August 11, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, AUGUST 11, 1944:

RENO, NEVADA, FRIDAY, AUGUST I I , 1944

Great Pocket

Being Formed

In Normandy

British Troops

Support Thrust

In Caen Region

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,

Allied Expeditionary Force, Aug. 11. (AP)—

American forces which had knifed eastward of Le Mans to within a little more than 90 miles from the Paris suburb of Versailles, without meeting serious German opposition, were reported turning northward today in a scythe-like sweep threatening all the Germans south of the Seine.

SHAPE HUGE POCKET

British troops, supporting a Canadian - Polish thrust below Caen which appeared to be shaping a huge pocket in conjunction with the American drive, stormed into Thury - Harcourt, German stronghold on the Orne.

Campaign Opens

For Reconquest

Of Philippines

Islands Bombed

For First Time

Since Corregidor

GENERAL HEADQUARTERS,

Southwest Pacific, Aug. 11 (UP)—

The air phase of the battle for reconquest of the Philippines has begun just as the ground fight for reconquest of Guam ended in triumph.

ISLAND BOMBED

The first bombing of the Philippines since the fall of Corregidor to the Japanese May 6, 1942, was announced today by Gen. Douglas MacArthur, back at headquarters after a historic Pacific war conference with President Roosevelt.

At Pearl Harbor, site of the conference, Adm, Chester W. Nimitz, a participant, announced that all organized Japanese resistance on Guam ended August 9, the twentieth day of invasion.

That campaign cost the United States 7247 casualties, including 1214 killed. But more than 10,000 Japanese were slaughtered; the demoralized remnants scattered m flight instead of making the usual "banzai" suicidal charge; and Guam now becomes the third American Marianas base within bombing range of Japan by the

B-29 Superfortresses which hit Nagasaki Thursday.

Today, Vice Adm. Richmond Kelly Turner, hailing triumph in the Marianas as "the greatest naval victory the United States ever won," dramatically announced the establishment of amphibious Pacific fleet and troop headquarters on Saipan. That means an advance of more than 3000 miles from Pearl Harbor and bases the Americans closer to Japan than Miami is to Boston.

ATTACK  DAVAO

MacArthur gave point proof to President Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor comment on forthcoming offensives at Davao, on Mindanao in the southern Philippines, by patrolling Liberators.

(MacArthur's familiar pattern of attack in the past has been to open with night air raids while his bombers are based too far away' to have a fighter escort, switch to

powerful daylight assaults when fighters can go along, then move in his invasion forces).