Invasion Moves Slowly On French Front After Month
Allied forces mark one month of landings in France with front established yet progress slower than expected due to German resistance and adverse weather. Officers note reality versus planners view, emphasizing stubborn enemy action and logistical challenges. Weather crippled air operations and unloading, hindering early supply and troop flows.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
France
Rommel Pulls Reserve Divisions Under Clouded Skies
Paid big dividends before, the Germans could get set. Under covers of clouds, Marshal Erwin Rommel has been able to bring up reserve divisions. The operation faces great difficulty and will be extremely costly for the Axis.
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Erwin Rommel
Althe
Moscow claims proof of divisions on the Western Front
Allied counters deny shifts from the eastern front in June and say Germany has 18 divisions in Normandy. Reports note many panzer units in Caen area and Cherbourg garrisons resisting fiercely. Snipers and cut-off troops are said to slow the allied advance.
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Moscow
Trary
France
Tavestia
Germany
Normandy
Caen
Cineras
Hitler
Cherbourg
Breakthrough Seen After Largest Armor Battle in Western Europe
Fragmentary wartime report notes German forces around a bridgehead hindering progress. Observers say a single decisive thrust could break through into open terrain but warn it requires overcoming a massive armored battle surpassing any prior in western Europe.
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Europe
Miners Trapped as Fire Cuts Off Escape at Powhatan Mine
In Bellaire Ohio on July 7 skilled crews prepared to drill 350 feet to reach 64 miners entombed after a rock fall halted the trolley line and started a fire. Two high speed drills were brought in to sink shafts for food and water if survivors are found.
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Bellaire
Powhatan
Individual Sales Needed to Reach War Loan Quota
Washington July 7 UP The $16,000,000,000 Fifth War Loan drive reports only $636,000,000 short of the goal. Sales through Wednesday totaled $15,364,000,000 or 96 percent of the quota. Corporate and non banking investor sales reached $11,454,000,000 or 115 percent. Individual sales aggregated $3,910,000,000 or 65 percent. The drive opened June 12 and will close Saturday.
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Washington
Fsat
Treasury
Grain shipments at risk without increase in Kansas City
Frank Tics, head of the terminal committee, said there will be no embargo in Kansas City if grain shipments rise. He noted that Kansas heat setters have produced more than half of an estimated 175,000 crop, inheat figures unclear.
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Kansas City
Frank Tics
Terminal Committee
Kansas
Grain millers gain manpower priority for heavy season
Kansas City July 7 Grain and milling firms receive manpower priorities to hire workers for the peak grain movement period. Will S. Denham War Manpower Commission director says a committee approves applications for firms needing staff more urgently than others under the WMC system. The U.S. employment service forwards approved applications to these priority firms.
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Kansas City
S. Denham
Area War
Manower Commission
WMC
U. S. Employment Service
Daughver and Ryan Secretary Involved in Office Injury
An incident at an office left Ryan's Daughver injured with a broken vertebra. UP-Francea E. Ryan, secretary to the chief, was treated after slipping from her chair. The former Leavenworth resident was connected to a broader Buziest arts community.
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