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3 posted on 07/04/2015 4:41:53 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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B-29’s Sear Japan in 4-Way Strike on Fourth of July (Moscow) – 2
Japan’s Food Cut; B-29’s Sear Supply – 3
War News Summarized – 3
Australians Win Big Airfield, Stab Nearer Balik Papan Oil (Parrott) – 4-5
Australian Fighting Men Under Fire on Balik Papan (photo) – 5
Ill Slaves Burned by Foe on Borneo – 6
U.S. Fliers Blast Foe’s China Base – 6
Our Kerama Bases Won Okinawa Sky – 7
Mrs. M’Arthur Visits Our Wounded in the Philippines (photo) – 7
Kinkaid Optimistic on Blows at Foe – 7-8
Home July 4, 1946 is Stilwell Hope – 8
Reparations Rule by Big Three Seen (Pertinax) – 8
Western Allies Take Over Occupation Zones in Berlin (Daniell) – 9-10
Leopold Expected to Abdicate Soon (Anderson) – 10
‘Lost’ Americans Throng to Paris – 10
Russia Seeks Hand in All Big Groups (Callender) – 11
Harold Denny, 56, Journalist, Dead * – 12-13
Max Braun, 52, Led Anti-Nazis in Saar – 13
Vichy Leader Returned to France (w/photo) – 14
Hopkins’ War Role (by Arthur Krock) – 14
Discharge ‘Gripes’ (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 15
Churchill Wind-Up a Mixed Reception (by Herbert L. Matthews) – 15
Day’s Communiques – 16
Truman Cuts Federal Work Week to 44 Hours in All but 6 Agencies – 16

* Harold Denny’s entry from our Index by Author:

Denny, Harold
3/4/38, Moscow, Soviet Aide Asserts Guilt, Again Reversing Himself
10/11/38, Moscow, Soviet Fliers Denounce Lindbergh as ‘Hired Liar’ for German Nazis
11/27/38, Moscow, Blow to Isolation Talk
12/12/38, Moscow, World Climate Growing Warmer, Say Russians, Citing Arctic Data
3/11/39, Moscow, Stalin Says West Seeks to Foment Soviet-Reich War
5/4/39, Moscow, Ill Health is Cited (L)
6/1/39, Moscow, Appeasing Scored (L)
7/16/39, Moscow, Soviet and Britain on Better Terms (W)
7/27/39, Moscow, New Moscow Talk Brings Optimism
7/30/39, Moscow, Mystery Clothes Talks in Moscow (W)
8/12/39, Moscow, Three-Staff Talks Opening in Russia
9/17/39, Paris, Soviet Moves Puzzling
10/20/39, With the British Forces, in France, British Air Chief Visits France; Finds His Force Superior to Nazis’
10/27/39, With the British Forces in France, British ‘Digging In’ on Western Front
11/3/39, With the British Forces in France, Two Nazi Planes Downed
11/23/39, With the British Forces in France, Briton Wins Air Duel
12/5/39, With the British Forces in France, King George on Visit to Troops in France; Crosses on Bridge of British Destroyer
12/25/39, With the Finnish Army on the Karelian Isthmus, Christmas Battle to be Finns’ Fare
12/26/39, With the Finnish Army, on the Karelian Isthmus, Finns Push Battle over Foe’s Border; Menace Rail Line (L)
12/27/39, With the Finnish Army, on the Karelian Isthmus, Bombing of Viborg Misses Objectives
12/28/39, Helsinki, Pierce Soviet Line (L)
1/1/40, Helsinki, Win Major Victory (L)
1/2/40, Helsinki, Seaport is Bombed (L)
1/3/40, Helsinki, Soviet Lost 12,000 in Battle on Lake
1/5/40, Helsinki, Finnish Pamphlets Rain on Leningrad; Reds Bomb Tornea
1/6/40, Helsinki, New Finnish Blows Dealt to Russians
1/7/40, Helsinki, Why the Russian Army has Bogged in Finland (W)
1/8/40, With the Finnish Army, on Karelian Isthmus, Karelian Drive “Frozen Up”
1/9/40, With the Finnish Army, on Karelian Isthmus, Victory is Biggest
1/10/40, With the Finnish Army, on Karelian Isthmus, Finns Make Front Almost Like Home
1/11/40, With the Finnish Army, on Karelian Isthmus, Border Cleared at Fourth Point
1/12/40, Helsinki, Finns Fear Curtailed Aid
1/13/40, Helsinki, Russian Bombers Raid Finnish Cities in Mass Attacks (L)
1/14/40, Helsinki, Helsinki Bombed as Soviet Presses Offensive in Air (L)
1/15/40, Helsinki, Soviet Bombs Hit U.S. Envoy’s Home
1/20/40, Helsinki, Red Bases Bombed (L)
1/23/40, Helsinki, Russians Repulsed on Five Fronts in Renewed Offensive, Finns Say
2/1/40, With the Finnish Army, on the Central Northern Front, Soviet Prisoners Deplore Bombings
2/2/40, With the Finnish Army, on Central Northern Front, Finns Drive Foe at Kuhmo
2/5/40, With the Finnish Army, on the Central Northern Front, Rout of Russians at Suomussalmi Described as Finns’ Masterpiece
2/9/40, With the Finnish Army, on the Arctic Front, Russians Renew Attack in Arctic
2/13/40, Helsinki, Reds Try to Flank Isthmus Line with Attacks over Ice at Both Ends
2/14/40, Helsinki, Helsinki Alarmed (L)
2/15/40, Helsinki, Soviet Dents Line (L)
2/16/40, Helsinki Russians Widen Area of Drive
2/17/40, Helsinki 22 Positions Fall
2/18/40, Helsinki, Mannerheim is Confident
2/19/40, Helsinki, Finns Find Pressure Eased
2/20/40, Helsinki, Defeat of 18,000 Russians Halts Red Drive to Flank Isthmus Line
4/27/40, London, Hard Norse Task is Seen by British
5/2/40, London, News Lacking in Britain
5/3/40, London, British Silent on Plans
5/7/40, A Scottish Port, Norway Veterans Return to Britain
5/9/40, A Northern British Port, More Allied Norway Units Return; Get Hint They May be Sent Back
5/14/40, With the British Army in Belgium, British Fliers Smash into Nazis; Aim at Air Mastery in Belgium
5/16/40, With the British Army in Belgium, British Fiercely Attacked, Say Line Holds in Belgium
5/17/40, With the British Army in Belgium, Battle at Louvain
5/18/40, With the British Army in Belgium, British Fall Back behind Brussels
5/19/40, With the British Army on the Western Front, British Lines Firmly Held
5/22/40, London, Britain Withdraws Writers with B.E.F.
5/24/40, London, Churchill Admits Fight in Boulogne
5/26/40, London, Bombers Hammer at Nazis’ Columns>br> 5/27/40, London, R.A.F. Lists Victory in 4-Hour Air Duel
5/28/40, London, British in Counter-Attacks
6/1/40, London, Britain Hails Men (L)
6/11/40, London, British Navy Guns Hammer at Nazis
6/12/40, London, British are Hoping for New ‘Miracle’
6/23/40, London, British Torpedo and Bomb the Scharnhorst; Submarine, Planes Waylay Nazi Battleship
6/27/40, London, Nazi Coast Raided
10/3/40, Washington, Navy Forming New Atlantic Force in One Command for Efficiency
10/4/40, Washington, Parachute Troops Adopted by Army
10/24/40, Washington, U.S. will Dispatch Air Reinforcement to the Philippines
10/30/40, Washingon, Capital Hears of Parleys to Get Vital Raw Materials of Britain
11/21/40, Washington, U.S. Sells Britain 26 Air Fortresses
3/17/41, Freetown, Sierra Leone, De Gaullists Cowed in French West Africa by Purge and Fear of Reprisals on Kin
4/23/41, With the British Army, in the Western Desert, British Stand Off Axis Drive on Suez
4/24/41, With the British Army, in the Western Desert, British Quicken Libyan Offensive; Take Captives in Tobruk Sorties
5/14/41, With the British Forces, in the Western Desert, Nazis Break Off Sortie into Egypt
5/15/41, With the British Forces, in the Western Desert, Tanks and Luck Aid Axis in Egypt
5/20/41, With a British Advanced Striking Force, in the Western Desert, Desert Push Puts British Far Ahead
5/27/41, Cairo, Big Phase of War Balanced in Crete
6/2/41, Cairo, Evacuated from Beaches
6/11/41, With the British Army, in the Western Desert, Nazi Desert Attack Likely
6/18/41, With the British Advance Force, Before Solum, Egypt, British and Nazis on Even Terms at Last in Desert Battle of Tanks
6/20/41, Cairo, German Tank Coup Won Desert Fight
9/28/41, A British Air Base in Egypt, Reporter Flies on Bengazi Raid
10/29/41, With British Forces, in the Egyptian Desert, Three Britons Flee Axis Camp; Walk Week in Desert Till Saved
11/20/41, With a British Armored Force, in the Western Desert, U.S. Tanks Lead Desert Drive
11/22/41, With the British Armored Force, in Libya, British Unopposed in Entering Libya
11/27/41, With the British Forces, Outside Tobruk, Desert Tank War is Hard to Follow
6/3/42, Writer Captured in Libya Tells of Desert Tank Battle
6/4/42, Rommel Lectured Britons on Tactics
6/5/42, Reporter Yielded by Italy to Reich
6/6/42, Life in Berlin Gestapo Jail a Study in Mental Torture
6/7/42, Gestapo’s Inquiry Strangely Eased
6/8/42, British are Brave as War Prisoners
6/9/42, Prisoners of War Go Hungry in Italy
6/10/42, Prisoners in Italy Ran a ‘University’
7/19/42, We Can Out-Rommel the Rommels (NY Times Magazine)
11/1/42, Desert War Reopened by Big Allied Drive (W)
12/23/43, Madrid, Liberal Trend in Spain Discerned in Arrese’s Speech and Amnesty
1/25/44, London, U.S. Bombers Hit at Reich; Pounding of Coast Goes On
2/5/44, London, U.S. Bombers Rock Frankfort Again
2/11/44, A U.S. Eighth Air Force Heavy Bomber Station, in England, 84 Planes Bagged
3/4/44, London, P-38’s over Capital (L)
3/5/44, London, Fortresses Strike (L)
3/11/44, London, Parliament Acts to Invite Congress
3/19/44, London, Pole Tells Story of Ghetto Battle
3/24/44, London, Allies Assert Death Blow for Luftwaffe is in Sight
4/26/44, London, U.S. Navy Practices Landing in Britain
5/14/44, London, Offensive in Italy Rasps German Invasion Nerves
5/21/44, London, Eisenhower Tells Patriots to Get Data for Invasion
5/22/44, London, Eisenhower Order Alarms Vichyites
5/25/44, London, Eisenhower Asks New Invasion Data
5/28/44, London, Eisenhower Calls for Clear Roads
5/31/44, London, ‘Heavies’ Again Pound Reich; Rock Luftwaffe Plants, Bases
6/1/44, London, Reich Rail Points, Ploesti Attacked
6/4/44, London, Bases in Russia Long-Kept Secret
6/6/44, London, RAF Bombers Out
6/7/44, London, Planes Blast Out Paths for Assault
6/8/44, London, Bombings Curtain Our Ground Front
6/9/44, London, Allies Rain Bombs over 150-Mile Arc
6/17/44, With American Forces in France, St. Sauveur Taken as Nazis Weaken
6/18/44, With American Forces in France, U.S. Troops Fight All Day and Night
6/19/44, With the American Forces in France, Americans Slash Germans in Bitter, Close Battles
6/20/44, With the American Forces in France, Americans Rush On in Rain as Speed Bewilders Nazis
6/21/44, With American Forces in France, Americans Eager to Enter Cherbourg without Pause
6/22/44, With the United States Troops before Cherbourg, Allied Guns Ready to Drive Foe Out
6/23/44, With American Forces before Cherbourg, Bombs and Shells Open Path for Assault on Cherbourg
6/24/44, With the American Forces, before Cherbourg, Germans Battle Furiously under Fight-or-Die Order
6/25/44, With the American Forces before Cherbourg, Germans Surrender in Daze at Might of American Blows
6/26/44, With the American Forces before Cherbourg, Blasting of Forts Viewed from ‘Box Seat’ on Cliff
6/27/44, With the American Forces at Cherbourg, Pockets of Nazis Kept on Sniping as Americans Overran Cherbourg
6/28/44, Cherbourg, France, Cherbourg Given to French as Their First Liberated City
7/2/44, Cherbourg, Allied Officials Keep Hands off All Civic Affairs of Cherbourg
7/4/44, With American Forces in France, Americans Push On in Mud and Water
7/5/44, With American Forces, in France, U.S. Guns Crash in Unison to Mark Fourth
7/6/44, With the American Forces, in France, Normandy Battle is Hedge to Hedge
7/10/44, With American Forces in Normandy, German Snipers Fight to End as Americans Capture La Haye
7/12/44, With American Forces in Normandy, U.S. Planes and Guns Hammer Foe into Grogginess on Hill Near St. Lo
7/12/44, With American Forces, in Normandy, P-47 Fliers Smash Nazi Tank Assault
7/17/44, With American Forces in Normandy, Floods at Lessay Curb U.S. Advance
7/18/44, With American Forces in Normandy, St. Lo Battle Savage and Bloody as Germans Try to Hold Key Base
7/23/44, With American Forces, in Normandy, Our Men Drive Forward in France (W)
7/24/44, With American Forces, in Normandy, German Captives Confused by Plot
7/26/44, With American Forces on the Norman Front, Germans Shaken by Big Air Blow
7/27/44, With American Forces in Normandy, Germans’ ‘Crust’ Cracked at Last
7/28/44, With the American Forces in Normandy, Foe Reels before Blitzkrieg Mightier than His in 1940
7/31/44, With the American Forces, in Normandy, U.S. Drive Becomes Romp as Nazis Crack under Fire
8/12/44, With the American Forces in Brittany, Brittany Fighting Proves to be Tough
8/16/44, On the First United States Army Front, Norman Trap Lines 1,000 Miles of Ruin
8/25/44, Near Paris, Allied Arms near City
9/1/44, With United States First Army in France, First Army Sweep Becomes a Rout
9/5/44, With American First Army, in Belgium, Americans Destroy Army that Set Out to Rule World
9/8/44, With American Armored Column at Namur, Belgium, Enemy Resistance Pockets Only Amuse U.S. Infantry
9/11/44, With the American First Army, in Belgium, Van of First Army at German Border
9/12/44, With American First Army at the German Border, Bombs and Shells Pave Way to Reich
9/13/44, With the American First Army, in Germany, Germans’ Hostility in Eupen Shows Americans How Reich Will React
9/14/44, With American Forces, in Germany, Westwall’s ‘Dragon Teeth’ Ripped Out by U.S. Guns
9/20/44, With American Forces in Germany, Nazi Order to Flee Flouted by People
9/21/44, United States First Army Headquarters, Germans Fight with Desperation
9/22/44, United States First Army Headquarters, 3 American M.P.’s Vanish in Germany
10/22/44, With American Troops in Aachen, All Aachen Resistance Ends as 1,000 More Surrender
10/24/44, Aachen, Germany, Berlin Rescinds Mass Evacuation of Civilians in Rhineland Area
10/27/44, Aachen, Germany, Aachen Refugees Give Aid to Jews
11/4/44, Verviers, Belgium, Aachen Refugees Give Aid to Jews
11/5/44, With American Forces in Germany, Schmidt Blasted to Ruin after Foe Retakes Hamlet
11/6/44, With American Forces in Germany, American Position Near Schmidt Called as Treacherous as St. Lo
11/8/44, First United States Army Headquarters, Americans Battle Foe in Vossenack; Fight in a Church
11/9/44, United States First Army Headquarters, Foe Retakes Town on Huertgen Front
11/10/44, United States First Army Headquarters, Huertgen Area Simmers
11/18/44, With the American First Army in Germany, Professor Leads First Army Sweep
11/19/44, With American First Army in Germany, German Guns Blown to Bits by Air-Artillery Teamwork
11/21/44, With American First Army, in Germany, Hitler Highway Clogged as Foe Flees Eschweiler
11/22/44, With American First Army, in Germany, Eschweiler Folk Flee to Our Lines
11/23/44, With United States First Army, in Germany, Americans in Slashing Drive, Begun at 3 A.M., Upset Foe
11/25/44, Headquarters American First Army, Germany, Rain, Mud and Foe Slow Push on Ruhr
11/28/44, With American First Army in Germany, Each Yard to Roer Costly to Allies
11/29/44, With the United States First Army, in Germany, Trench Network Snarls First Army
12/3/44, With American First Army in Germany, Germans Now Led by Expert Hands
12/5/44, With American First Army in Germany, Lucherberg’s Fall Hard Blow to Foe
12/7/44, With the First United States Army, U.S. 1st Infantry Division Honors Men and Memories of 6 Months
12/12/44, Langerwehe, Germany, Battle for Roer River Won as Germans Flee to East
12/13/44, Before Dueren, Germany, Doughboys Shove Germans, Many Unnerved, upon Roer
12/17/44, With American First Army, in Germany, German Assaults on 1st Army Fierce
12/17/44, With the United States First Army, Weather Fights Against Us (W)
12/18/44, With American First Army, in Germany, German Assault is a Major Effort
12/20/44, With United States First Army, Our Men Confident (L)
12/20/44, With the United States First Army, Joy Becomes Gloom in a Belgian Town
12/21/44, With the United States First Army, 1st Battles in Fog that Aids Germans
12/22/44, With the United States First Army, Our Men Belt and Jolt Foe on Line Built under Stress
12/23/44, With the United States First Army, Fog at Front Lifts on a Scene of Ruin
12/26/44, With United States Forces, in Belgium, Belgian Foxhole Belies Christmas
12/28/44, With United States Forces, Nazi Thugs Murder Belgian Villagers
12/28/44, With the United States Forces, Writer Killed by a German Bomb; Hit while Resting behind Front
12/29/44, With United States Forces, in Belgium, New German Thrust Looked for as Present Drive Grinds to a Halt
12/31/44, With American Forces, on the Western Front, U.S. Battalion’s Stand Saves Regiment, Division and Army
1/3/45, With the United States Forces, Nazis Admit Massacre of Belgians; Officers Ordered Civilians Killed
1/5/45, Northern Flank of the Belgian Bulge, Ice and Fog Slow First Army Tanks
1/7/45, On the Northern Flank of the Belgian Bulge, Rundstedt Faces Trap in Belgium
1/8/45, On the Northern Flank of the Belgian Bulge, Cutting of St. Vith-La Roche Road is an Important Victory for Allies
1/9/45, On the Northern Flank of the Belgian Bulge, 1st Army Drives On in Biting Blizzard
1/10/45, On the Northern Flank of Bulge, Belgium, U.S. Men Closing Trap on Germans
1/11/45, Samree, Belgium, Trap on Germans May Get Only Few
1/14/45, On the Northern Flank of the Belgian Bulge, Driving Yanks Go Foodless 48 Hours
1/15/45, On the Northern Flank of the Belgian Bulge, Belgian Highways Avenues of Death
1/17/45, On United States First Army Front, Houffalize Ours in Historic Victory
1/18/45, Houffalize, Belgium, Houffalize Scene of Awful Ruins
2/2/45, On United States First Army Front, Reich Line Softer on Western Front
2/4/45, With American First Army, in Germany, Americans Storm Medieval Castle
2/24/45, With American First Army, on the Roer, Massive Barrages Precede st and 9th Army Attacks (with Sydney Gruson)
2/27/45, With the American First Army, on the Cologne Plain, Tanks Speed Up 1st Army Drive Along Hitler Highway to Rhine
3/2/45, With a United States Armored Unit, on Cologne Plain, Engineers Hardy in Bridging Erft
3/3/45, With the American First Army, in Germany, Luftwaffe Tries to Halt 1st Army
4/4/45, London, Beloved by His Troops
4/20/45, Buchenwald, Germany, Despair Blankets Buchenwald Camp
4/23/45, On the United States First Army Front, U.S. Armies Tense as Junction Nears
4/28/45, At a Red Army Outpost, on the Elbe, First Link Made Wednesday By Four Americans on Patrol
5/1/45, At a Red Army Headquarters in Germany, Red Army Honors Hodges on Link-Up
6/4/45, With the United States First Army, in the Port of New York, Hodges Nearly Captured By Enemy in Bulge Dec. 18

5 posted on 07/04/2015 4:46:43 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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