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Germans Eye Flank (Sedgwick) – 2-3
Nazis Bar Rescue of 1,350 Orphans (Levy) – 3
Clark Has Close Call as Booby Trap Bursts 25 Feet from Jeep Touring Italy Front – 3
Eisenhower Order Alarms Vichyites (Denny) – 4
‘D-Day’ Exploiting Hit by Elmer Davis – 4
American Nurses, Invasion Boats and British Troops Prepare in Britain for D-Day (photos) – 5-6
War News Summarized – 6
Enemy is Isolated in Northern Burma – 7
Merrill’s Raiders Make War Record (Durdin) – 7
Air Power and the War (de Seversky) – 8
How Members from This Area Voted in Congress Last Week – 8
Officer’s Sacrifice Wins High Award – 9
Status of the German Air Force (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 9
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the War – 10-11

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/may44/22may44.htm#

Free French capture Pico
Monday, May 22, 1944 www.onwar.com

In Italy... US 5th Army forces continue to advance. The US 2nd Corps (Keyes) advances north along the coast and Route 7. The French Expeditionary Corps captures Pico. There is continued heavy German resistance in the Liri Valley.

In the Sulu Sea... An American submarine detects the concentration of the Japanese fleet around Tawitawi.

In New Guinea... Japanese forces attack US positions around Aitape. American forces make some withdrawals.

In Wake Island... An American destroyer force bombards Japanese positions.

In Occupied France... French resistance members blow up the hydroelectric station at Bussy.

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Nazis Bar Rescue of 1,350 Orphans (Levy) – 3

Interesting comments from a Romanian Jewish businessman who escaped to "Palestine." It's only be 70 years, but alert Jewish people are evacuating Europe, again.