British Span Orne Break Line at Caen
Allied forces crossed the Orne river in a major break through the German line toward Caen with heavy air support. American troops secured St. Lo, resisting last Nazi counterattacks as they push along the eastern front, while British and Canadian units struck at Noyers and Evrecy near Caen amid fierce fighting.
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Orne
Caen
HDQ
A.E.F
Orne River
United States
St. Lo
France
Normandy
Omar N. Bradley
Periers
Whitehead
Lessay
James McGlincy
United Press
St. Lovidges
Noyers
Villers-Bocage
Richard D. McMillan
Evrecy
Tojo Relieved of Job as Jap Chief of Staff
Tokyo radio reports Premier Hideki Tojo has been removed as chief of the general staff. Gen Yoshijiro Umezu named to succeed him. Tojo remains premier war minister commerce minister and munitions minister. Umezu long served with Kwantung Army and as ambassador to Manchukuo.
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Tojo
United Press
Tokyo Radio
Hideki Tojo
Yoshijiro Umezu
Kwangtung Army
Japan
Sugiyama
Commerce
Shigetaro Shimada
Navy
Tokyo
Saipan
Umezu
Kwangtung
Manchukuo
German Gunmen Execute 33 Allied Flyers in Likely Escape Attempts
London reports 33 Allied airmen shot by German captors. War Secretary Sir James Grigg told the Commons that 50 flyers were previously announced as executed. In 27 of the new cases the men are said to have been killed while attempting escapes, with other circumstances not disclosed. The protests advance through Switzerland, with a record kept for the war crimes commission. It is unclear if non British flyers were among the victims.
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London
James Grigg
Commons
Eden
James
Switzerland
War Criminals’ Commission
Col
H. W. Burton
M.P
Lieutenant Frank Elias Killed in Action in France
First Lt. Frank J. Elias 28 was killed in action June 11 in France per War Department telegram to wife Sylvia Salaba Elias of Cedar Rapids. Memorial services set for 7 am Wednesday at St. Mil mila's Church. He served as acting captain since March and left Cedar Rapids origin with a family of six sisters and a brother in Chicago.
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Frank J. Elias
France
War Department
Fifteenth Avenue
St. Ludmila’s Church
Elias
Cedar Rapids
Joseph Elias
Katherine Elias
Nineteenth Avenue
Grant High School
Jeter
Wesley Elias
Chicago
Frank Havlik
W. J. Burian
George Skvor
W. J. Sasek
Georgette Elias
E. C. Rief
Berwyn
Ill
Allied Air Armadas Strike Peenemunde and Zinnowitz
An American force of over 1,000 heavy bombers and fighters attacked Peenemunde and Zinnowitz in eastern Germany, targeting rocket development sites. Italian aircraft bombed Friedrichshafen and Memmingen, while RAF and Allied crews reported heavy combat and extensive air operations along the Normandy front and across the Baltic coast.
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London
Germany
Peenemunde
Zinnowitz
England
Normany Battlefront
Italy
Friedrichshafen
Baden See
Switzerland
Berlin
Bavaria
Prussia
Danzig
Normandy
London Daily Telegraph
New York
Soviet Guns Pound East Prussia as Red Forces Advance
Soviet long range artillery pounded East Prussia while troops moved toward Eydtkuhnen and Grodno. Izvestia said the Second White Russian Army pushed 300 miles and freed over 7 500 settlements in three weeks. Warsaw remained within reach as wedge actions neared the Bug river.
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Moscow
Suwalki
East Prussia
Grodno
Berlin
Kowel
Old Poland
Brest Litovsk
Izvestia
Sviloch
Nieman
Lunnol
Bialystok
Eydtkuhnen
G. F. Zakharov
Warsaw
Bug River
London
Cross Roads
Vydomlya
Poland
Tzvestia
Ivan C. Bagramian
Central
Lithuania
Riga
Memel
Wallace Plans Chicago Stop to Back renomination Bid
Vice-president Wallace will attend the Chicago convention to direct his campaign for renomination amid strong conservative opposition. Iowa's Jake More urged Wallace to come and meet supporters, noting Roosevelt's letter urging the party to choose its vice president.
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Chicago
Wallace
Jake More
Iowa
More
Washington
Roosevelt
Samuel D. Jackson
Indiana
Ballad of Cedar Rapids Gaol Wedding March Inspires Jail Ceremony
A soldier AWOL from Camp Carson and his Cedar Rapids fiancée married Monday inside the city jail with police officers officiating and witnesses. Blood tests approved the union and the couple, after a brief ceremony, were given root beer and a courtesy ride before the groom returned to captivity.
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Cedar Rapids
UPID
Ralph. Post
Post
A.W.O.L
Camp Carson
Colo
Iowa
Howard Walsh
Frank T. Hersch
Linn County
Christofferson
Iowa City
Frank O'Neil
John Kuba
Howard R. Churchill
O'Neil
Kuba
Edward Post
Swisher
Walsh
Cupid
Roosevelt letter shifts vice presidential race prospects
In a July 14 1944 letter from Hyde Park Roosevelt says he would vote for Henry Wallace if a delegate. He cautions against dictating to the convention while urging careful weighing of pros and cons for the vice presidential nomination. The missive is addressed to Senator Samuel D Jackson of Indiana at Stevens Hotel Chicago Illinois.
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Associated Press
Jackson
Samuel Jackson
Roosevelt
Iowa
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Hyde Park
N. Y
Senator Jackson
Washington
Henry Wallace
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Samuel D. Jackson
Stevens Hotel
Chicago
Illinois
Deceit on Army Ballot Claim By Dewey
Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican presidential nominee, charged that a group with unlimited funds is politicizing soldiers' voting rights in New York. He urged families of servicemen to inform their relatives and called New York's soldier vote law a model of simplicity aligned with federal law.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
New York State
Dewey
New York
Fire destroys admin building at Douglas Aircraft plant
The administration building of the Douglas Aircraft plant in Chicago was destroyed by a fire that began in a photographic lab on the first floor. Estimated damage exceeds 1.5 million dollars. Over 60 fire units from Chicago and nearby suburbs fought the blaze. C 54 assembly lines were undamaged and work will continue. The plant, built in 1942, covers 1,600 acres.
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Chicago
Douglas Aircraft Corporation
Park Ridge
Evanston
Skokie
Port Chicago Ammo Ships Destroyed in Massive Blast
A double explosion at a naval munitions dock in Port Chicago Calif caused extensive destruction. The navy reported 200 to 250 missing sailors plus about 130 civilian crew feared lost among two ships the Quinault Victory and the E A Bryan. The blast wrecked most of the town and caused millions in damages with hundreds injured.
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Chicago
Calif
Navy
S. S. Quinault Victory
United States Lines
S. S. E. A. Bryan
Oliver J. Olson Lines
Port Chicago
San Francisco
Bryan
Coast Guard
Suisun Bay
San Francisco Bay
Quinault Victory
Red Cross
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Marquis Childs
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