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Vol. 4 No. 222 – Thursday, July 20, 1944
Articles’ Headlines: … Tanks Near Town 11 Miles Past Caen – Allies Push East, Then Strike South – Nazi Counter-Attack Fails; St. Lo-Periers-Lessay Road Cut by Yanks ….. Four Hurt by Flying Bomb Get 1st ETO WAC Purple Hearts ….. Warriors to Be Honored Were Out on Business – War Makes Its U.S. Secretary Cool His Heels at a Fort Base / By Joe Fleming ….. Yanks Capture Port of Leghorn – Dock Facilities Wrecked By Germans; Ancona Is Seized by Poles ….. Hitler Bounces Second General ( Gen. Von Falkenhausen ) ….. Main Douglas Plane Plant Escapes in Costly Blaze ….. Advance 75 Pct. Of Way To Warsaw – Reds Battling in Suburbs Of Brest-Litovsk; Key Rail Line Is Reached ….. The War Today ….. St. Lo Ours, But Nazi Guns Command It / By William Stringer ….. Reich Battered By 2,700 Planes – 1,200 Heavies From U.K., Force From Italy Join In Smashing Blows ….. Nazi ‘WACs’ Captured In Drive Across Orne ….. Advances on the Road to Berlin ….. Tojo Given Sack ….. The Gothic Line ….. Truck Drivers’ Part ….. ‘Unconditional’-Eden ….. Straight From the Front / By Ernie Pyle ….. This Is The Army ….. Notes from the Air Force ….. Arne Andersson Lowers Record for Mile to 4:01.6 – Haegg, Second, Also Shatters Former Mark – Swift Swedes Near ‘Perfect Mile’ in Competition At Malmoe ….. Bobby’s Still Some Feller ….. Phillies’ Andy Karl No Longer Fattening NL Hitting Averages ….. HOW THEY STAND. ….. Right Field Ground Rule Altered by Pittsburgh ….. Browns Slap Yanks, 8-0; Dodgers Bow to Cards ….. Tigers Outlast Griffs, 6-5; Weintraub’s Clout Gives Giants 5-2 Triumph ….. Injured Volo Song Destroyed by Owner ….. Help WantedAND GIVEN ….. Ike Williams 5-1 Choice ….. Limping Dodgers Lose Moundsman Ed Head ….. Bid for Chapman By A’s Rejected ….. Federal Ballot Approved For Troops by 20 States / By Ben Price ….. Yank Bullets Smash Nazi Trick, But 6 U.S. Captives Fall Victim ….. Reds 100 Miles From Warsaw ….. Red Goes, but It’s Still Tape ….. Radio Highlights ….. Byrnes Quits The VP Race – Truman Left Most Likely Choice as Democratic Convention Opens ….. A Top Nazi Ace Killed ( Major Burmheller ) ….. NEWS FROM HOME – Women Urged To Take Jobs in U.S. Foundries – WMC Appeals for Their Aid in Labor Shortage In the Industry ….. Actor Ward Bond Injured ….. Armour Gets Latin Job ….. Mail to Rome Resumed ….. Esquire the Loser In Court Fight for Mailing Privileges ….. World-Fund HQ to Be U.S. ….. Hundreds Dead, 4 Bodies Found In Blast Debris – Unofficial Estimates Place Toll in Pacific Coast Explosion at 496 ….. 49 Awards Are Presented 9th AF Men by Brereton ………………… WARWEEK … ( Insert ) ………………… Nazi Guns Boom-Boomerang! – Yanks Grab Enemy A rm s, P u m p G e r m a n Bullets Into the Swastika Boys / By France Herron ….. Bur-rr-rrp!! Here’s Nazi MG 34 ….. What’s Wrong With These Pictures? ….. WIN A WAR BOND PRIZE TODAY! ….. If You’re Smart Enough to Stay Alive in BattleYou Can Solve All of These Quiz-fix Problems ….. You Buy Nothing-Don’t Even Tear the Top Off a Dead Kraut! Just Use Plain GI Brainwork! ….. It’s Easy . . . It’s Fun! It May Save Your Life! ….. AIR POWER – Roaring into the Wild Blue Yonder, Allied Warplanes Blast the Trails; Ground Troops’ KO Follows Thunder, Here’s the Payoff-Luftwaffe Fails! ….. Fighting Yanks Aces With Nurses / By Ralph Harwood ….. GI JERRY by Lt. Dave Breger