Allied air and naval actions strike Naples and Sicily
Allied headquarters report Neapolitan bomber raids on the Naples dock area and industrial plants after naval and aerial combat over the western Italian coast. Axis planes were shot down in clashes as Messina endures fresh bombing. Italian and Paris broadcasts note German movement near the Aegean and Greek islands.
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Africa
Wellington
Naples
Rome
Associated Press
Gerbini
Catania
Beggio Calabria
Reggio Calabria
Sicily
Bizerte
Messina
Algiers
Reuters
Madrid
Arriba
Paris
Bosphorus
Black Sea
Aegean
Reuter
Ankara
Bombers Make New Sweep On French Targets
A large force of United States heavy bombers attacked targets in France in a round the clock aerial offensive. RAF Spitfires and Typhoons sank two German ships and forced another to beach off the Dutch coast. One RAF plane was lost.
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London
France
United States Army
Boulogne
Calais
RAF
Air Ministry
High Command
Bombers Hit Kiska 16th Time in Three Days
American heavy and medium bombers, escorted by fighters, blasted Kiska in seven raids. Fires started in the Japanese camp area and anti aircraft positions were damaged as part of a large series on Saturday. The Navy reported six South Pacific attacks on Kahili Rekata Bay Munda Vila and Ballale in the Solomon Islands.
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Washington
Kiska
Aleutian Islands
Navy
South Pacific
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Rekata Bay
Munda
Vila
Ballale
Solomon Islands
Kahil
Buin
New Georgia
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Ballale Island
Shortland
Navy Avenger
Santa Isabel Island
Navy Dauntless
Italian Press Urges Total War For Imminent invasion
Italian newspapers rally civilians to defend the homeland as allied raids tighten on Sicily Sardinia and the mainland. They warn of cities becoming fortresses and everyone fighting from rich to poor while Mussolini appears to back Scorza's mobilization plan. The press also cautions that a mainland bridgehead would be fleeting if achieved and contests German views on invasion strategy.
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Il Popolo di Roma
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North Africa
Gibraltar
Mussolini
Carlo Scorza
Fascist Party
Scorza
Duce
Italy
Rome
FBI Arrests German Agent In New York
Ernest Frederick Lehmitz a United States citizen born in Hamburg Germany was arrested in New York City on charges of gathering espionage information for Germany. He allegedly wrote letters to German intelligence describing New York harbor conditions troop and convoy movements and used fictitious names to hide his identity.
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Justice Department
Ernest Frederick Lehmitz
New York City
Germany
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Lehmetz
Europe
New York Harbor
FBI
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Brooklyn
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Hoover
Hamburg
Oxford Place
Ompkinsville
tSaten Island
N. Y
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Cuxhaven
Department
Dependents Pay Measure May Gain Quick Senate Action
The War Department plans a compromise proposal to boost dependents allowances for armed forces members. Senator Lodge's bill seeks a 15 percent increase to match rising living costs, with Brigadier General White called before the Senate subcommittee in a closed session. The War Department urges delay for an analysis of need.
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War Department
Congress
Senate
M. G. White
Senator Lodge
R-Mass
Johnson
D-Cole
Stimson
Miners Return to Pits as Unions Vote to Work
Union meetings across Appalachia report continued pressure to resume coal production. Across Pennsylvania and Kentucky miners return gradually while some steel mines stay short-handed. Officials say 200000 idle and 300000 at work nationwide amid wartime strikes and policy disputes.
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Appalachian
Pennsylvania
United States Steel Corporation
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation
James Mark
Kentucky
United Mine Workers
UMW
Illinois
Alabama
West Virginia
Virginia
Roosevelt
War Labor Board
Pittsburgh
Greece Hit In Powerful New Assault
Allied air forces pounded Eleusis and Hassani near Athens in a follow up raid after the Salonika strike. Ninth Air Force reported seven enemy aircraft destroyed and eight probably destroyed amid fires on runways and hangars.
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Ninth Air Force
Athens
Salonika
Balkans
Elevis
H Sani
Cairo
OWM Ends Month With No Public Orders Yet
Washington June 28 The Office of War Mobilization OWM wraps up its first month with no public orders or actions issued officials say the agency works behind the scenes to coordinate among WLB Interior and other bodies Byrnes directing from a small staff at the White House seeks peacemaker and liaison roles while prompting others to act.
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Irving Perimeter
Washington
OWM
James F. Byrnes
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Inner War Council
White House
Byrnes
De Gaulle Faces U S Warning Over African Politics
The United States and Britain informally warn General De Gaulle that Allied actions in French Africa will be military focused. Eisenhower will back Giraud’s authority over French forces to ensure safe lines, bases, and morale amid ongoing Franco Allied tensions.
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Washington
Charles de Gaulle
French Africa
Europe
Eisenhower
Ameri
Can
French Committee For National Liberation
Algiers
Henri Giraud
de Gaulle
Giraud
North Africa
France
Vichy
West
Africa
Senate Ready To Pass Huge Army War Bill
Congress prepared to approve the 71.5 billion dollar war bill as Gen. Joseph T. McNarney testified the United Nations near final victory. He said training and mobilization progressed rapidly and a coordinated land and air force operation was bringing final victory against strong enemies.
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Washington
Congress
United Nations
Japan
Joseph T. McNarney
Senate Appropriations Committee
McNarney
Gurney
R-Sd
MacNarney
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Italian High Command
Mesina Strait
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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