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pound Jap oil facilities, Borneo; hit waterfront installations and docks; sink or damage 5 coastal vessels, Sandakan, Borneo; raid Tarakan; attack Kendari and Tiworo airdromes, Celebes; strike supply dumps and by-passed installations, Lesser Sundas; US AAF spokesman denies Jap claims of Jap Morotai landing
US 1st Army opens attacks near Monschau and Lammersdorf; reaches Rollesbroich; other units advance from Wenau Forest eastern edge; presence of Ger 5th Panzer Army elements revealed; US planes pound towns near Dueren; 3d Army wins new Blies River bridgehead; fighting inside Saarlautern continues; US 7th Army enters La Fromehi; expands twin drives toward Wissembourg corridor and Karlsruhe corner; gains north of Langensoutzbach and on plain north of Haguenau Forest; other units cross Seltz River; Gers shell Lemberg; counter-attack around Selestat; French gain in Colmar drive; maps
USSR forces capture Kisalag and Isaszeg, Budapest suburbs; Budapest fires reptd beyond control; Ger air strength, Budapest, cited; fighting between Erd and Lake Velence reptd; Malinovsky units take Csomad station; capture Kutaso and Nogradsipek, Czech border; other columns take Abod and Halmaj station, Miskolc area; Berlin repts new USSR drive for Kosice; repts major fighting southwest of Budapest; map
Johnson, H, Min to CR
1944Graham Kirkham, Baron Kirkham, English businessman, founded DFS[â ]
Graham Kirkham, Baron Kirkham, is an English businessman, founder of Northern Upholstery, and chairman of sofa retailer DFS.
1944Denis Thwaites, English professional footballer murdered in the 2015 Sousse attacks (died 2015)[â ]
Denis Thwaites was an English professional footballer who made 86 appearances in the Football League for Birmingham City. He represented England at schoolboy and youth level. He played as an outside left.
1944Lupe VĂ©lez, Mexican actress (born 1908)[â ]
MarĂa Guadalupe "Lupe" Villalobos VĂ©lez was a Mexican actress, singer, and dancer during the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.