Bayeux liberated as Allied push cuts Caen highway
Allied forces report capture of the fortified town of Bayeux five miles inland and crossing of the Bayeux Caen highway. Eisenhower visited the beachhead as German resistance stiffens, with Caen’s link to Cherbourg and Paris crucial to supply lines.
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Bayeux
Caen-Bayeux
Supreme Allied Headquarters
London
Normandy Coast
Bayeux-Caen
Supreme Headquarters
Caen
France
Cherbourg
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Paris
Eisenhower
Admir
Bertram Ramsay
Yanks Capture Mokmer Airfield on Biak Island
Allied forces seized Mokmer airfield on Biak Island after days of fighting with Japanese snipers and machine guns. The breakthrough gives U S Air Forces a base within easy bombing distance of the Philippines, with Biak roughly 900 miles from Mindanao.
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Don Caswell
Southwest Pacific
U.P
Sixth Army
Mokmer Airfield
Biak Island
Dutch New Guinea
United State Air Forces
Philippines
Mindanao
Douglas MacArthur
Mokmer Field
Biak
Mokmer
MacArthur
U.S
Japanese Press Nearer Changsha
Chinese high command reported June 7 that a Japanese force advancing from the north reached within nine and a half miles of Changsha, another enemy unit sat 12 miles east, and a group behind Chinese lines was wiped out. Chinese troops regained ground between Tungting lake and the Yangtze, and battles also occurred around Shanhsien and Lungling near the Burma road with progress toward Tengchung in Yunnan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chungking
Changsha
Tungting Lake
Yangtze
Honan
Shanhsien
Tungkwan
Yunnan
Burma
Lungling
Tengchung
Meteor Outburst Described as Invasion Night Event
In Eugene Oregon on June 7 witnesses reported a large meteor during invasion night. University of Oregon extension astronomer J Hugh Pruett said the meteor broke into three pieces and likely fell into the ocean, leaving observers noting the moon-like display.
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Eugene
Ore
J. Hugh Pruett
University of Oregon Extension
Pruett
Nine Sentenced in Utah Fundamentalists Case
Nine members of the fundamentalists cult were sentenced in Salt Lake City to federal prison terms from one year and one day up to four years and one day.
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Salt Lake City
Weather Forecast Cloudy with Scattered Thunder Thursday
Cloudy forecast with scattered thunder showers expected on Thursday. No significant temperature changes projected.
Allies Advance North of Rome as Drive Reaches Civitavecchia
Allied forces northwest of Rome push along the Tyrrhenian coast at more than a mile per hour toward Civitavecchia. Spearheads drive on Lake Bracciano and toward Avezzano while German resistance fragments. British and American units receive air support as 15th Air Force targets rail and canal facilities in surrounding regions.
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Luftwaffe
Ninth Air Force
Cherbourg
le Havre
Rome
Fifth Army
Civitavecchia
Eternal City
Lake Bracci
Lake Bracciano
Avezzano
Adriatic
Harold Alexander
George Hall
British Foreign Office
London
15Th Air
Ploestio
Iron Gate Canal
Turnu-Severin
Brasov
Pitesti
Romania
Belgrade
New Zealand
Balsorano
P. E. O. Plans State Conclave in Mining City
The P. E. O. state annual conclave will convene at the Finlen hotel in Mining City on Friday and Saturday. Mrs. P. Z. Dodds of Helena presides with Mrs. Howard E. Simpson of Grand Forks delivering the principal address. Entertaining chapters AC and X from Butte and state officers are listed with numerous local chapter leaders.
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Mining City
P. E. O. Wilre
Finlen Hotel
P. Z. Dodds
Helena
Howard E. Simpson
Grand Forks
N. D
Supreme Chapter
Butte
Dodds
C. W. Laird
Laurel
L. L. Hanson
Glasgow
W. &. Mather
Lewistown
W. D. Kyle
R. O. Brandt
Anaconda
W. E. Cooper
Car
Charles Chalkley
F. J. Sten
E. J. Reed
George Maier
Stanley Johnson
Mike Kilvanic
Frank Hooper
Charles W. Cook
Montana
Glendive
Strikers Urged to Resume Work Across Plants Nationwide
The Associated Press reports leaders from the Army, management, and unions urged workers to return to aircraft engine production at Wright Aeronautical in Lockland Ohio and other sites. About 19,000 idle nationwide include 12,000 to 15,000 at Wright and 1,000 at Timken Canton. A 52-worker York Pa suspension and Harley Davidson women’s halt add to mass idle, while 500–600 returnees at Lockport NY follow union urging. The events center on wage directives and loyalties to armed forces amid disputes.
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Army
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Lockland
Ohio
Greater
Cincinnati
Company
Army Air Force
C. I. O. United Auto Workers
C. I. O. United Steel
Timken Roller Bearing Company
Canton
War Labor Board
Special Ordnance
York Safe and Lock Company
York
Armed Services
Harley-Davidson Motor Company
Milwaukee
Leonard Hackett
United Automobile Workers’ Local
A. F. of L
WLB
Simonds Law and Steel Company
Lockport
N. Y
C. I. O. United Steel Workers
A. F. of L. Electricians
American Steel Foundries
Granite City
A. F. of S. Teamsters
Los Angeles
Butte Retailers Rally Opens Fifth War Loan Drive
Butte retail clerks and employers gather for a 60 minute rally beginning at 9 a m to kick off the Fifth War Loan drive. Stores close until 10 30 a m as clerks enlist as Third Army privates with rank tied to bonds sold and potential promotion to general.
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Grand Butte
Third Army
Montana
Butte
Third Army Rally
F. H. Collins
George W. Oewisli
Ed Marans
Harry M. Gronfein
American Planes Attack Guam and Pacific Targets
U S Pacific Fleet announced that American Army and Navy planes bombed Guam in the fourth land based raid of the war, facing moderate to intense anti aircraft fire but causing no interception. Nimitz also reported strikes on Nauru Ponape Mille and a damaged Japanese cargo ship near Truk.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Guam
Manila
Chester W. Nimitz
Nauru
Ponape
Carolines
Mille Atoll
Marshalls
Nimitz
Navy
Truk
Underground orders sent to French resistance amid raids
Allied orders to the French underground went out by courier plane and radio to sabotage German communications and evacuate towns marked for Allied bombing. Messages used coded personal lines to leaders of resistance groups. A Vichy report says partisans blew up 42 points on the LaCluse Nantua Bellegarde railway.
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London
Jacques Leporte
Paris
Madeleine
Roger
Here
Stockholm
LaCluse
Nantua-Bellegarde
Italy
France
Atlantic
Channel
Repatriated Newsman Sees Nazis Still Aiming to Win War
AP war correspondent, repatriated on the Gripsholm, reports eight months as a prisoner of war inside Germany. He cites Nazi claims of 4 million western troops, 5 000 fighter aircraft, rebuilt factories, and 800 divisions, arguing Berlin plans a stalemate and negotiated peace while exploiting morale and sabotage.
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New York
Germany
Brenner Pass
Germans Report New Allied Air Landings
London dispatch reports German sources claim a full Allied air borne division landed near Cherbourg with 300 planes and that additional landings occurred at Coutances and Lessay. Berlin notes Allied gains threaten Cherbourg while German propaganda speaks of possible further landings and a widening battle along the coast toward Bayeux Caen and Le Havre.
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London
Cherbourg
le Havre
Pas de Calais
Coutances
Lessay
Berlin
Paris
Atlantic Wall
Bayeux
Caen
DNB
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Dundstedt
Erwin Rommel
Ludwig Sertorius
Many Candidates Seek Nomination in Montana Primary
The Montana primary filing deadline expired at midnight Wednesday for the July 18 election. The State Supreme Court contest drew the largest field of candidates while congressional hopefuls from eastern and western districts sought spots on the ballot.
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Helena
Montana
State Supreme Court
Japanese Forces Retreat in Kohima Front
Southeast Asia Command says Japanese troops are in general retreat east of Kohima as Allied operations force heavy losses. Imphal plain gains by British forces and Chinese units advance near Lonkin and Myitkyina, signaling a collapsing northern Manipur front.
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Southeast Asia
Kandy
Ceylon
U.P
Kohima
Southeast Asia Command
Manipur
Bengal - Assam
Montana candidates face June 17 filing deadline
Political aspirants for the Montana House and Senate must file nominating petitions with their county clerk and recorder by June 17. Officials noted filings are made at the local county level, clarifying a misapprehension from a recent story that suggested state office filings closed at midnight Wednesday.
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Montana
House of Representatives
Senate
State party officers and primary slate listed for August meetings
The document outlines party chairmen to be chosen in Helena in August and lists the complete primary slate for Congress Governor Lieutenant Governor and Supreme Court with names of Democrats and Republicans across districts. Incumbents include Mike Mansfield Sam C Ford and others with numerous state locales such as Missoula Livingston Lewistown Sidney Deer Lodge Helena Butte Forsyth Hardin Billings Great Falls and Helena.
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Helena
Congress
Mike Mansfield
Missoula
James F. O'Connor
Livingston
M. S
Butte
P. FP. Haynes
Forsyth
Dan W. Maddox
Hardin
Roy E. Ayers
Lewistown
Leif Erickson
Sidney
A. B. Middleton
Deer Lodge
Sam C. Ford
J. Thorkelson
Lou Boedecker
Paul Cannon
John D. Gillan
Great Falls
Paul W. Smith
Ernest T. Eaton
Billings
Supreme Court
A. H. Angstman
E. K. Matson
John A
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