Allies Press On Saipan And Bonin Islands Attacks
Allied forces push inland on Saipan after street by street fighting and capture of an airstrip. A separate task force conducted the first Bonin and Kazan island attack, destroying 47 planes, sinking two ships, and damaging ten as part of a sweeping operation from Paramushiro to Palau.
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Associated Press
U. 8
Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Saipan
Marianas
Japan
Paramushiro
Palau
King George VI Visits Normandy on First Trip
King George VI crossed the channel to the Normandy beachhead aboard the Arethusa and landed by amphibious craft to observe frontline actions. He joined Gen. Montgomery at advanced HQ and met Maj. Gen. Keller, commander of the British Empire’s Canadian third division, as shells flew overhead.
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London
George VI
Normandy
England
Arethusa
Louis Wulff
Reuters
Allied
Courselles
Hawkins
Fernand L. Montgomery
R. F. L. Keller
Keller
Kelowna
B. C
King George Page
Theater Ticket Ad Mentions Strand and Dixie Doors
Grafton Sentinel invites Mrs. Robert L. Arble to attend tonight’s Strand theatre program with Cary Grant and Janet Blair or the Dixie showing Henry Aldrich Wants a House and Wyoming Hurricane with Russell Hayden. Verification may be required.
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The
Grafton Sentinel
Robert L. Arble
West Boyd
Caryl Grant
Janet Blair
Strand Theatre
Henry Aldrich
Jimmy Don
Wyoming
Russell Hayden
Dixie Patre
Roy White Brownlow Park
Claudette Colbert
Ray Milland
Brian and
Rootin
Tootin
Smiley Burnette
Opera House
American Forces Land on Saipan in Marianas Offensive
Tokyo reports unconfirmed landing of U S troops on Saipan after a fierce air and sea assault. Fighting ongoing following landings from 20 transports. Saipan lies about 1 500 miles from Tokyo as war in the Marianas escalates.
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U. S
Tokyo
Saipan Island
Marianas
C International
Continuing CIO political actions in Senate inquiry
A Senate campaign expenditures committee continuing check on the CIO Political Action Committee was urged by Senator Ferguson as Senator Tunnell proposed broadening the inquiry to 15 other groups. CIO testified Roosevelt’s reelection support and a Washington meeting platform pledged to back his nomination and election.
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Associated Press
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
CIO
Ferguson
R.- Mich
Tunnell
Delaware
Starr Sillmen
PAC
Roosevelt
Washington
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Senate
the First Voters League, Inc
The
Constitutional League
Transportation Association of America
Friends of the Public Schools of America
Economists National Committee On Military Policy
American Taxpayers Association
National Farm Conference
Investors Fairplay League
Patriotic Research Bureau
Constitution Forever, Inc
Finnish Minister Procone Ordered to Leave United States
Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procone was held under guard at home and told to depart the United States soon due to actions deemed inimical to American interests. The move, not a diplomatic break, affected three Finnish counselors and their families, with no specifics disclosed.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Hjalmar J. Procone
State Department
United States
Procope— Findlanti
Finland
Legation
Hy S
Epen
Alexander Tresleff
Rev Patrick H McDermott Dies After Pedestrian Crash
In Clarksburg on June 17 the 81 year old Rev Patrick H McDermott rector of the Church of the Immaculate Conception was fatally injured when struck by a milk truck while crossing the street toward his church.
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Clarksburg
Patrick H. McDermott
Church of the Immaculate Conception
West Virginia
French Land On Elba As Allied Forces Move In
Allied communique reports French forces landed on Elba led by Maj. Gen. Jean De Lattre De Lassigny and secured the island for the Allies. Fighter-bombers blasted targets on Elba while on the Italian mainland the Eighth Army seized Foligno Spoleto and Trevi reaching toward Perugia as British troops push toward central Italy.
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Lynn Heinzerling
Rome
Elba
Napoleon
Jean de Lattre de Lassigny
Corsica
Portoferraio
Marino di Campo
Porto Longone
Eighth Army
Foligno
Terni
Spoleto
Trev
Perugia
Hich
Florence
Tod
Nazis New Explosive Robot Planes Strike Southern England
German explosive robot planes crossed the channel in quiet weather and carried out intermittent attacks through the night and morning in southern England. A direct hit on a nurses home at a hospital killed several and injured others. rescuers feared more burials. A shop wreck trapped four for six hours in a cellar, flames hampered rescue. British and American air offensives continued along the Pas de Calais coast. Fast night fighters roved the skies dropping flares to confuse Allied observers.
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James F. King
London
Germany
English Channel
England
Ping
Pas-De-Calais
Chinese 22nd Division Captures Kamaing Base in Burma
Chinese 22nd division seizes Kamaing, a major base 40 miles northeast of Kyitkyina, as forces from China push toward Burma. Lauhkum falls 50 miles northeast of Myitkyina, forming a China Burma link. Allied gains reported around Myitkyina amid seven day siege developments.
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Kamaing
Southern Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
Kyitkyina
Burma
China
Lauhkum
Myitkyina
Associated Press
William F. Boni
Boni
Joseph W. Stillwell
Kaming
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Mogaung
Great Arc Of Nazi Air Bases Hit By Allied Planes
Allied heavy bombers struck six German airfields in a broad arc from southern Normandy to near Boulogne. About 1,000 bombers hit targets around Pas de Calais and the Cherbourg peninsula while fighter aircraft attacked convoys and bridges. Several planes did not return.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Normandy
Pari
Boulogne
Britain
Pas-De-Calais
France
Cherbough Penisula
Pacific War News From The Front Races Toward Return to Philippines
The War Today surveys rapid Allied moves in the Pacific as MacArthur eyes a promised return to the Philippines. Nimitz clears the flanks from the Marshalls toward Truk with the Marianas offensive pushing to Palau, signaling a major shift in strategy and the possible end of island hopping.
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J. M. Roberts, Jr
Dewitt MacKenzie
Roosevelt
de Gaulle
Russia
Pacific
New Guinea
Kuriles
MacArthur
Nimitz
Philippines
Tarawa
Marianas
Marshalls
Truk
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Palau
McArthurs
Drive to cut Cherbourg escalates as Americans press siege
Supreme headquarters report says American troops closed the last escape road from Cherbourg by artillery fire while fighting west of Carentan and near La Haye du Puits. Forces north seized St. Sauveur Le Vicomte and Montebourg fell. pilots observed German trucks moving south as Bradley’s six divisions press the peninsula.
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Cape
U. S
Carentan
la Haye du Puits
Cherbourg
St. Sauveur le Vicomte
Montebourg
Sevastopol
Crimea
Omar N. Bradley
Americans Report Casualties After Normandy Invasion
General Omar Bradley announced 3263 killed and 1200 wounded as American forces opened the Normandy campaign. He cited 16,883 total casualties in the first 11 days, praising the doughboys for their beachhead effort and noting higher losses on the central beachhead than expected while western peninsula casualties were lower.
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Normandy
Omer N. Bradley
Bradley
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