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Junction Flanked (Middleton) – 2
Allies Slowly Batter Down Germans’ Resistance in Normandy (map) – 3
General Montgomery is Greeted in Caen (page 1 photo) – 4
War News Summarized – 4
Push Near Latvia – 5-6
Soviet Industries to Rival American (Lawrence) – 6
1,200 Bombers Rock Munich in Second-Day Assault There (Anderson) – 7
Ancona is Shelled by 8th Army Guns – 8
Rome Communists Received by Pope (Matthews) – 9
45,000 Japanese in Wewak Trap Launch Suicidal Bid to Escape (by Lindesay Parrott, first-time contributor) – 10
They’re ‘In the Groove’ and the Natives are ‘Hep’ (photo) – 10
American Losses on Saipan 15,053 – 11
Enemy Advances North of Canton – 11
Two Forces Join on Burma Route – 12
Latest War Casualties as Reported by the Army and the Navy – 13-14
Rocket Bombs Varied (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 15
War Objector is Hero under Fire; Quaker Ambulance Driver Saves 7 – 15
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 16-18

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/jul44/13jul44.htm#

Red Army occupies Vilna
Thursday, July 13, 1944 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces occupy Vilna, in Lithuania after several days of street fighting.

On the Western Front... The US 1st Army makes no progress in its attack toward St. Lo. A formal assault on the German defenses to the east of the town is now considered.

In Italy... The French Expeditionary Corps (part of US 5th Army) is attacking around Poggibonsi and Castellina, about 20 miles south of Florence.

In New Guinea... Around Aitape, the US 128th Regiment falls back to the Driniumor River. On Numfoor the final pockets of Japanese resistance are being cleared.

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