U S Forts Bomb U-Boat Pens in France
United States Eighth Air Force said flying Fortresses hit the St Nazaire U-boat yards and Beaumont Le Roger airfield in France in clear weather. The raids destroyed fighters and caused large fires as bomber crews reported direct hits and extensive damage to hangars and barracks.
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London
United States
Eighth Air Force
France
St. Nazaire
Beamont-Le-Roger
Rouen
Beaumont-Le-Roger
Beaumont-Le Rager
Camms Unique
Arthur Price
Portland
Beaumont
Roper
Wartime Help Wanted Ad Promises Jobs and Housing
A wartime help wanted notice urges readers to rent rooms and hire workers for plants and businesses, promising transportation assistance and care for children while parents work. It estimates the United Nations will spend 400 billion dollars by year's end to defeat the Axis powers.
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Capalle
Mathera
United Nations Ewill
Hiner and Pratserin Partners
Reds in Big Air Battles Over Leningrad Front
Soviet dispatches report heavy German losses as air and ground actions flare near Leningrad and the Donets front. Guerrilla raids derail trains and destroy war material, with claims of high Axis casualties and repeated German retreats amid changing weather conditions.
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Leningrad
Bembjers
Walen
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Riza
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Orea
Donets
Izyum
RAF Blasts at New Convoy Attack Night Clash in Dover Strait
London reports say RAF Typhoons and Albacores attacked a heavily escorted enemy convoy through the Strait of Dover at night. One vessel and at least two escorts damaged, AI planes returned. Earlier, British aircraft hit a Dutch coast convoy sinking two ships and badly damaging three others. Typhoons also attacked railway targets in Belgium and an air field at Morble, France.
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London
Strait of Dover
Air Ministry
Streits Whith
Belgium
Morble
France
Maze of bars and back rooms near Moe’s barber shop
A smoky street scene shows customers entering a dingy barber shop while across the lot drinkers nurse “Sweet Lucy” wine. Soldiers, civilians, and Federal workers mingle in a back room as a character named Moe scribbles on a pad, while a mysterious horse tip and rumors drift toward Broadway.
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Sweet Lucy
Sweet “Lucy
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Lucy
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Japs Fail Raid Chronicle From Burma to Bangkok
A partial World War II update reports American air and sea actions in Burma and nearby fronts. It notes bombardment of coastal targets near Bangkok and rail installations, plus damage claims from the same day’s strikes against the Rangoon area. It also mentions a Chinese recapture near Hangchow southwest of Shanghai and British confirmation of the event. The dispatch adds casualties and logistics details from the operations and notes safe returns of American crews.
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Bay
Bengal
Jrrawaddy
Keladan
Ponank
Tan Japsheer
Kanbvuzayal
Burma
Thailand
Bangkok
United States
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Berothers
Teachers' Fund in Good Condition Ad To Be Reviewed
An ads ar es report that the teachers' retirement statements in good financial condition will be presented at a board meeting in Dallas tomorrow. The fund shows assets of 14.7 million with about 72,000 investors participating.
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Austin
Ayystem
Somiorrow
Dallas
Sperry sight aids Flying Fortresses in combat
The Sperry automatic computing sight, demonstrated at the Sperry Brooklyn plant, helps aimant gunners by calculating wind deflection, speed, gravity, range, and lead, reducing human error in firing 50 caliber guns aboard Flying Fortresses during Allied air offensives.
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New York
INS
Sperry Corporation
Brooklyn
Sperry
RAF Shatters Nazi Defenses
RAF fighter-bombers based along the waterfront plus Malta sorties struck targets in Sicily and Italy as heavy attacks disrupted rail and air facilities. Notable aerial victories included Lieut Edward T Waters notching his fifty first kill and Lieut Ward Al Kuentzel downing another enemy plane. Other pilots from Montgomery Alabama to Roseburg Oregon posted success during the raid against Milis airfield and Licata rail targets with additional strikes on Reggio Calabria and Messina.
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Abd Alghero-Pertilla
Edward T. Waters
Highland Park
Mich
Ward AL Kuentzel
Delano
Gallf
Joe Immer
Montgomery
Ala
Lloyd K. Demorr
Shueveport
Jenny
Slighaim
Roseburg
Ore
Malta
Licata
Sicily
Reggio Calafovia
Messina
Roosevelt weighs national service act after White House talks
Washington June 29 President Roosevelt is giving serious consideration to the desirability of a national service act Rep Wadsworth said after conferring with the chief executive at the White House The remark underscores a possible push for a broad service program as part of wartime mobilization efforts.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
James W. Wadsworth
White House
Yugoslav Guerillas Rout Nazis Hit by Balkan Counterattack
Yugoslav guerrilla forces in Herzegovina and Montenegro repelled a 40 day German offensive and launched a counterattack. They cut the Sarajevo Uzice railway and forced German retreats while claiming 2005 casualties versus higher German losses, and in Slovenia wrecked an armored train and derailed trains. Battles also reported in northern Greece as Allies eye invasion.
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Herzegovina
Montenegro
Sarajevo-Uzhitz
Bosnia
Slovenia
Zagorye
Balkans
Europe
Radio
Morocco
Greece
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