Eighth Drives 1000 Yards Into Gothic Line Defenses
Paris and Rome dispatches report heavy combat as Eighth Army breaches outer Gothic Line in Northern Italy. Tanks support infantry near Borgo Santa Maria, Monterecchio strongpoint captured, fighting persists around Pesaro with German parachute division, Mount Calvo, and Monte Deva Grace key positions. Swiss reaction to German plans discussed. overall German resistance remains stiff along the Apennines.
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Italy
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Borgo Santa Maria
Monterechio
Pesaro
Cassino
Thome Yesteriny
Monte Deva Grace
Mount Calvo
Appenines
Ludwig Serferlous
Adriatic
Minth Ridge
Appennines
Plorenss
Arno
Florence
Vinciginto
166 Foe Planes Smashed in Two Mustang Strafe Attacks
United States Fifteenth Air Force Mustangs claimed destruction of dozens of Nazi aircraft on Romanian airfields in two days. Lieut. Col. Charles Boedeker led a group at Reghin Airfield, Romania, destroying at least 60 planes on the ground and nine aerial losses. A day earlier Capt. Alfonso W. Davis’s group reportedly destroyed 83 aircraft at Groszwardeln airfield, in what the MAAF called the most effective machine-gunning of German planes on the ground in a single airfield.
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Bombard Brest as Allied push advances in Brittany
Allied air forces hit Brest and surrounding strongpoints at the urging of General Bradley as troops launch an assault to seize the strategic Atlantic harbor. British Halifax bombers attacked long range depots in northern France while Mosquitos pounded Dusseldorf and supported operations along the Somme front.
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Reich By Nightfall Yanks Drive Deep Into France
Allied forces across northern France push toward Sedan Verdun and Metz with American First Army and Patton units driving the Meuse line toward the Belgian border. British and Canadian troops close on Dieppe Rouen Le Havre while Brest battles for coastal control. Reports say three German field marshals reassigned or wounded as the western front tightens.
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Weather After Armistice Freed Airmen In Bucharest
In Bucharest on Sept 1 17 Russian troops entered the Romanian capital amid armistice events. About 1100 American airmen held as prisoners were liberated and allowed to roam the city. The group included roughly 22 Britons. Many had been confined in five camps, one near Brasay, another in Bucharest. They described relatively mild treatment before August 24 when German bombardment struck the prison wing of a hospital. Stukas then attacked ten hours later. The War Department has noted aviators shot down over Romania were interned there.
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Plessti
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Postal Receipts Steadily Rise Across Year
Postmaster Dan Quitari reports postal receipts climbing from 249434.04 in July 1944 to 283012.99 in August, with Texas filers and Southeast deliveries showing notable gains. August 1945 figures reach 316213.53, reflecting continued growth in San Antonio and surrounding areas.
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San Antonio
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Texas
Few Robots Hit England as Sites Fall
London dispatches report that Allied forces have captured dozens of robot launching sites along the French coast and expect at least 100 more to be seized between Le Havre and the Somme. Attacks on Britain were sporadic and mainly northerly sites in France or Belgium, with limited damage near London. A Rouen dispatch describes a captured platform as two iron rails, 12 feet apart, 200 feet long, sunk below ground, with robots running on a carriage and exiting through trees.
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French
Britain
France
Allien
le Havre
Somme
Belgium
Rouen
Nazis Flee Toward Lyon Amid Pursuit in Southeast France
The article reports Nazis fleeing toward Lyon as Allied and French forces press the pursuit through southeast France. It notes vehicles abandoned along pursuit routes and a Nazi propagandist, Richter, predicting a secret weapon at the Westwall defense line, reflecting German morale tactics.
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France
Richter
Westwall
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