Marines Reach Saipan West Coast Beachhead Aerial Bombardment Steps Toward Burma Road
Marines and soldiers established a beachhead on Saipan’s west coast near Aslito airfield on Wednesday, advancing to a fighter field depth of about two miles. American warships bombed nearby Guam as part of a broader Central Pacific push, while allied forces struck Japanese positions on Sorong and other bases in the area. The coordinated assaults, including heavy air and naval bombardment, aimed to reduce Japanese defenses ahead of further operations toward the Marianas and Burma Road.
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Bomes
Guam
Japan
New Guinea
Aslito
Ck Mitchell
Sorong
Douglas MacArthur
Central Pacific
China Coast
Adm
Chessmitz
Marianas
Southeast Asia
Burma Road
World War II air war shifts across oceans and fronts
The report notes widening Allied actions in France and the Pacific, with Japanese air defenses pressured by intensified bombing from Britain. It cites estimates of Japanese steel capacity losses and describes a broad radius for potential air strikes, signaling a sustained, global air war in motion.
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Hungking
Jamao
Philippines
Aleutian
Britain
Robots and Raiders Invasion Alarm Across England
Allied reports detail German robot planes crossing the channel into southern England during the night. The pilotless devices, jet propelled and armed, caused damage and casualties as Britain strengthened anti air defenses. Local shelters held and life continued despite the strange bombs.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Channel
England
Britain
Berlin
Stockholm
London
Rouen
France
Pas-De-Calais
Soviets Close on Viipuri As Finland Becomes Evacuation Hub
Soviet troops moved within about 25 miles of Viipuri from two directions, capturing Perkjarvi and Kuolemajarvi on rail routes. Viipuri was reported to be evacuated as Govorov’s forces, aided by planes and tanks, pressed the front on the Karelian Isthmus, widening the battle zone to over 65 miles.
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Viipuri
Perkjarvi
Karelian Isthmus
Kudemajarvi
Moscow
Finland
Leonid A. Govorov
Kuolemajarvi
Stockholm
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Red Army
Khmus
Raasuli
Govorov
Dagens Nyheter
Ahvenanmaa
Aland
Gulf of Bothnia
Siiranmaki
Tobacco Belt Farmers To Confer With Jones
Crowers and members of congress from the flue cured tobacco belt will confer with War Food Administrator Marvin Jones next Tuesday on the 1944 ceiling prices. The 1944 program will be discussed by the OPA with its tobacco industry advisory committee on Wednesday and Thursday, with results announced soon afterward.
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Washington
Crowers
Congress
Marvin Jones
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Tobacco Industry Advisory Committee
French Troops Seize Beachhead on Elba Island
French forces landed on Elba and secured a toehold as German resistance frayed. Allied units, including American and British naval support, pressed the operation to secure the island's coast and its 85 square miles amid the Piacenza-Rimini line advance.
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Elba
Nosa
Pisa
Florence-Rimini
Jean de Lattre de Tasighy
Berlin
Porto Ferraro
Associated Press
Joseph F. Dynan
Golfo di Campo
Untouched By Battle Bayeux Offers Many Luxuries
War dispatch from Bayeux France on June 15 describes a town spared fighting with shops full of beef vegetables wines cosmetics and silk stockings. German raid overhead but no damage observed as Allied soldiers browse windows and Paris refugees recount shortages and hardship.
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Bayeux
Roger Greene
France
Paris
Renoir
Dorsay
Lion Dor
Jacqueline
De Gaulle May Visit Washington Amid Recognition Debate
General Charles De Gaulle, head of France's provisional government, has advised President Roosevelt he hopes to visit Washington late this month or in July. The visit would honor De Gaulle with full dignitary treatment but stop short of official recognition. Officials see the trip as a potential step toward talks on occupation and a possible shift in U.S. stance on recognition.
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Charles de Gaulle
Provisional Government
France
United States
Roosevelt
White House
Blair House
State Department
de Gaulle
Dwight D. Eisenhower
French Republic
German Lines Give Way To Ninth Division
New York June 18 American troops closed the Cherbourg peninsula neck and reached the western coast. Ninth Division elements reached the sea north and south of Barneville and fought on the dunes, trapping tens of thousands of Germans between the allied advance and Cherbourg.
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New York
Cherbourg
le Seur
London
United States
Ninth Division
United States Army
Barneville
Allied Ninth infantry closes escape route at Cherbourg
American doughboys of the Ninth Division with aid from the Eighty Second Airborne break through German defenses on the Cherbourg peninsula. They seal the corridor along the western coast cutting off retreat for thousands of German troops. The advance from St Sauveur toward Besneville rapidly pushes the front, as transports and matériel are abandoned at a key crossroads.
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Normandy Front
France
Montebourg
St. Sauveur
Cherbourg
Calmont
Tilly
Caen
Ninth Infantry Division
Eighty- Second Airborne Division
Vonemy
Doughboys
Ninth Division
North
Africa
Sicily
Eighty-Second Airborne
Italy
Besneville
Barneville
la Hahy du Puits
Condition of S. H. Tomlin Reports Unchanged
The condition of S. H. Tomlin son a prominent High Point manufacturer who has been critically ill at his home for a week or more was reported last night as unchanged.
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S. H. Tomlinson
High Point
Arnall to Confer with Roosevelt in Washington
Governor Ellis Arnall announced plans to travel to Washington on Thursday to confer with President Roosevelt. He declined to specify the topics of discussion.
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Atlanta
Ellis Arnall
Washington
Roosevelt
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