August 3, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, AUGUST 3, 1944:

 

Charleston, West Virginia. Thursday Morning, August 3, 1944

Fast U. S. Armor

Menacing Entire

Breton Peninsula

Dempsey's Men Extend

Salient in Assault

Headed to Paris \

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,

AEF, Aug. 3.—(Thursday)—(AP)—

An American tidal wave pouring across Brittany today threatened to lop off the entire Breton peninsula as Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's armor raced toward Rennes, communications hub almost halfway across. All along the British-American front out flanked German defenses were crumbling in withdrawals ranging from retreat to near rout.

Soviet Armies

Set to Plunge

On Reich Soil

Four Columns Liquidating

Nazis in Baltic Trap;

Vistula Spanned

LONDON, Aug. 3.—(Thursday)_AP _

The 3d White Russian army thrust within eight miles of East Prussia's pre-1939 border yesterday in the foremost of twin drives aimed at the heart of the Junkers homeland.

 Other Soviet armies on the long thundering front tightened their violent siege of Warsaw. pushed a quadruple annihilation drive against possibly 300.000 Germans isolated in Estonia and Latvia, and launched a new offensive in the south towards

Krakow. Poland's second city.

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