Vacation Bible schools and community notices from local church and civic events
Weather outlook notes cloudiness with scattered thundershowers. Cotton prices reported with middling and lower grades. Vacation Bible school at Central Baptist under Mr Mickey Green and programs at First Presbyterian and Oakland Chapel with Virginia Ann Gates arriving June 17. Local dances, military notices, and church services described along with various civic updates and personnel moves.
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Central Baptist Church
Mickey
Green
Ry Street
Virginia Ann Gates
Memphis
New Pincers Are Launched Against Nazi War Machine
Allied air forces launch a coordinated pincer assault with 500 to 750 heavy bombers striking Munich and surrounding targets in southern Germany from Italy, while Western attacks hit German positions in France and rail yards in Rennes Fougeres Alencon Mayenne and Pontabault. 52 German planes shot down 20 grounded. Allied losses 35 fighters and five bombers. Weather hampered operations with limited air activity by night.
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Gladwin Hill Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
U. S
Munich
Germany
France
Italy
Augsburg
BBC
Britain
Seine
Paris
Sea
Porto -Marghera
Venice
Rome
RAF
Rennes Fougeres
Alencon
Mayenne
Pontabault
Normandy
Air Ministry
French Leader Will Visit FDR During Summer
President Roosevelt expects a visit from General Charles De Gaulle of the French National Committee of Liberation. He invited De Gaulle, in London with Churchill, for a summer meeting with two possible date ranges and noted a prior inquiry from Vice Admiral Raymond Fenard.
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FDR
Washington
Roosevelt
Charles de Gaulle
French National Committee of Liberation
de Gaulle
London
Churchill
Raymond Fenard
Fifth War Loan Drive Opens in Morgan County
Canvass plans for the fifth war loan drive begin Monday at 8 30 in Morgan County with county chairmen coordinating a house to house and business district canvass to urge bond purchases. County chairman Ewell Gregg urges residents to show support for troops overseas and back the attack with fighting dollars.
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Morgan County
Ewell Gregg
War Finance Committee
France
Red Army Poised for Early Eastern Front Offensive
Reports from June 9 indicate the Red Army plans a first major push on the Eastern front to mirror Western front successes against Hitler. A correspondent notes Russian preparations and growing confidence as soldiers await battle to drive Nazis from Russian soil and help end the European war.
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Moscow
Red Army
Hitler
France
Italy
Berlin
United Nations
Germany
First Hours After Invasion Anxious
Don Whitehead reports from France on the initial Allied landing in Normandy. American troops face heavy fire as they push inland, overcome organized defenses, and begin moving supplies and guns ashore. Communications with reporters collapsed for over a day, complicating dispatches.
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Don Whitehead
France
Tunisia
Sicily
Italy
Hitler
Ain
Army
Allied forces advance in Italy capturing key towns near Rome
Allied units push north from Rome and seize Caprarola and parts of Lake Bracciano area. Troops shell Tarquinia as German defenses retreat toward Crecchio. Aggressive advances extend along the Adriatic front with multiple towns, rail yards, and ports reported involved in the ongoing campaign.
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Noland
Norguard
Rome
Adriatic
Fifth Army
Mark W. Clark
Lake Bracciano
Caprarola
Lake di Vico
Viterbo
Civitavecchia
Tarquinia
Tyrrhenian
Es . Braccianea
Luftwaffe
Italy
Denmark
Hermann Goering
Crecchio
Eighth Army
Tollo
Chiéti
Bracciano
Sutri
Lake
Eighth
Tiber
Monterotondo
Oliver Leese
Monteorotondo
Agosta
Palombara-Sabina
Tivoli
Spi
Civitella Oveto
Avezanno
Pola
Trieste
Nis
Yugoslavia
Mediterranean Army Air Force
Italian premier nominates anti fascist cabinet in Rome
Ivanoe Bonomi, 71, started forming a new cabinet to be wholly anti Fascist and exclude anyone linked to Mussolini. Marshal Badoglio, who resigned as premier, will not join. Bonomi previously led a brief 1922 government and led the Rome Liberation Committee.
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Rome
Ivanoe Bonomi
Benito Mussolini
Pietro Badoglio
Mas
Bonomi
Rome Committee of Liberation
Soci
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Great North Burma Base Slipping From Grip Of Nippon
Allied dispatch reports the Myitkyina operations as Italian style footwork combined with air strikes, with Lt Gen Joseph W Stilwell's forces pressing the North Myitkyina air field and Kohima road advances. Chinese infantry seize new positions inside Myitkyina and near Kohima while Japanese armor and infantry push toward Changsha amid broader Pacific action.
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Great North
Burma
William Phipps
Associated Press
Myitkyina
Great North Burma
Ledo
Japan
Joseph W.stilwell
Allied
Southeast Asia Command
Kohima
Imphal
Manipura
Hunan
Chungking
Chiang Kai-Shek
Caen Then and Now A Norman City Profile
Caen, once a great Norman town on the Cherbourg Paris railway, is a commercial city with 61,000 people. It hosts a university, law and science faculties, an academy, medicine and pharmacy prep, and arts schools. The castle, river basin, steamship links, and diverse industries mark its historic and present prominence.
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Caen
Normandy
Cherbourg-Paris
Paris
Calvados
William the Conqueror
Edward III
England
France
Orne
le Havre
Newhaven
Invasion Situation at Cherbourg Peninsula
The article notes a difficult invasion stage at Cherbourg with bad weather slowing the initial landings. It describes three phases: securing a foothold, engaging Hitlerian reserves, and Rommel’s expected major counterattack. The author stresses need for a port to sustain supplies and corrects misperceptions about the Atlantic wall defenses.
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Cherbourg
Rommel
Supreme Allied Headquarters
Allied push near Cherbourg and Caen tightens war effort
President Roosevelt said France war progress is slow but real as Allied forces strike near Cherbourg and Caen. Berlin radio hints at Vichy government shift while Canadian and British units press forward with armored assaults on Caen and surrounding fronts.
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Washington
Roosevelt
France
Paris Calm as Curfew Eased to 1 A.M. Amid Invasion
Berlin reports Paris calm despite invasion with curfew relaxed to 1 a.m. It notes food deliveries of 642 tons vegetables 415000 quarts milk 203 tons fruits and asserts bread for all consumers. Frontline news dominates the two pages described as "eaten up like hot cakes."
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Paris
Associated Press
Berlin
Allied Forces Breakout Push In Caen Front
Dispatches call the tank battle the biggest yet as Germans report hand to hand fighting in Caen. Central spearheads seize For Migny between Bayeux and Ste Mere Eglise, blocking Cherbourg links. Gen Omar Bradley ashore leads American forces with Canadian third division on the beachhead, now disclosed alongside the Sixth British Airborne First American and 50th Northumbrian divisions.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Cherbourg
Ste. Mere Eglise
France
Allied Headquarters
Caen
Formigny
Bayeux
Omar N. Bradley
French Aid Force Aids Cherbourg Invasion Efforts
French parachute troops assist the Cherbourg peninsula invasion guiding through terrain. Brig. Gen. Paul L. Williams of Detroit led planning for D Day air borne operations with the 9th Air Force troop carrier command. Allied warships patrol the coast while field artillery targets German pockets. weather hampers unloading but favors supply streams.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Cherbourg
Paul L. Williams
Detroit
9Th Airforce
Odie
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Pascagoula, Miss
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Morgan County War Price and Rationing Board
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Birmingham
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