Fortresses Hit Nazi Airdromes in Night Bombing Raid
RAF Night Raiders pounded German airfields behind the battle line in France with Flying Fortresses and Marauders. Berlin radio reported Italy-based bombers struck Munich while daylight raids swept German targets from the Reich to the Low Countries.
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London
France
Reich
Britain
Italy
Glsenkirchen
Ruhr
Evereux-Fauville
Dreaux- Tileres-L’eveque
Berlin
Munich
Alps
Bavaria
Franconia
Germany
England
Luftwaffe
Face
Normandy
RAF
Arras
Amiens
Cambrai
Flanders
Poittiers
Forest de Grimbosq
Caen
Gelsenkirchen
Cologne
SHAEF
Finland may exit war by July say London observers
London observers predicted Finland could be knocked out of World War II by July as Soviet forces advanced on Viipuri and Helsinki. Red Army units pushed along the Karelian Isthmus, Raivola fell in 40 minutes, while Finns rushed reserves and prepared for heavier resistance. British opinion noted Moscow’s aim to neutralize Finland to secure northern flank and Baltic approaches.
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London
Viipuri
Helsinki
Finland
Leonid A. Govorov
Red Army
Karelian
Raivola
Stalin
Romania
Balkan
Hitler
Moscow
Fifth Cracks New German Defense Line
Rome reports say German forces north of Rome defend a line from Lake Bolsena to the sea but Fifth Army broke through and occupied most of the western shore of the lake. Allied units seized Valentano and junctions on highways about 55 miles from Rome, while South African and American troops pressed near Orvieto and Laterral Highway 74. In engagement near Latral Highway 74 they took 142 prisoners and killed 100 from the 162nd Turcoman Division.
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Rome
Lake Bolsena
Fifth Army
Orbetello
Valentano
Laterna
Orvieto
Bagno Regio
162Nd Turcoman
Deposit Assessments Nearly Double 1939
Ohio banks show deposits facing assessments through June 7 totaling 8.3 million dollars this year, almost double the 1939 pre war figure of 4.58 million. State tax commissioner William S. Evatt announced the year to date assessments and noted the increase over 1943 levels.
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Columbus
Ohio
William S. Evatt
Yankee Pilots Break Up Nazi Raid Over England
A squadron of 12 Thunderbolts faced 20 Me 109s over a U S fighter base in England and shot down 10 of the enemy in 20 minutes with the loss of one Thunderbolt.
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U. S
England
Yanks Aid Canadians In Sinking Submarine
In mid Atlantic a U S destroyer and destroyer escort with a Grumman Avenger from an American carrier helped the Canadian frigate Prince Rupert demolish a Nazi U boat. Canadian Navy Minister Angus Macdonald announced that the submarine was sent to the bottom by the frigate’s gun barrage. Fourteen German crew were captured.
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Ottawa
Prince Rupert
Angus Macdonald
Finland to Pay June Installment on WWI Debt
Finland will pay the June 15 installment on its WWI debt to the United States from funds held in this country despite being at war with Russia and Britain. The Finnish legation said the $140,000 payment will be made, though Finland still owes about $9,000,000.
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Washington
Finland
United States
Russia
Britain
Legation
New Chemical Weapons Demonstrated by Army
BAYWAY New Jersey army Chemical Warfare Service demonstrated two incendiary weapons and a smoke generator designed to spread fire and obscure troop movements. A gel fuel flamethrower projected fire up to 180 feet and an incendiary bomb delivered a 100 yard fire splatter.
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Bayway
N. J
Chemical Warfare Service
Army
French Girl Weeps Over Dead German Officer
Reporter Roger Greene documents Allied troops advancing in France. He describes discovering a 17 year old French girl mourning a German officer slain in the fighting. The scene unfolds in a captured commandant’s quarters and a roadside wreck.
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Roger Greene
France
Roosevelt urges rapid end to war in new drive
President Roosevelt spoke on a national broadcast opening the Fifth War Loan Drive, urging unconditional surrender or national suicide for Japan and asserting that victory can come faster with Germany defeated first. He warned Tokyo remains a long way off but pledged full strength in the Pacific and Europe.
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Texarkana
U. S.A
Roosevelt
Tokyo
United Nations
Germany
Pacific
Wife of 16 Thinks She Must Be Insane in Detroit
Mrs. Korine Stankowich is charged with violating the servicemen's allotment act through multiple marriages set at 16. She appeared in federal court petitioning for the appointment of a sanity commission. She told Judge Frank A. Picard, I fear there is something wrong.
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Detroit
Korine Stankowich
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Sanity Commission
Frank A. Picard
Ohioan Downed Four Nazis in First Combat Flight
Captain Randall W. Hendricks, a 23 year old Ninth Airforce pilot from Youngstown Ohio, achieved four aerial victories on his first combat mission while flying a Thunderbolt against Focke Wulf 190s yesterday. He had not fired his guns in combat before this flight.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Thunderbolt
Randall W. Hendricks
Ninth Airforce
Youngstown
Ohio
War taxes to end with war, Byrnes declares
Washington war Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes endorses broad measures to implement de mobilization and states that war taxation should end with the end of the war. In Rome, Margaret Roosevelt Pallavicini and her six year old daughter Julia escaped harm by hiding in a convent during the German occupation.
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Washington
James F. Byrnes
Rome
Margaret Roosevelt Pallavicini
Roosevelt
Julia
Allied Forces Pound Japs Across Pacific Front
American sea air and ground forces continue relentless assaults on Japanese fortresses to rescue the Philippines and aid China. Nimitz and MacArthur report strikes on Guam Tinian Saipan and other Marianas while Biak Island holdings grow and Dutch New Guinea battens down. In Burma Kohima and Myitkyina progress are claimed and Changsha fights intensify as Japanese push toward Hankow Canton rail line.
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Philippines
China
Nimitz-MacArthur
Palau
Marianas
Arwel Peete
Abeck
Rabaul
New Britain
India
Burma
Kohima
Myitkyina
Changsha
Hankow-Canton
Three Ohio Airfields Get Presidential Approval
Washington approves resuming construction at Canton Mansfield and Springfield airports to fit them for emergency use. Civil Aeronautics Administration notes municipalities sponsoring the fields have already entered site purchases.
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Washington
Ohio
Canton
Mansfield
Springfield
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Manpower Commission Reviews Physicians Over-Age List
The War Manpower Commission is reviewing physicians previously classified as over-age by the Army and Navy. Those who can be spared will be offered commissions with assignment to the Veterans Administration.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
Army
Navy
Veterans Administration
Democrats in Texas Revolt Against FDR Smear Probe
Senator W Lee O Daniel centered a Texas Democratic revolt tied to a Senate campaign expenditures inquiry into financing of a personal anti administration newspaper. He said over 100000 dollars was raised from 5 a year subscribers to fund the paper and argued it would publish the truth as he sees it from Washington. The Texas Democratic executive committee voted 36 to 6 against certifying electors chosen by a pro Roosevelt group.
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Washington
Texas
W. Lee O'Daniel
Lone Star State
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
O'Daniel
United States
Texas Democratic Executive Committee
U S Planes Rout Jap Naval Force Quickly
Fifth Army Air Force bomber command chief Maj. Gen. Ennis C. Whitehead said ten Mitchell bombers sank four Japanese destroyers west of Biak Island on June 8 damaged a fifth and forced a cruiser and another destroyer to retreat. The strike achieved its mission in about 15 minutes.
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Fifth Army Air Force
Dutch New Guinea
Ennis C. Whitehead
Biak Island
Big Japanese Freighter Sunk by Yank Bombers
Liberators of the 14th U. S. Air Force sank a 16 000 ton Japanese freighter and damaged a cruiser off the southeast China coast Sunday.
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U. S. Air Force
China
Nazis Torture American Paratroopers Reported by NBC
NBC reporter Stanley Richardson broadcast from London alleging indisputable evidence of German torture and murder of American paratroopers during the Normandy landings. He cited three bound bodies near a former German command post and a lieutenant slain with a knife, plus a major found dead of stab wounds.
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New York
Stanley Richardson
NBC
London
Richardson
Carentan
Yanks Tightening Pincers Around Cherbourg
U S Fourth Division moves toward Cherbourg capturing Montebourg 14 miles southeast after fierce fighting. American forces drive beyond Carentan. Ponte Abbe taken as Berlin reports pincers closing on St Lo and notes six divisions engaged with about 600000 men in the front.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
U. S
Cherbourg
Montebourg
Carentan
Berlin
Ponte Abbe
Ste. Mere Eglise
Normandy
Rommel Ousted Reported By Nazi News
London dispatch from 21st Army Group says Rommel is believed out of command as invasion progresses. American forces including the First and Twenty Ninth Divisions fight in France while the eastern front reports heavy fighting near Caen and the Orne River.
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Isigny
Signal Corps
NEA
London
Leslie Randall
21St Army Group
Evening Standard Today
Rommel
Randall
82Nd
France
Supreme Headquarters
Tilly-Surseulles
Caen
Berlin
Orne River
American drive Across Cherbourg Peninsula Gains Ground
Allied forces push through Cerisy Forest and seize a large German ammunition dump near the woods. German resistance remains stubborn in Montebourg as U S troops advance beyond Carentan and tighten the link between beachheads. Rommel shifts reserves toward St Lo while western front units brace for new offensives.
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Cerisy Forest
Woodlands
Berlin
Caen
Normandy
Cherbourg
Fourth Division
Montebourg
Carentan
Rommel
St. Lo
Doughboys
Broken Arrows
Bid protests over gas company sale to coops in Ohio
The SEC heard objections as Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric protested the cooperatives bid of 2.115 million for Associated Electric Company and Ohio Midland Light and Power, claiming the higher bid serves public interest. The Navy announced submarine chaser PC-558 was lost in the Mediterranean action on May 9.
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Philadelphia
Associated Electric Company
Ohio-Midland Light and Power Company
Lancaster
Marysville
Hillsboro
Securities and Exchange Commission
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Company
Columbus
Ohio
Washington
Mediterranean
Navy
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