill Nine U S Service Members
A World War II dispatch from Rome reports nine United States enlisted men and one civilian were killed at Vinreggio yesterday when German mines stored in a building exploded. Thirty others were injured in the blast.
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Rome
United States
Vinreggio
Ottiera
Heroic U.S. platoon member carries on Mindanao defense
Private Albert H. Parent of Nisgars Falls North Carolina fought amid a brutal ambush northwest of Davao. He protected a Sherman, dragged wounded officers, retrieved rifles and ammo belts, and helped pull survivors behind the tank as Japanese fire mowed the road. Only ten men remained in his platoon afterward.
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Richard
Mindanag
Philippines
Albert H. Parent
Nisgars
Falls
N. C
Parent
Spears
Davao
Jungel-Uke
Sistemary
Army Defends Communist Personnel
The War Department defended 16 Army officers and men listed by a House subcommittee as having communist ties, saying investigations did not show disaffection or disloyalty. Gen Donovan praised four officers, noting OSS service and overseas enlistment as loyalty criteria remain paramount.
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Washington
Guy
War Department
Army
Capital Hill
Department
House
H. Ralph Burlan
Te Group
Sum Dater
William 4. Donovan
Office of Strategic Servicrs
OSB
Jans
Ueir
United States
Donovan
Irving Goff
Milton Wolff
Vincent Lossowaki
Solon Proposes Supreme US Science Setup
Washington July 1. Senator Magnuson drafts a bill to establish a nine member National Science Foundation after Dr. Vannevar Bush urges a supreme sound structure to guide science. The plan aims to speed disease research spur peacetime military work and reduce unemployment.
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Washington
Futaire
Aulekty
White House
Vannevar Bush
Office of Scientifiy Research and Development
National Research Foundation
Bush
Magnuson
D.wash
Officers Honored for Service With Company BD 2077th Regiment
Four officers of Company BD, 2077th Regiment, 653 volt with the 15th Army Group, received the Good Conduct Medal and other honors. Irving Fojans was wounded. Donovan noted all performed outstanding service in organizing resistance groups in enemy-occupied northern Italy. The officers were reassigned to the Army after completion of their missions.
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Irving Fojans
Donevan
Anni
Donovan
15Th Army Group
Laly
Epel
Hospital Plane Arrives With Two-Engine Miracle
A hospital plane with two engines landed safely at Fairfield after developing trouble about 400 miles from California on a Honolulu trip. The C45, a four engine craft, reported distress by radio. A coast guard rescue plane escorted the hospital ship to the Fairfield base in case of a sea crash.
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Fairfield, Alu
Umy
California
Honolulu
Coast Guard
Fairfield
Indianan Held On Draft Charge In 1944 Indictment
Charles Mitchiel Burnildbé, 22, a Columbus Indiana native, is held on a draft charge after returning to San Antonio from Tupelo Mississippi following an arrest Tuesday. FBI agent M. W. Acers states Burnildbé is accused of attempting to notify local draft board 9 of his whereabouts and failing to report for induction in October 1944.
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Charles Mitchiel Burnildbé
Golumbus
Ind
San Antonio
Tupelo
Miss
Selective Service
M. W. Acers
Burbidge
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