Saipan Invasion Advances as U S Forces Hit Guam and Kuriles
American amphibious forces push on Saipan with Marine and Army units overcoming mortar fire near Charan Kanoa and Garapan while heavy U S bombardment strikes Guam. Adm. Nimitz reports air strikes on Kurile islands and patrols drive back Japanese torpedo planes near carriers.
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Saipan
Chester W
Nimits
Tunique
Japan
Kurile Islands
Guam
U. S
Asli
Yaly
Charan- Kanoa
Garapan
Nippon
Navy
Kuriles
Guam-Saipan
Marianas
Bonin
Kazan Islands
Yokohama
Pacific
America
China
Yawata
Kyushu
Yank Miers
Chester W. Nimitz
House Bars Cuts In OPA Money
Washington June 17 driving for a month long recess the House passed 259516595 billion dollar deficiency appropriation bill for OPA after defeating a bid to trim funds. The measure faces Senate action as conferees work on price control and OPA authority. Unanimous approval followed rapid debates and two defeated amendments including a ban on any new grade labeling program.
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Washington
House
Senate
Senate-House
OPA
Wurseill
RIL
Vurseil
Rep
Marcantonio
McCormack
Massachusetts
Appropriations Committee
Taber
Nocket
Chester
Nelson relaxes aluminum curb for postwar model production
Washington June 17 chairman Donald M Nelson delayed War Production Board controls of aluminum to aid orderly reconversion and allow war plants to order tools for peacetime production. He approved building a single working model of any planned postwar product and warned civilian output may not rise immediately. The WPE chief said large reductions in war production will come later, with unemployment risk if workers cannot find other jobs. Industry must be ready to shift quickly to civilian goods when reductions begin.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
Nelson
WPE
Cai
Kamaing Falls to Chinese 22d Army gains in Burma front
Ke maing, Burma, June 17. The Chinese 22d army has captured Kamaing, the main Japanese supply base in North Burma, after a seven day siege. South of Kamaing, Parentu fell to Chinese forces. In Myitkyina’s north and west sectors, Chinese and American troops made gains. A Salween front dispatch noted a token junction with Stilwell’s forces and guerrillas capturing Lauhkaun, shaping a new China Burma link to reopen land routes to China. Japanese railways remain unusable as forces move on foot. The official said Allied progress is slow but expected to continue.
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Zulwell
Pos Wate
Myitkyina
Kandy
Ceylon
Kemaing
Burma
Mogaung Valley
Louis Mountbatten
Kamaung
Parentu
Myitky
Yunnan
China
Aps
Fifty Nippon Planes Blasted at Sorong
Allied air forces and ground crews reported destroying fifty Japanese planes at Sorong in Dutch New Guinea. Mitsubishi and Lightning attacks reduced the base to a last effective airfield status. The action came as American advances pushed toward Mokmer and Biak islands, with Thursday raids striking Truk and Rabaul areas.
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Sorong
New Guinea
Dutch New Guinea
Mitchell
Sarong
Hollandia
Davao
Mindanao
Philippines
Mokmer RiEsdrome
Biak Island
Schauten
Truk
Caroline Islands
Rabaul
New Britain
England Fights Robot Bombs Over Southern England
Allied reports describe Nazi jet propelled robot planes crossing the channel in the fourth day of the counter invasion. The weapon is a simple winged rocket filled with explosives and guided by a compass, often flying at high speed with little radio control. Anti aircraft batteries and night patrols have been deployed to destroy them, with reports of damage and several deaths.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Channel
England
Britain
Eanstern
Berlin
Stockholm
London
Rauien
France
Rouens
Pas-de-Calais
Ene Jang
Normandy
Channel Striiis
Nazi Rocket Nests and Airfields Bombed in Allied Raids
Allied bombers struck Pas de Calais and Lisieux as part of a large daylight and night campaign against German rocket nests and airfields. Flying Fortresses Liberators Spitfires and other heavy bombers hit seven German airfields in France while RAF and US forces ranged across Normandy. Three enemy planes were downed and two Allied bombers plus one fighter were lost. Page 2 Col. 2.
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Pas
England
Air Ministry
USS Flying
Pas de Calais
Normandy
France
Lisceux
Paria Radio
Fames
Caen
Trouville
Cripple Confesses Race Track Fire
In DETROIT on June 17 1930s report Leo McCammish a one legged ex stable man confessed starting a fire at the Detroit race track center causing one death five injuries and the destruction of two thoroughbred horses. Groom David Scott died after 45 minutes trapped inside Race Track building 10. Two grooms firemen and a spectator were injured rescuing horses. McCammish said he fired hay outside the center and warned others not to sleep heavily as a fire loomed.
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Detroit
Jins
Felice
Leroy McCummish
David Scott
David Jd. Ferguson
George Wraith
McCammish
Scott
McCummish
French Storm Seizes Fifth Of Napoleonic Elba Island
French troops landed on Elba and quickly controlled about one fifth of the Napoleonic exile island despite German resistance. Pianosa fell with no opposition as Allied forces widened the sea flank while naval units and air power supported the operation.
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Rome
Elba
Pianosa
Pisa
Florence-Rimini
Jean. de Laitre de Tassigny
Berti
Porto Ferraio
Associa
Joseph E. Dynan
Getty di Campo
R Apehald
Marino di Campo
Porto Longone
Poin
Grosseto
1200 New Planes Sent to Russians
Washington June 17. Leo T Crowley foreign economic administrator says 1200 mercenary planes were flown or shipped to Soviet Russia in March and April alongside lend-lease supplies for the invasion of western Europe. The total to date since January tops 2200 aircraft. The report notes 400 additional tanks and destroyers went to Russia in March and April, expanding aid to the eastern front.
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Washington
Leo T. Crowley
Soviet Russia
England
Crowley
Soviet Union
United States
Western
Europe
PEC
Russia
Halsey Receives New Fleet To Lead Pacific Drive
Washington June 17. Admiral William F Halsey was assigned to command a new fighting naval force in the Pacific to be known as the U S Fleet, with officials saying the unit will play a leading role in the ongoing drive against Japan. The announcement by Admiral Chester W Nimitz outlines parallels to prior operations as Halsey heads this expanded effort.
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Washington
INS
Adm
William F. Halsey
U. S
Japan
Southwest Pacific
Pacific
U.S
Halsey
Chester Willmitz
Russians Close On Viipuri As Evacuations Begin
London reported that Soviet forces moved within 25 miles of Viipuri after seizing Perkjaryvi and Kuolemajärvi on the Karelian Isthmus. Moscow said troops occupied over 120 towns in a day, widening the Finnish front as civilians fled Viipuri and its approaches.
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London
Viipuri
Perkjaryvi
Karelian Isthmus
Kuolemajatvi
Moscow
Finland
Leonid A. Gavornov
Perkjarvi
Kuplemar
Jarvi
Stockholm
Red Army
Rutasuli
Kanawha Bond Sales Rally From State Drive
Kanawha County reports rising bond sales as outlying districts join Charleston in higher activity. State totals show Series E bonds at 3,860,750 dollars or 16 percent of the 24,006,000 goal. individual buyers at 5,548,005 dollars or 12 percent of an 84,700,000 quota. Police, with the Fraternal Order of Police, placed red tags on downtown windshields urging purchases. West Virginia eyes a local B 29 bomber program with sponsorships and a plaque. Elkview reports half its goal reached with 25,000 dollars in bonds, bond rally set for May 7 at Elkview High School.
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Kanawha
Ain Wae Suas
Ila
Charleston
Police Department
Praternal Order of Police
Neairest
West Virginia
Japan
Spurs
Spurr
Army
Unite
Allied Breakthrough Near Cherbourg Forces German Retreat
American forces led by the 9th and 82nd divisions pierced German lines near Cherbourg, pushing toward the west coast four miles from the harbor. Front dispatches report a looming trap as Cherbourg citizens flee and Germans evacuate in a crowded bottleneck. Fierce street fighting rages in Montebourg as Allied forces close in on the Cherbourg peninsula.
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Normandy
Peninsula
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
U. S
Bizerte
Tunisia
82D Airborne
Cherbourg
Bradley
Clark Lee
INS
U. 5
Sth
Douve River
U. 5. Sth
France
Montebourg
Whitehead
Maquis Blockade Behind Front In France
Allied command lauds a front behind the front in France with a French underground force carrying out sabotage and armed resistance since June 6. The communique credits Maquis units with delaying German reinforcements, halting Rhone traffic, and seizing towns, claiming 300 Germans captured and bridges destroyed as Vichy forces desert to the guerrillas.
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Surnams Neaponannes
Allied Supreme Command
France
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Charles de Gaulle
Alied
Tthe
Normandy
Rhone
Algiers
Invasion Brings Call for Tanks
Washington reports an extremely heavy increase in tank production ordered by the military high command after invasion beach head reports show tank expenditure three times expected. United States plants halted will reopen as government sources say. tank plans require massive steel and rapid trucking production to meet transport needs amid damaged French railways.
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Washington
Rommel
United States
North Africa
American Casualties Reported From Invasion of France
Lt Gen Omar Bradley announced American forces logged 3,283 U S deaths and 12,600 wounded through the first 11 days of the Normandy invasion. He said the beachhead is absolutely secure though Cherbourg would bring renewed fighting.
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France
Omar N. Bradley
Aad
London
Cherbourg
Bradley
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U. S. Pacific
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Magicienne Bay
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naran-Kanoa
Kamaing
William F. Halsey, Jr
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