Rommell Rushing Reserves Cut Caen Salient Drive
Allied headquarters report a major push southwest of Caen as fresh German reserves arrive in Normandy. British forces advance toward Caen, aiming to encircle the port while German counterattacks fail and Allied gains push toward St. Lo and Cherbourg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wes Gallagher
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Erwin Rommel
Normandy
Caen
Miles C. Dempsey
Second Army
France
Rommel
Odon
Orne
Dempsey
Geyer
Von _Schweppenberg
London
Berlin
St. Lo
Cherbourg
Marcelet
Bernard L. Montgomery
Maupertus
Omar N. Bradley
Esquay
Odon River
Rodney
Marshal Erwin Rommel
Germany
Breville
Orne River
Paris
American Attacks Press Saipan Holding Area in Pacific War
U S forces continue to move against Saipan as they overwhelm the southeast pocket of Japanese resistance and probe Garapan. Gen Douglas MacArthur and B-29 bombers strike Jay air base for the fifth time this week while Tokyo claims attacks on Guam Tinian and Rota. More than 12 000 Japanese planes have been destroyed since Pearl Harbor and American losses reach 2726 planes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Saipan
Guam
Tinian
Rota
Marianas
Douglas MacArthur
Jay
Washington
Navy Department
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Garapan
Berlin
Tokyo
Tokyo Dispatch
Pagan Island
Yap
Carolines
Roosevelt Extends Price Control Act One Year
President Roosevelt approved a one year extension of the price control and stabilization acts and criticized Congress for relaxing penalties on violators while praising action to renew the Office of Price Administration. He warned relaxing penalties could hinder enforcement and said he may seek Congress help if enforcement difficulties arise.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Office of Price Administration
Lone Lee
Japanese gains in China threaten allied air plans
Japan's radio claimed a Chinese coast city near Hengyang had been overpowered and Hengyang itself nearing climax as part of a broader China campaign that imperils Allied air bases. American Marines push north of Mt Tapotchau on Saipan while Nimitz MacArthur air forces strike Yap Truk and Pagan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Kreuger
Associated Press
Tokyo Radio Today
Hengyang
China
Saipan
Mt. Tapotchau
Garapan
Lishui
Chuchow
Chekiang
East China Sea
U. S
Hengyang air field capture threatens US China hold and war
Japanese forces in China press toward Hengyang linking rail and air bases with Hankow and Hongkong. Loss of the rail junction would worsen supply lines, raise Chinese demand for aid, and complicate U.S. plans from Kunming to Stilwell's Burma road while Myitkyina remains contested and air routes shift.
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Hiengyang
China
Kunming
Burma
Preston Grover
Hengyang
Hankow
Canton
Hongkong
Myitkyina
Shanghai
New York
Chicago
New Orleans
St. Louis
Ameri Can
Saipan
Philippines
Kweilin
Burma Road
Stilwell
Ledo
U S Breaks With Finland Puppet of Nazi Germany
The United States breaks diplomatic ties with Finland calling it a puppet of Nazi Germany. Secretary Hull delivers the note and passport to Finnish envoy Alexander Thesleff, citing German troop infiltration and Finnish government complicity as the reason.
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Washington
United States
Finland
Scandinavian
Russia
State Department
Alexander Thesleff
Helsinki
Secrtary
Hull
Republic of Finland
Germany
Thesleff
George T. Summerlin
von Ribbentrop
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Breakthrough in Italy Opens Way for Fast Allied Advance
Allied forces push along the west coast toward Livorno and Pisa as American armor nears Cecina and Siena. French troops seize Castiglione del Lago and villages Frosini Poggio Siena Vecchia while German demolitions disrupt roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noland
Nogaard
Rome
Italy
Cecina
Livorno
Leghorn
Siena
Florence
Lake Trasimeno
Castiglione del Lago
the Knights of Malta
Albert Kesselring
Pisa
Bibbona
Monteverdi
Castelnuovo
Radicondoli
Frosini
Poggio Siena Vecchia
Buoconvento
Arbia
Pampana
Murlo
Fall of Minsk Imminent as Red Army Presses Nazis
Moscow dispatches report Soviet forces crossing near the Berezina River northeast of Minsk as two armies stage mass river crossings. Rokossovsky and Bagramian spearhead closures toward Minsk while air units bombard German positions. Casualties and destruction mount along the Gomel Minsk corridor as the Red Army drives deeper into White Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Berezina
Minsk
Ivan Cherniakovsky
Ivan Bagramian
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
Rokossovsky
Gomel-Minsk
Cf Aviation
Sergei I. Rudenko
Red Star
Peter Troyanovsky
Bobruisk- Minsk
White Russia
Kazakov
Katu
OPA Ends Tire Inner Tube Rationing Nationwide
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration lifts all inner tube rationing effective tomorrow. July and August tire allocations rise by 50 000 per month. large truck and bus tires remain severely short. OPA notes tube inventories are ample and B card tire supply remains constrained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Charles F. Phillips
Phillips
Bombing Blitz Rolls Across Europe In Second Day
London reports heavy and medium bombers from Italy and Germany striking the Vienna area and northern France. Marauder and Mustang crews hit highway junctions and rail lines across a wide sector of France while Liberators and Wellingtons attacked from bases in Britain and Belgium.
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London
Italy
Berlin
Vienna
Britain
France
Belgium
U. S
Caens
Meridon
Falaise
Arville
One Mans
Villefranche
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Claire Chennault
Nafutan
Nimitz
Gen
MacArthur
Truk
Pagan
Seine Bay
Quesnay
LE Havre
Deauville
Tuisk
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Lev
Z. F. Trmy
Mogilev-Minsk
Drut Andi
Stalin
Bobruisk
Cial
Moscow Communique Ag
Vitebsk
Mital
Petrozav
Maingrad
Odessa
White Asia
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Posk
Karelia
Tage S
Columal
Ust
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