Nazis Fail To Drop Bombs On U.S. Planes In Eighth Air Force
Reports from IX British headquarters on July 31 describe six months of German attempts to drop bombs on American high altitude bombers. Bombs of various types proved inaccurate and ineffective, with no American planes downed by contact or time-fuse devices. Germans remain exposed to 50 cal machineguns as they fly in tight bomber formations. The Eighth Air Force remains largely unfazed by the persistence of these bombing attempts.
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Gladwin Mill Vv
Eighth Air Force
Eadquarters
Britain
Nying Ghove Sr
Ships From U S Arrive in Turkey
Three medium freighters reached Izmir Turkey direct from the United States via the Mediterranean with military and civilian supplies for Turkey. The trio sailed from the Atlantic coast together, passing the Pantelleria bombardment area and sighting bombs.
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Izmir
Turkey
Mediterranean
United States
Atlantic Seaboard
Sicilian
Pantelleris
Allied sweep across Sicily halves territory as Axis crumble
Allied forces press relentless advance across Sicily with Australian, American, Canadian and French Moroccan units in action. Prisoner rounds, German and Italian troops surrender in large numbers near Enna and along the eastern coast as air attacks disrupt Axis bases. Italian mutiny reports surface while Germans fight rear-guard delays in a rapidly shrinking island theater.
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Enns
Alled
Sicily
Aled
Ory
Nar
Decimomannu
Sardinia
Randazzo
Catania
Manland
Rabbi Tamarkin's Mother Dead in Denver
San Antonians learned Wednesday of the death of Mrs. Bessie Tamarkin at Denver Cole. Rabbi Tamarkin was at her bedside, having arrived in Denver last week. She is survived by three daughters Mrs. M. Bloom of Portland Ore Mrs Licht of Denver and Mrs L Lackner of San Jose Calif and two sons Rabbi Tamarkin of this city and Oncar Tamarkin of Salt Lake City Utah.
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San Antonians
Bessie Tamar
David Tamarkin
Denver
Cole
Tamar‘kn
Tamarkin
M. Bloom
Portland
Ore
Licht
L. Lackner
San Jose
Calf
Rabbit Tamarkin
This City
Oncar Tamarkin
Gait Leke City
Utah
Cannon Added to Mustang Fighters ines
North American Aviation announces cannons added to some Mustangs at Inglewood and Dallas plants. Tests show four 20 mm cannons per aircraft increase firepower without reducing handling. RAF and R A F squadrons report destroying locomotives, tugs, barges and factories with the enhanced fighters.
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Inglewood
Dallas
U. S. Army
Torres
RAF
Chinese Raid on Yuangkus Island Near Fukien Coast
A Chinese high command report says Chinese troops successfully raided the Japanese occupied island of Yuangkus off Fukien coast six miles south of Foochow. They killed many enemy troops, took prisoners, and captured a boatload of supplies. In Ghekiang province Japanese forces attacking Chinese positions southeast of Lingha were repulsed and yielded substantial military supplies.
Chrysler Hits 10 000th Tank Milestone in Detroit Arsenal
Chrysler announces completion of its 10 000th medium weight tank at the Detroit tank arsenal. The order began August 15 1940 and by end of 1941 production was ahead of schedule. By December 1942 monthly output exceeded total 1941 production.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
Detroit Tank Arsenal
Chrysler
Stimson Pleased With Army Units
London July 21 Secretary of War Hullien inspected ground forces of the U S Army today talking with many privates and officers and expressing satisfaction with the units and their readiness during the visit to the front.
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London
Biliizon
U. A
Wumeelaa
Yugoslav Patriotic Army Opens Full-Scale Offensive
Dispatches from Cairo report Gen. Draja Mihailovich’s Yugoslav patriots launching a major push against Axis forces in eastern and central Bosnia aided by British liaison. The drive targets Kladanj, signaling potential Allied footholds near the Adriatic and a possible invasion corridor through Italy and the straits of Otranto.
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Draja Mikhailovitch
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Mikhailovitch
Sicily
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Mikheilovitch
Montenegro
Kladanj
Sarajevo
Francis Ferdinand
Austria-Hungary
Yugoslavia
Adriatic
Mikhailo
Albania
Mussolini
Greece
Italy
Corfu
Straits of
Otranto
Germany
Brenner Pass
Reich
Savislol
Germans Flee Bombed Areas Stream From Berlin
A Stockholm dispatch describes a large flow of Germans leaving Berlin for safety to the east. Refugees rest in emptied shops near rail stations and the west Berlin Zoo has been turned into a refugee shelter as bombed western and northwestern cities drive evacuees outward.
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Berlin
Pay Raises End Beaumont Strike With City Grant
Beaumont officials granted a total wage increase of 15400 for about 500 workers in the garbage street and bridge departments after a daylong strike. Workers returned to duties today following the city government action.
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Beaumont
Deserter and Officer Killed in San Angelo Shootout
Bodies of Lieut. Thomas Lawrence Henry and Adolph Mikeska were in San Angelo morgue. Henry 33 from Salem Mass served as assistant provost marshal at the San Angelo army airfield and went to arrest Mikeska in Concho county before shots were fired. Henry, an Essex County Mass attorney, graduated from Miami Beach officers school. his widow resides in San Angelo.
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Ivy
Thomas Lawrence Henry
Salem
Mass
Adolph Mikeska
Henry
Mearshal
San Angelo Army Airfield
Eola
Concho County
Mikeska
Hin
Essex County
Miami Beach
San Angela
U S Troops Publish Paper in Sicily
The 45th Infantry News becomes the first American newspaper printed in Sicily, appearing in Vittorio after three days of shortages and printer delays. Sgts Don Robinson Bill Mauldin and George Tapscott and Cpls Bill Barrett and Fred Sheehan produced a 5 by 8 inch 2 page sheet at a cost of 4.50 per thousand copies.
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WER Amishigan Purces
Sicily
45Th Infantry News
Vittorio
Don Robinson
Bill Mauldin
George Tapscott
Bill Barrett
Fred Sheehan
Woman Dies After Self Harm Attempt at Tourist Court
A 80 year old woman at a tourist court attempted suicide, slashing wrists and abdomen and cutting her throat. She was rushed to Robert B. Green Hospital by ambulance Tuesday, treated, and released after emergency care. The method described is noted as a professional technique.
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Robert B. Green
French innkeeper killed for sheltering American airman
New York dispatch reports the Nazi regime’s Paris radio announces the execution of an innkeeper in Cormeilles by order of a German military court for giving overnight shelter to an American airman. The fate of the airman remains undisclosed.
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Paris
Cormeilles
Germany
Cewt
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