Furious Allied Drive To Split French Offensive In France
Japan reports an Allied raid on Davao Mindanao with minor bombs in the sea. In France, German counterblows threaten to outflank Bradley and sever Brittany from Paris as American spearheads push through Mortain to Avranches and Vire while Allied air power, armor, and a Breton advance press toward Brest Nantes and St Malo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladwin Hill
Allied Expeditionary Force
Avranches
France
Paris
Omar N
Bradley
Brittany
Normandy
Mortain
Domfront
Sourdeval
Juvigny-Le-Tertre
Cherence-Le-Rousse
Vire
Lourdeval
Orneon
Caen
Breton
Brest
St. Nazaire
Nantes
Lorient
St. Malo
Chateauneuf
Auray
Vannes
Huelgoat
Carhaix
Mayenne
le Mans
Ambrieres
Laval Houssay
Chateau Gauntier
Alencon
US Carrier Force Sinks 11 Japanese Vessels in Bonin Raid
A fast American carrier task force shelled the Bonin Islands within 600 miles of Tokyo in a two day raid. It sank five destroyers or escorts, five cargo ships, one oiler, and two smaller craft, while damaging 18 small vessels and two escort ships. The operation also leveled Omura on Chichi Island and damaged several air fields.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Tokyo
Bonin Islands
Omura
Chichi
Key
Bonin
Haha
Muko
Ane
Bonins
Kazan
Pacific Fleet
U. S
Deven
Bonin-Kazan Islands
Saipan
Marianas
Robert W. Douglase, Jr
Seventh Army Air Force
Guam
Ukudu
Liguan
Agana
Orote Peninsula
Sixth Army
Sansapor
Dutch New Guinea
Philippines
Douglas MacArthur
Korim Bay
Biak Island
Mokmer
Wewak-Aitape
British New Guinea
Japan
Amboina
New Guinea
Palau
Carolines
Wake Island
Ponape
Yap
Marshall Islands
Robert Richardson, Jr
Central Pacific
Pacific Ocean
New Zealand
Commmand
New Caledonia
Solomon Islands
MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Australia
Islands
Sheriff Solves El Conquistador Theft Ring
Sheriff Echols and Deputy Knox arrested three Western Electric youths linked to a weeks long series of poolside thefts at the El Conquistador. The trio confessed to stealing purses money jewelry clothing and a liquor bottle while guests swam. Police are returning property to owners and pursuing checkout of a $30 recovered sum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Conquistador
Ed Note
Hugh Knox
Tees
Western Electric Company
James Herron
Echols
Sheriff's Office
Knox
Herron
Walgreen
Japanese Prisoners in Shock at Burma Push
Southeast Asia Command reports Japanese captives in a shocking state as British forces chase beyond Lama frontier base. In Myitkyina ruins executed by Stilwell, bodies pile up while Imphal region reports delays and mass casualties near Bashas and Kabaw valley roads.
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Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Lama
Myitkyina
Burma
Joseph W. Stilwell
Imphal
Tamu
Bashas
Kabaw Valley
Congress To Battle With Reconversion
Carl Lappin, a 26 year old merchant marine cook, flipped aboard a ship in the South Pacific on June 30 after learning he was going home. He later developed a stiff neck and was treated by a physician. X rays showed his neck was broken and he required surgery after returning home to California.
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San Pedro
Cal
Carl Lappin
Merchant Marine
Cook
South Pacific
Lappin
Hurls Mother From Window After Struggle
In Long Beach California Dudlevy W. Burriss age 30 pushed his mother June K. Burriss age 55 from a seventh floor apartment window and then jumped to join her in death. Police report saddle witnesses and neighbors heard the argument and pleas for help. A witness on a nearby roof recalled the plea Please stop him as the tragedy unfolded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Beach
Calif
P -Dudlevy W. Burriss
S. W. Tubbs
C. E. Whittelsey
R. A. Pinson
Burriss
June K. Burriss
June K. Burriss, 55, Arguing. He Heard Mrs. Burriss
Mary F. Whitty
Grace R. Seely
Mother
Police Inspector Kills Wife and Wounds Man in California
In Long Beach California on August 6 police inspector Wayne H Davis 44 killed his wife Viola Irene Davis 234 and wounded Roy Parker 25 he then shot himself in the head at his in laws home after meeting them at a bus stop in North Long Beach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Beach
Calif
Wayne H. Davis
Seaside Hospital
Roy Parker
North Long Beach
Davis
Viola Irene Davis
Parker
Fireworks Ahead in States Rights Unemployment Fight
Congress prepares reconversion legislation as a states rights battle over unemployment compensation looms in the Senate. The Murray Truman Kilgore bill would pay up to 35 weekly for jobless veterans and civilians, with the federal government covering excess above state levels. The George proposal would cede administration to states with smaller payments, backed by Southern Democrats and Republicans. Leaders aim to resolve the dispute this week and rush a measure to the House early next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willia
F. Arbogast
Washington
Congress
Senate
House Republicans
Sen. George
D-Ga
George
House Ways and Means Committee
House
Rep
Dirksen
Illinois
Red Groups Pound At East German Wall Reinforcing Baltic Drive
Soviet forces pushed through Latvia and east Prussia seizing Lu bana Madona Kurtavenia Saukenai and Drohobyez while advancing toward Krakow and Silesia. Stalin announced captures of Boryslaw Sambor as German resistance consolidates around Warsaw.
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Daniel DE Luce
London
Latvia
Lubana
Riga
Baltic
East Prussia
Kurtavenia
Saukenai
Tilsit
Fast Prussia
Sandomierz
Vistula
Stalin
Boryslaw
Sambor
Germany
East Wall
Krakow
Warsaw
Drohobvez
Carpathian Mountain
Czechslovakia
Red
Yank Planes Stage Shuttle Raid On Nazis
Eighth air force heavy bombers from Britain attacked the Rahmel plant near Gdynia and landed safely in Soviet bases. Two large Allied bomber formations crossed the channel, with no losses on the shuttle attack. Raids followed by RAF and Mosquito sorties targeting oil and transport as part of a broad campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Eighth Air Force
Britain
Rahmel
Baltic
Gdynia
Moscow
Eastern Command
U. S. Second Tactical Air Force
Russia
Germany
Hungary
Italy
RAF
Hazelbrouck
Bomber Command
Castro-Rauzel
Ruhr
Cologne
New Zealand
American forces push toward Paris from Brittany front
American armored units advance on a 50 mile front from Brittany toward Paris as they envelop Brest St Nazaire and Lorient. Soviet forces drive toward Galician oil fields and Czechoslovakia amid new Carpathian advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis F. Keemle
United Press
Paris
Brittany
Breton
Brest
St. Nazaire
Lorient
Czechoslovakia
Carpathian
Warsaw
Prussian
Reich
Chinese Attack Presses Tengchung Through Breached Walls
Chinese troops fight inside the Takut Tengchung defenses in western Yunnan after breaching the city walls blasted by U S 14th air force bombers. Engineers widened breaches and troops press the Japanese garrison while climbers scale walls with ladders and flame throwers aid the Salween river offensive linking to Stilwell’s north Burma forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Tengchung
Yunnan
U. S. 14Th Air Force
Salween River
Joseph W. Stilwell
Burma
German Shells Keep Falling In Florence
Allied forces report continued German shelling in southern Florence, while Gen. Alexander says the city will not become a battleground. South African troops reach north bank Arno. meanwhile 50,000 prisoners taken in the offensive from Cassino to Florence. Bridges exploded by Kesselring hinder progress, but city remains off-limits to shelling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noland Norgaard
Rome
Florence
Harold Alexander
Arno
Cassino
Albert Kesselring
Tiber
Eighth
Montelupo
Empoli
No Man’s Land
Pontassieve
Alexander
Fifth Army
Pisa
12 Year Old Boys Fight Nazi Tanks In Warsaw
London Aug 7 Twelve year olds fight German tanks in Warsaw according to the Polish forces press bureau quoting a radio dispatch from Gen Bor commander in chief of the underground The homeland army has seized its first tank and civilian John Lumenski who operated it after capture is the first civilian decorated for Warsaw defense Underground fighters retook Solidorz district including Woodrow Wilson plaza Germans set fire to the national museum Red Cross hospital Athanaeum theater and a large apartment building hindering residents from fighting the blazes
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Warsaw
Bor
Homeland Army
John Lumenski
Solidorz
Woodrow Wilson Plaza
National Museum
Red Cross Hospital
Athanaeum Theater
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Domei
Davao
Mindanano
Isles
Signal Corps
Ship Cook
Son
Baltic Coast
Reds
Madona
Gulbene
Vistula River
Silesia
Baltic States
Carpathians
Jelgava
Red Army
Danube
Konstantin Rokossovsky
German Silesia
San Vistula River
Ivan Petrov
Feo
Yank
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