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July 8, 1945

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A JAPANESE IS SMOKED OUT OF HIS HIDEOUT; AIR BLOWS WRECK 9 JAPANESE SHIPS IN ENEMY WATERS Nimitz Announces Punishing Strikes in the Yellow Sea and Off Homeland B-29 ATTACK SETS MARK None of 600 Bombers Firing Honshu Cities Lost--P-51's Bag Foe Over Kyushu Smoke Rose 20,000 Feet Navy's Bombers Take Big Toll Weather Aided B-29 Attack AIR BLOWS WRECK 9 JAPANESE SHIPS Mt. Fuji Reflects Vast Fires P-51's From Okinawa Score

By W.h. Lawrence By Wireless To the New York Times

Jap soldier illus surrendering after being smoked out of cave, Okinawa

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JAPANESE LANDING MADE NEAR AMOY; Enemy Is Believed Preparing to Defend China's Coast Against Allied Attack

By Unknown Author

Japanese land near Changpu in apparent effort to strengthen positions around Amoy against Allied invasion; are engaged by local Chinese militia; Chinese along Indo-China frontier break into fortified pass of Chennankwan (Nam Quan); widen gap in Jap transcontinental corridor to Southeast Asia to 240 mi; other Chinese recapture Tungchuan in Liuchow area; drive toward Chungtu; fighting continues near Kanhsien; US planes attack coastal shipping near Hainan Is; Wedemeyer notes improved Chinese mil situation; map

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Notable Births

Micheline Calmy-Rey

1945Micheline Calmy-Rey, Swiss politician, 91st President of the Swiss Confederation[†]

Micheline Anne-Marie Calmy-Rey is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS), she was the head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs during her tenure as a Federal Councillor. She was President of the Swiss Confederation twice, in 2007 and 2011.