“Russian Chairman Gromeko has arrived for the Four Power World Security Talks, which open tomorrow. The Allies are advancing in France while the Germans are taking heavy losses and retreating back to Germany, leaving behind most of their equipment. CBS London (Richard C. Hottelet): German radio has reported that American tanks have crossed the Seine River. (This has still not been confirmed by the Allies.) The British took 1,000 prisoners today and the fleeing Germans are being harassed by Allied aircraft. CBS Rome: Winston Burdette interviews a B-25 pilot and his bombardier who helped bomb former French warships in the port of Toulon in southern France. Despite heavy flak, no planes were lost. An Admiral spot for the post-war 2-Temperature refrigerator mentions that its freezer will hold 400 ice cubes or 2 bushels of frozen food. General de Gaulle is in Cherbourg to be on hand for the liberation of Paris, which is expected shortly. [Paris was liberated on August 23rd.] Major Eliot comments that the Germans are stiffening their resistance as Russian troops approach the “holy German soil” of East Prussia. Battles of a grand scale can be expected in late August and in September. Spain: Glenn Stadler, who was in Paris when it fell, describes the German takeover of that city in 1940. CBS Washington: Don Pryor interviews a Navy lieutenant commander involved in amphibious warfare, and who describes the make-up of a “Beach Party:” the various personnel (doctors, corpsmen, hydrographers, boat repairmen, communications units, etc.) who are already there to support the troops as they come ashore. Teaser spot for post-war Admiral radio cabinets. PSA asking for part-time farm laborers of all ages to sign up for “the U.S. Crop Corps.”
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I am named after Douglas Edwards! I was the youngest of 4 boys born in 1961. My Mom was so convinced I would be her first daughter she never even considered a name for another boy. I was “Baby Boy” for 2 days. My father, trying to lay low and let her get over the dissappointment, told her she could choose the name. That night in the hospital she saw Douglas Edwards on the news and that was that. My first and middle name are: Douglas Edwards.
THANK GOD she didn’t name me Walter Cronkite!
It was on this date 70 years ago a relative of mine serving in the Canadian army was wounded at the battle of the Falaise gap, also known as the crucible. Canadian, British, and Polish armies were to the north of the gap ... Patton’s Third Army and French forces to the south. The German Army was trying to avoid entrapment and was pushing east thru the narrow gap between the Allied forces. Fierce fighting ensued.