Zero Hour Set For 2nd Front All-Out Attack
Washington reports a tentative selection of the invasion hour by WPA Chief Donald Nelson and Britain's Oliver Lyttelton. They discuss accelerating Anglo American supply schedules for a broad offensive, with secrecy guarding the exact decisions. Lyttelton's talks aim to coordinate victory program to speed planes tanks and ships while a larger Anglo American production plan is drafted. White House talks with Hopkins and Roosevelt loom, with Harriman returning to help in the second phase of parleyed production and supply discussions.
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Washington
WPA
Donald Nelson
Britain
Oliver Lyttelton
Lyttelton
Nelson
White House
Walter Layton
Ministry of Production
Col. Lc, Jacobs
W. D. Drysdale
War Cabinet Office
A.S. Lemaitre
Admiralty Secretariat
Hugh T. Weeks
Supply Ministry
Lord Beaverbrook
United States
John Jewkes
Ministry of Aircraft Production
Russia
China
Harry Hopkins
Anglo-American Munitions Allocations Board
Roosevelt
W. Averell Harriman
Lend
London
Manpower Push Will Be By October Says McNutt
Paul V. McNutt, head of supplying wartime labor, declared that the "pig push" will arrive by October even if voluntary employment fails. En route to Washington from Huntington, he stopped in Charleston for five hours with Arthur B. Koontz and Patrick D. Koontz. He urged full mobilization of industrial manpower, voluntary or not, to win the war.
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Paul V. McNutt
America
McNutt
Washington
Huntington
Marshall College
Charleston
Arthur B. Koontz
Patrick D. Koontz
War Manpower Commission
Fege 1
Schism Opens In UMW Banks' Schism Opens In UMW Banks
Washington news reports a split forming within United Mine Workers District 50 as John Lewis and Philip Murray clash over communism and war stance. The resignation of Martin Wagner signals a likely switch to Murray's CIO, with CIO board accusing Lewis of wartime disunity and failing to back the national effort.
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Washington, Lune
INS
John L. Lewis
Philip Murray
District 50
United Mine Workers
UMW
Murray
CIO
Martin Wagner
UMW International Board
Lewis
United States
Navy to Tighten Anti-Sub Patrol
The navy announced measures to ease anti submarine patrols in the mid Atlantic. Capt Russell S Crenshaw, acting commander of the gulf sea frontier, is named assistant commandant of the 5th naval district headquartered in Norfolk Virginia and will oversee anti submarine activities in the Hampton Roads area.
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Washington
INS
Navy
mid-Atlantic
Russell S. Crenshaw
Gulf Sea Frontier
5Th Naval District
Norfolk
Hampton Roads
U.S. officers meet Chiang as China urges wider war effort
Southeast Asia commanders led by Stilwell Brereton and Chennault meet Chiang Kai-Shek in Chungking amid pleas for a US led land sea and air offensive against Japan. Ta Kung Pao calls for joint attacks while reports claim 2000 Japanese were slain at Chuhsien as fronts from coast to Burma tighten.
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Chungking
China
U. S
Southeast Asia
Chiang Kai-Shek
United States
Japan
Manchapukuo
Russia
Siberia
Australia
India
Chiang
Joseph W. Stillwell
Lewis H. Brereton
Claire L. Chennault
Kunming
Stilwell
Burma
Brereton
WU. S. Army Air Forces
Chennault
Flying Tigers
U. S. Army
Ta Kung Pao
Chiange
Chuhslen
Chekiang
Senate Approves Dependency Help Plan for Armed Forces
The Senate passed a bill offering monthly cash benefits for dependents of servicemen in the Army Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard with base pay of 78 a month or less. For each dependent wife and children the government would supplement deductions totaling 22 a month from a serviceman’s pay with 28 for a wife with two children 40 for a wife and one child and 10 for each additional child. The measure also directs the Selective Service System to create a priority drafting system for married registrants when needed.
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Washington
Senate
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Selective Service
WAACs to Have Girdles and Panties Military Secret
Washington reports reveal America's first corps of skirted soldiers will wear boneless foundation garments under uniforms. WAAC insignia designed by the army quartermaster with Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby features a gold Pallas Athene. Debate continues over whether cadets will wear own undergarments or be issued them. The girdle must meet War Production Board rules and governs the look of the entire unit. Details to follow as officials confer on other items issued.
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Lee Washington
UIS
America
Goddess of Wisdom
WAAC
Military High Command
Women's Army Auxilary Corps
Army Quartermaster Corps
Oveta Culp Hobby
Pallas Athene
War Department
Carson
Hobby
Army General Staff
Army
War Production Board
Waac Foundation
Britain’s Three Services Hit Nazi Continent In Coordinated Attacks
In a day of ceaseless assault, Britain’s air, land, and sea forces attacked targets across the German coast and the Pas de Calais region. Commandos landed near Le Touquet while bombers battered Bremen. Docks at Boulogne and Dunkerque were bombed. two German patrol boats were damaged. Ten British planes were lost.
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London
Britain
Bremen
Royal Navy
Boulogne
le Touquet
Washington
Louis Mountbatten
WU. S
Pas de Calais
Calais
Air Ministry
Cherbourg
Maupertus
Pas du Calais
Dunkerque
Combined Operations
Colazae
Essen
North Sea
Ruhr
Hamburg
England
Dieppe
France
Shape of Things to Come as British Commandos Strike
A wartime report from Boulogne to Le Touquet details a June coast raid by Britain’s commandos, led by Maj. K. R. Trevor, demonstrating stronger Allied offensive capability as Dunkirk evacuation anniversary is marked. The operation, in coordination with American correspondents, signals escalating Western Europe defense actions against Nazi forces with minimal casualties.
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jagne-Le Touquet
Christian Refence Monitor
R. Mallined Stead
Fat
London
U. S
Lfay
France
French
Britain
Boulogne
le Touquet
Dunkerque
United Nations
Europe
Virginian
Lord Mountbatten
Washington
Maj
K. R
Trevor
T. W. Trevor
Allied submarine sinks four Japanese ships near Australia
Allied headquarters announced a submarine attack in Japanese shipping lanes, sinking a 5,000 ton armed transport and three other vessels totaling about 25,000 tons, including a troopship with up to 12,000 soldiers aboard. The raid extended beyond Australian waters, following recent Sydney harbor submarine incursions. Navy reports confirmed midget subs entering Sydney harbor were all destroyed.
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Allied Headquarters
Australia
Australis
Japan
Southwest Pacific
Sydney Harbor
Sydney
John Curtin
Canberra
Redouble Manhunt As Hangman Dies
London reports Heydrich deputy Gestapo chief dies in Prague after May 27 assault. A nationwide manhunt led by Himmler follows, with a $500000 reward. After the announcement, 24 Czechs including Evrem Batan are executed in Prague and Brno, bringing total deaths to about 200 as martial law spreads.
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London
INS
Reinhard Heydrich
Gestapo
Bohemia and
Moravia
Prague
Berlin
Heydrich
Heinrich Himmler
Brno
Prague Radio
Evrem Batan
Russian Front Lull Ends With Local Fighting Resumed
Moscow reports a renewed line of attacks and air activity on some front sectors on June 4 and June 2. Local engagements occurred with no broad front, as Soviet forces destroyed or damaged military assets including vehicles, ammunition dumps, mine fields, anti aircraft guns, and searchlights. The mid day update noted 300 German fatalities on the central front and 12 German aircraft shot down.
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Moscow
Pur Fir
Aid Reaches Archangel As Ice Breaks in Arctic Route
The first British and American convoy since last fall reached Archangel in northern Russia as the ice pack broke up. Reported by Daily Mail from Stockholm, the arrival relieves pressure on Murmansk, which was the only ice free Soviet port during winter.
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London
INS
Archangel
Daily Mall
Stockholm
Murmansk
Munrmansi
Stukas Attack Libyan Lines as Dust Halts Battle
Cairo dispatch reports German dive bombers pounding Bir Hacheim to break the Libyan stalemate but Allied fighters claimed seven Junkers and an escort down in a single engagement near Bleincheim. Nine days of desert fighting pause as dust and heat curb operations and armor crews repair between thrusts.
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Cairo
Egypt
Libya
Bir Hacheim
RAL
Junkers
Messerschmitt
Hitler Reported On Front In Finland Front reports Hitler arrival may trigger attack on Leningrad
London dispatch says Adolf Hitler has arrived in Finland per Reuter’s. experts expect a northern front push that could unleash a full assault on besieged Leningrad. The city’s defenses hold but residents face shortages of food and water amid the ongoing siege. Hitler had claimed Leningrad’s fall as early as September.
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London
INS
Adolf Hitler
Finland
Reuters
Hitler
Fuehrer
Leningrad
Russia
300 Yanks Invade Broadway To Open Up Musical Front
Three hundred U S soldiers arrive in New York to mount Irving Berlin’s This Is the Army on Broadway as a wartime musical front. The cast from Camp Upton shifts to a New York theater for July 4 premiere with proceeds aiding the Army Emergency Fund.
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300 Yanks
Broadway
Inez
New York
INS
United States
Zanzibar
Timbuktu
Pvt
Norman Stuart
Robb
Bert Whitley
Whitley
Stuart
Camp Upton
Army Emergency Fund
Midway Islands Defended As Japanese Air Attacks Continue
Japanese planes attacked Midway Island as Marine units held the atoll in the Pacific. Dutch Harbor saw a separate raid with limited damage and no significant casualties. Navy officials warned of further thrusts on American territory, while reporting Dutch Harbor quiet after the encounter.
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Washington
Midway Island
Marine Corps
Dutch Harbor
Navy
mid-Pacific
Midway
Alaskan
Sec.of
Stimson
Pearl Harbor
Wake Island
Canada War Chief Denies Third Attack on Dutch Harbor
Ottawa June 4 Canadian Defense Minister Ralston told the house that only one Japanese attack has occurred on Dutch Harbor Alaska and that reports of a second and third raids were unfounded. He noted a Pacific command message indicating the earlier third raid claim was incorrect and provided no new details.
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Ont
INS
Dutch Harbor
Alaska
Ralston
House of Commons
Commons
U. S. Sit
Pacific Command
Mons
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