Opposition Lack Big Surprise To Men On Warship
Delayed June 6 dispatch aboard the British destroyer Cottesmore off the French coast reports a successful D Day opening with no German air or naval encounters in twelve hours. crews describe minimal opposition, extensive bombardment, and hardships anticipated as the invasion progresses toward Caen and Cherbourg.
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Cottesmore
Frince
England
France
Hitler
Europe
Normandy
Caen
Cherbourg
Allied Air Forces Bomb German Targets Across Day
Supreme Headquarters reports Allied air forces conducted 13 000 sorties from dawn to dusk with 4 300 by the American Eighth Air Force and 4 800 by the Ninth Air Force. Night crews at a second tactical base saw little German air opposition and only sparse anti aircraft fire.
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Allied Expeditionary Air Force
Eighth Air Force
Ninte
Chile Distributed Free Pines and Seeds in 1943
Chile provided 1 200 000 pine trees free of charge in 1943 along with a large quantity of seeds. The effort aimed to boost forestry and reforestation programs within the country.
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Chile
Invasion Mission Triumph by Fighter Group
Fighter planes from a station executed their first invasion mission and flushed enemy aircraft. Lieut Billy Bryan of Cameron Texas shot down one Messerschmitt, attacked a second, and escaped after a 10 mile pursuit. The mission was led by Deputy Commander Col George Kaiser of Somerset Kentucky with nine Japanese Zeros already credited in Pacific service.
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9Th Air Force
Billy” Bryan
Cameron
Tex
Bryan
George Kaiser
Somerset
Pacific
New Russian Plane Base Hit In Romania Raid
Soviet long range aircraft carried a night strike against Iasi Romania hitting a railroad junction and military targets. The attack followed Red Army ground operations as artillery tanks and infantry repelled German counterattacks with several hangars at Grome destroyed and fires estimated at dozens of spots. Two fighters failed to return.
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German Grome
Siretul
Danube
U. S
Iasi
Romania
Red Army
Nazi Long Range Guns In Action On Dover Straits
Allied forces reported German long range batteries between Boulogne and Calais firing salvos of six four and two shells in a display that lasted over an hour and a half. Explosions were heard miles away as Allied air bombardment targeted the guns and coastlines, with aircraft seen over the channel and formations returning to Cape Gris-Nez. Air Force had no comment on a landing claim in the Calais area.
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Calais
Boulogne
France
Channel
Cape Gris-Nex
Bulkeley Aids Invasion Task Off French Shores
Lt. Comdr. John D. Bulkeley commands a force of motor torpedo boats off the coast of France aiding the D-Day landings. The PT boat hero who ferried Gen. MacArthur to Australia led a group toward the French shores as paratroops dropped behind the target and bombardments prepared the assault.
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Clark Lee
France
John D. Bulkeley
Philippines
South Pacific
Bulkeley
Long Island
Douglas MacArthur
Australia
Cmdr
Bataan
Special Invasion Prayer Services Attend D Day Observances
About one thousand people joined in invasion day prayers across five local houses of worship including First Baptist Third U P Christ Lutheran Tiferem Israel and Bessemer Presbyterian. Afternoon attendance reached around 500 at First Baptist with union evening services led by Dr Burr R McKnight Dr D L Ferguson Rev A E Simon Rev J P Salmonetti and Rev O W Hurst.
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First Baptist Church
Third U. P. Church
Christ Lutheran Church
Tiferern Israel Synagogue
Bessemer
Bessemer Presbyterian Church
First Bahlist Church
Union
Burr R. McKnight
D. L. Ferguson
Aindley Snyder
Raymond Touvell
Europe
Nazi Prisoners Reach England
Nazi prisoners arrive at an English port aboard a British light cruiser and are herded to a compound for interrogation by Allied intelligence officers. First wounded arrive from the French beachhead, moved to emergency hospitals, with plans for rapid evacuation to inland base hospitals within 24 hours and facilities to treat thousands. Plasma and blood supplies are staged at the port, with two tone refrigerators and field hospitals ready for major casualties.
Women Workers Featured On Bandon Harbor Crew
In Bandon Oregon six young women served as the technical crew aboard the harbor survey tug Kalama. The crew impressed the skipper with their thorough knowledge of the sounding work.
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Bandon
U. S
Bandon Harbor
Normandy Coast Invasion Predicted As Major Offensive
A wartime analysis foresees a large scale Allied push on the Normandy coast with beachheads expanding and air and naval superiority to secure English Channel supply lines. It warns of stiff German counterattacks, heavy Allied casualties, and continued offensive blows across western Europe.
Deaths of the Day in New Castle Area Obits
Obituaries list George M. Elliott age 60 of 321 North Shenango died Tuesday after a seven year illness. Sister S R McCleary survives. Funeral Friday 2 pm at R. L. Boyd. interment Oak Park. Also Elizabeth Louise Miles Montgomery age 32 died this morning at parents home Plaingrove Township after two years of illness. Arthur W. Montgomery survives husband. Services Friday 7 pm from parental home. interment Plain Grove Church cemetery. Lola A Alf Wylie age 89 of Los Angeles died June 4. Widow of Alf Wylie born New Castle November 2, 1854. Survived by two sons Norman and Howard and six sisters. body to New Castle Thursday night. Infant DeHass, son of Mr. and Mrs. DeHass of 24 Longage, died in New Castle Hospital. Burial Clinton Cemetery. Charles Ate of 220 Hillcrest Ave funeral Tuesday 2 pm at church. Robert Lembel Coates of 111 North Jefferson Street funeral Tuesday 11:30 pm. Interment Castle View Burial Park. Pallbearers listed.
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George M. Elliott
North Shenango Street
Steubenville
James B
Agnes C. Canby Elliott
New Castle
Maitland Memorial Church
S. R. McCleary
R. L. Boyd
J.C. Murphy
Oak Park Cemetery
Arthur W. Montgomery
Elizabeth Louise Montgomery
Plaingrove Township
Volant R. D
F. O. Miles
Plaingrove
Orrin
Elizabeth Hamilton Miles
Methodist
Grace Church
Grove City
Clarence Miles
Richard Miles
Isabelle Patterson
Ellwood City
Gertrude Hogue
Genevieve Hodgson
Ann Arbor
Mich
Melville Jane Miles
Edward Tuten
Plaingrove Church
Lola A
Alf) Wylie
Alf Wylie
Los Angeles
Calif
Wylie
New Case
California
Eyworth
Wimodausi
Norman Wyte
This City
Howard Wie
Ella Porter
Youngston
Lucy Beck
Boston Mass
Rose Place
Mystic
Jennie Simmons
Attleboro
Mass
Carrie Stoddart
Minnie Mounts
Salem
Thursda
Howard I. Reynolds
W. A Thornton
Oax Park
Howard Wile
Lola McCormick
Milton Street
DeHass
Thomas DeHass
Hue
New Castle Hospital
Clinton Cemetery
Charles
Hillcrest Avenue
Sef Irvine
Paul Tate
John Floyd
Floyd Chapman
Donald Tate
Frank Peterson
Robert Sheen
Castle View Burial Park
Robert Lembel Coates
North Jefferson Street
Burr McKnight
William Lloyd
M. K Gilliland
R. E. Johnson
Carl R. Lentz
Frank Edie
W. P. Space
Robert Jamison
Second Pledges Fellowship Fund Progress At First Christian Church
Rev Rose introduced the Second Pledges Fellowship Fund event at First Christian Church Youngstown. Rev Beach urged support for a proposed Fellowship Center to serve soldiers sailors their families and the community with wholesome activities and youth counteracts to harmful trends. The gathering raised 13771.50 toward a 20000 goal with pledges from attendees and others promising later support for the brick building adding recreation rooms and Sunday school space.
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Beach
U. P
Yanks Smash Forward on Biak Island Amid Heavy Resistance
Allied forces on Biak Island press the advance despite fierce anti aircraft fire. American bombers hit Jap installations in the Wewak Hansa Bay area while Sixth Army repulsed counterattacks in the Sarmi Maffin Bay sector and mopped up 389 more Japanese dead in Hollandia Aitape.
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U. S
MacArthur
Sixth Army
Sarmi- Maffin Bay
Hollandia-Aitape
Wewak-Hansa Bay
New Guinea
Rabaul
New Britain
New Ireland
Fifth Army presses in Italy face scattered German resistance
Fifth Army troops pursue Germans across Italy with strong Allied air pressure harassing transport columns. Eighth Army meets principal resistance in mountains east of Rome while weak opposition appears west of the Tiber. Many Germans are captured near the Tiber as they fail to cross the river. French forces under Gen. Alphonse Juin cross the Rome Adriatic highway at Tivoli in the Savine foothills.
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Eighth Army
Rome
Tiber
Fifth Army
Alphonse Juin
Adriatic Coast
Tivoli
Savine Mountains
Wounded CPL J Carlin Sees Advice From Letters
Letters from the War Department and from his wife, Cpl. Jack Carlin, confirm his Mediterranean wounds are slight and urge no worry. Carlin, with the Army Air Corps, was hospitalized in North Africa from November 6 to April 10 after injuries in Italy, and had been out of the hospital 33 days before these wounds. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Carlin of Mahoningtown.
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War Department
Jack Carlin
Corsica
Carlin
Hazel Street
Mediterranean
Cpl
Army Air Corps
North Africa
Italy
J. P. Carlin
North Lafayette Street
Mahoningtown
British Hold Bridges North of Caen, Sixth Airborne Says
British sources report the Sixth Airborne Division captured and is holding bridges north of Caen after a night landing on June 5 6 with reinforcements dropped last night. The note thanks friends neighbors and relatives for kindness and floral tributes from the George Mallary family following a bereavement.
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Caen
London
INS
Sixth Air Borne Division
France
Beereavement thanks from Goldie Coates family
The Goldie Coates family expresses gratitude to friends neighbors relatives and B of R No 955 for kindness sympathy during their bereavement and thanks for floral tributes and donated cars from those supporters.
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R. T. No. 955
Goldie Coates
Patsy Willie Russo
Rose Russo
Michael Russo
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Dover Straits
Lodag
Jess
du Pont
S. Miller
Lawrence Ave
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St. Mercer St
English Channel
Brest
Dunkerque
Ostend
Eisenhower
Tate
Coates Funeral
First Christian Church
Youngstown
Ohio
Rose
Rev Rose
Robert McCrumb
Chester Shaffer
J Robert Brown
Committee of Ten
Rave
Biak Island
J Carlin
The
Lawrence County War Finance
War Loan Castle Stationery Co
N. Mercer ST
George Mallary
Smith
Baron Hardware GO
Washi
White Oregins
96Th
Handy Fugs
Oregon
Red Cross
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Northwestern Mutual
Daniel H. Treloar, JR
Johnson Bldg
R.L. Boyd
Jefferson ST
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