The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-11
War On Many Fronts

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 The bitterest fighting was in the Vire-Mortain sector east of Avran. ches, where the Germans had tried the cut through to the sea and split the Allied front. The Germans still held Mortain, which changed hands four times. but the American push. cd 2 i-2 miles into their flank in an advance down the highway from Wire.
 However, an American column was moving north from Ie Mans to ef- feet junction with the British and Canadians around Falaise, which would not only cut off the Germans In the Wire sector, but all those in Normandy except south and south. east of Caen.
 Russian Advance
 The principal Russian advance on the eastern front was the one to- wards Kielce. but the lst and 2nd White Russian Armies advanced up to ten miles in twin drives between Warsaw and East Prussia on the north. The Germans were putting mp a bitter defense and making heavy sacrifices in men and ma~ chimes all along Q 360-mile front from Riga to Warsaw to gain time for completion of the defenses of East Prussia.
 Moscow said that in the last % hours the Russians knocked out l99 German tanks for q total of SfSs in three days. and shot down la8 Oeramn planes in that period.
 The list White Russian Army captured the six-day railway junc- tiOn of Stanislawow, 20 miles east Of Warsaw. and Sterdyn, 2s miles north of Siedlce. The 2nd White Russian Army crossed the Narew River for an advance of nine miles to Sokoly, about % miles west south- west of Bailystok.
 On the Italian front. bitter fighting continued south of the Arno river to the East of Florence. while on the Adriatic. Polish and Italian troops Of the Eighth Army advanced two miles on a six-mile front to capture hills dominating the Cesano Valley and occupy sev- erai rail and highway towns.
 Air War
 Tn the air war, heavy Allied ior- nations were over Europe for the 18th straight day after a night in which the RAP hammered the Ger mans from the Bay of Biscay to Berlin. The biggest attack was by nearly 750 heavy bombers on the U-b0at oil storage depots at Bor- deaux and La Rochelle.
 American heavy homheFs ranged oyer a wide area of France m to- days attacks, hitting fuel dumps. airflelds and railway yards. Chief targets were in the Paris area and Alsaee-Lorraine near the German border.
 In the Pacific, the American sue per-F'OTtresses struck at Japan and the Philippines from a neg base ''near the equator" The targets were Nngasaki on Kyushu island. JaDan's l2th largest ci,y, and the Japanese oil reflneries at Palambang on Su. mntra. The Fenneries end i,,stalla- tons, which Inc Japanese are esti- mated to have been getting 78 per cent of their syiation gasoline. were badly smashed.
 Philippines Eilt
 Dayao, on MIndpnao island in the Philippines, was struck by American Tiberators for three nights running.
 IL was estimated at Pearl HarbOF That AnaRripan fOfeag haVa killed more than 10000 Japanese at cost of 4.453 men in the elght-weeks MRrianas Nampaign which o9n- quered Guam. Saipan and Tlnlan and provided strong bases within l.500 miles of Tokyo, It was an. bounced that headquarters for Vice Admiral Richard Kelly TlrneT's aIn- phibiolls fleet had befn established on 6aipan, an advance af more than 5000 miles from the Pearl HaTbor base,