Yanks Close On Cherbourg Front Amid Heavy Fighting
Allied forces press toward Cherbourg peninsula as beachheads expand and Caen area fights surge. Canadian infantry and tanks push through wooded farmland toward Caen while German forces defend Bayeux and nearby towns. Air and sea power shape the campaign with continuous bombing and supply drops.
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Bayeux
Fron
Ross Munro
Preas
Normandy
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Clear $Idrs
Dew
France
Aled
Voon
Glider crew survives crash and returns through beachhead
Lieutenant Alexis Neel recounts a glider crash in enemy territory near a beachhead, with minimal injuries and swift evacuation. He describes snipers, mines, and anti-glider obstacles, plus encounters with German prisoners and a captured American captain detailing harsher fates of others. The account ends with a note on German surrender after dialogue with officers.
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Alexis Neel
Lids Rock
Ark
Nitrogen Loss In Burns Measured By Study At Wayne
Nitrogen loss through burned skin measured for the first time at Wayne University Detroit. A patient’s daily nitrogen excretion equaled his total daily nitrogen intake from food in one case. Dr John W Hirchfeld led a team reporting in Surgery noting that extra protein may be needed for burn victims.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Stens Science Kultur
New York
Wayne
Berlin Prepares For Fall of Vichy
Berlin radio signals readiness for potential collapse of the Vichy government as Paris notes plan to assume control if the French regime fails its duties. The broadcast cites the people's national government prepared to take over in France.
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Vichy
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U S Heavies Hit Munich From lly Invasion Report
A World War II dispatch notes 27 000 Allied sorties by noon yesterday with many planes lost. It cites a six ton factory buster bomb blocking a railroad cut near Satur rail junction, hindering German reinforcements from Blaskowitz army group in southern France.
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Caen
Siroraft
Satur
Johannes Blaskowite
France
Statkely
Services Set for Texas Bar Vet Willam A. Hanger
Fort Worth memorial services are set for Willam A. Hanger a veteran Texas attorney and former state senator who died at 9 40 p m after years of ill health The Fort Worth lawyer helped handle notable cases including the Joseph Weldon Bailey impeachment and Jacob F Wolters contempt hearing He was born in 1863 near Fort Worth attended Trinity University at Tehuacana and earned a Cumberland University law degree He is survived by his widow Mrs Mattie Scruggs Hanger a son Robert H Hanger a granddaughter Vivienne and a grandson Charles L Hanger of Forest Hill Fort Worth
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Jacob F. Wolters
Mattie Scruggs
Mexia
Robert H. Hanger
Vivienne
Charles L. Hanger
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Myitkyina Grip Slipping From Japs
Military dispatch notes continued fighting as Chinese troops push westward toward Burma’s front, recapture ground near Lungling and Tengning, and close gaps around Kamaing and Lachi Ga while American air forces strike a Japanese cruiser near Waigee Island.
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Opera
U S Fighting First Leads Again in Normandy Frontline
The U S Fighting First and the British 6th Northumbrian divisions spearhead the Allied invasion in France reaffirming a long record of gallantry. The First and Northumbrians have fought together before in North Africa and Sicily and now press forward to match their World War I 1917 1918 feats. The German high command lists these units among those participating in the Normandy fighting.
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Egypt
Altien
Navy Announces Invasion Leaders In Western Europe
London reports that Rear Admirals John L. Hull Don P. Stoon and Commodore Campbell D. Edgar command units under Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk as leaders of naval forces for the invasion of Western Europe.
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J.B. Joey
John L. Hull
Don P. Stoon
Cormmodore Campbell D. Edgar
Alan G. Kirk
Europe
Nazi Supplies by Horseback and Trucks Reported
British pilots say German reinforcements move toward the frontline in France using horse drawn wagons and supply trucks to conserve fuel. They fly two to three missions daily behind enemy lines, encountering flak but little enemy air opposition. Some tanks and reconnaissance cars are damaged. German armament offensives are limited by fuel shortages and air presence.
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Brinie
France
Sei
Glider Pilot Norman Thomson Returns to Britain
British port welcomes Norman Thomson, a San Antonio glider pilot who aided troops during the Normandy invasion. He arrives with several other pilots, in a report from Associated Press.
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Norman Thomson
San Antonio
Normandy
Allied forces in Normandy roll through Bayeux
In Bayeux a crowd watched Allied tanks guns and armored cars pass through the town on June 7. Citizens praised the gear saying Germans lack such vehicles and would struggle to muster any equivalent. Germans reportedly seized civilian gasoline stocks and rounded up cars for military use.
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