Details Of D Day Landings On Cherbourg Peninsula
Censorship eases a clearer account of the Cherbourg assault. German defenses included a mile-wide gap, mine fields, and fortified positions. The 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions aided by glider and parachute landings secured inland towns while the 101st held the shoreward end of two inland causeways.
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Paratroopers Force Bayonet Charge Against German Defenses
In France near Carentan, Lt. Col. Robert Cole leads the 101st Paratroop Battalion in a 200-man bayonet assault through ditches and flooded ground to seize German hill fortifications after a dawn dive-bombing and artillery barrage. The 30 hour battle helped secure the area on the Cherbourg peninsula. A separate note reports workmen in California uncover nearly $100,000 in gold while digging sand and gravel for the Friant dam.
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War memories and local crime notes headline a patchwork page
Pittsburgh resident Charles E Schmelze 20 played an unassigned role as a D day stowaway after sleeping in a troop conveyance tail. In Lewistown police recover $25 stolen headache remedy as perpetrator loses nerve. Monongahela and Pittsburgh men mark 19th annual birthday golf on 84th anniversaries. In Philadelphia a man who survived a stick up receives hospital care after being kicked. Chester resident describes a Japanese landing with a bicycle rider and grenades during a Marine assault.
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Navy Reports 507 Casualties From Pearl Harbor Blasts
The Navy lists 507 deaths, missing, and wounded from two explosions at Pearl Harbor and Oahu within a month. May 21 at Pearl Harbor destroyed landing craft killing 27 and wounding 300 with 100 missing. An ammunition depot magazine blast on Oahu killed three and left seven missing. Admiral Nimitz confirmed the Pearl Harbor blast during unloading.
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St. Joseph Aspirin Claims Fast Action and Top Sales
Advertisement touts St. Joseph Aspirin as the fastest acting choice and the world’s largest seller at 10c. It also promotes a 100 tablet economy size for 35c and urges readers to demand St. Joseph Aspirin.
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Mayor Accepts Chairmanship of GNCA Recreation Committee
At a GNCA directors meeting in New Castle offices, Mayor John F Haven agreed to lead the Recreation Committee. He will be joined by Judge W Walter Braham and School Superintendent Frank L Burton as the panel reviews local groups' ideas to shape a citywide recreation plan.
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John F Haven
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W. Walter Braham
Frank L. Burton
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Marshall G. Matheny
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Burton
New Castle
Five Naval Fliers Killed In Crash
Officers at Atlantic naval air station named five airmen killed when their training plane crashed in a wooded area 15 miles southeast of Nashville Tennessee late yesterday. None of the dead were from Pennsylvania.
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