Saboteurs In Two Beaches Nabbed By FBI In Nazi Plot
FBI tracked eight master saboteurs trained by Nazi experts landed by submarine at Amagansett New York and Ponte Vedra Florida. They hid explosives and cash totaling about 170000 dollars and planned to strike bridges and water systems before accomplices were arrested in Chicago.
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United States
FBI
Amagansett Beach
Long Island
Ponte Vedra Beach
Fla
Hell Gate Railroad Bridge
New York City
New York
Chicago
Rommel in Egypt Opens Third Front and Kursk Counter
German forces launch a third summer front with an offensive near Kursk north of Kharkov as Soviet troops counterattack in Kharkov and Sevasto pol sectors. Rommel strikes toward Matruh and Alexandria with three armored divisions, threatening the Nile valley as British forces fall back east of Matruh and at the coast road beyond Matruh.
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Rommel
Suez
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Alexandria
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Canal
Mediterranean
Red Sea
Crete
Greece
Palestine
Kursk
Kharkov
Moscow
Sevastopol
Ukraine
Semyon Timoshenko
Kupyanks
Kharkov Front
Red Army
Egypt
Erwin Rommel
Eighth Army
Matruh
Nile Valley
Official Score: Japanese losses in Midway battle announced
Navy department reports a decisive Midway outcome with at least 10 Japanese ships sunk including four aircraft carriers. Additional cruisers destroyers and transports were damaged or sunk. About 275 Japanese aircraft were lost along with allied losses previously noted.
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Midway
Navy Department
Sugar Rations May Be Increased Under Review
Officials from the Office of Price Administration hint a moderate sugar ration rise, potentially half a pound per coupon, as U S consumer stock is 50 percent lower than last year. Final decision depends on Caribbean shipments from Puerto Rico and Cuba and on distribution data under rationing.
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Office of Price Administration
United States
Puerto Rico
Cuba
Caribbean
Allied Front Advances Reported in U S British Accord
Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov announced full agreement between Washington and London on a United Nations offensive in the west. A joint Roosevelt Churchill statement was welcomed as evidence of an approaching Allied offensive.
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V. M. Molotov
Washington
London
United Nations
Roosevelt
Churchill
Production figures reveal U S war industry output
President Roosevelt disclosed May production of nearly 4,000 aircraft, 1,500 tanks, 2,000 artillery guns, 50,000 machine guns and 50,000 submachine guns as Churchill and Roosevelt outlined war plans. The White House framed the data as aiding a second front and speeding up American output.
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America
Roosevelt
Washington
U.S
White House
U. S
Russia
Senate ties CCC funding vote. Wallace breaks deadlock
Vice President Wallace cast the deciding vote to break a 32 32 Senate tie approving 76 529 800 for CCC financing for 1943. The House had voted to liquidate the agency, delaying broader labor and security funding. Conference talks will iron out differences on a larger 1 157 498 426 bill.
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Henry A. Wallace
Civilian Conservation Corps
Senate
CCC
House
Labor Department
Federal Security Administration
Wallace
Russia Supply Lanes Narrowed by Ice and Narvian Bases
The piece notes a southern shift of the polar ice cap narrowing sea lanes to Murmansk, forcing U S convoys toward Norway under threat from Nazi submarines and aircraft. It highlights Trondheim as a major German base with long daylight periods aiding operations.
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Henan-Shansi
Peiping-Hankow
Russia
North China
Siberia
Chiang Kai-shek
Washington, D. C
United States
U. S
Murmansk
Norway
Trondheim
Java
Australia
Coral Sea
Hitler
Rumania
Germany
RAF raid on Bremen admits U S built aircraft in main strike
The Bremen raid marked a key admission that U S made aircraft took part in the principal bombing of a large raid. The planes were Lockheed Hudsons, typically used for anti submarine patrols, not base assaults.
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Royal Air Force
Bremen
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