Miss Betty Brittian, Pasadena, Calif., hands Cpl. Wm. B. Brooks, Clayton, Ga., inside the tank, a cup of coffee and doughnuts. 1 October, 1944. Company B, 609th Tank Destroyer Battalion.
The Battle of Tornio began with a Finnish attack on German positions in Lapland.
The U.S. Army took Monte Battaglia. II and IV Corps launch an offensive towards Bologna.
The Germans commenced the Putten Raid in the Netherlands, removing 660 men in reprisals for a failed assassination attempt on a German official.
British commandos landed at Poros, Greece. Greek troops landed at Mitilini, Lemnos, and Levita.
British General General Richard McCreery assumed command of the 8th Army, in Italy. General Oliver Leese, was assigned to command Allied Land Forces, Southeast Asia.
Gen. Rudolf Schmundt, age 48, died of wounds sustained in the July 20 plot. He had been an adjutant to Hitler.
Sally Reed, Durham, Mass., a Red Cross worker somewhere in France, does a bit of KP on the large containers about her--and she doesn't believe in signs for they're all coffee urns. 1 October, 1944.
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