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Major Assault On (Middleton) – 2-3
7,000 Tons of Bombs Pace British Drive (MacDonald) – 3-4
Normandy Battle among Toughest (Baldwin) – 4
Activities behind the Allied Lines and on the Front in Normandy (photos) – 5-6
War News Summarized – 6
Soviet Troops Gain 31 Miles through a 124-Mile Breach (Lawrence) – 7-8
Poles Said to Seek Soviet Amity Talk (Daniel) – 8
American Troops Reach Arno River (Matthews) – 8
Nazi Sees Decision in Europe in 90 Days – 8
750 ‘Forts’ Batter Baltic Robot Dens (by David Anderson) – 9
Horthy Promises Not to Oust Jews – 9
33 More Captives are Slain by Nazis – 9
German Staff Has Plans Now for Next War, Welles Warns (by James B. Reston) – 10
At Least 350 Dead as Munitions Ships Blow Up on Coast (by Lawrence E. Davies) – 11-12
A Catastrophe on the Home Front: Havoc Caused by Munitions Ships’ Blast on Pacific Coast (photos) – 12-13
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 15-17
Race Issue Snarls the Platform; Southerners Halt Compromise (by Charles E. Egan) – 18-19
Farley on Vice Presidency (by Arthur Krock) – 19
Editors Stress Free Press Plank – 20
Books of the Times: The Time for Decision, by Sumner Welles (by Orville Prescott) – 20

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/jul44/19jul44.htm#

Battle for Caen continues
Wednesday, July 19, 1944 www.onwar.com

On the Western Front... To the east of Caen, Operation Goodwood continues. British 2nd Army is heavily engaged and large numbers of tanks are used on both sides. The Caen suburb of Vaucelles is cleared by Canadian forces which also capture Louvigny and Fleury-sur-Orne.

On the Eastern Front... East of Dvinsk, Soviet forces enter Latvia.

In Italy... Elements of the US 5th Army capture Leghorn.

In the United States... The Bretton Woods conference continues. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party convention at Chicago selects Roosevelt as their candidate for president by an overwhelming majority (Roosevelt 1086; Byrd 89; Farley 1). Harry Truman is chosen as his running mate (Truman 1031; Wallace 105).

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33 More Captives are Slain by Nazis

Not surprising ... if there's a surprise, it's that more of this didn't happen on both sides.