U S Raid On Bonin Islands Yields Two Planes Lost In Accident
U S forces report no enemy planes shot down during the Bonin Islands raid but confirm two B 29 Superfortresses were lost to accidents rather than combat. One crewman is safe. Mission notes say bombing was accurate with large fires observed. In Saipan news, U S troops push inland against Japanese defenses as Nimitz reports progress and expected further operations.
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War Department
Washington
America
Yawata
Japan
20Th Air Force
China
Allied Air Offensive Presses On In Europe
Supreme Headquarters reports day and night aerial blows continue against Continental targets. RAF heavy bombers yesterday dropped 12,000 pound bombs on Nazi Eboat and minesweeper pens at Boulogne. Germany counters with pilotless bomb carriers aimed at Britain as the invasion support continues. Allied air superiority persists amid reports of hostile aircraft near Carinthia and Sipria in Austria.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
RAF
Boulogne
Britain
Carinthia
Sipria
County Soldier Missing In Action In Italy Reported To Wife
Private William Bernard Smith formerly of near Liberty is missing in action in Italy since May 28. The War Department notified his wife at 41 Taney Apartments. He served in the Signal Corps through the Tunisian campaign and Cassino action, arriving overseas March 29, 1943 after basic training in this county.
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William Bernard Smith
Near Liberty
Italy
War Department
Taney Apartments
Smith
Signal Corps
Cassino
Fifth
Eighth
Rome
Mt. Airy
Liberty District
Body of Missing Massachusetts Girl Found in Norwell
Frances McGrath ten year old daughter of a former Boston city councilman was found dead in Norwell about two miles from Scituate where she disappeared after going to confession at St Marys church. State Police said she vanished after leaving a bowling alley in the town center as hundreds of police and volunteers including State Guards searched the area.
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Scituate
Mass
Frances McGrath
Boston
Norwell
St. Marys Church
Pilotless Planes Hit England by German Secret Weapon
London reports describe Nazi pilotless planes used against southern England and greater London in a new secret weapons surge after the Franco invasion. The craft allegedly flew at high speed, carried bright lights, expelled flames, and were radio controlled to explode on impact. Home Secretary Morrison said several missions occurred Tuesday night through today with anti aircraft guns and RAF fighters in action.
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London
England
France
Greater London
High Command
Ministry of Home Security
RAF
Home
Herbert S. Morrison
Commons
Morrison
Medal for Joe E. Brown Awarded Overseas Father of All Men
New York June 16 Joe E Brown film and radio comedian received the Eisenhower medal and the title 1944 Father to All Men Overseas from the national Fathers Day committee of New York on his Blue Network coast to coast radio program last night.
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Joe E
New York
Joe E. Brown
Brown
National
Father's Day Committee of
Blue Network
Allies Close To Cutting Off Germans On Cherbourg Peninsula
American forces pressed westward toward key road junctions on the Cherbourg peninsula, within three miles of a critical junction and six miles of another, threatening to sever German lines to Cherbourg. Allied air power supported the advance as front-line generals fought alongside troops in the field.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Carentan
Cherbourg
St. Sauveur
Caumont
Ste. Mere Eglise
Omar N. Bradley
Reigneville
St. Sauveur Road
le Haye du Puits
Bernard L. Montgomery
Supreme Command
U. S
Ward
Normandy
Cash stash found in bottle at Morgan home
Authorities recovered $6,400 cash, largely $100s, wrapped in a rag inside a bottle in the garage of William R. Morgan who died in a May 1 fire near Frederick Junction. The find followed letters from Morgan’s son Private G. O. Morgan in England and a detailed search by the administratrices and county officials. The money, placed in a local bank in the administratrices’ name, exceeds Morgan’s previously reported assets and the property has been cleared of valuables. Morgan operated a small store near Frederick Junction and died in the woods fire on his lot.
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William R. “Peg” Morgan
Frederick Junction
Register of Wills’ Office
Morgan
G. O
Hoy L. Leatherman
R. Paul Buhrman
Bowers
Pvt. Morgan
Dog Guarding Monocacy Bank May Be Guarding Grave
Sheriff Horace M Alexander notes a small black and white dog with a white face loiters at the Monocacy River Sweet Hole near the Gas House Pike bridge, snarling at passersby. The dog appears to stare at the water as if guarding a watery grave, with reports from a fisherman and Charles Burriss triggering county interest. Deputy Rhoads found the dog near the bank but it fled back to shore when approached. authorities seek information.
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Sweet Hole
Charles C. Burriss
Baltimore and Ohio Avenue
Alexander
Paul B. Rhoads
Allied Chiefs Visit Montgomery In France
Supreme Headquarters announced that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder visited Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery, commander of ground forces in the Normandy invasion, on the eastern sectors of the beachhead in France.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Arthur Tedder
Bernard I., Montgomery
Normandy
Clatterbuck Executed in Virginia Penitentiary
Richmond June 36 Thomas William Clatterbuck 33 a Loudoun county quarry worker was executed at the state penitentiary for murdering Walter Russell tenant farmer also of Loudoun county one of five slain on the A Morris Love farm June 1 1948 The execution followed last minute appeals on insanity The warden said Clatterbuck died at 840 am Three brothers visited the death cell while his wife children and mother did not A final habeas corpus plea was not filed by his counsel.
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Richmond
Thomas William Clatterbuck
Loudoun County
Walter Russell
A. Morris
Clatterbuck
M. M
Join
Griscoe Clatterbuck
Enemy Reports Air Attack On Bonin Islands During Saipan Push
The Japanese claimed Allied planes attacked the Bonin Islands, hitting Chichi Jima and Iwo Jima. They said more than 17 raiding planes were shot down and losses were slight, while American forces pressed inland in the Marianas.
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Saipan
New York
Bonin Island
Japan
Imperial Headquarters
Domei
Chichi Jima
Iwo Jima
Marianas
Tokyo Radio
Tokyo
Ogasawara
Bonin
Impassable Finnish Line Smashed by Russian Army
Red Army breaks through Finland's new Mannerheim line near the Gulf of Finland, advancing toward Viipuri. Soviet forces penetrate gaps in the fortifications, with Major Konstantin Shvankov and Konstantin Simonov reporting extensive trench systems and a blitz across swamps and forests. Govorov’s breakout covers 25 miles in five days on a 50 mile front, gaining control of two thirds of the Karelian Isthmus.
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Moscow
Red Army
Finland
Mannerheim
Viipuri
Red Star
Konstantin Shvankov
Shvankov
Kuuterselkae
Gulf of Finland
Konstantin Simonov
I Gulf
Leonid A. Govorov
Karelian
Wind wrecks Milwaukee grandstand injuring many
A violent wind toppled part of the Milwaukee Brewers grandstand roof during an American Association game. Four people were critically injured and 126 others hurt as timbers fell onto about 1,000 spectators. Arnold Shaw of Detroit suffered a fractured skull. field lights failed and the storm drenched fans on the field.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee Brewer
Arnold Shaw
Detroit
Raid on Korea Opposite Japan Reported by Domei
The Japanese Domei agency said in a broadcast reported to the FCC monitors that several enemy planes raided Korea Chosen Asiatic mainland area opposite Japan. The New York report notes the raid occurred on June 16.
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New York
Japanese Dome Agency
Federal Communications Commission
Korea
Japan
Stamp Fraud Charged in Federal Stamp Counterfeit Probe
Five men were arrested and two others cited in a federal investigation into the wholesale circulation of counterfeit sugar stamps as Internal Revenue Agent Charles Cushwa said, we have only scratched the surface, in Hagerstown on June 16.
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Hagerstown
Internal Revenue
Charles Cushwa
May Make Two Trips To Fifth Regiment Armory
Draft Board One plans a July induction call listing how many white and colored registrants must report for induction on a date to be set. Officials say accepted registrants will likely make two trips to the Fifth Regiment Armory in Baltimore: for pre induction physicals and for assignment on induction day under a new common pool system.
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Fifth Regiment
Baltimore
Draft Board One
OConor bans employment of Japanese in state hospitals
Governor O'Conor announced that the Board of Public Works decided against employing Japanese in any state hospitals or child care institutions. The move targets discrimination in state service and aligns with wartime security measures. The statement cites policy aims and ongoing enforcement through state agencies.
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Annapolis
O'Conor
Board of Public Works
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Agingan Point
Charan-Kanoa
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Chester W. Nimitz
Tinian
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Nimitz
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William B. Smith
Massachusetts
Tborneo
LUNLA
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Isinds
Parrianas Islands
Uuth
Guinea
Cuam
Truk
Caroline Islands
Zadmiralty Moe Islands
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Kusaie
Marshall
Peg’ Morgan
Man
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Montgomery
Storm
Fifth Regiment Armory
Niewspal
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