[Homer_J_Simpson]

2d Army Attacks (Daniels) – 2-3
American Bazooka Accounts for Nazi Tank in Normandy (photos) – 3
U.S. Drive Becomes Romp as Nazis Crack under Fire (Denny) – 4
Huge Assault Opens British Push (MacDonald) – 5
The Prime Minister Greets a Hero (photo) – 5
Fleeing Germans Outstrip Pursuers (Currivan) – 5-6
War News Summarized – 6
Red Army Rolls On (Lawrence) – 7-8
Battling in Italy – 9-10
Guam Proclaimed under Rule of U.S. (Trumbull) – 10
Japanese Pushed into Tip of Tinian (Horne, Dopking) – 10-11
M’Arthur Batters Enemy Airdromes – 11
2 B-29’s Missing after Attack that Made Anshan a City of Fire (Farnsworth) – 11-12
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 13-15
Back from the Invasion: Hospital Ship Arrives with D-Day Wounded (photo) – 15

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/jul44/31jul44.htm#

Red Army enters Kaunas
Monday, July 31, 1944 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... The Soviet 3rd Belorussian Front enters Kaunas, the capital of Lithuania, and advances toward Warsaw. Elements capture Siedlice and Otwock only 12 miles southeast of the city.

On the Western Front... American 1st Army continues to advance. The US 4th Armored Division captures crossings over the Selune River near Pontaubault. The German counterattack on the left flank continues around Tessy and Percy.

In New Guinea... An American battalion is landed west of Cape Sansapor from the offshore islands. At Aitape, American forces counterattack the Japanese forces along the Driniumor River.

In London... Admiral Fraser succeeds Admiral Somerville as commander of the British Eastern Fleet.

In the Mariana Islands... On Tinian, American forces begin attacks on the last center of organized Japanese resistance, in the south of the island.

[henkster]

Apologies for the map quality today. These maps are not the "Pieux-Caen" maps that were probably from OB West. Instead, they appear to be Army Group B's maps.

[GeronL]

wasn’t it a bit early to say we owned Guam?