Liberators Raid Three Italian Air Fields in Southern Italy
Nearly 100 American Liberators struck Lecce Grottagile and San Pancrazio in three dusk raids, dropping over 400000 pounds of bombs to neutralize Italian defenses around Taranto. Three Liberators were lost, twelve Axis aircraft shot down, with direct hits on hangars runways and fuel fires observed. Pre dawn RAF raids hit Palermo Cagliari Castelvetrano, with no losses. Allied ships and air assets extended operations in the Aegean and Levkas channels as fighters targeted enemy shipping.
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Vaio
Iuty
Middle East
Lecce
Grottagile
San Pancrazio
Taranta
Gulf of Tas Fante
Grotagie
Taranto
Toche
United States
Gyrottagile
Northwest Africa Air Command
Palermo
Sicily
Cagliari
Sardinia
Greece
Levkas
Sales
Considerate Drinking Incident Leaves Man Out $10
Leonard Richardson of 1504 North Navidad street says a drinking companion stole his money after they went for beer on North New Braunfels avenue. He lost $10 while another man took $82. Other thefts involved Heidi Elmon missing $75 in clothing from her home and Albert Adcox reporting $459 stolen from his gar.
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Leonard Richardson
North
Navidad Street
Richardson
New Braunfels Avenue
Heidi Elmon
Soledad Street
Bolen Fromer
Albert Adcox
Childers
Tisgar
Contepelon Park
Axis Invasion Day Propaganda Fails Across Europe
Axis broadcasts claimed invasion momentum on Saturday but dawn revealed no action across Europe. Nazi Paris radio mocked the claim while Italians grew jittery over ration policies and expulsion of fascist officials. Saboteurs and guerrilla activity continued in occupied lands with blasts and fires in Denmark and other sites, while Bulgarian police reportedly shot several suspects amid industrial sabotage concerns.
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Europe
Paris
Mussolini
Rome
Layard Paseista
Hely
C. B
London
Intan
Nagis
United States
Budapest
Plovdiv
Bulgaria
Denmark
Kalundborg
Copenhagen
Navy to Require 500000 More Men Navy 1944 manpower boost outlined
Washington reports the War Manpower Commission plans to add about 500900 Navy personnel in the first half of 1944, lifting total armed force strength toward 11.3 million by July 1944. Army sizes expected to hold near 1.23 million by January 1. Navy rise from about 1.9 million at year end 1943 to 2.4 million by next July. Wheeler seeks deferment legislation up to January 1, with support for military committees. Army to release 13,000 students from engineering programs to civilian forestry training while retaining medical and technical trainees.
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Washington
War Manpower Commission
WMC
Navy
Father Bill
Marine
Coast Guard
Wheeler D
Haighty
Troops to Guard Mexico Elections
About fifteen thousand troops will go on duty at 6 p.m. today and stay through Sunday night in Mexico City and suburbs to assure order in the Sunday elections. Sale of alcoholic drinks will be banned from 10 p.m. tonight until Monday morning.
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Mexico City
Axis Prepares for Thirty Years War
London reports a radio broadcast quoting general Verne Rommel stating Germany is preparing for a thirty years war. The message also claimed an autonomous bomber fleet would be deployed only against Britain as part of the German war effort.
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Axis
London
Rne
Romel Radio
Lot 2
Germany
Britain
Traveling Pastor Delays OPA Test in Hartford
The Rev. Flatehay D. Parker, 55, pastor of a Congregational church, had his gasoline ration privileges suspended until October 1 after a hearing on a charge of nonessential driving to Lake Sunapee New Hampshire. He awaited a public response before proceeding with a test of the OPA punitive authority. The suspension followed a hearing by OPA Hearing Commissioner Richard T. Steele who found the trip to be an excuse for a victory garden. Parker argued he was entitled to one 280 mile round trip and planned to retire for the season at Lake Sunapee after tending his garden. He still may drive up to four miles to tend the victory garden under current allowances.
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Hartford
Conn
Flatehay D. Parker
OPA
Tod
Wiis Yietery Baralden
Lealn
Lake Sunapee
Richard T. Steele
J. Stephen Knight
Parker
Pollant
RAF Drops 15000 Tons During June
London reports 15000 tons of bombs were dropped on Europe in June by Britain based RAF planes as Allied air offensive enters a new month. Bombers targeted Ghent Courtrai Lille and an oil storage tank near Ijmuiden while German raids toward Britain continued.
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RAF
London
Europe
Air Ministry
Channel
Boston
Ghent
Courtrai
Belgium
Lille
France
Ijmulden
Holland
Goering Said Near Illness In Report From Stockholm
Stockholm dispatch cites Göteborg paper claiming Reich Marshal Hermann Goering is very ill with nervous breakdown and serious heart trouble. It notes two specialists treating him last Thursday, Emmy Goering at his bedside, Keitel representing him at a Reich defense council session, and Goering largely absent from public view for months.
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Stockholm
Goeteborg
Handels-Och Stoelartstidning
Reitasmarshal Goering
Goering
Emmy
Wilhelm Keitel
Reich Defense Council
Nazis Retreat Before Reds on Central Front Near Dorogobuzh
Nazi forces fell back to fortified positions near Dorogobuzh about 50 miles east of Smolensk on the Moscow front as Soviet troops press assaults before Smolensk. Reports also cite heavy fighting on the Leningrad front west of Rostov and in the Caucasus with a German counterattack near Novorossiysk and naval actions at Kerch Strait.
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Berlin
Novorossisk
Black Sea
Kerch
Crimea
Caucasus
Spaatz Kennedy Daughters Serve Red Cross in London
Katherine Spaatz and Kathleen Kennedy, daughters of Gen Carl A. Spaatz and Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, arrived in London as part of a Red Cross contingent. They join 42 other workers to aid Allied relief efforts.
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London
Daugiter
United States
Britain
Red Cross
Katherine Spaatz
Washington, D. C
Carl A. Spaatz
Northwest African Air Force
Kathleen Kennedy
Joseph P. Kennedy
RAF Fighters Hit Jap Supply Lines
British fighters over the Chindwin and Irrawaddy in Burma destroyed a sampan supply line, sinking 10 boats and a barge and damaging 51 vessels. They returned without loss. Blenheim bombers hit an enemy supply depot near Kyemyo, setting a large fire.
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Chindwin
Irrawaddy
Marines Landed No Opposition In New Georgia Invasion
A Marine corps unit entered New Georgia by sea, landing an hour before dawn with no opposition. Marines wore jungle gear, used camouflage, and carried long knives, as two reporters embedded with the unit described the surprise landing and readiness for air raids.
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Lum Yal
South Pacific
Marine Corps
New Georgia Islands
Igj
Gordon Walker
Christian Science Monitor
Walter Farr
Low
Tailors Fear Men To Give Up Coats
New York July 3 Tailors of America unite a postwar industrial revolution is brewing in the armed forces Goatless uniforms emancipating a generation of men shackled by jackets and a threat to the future of men’s clothing Ralph Schneider president of men’s clothing firm sounded the battle cry We must meet the cogltess military influence he said We’ll have all we can do to get men to put on coats when the war is over He predicted immediate action to avert a postwar crisis in the industry
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New York
Admiral to Confer With French Official in Caribbean
U S Admiral to confer with Georges Robert high commissioner for the Antilles in Martinique on terms for a change of French authority. Navy says visit is consultative and Hoover may act as observer with reports sent to Washington.
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U.S
Robert San Juan
Puerto Rico
Joan.h. Hoover
6Th Naval District
Martinique
Adinim
Georges Robert
Antilles
Navy
Washington
Hoover
U S Shipyards Double Output in First Half of Year
U S merchant yards delivered 168 vessels totaling 1 676 500 deadweight tons in June, lifting six month output to 79 ships and 8 818 422 dwt, surpassing all of 1942. May produced 175 ships and 1 782 000 dwt, with year to date above the pace needed to hit the 19 million dwt goal. California yards set records with 20 Liberty ships in one month at Wilmington, and Permanente Metals yards in Richmond delivered 25 Liberty ships total.
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Washington
Recnrd
Maritime Commission
California Shipbuilding Corporation
Wilmington
Calif
Permanents Metals Corporation
Richmond
Pressure Keeps Up on Jap Bases in New Guinea Campaign
Allied forces pressed three sides of Salaima ua and Munda in New Guinea as jungle fighting intensified. MacArthur's communique notes air battles over Rendova and Salamua and continued raids on Rabaul while medium bombers hit targets at Kela5omb and Bogui. Acquisition of the Irobriands and Wondlark islands gives MacArthur forward bomber bases and control of the Briand sea approaches.
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Australia
Sala~ Main
New Guinea
Pacific
Solomong
Munda
Satlamaua
Nassu Bay
Malola
Salamaua
Japa
New Britain
Nassau Bay
Solomons
Rendovy' Island
Viru
New Georgia
Rehedova
Kela
Bogui
Irobriands
Wondlark Islands
MacArthur
Briand Sea
Chicago Police Raid Bookies
Chicago police raided two elaborate bookie nerve centers in a pre holiday drive, arresting a woman and six men at one site while the second location was empty. Equipment for racing news service was seized and the raids followed police learning the source of racing information after two recruits were robbed.
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Chicago
Eng
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Bohemia
Moravia
Poughkeepsie
China
Spaatz, Kennedy
Keruugm Don Dally Mall
Walker
Guadalcanal
U.S. Shipbuilding
Japan
Rabaul
Vunakanan
Rapopo
Bairako Anchorage
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