Allies Smash Nazi Bases In Daylong Air Battle
American air forces from France and Britain struck widely from Tours inland to airfields anti-aircraft sites and enemy positions as Thunderbolts and other aircraft pressed a day of heavy operations. British Lancasters bombed rail hubs Caen Cologne and the Ruhr center Gelsenkirchen with large fires seen from the skies.
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London
France
Britain
Ninth U. S. Air Force
Tours
Speedy Thunderbolts
Caen
Gelsenkirchen
Germany
Ruhr
Rhineland
Cologne
American Forces Capture Carentan
American forces seize Carentan as the 101st airborne division completes a seven day battle. After a brutal three day street fight the town of 3500 people falls, with close combat continuing a quarter mile west as German paratroopers and Nazi weaponry echo through the streets.
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101ST
Carentan
101St Airborne Division
Cherbourg
101St Division
Flag Day Observance Urges Local Display Across Wartime Homes
PA NEWC notes tomorrow is Flag Day and urges display on every home during wartime. Three weeks hence is the Fourth of July. Lawrence county hay harvest begins with maturing wheat and expected heavy yield. Local merchants contribute fine windows to boost the Fifth War Loan, with buses in Seventh ward serving Liberty street to the Pennsylvania Roundhouse.
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Seventh Ward
Liberty Street
Pennsylvania Roundhouse
Lawrence County
Berlin
Dunkerque
Daily Weather Report for the United States
The 24 hour period ending at 9 a m recorded a maximum temperature of 85 and a minimum of 58 with no precipitation. The river stage was 49 feet. Figures for the same date last year show a 90 degree high and 70 degree low with no precipitation.
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United States
War reports foresee major allied advances in Europe and Pacific
Washington briefing notes optimistic Roosevelt address signals forthcoming D-Day style invasion in France and rapid Pacific war progress. Attacks soften Japanese positions as observers expect new grounds in Europe, with French resistance aiding possible liberation and a political push for a fusion ticket. A House subcommittee prepares a year delayed look into food prices.
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Congress
House
Fifth War Loan Drive In County Gets Good Start
Lawrence County begins its fifth war loan drive with the 330th Band of Camp Reynolds touring key towns. The schedule includes performances in Pulaski New Wilmington Volant Ellwood City Wampum Bessemer and Hillsville ending with a 7 30 concert in New Castle. The tour encountered a bus breakdown in Ellwood City but local Red Cross Motor Corps teams provided replacements and refreshments.
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Lawrence County
Pulaski
New Wilmington
Volant
Presbyterian
Ellwood City
American Legion Auxiliary
New Castle
Red Cross Motor Corps
Wampum
Flag Day Proclamation for New Castle Pennsylvania 1944
Mayor John F. Haven urges residents to display the flag on June 14 1944 to honor armed forces and promote unity across heritage creeds and races in the nation and city. The proclamation calls home and business displays to show dedication to American ideals amid global conflict.
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Republic
John F. Haven
New Castle
Pennsylvania
U S Army Advances North of Rome Faces Stiff German Resistance
American mobile columns reached 77 miles northwest of Rome as Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark’s Fifth Army pressed inland toward Orvieto and Orbetello. British Eighth Army advancing along the Adriatic coast faces continued opposition south of Terni and in the Lake Bolsena area.
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Mark W. Clark
Fifth Army
Tyrrhenian
Orbetello
San Stefano
Lake Bolsena
Orvieto
Bagnorevic
Terni
Italy
Eighth Army
Adriatic
Marianas Are Again Attacked By U S Fleet
Pacific fleet task force hit Japanese bases on Saipan Tinian Rota and Guam for the second time in 24 hours. Admiral Nimitz announced the attacks were carried out by carrier aircraft with hundreds of planes and followed a thunderous assault the day prior.
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Chester W. Nimitz
Marianas
Saipan
Tinian
Rota
Guam
Allied raid hits Hungarian refineries near Komárom
Allied bombers struck German oil refineries in Hungary on the fourth day of oil stock attacks. Two ton bombs targeted facilities near Komárom northwest of Budapest while medium bombers hit rail lines bridges and roads as German forces retreated ahead of the Italian advance.
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Naples
INS
Hungary
Balkans
Komaron
Budapest
Italy
Mayer Separation Ended 40 Year Marriage
Hollywood report states Louis B. Mayer and his wife have separated after four decades of marriage. Mayer, head of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the nation’s top salaried studio executive, left Santa Monica for a few days staying with friends. No divorce planned. The pair wed in Boston in 1904.
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Hollywood
Louis B. Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
M-G-M
Treasury Department
Santa Monica
Maver
Boston
Large Scale Air Attack On Munich Today
A force of up to 750 heavy bombers attacked Munich targets including the Overpoffenhofen airdrome and an ordnance depot. The raid marked a second Munich strike from Italian bases in a week with anti aircraft fire and Maj. Herschel H. Green credited with downing one plane, increasing his theater total to 18.
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Naples
INS
Munich
Overpoffenhofen
Innsbruck
Austria
Porto Marghera
Venice
Herschel H. Green
Mayfield
Soviet forces press on Karelian Isthmus against Finnish and German defenses
Soviet troops push through swamp and forest on the Karelian Isthmus, seizing more than 30 positions as they advance toward Viipuri. Helsinki reports evacuation of civilians amid reports of 18 to 22 miles gained, with heavy artillery and air support facilitating the drive and stubborn enemy resistance along rail and highway routes.
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Karelian
Moscow
Stockholm
Helsinki
Karelia
Viiputi
Red Army
Viipuri
Multala
Termolovo
Kivenapa
Raivola
German Guns On Channel Active
German long range batteries in France began shelling the southeast coast of England early today. Dover area shell warnings lasted over five hours after dawn with about 50 heavy shells fired across the channel. Folkestone and Dover houses shook as the bombardment fluctuated between lull and heavy shelling.
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London
INS
France
England
Dover
Channel
Folkestone
Naval Guns Shape Allied Drive To Carentan Victory
The report credits naval gunfire from battleships Nevada and Texas with enabling the capture of Carentan. Shells fired from close range pulverized coastal defenses, allowing infantry to seize the strategic Norman town and extending naval artillery reach to inland targets. The piece asserts naval gunfire has been decisive in the Allied cross channel advance and in overcoming fortified coastlines.
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Carentan
U.S
Nevada
Texas
Norman
Hitler
City Board Names Inductees for June Service
Selective Service Board One of New Castle lists June inductiones with a smaller pool. Navy selections include Thomas Lester Schibik of 103 Milton Street Salvatore Delta of Meridan Conn and Robert Elmer Ward of 124 West Church Street. New Wilmington add Lawrence Eli Byler of 350 East Washington Street.
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Selective Service Board One
New Castle
Army
Navy
Pittsburgh
U. S. Navy
Thomas Lester Schibik
Milton Street
Salvatore Delta
Meridan
Reverend C H Stewart Dies at 74
The obituary notes the passing of Reverend C H Stewart aged 74 of 939 Wins Tow Avenue. Details on service arrangements were not provided in readable text.
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C. H. Stewart
Winstow Avenue
Day And Night Air Attacks On Bases At Palau
American long range bombers and heavy units pounded Palau air bases and garrisons day and night. Four motored Liberators of Gen Kenney’s Fifth Air Force destroyed at least 26 Japanese planes. Operations coordinated with Pacific fleet strikes on the Marianas. One American plane missing. another failed to return from Truk. U S Sixth Army drove toward Biak airfields and cleared enemy strongpoints en route.
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Douglas MacArthur
New Guinea
Palau
Philippines
George C. Kenney
Fifth Air Force
Marianas Islands
U. S
Truk
Biak Island
Dutch New Guinea
U. S. Sixth Army
Mokmer
Allied Forces Reach Broad 80 Mile Front in France
Supreme Headquarters reports 250000 Allied troops in action across northern France. Troarn falls as Montebourg falls on the Cherbourg peninsula. Cherbourg threat grows as bombardment secures Montebourg foothold. 10008 enemy prisoners taken and five Allied airstrips now operating in France. The Cherbourg objective edges closer to final phase as rail lines near Montebourg may be disrupted.
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Upreme
Allied Expeditionary Force
Caen
Troarn
Cherbourg
Montebourg
France
Movement Back to Farms Predicted in Postwar Pennsylvania
Harrisburg reports the Farm Security Administration predicts a huge postwar shift back to farming in Pennsylvania. Director Carson F. Mertz notes few farms have abandoned for industry and expects a 12 percent farm-population rise when peace arrives as workers return to agricultural work.
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Harisburg
INS
Pennsylvania
State Farm Security Administration
Carson F. Mertz
Mertz
Allied Leaders Make Surprise Visit To France
In London on June 13 Allied leaders examined battle reports from France after surprise front visits. A US military chiefs group and a British delegation led by Prime Minister Churchill crossed the channel to Normandy. Eisenhower escorted General Marshall as they reviewed prevailing conditions with other senior officers.
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London
INS
Allied Command
France
United States Armed Forces
Winston Churchill
Normandy
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George C. Marshall
U. S. Army
Henry H
Freedom Bonds Linger In Minds On Seventy Seventh Birthday
The piece contemplates the value of liberty and the price of freedom as the speaker marks seventy seven years. It urges readers to decide what bonds to buy to safeguard freedoms like speech worship and free press and to ensure home safety and peace.
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Camp Reynolds
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Richard V. Haller
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