Soviet Red Air and Ground Push Crush German Bulge
Moscow reports one of the war’s fiercest air offensives as Red air fleets strike German reserves and bridges. Four Soviet fronts converge on the Minsk gateway to Warsaw with attacks along a 250 mile front, pressing toward Orsha Mogilev and Dobruisk while Cherniakhovsky is praised as the youngest Soviet general.
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Moscow
Germany
Orsha
Mogilev
Bobruisk
Minsk
Warsaw
Hitler
Reich
Bulge
Red
CBS
Vitebsk
Vershinin
Prominen
Levant
Timofey Kruikin
Sergei I. Rudenko
Ni. P. Papivin
Stormovich
Ivan Bargramian
Baltic
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
White Russia
Cherniakhovsky
Soviet Union
G. F. Zakyarov
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Berezina
Dobruisk
Zhlobin
St. Nicholas
Kzvestia
Abraham Roben
Eeach
Red Army
Murmansk-Leningrad
Izvestia
Nikolai Konovalon
Svir
Berlin
Bombers Engage Across Europe Amid Varied Operations
Allied air forces conduct bombardments from Budapest to Brod and northern France with heavy American and British aircraft targeting oil plants and military sites. Casualties reported as the fight shifts, while unrelated Wilson area fatalities and polio cases are noted in separate briefs.
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KCON
Budapest
Yugoslav
Brod
U. K
Russia
Poland
France
Britain
Gottingen
Caen
Nor
Telegrams describe Allied push and Soviet drive on front
Fragmentary World War II report notes Allied massing near Cherbourg and a major Soviet operation shaping the Gomel Gomel-Kowel sector. It mentions advances toward Minsk Orsha Polotsk and a Maglevy bulge, with Red Army forces enacting threatened envelopment to trap German units northeast of Kowel.
Cherbourg Falls to Doughboys as Prisoners Pile Up
American forces capture thousands of German prisoners at Cherbourg with about 9 000 surrendering yesterday and 1 000 wounded found in a field hospital. Von Schlieben and Hennecke surrendered with 800 men after long denial.
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Cherbourg
Hardiinvast
Armany
Gams
Carl Wilhelm von Schlieben
Adm
Hennecke
von Schlieben
von Schiieben
New Tires Delayed for A Card Motorists in 1945
Washington June 27 Rationing Chief Charles F Phillips says new tires for A card motorists likely will not be available until early 1945 instead of this fall due to a large backlog of applications since May 1 when RB card drivers became eligible. He notes demand exceeds expectations and that tires for A drivers will follow B card allocations once monthly quotas reach 7 000 000, with release delayed by about three months after that level is reached.
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Washington
Charles F. Phillips
Office of Price Administration
Phillips
Bluff Fleet Deployed by Allies On D-Day
The Allies sent a diversion fleet to Calais Boulogne to draw German air forces from Normandy. Commander Anthony Kimmins, a British naval intelligence officer, said the ships suffered little damage and that Berlin anticipated the invasion in the Calais region. He noted that final German defense plans may reveal they expected an assault there.
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New York
Calais-Boulogne
D-day
Normandy
Comdr
Anthony Kimmins
New York Times
Kimmins
Marines Fight For Capital Of Marianas
American forces continue assaults on Garapan Saipan capitalizing on new artillery and air strikes. Marines reach Mount Tapotchau peak routing Japanese defenders from caves as Fleet operations report limited activity with raids extending from the Kuriles to the Marshalls.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Saipan
Garapan
Japanese Marianas
Kurile Islands
North Pacific
New Guinea
Solomons
Equator
Guam
Rota Islands
Marianas
Philippines
Rota
1Th Army Air Force
Navy
Paramushiro
Shimushu
Kuriles
Marshalls
Army
Truk
Carolines
Tapotchau
Ameri
Warren Urged To Team With Gov. Dewey
In Chicago on June 17 1944 the Republican platform committee kept a peace forces plank and pledged to bring home armed service members after hostilities. California delegation pressed Warren to accept the vice presidency and ally with Dewey to regain the White House.
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Warren
Chicago
Republican Platform Committee
Wendell Willkie
Willkie
Platform
Earl Warren
California
Thomas FE
Dewey
White House
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Fe T Griswold
Nebraska
Gov
Green
Hlinois
Lifornia
Local Woman Shot by Husband During Rat Shooting
Mrs. W. N. Swett of 115 Dalton street is in serious but improving condition at High Point Memorial hospital after a accidental .22 caliber rifle bullet pierced her left arm and entered the abdomen. Swett, a barber, said he handed the gun to his wife during a rat shooting at their home when it discharged.
Enduring Peace Forecast By Republican Chairman
Republican Chairman Jeaneentnet Seca announces at national convention the party will save constitutional government at home and build an enduring peace. Martin, House minority leader, warns the New Deal era faces reckoning as radicals and communist groups seek control.
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Jeaneentnet Seca
Rs Napbcte
Martin
Daleastes
Earl Browder
Sidney Hillman
CIO
Roosevelt
Congress
America
War shortages bite furniture makers in 1944
Grand Rapids state report from Seidman and Seidman shows wood furniture production held firm but shortages bite. May bookings rose 33 percent from April and 11 percent from May 1943, while May shipments edged up 8 percent from April and 4 percent from May last year. Unfilled orders up 8 percent from May 1943, and five month payrolls fell 9 percent from 1943.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Seidman
Nazis Admit Losses as Cherbourg Standoff Continues
Berlin radio acknowledged that Cherbourg's arsenal and harbor remain stubbornly held by German forces, but stated that troops inside the town were driven back after the fiercest fighting by large attacking crowds.
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London
Berlin
Cherbourg
British casualties in Italian campaign total 73 122
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons that British deaths and losses from the landings in Italy to the fall of Rome totaled 73 122. The period spans about ten months ending June 4 with actions including Cassino and the Anzio beach head. He cited 14 331 killed 47 966 wounded and 10 825 missing.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons Today
Haly
Rome
Cassino
Anzio
Fear Daniel's Death Was Not Accidental
J B Daniel 38 of Archdale Carolina Machine Works worker and Archdale resident died in Beaver Dam Lake near the Montgomery county line Davidson county officers investigates possible non accidental death after a coroner's inquest continued.
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J. B. Daniel
Tator
Carolina Machine Works
Archdale
Davidson County
Daniel
Beaver Dam Lake
Thomasville
Montgomery County
Cherbourg falls as Allied forces push into Caen front
Allied troops complete the Cherbourg harbor capture, with German units including von Schlieben and Hennecke captured. British forces drive toward Caen, taking La Gualle Cheux and St Manvieu as Montgomery’s offensive widens from Tilly-Sur-Seulles.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Cherbourg
Normandy
Caen
Doughboys
Carl Wilhelm von Schlieben
Hennecke
Europe
Bernard L. Montgomery
Tilly-Sur-Seulles
la Gualle
Cheux
St. Manvieu
Tilly
Montgomery
Ciseteee
Omar N. Bradley
France
Germany
Maupertus
Cap de la Hague
Bradley
Mont
Second Rescue Party Prepares For Grand Canyon Airmen
A second rescue party leaves Grand Canyon rim to reach the Tonto plateau where three airmen who bailed from a bomber rest 500 feet above the Colorado River. Four park rangers and 12 mules descend toward the river bank as planes drop supplies and a base is established to guide the men to safety. The airmen are Second Lt. Charles Goldblum Flight Officer Maurice J Cruickshank Jr and Cpl Roy W Embanks.
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Grand Canyon
Ariz
Tonto Plateau
Colorado River
Charles Goldblum
Pittsburgh
Maurice J. Cruickshank, Jr
Lawrence
Mass
Roy W. Embanks
Kalispell
Mont
Grand Canyon Village
Chasm
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