[Homer_J_Simpson]

Firm Link Forged (Middleton) – 2-3
Sky Troops Race Germans for Control of Bridges (Cronkite) – 3
Allies Threaten to Break into Clear in Reich at Two Crucial Points (map) – 4
Aerial Invasion: Allied Airborne Forces Strike behind German Lines in the Netherlands (photos) – 5-6
The Hands of Welcome Held the Flowers of Luxembourg (photo) – 7
War News Summarized – 7
Huge Battle Rages in Baltic, Nazis Say – 8
The Russians Moving through the Suburbs of Warsaw (photo) – 8
Russia Backs Poles Land Claims Covering Silesian, Prussian Areas – 8
Nimitz Gives Plan (Hurd) – 9
U.S. Forces Smash Foe’s Palau Blows (Trumbull) – 9-10
Hero on Peleliu Shields Identity (Horne) – 10
Saboteurs Pierce Kweilin Defenses – 11
New-Type Rockets Used against Nazis – 12
Kennedy’s Son-in-Law Killed on Sept. 10 while Fighting with British in France – 12
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 13-15
Long-Range Thunderbolt Plane Being Built to Strike Japan – 15
Destination is Somewhere in The Netherlands (page 1 photo) – 15
Robot Bases Scouted by Polish Underground while Helping French Forces of Interior – 15

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/sep44/19sep44.htm#

Marines attack Mount Umurbrogol
Tuesday, September 19, 1944 www.onwar.com

In the Palau Islands... On Peleliu there is heavy fighting around Mount Umurbrogol. Japanese forces are continuing to hold against the US marine attacks. On Angaur, there is intensive fighting between American troops and the small Japanese garrison.

On the Western Front... Operation Market Garden continues. In the morning the British 30th Corps reaches troops of the US 82nd Airborne Division at Grave. The combined force advances toward Nijmegen. At Arnhem, the British 1st Airborne Division continues to hold. Meanwhile, in Brittany, the last German resistance in Brest comes to an end.

On the Eastern Front... The Soviet offensive in the Baltic continues. Forces of the 3rd Baltic Front capture Valga in Estonia.

In Occupied Denmark... A general strike continues in protest of recent deportations by German authorities.

[henkster]

German sector in Holland for today. Looking at the map, it appears the German 15th Army is pulling two infantry divisions and a corps HQ out of the south bank of the Scheldt Estuary, weakening their defenses there.

[henkster]

Patton's 3rd Army sector. Note the concentration of Panzer Brigades and Panzer Divisions around the town of Arracourt.

[henkster]

The Brits are bragging about their "wall breacher" tank. We built a couple of prototypes of the "wall breacher" we thought we might need to bust the Siegfried Line: the T28 superheavy tank.

It made the British tank look like a toy Only one of these prototypes still exists. I saw it when it was at the Patton Museum at Fort Knox. It's a monster.