Allies open double outflank against Siegfried Line
Allied forces launched a two pronged assault along the Siegfried line with French troops breaking the Belfort gap and the British Second Army pushing from Nijmegen. The U S Third Army advanced toward Strasbourg as paratroopers reportedly landed near Hertogenbosch. Commanders cautioned that no major push had yet begun despite hopeful reports from home.
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Allied Supreme Headquarters
London
U.P
Siegfried
Belfort Gap
Nijmegen
Holland
U. S
Parroy
Strasbourg
Hugh Baillie
United Press
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Omar N. Bradley
George S. Patton
Courtney H. Hodges
France
West Wall
General Wilson Takes Command of Greek Forces
Allied headquarters disclosed that Gen Sir Henry Maitland Wilson has assumed command of all Greek forces in Greece. Papandreou and Greek leaders pledged full cooperation with two guerrilla chiefs, Zervas of the Edes and Seraphis of Elas, in liberating Greece. The move heightens pressure on remaining German divisions amid ongoing Albania and Adriatic invasion efforts.
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Rome
U.P
Germany
Henry Maitland Wilson
Greece
Balkans
Albania
Adriatic
Yugoslavia
George Papandreou
Napoleon Zervas
Edes
Greek National Democratic Party
Stephen Seraphis
Elas
Eam
National Liberation Front
Jap Rearguards Block Road to Base of Tiddim
Southeast Asia Command reports Japanese rear guards still block the road to the Tiddim supply base in the Chin hills Burma. They resist the Fifth Indian division’s push toward the base from which Japan launched its drive on India. US Mitchell bombers target advancing enemy troops in Yunnan to curb overland Chinese aid.
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Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Tiddim
Chin Hills
Burma
Adml
Louis Mountbatten
Fifth Indian Division
Japan
India
Eastern Air Command
Argentina to bar war criminals and seize assets in Britain
The foreign office announced that Argentina informed Britain that war criminals would be barred from entry to Argentina and prohibited from depositing funds or acquiring property in the country.
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Buenos Aires
Foreign Office
Argentina
Britain
Flyer charges Bulgarian medical men mistreated airmen
Cairo dispatch reports released flyers accusing Bulgarian medical staff of mistreatment and a fatal botched surgery. A sergeant recounted being operated on without anesthesia and witnessing a fellow airman die after a nurse applied a hot needle. Names of the flyers were not released pending family notification.
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Cairo
Allies Seize Seven Vital Italian Towns
Allied forces capture Castel Del Rio and Monte Carnevale in central Italy as Americans push toward a Nazi escape route. British and Canadian troops expand the Adriatic bridgehead over a two mile depth on a ten mile front while Italian patriots take Ballaria.
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Rome
Castel del Rio
Monte Carnevale
Adriatic
Japanese Air Force Suffers Its Worst War Month Yet
Allied air forces unleash a dramatic surge destroying over 1,100 Japanese planes in September as carrier strikes across the Philippines and Pacific theater cripple Nipponese air power. Nimitz and Gates note Japanese lack of aggression while a Marianas campaign drives heavy losses for Japan and Allied fliers.
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Associated Press
Philippines
Japan
Adm
William F. Halsey
Pacific War Theater
Nippon
Artemus Gates
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific
Marianas Islands
Tokyo
Big Day in Butte Paper Drive For War Effort
Today marks the main day of a waste paper campaign led by the American Legion post in Silver Bow. Thousands of Butte youths and their fathers will haul bundles of waste paper and rags to meet quotas of 200000 pounds of paper and 35000 pounds of rags. The drive ends with a citywide pickup of materials from schools and businesses, to be loaded for mills.
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Silver Bow Post
American Legion
Butte
Legionnaires
Legion
Argentine Tanker San Blas Split by Port Blast
In La Plata Argentina the 14 000 ton tanker San Blas was ripped in two and set afire by a massive explosion in port. At least two crewmen were killed and two injured, with 30 to 40 crew aboard. Nineteen sailors were rescued.
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LA Plata
Argentina
U.P
San Blas
Hungarians Seek Peace Terms
New York report says the Hungarian premier asked the Turkish ambassador in Budapest to learn Allied peace terms and to act as intermediary in preliminary negotiations for Hungary's exit from the Axis. The broadcast was heard by NBC monitors.
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New
York
Europe
Budapest
Hungary
Greater Montana Viewed by Ford
Governor Sam C. Ford told a joint session of Billings service clubs that Montana’s postwar growth hinges on state government plans for highways, reclamation, rural electrification, and new state buildings. He stressed preserving Montana water sources as essential to development and said these projects could employ thousands after the war.
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Billings
Montana
Sam C. Ford
Billings Service Clubs
Savage Aerial Battles Over Germany Continue
London reports savage air combat as the Luftwaffe fights to curb Allied mass air assault. Over central Germany Magdeburg Kassel and Merseburg face heavy raids by over 1000 Fortresses Libera tors and 700 escort fighters. Eighth Air Force losses reach 49 bombers and 12 fighters in two days with 36 German fighters shot down.
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London
Germany
Luftwaffe
U. S
Eighth Air Force
Magdeburg
Kassel
Merseburg
Large Delegation of Truckers Here for Convention Today
The sixth annual Montana Motor Transport association convention opens this morning in the Finlen hotel Gold room with Earl Moritz presiding. Delegates arrive from across the state for business and social events through today and Saturday, including a noon luncheon by Ted W. Rodgers of Washington. Gov. Sam C. Ford will speak at the Saturday banquet and dance in the Finlen ballroom.
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Montana Motor Transport Association
Finlen Hotel
Earl Moritz
Lewistown
Ted W. Rodgers
Washington, D. C
The
Finlen
Sam C. Ford
Tom J. Davis
Butte
Rotary Interna
Soviets Fight Way Into Lupkow Pass
Soviet forces pressed into Lupkow Pass on the Poland Czech frontier as part of a broad offensive toward Hungary and Budapest. Moscow reported 30 localities captured along a 60 mile Czech border front, though later corrections omitted Lupkow details and noted ongoing heavy fighting near Mako and Szeged with Romanian front involvement.
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London
Lupkow Pass
Poland
Czechslovakia
Hungary
Budapest
Red Army
Moscow
Monitor
Ivan Petrov
Ukraine
Czech
Vydram
Czechoslovakia
Lupkow
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Szeged
Berlin
Riga
Lode
Estonia
Leonid A Govorov
Leningrad
Mako
Foldeak
Oradea
Transylvania
Debrechen
Japanese Near U S Airfield at Tan chuk in Kwangsi
A Japanese column in southeastern Kwangsi drives toward Tan chuk, storming 45 miles west of Wuchow in two days and nearing within five miles of the American airfield. Other spearheads push from the south toward Tan chuk and advance toward Wuchow to connect with forces near Loting, as Chinese forces contest the advance.
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Chungking
U.P
Kwangsi Province
Wuchow
Tanchuk
Kwangsi
Lancing
Loting
Weather forecast across divided regions with light showers
West of the continental divide predicts Friday cloudy and cooler with occasional light showers. East of the divide, Friday remains mostly cloudy with scattered light showers turning to mixed snow in the northwest by late afternoon. Much cooler by late day.
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Continental Divide
Three Separate Occupation Zones Proposed By Tass
Tass reaffirmed that the tri power European advisory commission supports three separate zones of occupation in defeated Germany and denies plans to carve Germany into small states. The Moscow broadcast followed Churchill calling for a big three conference and stressed that major decisions require closer discussions than wartime clashes.
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London
Germany
Tass
European Advisory Commission
Moscow
Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Commons
Quebec
Stalin
Sixth War Loan Set to Begin November 20
Secretary Morgenthau announced the sixth war loan will start November 20 with a goal of 14 billion dollars and a tentative closing date of December 16. The last loan had a 16 billion dollar target and was over subscribed by nearly 5 billion. Subscriptions via payroll deductions count if processed through Federal Reserve banks between November 1 and December 31.
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Washington
Morgenthau
Treasury
Federal Reserve Banks
Two Japanese Ships Sunk by Allied Bombers
Allied forces in the Southwest Pacific reported a lone Navy Catalina bomber sank a 10,000-ton transport and damaged a 6,000-ton freighter in the southern Philippines. MacArthur said Liberator Mitchell and Boston bombers attacked Ceram island, and a Navy patrol damaged one convoy off Jolo island after a 74-ton air raid.
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Chester W. Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
South‘west Pacific
Philippines
Halsey
Allied
Southwest Pacific
Mitchell
Boston
Ceram Island
Celebes
East Indies
MacArthur
Jolo Island
Sulu
Mindanao
Retreating Germans Blast Bridges and Burn Villages
Reuters report from Stockholm dated September 28 describes retreating German forces destroying bridges and burning villages as Finnish troops cross the Iikoki River toward Olhava on the Bothnian Gulf. A Finnish national committee to resist Bolshevism is noted, with similar exile-style committees linked to Romania and Bulgaria. Finnish forces push in Lapland as roads and bridges are mined and evacuated Finns relocate behind the 1940 boundary.
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Stockholm
Finland
Iikoki
Olhava
Bothnian Gulf
Berlin
Foreign Office
Germany
Romania
Bulgaria
Russia
Lapland
Aftonbladet
Helsinki
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Arnhem
Haystack
Signal Corps
Wilson
Reynolds Packard
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By A. C. Goldberg
W. W. Hercher
Manila
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Pearl Harbor
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Leyte
Negros
Luzon
Mactan
Western Pacific
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