Bill is ‘Far Short’ – 2-3
Mussolini in Vigil at Bier of His Son – 3
Scharnhorst Attack by Flying Fortress – 3
Drive Upon Odessa – 4-5
The International Situation – 4
Housewives Get Plea to Preserve Peaches – 5
Russians Battle Fierce Nazi Push – 6-7
Soviet Bombers Surprise Berlin – 7
Push to Volga Seen as Nazi Plan – 7-8
R.A.F. Hammers Ruhr Industries – 8
The Germans Take on a New Job in Russia (photo) – 8
British Confidence in Russians Grows – 9
Iceland Landing: U.S. Forces Arrive at New Post (photo) – 9
6th Army Division Planned in Canada (by P.J. Philip) – 9-10
2 High Nazi Agents Dispatched to Iran (by Ray Brock) – 10
British General Reports for Duty in India * (photo) – 10
1,500,000 Germans Lost, Vichy Guess – 11
Near East Oil Seen in British Hands Now – 11
Analysis of War Claims (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 12
Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 13
* Where there are no Germans.
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/aug41/f09aug41.htm
Churchill meets Roosevelt in Newfoundland
Saturday, August 9, 1941 www.onwar.com
In Newfoundland... Churchill and Roosevelt begin their meeting at Placentia Bay. Both are accompanied by their military staffs. The discussions cover the situation in Europe and the Far East.
On the Eastern Front... German Army Group South, with forces from 11th and 17th Armies, begins attacks along the line of the River Bug.