Cologne Blasted In Week End Raid
Allied air forces pounded Cologne and coordinated strikes hit Le Mans Nantes and La Pallice while fighter protection from RAF and RCAF extended across Hamburg and Ruhr targets. The 188th Cologne raid suffered 32 aircraft losses including eight Canadian, with fires visible for 150 miles and smoke rising to 18 000 feet. U.S. 8th Air Force reported eight bombers lost in Sunday raids. defending pilots claimed several enemy fighters destroyed.
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Hamburg
Ruhr
Cologne
La Mans
Nantes
RAF
R.C.AF
continent
Amiens
N. H. Spencer
Vancouver
Melum
Britain
Gordon Barnholden
Moose Jaw
Sask
Basil Edwards
Delta
Alta
Bert Cruse
Winnipeg
U.S
United States
8th airforce
Parachute Jump Sets Record At 42,200 Feet
Lt Col W R Lovelace, 35, aero medical chief at Wright Field Ohio, made an 8 mile bailout jump from 42 200 feet near Euphrata Washington. His first parachute jump ended with frostbite in one hand after three gloves slipped away when the chute opened. He landed after 23 minutes 51 seconds, among the highest jumps on record.
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army
Col. Lovelace
aero-medical laboratory
Wright Field
Euphrata
Wash
terra firma
Former Premier Gordon Harrington Dies in Halifax
Col the Hon Gordon S Harrington former Conservative premier of Nova Scotia died in Halifax after a lengthy illness in his 60th year. He served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force 1915 18 and was deputy minister for overseas military forces 1918 20. Ill health limited his public activity since 1937 after a political defeat. He suffered a severe heart seizure last week from which he did not recover.
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G. S. HARRINGTON
HALIFAX
C.P
Gordon S. Harrington
Nova Scotia
Canadian expeditionary force
overseas military forces
Canada
Col Harrington
Commandos Land Crete Raid Reported By London
British forces conducted a small commando raid on Crete last night and withdrew safely after destroying enemy planes on airfields. The operation, not described as an invasion, followed May 1941 losses when Crete fell to air invasion forces.
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LONDON
Crete
Middle East
Mediterranean
ministry of information
Canterbury digs after bombing reveal ancient site
London correspondent notes cleared Canterbury sites may allow digs under Ministry of Works and City Council. Canter bury’s wartime openings recall Rosetta Stone discovery and uncover past walls. such finds illuminate Canterbury’s historic remains amid wartime changes. Britain’s ongoing success story and wartime profit scandals are referenced.
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Canterbury
London
Ottawa Journal
Ministry of Works
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Egypt
Napoleon
Britain
Allies Attack Coastal Targets Near Rome In Week End Smash
Allied bombers smashed Axis airfields in Sicily destroying at least 43 enemy fighters in fierce air battles. Northwest African forces bombed Catania Gerbini Sciacca Comiso and Milo while coastal targets near Rome Ostia and Fiumicino were bombed. Allied losses numbered 13.
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Italy
North Africa
Sicily
Pantelleria
Catania
Gerbini
Sciacca
Comiso
Milo
Ostia
Tiber River
Fiumicino
Trapani
R.A.F
Middle East command
Biscari
Siacca
aer
July Fourth Baseball First Games in Washington and Philadelphia
Baseball doubleheader results show Washington a 3 3 Detroit 10 with Leonard Early Trout Richards in game one and Philadelphia a 2 4 Cleveland 1 with Black Swift Bagby Desautels in game two Newark 2 Jersey City 5 with Page Garkark Poll Steiner.
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Early
Trout
Richards
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Cleveland
Black
Swift
Bagby
Desautels
Newark
Jersey City
J. Page
Garkark
Poll
Steiner
Bahamian Workers Recruited for U.S. Farms
In Nassau on July 5 American officials announced recruitment of 1,000 more Bahamian laborers for U.S. farms. The program already has 2,000 Bahamian workers on American agricultural sites.
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NASSAU
Bahamas
C.P. Cable
United States
Hitler absence fuels rumors of breakdown in German press
In Berne on July 3 reports said lack of Hitler mentions in German newspapers fueled rumors of a nervous breakdown requiring rest, though Swiss sources could not confirm. After a Berchtesgaden April summit with Axis leaders, Hitler has not appeared in dispatches. London news noted Nazi Calais radio denying illness reports for Hitler and Goering as false, while Stockholm claimed Goering faced heart trouble and a nervous breakdown.
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Switzerland
Hitler
Berchtesraden
LONDON
C.P
Calais
Goering
Stockholm
Saturn
New Road to China Opened
Chinese Minister of Communications Tsengyang Fu announced a new supply route to China via Iran and the Turkestan Siberian railway. Shipments will commence in the nearest future, with the Japanese holding about 10,500 of 12,500 miles of railways in China. The statement came two days before the war's sixth anniversary.
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Tsengyang-Fu
China
Iran
Turkestan- Siberian railway
Japan
Tseng
Heenan Named Liberal Labor Candidate in Kenora
Kenora Ontario July 5 Heenan nominated unopposed as Liberal Labor candidate for Kenora Rainy River in the forthcoming provincial general election by unanimous vote.
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KENORA, Ont
Peter Heenan
Ontario
Moniter
Kenora-Rainy River
Parliament News: King Denounces Bracken and Pays Tribute
In Ottawa July 5 Prime Minister Mackenzie King told the house that if John Bracken had voiced in parliament what he allegedly said in Toronto he would be ordered to withdraw. King condemned Bracken’s hoax remark about Canada’s home defence army as offensive. King also paid tribute to the late Hon. R. J. Manion, praising his parliamentary service and integrity, with leaders Gordon Graydon M. J. Coldwell and John Blackmore offering condolences in Parliament.
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Mackenzie King
house of commons
John Bracken
Toronto
Dominion
King
Bracken
Canadian home defence army
Speaker
Mr. King
hot of commons
Mr. Bracken
Canada
Mr King
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R. J Mamnion
Manions
Gordon Graydon
homre
M. J. Coldwell
CCF
Mannion
John Blackmore
New Democracy
Dr Manton
J. A Cardin
Dr. Manion
C.P
Mackensie King
Wilfrid LaCroix
Lib
Quebec-Montmorency
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EDMONTON
George Barnhorst
Alberta Motor Association
Alberta cabinet
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NO. 1
ICPI
Walter Anderson
No. 4 Training Command
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Anderson
Royal Alexandra hospital
Calgary
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remy
Allies Push in Central Solomons and Rendova Raid
Australian American forces under General MacArthur moved in the central Solomons, seizing a strategic village on Vangunu island and destroying 21 Japanese planes over Rendova. Vura village on Vangunu fell, and about 300 Japanese were killed as garrisons dispersed. Ground areas around Nassau Bay reported quiet as patrol clashes continued toward Salamaua and Munda on New Georgia faced heavy bombardment.
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Wickham anchorage
Vangunu land
Rendova
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Solomons
MacArthur
Nassau Bay
New Guinea
Salamaua
Allied Pacific offensive opens with dual pincers on Rabaul and Solomons
War analyst Glenn Babb reports a broad Allied strike in the Pacific as dawn attacks hit New Georgia Rendova and Woodlőes Island while a western thrust lands near Nassau Basins and Salamaua. The operation aims to encircle Japan’s outer defenses, with future larger undertakings anticipated.
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United Nations
Japan
Europe
Italy
Southwest Pacific
Glider Flight Across Atlantic By Canadian RAF Crew
A freight loaded glider towed by a transport aircraft crossed roughly 3 500 miles of the Atlantic in a 28 hour trial. Canadian Sqdn Ldr F M Gobeil RCAF Montreal and Fit Lt W S Longhurst RAF Outlook Sack led the operation with additional crew including H G Wightman Vancouver and Wing Cmdr H Furner Dorval. The test aims to develop fast sky trains for war material haste to fronts.
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F. M Gobul
RCAF
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W. S. Longhurst
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Outlook
Sack
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Longhurst
H. G Wightman
Vancouver
H. Furner
Dorval
Que
W. H. Thompson
New Zealand
PO R H. Wormington
Stoafford
hire
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French to designate Juin as acting commander in North Africa
Algiers reports Gen. Henri Giraud appoints Gen. Alphonse Juin to act as commander in chief of French forces in North Africa while Giraud visits Washington. The arrangement covers Giraud’s absence during the trip.
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Henri Giraud
Alphonse Juin
North Africa
Giraud
wisit
Washington
Greek submarine sinks Axis supply ship near Samos
The Greek government announced the week submarine Katsonis sank a small Anis supply ship in the Mediterranean. In Kariovasi harbor off Samos she attacked with a torpedo and probably hit a transport of large size.
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LONDON
C.P
Katsonis
Mediterranean
Kariovasi
Aegean
Samos
Bose Re elected Leader Of Indian Independence League
Subhas Chandra Bose, an Indian nationalist allied with the Axis, was chosen leader at a mass meeting in Singapore. The Berlin radio reported the result citing Tokyo dispatches.
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NEW YORK
P—Subhas Chandra Bose
Axis
Singapore
Berlin
Tokyo
Sikorski Of Poland Killed In Lib Air Crash
General Wladyslaw Sikorski premier of the Polish government in London and commander of its armed forces died when the Liberator aircraft crashed after takeoff from Gibraltar. Seven others perished including Sikorski’s daughter Sophia Leniowska and Major General Kilmecki. only the pilot survived. The crash ends Sikorski’s long effort to mobilize Polish forces for the liberation war.
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Wladislaw Sikorski
Purley
England
Gibraltar
LONDON
Wladyslaw Sikorski
air ministry
Sikorski
Sophia Leniowska
Polish Auxiliary Territory Service
Women’s Forces
Middle East
ATS
Germany
Kilmecki
Cairo
Poland
Navy Eyes Tokyo as Morrison Launched in Seattle
US Navy Secretary Frank Knox declared the fleet will sail into Tokyo harbor, promising the Pacific victory over Tojo tyranny. He warned that any Japanese air force striking the west coast would barely have a chance to return home, during the Morrison destroyer launch in Seattle.
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United States
Tokyo harbor
Navy
Frank Knox
Morrison
Russ Smash Nazi Attacks in Kuban Bridgehead Fight
Berlin claims a Nazi thrust against Russian forces at the Kuban bridgehead has climaxed weeks of hard fighting. The German communiqué reports about two thousand Red troops killed or captured and large quantities of war matériel seized, with over 700 Russian boats affected by land and air forces. Russia counters with artillery and mortar fire repelling a German attack in the Belgorod sector near Kharkov. Minor actions were reported elsewhere as speculation swirls over a possible major offensive.
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