Allied air attacks harass Japanese in Pacific theater
Allied forces pounded targets across the Pacific over the weekend including rolling stock bridges supply depots and installations. Amami Island group harbor facilities and radio stations faced strikes while 24 vessels ranging transports to luggers were sunk or damaged off Honshu Korea and the Yellow Sea. Bomber sweeps hit the China coast and Philippine bombers struck Shanghai as patrol planes set fires at Taichoku Formosa.
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Manila
Pacific Theater
Amami
Okinawa
Honshu
Korea
Yellow Sea
Asiatic
China
Shanghai
Taihoku
Formosa
British Pacific Fleet Bombards Truk in World War II Action
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced that on June 14 and 15 British Pacific Fleet units bombarded Truk twice during the day and once at night. Warships carriers and aircraft attacked airfields docks radio towers and gunpositions. Two Japanese planes were destroyed on the ground one British fighter was lost and Tokyo claimed a force of two cruisers four destroyers and 60 carrier aircraft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guam
Chester W. Nimitz
Truk
Tokyo
Attack on Spanish Train Sparks International Crisis
London June 17 report details a train attack at Chambery on the Franco Swiss border. French resistance members assaulted Spanish repatriates returning from Germany via Switzerland, wounding at least 61 seriously and about 300 more lightly. The train returned to Switzerland as Madrid protested to Paris.
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London
Chambery
Germany
Switzerland
Madrid
Paris
Miguel Patue
Geneva
la Plaine
European Roundup: Nazi Minefields Mapped. Petain Trial Near
American Army Engineers handed maps pinpointing German minefields in Belgium Norway and Finland to representatives of Belgium Norway and Finland at their Paris embassies. Other items include Petain pre trial probes for three former French premiers, Trieste port proposal, Lindbergh in Paris, and a Yugoslav war crimes list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgium
Norway
Finland
Paris
France
French Ministry of War
Henri Petain
Paul Reynaud
Leon Blum
Eduard Herriot
Election Manifesto Of Liberals Lists Four Important Points
London June 17 Reuters Liberal party manifesto outlines 20 points aimed at self-government for colonies support for small traders opposition to cartels and a nationalization plan for transport and power. It pledges tri partite welfare for workers managers and investors while urging private enterprise with public ownership when economical. Transformation of railways and much road transport into public utilities is urged along with electric power reorganization.
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Liberals
London
Reuter’s
Ttrader
Liberal Party
Treanni
Scheiberling Here Backing Peace Draft In Italy Tour
Scheiberling told reporters in Rome that GIs seek jobs not handouts and urged GI Bill reforms. He favored a flexible discharge bonus, education grants up to 30, and cutting loan red tape for veterans. The group, including Marcel Talcott and Brig. Gen. Smith, continues tours of Italian military cemeteries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Scheiberling
American Legion
Legion
Rome
Naples
Marcel Talcott
Waukegan
Legion’s
Edward W. Smith
War Department
Eto
Congressmen In Rome Visit Army Rest Center
Seven members of the House Military Affairs Committee visited the U S Army Rest Center and Red Cross installations in Rome and met with UNRRA and Allied Commission officials. They toured Caserta redeployment talks, met Field Marshal Alexander and General McNarney, and planned visits to Cecchignola and a private audience with Pope Pius XII plus a Rome shopping tour.
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Rome
Ciampino
House
Military Affairs Committee
Chet Holifield
Calif
Thomas E. Martin
Iowa
William A. Wedemeyer
RAAC
Jesus T. Pinero
Puerto Rico
Melvin Price
Charles R. Clason
Mass
William L. Marbury
Robert Sikes
Fla
Thoburn K. Brown
J. LeRoy Johnson
Sgt
G. Adel
U. S. Army Rest Center
Red Cross
UNRRA
Allied Commission
Caserta
Harold R. L. G. Alexander
Joseph T. McNarney
Cecchignola
Pius XII
Alexander C. Kirk
U. S
Italy
Ill
Charles R
Pact of friendship with Yugoslavia ratified in Moscow
The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet ratified a treaty of friendship mutual assistance and postwar collaboration between the USSR and Yugoslavia. The agreement was signed in Moscow on April 11, 1945.
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Moscow
Presidium
The
Supreme Soviet
Ussr
Yugoslavia
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NAVY
Washington Star
Trieste
Europe
Charles A. Lindbergh
United Aircraft Corporation
Reuter
United Nations War Crimes Commission
Giuseppe Bastianini
Mussolini
Bastianini
Weisburg
Augsberg
Bavaria
Georgy Zhukov
Order of the Bath
Bringolf
Schaffhausen
Edward N. Scheiberling
William R. Arnold
U. S. Army
Norman E. Edwards
Pasadena
Replacement and Training Command
Army Rest Center
Bari
Florence
Foggia
Pisa
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