Japanese Claim Sinking of Two U S Carriers in War Report
Japanese communique quotes losses in the Midway Dutch Harbor battles claiming one U S carrier sunk and two damaged while asserting two U S carriers and a large transport were sunk. Imperial HQ says Midway heavy damage, Dutch Harbor air and naval losses, and Aleutian actions continued with oil tanks and a hangar hit.
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Tokyo
Japan
Midway
Dutch Harbor
United States
Navy
U. S
Pacific
Imperial Headquarters
Midway Island
Aleutian Islands
Imperial
Aleutians
Eastern Pacific
Alaska
Bodies of 3 More Found in West Coast Crash
A six month search by George B Burns of Spokane for his son Lt Homer Burns yielded success as the bodies of Lt Burns and Maj Hugh McCaffery were recovered near the Kidd Mountain bomber wreckage. The Dec 12 crash from Phoenix to Hamilton Field had eight aboard. three others Gen Leavitt Capt Hoffmann and another officer remain missing.
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Bishop
Calif
George B. Burns
Spokane
Wash
Homer Burns
Burns
Hugh McCaffery
Chester
Kidd Mountain
Herbert A. Dargue
Phoenix
Hamilton Field
Genect Argue
G. Leavitt
Stephen Hoffsnan
War Workers Voting Rights Ruling Sought
In Topeka Kansas Attorney General Jay S Parker says the Supreme Court will be asked to decide if war industry workers on federally owned property near war plants have voting rights. Kansas law bars residence on government reservations from granting voting rights and the case questions if leased federal homesites count as reservations.
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Topeka
Kan
Supreme Court
Kansas
Jay S. Parker
Kansas Inn
Justice Murphy Begins Army Leave for Fort Benning
Associate Justice Frank Murphy will leave the Supreme Court to enter the Army as a lieutenant colonel. He will take the oath at the War Department, then report to Fort Benning, Georgia for four months of field training and six weeks at the Advanced School of Infantry. He will be attached to General Marshall’s staff and will not resign. Murphy, 49, served overseas in the last war and joined the court Feb 5 1940 after serving as attorney general.
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Washington
Frank Murphy
Supreme Court
Ea ‘Army
War Department
Fort Benning
George C. Marshall
Desert Base Repels Axis Tank Attack at Bir Hacheim
British command reported a large Axis assault on Bir Hacheim in southern Libya repulsed with aid from Free French garrison and mobile armored units. RAF Middle East forces struck Axis armor and supply lines, while duels continued in the cauldron area as Rommel’s forces faced heavy pressure. The report notes raids over Crete and a push into Candia.
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Bir Hacheim
Cairo
Egypt
Bir
Hacheim
Erwin Rommel
Knightsbridge
R.A.F
Middle East
Mediterranean
Libyan
Bir Hachelm
Candia
Crete
Funeral for RAF flier held in unoccupied France
About 3,000 people attended funeral services for an RAF flier shot down along the French coast and buried with military honors by German authorities at Saint Malo. The June 10 report from Vichy in unoccupied France notes the somber ceremony attended by locals and military personnel.
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Vichy
France
Malo
Japs Lose 13 Planes Over New Guinea
American and Australian airmen report 13 Japanese planes destroyed or damaged in a major Allied air assault on New Guinea invasion bases at Lae and Salamaua. The battle featured heavy Zero activity as MacArthur announced eight Zeros shot down, two probably destroyed, and three damaged.
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Melbourne
Japan
New Guinea
Australia
Swift Navy
Lae
Salamaua
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Hitler Measured To Preserve Master Race Myth
A 1937 Munich scene describes Adolf Hitler summoning experts to measure his skull and facial dimensions in a display of ego and myth making. The commission, led by Prof. Ferdinand Sauerbruch, recorded 130 pages of notes and comments as Hitler proclaimed himself the perfect example of the Herrenvolk.
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Adolf Hitler
Frederick C. Oehsner
New York
Prinz Regenten Platz
Munich
Ferdinand Sauerbruck
Hitler
Napoleon
Frederick the Great
Turkey Is Seen Nazi Refuge if Germany Falls
Neutral sources close to Berlin say Field Marshal Goering and Propaganda Minister Goebbels chose Turkey as a refuge if Germany collapses. It has been understood for years that Nazi leaders were salting away fortunes abroad to survive a possible regime end.
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Turkey
Germany
Ankara
Berlin
Field Marshall Goering
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Goering
Goebbels
King George II of Greece Arrives for Six Day U S Visit
Greek King George II lands in Washington for a six day stay as White House guests. He will sign a master lend lease agreement and meet with Prime Minister Emmanuel Tsouderos and aides after fleeing Crete last year.
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U.S
White House
Washington
George II of
Greece
Buckle
Great Britain
United States
United Nations
George
London
Crete
Emmanuel Tsouderos
Demetrios Levidis
Petros Stathatos
Atdatacaman Nna
Yamatrine
SUD Gut
Tsouderos
Social
George VI
England
Elizabeth
British Ship Sunk All 71 Aboard Saved
Four American Field Service workers escaped a torpedo blow by 15 feet in a damaged lifeboat after a British freighter was torpedoed on June 2. Eight other passengers and the 59 crew reached port safely. two lifeboats were picked up at sea and the rest reached Atlantic ports unassisted.
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North Atlantic
Atlantic
Charles Fagan
Seattle
Robert Bailey
Liverpool
War Bond Buyers Autograph Bombs for Hitler
Baltimore residents at the Army War Show opening will autograph a bomb promised to be delivered to Berlin. War bond purchasers receive a note to Hitler enclosed in the Berlin bound device. The stunt aims to boost defense stamps and support for the war effort.
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Hitler
Baltimore
U. S. Army Ordnance Department
Berlin
Mexico to Join United Nations on Flag Day
Washington reports Mexico will formally pledge adherence to the United Nations at a Flag Day ceremony in the White House East Room next Sunday. President Roosevelt will address the gathering as Mexican ambassador Francisco Castillo Najera signs the declaration or sends a letter of assent, making Mexico the 27th nation after the initial 26 signatories on January 1.
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Washington
Mexico
United Nations
White House
Roosevelt
East’ Room
Francisco Castillo Najera
Pelley to Enter Plea on Sedition Charges in Indianapolis
William Dudley Pelley former Silver Shirt leader and two Fellowship Press officers Lawrence Brown and Agnes Henderson face 12 counts from a federal grand jury indictment in Noblesville Indiana for conspiring to undermine war efforts through unlawful propaganda. Arraignment set for June 17 in Indianapolis. Pelley free on 15000 dollar bond.
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Pelley
Indianapolis
UNS
William
Dudley Pelley
Silver Shirt
U. S
B. Howard Coughran
Lawrence A. Brown
Agnes Marian Henderson
Fellowship Press
Noblesville
Ind
Senate Sees Rubber Made in Ten Seconds
Washington June 10 P to the astonishment of senators a B F Goodrich executive demonstrated liquid Ameripol latex synthetic rubber making 10 seconds and bouncing it on the floor. K D Smith Akron Ohio assistant to the vice president showed tires made with the synthetic rubber claiming 90 percent durability versus natural rubber and noting a 20 cent per pound price as fair.
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Washington
B. F. Goodrich “Company
K. D. Smith
Akron
Ameripol
McNary
Smith
Senate Agriculture Subcommittee
Nazis Press On in Sevastopol Attack Amid Heavy Losses
German forces press a massive assault on Sevastopol with heavy German losses and Soviet resistance described as fierce. Red Star reports more than 2,500 Germans killed in one day and notes Russian counterattacks along Bryansk Kalinin and Northwestern fronts as the siege nears its sixth day.
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Moscow
Sevastopol
Kkey
Red Star
Crimean
London
Bryansk Front
Kharkov
Kalinin
Leningrad
Lake Men
Bryansk
I. S. Konev
Cyril Meretskov
Staraya Russa
Fritz Erich von Manstein
Crimea
Britain Pounds Hitler Domains With Unprecedented Bombing
The War Today discusses Britain's large scale bombing of Hitler’s western European targets as a major development aiding Russia. It notes it does not negate the need for a second front and cites Air Chief Marshal Harris's London prediction, while skeptics are criticized for loud, unqualified opinions.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Britain
Hitler
Europe
Russia
A. T. Harris
London
Gen ‘Erally
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