Russians Capture Lida South of Wilno Front Advance Keeps Pressure
Soviet forces push toward Kaunas as Wilno defense collapses. Lida railway hub falls and over 300 towns seized in the central front with heavy street fighting reported in Wilno. Berlin concedes fall may come soon as 700 towns northeast of Wilno are claimed by the Reds.
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London
Wilno
Vilna
Red
Kaunas
Kovno
Old Lithuanian Republic
Lithuania
Poland
Lida
Berlin
Moscow
Braslav
Daugavpils
Dvinsk
Druga
Lyntupy
East Prussia
Baranowicze
Chinese advance on Tengchung front closes on Burma road
Chinese forces along the Salween river front report capture of Laiseng shan on Tengchung outskirts and push to within 1.5 miles northeast of Lungling. Communiques say Jap losses exceed 40 percent in the Burma mission, with Shangnenglin booty taken and Lai Feng Shan still contested. Remaining Japanese positions north of Lungling retreat toward the Burma border.
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Chungking
Salween River
Laisengshan
Tengchung
Burma Road
Lungling
Joseph W. Stilwell
Burma
Shangnenglin
Lai Feng Shan
Shankou
Changlingkan
Rocket Bomb Destroys Guards Chapel in Wellington Barracks
German rocket bomb destroyed the Guards' chapel at Wellington barracks near Buckingham Palace during a service. Hundreds of worshippers were trapped in the ruins. Other targets included the Bankruptcy buildings on Carey Street and the Regent Palace hotel near Piccadilly Circus in central London.
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London
U.P
Guards
Wellington Barracks
Buckingham Palace
Carey Street
Regent Palace Hotel
Piccadilly Circus
Fifth Army Captures Volterra in Italy During Word War II
American Fifth Army infantry captured Volterra 19 miles below the Pisa Florence axis as German forces pulled back to defend the Gothic line. Allied observers reported smoke columns near Livorno and near-constant German artillery shifts while Volterra is described as a communications center after bitter perimeter fighting.
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Reynolds Packard
Rome
Fifth Army
Volterra
Pisa-Florence
Livorno
Pisa
Florence
Rosignano
Castellina
Gasoli D’elsa
United Press
Eleanor Packard
Weather Outlook for Montana West of Divide
Montana west of divide sees Monday fair to partly cloudy with cooler conditions in the south. East of divide also fair to partly cloudy with scattered light showers near the Missouri headwaters and cooler conditions in the southeast.
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Montana
Divide
Missouri
Hitler's Sub Campaign Fails in June
Roosevelt and Churchill announced that Hitler's submarine campaign failed in June 1944. They said merchant ship losses were near the war’s lowest, and U boats were sunk in greater numbers than ships sunk, with no major interference with the Normandy invasion. They added that thousands of Allied vessels crossed the channel.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Hitler
United Nations
Normandy
Europe
Atlantic
Yugoslav King Signs Pact With Tito After War
The Yugoslav king in exile, Peter, reportedly signs a pact with Marshal Tito. It stipulates a postwar plebiscite to decide the crown and Tito to command all Yugoslav military forces. The king agrees not to return until liberation and to suspend other issues. A Yugoslav federation of six regions is planned and Nazi collaborator property is confiscated.
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London
Morocco
Algiers
Peter
Tito
Yugoslavia
Slovenia
Croatia
Serbia
Montenegro
Macedonia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Saipan Conquest Ends After 24 Days Of Fierce Fight
Veteran Marine and Army units completed the conquest of Saipan as organized Japanese resistance ended 24 days after U S forces landed. Upward of 20 000 Japanese troops were killed or captured along with thousands of civilians. Civilians surrendered in large numbers. many Japanese troops remained in hills. Carrier aircraft bombed Guam and Rota in follow up attacks south of Saipan. The victory comes at heavy American personnel losses but extends sea and air power over the Philippines Sea.
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Pearl Harbor
U.P
Saipan
U. S
Western Pacific
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Nimitz
Mark A. Muesher
Guam
Rota
United States
Pacific
Philippines Sea
Japan
Chinese Report Grim Fighting Near Hengyang
Chinese high command said fighting along the Canton Han kow railway persisted with Hengyang encirclement by Chinese forces still under heavy damage. The communique noted continued Chinese defense and repelled Japanese counter attacks as both sides suffered heavy casualties.
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Chungking
Canton-Hankow
Hengyang
Hunan- Kwangtung
China
Liang River
1000 Bombers Close in On Nazis Europe
Approximately 1,000 U. S. heavy bombers with escort pressed toward German-held Europe from the west and south in a broad campaign. British based Fortresses and Liberators hit Tours area bridges, the Fifteenth Air Force targeted Ploesti oil refineries, and other bombers attacked Pas De Calais and Chateaudun as well as northern France airfields.
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Austin Bealmear
London
U. S
Ontler
Europe
Normandy
Tours
France
Fifteenth Air Force
Italy
Ploesti
Britain
Pas de Calais
Chateaudun
Paris
England
Dover Strait
Orleans
Wallace Forecasts New Trade With Russia and China
Vice President Henry A. Wallace said trade with Russia and China will keep American factories busy as postwar development focuses on the north Pacific and eastern Asia. He urged permanent national policy for northwest development including Alaska, western Canada and the U S. He also backed early Alaska highway link from Prince George to Whitehorse as part of postwar Pacific connections.
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Seattle
Russia
China
America
Henry A. Wallace
Siberian
North Pacific Ocean
North Pacific
Eastern
Asia
National Broadcasting Company System
Pacific
Warren G. Magnuson
D-Wash
Northwest
Alaska
Canada
United States
Magnuson
Prince George
B. C
White Horse
V. T
Donald A. McDonald
Fairbanks
Allied Bombers Blast Rabaul and Biak Island
Allied forces pounded Rabaul on New Britain in one of the heaviest blows in months while ground troops continued mop up on Biak Island, killing 213 more Japanese. MacArthur announced total enemy dead on Biak reached 3,268 since May 27. Kamiri field began operations as Namber Kornasoren Noemfoor airfields near readiness for use by Allied flyers.
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Allied Headquarters
Southwest Pacific
South Pacific
Rabaul
New Britain
Biak Island
Douglas MacArthur
Namber
Kornasoren
Noemfoor Island
Kamiri Field
Noemfoor
Philippines
Biak
Dutch New Guinea
Caen Falls to Allied Drive as Caen, La Haye Du Puits Seen Secured
Allied forces completed a major push in Normandy with Caen abandoned after a 36-hour assault. British and Canadian units linked progress from the north and west while American troops cleared La Haye Du Puits in a sixth day of bitter house to house fighting along the coast road.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Caen
Normandy
la Haye du Puits
Paris
Orne
France
Odon River
Caumont-Tilly
la Haye
Yanks Celebrate in Ruined Town
HAL BOYLE reports from LA HAYE DU PUITS FRance on July 9 that Yanks take a shattered village after six days of heavy fighting. Infantrymen ride captured German bicycles while shells and 88 mm guns crack, but cleanup squads hunt snipers as doughboys toast with Cognac found in a dugout. A military policeman directs traffic before a shell scarred cathedral as French civilians fled.
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Hal Boyle
LA Haye DU Puits
France
Pfc
Joe Harshkowitz
Brooklyn
N. Y
Dewey Returns to Albany After Weekend at Pawling
Gov Thomas E Dewey Republican presidential candidate returns to Albany after a weekend at his farm near Pawling New York. He travels with Elliott V Bell state superintendent of banks two aides and about a dozen reporters. He heads to the executive mansion to confer with Republican Congressmen from Vermont and Massachusetts on campaign strategy and national issues.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
Pawling
Elliott V. Bell
Executive
Congress
Vermont
Massachusetts
Priest Who Visited Stalin to Report to the Pope
Vatican sources say Rev. Stanislaus Orlemanski will travel to Rome to report to Pope Pius XII on his talks with Joseph Stalin. The priest’s visit to Russia stirred U.S. criticism, and Myron Taylor is said to be following the report as Vatican relations with Moscow are studied.
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Stalin
Vatican City
U.P
Vatican
Stanislaus Orlemanski
Springfield
Mass
Rome
Pius XII
Russia
Joseph Stalin
Father Orlemanski
United States
Soviet Russia
Catholic Church
Holy Se
Myron Taylor
Roosevelt
Taylor
Pontifical
Pope Pius X
Domenico Tarnisi
Antonio Arata
Alfredo Ottaviani
Rotary District Meeting Held in Missoula Montana
Rotarians from 23 cities attended the annual Rotary International district meeting at the Hotel Finlen in Missoula. H. F. Jack Root chaired as district governor. Tom Jd. Davis and Max Dean spoke on international affairs and vocational service. Morning and afternoon sessions covered floor discussions.
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Rotary
Dean
Root
Helena
Rotary International
Chicago
Montana
George Schotte
Butte
Lightning kills cattle at Ross Hole
W. C. Wetzsteen reported a lightning bolt on Saturday killed six head of cattle at Ross Hole Mont and stripped a pine tree where the animals sought shelter.
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Ross Hole
Mont
W. C. Wetzsteen
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