Americans Press Assault on Saipan as Pacific War Rages
American marines and infantry pressed a two mile east coast advance on Saipan amid fierce fighting for Garapan. General Nimitz announced raids on Kurabu Zaki and continued neutralising strikes on Tinian Guam and Rota while Saipan progress surpassed half the island. News includes wounded Omaha Marine Pfc Jack G Brown and other veterans cared for at Pearl Harbor.
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Guam
Rota
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Aante
Omaha
Jack G. Brown
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Joseph P. Goseana
Chicago
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Raymond Johnson
C. B. Blythe
Tex
Robert Bigpond
Depew, Okio
Sai- Pan
Nafutan
Bowen
Desault
Aussies Trap Nip Tactics on New Guinea Coast Drive
Australian jungle fighters under Gen. Douglas MacArthur press the northern New Guinea coast after capturing Hansa Bay and advancing 80 miles from Bumabun harbor to the Sepik river mouth near Wewak. Kenney's air forces bomb Yap island, Babo, Manokwari, and areas around Yakamul, Dagua and Wewak, downing several Japanese fighters.
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New Guinea
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Douglas MacArthur
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Hansa Bay
George C. Kenney
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Sepik River
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Dagua
Illinois Secretary of State Edward J. Hughes Dies
The body of Edward J. Hughes 55 secretary of state of Illinois was sent to Chicago for burial in Calvary cemetery. He died suddenly of a heart attack in the Waldorf Astoria apartment shared with Col Matt J Winn president of the American Turf Association. His wife and daughter Mary Elizabeth were in Ogunquit Maine and will accompany the body.
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New York
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Edward J. Hughes
Illinois
Chicago
Calvary Cemetery
Hughes
Waldorf-Astoria
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Matt J. Winn
American Turf Association
Col. Winn
Mary Elizabeth
Dewey Confers With COP Chairman in Chicago Press Conference
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey rejects a third term bid and seeks Willkie’s aid. He plans to stay in Chicago with national and state leaders, consult Bricker before decisions, and consider a national chairman after talks. He repeats a third term would harm American government.
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Chicago
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Thomas E. Dewey
Repubican
United States
Wendell L. Willkie
Dewey
National Committee
John W. Bricker
Congress
Edwin C. Hill
Republican Party
Bricker
Divide Honors im BY CLARK LEE
Three U S divisions with mixed experience carried out the Cherbourg operation. The Ninth Division under Maj Gen Manton S Eddy led rapid advance from D Day footholds into Cherbourg, aided by the Fourth and 79th divisions. The Fourth, led by Maj Gen Raymond O Barton, stormed the beach and pushed inland, while the 79th under Maj Gen Ira Wyche drove through the peninsula center. Fort Du Royle and city street fighting marked the hard northward push toward Cherbourg. Wyche endured a near miss during a streaming meemie barrage as his unit pressed into the port city.
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Clark Lee
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U. S
Manton S. Eddy
Chicago
France
Quinville
Gierbourg
Hizerte
Africa
Randazzo
Sicily
Eddy
el Guettar
Sedjenane
Grand Dune de Vereville
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hitler
Atlantic Wall
Raymond O.barton
Ada
Okla
79Th
Ira “Bil
Wyche
Fort du Royle
Army makes steady progress to Gothic Line
Allied forces push along multiple fronts in Italy with Fifth Army advances toward Monticchiello Pienza and Montalcino and British Eighth Army entries near Chiusi La Foce and Frattavecchia. Since campaign start, 32,000 prisoners captured. air operations include refinery and rail targets in Bucharest Bulgaria and Romania. Fifteen Allied planes reported lost.
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Cecina
Castagneto
Livoron
Leghorn
Fifth Army
Monticiano
Montalcinello
Siena
Highway 1
Eighth Army
Bucharest
Bulgaria
Girugiu
Romania
Italy
Yugoslavia
Blind Omaha girl robbed in El Paso trip
Virginia Gonzalez of South Omaha was stranded in El Paso with 84 cents of the 160 dollars she carried. She said a fellow bus passenger robbed her of the money intended for a seeing eye dog during her journey from Omaha to Pasadena California.
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Paratroop Leaders Ridgeway and Taylor Highlight D-Day Roles
General Matthew Ridgeway, veteran commander of the 82nd Airborne, and Brig. General Maxwell Taylor, commander of the 101st Airborne, parachuted into France before H hour on D‑Day. Ridgeway appears as a capable, compact officer while Taylor, noted for a secret Rome mission before Italy's surrender, stands out among elite parachute commanders.
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Matthew Ridgeway
82Nd Airborne Division
Maxwell Taylor
101St Airborne
France
Ridgeway
Taylor
Rome
Italy
Soviet Drive Near Minsk Deepens German Encirclement
Soviet columns advance toward Minsk as Russian troops trap German forces at Bobruisk and seize Mogilev. The embassy in Washington publishes a harsh critiquing of German atrocities and Russia's shift to a vow of strict retaliation against German and Nazi forces.
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Russia
Naai
Minek
Minsk
Warsaw
Berlin
Bobruisk
Conats E . Cap
Osipovichi
Joseph Stalin
Mogilev
Orsha
Zhiobin
Red Army
Fatherland
Nasi
Yadrevo
Vitebsk
Washington
Germany
Hamburg
Weather forecast for Fair town with sun and showers
The Weather reports a fair night with a low elsewhere. Friday will be partly cloudy and warmer with scattered thunderstorms affecting the western portion of the area.
Five Yank Fighters An Hour Speed
The Air Craft Year Book shows five U S fighter planes exceeding 400 mph, more than Great Britain with three and Germany with two. Howard Mingus, editor, says American fighters lead in every combat aircraft category, led by the Lockheed Lightning, Republic Thunderbird, Grumman Hellcat, Vought Corsair and North American Mustang.
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New York
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United States
Great Britain
Germany
Japan
Howard Mingus
Y M C A Worker Praises German Prisoner Welfare
Dr Ethan T Colton spoke at the high school about German POW camps for Atlantic and territorial prisoners. He said prisoners are well fed and housed in sanitary barracks away from cities with base hospitals for serious cases. He noted leaders organize camp activities and that camps offer sports, reading, arts, and even university courses with London University sending exam questions.
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Ethan T. Colton
Atlantic
Territory
Germany
Colton
Humdrum
London University
Normandy breaches widen as Allied forces fight toward Caen
Allied troops from the United States Britain Canada and Russia push into strong opposition near the Odon and Caen with massed artillery and river crossings. British Canadian and American units press through Caen area as Panzer resistance intensifies and plans for a possible joint advance toward St Lo emerge.
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Evrecy
Eaguay
Caen
Caumont- Carentan
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