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B-29’s Hit Sasebo (Shalett) – 2-3
Saipan Artillery Blocks Evacuation (Horne, James) – 3
New Speed Plane Revealed by Navy – 3-4
Saipan Capital after Smashing Attack by Americans (page 1 photo) – 4
Third Airdrome on Numfor is Won – 5
Roosevelt Uneasy over War in China – 5
Vire River Crossed (Middleton) – 6-7
Defense of Paris by Nazis is Now Doubted; Civil Servants’ Exodus is Held Clue to Plan – 7
Russians Closing In on Vilna, Begin Shelling Baranovichi – 8
114 Nazis Downed; Oil Sites Bombed (Anderson) – 9
Robot Nests Quake under 6-Ton Bombs (Daniell) – 9
De Gaulle Power Not Parley Issue (by Harold Callender, Pertinax) – 10
Army Ousts GI Paper’s Director in Dispute over Political News – 11
War News Summarized – 11
Latest Casualties of War as Reported by Army and Navy – 13-14
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 15-17

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/jul44/08jul44.htm#

Red Army takes Baranovichi
Saturday, July 8, 1944 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... Forces of the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front capture Baranovichi, halfway between Minsk and Brest-Litovsk.

On the Western Front... The British 2nd Army attacks towards Caen. A preliminary bombardment by 450 RAF Lancaster bombers drops 2500 tons on the city. British and Canadian troops reach the outskirts of the city. The US 1st Army is reinforced with 2 divisions arriving from Britain. There is heavy fighting along the road from Carentan to Periers.

In the Mariana Islands... American battleships shell targets on Guam.

In Washington... Free French President de Gaulle continues talks with American representatives.

In the United States... The Bretton Woods conference continues.

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Lage West 7th Army sector:

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Lage West for Panzer Group West: