[Homer_J_Simpson]

Allies In the Clear (Middleton) – 2-3
Robot Scatters German Leaflets; Defense Figures Bolster Britons – 3
The War is Over for Germans in Paris, and Elsewhere in France the Allies Drive Ahead (photos) – 4-6
War News Summarized – 6
On Three Fronts in Western Europe the Germans are Driven Back (map) – 7
Americans Drive Up Rhone; Germans Strike from Italy – 8
South France Put under Eisenhower – 8-9
Paris Subway Station Converted to Plane-Parts Plant by Germans (Currivan) – 9
Nazis Talk of Tightening Defense until ‘Super-Weapons’ Beat Allies – 9
Stab at Bucharest – 10-11
Slovaks in Rising Seize Rail Center (MacCormac) – 11
Liberated Poland is Nearing Normal (Lawrence) – 11-12
8th Army Thrusts near Gothic Line – 12
Fortresses Pound Bremen and Kiel (Anderson) – 12-13
65,000 Ships Built by the Navy Since Sept. 1, 1939, Forrestal Says (Shalett) – 13
Plane Output Fell Again in August – 13-14
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 15-17
They Unloaded on the Japanese (photo) – 17

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/aug44/31aug44.htm#

Red Army liberates Bucharest
Thursday, August 31, 1944 www.onwar.com

Red Army forces welcomed in Bucharest [photo at link]

On the Eastern Front... Soviet troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front capture Bucharest, the capital of Romania.

In Italy... In the east, the British 8th Army continues attacking the German-held Gothic Line. In the west, the US 4th Corps (part of US 5th Army) advances after German forces conduct withdrawals from some positions along the Arno River.

In the Volcano Islands... US Task Group 38.4 (Admiral Davison) attacks Japanese positions on Iwo Jima with carrier aircraft from 3 carriers.

In the Bonin Islands... US TG38.4 also attacks Chichi Jima.

[GeronL]

65,000 ships??