Allied Phase One Invasion Secured At Cherbourg
Allied forces report the first phase of the invasion near Cherbourg is complete after heavy fighting and securing a foothold. Reinforcements by sea and air bolster the spearhead as Berlin warns of a pincers threat and the Allies prepare for the second stage against Nazi tactical reserves and looming strategic reserves.
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Bayeux
Berlin
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Supreme Headquarters
Massive Allied air raid targets Normandy targets
Allied air forces launched a large raid on south Normandy early today with 750 to 1000 heavy bombers smashing bridges airdromes and rail yards. Fortresses and Liberators attacked installations up to 160 miles behind the front while Caen faced dawn raids on the Cherbourg Paris railway line. RAF strikes hit rail targets near Paris and German transports behind the lines.
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W. W. Hercher
Supreme Headquarters
Alliedtionary Force
Normandy
Caen
Cherbourg
Paris
Picea
Changes in neutral nations positions foretold
Washington reports Allied invasion forces eroding Hitler's defenses and major shifts in neutral nations stance may come within 10 days as Allied and German reserves clash. Skeptical leaders like Franco of Spain and others are urged to be convinced of victory, potentially turning invasion efforts into a land campaign.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Hitler
Europe
Allid
Mter
Theatre listing for cross of Lorraine and more at two theatres
The Grafton Sentinel invites W H Wolfe of West Main Street to tonight’s Strand showing Cross of Lorraine with Jean Pierre Aumont and Gene Kelly or Under ground Guerrillas with John Clements and Godfrey Tearle, and Radio Ranch with Gene Autry at the Dixie theatre.
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Grafton Sentinel
W. H. Wolfe
Rise and fall of Hitler's empire in World War II maps
From early expansion in Austria to the Nazi dream of empire, the article traces three years of rapid Nazi growth, the turning tide, and the coalition of democracies that began to crush the common enemy. Geopolitical maps highlight the rise and decline of the Nazi regime and its global ambitions.
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Democrats Counter GOP Demand For CIO Politics Probe
In Washington on June 8, Democrats pushed back against Republican calls for a Senate inquiry into the CIO Political Action Committee. Senator Tunnell warned of a parallel inquiry into GOP groups, while CIO head Sidney Hillman said the CIO committee complies with the Smith Connally act and denied Hatch Act or corrupt practices violations. Senator Ball urged renewed scrutiny of CIO expenditures, noting constitutional limits on labor political spending.
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Eisenhower and Allied Chiefs Confer On D Day Voyage
Supreme Headquarters reports Gen. Eisenhower and Admiral Ramsay paused a four and a half hour cruise off the French invasion beaches to aid a drifting landing barge in need of help. The rescue was relayed to the next ship and the leaders continued toward a conference with Montgomery and Goodrich as thousands of ships lingered offshore. The supreme commander left an English town and the meeting occurred within five miles of the invasion area as operations continued.
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Allied Expeditionary Force
Eisenhower
Bertram Ramsey
Ramsay
Eiesenhower
France
Bernard L. Montgomery
Alan Goodrich
German Prisoners Marched To Camp
London reports the first large group of German prisoners from northern France were landed last night at an invasion port in England. Officers and men, including four Poles drafted by the Nazis, were marched to waiting trucks under an armed guard for undisclosed relocation.
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France
England
Chesslike clash looms in Cherbourg battle duel Rommel Montgomery
The War Today analyzes the Cherbourg invasion with Rommel and Montgomery as rival tacticians. Local German counterattacks intensify as Rommel appears cautious, awaiting a major red thrust before massing a big army. Page 2 details the evolving conflict and air power concerns.
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Associated Press
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Montgomery
Hitler
Europe
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Pope Pius XI Meets General Clark in Vatican Library
In Rome on June 8 Pope Pius XI and Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark discussed peace goals in a ten minute audience in the Vatican library. Clark then met other Fifth Army officials and visited St. Peter's. The pope urged reporters to pursue a peace acceptable to all peoples and dignified by human rights.
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Edgar E. Hume
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St. Peter's Church
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Pittsburgh
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15000 Striking Airplane Plant Workers Face Job Loss
About 15,000 workers at Wright Aeronautical Corporation in Lockland Ohio faced job loss if they did not return to work by tomorrow after a three day strike. Plant manager William D Kennedy said strikers would be charged if they failed to resume production. The dispute followed the transfer of seven Negro workers to a department formerly white staffed amid a broader national labor stoppage affecting multiple industries.
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Lockland
Ohio
William D. Kennedy
Kennedy
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Obear- Nester Glass Company
Allies Take Civitavecchia and Bracciano Fronts North of Rome
June 8 report by Noland Norgaard from Rome says Fifth Army captur ed Civitavecchia, Rome’s main port, 38 miles NW of the capital, as forces push up the west coast to contact retreating Germans. Bracciano, 20 miles north of Rome on the east lake shore, fell to northern detachments amid disorganized German remnants and mass prisoner captures including about 40 Wehrmacht formations. Allied advance also seized Field Marshal Keitel’s former HQ near Civita Castellana, described as a tunnelled underground stronghold, now under Allied control.
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Noland Norgaard
Rome
Fifth Army
Civitavecchia
Bracciano
14Th Army
Albert Ke
Civita Castellana
Special Father's Day Service Sunday June 11
A special Father s Day service is set for Sunday June 11 at 10 30 AM led by speaker J Blackburn at Ware Philippi 1 B Church in Philadelphia.
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Philippi
B. Church
West Virginia brief highlights from state travel, prison escapes, Boys State
West Virginia reports show official travel by passenger cars on state business fell 32.7 percent in the first quarter of 1944 from prewar levels, with estimated savings in actual expense at 90 788 and conserved resources. In Moundsville a prison road camp escape was reported involving three inmates with terms up to 18 years. At Jackson’s Mill a newly organized Boys State legislature began, naming Roy Hale as Senate president and Jack Gibson as clerk, with Bob Means elected House speaker and James Vassar as clerk.
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Paul Edward Smith
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McDowell County
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Mississippi joins states urging white supremacy stance in Democratic primaries
Mississippi and Georgia Democrats push to bind electors to demands against the national nominee. Texas and South Carolina conventions call for anti-tax and racial equality planks and restore two thirds nominating rule. Voters face a polarized party realignment as conventions shape presidential support and states rights rhetoric.
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Associated Press
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