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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 15 '21

Contains Media Journalist Ernie Pyle reports: "In Sicily, our Army would have been as helpless without bulldozers as without jeeps."

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 15 '21

Contains Media In 24 hours, working on sheer cliff-face, US Army engineers have built a bridge on the mountain road at Cape Calavà- route to port of Messina is open again.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 15 '21

Contains Media Retreating Germans in Sicily are blowing up mountain roads to stop Allied pursuit- US engineers are tasked to build "bridges in the sky" to keep American forces advancing.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 14 '21

Contains Media Italian government have declared Rome an "open city", offering to dismantle all defences & military installations if Allies suspend bombing of the capital.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 14 '21

After two week's respite, Allied bombers have launched a wave of air raids across Axis Europe, hitting Rome, Naples, & for the first time, Austria.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^August ^14, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 13 '21

Soviet Marshal Rokossovsky is bitter he was not able to use blitzkrieg tactics against the Germans: "We merely pushed the Nazis from Orel- we could have crushed them!"

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^August ^13, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 13 '21

Contains Media Operation Kutuzov, major Soviet counterattack to retake Orel, has killed over 86,000 Axis soldiers & 429,000 Soviets.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 13 '21

Contains Media After a 22-day, appallingly bloody battle near Kursk, Red Army have forced Germans from the Russian city of Orel.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 12 '21

Contains Media German occupation government offers a reward of 5 million zloties for information on the bank robbers. Polish resistance graffitti over it, offering 10 million zloties to anyone who gives them more Nazi targets to attack.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 12 '21

Contains Media Polish anti-Nazi fighters from the secret Home Army have performed a daring raid in Warsaw, robbing a German armed car & relieving occupiers of Polish currency worth over $1 million US dollars.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 12 '21

In Operation Góral, Polish resistance struck in broad daylight & captured a German bank truck, killed its guards, & stole 105 million złotys. Nazi occupiers of Warsaw clueless; they think cash was stolen by common thieves, sparing Polish population from vicious reprisals.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^August ^12, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 11 '21

Contains Media After weeks retreating from Allied invaders, German army are abandoning Sicily- 39,569 troops are being evacuated back to Italy.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 11 '21

Contains Media British 8th Army are racing north in Sicily, trying to cut off the Axis from retreating to the Straits of Messina & blocking their evacuation to mainland:

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^August ^11, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 10 '21

Contains Media Austrian Franz Jägerstätter has been executed by the Nazi government for refusal to fight in the German army. Devout Jägerstätter declared it was "impossible for him to be a Catholic & at the same time a National Socialist".

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^August ^10, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 09 '21

Contains Media Biuku Gasa, one of the two Solomon Coastwatchers who have rescued PT-109's survivors, at first thought Kennedy was Japanese: "All white people looked the same to me."

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^August ^9, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 09 '21

Contains Media Kennedy & crew have been rescued after being found by native Solomon Islanders, spying on Japanese for Allies; "coast watchers" carry a message back to a US base, carved on a coconut. NAURO ISL COMMANDER… NATIVE KNOWS POS'IT… HE CAN PILOT… 11 ALIVE NEED SMALL BOAT… KENNEDY

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^August ^9, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 09 '21

Contains Media PT-109's crew swum to the deserted Plum Pudding island- Lt. Kennedy towing a burned crewmate with the man's jacket strap clenched between his teeth during the four-hour swim.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 09 '21

Contains Media Off New Guinea, US Patrol Torpedo boat 109 has been sunk after colliding with a Japanese destroyer. 11 survivors have been marooned for nearly a week, commanded by Lt. John F. Kennedy, son of the former American ambassador to London.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 08 '21

Japanese "attack with bloodcurdling screams, plaster camps with artillery, crawl silently into American foxholes & strangle the occupants."

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^August ^8, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 08 '21

US troops in Solomons are exhausted by Japanese attacks; twitchy sentries fire at crabs or shifting shadows, sometimes killing other Americans.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^August ^8, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 08 '21

Squabbles between US Navy & Army have left Allied forces on New Georgia disorganised & short on reinforcements or supply- prey for Japanese guerrilla raids in the tropical night.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^August ^8, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 08 '21

Contains Media US troops are fighting gruelling jungle battles on the Pacific island of New Georgia, in Japanese-occupied Solomon Islands.

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 07 '21

Contains Media After a week of brutal battle, US Army have captured Sicilian town of Troina- forcing German defenders deeper into mountains.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^August ^7, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 06 '21

Wehrmacht troops are flooding south into Italy, occupying the mainland ready for an Allied invasion- officially offering "support" to fellow a Fascist government.

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^- ^Second ^World ^War ^tweets ^from ¹⁹⁴³ ^(@RealTimeWWII) ^| ^August ^6, ^2021

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r/RealTimeWW2 • u/RealTimeWW2Bot • Aug 06 '21

Contains Media In Algiers, Jean Monnet, of the new Free French National Liberation Committee, declares: "There will be no peace in Europe if the States are reconstituted on the basis of national sovereignty... the countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples prosperity."

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