Fighting Continues In Paris As City Celebrates Liberation
Paris remains under chaotic fighting on multiple boulevards despite crowds cheering for General de Gaulle. Reports clash between allied claims of Paris secured and German resistance around key sites like the Arc de Triomphe lingering, with conflicting broadcasts from Paris and Algiers.
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London
Paris
DeGaulle
France
Algiers
Berlin
Werner
Arc de Triomphe
Von Kluge Reported Killed by Dagens Nyheter
Stockholm dispatch says Field Marshal Guenther von Kluge has been killed per Dag ens Nyheter citing German sources. Circumstances of the death are not known. Von Kluge led German western front forces since July 6, succeeding Rundstedt.
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Stockholm
Guenther von Kluge
Dagens Nyheter
Germany
von Kluge
Western Front
Karl Rudolph von Rundstedt
Inside story of General Giles Cairo Fourth of July ban
Congressmen react to General Benny Giles orders in Cairo forbidding American Independence Day celebrations to avoid offending British allies. Cairo stayed quiet July 4, locals recall a Briton lamenting lack of invitations. Note criticizes Churchill policy and Giles' subservience. Continued on Page Four.
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Washington
Benny Giles Kow
Egypt
Giles
Cairo
Great Britain
Churchill
New Flame Thrower Unveiled By British Tank Profile
The British revealed a 41 ton Churchill Crocodile flame throwing tank capable of spouting fire 450 feet ahead and around corners. Described as the most powerful flame thrower, it has been used on Normandy beachheads to clear pillboxes and targets up to 100 feet away, with the option to jettison the apparatus and fight as an ordinary tank if needed.
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Washington
Normandy
British Information Services
Dies Committee Fate Hinges On House Control
Washington AP staff notes the Dies UnAmerican Activities Committee could end if Republicans win the House. Since 1938 it has survived through Dem Rep. Dies and ally support. With leaders Thomas and Courtney ready to push continuation, a Democratic House could kill it and move its 175 file cabinets and 1,00,000 names to other agencies.
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Dies UnAmerican Activities Investigating Committee
House
Martin Dies
D.-Tex
Congress
Joe Starnes
Alabama
Dies
J. Parnell Thomas
New Jersey
Starnes
Wirt Courtney
Tennessee
Thomas
Roosevelt
Courtney
Elyse Knox and Tom Harmon wed in Ann Arbor chapel
Elyse Knox film actress and Lt. Tom Harmon Army flier and former University of Michigan football player married this morning at St. Marys Student Chapel in Ann Arbor. The ceremony was conducted by Rev Frank J McPhillips, with 500 guests present.
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St. Mary's Student Chapel
Elyse Knox
Tom Harmon
Army
University of Michigan
Frank J., McPhillips
Harmon
Ships sunk near Manado in heavy raid by Mitchell bombers
General Headquarters reports Aug 26 Mitchell bombers attacked at mast height near Manado Celebes, sinking a Japanese light cruiser and destroying five medium freighter transports. Two vessels damaged, about 40 luggers and barges ridled. Liberators hit Halmahera with bombs. no interceptions reported.
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Southwest Pacific
Manado
Celebes
Philippine-Halmahera Line
Halmahera
Lolobata
Philippines
Wide Ocean Front Under Bomber Raid
United States Pacific Fleet headquarters at Pearl Harbor reports a wide ocean front bombing by American Central Pacific Command strike groups. Bombers attacked Japanese held islands from the volcano group 700 miles south of Tokyo to Nauru, with land based Liberators unopposed over Iwo Jima. Additional raids hit Pagan, Wake.
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United States Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
American Central Pacific Command
Chester W. Nimitz
Volcano Group
Tokyo
Nauru
Gilberts
Iwo and
Jima
Pagan
Navy
Wake
New Air Service Linking Alaska Canada to U S
Great Falls Montana August 26 Western Airlines will start passenger and mail service from Alaska and Canada to the United States via Great Falls on September 1 District Traffic Manager R E McKenna says. The Inland Airlines Western Airlines merger enables revised schedules with direct connections at Lethbridge Alberta to Trans Canada Airlines reaching Canadian and Alaskan points.
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Great Falls
Montana
Western Airlines
Alaska
Canada
United States
R. E. McKenna
McKenna
Inland Airlines
Lethbridge
Alberta
Trans-Canada Airlines
Supplies and Equipment Abandoned on Alaska Highway
The War Department reports Col. Austin Pratt found large amounts of supplies and equipment abandoned along the Alaska Highway as not worth shipping home though still serviceable. Canada salvage terms lack local sale method, so items were left for final disposition. No buildings with supplies burned and no evidence of burning condemned goods or destroyed medical supplies.
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Washington
War Department
Austin Pratt
Alaska
Canada
Col. Pratt
Eee
State Department counters Japanese peace envoy claims
The State Department rebutted Rep. Magnuson’s assertion that Japanese envoys in 1941 pressed the question of American naval dispositions. It said Kurusu and other envoys never raised concerns about Pacific fleet disposition during talks or with the Navy or War Department. Also noted is Edward Kennedy of AP arriving in Geneva with Seventh Army in France.
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State Department
Pearl Harbor
Warren G. Magnusen
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Pacific Coast
Kurusu
Pacific
Navy
War Department
Saburo Kurusu
United States
Magnuson
Hull
Japan
War Bulletins From Front Lines Across Europe
Late war dispatches note Donald Nelson and Maj. Gen. Patrick Hurley completing the first leg to China then resuming the journey. French forces seize two Toulon forts while Bulgarian German troops withdraw by soil. Ankara radio reports Sofia abandoned except for two Halsan officers. British troops reach a new Seine bridgehead at Verrion after a rapid 40 mile maneuver. Paris proclaims freedom but notes lingering hangover. surrender signed at Montparnasse station.
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France
Seine
Verrion
Allied Air Forces Pound German Oil and Brest Seige Target
London reports nearly 1,000 U S Flying Fortresses and Liberators attack Europe, focusing on oil plants in Germany and the Brittany port of Brest. RAF and USAAF combined losses total 78 aircraft. daytime launches followed overnight bombing, with 1,100 tons dropped on Opel Motor Works near Mainz.
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London
Europe
Germany
Brittany
Brest
Hitler
France
RAF
Opel Motor Works
Russelsheir
Mainz
Frankfort
Antonescu Assassination Report From Romania Coup
A Swiss-Thalian border dispatch says Marshal Antonescu, former Romanian premier, was assassinated during a coup at the palace in Romania. The report cites an Italian agency and Swiss telegraph sources with no Berlin confirmation of fleeing Germany after King Mihai accepted allied surrender terms.
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Bern
Antonescu
Romania
Stefani
Berlin
Germany
Mihai
Red Army advances at fast pace toward Bucharest
Aug 26 report says Romanian troops switch to UN side while Red Army pushes through Galata Gap toward Bucharest at rapid pace. Soviet forces cross Siret River near Tecuciu, claim 100 plus miles from Bucharest and 75 miles from Ploesti oilfields as fighting spreads around Tirgu Mures and East Prussia.
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Galata
Bucharest
Ruemania
Ploesti
Siret
Tecuct
Red Star
United Nations
Tirguniamio
Warsaw
Allies push spearheads toward German border amid Paris mopping up
Allied columns drive toward Germany and Belgium with four bridgeheads east of Paris strengthened for the offensive. About 40,000 Germans trapped near the Seine mouth are reduced as the German Seventh Army is described as eliminated as a fighting entity. Paris quiets late today while American units spearhead in multiple directions toward the German border and near Belgium. Remnants of Germans shelled near the Selina mouth.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Forces
Germany
Belgium
Paris
Seine
Seventh Army
Selina Land
Two Ketchikan trips for Alaska Coastal planes
Two Alaska Coastal flights departed this morning from Juneau area airports. Maxwell Ewald Mias N Nelson M Hannah and A D Lawrence traveled to Ketchikan on the first plane. A second flight carried Jess Tate C H Goodwin and Mr and Mrs Joe Wykott Pred Geeslin and E B Fisher to Hoonah. ae F Coulter of Ellis Air Transport in Ketchikan is a Baranof Hotel guest.
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Alaska
Maxwell Ewald
Mias N. Nelson
M. Hannah
A. D. Lawrence
Jess Tate
C. H. Goodwin
Joe Wykott
Pred Geeslin
E. B. Fisher
Hoonah
F. Coulter
Ellis Air Transport
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