Liberators Strike Wake Island and Munda Assault Intensifies
The United States and Allied forces launched heavy air and ground offensives across the Pacific. Liberators and other bombers attacked Wake Island with significant losses to Japanese Zeros, while advances pressed around Munda with frontal assaults and bombardments. In China, Stilwell reported continued raids against U S bases in Kwangsi and Hunan, with losses on both sides. Allied air operations across New Guinea and the Pacific continued, including attacks on Hankow and Riskey Island as part of a broad offensive.
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Navy
Knox
Wake Island
Midway
Hawaii
Philippines
Southwest Pacific
Munda
Wake
U.S
Samauca
J@p
Kolombangara Island
Kula Gulf
Rendova Strait
Satamatia
New Guinea
Chine
Joseph W. Stilwell
U. S
Kwangsi
Hunan
Tokyo
Armerican
Hankow
China
Banna
Weather heats Texas as July drought lingers
Texas endures a 100 plus degree heat wave with Dallas and Fort Worth reporting 104 and 102 while San Antonio logged 101 between 5 and 6 pm. Light showers lowered temps briefly, but drought and high humidity continued. Deaths linked to heat were noted in Dallas as a Gulf disturbance loomed offshore with forecasts of storms along the coast.
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Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Dallas
Mercury
Red River
Rio Grande
Fort Worth
Abilene
Waco
Brownsville
del Rilo
Air Convoy To Island Smashed In Sicily Front
Allied headquarters report heavy Allied gains in northeastern Sicily as American and Canadian troops push forward against German attacks. RAF Beaufighters downed 21 Junkers 52 transports over the Messina strait and several dozen enemy aircraft. Bombers hit ports and railways in Sicily and southern Italy while harbors along the northeast coast faced gunfire and bombing to disrupt reinforcements.
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North Africa
Sicily
Messina Strait
Maly
Une
Tash
Marina di Paola
Italy
Sicilian
Milazzo
Messing
Arta
Boston
Mitchell
Adrana
Paterno
Nicosia
Cape Orlando
Bostons
Ballimnres
Regatbuto
Leentral Sicily
Messina
Barcellona
Sanagata
Termini
Scillan
Hnd Bern
Pegea
Mussolini Fall Sparked By German Defense Plan Change
Madrid dispatch reports 17-staveers arriving from Rome claim Mussolini toppled over backing a German plan to abandon central and southern Italy for a northern defense line. Badoglio government vows full Italian defense, while Germans reportedly consent. Crete busts and Nazi claims shadow Rome crisis. Ala Libria replaced by Ala Roma as Fascist ties loosen.
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Madrid
Rome
Mussolini
Ostoia
Marshal Badoglio
Italy
Crete
Sicily
Aly
Badoglu
Ala Jlitoria
Ala Libria
Ala Roma
Trl
Italy Suppresses Duce's Newspaper
A Milan based Mussolini newspaper was silenced by the new government after reports that its plant had been burned during demonstrators opposing Mussolini. The defiant act comes as authorities move to curb dissent and control press coverage.
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Ronie
Hans Georg Viktor von Mackensen
Marshal Badogniol
Switzerland
Rome
Annu
Sigiss Radio
Mussolini
Milan
Tallans
Captured Nazi Food Ends Riot in Palermo
In Palermo Sicily July 23 armies distributed captured German military stores to starving civilians at the railroad station. A mob surged for flour and clothing while a road patrol led by Captain Raymond W Robowski of Minneapolis authorized the dole. The scene eased as authorities allocated the supplies and hungry residents waited to receive rations.
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Palermo
Sicily
Jon Balermo
Raymond W. Robowski
Minneapolis
Robowski
Hearst Papers Thanked For Broadcasts
A 1943 Boston and Rhode Island appeal thanks Hearst newspapers for supporting shortwave broadcasts to Italians. The letter lists numerous Massachusetts and Rhode Island professionals and public figures praising the media for aiding Italy’s resistance, urging peaceful postwar justice.
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Hearst
Italy
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Erin
Stephen Bacicalupo
Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board
Boston Shortwave Broadcast Committee
Louis V. Jacksony
Providence Committee
Anthony D. Gentraccia
Boston
Mario F. di Troia
Joseph A. Merenda
Jerome A. Petitti
Antonio F. Iovino
Suffolk County
Michael A. Laurano
Joseph A. Milano
General Courts
Enrico Capucci
Anthony di Cicia Jr
Middlesex County
J. Dante Brebbia
Internal Revenue
John J. del Monte
Massachusetts Department American Federation of Labor
Boston Central Labor Union
Saverio Romano
John A. Seanga
Roosevelt to announce wartime policy in 30 minute address
Washington sources report President Roosevelt will declare a major policy shift with Britain and demand Italy’s unconditional surrender. The White House says the message will condemn Italian alliance with Germany and Japan, and promise no dismemberment of Italy.
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Kingsbury Smith International News Service
Washington
Roosevelt
Toyo
Britain
Italy
Church
White House
Commons
Germany
Stephen
Japan
United States
Britain Demands Italy Quit Hitler War Now
London July 27 Prime Minister Churchill told a cheering commons that Italy must abandon Germany’s war against the United Nations or be seared and scarred. He said Allied commanders had orders to press the war with maximum force, while cautioning against political chaos in Italy and urging unconditional surrender of Mussolini’s regime.
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London
Churchill
Italy
Marshal Bacopia
Germany
United Nations
British Broadcasting Corporation
Brain
Hearch
Muasolini
Mussolini
Church
Haly
Tissy
United States
Aaia
Weather forecast for San Antonio and coast region
Forecast shows cooler conditions with showers and scattered thunderstorms Tuesday afternoon and night. Texas coast expects rain and thunder squalls with strong to gale winds, diminishing Tuesday night. Extreme southeast portion also affected. Showers elsewhere Tuesday afternoon and night, excluding lower Rio Grande Valley and near lower coast. Temperature change expected in the south and northeast portions.
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San Antonia
Tesas
Rio Chance Valley
Norih
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San Antonio
INS
War Production Board
Allocaltut
R. Eugene Kisser
Eagle Mountain Lake
Elizabeth K. Lambert
Louis Lambert
California
Ernie Gilliland
George Gilland
New Orleans
United States Weather Bureau
Galveston
Burmond
Cameron
Sabine
Galveston Bay
Houston
Hiland
Harris County
Beaumont and
Liberty
Lake Charles
Freeport
Hitler
Fort Worth Cithene
Harold Willams
Williams
Ign
Pietro Badogno
England
Foreign Office
Elwiss
Vatican
Svenska Dagbladet
Bwisy
Bvenska Dagbladet
Badoglio
Algiers
Ankara
Calor
Droadcast
Turin
Badognio
Tiely
Siter
Vittorio Emanuele
Naples
Genoa
Cvies
Marsalini
Corriere Della Sera
Transocean
Hang Adolf Weber
Weber
Candia
Carlo Scorva
Secre Itary
Tl Duce
Col
Duce
Hearst Papers
Mass
William Randolph Hearst
Wyntoon
McCloud
Calif
KDR
Associatedl Press
R. Alf
Hamburg
Belgium
Holland
Russia
Solomons
Manda
Heiss
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