D Day Preparations Recalled by North Africa Correspondents
The piece recalls Eisenhower’s surprise Sicily plan announced in a June press conference. It describes the tense buildup as Allied forces moved, convoys gathered, and reporters awaited the dawn of the Sicily landings with strict orders not to talk.
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North Africa
Sicily
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Mediterranean
London
Catania Plain
Anapo Plain
Anapo
Syracuse
Catania
Beathes
Trapani
Pelermo
Messina
Hitler
Europe
Reuters
Radio
Algiers
As80
Eevee
Roosevelt
Churchill
Greality
United Nations
Britain
Dieppe
Pantelleria
Sicilian
Tunisia
Malta
France
Dwight David Eisenhower
Axis Invades Sicily as Allied Forces Land in Major Offensive
Allied daylight assault across Sicily opens a bold campaign to drive Axis forces from Italian soil. U S Ninth Air Force bombers strike Taormina while ground forces push from southern and eastern beaches amid heavy coastal defenses and harsh terrain.
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North
Africa
Sicilian
Mediterranean
Axis
Italy
Malta
Pantelleria
Gibraltar
Cyprus
Tunisia
Constanly
Eisenhower
Sicily
Malian
Messina Strait
Western N Y Tax Take Nearly Double Previous Year
Fourteen western New York counties paid $357,247,844 in federal taxes for 1942-43, announced by Internal Revenue Collector George Threed Gowan. The total nearly doubles the $184,343,286 collected the prior year, with gains across brackets except gift taxes.
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Buffalo
New York
Internal Revenue
George Thre’ Gowan
Weather Bureau Forecast Promises Warmer Tonight
A garbled weather notice notes a warm night ahead. The Herald- Journal and Herald-American offer home-news subscriptions and rates for readers wishing to mail reports to service members.
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the Weather & Weather Bureau
Herald- Journal
Hergld-American
Giraud Visit Tied to Sicily Drive and French Unity
Washington reports link Giraud's Sicily invasion significance to French unification efforts and a 300,000 man armament plan. Eisenhower cautions France against premature action as Giraud dines with Roosevelt and officials before touring American camps and production centers.
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Giraud
Roose
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mediterranean
France
Eisenhower
White House
Roosevelt
Cordell Hulk
Sicilia
Italy
Martinique Nears Allied Alignment Amid French Shifts
Washington reports that Martinique will cut ties with Vichy soon and join the Allies. Henri Etienne Hoppenot may assume authority, with Georges Robert replaced, and Robert Battet possibly escorting ships to oversee the island. General Giraud travels to Algiers as Allied plans expand. F. W. Bayliss, Paramount newsreel cameraman, died in a plane crash in the western desert.
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Washington
Martinique
Caribbean
Vichy
Henri’Etienne Hoppenot
Marlinique
Guardaloupe
Georges Robert
Vicr
Robert Battet
Robert Lambert
Richelieu
United Nations
Henri Giraud
Afties
Algiers
Giraud
United States
New York City
Alton Head
Cairo
F. W. Bayliss
Paramount
Ing
Crach
Western Desert
Reuters
Sicily Seen as Axis Stronghold Gate to Italy
Sicilian terrain described as the natural road into Italy with its rugged mountains and ports. Palermo, Catania, Messina, and Augusta are noted for harbors shipyards and industry as Allied forces press air and sea operations against coastal defenses. Sicily’s strategic history is recapped from ancient battles to Norman rule.
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Europe
Sicily
West
Italy
Germany
Africa
Rome
Eisenhower
French Africa
Italian Pantelleria
Pantelleria
United Press
Strait of Messina
Lampedusa
Mediterranean
Etna
Palermo
Catania
Caproni Sicula
Porto Empedocle
Sciacca
Licata
Marsala
Trapani
Gulf of Castellamare
Gulf of Palermo
Termini Imerse
Milazzo
Messina
Bessina
Reggio Ei Calabria
Cape Campolata
Augusta
Porto Xifonio
Puna Izzo
Isolotto di Augusta
Syracuse
Crgia
Beginning of End in the North Africa Invasion
President Roosevelt discusses the North Africa landings and the broader war aims. He notes planning, cooperation with Britain and France, the fight to eliminate Germany, and calls the action the beginning of the end. General Giraud affirms France’s unity and pledged strength for liberation.
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North Africa
Tunis
Germany
England
Giraud
France
Giraud Canrest
Martinique
Guadelompe
Gireud
United Nations
America
United States
Amateur farmers vow to defy FDA steer slaughter ban
Bethel Connecticut farmers led by Harrison Hoyt pledge to slaughter their own steers despite Food Distribution Administration limits. They say they would rather have meat than comply and go without it next winter, asserting no permits will be issued.
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Bethel
Conn
INS
Food Distribution Administration
Harrison Hoyt
Bethel Parilime
FDA
OPA Allows Ration-Free Sale of Odd-Lot Shoes
Albany date July 10 194? The Office of Price Administration said dealers may sell a limited number of obsolete and odd lot shoes ration-free from July 19 to 31 to dispose of broken sizes. Shoes may be sold at no more than 10 percent above cost with ads noting OPA odd-lot release.
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OPA
Albany
Wallace in Oxygen Tent with Pneumonia
Lt Gov Thomas W Wallace has pneumonia and is in critical condition at Ellis Hospital Schenectady He contracted chickenpox a week earlier and treated at home The pneumonia developed yesterday and he was placed in an oxygen tent Paul Lockwood executive secretary to Governor Dewey disclosed the situation
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Wallace
Albany
Thomas W. Wallace
Ellis Hospital
Scherectady
Paul Lockwood
Dewey
Lockwood
Indian Arraigned As Draft Evader
Jacob Swamp 21 of Bombay Franklin County and native of the St. Regis Indian Reservation Hoganebure will be arraigned today before U S Commissioner Charles Bowers of Denton on a charge of failure to report for induction on order of the Buffalo local Selective Service board.
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Malone
Jacob Swamp
Bombay
Franklin County
St. Regis
Hoganebure
U. S
Charles ©. Bowers
Denton
Buffalo Local Selective Service Board
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