06 Jul 1944
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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1944
Page
1
Allied and German forces push for control of the Caen region with dense troop concentrations. Reports say one division faces three miles of front, tanks and infantry clash near Carpiquet airfield as hangars are destroyed and tanks maneuver amid shelling.
A wartime report notes the Bayeaux Carpiquet railroad area near a Normandy airfield where dead Germans lie around the tracks and dead cattle lie in adjoining fields. The airfield, built in 1938, is described as one of the best in Normandy and was used extensively by German forces.
The article reports civilian casualties and several American service members killed or injured as bombs hit London. Some blasts damaged a club building and an American war personnel area while others destroyed buses and shattered windows around a central square. Theaters and movie houses remain open with no crowds.
The Prime Minister described a plan including a special committee of scientists and engineers to advise on offensive and defensive measures. He said deep shelters will be used, London civilians are urged to evacuate where possible, and more non essential residents should leave the city while all essential posts remain. Churchill noted about 50,000 tons of Allied bombs have fallen on France and Germany and warned outcomes depend on whose effort suffers most. London will never be conquered, he asserted, and Parliament must stay at its posts.
Mr and Mrs Harry T Long of Martinsburg West Virginia were notified by the War Department on Tuesday that their son Private Harry T Long has been missing in action in the Italian theater of war since May 31 He entered service September 14 1943 after working for Fairchild Aircraft Corp His training occurred at Camp Blanding Florida and Fort Meade Maryland.
Russians widen their westward offensive as Moscow reports fierce German counterattacks near Baranowicze and Molodeczno. Stormovik dives scour marshes to disrupt salients while Red Army aims for Brest Litovsk and Warsaw along the Berlin corridor amid Baltic front pressure.
Anderson July 6 A P life photo from July 3 1944 shows Republican Presidential nominee Dewey at a negro drinking party governor Johnson of South Carolina accuses Dewey of associating with racial disrepute in a radio address from WAIM Anderson Roosevelt not pictured at a negro liquor party.
In Philadelphia on July 6 Jacob Vanwick swerved to avoid a doe that leaped from shrubs, colliding with several cars amid downtown traffic. The incident disrupted the third largest city’s bustle as authorities investigated the unusual wildlife collision.
Tokyo radio reported United States cruisers shelled Guam and Tinian islands yesterday in a combined operation. About 120 planes bombed Guam while cruiser forces delivered high explosives in morning and afternoon sorties. Rota and Pagan were also attacked by American planes.
Harold T. Hanson was found in a dazed condition in downtown Hagerstown and remained semi conscious for much of yesterday. Captain William H. Peters said Hanson was lucid this morning and his family is en route. Hanson suggested an amnesia episode and recalled little from the prior day or two.
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