Doughboys Strike In Pacific Battle Near Iwo Jima
U S carrier task force within 753 miles of Tokyo destroyed at least 82 Japanese planes and sank or damaged 19 small vessels in raids Thursday and Friday. They attacked Iwo Jima and Pagan in the Bonins, with heavy air and sea actions reported by Admiral Nimitz.
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Pearl Harbor
United States
Tokyo
Chester W. Nimitz
Iwo Jima Island
Bonins
Japan
Pagan Island
Iwo Jima
Marc A. Mitscher
Marianas
Philippines
Nimitz
Saipan
Tinian Island
U. S. Pacific
Reds Ring Stronghold of Vitebsk
Soviet armies widen summer offensive in White Russia extending 125 miles east of Mogilev to northwest of Vitebsk. Stalin announced advances on four fronts breaching German fortifications, with Belevitsa area within 21 miles of the city and Orsha and Mogilev under heavy Red pressure.
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London
White Russia
Mogilev
Vitebsk
Moscow
Josef Stalin
Baltic States
East Prussia
Reich
Stalin
Svir
Ladoga
Onega
Leningrad
Orsha
Chaussy
Belevista
Marshal Stalin
Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky
Rabinovichi
Red Army
Dnepr
Ivan C. Bagramian
Republicans Draft Foreign Policy Plank
The Republican convention's foreign policy subcommittee announced completion of a draft platform in harmony. Chairman Sen. Warren R. Austin declined details until the resolutions committee meeting, as debates centered on cooperative UN peacekeeping versus nationalist, nonpolice directions.
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Chicago
Warren R. Austin
R-Vt
Convention Resolutions Committee
United Nations
Austin
Resolutions Committee
Joseph H. Ball
R-Minn
Edward V. Robertson
R.wyo
United States
Santa Claus
Sen. Arthur
H. Vandenberg
R-Mich
Vandenberg
Agriculture Group
B. B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Albert Goss
National Grange
Mackinac
Cherbourg Falls in Allied Drive After Four Day Assault
Allied forces led by Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley push into Cherbourg after four days of bombing and street fighting. American troops seize southern forts, capture hundreds of German prisoners, and advance to within 1000 yards of the port as German resistance dwindles.
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London
Cherbourg
Omar N. Bradley
Bradley
Gorrell
Three Yanks Killed as Nazis Bomb U S Bases in Russia
Three American air corpsmen were killed when German bombers attacked two newly established United States air fields in Russia. The communique stated no further details and noted American heavy bombers and fighters had been shuttle-bombing targets in Germany and the Balkans and into Russia from Britain and the Mediterranean theater.
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London
United States
Russia
U. S. Eastern Air Command
Radio Moscow
Britain
Mediterranean
Germany
Balkans
Soviet Union
Berlin
Overseas Comics magazine sent to service members abroad
The quartermaster corps orders 700000 pony sized Overseas Comics magazines for distribution to servicemen overseas so they can follow their favorite comic strip heroes while abroad.
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Washington
The
Quartermaster Corps
Nazis Threaten Retaliation Over Prisoner Murders
London AP reports Nazi headquarters claimed Allied prisoners were murdered in Normandy and warned of swift reprisal. The broadcast cited Cherbourg area executions and vowed ten US POWs would be shot for every German if true.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Normandy
United States
High Command
DNB
Cherbourg
Anthony Eden
R.A.F
U. S
Germany
Berlin
Goebbels
U S Flyer Adrift Saved After 11 Days
Pearl Harbor dispatch reports Lt. Comdr. Robert Price, a Yank air group commander, spent eleven days afloat in a rubber boat after being downed in the June 22 attack on Pagan island during the Saipan invasion. He was rescued by a destroyer of the raiding task force. details were not immediately released.
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Pearl Harbor
Ins
Pagan Island
Marianas
United States
Saipan
Robert Price
Smash 22 Jap Planes on Yap Airfield Raid
Advanced Allied HQ reports Liberator raids on Yap southwest of the Marianas destroyed or damaged 22 grounded Japanese planes. The June 22 strike decorated 12 planes and damaged others, the largest landbased air raid on Yap to date as Biak fighting yields 2,333 Japanese deaths by June 23 with American losses far lower.
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New Guinea
Yap
Marianas
Biak Island
Dutch New Guinea
Senators Urge UN Unit to Enforce Peace Plan
Four Democratic and Republican senators Carl Hatch Lister Hill Harold Burton and Joseph Ball proposed forming a United Nations association with final power to dictate the postwar settlement They urged the UN body should write and enforce the peace while the Big Three US Britain and Russia lead the process to curb aggression through armed authority
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Felix Cotten
Washington
INS
The
United Nations
Carl A. Hatch
D-N.m
Lister Hill
D-Ala
Harold H. Burton
R-O
Joseph H. Ball
R-Minn
Congress
World Organization
United States
Britain
Russia
International Organization
Danish Sabotage Hits Big Danish Armament Plant
Danish patriots reportedly destroyed the Dansk Industri Syndikat factory in Copenhagen, a major armament works used by the Germans. Nazis declared martial law in Copenhagen and Zealand as the blitz sparked immediate occupation measures.
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London
Denmark
Copenhagen
Bologna
Normandy
Belfort
Paris
Dansk Industri Syndikat
Stockholm
Zealand
Free Harbor
United Press
New York
FCC
Invasion Toll Felt as Cedar Rapids Mourns Losses
Cedar Rapids records another wave of war losses with KIA Tech. Sgt. Roy J. Cook and Pfc. Clair Scott in France on invasion day June 6 and June 5 Italian action Pfc. Otto F. Novak. Over England June 11 First Lt. Thomas A. Beckett reported seriously WIA. Family details provided for Cook including birth in Edinburg Indiana March 3 1917 and Cedar Rapids upbringing.
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Cedar Rapids
France
Roy J. Cook
Clair Scott
England
Thomas A. Beckett
Army Air Corps
William J. Caldwell, Jr
Stella Staves
Eleventh Street
William J. Caldwell
Maple Drive
Otto F. Novak
James V. Novak
Second Street
Sgt. Cook
Alva Cook
Seventh Street
Edinburg
Ind
Taylor, Roosevelt and
Grant
Miltonvale Wesleyan College
Kansas
LaPlant-Choate
Leora Wright
Palo
Maywood
Calif
Johns Manville Roofing Company
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Killed in Action Pfc George Deetz in Italy
Pfc George Elmer Deetz 19 son of Mr and Mrs George F Deetz 129 Thirty fifth street drive SE was killed May 27 in action somewhere in Italy. He joined the army September 1943 and trained at Camp Gruber Okla then went overseas in March. An infantryman he was a Franklin school senior at induction born May 15 1925. He leaves twin brothers Pfc Roger and Rollis in England and brothers Edward and Loren at home.
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George Elmer Deetz
George F. Deetz
Thirty Fifth Street
Italy
War Department
Deetz
Camp Gruber
Oklo
Franklin School
Pfc
Roger and
Rollis Deetz
Quartermaster Corps
England
Edward
Loren
Pvt Scott dies serving with Eighty second airborne division
Private Scott, born September 10 1922 in Shellsburg, trained at Fort McArthur Camp Kohler and Camp Picket then in the British Isles near Edinburgh and London. He rose to technical sergeant before invasion and died serving with the Eighty second airborne division. his wife Margaret Phyllis Shanahan 812 G Avenue NW was notified by telegram. He is survived by his parents two brothers Ray M Cook and D A Cook of Cedar Rapids and Pvt Howard Cook at Camp Carson Colorado.
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Fort McArthur
San Pedro
Calif
Kohler
Midland Radio School
Kansas City
Camp Picket
States
British Isles
Edinburgh
London
Allison Hotel
Ray M. Cook
D. A. Cook
Cedar Rapids
Howard Cook
Camp Carson
Colo
Pvt. Scott
Eighty-second Airborne Division
Margaret Phyllis Shanahan
G Avenue
Shellsburg
Scott
McKin
First Casualties From Normandy Reach New York
The War Department announced the first arrival in the United States of invasion casualties from Normandy. Two men, an officer and an enlisted man, arrived at Mitchell Field, New York, at 6 45 p m aboard an air transport command hospital plane. Two patients were taken to Cantonment Hospital after a longer ride than expected due to weather. Nurse Betty Theobald accompanied the men. identities were not disclosed.
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Washington
Normandy
France
War Department
Mitchellfield
N. Y
Air Transport Command Nepital
Department Saint
Veteran educator Lambeth dies after 45 years at UVA
William Alexander Lambeth, 77, longtime UVA faculty member and leading figure in intercollegiate athletics, died Saturday night at University Hospital in Charlottesville. He served the university for more than 45 years and influenced many sports programs.
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Charlottesville
William Alexander Lambeth
University of Virginia
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