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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1944
Page
1
Partly cloudy Sunday and Monday with widely scattered afternoon thundershowers. The state’s outlook included a high of 88, and various local health and transport updates followed, detailing hospital visits, clinic stays, and ambulance moves. People such as Charles E. Garrett, Leon Anders, and Mrs. J. A. West appear in routine welfare items alongside wartime price administration appeals.
Allied reports from London say French resistance grows across France with sabotage and insurgent actions behind German lines. Frontline dispatches note 2,000 Germans engaged in the Vosges region as Maquis fighters strike near Bourg and Macon and railways are damaged to hinder troop movements.
Governor J. Melville Broughton of North Carolina announces his bid for the Democratic vice presidential nomination in New York. He argues the public will reelect Roosevelt and that the campaign will hinge on war conduct and peace negotiations. He predicts a party plank against federal encroachment on states rights will calm Southern Democrats at risk of bolts from the New Deal.
Accurate Allied naval gunfire routed a Japanese destroyer force in a brief night engagement off Northwestern New Guinea. U S and Australian ships chased the fleeing Japanese for about 90 minutes and possibly damaged one vessel. Japanese troops abandoned by their escort were wiped out by U S ships.
The fifth war loan launches at 8:30 a.m. with a Decatur house to house canvass. Under county chairman Ewell Gregg Morgan County organizes nine divisions led by chairmen such as Vernon McGwier and W. S. Hunter. Zone women’s meetings and two extra issuing points at Central Methodist church and Westside grocery facilitate bond delivery.
A joint congressional committee settled all differences and approved a broad GI Bill program providing hospitalization education and job placement aid for veterans of this war. The measure, expected to pass Congress next week, could cost an estimated 3 to 6.5 billion dollars.
The Morgan County post of the American Legion will elect officers Monday at eight in the post hall on Second Avenue. All members are urged to vote for the new lineup for the year ahead. Light refreshments will be served and recently discharged service members eligible for membership are invited to bring their cards.
First Lt. Weldon James reports German troops used a white flag ruse to lure Rangers into a deadly trap off the French coast aboard the USS Texas. Lt. James R. McCullers and Lt. Kenneth E. Norton led the shore fire team in a briefing on the grim encounter and the fatal losses.
Berlin and Moscow clash over front events as Russians reportedly launch a general offensive on the Karelian isthmus above Leningrad aided by heavy artillery and air power. Berlin cautions that it is too early to judge the strategic significance of the blow.
Allied forces and German troops clash around a village northeast of Viterbo as the fifth army presses a rapid advance north of Rome. Air forces claim 2,700 sorties destroying 246 motor vehicles and 300 rail cars while 22,000 prisoners have been taken in three weeks.
Allied forces break inland from the Caen to Montebourg front, with American troops seizing Isigny and Trevieres while closing on Carentan. German resistance stiffens near Cherbourg, and air superiority aids the drive.
Report from General Eisenhower headquarters states two American destroyers were the only U S Navy losses through the fourth day of the invasion. The detail underscores the heavy combat pace and strategic resilience of allied forces as operations continued.
Allied air power supported the invasion with bases on French beachheads and nearly 2,000 U S fighter planes in the air. Heavy bombers roared over the channel after a 15 hour lull as Liberators and Marauders struck enemy rail and road targets behind the battle zone in Normandy and the tireless Marauders rained down heavy bombs. Radios suspended signaling continued assault through the night as Paris and Berlin reported nuisance raids into Western Continental areas.
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