[Homer_J_Simpson]

No Word on Japan (Belair Jr.) – 2-4
The Leaders of the Big Three as They Neared the End of Their Conference (photo) – 3
President Truman is Piped Aboard the Renown (photo) – 4
Communique Highlights – 4-5
Economy Mapped (Crider) – 5
Conference Scene Reveals Dilemmas (Long) – 5-6
Russian War Step Believed Hinted – 6
Enemy Port Ruined (Kluckhohn) – 7
116 Japanese Ships Fleet Fliers’ Toll (Jones) – 8
Japanese in China Nearer Junction – 8
Mitscher Warns on War Optimism (Stuart) – 8-9
Some Officers See Japan’s Collapse (by W.H. Lawrence) – 9
Big Three Prescribe Freedom of Press – 10
War News Summarized – 10
The Berlin Communique (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 12
50,000 Due to Get Phones This Year – 12
Day’s Communiques – 13
Midget Television Receiver in Debut (w/photo) – 13

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/7/03.htm

August 3rd, 1945 (FRIDAY)

UNITED KINGDOM: London: Attlee appoints 19 new ministers, including Aneurin Bevin as health minister.

FRANCE: The battle-cruiser STRASBOURG, scuttled in 1942, is refloated.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA: All ethnic Germans and Hungarians are deprived of Czechoslovak citizenship.

BURMA: Organized Japanese resistance comes to an end as the Allies win the “Battle of the Breakthrough”; of 10,000 Japanese troops defending the Pegu Yoma range, 8,300 are dead.

KURILE ISLANDS: 4 USN PB4Y-2 Privateers based in the Aleutians bomb Torishima Island and 11 small enemy craft are attacked in a bay north of Otomari Zaki on Onekotan Island.

JAPAN: US Twentieth Air Force 90+ VII Fighter Command P-47s and P-51s from Iwo Jima fly nearly 100 effective sorties throughout the Tokyo area, hitting airfields, rail installations, and trains.

B-29s drop mines to seal off all of Japan’s main ports, leaving the country totally blockaded.

Mines previously laid by Twentieth Air Force B-29 Superfortresses sink two freighters and a transport and damage three other vessels.

CANADA: Armed yacht HMCS Husky paid off Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Minesweeper HMCS Fort Frances and HMC ML 117 and 119 paid off.

MARTINIQUE: Pan American World Airways Sikorsky S-43 seaplane, msn 4306, registered NC15066, sinks on landing at Fort de France; 10 of the 14 aboard survive.

[henkster]

I enjoyed looking at the ad for the midget television set. I was looking at it on my tablet.