Allied Air Operations Strike Targets Across Europe
British Beaufighters attacked an enemy tanker in the Bay of Biscay as a minesweeper was hit. Thunderbolts hit reinforcement lines near Rouen and Vierzonville yards. RAF fighters claimed 55 German planes shot down with 25 Allied losses. Dewey campaign activities center on campaigning pace and potential cross‑country and international encounters.
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Bay of Biscay
Air Ministry
Ninth Air Force
Thunderbolts
Rouen
Normandy Battle Front
Orleans
Vierzonville
Tactical Air Force
Rally and bond sale push in parish urged at Trenton street drive
Citizens urged to attend a rally parade and show on Trenton street to buy bonds with prizes. Merchants discuss boosting Series E bond sales and expect an announcement tomorrow by Mr. Rogers. The Savannah was the first steamship to cross the Atlantic on May 22 1819 from Savannah Georgia.
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Rogers
Atlantic Ocean
Savannah
Georgia
Allied Drive Toward Caen Presses in Normandy
British and American forces push from the Odon river bridgehead toward Caen with Esquay and Troarn actions, while Montgomery’s troops threaten a key airfield as Cherbourg approaches full Allied control. Rommel rushes reserves as air and naval units bomb coastal targets and prisoners swell.
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Odon River
Marcelet
Bernard L. Montgomery
Caen
Maupertus
Cherbourg
Supreme Command
William Sullivan
Pearl Harbor
Casablanca
Oran
Naples
Esquay
Troarn
Rodney
Marshal Erwin Rommel
Normandy
Germany
France
Breville
Orne
Paris
Cobourg
Associated Press
Roger D. Greene
Odon
Greene
Evrecy
Bougy
Channel Islands
Hitler
Don Whitehead
Gate To Minsk The Red Drive Breaks German Front
Soviet forces widened the Minsk corridor along the Gomel Minsk highway aided by Dudenko air cover. Rokossovsky’s and Bagramian’s units severed northern and southern rail links, closing toward Polotsk and Riga’s line while destroying German equipment. Troops near Minsk reported massive losses with hundreds of Germans killed or captured as the Red Army closes in.
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Berezina
Drut
Pravda
Lepel-Berezina
Rokossovsky
Gomel- Minsk
Sergei I. Dudenko
Red Army
Minsk
Baranowicze
Polotsk
Riga
White Russia
Bagramian
Lithuanian Republic
Latvian Republic
Kaunas
Lithuania
Red Star
Peter Troyanovsky
Bobruisk-Minsk
Kazakov
Bobruisk
Lev Tolkunov
Z. F. Zakharov
Mogilev- Minsk
Star light hypothesis for atmospheric explosion proposed
Dr Dean B Mc Laughlin of the University of Michigan advances a theory that absorption of light from a star by its surrounding atmosphere could trigger an explosion.
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Dean B. McLaughlin
University of Michigan
Dewey Called Worthy Opponent Says White House Aide
A White House aide labels Gov. Thomas E. Dewey as a worthy opponent in the 1948 election race. The Syracuse report notes the executive assistant to President Roosevelt issuing the remark in June.
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Dewey
Syracuse
N. Y
Roosevelt
Thomas E. Dewey
President poised to seek reelection in 1944 race
Eugene Casey, speaking at a press conference, asserted that the president will be the champion after November 7 and that the country believes he must run. He called the president a worthy component of the party without naming him directly.
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Eugene Casey
Washington
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