Nazi Scorched Earth Policy Begins In East Prussia
Moscow dispatch reports the German army burning houses and farms along the East Prussian frontier as Red armies close in. Civilians evacuated east of Konigsberg signal looming frontiers, with two more Russian armies joining the fight and Spearheads pushing toward Memel and Tilsit.
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Moscow
U.P
Holy
Konigsberg
Germany
East Prussia
Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky
Georgi Zhakarov
Bialystok
Knyston
Memel
Tilsit
Warsaw
Frychow
Ivan S. Konev
Vistula
Frodhlow
Krakow
Poland
1St Baltic Army
Siauliai
Riga
Kaunas
Kursenai
Saukenai
Gaugokai
Gordy
Red Air Force
East Prussian
Reconquest Of Guam Draws Near As Yanks Squeeze Japs
Allied forces press in on Guam as Marines and soldiers drive Japanese forces into the island’s northern tenth. In Italy heavy fighting continues south of Florence with German footholds holding near the Arno as weather hinders operations.
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Guam
Arno
Florence
Pisa
Harold Alexander
Eighth Army
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
U. S. Naval
Yap Island
Carolines
Japs Claim Lone B-24 Attacked Shanghai
Japanese agency reported a single American B-24 bomber raided Shanghai with only very slight damage. The report was captured by the federal communications commission from an English language wireless transmission.
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New York
Shanghai
Japanese Comet Agency
Federal Communications Commission
Navy Squadron Knocks Out 41 Jap Airplanes
A carrier based fighter squadron from air group sixteen led by Lt. Alexander Vraicu shot down 41 Japanese planes during the Saipan air sea battle June 19 to 20. Bomber pilots from the same group hit a 28,000 ton enemy carrier, with no pilot losses reported.
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San Francisco
Air Group 16
Navy
Saipan
Philippine Sea
Mariana
Turkey
Alexander Vraicu
Chicago
Ind
Vraicu
12Th Naval District
Pacific
Cmdr
Paul D. Buie
Nashville
Guam
Ernest M. Snowden
Snowden
Ralph Weymouth
Santa Barbara
Calif
Norman A. Sterrie
James
Minn
Tokyo
Davo
Mindanao
Davao
George C. Kenney
Far Eastern Air Force
Australia- New Guinea
Philippines
Corregidor
Bonin
Kazin Islands
U. S
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur
Japan Premier Warns of Unprecedented Difficulties
Premier Koiso in a radio address cited Allied victories in the Marianas and New Guinea as creating national difficulties of unprecedented seriousness. He urged mobilization of Japan's 100 million people and warned of U S and British evil designs while promising a grand-scale counteroffensive to bolster morale.
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United Press
Kuniaki Koiso
Marianas
New Guinea
Japan
Hideki Tojo
Koiso
Domei
San Francisco
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Armored Lorries Key to Allied Breakthrough Near Caen
Allied columns driven by British Canadian armor smash through German lines near Caen using armored lorries to unload assault troops. Air and artillery support unleash a massive combined explosion as U S forces push toward Le Mans, about 110 miles from the city, with Caen and Mortain area gains and a pincers advance toward Paris.
Rear Admiral Moon Dies After Self Inflicted Wounds
Rear Adm. Don Pardee Moon, 0, who led a task force in the Normandy invasion, died Saturday in an apparent suicide amid combat fatigue. Moon, a Kokomo, Indiana native and 1916 Naval Academy graduate, commanded a force that breached Cherbourg waters. The Navy disclosed the Navy Secretary Forrestal statement of regret.
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Washington
Don Pardee Moon
Normandy
Navy
Forrestal
Moon
Kokomo, Ind
The
Naval Academy
Pan American Clipper Crashes Off Antilla Bay
A Pan-American Airways Clipper crashed in Antilla bay Cuba and sank in the West Indies today with an undetermined number of the 26 aboard drowned according to early reports.
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Havana
Cuba
Pan-American Airways
Antilla Bay
West Indies
Col Douglas McNair Jr. Dies on Guam at 37
The War Department reports Col. Douglas McNair 37 son of the late Lt General Lesley J. McNair died on Guam. He survived by his widow Mrs Freda McNair and their infant Benny Clare and his mother Mrs Lesley J. McNair of Washington. The elder McNair had been on undisclosed Normandy duties. Maj General A D Bruce announced the death. John L De Witt was noted as replacing him in Normandy duty.
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Washington
War Department
Guam
Douglas McNair
Lesley J. McNair
Normandy
John L. de Witt
Nazi War Prisoners Escape Attempt Fails at Fort Ord
Fort Ord California August 8 The escape tunnel from the recreational hall was discovered before completion. Maj Karl F Bichler commander said undetermined number of German prisoners of war attempted to dig a tunnel outside the stockade and were assigned to refill it after Army engineers dynamited the shaft.
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Fort Ord
Calif
Ft. Ord Stockade
Karl F. Bichler
Nazi Leaders Reported Dead and Wounded
A captured German intelligence officer claimed Heinrich Himmler was assassinated and Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering wounded in a new Nazi upheaval. The report lacked independent confirmation and was based on second-hand information. The British radio relayed a prisoner’s account of a pep talk to troops in France.
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Roger D. Greene
France
Heinrich Himmler
Gestapo
Herman Goering
Himmler
Vienna Takes Alabama Stakes In Stunning Upset
William Woodward's Vienna sprang a major upset in the Alabama Stakes at New York racing, coming from behind in the stretch to beat the odds-on favorite Twilight Tear by three-quarters of a length.
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New York
William Woodward
Vienna
Twilight Tear
42 000 Japs Killed Four Divisions Out
Allied spokesmen announced 42 000 Japanese dead and four of nine Burma divisions liquidated in the northeast India drive and Stilwell jungle campaign. Patrols moved beyond Tamu toward the Yu and Chindwin rivers as forces pressed toward Tiddim.
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Charles A. Brumich
Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Burma
India
Joseph W. Stilwell
Burmese
Mandalay
Tamu
Yu River
Chindwin River
Tiddim
Hitler Retrea ts to Inner Defenses in Face of Allied Push
Associated Press war analyst Dewitt Mackenzie reports Hitler plans a delaying retreat to the Reich borders, with tactical shifts but no change to a last stand strategy. He may defend from Caen to northeast France as Allied advances press from Normandy and Brittany, while possibly facing a southern France invasion through the Rhone valley.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Hitler
Reich
France
Rhone Valley
Fuehrer
Caen
Spain
Atlantic
Normandy
Brittany
Avranches
Allied pincers drive toward Paris from Caen to Le Mans
Allied forces pierced German defenses around Caen with Canadian and American spearheads advancing along a 100 mile front. Le Mans fell to U S units while bombardment and close ground support marked the first major night tank assault in France. Bradley’s forces moved toward Lorient as Brittany towns were liberated and St Malo and Brest tightened the Allied grip on the peninsula.
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Normandy
Brittany
Mortain
Doughboys
U. S
Mayenne
Laval
le Mans
Paris
Caen
France
Falaise
Breton
Omar N. Bradley
Lorient
Brest
St. Malo Cape
St. Malo
Guingamp
St. Brieuc
Just Punishment Meted Out To Nazi Would-Be Assassins
London reports that Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben and seven other German officers were hanged after confessing to plotting Hitler's assassination and surrender of Germany to the Allies. The executions followed a Berlin trial linked to the July 20 bomb plot against Hitler.
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London
Erwin von Witzleben
Berlin
Hitler
Germany
von Witzleben
John Sullivan to Aid Defense of Paladino
John L. Sullivan of Phoenix, a Democratic candidate for attorney general, will join John Van Buskirk as defense attorneys for Liberale Edward Paladino, accused of first degree murder. Attorney General candidate Arthur T. La Prade will serve as presiding judge. Prosecutor J. Mercer Johnson expects most sessions to cover jury selection with about 120 potential jurors.
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John Sullivan
Edward Paladino
Consolidated- Vultee
John L. Sullivan
Phoenix
John van Buskirk
State Supreme Court
Arthur T. la Prade
J. Mercer Johnson
New York Parties Pick Senate Running Mates for 47 Votes
Democrats and Republicans in New York discuss suitable senate candidates to boost the state’s 47 electoral votes for the presidential race. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey meets with party leaders to consider Thomas J. Curran as a potential running mate, while New York Democrats expect Sen. Robert F. Wagner to be their nominee.
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New York
Arkansas
Connecticut
Vermont
Dewey
Thomas E. Dewey
Senate
Thomas J. Curran
Manhattan
Robert F. Wagner
Roosevelt
Judge Kelly Named as GOP Supreme Court Candidate
Phoenix August 8 The Republican state central committee certified Judge Henry C. Kelly of Yuma County Superior Court as the party nominee for supreme court justice in the November general election. Kelly won 235 write in votes in the July 18 Republican primary and had said he did not want the race.
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Phoenix
Republican State Central Committee
Secretary of State
Henry C. Kelly
Yuma County Superior Court
Supreme Court
Kelly
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Konstantin K. Rokossovsky
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Arezzo
By Noland Norgaard
Rome
Monte Grillo
Highway 71
Fifth Army
San Viniato
Aitape
Wewak
British New Guinea
Richard D. M'Millan
No-Man’s Land
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Barenton
Col. McNair
U.S
Goering
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