Messina Docks Blown To Bits In Air Attack
Allied air forces hit Messina Strait docks and supply works as the Mediterranean battle escalates. Rumors of Italian envoys seeking peace are denied by Allied and Italian authorities. The southern Italy defense ring and Sardinia Sicily perimeter remain under heavy air bombardment, with Liberator raids delivering massive explosives on Reggio Calabria and San Giovanni.
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North Africa
Messina Strait
Sicily
Mediterranean
Algiers
Pietro Badoglio
Umberto
Vittorio Emanuele
Rensrtad
Reuters
Algier
Rome
Bertin
North
Africa
Italy
Sardinia
Germany
Middle East Command
Northwest African Air Force
Cairo
United States’ Air Force
Reggio Calabria
San Giovanni
Mes
Heatwave Drives Crowded Pools and Long Daylight
Mercury peaks at 93 degrees as pools fill across Braddock Heights and Baker Park. Sunny conditions promise 14 hours 58 minutes of daylight by Wednesday while rainfall remains scarce. Farmers report barley harvest near completion and haymaking underway for a fairly good crop.
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Braddock Heights
Old Sol
Baker Park
Mercury
Toneludy
Thurmont
Potomac
Frederick County
Henry R. Shoemaker
Allied Air Raids Hit Sicilian Ports and Calabria Sectors
An Allied communique reports mass raids yesterday striking Syracuse port on Sicily and Reggio Calabria harbor area with heavy bombs. Malta naval planes attacked torpedo boats near Rome as Allied air forces from Northwest Africa carried out extensive operations. one enemy bomber was shot down.
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Sina Strait
Haig
RAF
Syracuse
Reggio Calabria
Cairo Camimunique
Malta
Rome
Ty Ake
Northwest
Africa
Forcemen Union Pickets Withdrawn At Ford
June 20 Detroit report that foremen union pickets withdrew at Ford plants including Willow Run and Rouge, allowing operations to proceed on the skeleton shift amid war plant pressures. Ford spokesman said work stayed unhampered and that the issue involved the Foremen’s Association amid wartime labor tensions.
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Gpi
Willow Run
Ford Motor Company
Perth
America
Bedford Post
Wil- Sin Connection
Rouge
Ie Fareme
Chess wager ends grimly with brutal display
A warped tale describes a chess bet where the loser risks a finger or arm. The winner supposedly commits a brutal act by beheading the final participant, then storing the severed part in a nearby container. The passage reads as a stark, sensational fragment from a distressed source.
Allies claim heavy U boat losses in Atlantic battle
London reports British air and naval forces repelled a major U boat offensive off the Atlantic, sinking two to five submarines during a five day clash. Planes aided defense, with Liberators and Flying Fortresses protecting convoys. 97 percent reached destinations. Destroyer Hesperus sank one U boat and damaged others.
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London
Atlantic
Hiller
Admiralty Air Ministry
Woolworth Io
United States
Hesperus
Tom
Churchill cites Axis threat and new air power in drive against U boats
Prime Minister notes Allied gains over German submarines as a potential milestone toward Axis defeat and reveals Liberators and Flying Fortresses are in action against the U boat menace. Germany reports 380000 tons of Allied shipping sunk in May. new long-range air power linked to the effort. TAKES COMMAND New Delhi reports Gen Sir Claude Auchinleck becoming Commander-in-Chief in India, succeeding Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell who is now Viceroy.
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Commons
Churchill
V.S.A
Germany
New Delhi
Claude Auchinleck
India
Archibald P. Wavell
Big Armament Plant Target Of Block Busters
British heavy bombers struck the Schneider armament works at Le Creuste near Paris, delivering a two and four ton bomb salvo that the Air Ministry called a concentrated blow. The plant, immense in size, produced heavy guns and armor and is key to German war production. Reports say 20 may have died, with others buried in ruins.
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Londons
Hitler
France
Schneider
le Creuste
Paris
Air Ministry
Iron and Steel
Schneider and Company
Krupp
Essen
Schneider Cartel
DOE Prunes Ree
Vichy Radio
le Creusta
Berlin
Vichy
Associated Press
le Creiste
Lyon
Russians Reported at Gibraltar by German Radio
London broadcasting note says German radio claimed 16 members of the Russian general staff were at Gibraltar opposite La Linea Spain. The dispatch was Reuters recorded. The Germans had also said King George VI was at Gibraltar.
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Gibraltar
London
la Linea
Spain
Reuters
George VI
Mysteries Solved At Attu Village After Troop Arrival
Attu Village witnesses two solved mysteries after American troops entered the area on May 31. A missing couple, Mr and Mrs Charles Foster Jones, presumed dead by their own hand, were found alive and held in a Japanese camp at Zentsuji, Japan. The 42 Japanese with rifles were reported to be on Sakhalin Island. A second mystery explained lipstick and rouge in Japanese gear as wax substitutes for imprinting names on letters. small stencils were also found in several knapsacks.
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Attu
Charles Foster Jones
Jzentsuji
Japan
Sakhalin Island
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