Allied Aerial Offensive Continues Fourth Week Over Europe
Allied air power presses the fourth week of battle against European targets including northwestern France fortifications and Balkan rail hubs. Nearly 25 U S Liberators plus escorts pound Atlantic wall sites in Pas-De-Calais amid thick overcast, with reports of 1000 tons dropped on coastal installations. British Halifaxes and Wellingtons hit rail yards and storage tanks near Campina and Ploieşti, while raids breach Pescara dam flooding outlets downstream toward Adriatic front. Eighty to ninety missions, losses include eleven German aircraft. P-51 Mustangs newly in use by Allied crews.
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Europe
France
Balkans
U. S
Hitler
Atlantic Wall
Pas-De-Calais
Pin Point
French
Ploesti
Borhania
Romania
Turnu-Severin
Pescara
Adriatic
Mediterranean
Allee
Soldier Killed By Hit Run Driver Near Kelly Field
Pvt. Hubert Farrington eighteen, assigned to Third Floating Air Depot, Kelly Field, was killed when struck from behind by a hit and run driver along Military Road near Pleasanton Road. Sgt. J Baksey and Pvt. Thomas L. Cutter survived. Deputy sheriffs report the vehicle fled after the impact. Justice B B Brotherman to return a verdict of negligent homicide.
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Hubert Farrington
Military Road
Pleasanton Road
Sometier
Ploating Air
Kelly Field
Sgt
J. Baksey
Thomas L. Cutter
Farrington
William L. Stewart
Kelly Field Hospital
Billy Christoph
William Maldonado
B. B. Brotherman
James Randolph
Goman Street
Fredericksburg
TGN
Nazis Say Beds Set for New Drive
London dispatch reports from May 6 indicate German forces are preparing a new offensive across Poland toward a path to Berlin. Soviet communiques claim a two hour battle near Stanislawow left 300 Germans killed while Red Army air and sea actions sank enemy ships near Sevastopol and Kolomyja, with Russian troops massed near several cities as the siege of Stanislawow intensifies.
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London
Kowel
Warsaw
Alan Wesscape
Sevastopol Im
Imm
Stanislawow
Stalin Friendly To Church Priest In Moscow
Rev. J Stanislaus Orlemanski of Springfield Massachusetts met with Premier Stalin and Molotov for two hours in Moscow. He described Stalin as friendly toward the Roman Catholic Church and said Poland would keep Catholicism as its religion. The priest praised Russians as wonderful people and thanked the Soviet government for the reception during a 12 day visit.
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Moscow
J Stanislaus Orlemanski
Springfield
Mass
Stalin
Molotov
Stelin
Soviet Union
Poland
Father Qrlemanski
Russia
United
Bates
Father Orlemanski
Our Lady of the Holy Rosary
Republic Favored by Iceland Cabinet Vote To Establish Republic
In a joint declaration Iceland's cabinet urged citizens to vote for a republic in a May referendum. The Althing had broken Teeland's fee with Denmark after a 1918 treaty, seeking a new constitution to be ratified by June 17 following a referendum slated for May 20.
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Iceland
Reyrjavie
England
TiMs
Teeland
Althing
Fee
Denmark
Christian
Family Sleeps on Courthouse Benches in 11-Child Tale
RAHWAY N J May 6 A family of 11 children slept on courthouse benches after being evicted from a one room store they occupied with their parents. The Compton family aged eight to 17, plus former tenents, faced no home despite aid from Salvation Army and welfare groups. Landlord William Whalen had evicted them to permit a new building on the site.
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Rahway
N.wj
See J
Army
Louis L
Compton
Curtaine Ab
Salvation Army Women’s
Newark
Willis
William Whalen
Briton predicts Allied air invasion poised for main assault
British undersecretary for all declared some 138,000 Allied airmen have opened the invasion. He foresees April destruction across occupied Europe to clear a direct path to Berlin. Rommel warns of imminent aerial and parachute landings behind coastal lines and recalls El Alamein conduct.
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Lauinlin
Linot
Hewt
Balfour
Europe
Berlin
London Daily Herald
European Advisory Commission
Commission
Stockholm
Denmark
Norway
Rommel
Guesing Hin
Leading RAF Ace Tops Nazi Kill Count at 28
London May 5 Wing Commander J E Johnny Johnson downed his 28th Nazi plane over France yesterday, becoming the RAF top ace still flying. Wing Commanders J R D Braham and J H Lacy are tied for second with 27 each. Canadian Beurling, who recently destroyed 31, moved from RAF to RCA and is now in Canada on flight training.
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London
J. E
Johnny" Johnson
France
J. R. D. Braham
J. H. Lacy
George Beurling
R. A. FL
RCA. F
Canada
Probe of Cuban Liquor Initiates Senate Hearing
Washington May 6 The Senate liquor shortage investigating committee opened a probe into a War Production Standard order after Chairman McCarran asserted the United States had been flooded with inferior Cuban gin and rum.
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Washington
Upm
Senate
McCarran
D.-Nev
United States
Allied strikes press Jap forces in New Guinea campaign
Relentless raids by air and sea pin Jap troops in New Guinea New Britain and New Ireland toward surrender as MacArthur advances from Hollandia. PT boats and bombers hit by-passed garrisons, sank several supply barges, damaged more, and bombed Schouten and Biak airfields while targets at Wake, Sarmi, Kavieng, Nuk, and Nauru also suffered damage or destruction.
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Pec Fa
New Guinea
New Britain
New Ireland
MacArthur
Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
Borabery
Schoulen Islands
Wake Island
Sermi
Darling
Niwok
Wewak
Hantsa Bay
British New Guinea
Rabaul
Kavieng
MacArthor
Hollandia Stockades
Schoutens
Philippines
Makmer
Biak
Pearl Harbor
Paranlushire
Nauru
Seventh Army Air Force
Ponape
Carolines
Lossing Battle for Life Infants Die in Phoenixville
Infant Siamese twins Joyce and Sandra Stierly died within a week of birth in Phoenixville. Doctors said their bodies were joined head to head with a common pelvis and a fused hind limb. The mother, Mrs. Mary Stierly, widow Harold died in a motorcycle crash two months earlier. Doctors noted pneumonia as the cause and that the twins never could have walked or lived independently.
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Phoenixville
Joyce
Sandra Stierly
Sandra
Mac
Mary Stierly
Harold
D. Eluer Gotwals
Joye
Viereck Son Killed in Action in Italy War Update
Washington reports CPL George Sylvester Viereck Jr. was killed in action in Italy. The news notes the father, Young Viereck, of New York City, among several defendants facing sedition conspiracy charges as of March 24.
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Young Viereck
Italy
Washington
Mont
George Sylvester Viereck Jr
Young
Viereck
New York City
Itial
Maly
Civilians Evacuated in Italy Amid Allied Front Moves
In Naples on May 6 the Fifth army reports evacuation of Italian civilians up to 20 miles behind the main front. Casualty reports note increased infantry action in the Gariglang sector and an enemy patrol repulsed in the upper river valley. Allied fire halts German tanks near the beachhead and at Cassino artillery and machine guns silence enemy mortars. Seismograph records indicate two to three earthquakes likely in the Caribbean or Mexico.
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Rommel
Mediterranean
Africae
Eighth Army
Montgomery
el Alamein
Naples
Fifth Army
Gariglang
Cassino
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