US Airmen Bay 39 Enemy Planes In Raid
Allied air force in North Africa reports forty enemy planes downed in Sicily and Sardinia operations. Major Gen. James H. Doolittle leads a heavy raid, with 39 enemy aircraft shot down, and eight American planes lost. Attacks hit Messina Milo Sardinia airfields and shipping, with significant strikes on Golfo Aranci docks and rail yards.
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North Africa
Pantelleria
Sicily
Sardinia
James H. Doolittle
Strategic Air Force
Northwest African Air Command
Mussolini
Messina
Milo
Middle East
Golfo Aranci
Trapani
Villacidre
Olbia
Middle East Air Command
Comiso
Greece
Malta
Italy
Tactical
Berlin
Rome
Algerian
Senate Moves To Save Food Subsidy Plan
In Washington the administration pressed in the Senate to salvage the food subsidy program after a House revolt cut off $35 million for OPA and blocked funds for OWI. Senator Hill and McKellar voiced caution on subsidies while Nye urged breaking the bottleneck to allow prices to rise, and Taft urged a direct Senate showdown on the issue.
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Washington
Alabama
House
Office of War Information
OWI
Elmer Davis
Hill
McKellar
Senate Appropriations Committee
Davis
Nye
North Dakota
Appropriations Committee
OPA
Congress
D-Tenn
Ohio
Taft
Reconstruction Finance Corp
RFC
Nazis tighten controls as French resistance fears grow
A Paris dispatch to Lausanne Tribune reports Nazi officials imposing stricter measures against any signs of French resistance after talks of unifying De Gaullist and Giraud forces in Algiers. French fears of a large recruitment drive and new police sweeps are noted as the regime faces coordinated opposition. Lake Lure Inn and administration building seized by U.S. government for Third Air Force personnel test center in the eastern United States.
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Bern
Avis
Algiers
France
Paris
Lausanne
Tony
de Gaullist
Giraud
Axis
African National Committee of Liberation
Pierre Laval
Germany
Lake Lure
United States
Third Air Force
Tampa
Fla
Lend lease aid reaches 790 million in May totals
Washington reports May lending of 790 million dollars, lifting total Lend Lease aid since program start to 11.893 billion. Edward Steitinius Jr notes 9.93 billion of goods transferred and 1.9639 billion for services including ship rental and repair.
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Washington
Edward R. Steitinius, Jr
Flying Forts Hit Rabaul as Allied Raids Intensify
Allied headquarters in Australia reported 33 tons of bombs dropped on Rabaul New Britain by Flying Fortresses and Liberators in five raids totaling 145 tons. Attacks targeted Vunakarau airdrome and ground aircraft setting fires and a large fuel dump blaze visible for miles. The Bena Bena and Buna areas in New Guinea also faced Japanese raids as the sector gains prominence in daily communiques.
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Rabaul
New Britain
High Command
Vunakarau
Truk
Southwest Pacific
New Guinea
Port Moresby
Bena Bena
Lae
Mubo
Salamaua
Buna
Soviets Confident of Defeating Axis Soon
Moscow reports two year war hardship has forged strong belief in victory. Stalin’s May Day order boosted morale as Allies and Russians press toward the invasion of Europe after successes in Africa and the fall of Pantelleria. Russian optimism centers on a forthcoming second front and continued Anglo American cooperation.
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Europe
Axis
Turkey
Vichy
Algiers
Rome
North
Africa
Berlin
Ankara
Levant
Syria
Rumania
Stockholm
Sweden
William McGaffin
Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Hitler
Stalin
Pantelleria
American general eyed for new East Asia command
Unofficial observers in London suggest an American general listed alongside British officers for the post of commander in chief of a forthcoming East Asia military command. Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell amid Orient duties is the leading American in the area, with a decision expected in days.
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Henry B. Jameson
London
East Asia
Japan
Archibald P. Wavell
India
Claude Auchinleck
Wavell
Orient
Joseph W. Stilwell
U. S
China
Burma
No. 10 Downing Street
Auchinleck
Germans Make Feeble Raid on London
Londoners heard air raid sirens before 1 a.m. as a small German raid crossed. The air ministry reported four Mosquito bombers attacked eight Junkers 88s over the Bay of Biscay last night, shooting down one and damaging at least three.
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London
Air Ministry
Bay of Biscay
Amphibious Force to Lead Major Invasion Plans
The Navy announced a powerful army navy amphibious force ready to spearhead a major invasion of Hitler Europe. Units already serving in the Pacific under Rear Admiral Rockwell and Rear Admiral Kirk in the Atlantic are training to unify army and navy practices and operate joint land sea and air missions.
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Washington
Army Navy
Hitler
Europe
Navy Department
Pacific
Attu Island
Francis W. Rockwell
Amphibious Force
Pacific Fleet
Rockwell
Atlantic
Alan G. Kirk
Navy
Kirk
Army
Special Corps
Solomons
North Africa
Aleutians
Vital Decision Faces Coal Men: Deadline Nears
Washington reports another coal strike spreading as John L. Lewis and operators pause bargaining until Sunday at 11 am. No wage agreement evident after talks on the War Labor Board ruling against portal-to-portal pay in soft coal. About 50,000 miners, a tenth of the workforce, have quit ahead of the midnight end of a truce.
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Associated Press
Washington
John L. Lewis
War Labor Board
Lewis
United Mine Workers
WLB
UMW
Red Bombers Attack Nazi Air Fields
Soviet reports claim long range bombers hit German airbases near Bryansk and Orel, spreading fires at depots and repair shops while returning safely. French pilots, part of the Normandy Squadron, claimed several air wins as Soviet forces reported gains near Mtsensk and Leningrad with heavy ground and air actions across the Caucasus.
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London
Bryansk
Orel
Moscow
Mtsensk
Leningrad
Berlin
Associated Press
Caucasus
Kuban
Mussolini Cabinets War Conference Amid Invasion Talks
Reports from London and Algiers say Mussolini convened a war council as air strikes hit Pantelleria and Italy placed nine provinces under martial law. A Reuters note claimed Crown Prince Umberto and Marshal Badoglio sought Allied terms, but officials offered no confirmation.
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London
Axis
Algiers
Mussolini
Pantelleria
Sicily
Sardinia
Rome
Reuters
Umberto
Pietro Madeglo
Story Of Super Weapon Radar Begins Monday
AP reporter John M. Hightower presents the hidden rise of radar the Army and Navy eyes in a six installment series starting Monday June 21 in The Enterprise. The feature recalls radar's role at Guadalcanal Aleutians and anti submarine campaigns and notes Britain's use in the Battle of Britain.
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Super Weapon
Guadalcanal
Aleutians
Britain
Associated Press
John M. Hightower
Washington
Naval Review
Enterprise
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