July 28, 1944; U. S. Casualities 313, 087:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JULY 28, 1844:

U. S. Casualties

Exceed Total Toll

In 1st World War

Loss Note Stands 313,087,

With 63,000 Americans

Listed as Killed

Charleston, West Virginia. Friday Morning, July 28, 1944

6 Key German

Bastions Fall

To Russ Blitz

Most Staggering Series

Of Defeats of Entire

War Handed Enemy

LONDON, July 28.— (Friday—(AP)

Russian troops, inflicting the war's most staggering, series of defeats on the

Germans, yesterday cut the enemy's last big escape route out of the Baltic states and toppled the major fortress cities of Lwow, Blalystok and Stanislawow in powerful surges through Poland toward Germany and captive Czechoslovakia.

Premier-Marshal Joseph Stalin in an unprecedented issuance of five orders of the day announced the fall of six major German strongholds, including Daugarpils and Rezekne in Latvia, on this "Black Thursday" for Germany.

Lessay, Canisy,

Periers Taken

In Twin Smash

Bradley Hurls Big Armor

At Nazis, Forcing

Chaotic Retreat

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF, July 28— (Friday)— (AP)—

Lightning U. S. tank columns shattered the Germans' western Normandy line yesterday in a s u d d e n breakthrough that plunged the enemy into chaotic retreat and drove to within five miles of strategic coutances, whose fall might trap the entire 84th corps of seven battered Nazi divisions.

Thundering lines of tanks, halftracks and self-propelled artillery, revealed by supreme headquarters for the first time to be striking in divisional strength in the greatest armored blow since D-day, smashed all organized resistance, field

 commanders declared.

U. S. Casualties

Exceed Total Toll

In 1st World War

Loss Note Stands 313,087,

With 63,000 Americans

Listed as Killed

WASHINGTON, July 27.—(AP)-

American troops, on the road to victory in two hemispheres, already have paid a bigger price in dead and wounded than the toll exacted throughout the first World war.

New casualty figures announced today show that all branches of the armed forces now have lost 313087 including 63,000 dead. World War I casualties numbered

278,828, of whom approximately 60,000 were combat deaths The figures apply to all branches of service.World War I lasted 19 months, for the United States; this conflict is in its 31st, for the Americans.

The approximate casualties now are: (dead, wounded, prisoners, missing)

Army, 207.283.

Navy, 50,496.

Saipan, 16.463.

Guam, 3,018.

Normandy, 24,162.

Air forces, 11,665.

Total, 313,087.

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