Americans Open Pacific Offensive to Pressure Vichy
Martinique high commissioner Admiral Georges Robert reportedly invited the United States to name an envoy to fix terms for a change of French authority on the island. He urged guarantees of French sovereignty and non intervention by the United States. The broadcast noted bloodshed would be avoided, while Washington officials offered no comment on the envoy request. In a separate case, Erwin Harry DeSpretter and Ernest Lehmitz pleaded guilty to espionage for Germany. Both men faced $850,000 bonds.
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New York
Martinique
Georges Robert
United States
Federal Communications Commission
Guadeloupe
San Juan
Puerto Rico
10Th Naval District
Washington
Robert
State Department
Henri Giraud
Vichy
Caribbean
Frwin Harry DeSpretter
FBI
Ernest Frederick Lehmitz
U. S
Lehmitz
Four Axis Air Fields Blasted In Big Foray
Allied bombers and fighter bombers struck Palermo and four Axis air fields in Sicily yesterday with minimal enemy resistance. The Italian high command reported great damage and casualties at Palermo while fires broke out at Cagliari. Submarine activity continued to press air supply lines, and RAF and US planes scored multiple direct hits on Sicilian targets and airfields.
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Noland Norgaard
North Africa
United States
Northwest African Air Force
Palermo
Sicily
Italian High Command
Rome
Associated Press
Cagliari
London Admiralty
Messina
San Giovanni
Sicilian
Sciacca
Boca di Falco
War Briefs Point to Pacific Drive and Invasion Hopes
The piece notes American initiative in the Pacific aiming to move westward toward New Britain and northeast New Guinea with two major bases as targets. It adds Churchill’s hint of heavy fighting in the Mediterranean and beyond, suggesting a possible European front before autumn and potential invasions of Sicily and Sardinia.
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Washington
Pacific
New Britain
New Guinea
Churchill
Mediterranean
Europe
Western
United States
England
America
Britain
Russia
Hitler
Germany
der Fuehrer
Ancestay
Sicily
Herpans Sardinia
Ans
U S Buyers Withdraw From Spud Market In North Carolina
Raleigh July 1 The Federal Surplus Commodity Credit Corporation withdrew buyers after funds ran out. Only about five thousand five hundred twenty carloads of potatoes shipped from eleven thousand potential. Potatoes dug risk spoilage without cold storage. officials urge 22 percent production boost.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Federal
State Agricultural Department
Broughton
Agriculture Department
G. T. Scott
State War Board
FSCC
Cournarie Appointed Governor General of French West Africa
Algiers reports Pierre Charles Cournarie named to succeed Pierre Boisson as governor general of French West Africa home to the Dakar naval base. Cournarie had previously governed the Cameroons under General De Gaulle to whom this November 1940 appointment is linked.
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Algiers
French Committee of Natural Liberation
Pierre Charles Cournarie
Pierre Boisson
French West Africa
Dakar
Cournarie
Cameroons
Charles de Gaulle
More Coal Miners Return to Pits Across Regions
Pittsburgh July 1 1941 Thousands of hard coal miners returned to the pits in eastern Pennsylvania and several thousand soft coal workers in Alabama reducing idle miners nationwide to about 104000. Most hard coal workers were in United Mine Workers District No 1 following votes to resume work. About 30000 idle in the anthracite field and 83000 total nationwide remain idle. Ickes urged miners not to stay away on the eve of a major military campaign.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Alabama
United Mine Workers District
Ickes
Congress Backs Ban on Grade Labeling Rules
Washington reports the house and senate agree to prohibit using war agency funds to promulgate or enforce orders requiring grade labeling or standardization of food, apparel, or other commodities. The $2.931 billion war agencies appropriation carries the prohibition without a record vote yesterday.
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Washington
House
Senate
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Paris Radio Hints Allied Invasion Slated July 3
Paris radio, controlled by the German side, claims British troops moved from northern England and Ireland to southern England in anticipation of events on July 3. Axis broadcasts speculate on invasion timing while European newspapers discuss Churchill's forecast of heavy fighting in the Mediterranean and elsewhere before autumn.
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Paris Radio Voices
London
Paris
England
Ireland
Axis
Associated Press
Solomons
Europe
Churchill
Mediterranean
London Daily Herald
Mars
The
Daily Star
Western Europe
Daily Mail
Berlin
Stockholm
Churchil
De Valera Reelected Prime Minister of Eire
Eamon De Valera was reelected Prime Minister of Eire by a 67 to 37 majority in the Dail's first meeting after the June 22 general election. His opponent was William Cosgrave of Fine Gael. The vote followed debates over suspending party lines for a national emergency government.
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Dublin
Eamon de Valera
Eire
Dail
William Cosgrave
Fine Gael
de Valera
British U S Ask French Chiefs to Make No Changes
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons that Britain and the United States urged Generals De Gaulle and Giraud on June 19 to assure General Eisenhower that the French military commander in North Africa remains in effective control. The move aims to prevent changes that could disrupt Allied operations and the war effort. Churchill noted the request was military in basis and not a decision to place political power under Eisenhower. The statement echoed a June 27 Washington dispatch and stressed French unity in the fight against the Axis.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
de Gaulle
Giraud
North Africa
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Algiers
French Committee of National Liberation
Eisenhower
Washington
Kirke Simpson
Associated Press
Commons
France
New Guinea Island Bases Fall To Yanks
American forces capture Viru Harbor near Munda airbase after a fierce sea and air battle off Rendova Island. The central Solomons drive supports MacArthur advances toward Rabaul as Japan mounts a heavy counterattack with at least 65 planes downed and 17 U.S. aircraft missing. Commander Robert Henry Rogers of Knoxville, Tennessee, is reported lost with his ship sunk after enemy torpedo and air attacks.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Solomons
Viru Harbor
Japan
Munda
Navy
Rendova Island
United States
Viru
New Georgia Island
MacArthur
Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
Rabaul
Stimson
Mitchell
Dauntless
Avenger
Munday
Robert Henry Rogers
Knoxville
Tenn
Major Avenue
Arrochar
Staten Island
N.Y
MacArthur Leads New Pacific Offensive Across Three Fronts
Allied forces under General Douglas MacArthur launch a coordinated land, sea, and air push in the Southwest and South Pacific. Landings target Ren dova and New Georgia in the Solomons while unopposed landings occur at Trobri and Woodlark Islands near New Guinea, with Nassau Bay operations near Salamaua.
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Pacific
General McArthur
Supreme Command
New Guinea
Salamaua
U.S
Rendova
New Georgia Islands
Allied
Australia
South
Southwest
Douglas MacArthur
Supreme Command of Operations
Solomone
MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
McArthur
William F. Halsey
South Pacific
New Georgia
Iee
Japan
Munda
Solomon Islands
Rabaul
New Britain Island
Dampier Strait
Nassau Bay
Allied Air Powers Deliver Record June Bombing Across Europe
Allied air forces from Britain and the United States mounted a near continuous assault in June from bases in Britain Africa and the Middle East. RAF and US bombers dropped an estimated 13 500 tons with a focus on the Ruhr and Italy's islands Panterlleria Lampedusa Linosa Lampione. The Italian surrender on Panterlleria June 11 marked a historic air power success.
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Telleria
Lampedusa
Linosa
Lampione
Italy
Sicily
Sardinia
RAF
Ruhr
Hitler
Athens
Salonika
Balkan
Britain
Africa
Harold H. Balfour
Air
House of Commons
Germany
Duesselhof
Midwest Nearer to Tighter Gas Rationing
Secretary Ickes said the Midwest was closer to stricter gasoline limits and the Pacific Coast would likely face harsher curbs by year’s end. He cited the Big Inch pipeline eastward extension and rising military demand as factors tightening supplies, with oil deficits forecast for the West Coast and continued civilian-use reductions possible.
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Washington
Ickes
Midwest
Pacific Coast
Big Inch
Ile
California
Mississippi River
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Martinque
French Committee For National Liberation
Rawlinson Range
Guinea
Morobe
Marshall
Truk Ponape
Caroline Islands
Coral Sea
Deinzerhobe
Huon Gulf
Pacific Ocean
Gilbert IS
New Hebrides
New Caledonia
Boisson
Solons
Emanuel Shinwell
Island
Mitsubishi
Aichi
McCalley
Grace Line
Santa Barbara
Vesel
Solmons
Vila
Keelombangara Island
Communiqque Navy Communique
Avengers
Gruman Rbf
Douglas
Kolobangara Island
Ial
M’‘Arthur
Trobriand
Woodlark
Middle East
Pan
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