Americans Reach Cherbourg Front In Major D-Day Advance
Allied reports say American troops moved within 12 miles of Cherbourg and stormed Corentan on the Cotentin peninsula. British and Canadian units pressed along the beachhead as 7,000 Allied planes bombed German targets from the coast to Paris.
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Montebourg
Cherbourg
Supreme Headquarters
United States
Tilly- Sur Seulles
Lison
Allied Expeditionary Forces
Corentan
Cotentin
Laon
Tilly
Seulles
Bayeux
Carrier Task Force Strikes Marianas Islands
U S Pacific Fleet reports a powerful carrier task force bombarded Saipan Tinian and Guam in the southern Marianas last Saturday. The brief communique offered no results but indicated a strike on enemy positions with planes from carriers. No damage totals or shipping impact available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Saipan
Tinian
Guam
Marianas
Chester W. Nimitz
Nimitz
Tinilan
Miners Union Day Fun Draws Hundreds at Columbia Gardens
Hundreds from Mining city gathered Sunday for Miners Union day at Columbia Gardens. The event featured sports for all ages, a family picnic, and a dance in the pavilion ending after a baseball game where the Miners Union beat McQueen Addition 9 to 6. Union officials set the date to avoid production loss on Butte hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia Gardens
Butte Hill
Miners Union
McQueen
Butte Copper League
Miners Union Club
Michael Orlich
William
Allies raid Nazi held Brac island in Yugoslavia
Allied forces including American British and Tito partisans struck Brac island in the Dalmatian coast area. They destroyed German installations at Bol Nerezisce and Supetar and captured prisoners with light casualties, after landing June 1 and withdrawing June 5. Major Randolph Churchill arrived in Rome on a private visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
U.P
Brac
Marshal Tito
Split
Pescara
Bol
Nerezisce
Supetar
Sumatra
Selca
Randolph Churchill
Winston Churchill
Yugoslavia
Rome
Black Bear Killed by Police After Wild Butte Foray
A 1 year old 75 pound black bear terrorized a Butte southwest residential area Sunday afternoon before being shot by Police Officer Larry Tromly in the yard of Mrs. Olga Hanley at 424 West Iron Street. The bear had wandered from the timber area south of town and prompted dozens of calls as it chased dogs and frightened residents. Tromly and Jailer John Lyden trapped the animal in the Hanley yard and fired one shot ending the adventure. He says he plans to market bear steaks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marine Air Fighter Squadron
Butte
Larry Tromly
Olga Hanley
West
Iron Street
Timber Butte
Joe Harrington
Merchants and Clerks Launch Fifth War Loan Drive
Butte merchants and clerks join a county wide campaign to back U S troops. A 9 a m rally at the Montana theater opens Silver Bow county fifth war loan with five million dollars to raise. The program includes music from the union, a film The Battle of Europe, a colors presentation, and remarks by Rev. Thomas Ashworth and Tom Davis.
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Butte
Montana
Silver Bow County
Third Army
J. &. Cohen
Montana Theater
Butte Musicians Union
Nazi Germany
Army
Navy
Marine
Thomas Ashworth
Tom Davis
Judith Eccles
The
WAVES
Marriner Eccles
Britons Warn Against Being Over-Optimistic
London broadcasts report Col D Clifton Brown warned crowds in Hexham that Allied forces may not advance in France before July end. He cautioned against expecting a swift path Cherbourg to Berlin. Sir Stafford Cripps echoed the warning on aircraft production.
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London
France
D. Clifton Brown
House of Commons
Hexham
Channel
Cherbourg
Berlin
Stafford Cripps
Pope Pius XII Prays at Saint Ignatius in Rome
Pope Pius XII, escaping limited security, left the Vatican in a small car with guards to pray before the Madonna at the Jesuit church of Saint Ignatius in Rome, expressing thanks that the city had been spared during the German occupation.
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Rome
Pius XII
Vatican
Holy Father
Saint Ignatius
Floods Subside Near Dillon
Beaverhead river and tributaries flood crest reached Sunday but washouts along highways and weakened railroad beds kept rail and road links between Butte and Idaho limited. Union Pacific northbound train stranded near Lima since Thursday, due in Butte early Monday after partial progress to Armstead and restricted speed.
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Beaverhead
Butte
Idaho
Union Pacific
Lima
Armstead
Lee M. Layne
Russians Begin Major Push Against Finland During War’s Eastern Front
Moscow announced a Soviet offensive on the Karelian isthmus driven by Govorov’s forces. In two days of fighting the Red Army pierced Finnish lines about 14 miles and captured over 80 towns on a 24 mile front, signaling broader winter war era dynamics and possible northern maneuvers.
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Robert Musel
London
Red Army
France
Karelian
Finland
Moscow
Germany
Gulf of Finland
Black Sea
Leonid A. Govorov
Leningrad
Norway
Josef Stalin
Stalin
Terijoki
Mannerheim
Russia
Soviet Union
U S 8 Marigold Commissioned as Army Hospital Ship
Tacoma ceremony marks official commissioning of the U S 8 Marigold at Todd Pacific shipyards in Tacoma Washington. The ship becomes the newest United States Army hospital vessel.
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Tacoma
Wash
U.P
U. S. Army
U. S
Todd-Pacific Shipyards
Hand to Hand Fighting Rages Near Carentan
Reporter Henry T. Gorrell describes hours of close combat on the Carentan outskirts as German paratroopers reject surrender and American doughboys cross the Merderet. American tanks support a northward advance amid heavy fire from mortars, machine guns, and 88 mm guns while nurses arrive to tend the wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry T. Gorrell
Carentan
Merderet
Allied Air Forces Hammer German Targets Across Front
Allied air power led a major daylight assault from the beachhead to Paris with 17,000 planes, destroying nine German air fields and a key army HQ while hitting bridges, convoys, and railways. Ninth Air Force losses reached 112 planes since D-Day as heavy bombers and fighter bombers struck 800-plus objectives.
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United States
Normandy
Paris
Pas de Calais
Balkan
Italy
Stalin
Red Army
Karelian
Leningrad
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Strategic Air Force
Ninth Air Force
Ninth
Britain
France
Hitler
Russia
Bucharest
Weather Forecast Two Regions Brief Thunderstorms
Scattered thunderstorms expected in the southeast and extreme south portion. Colder air moves into the extreme northwest with cooler temperatures likely across the area.
Fifth and Eighth Armies Advance 10 Miles in Italy
The Fifth and Eighth Armies pushed 10 miles north in Italy on Sunday advancing behind German retreat. They overran Pescara on the Adriatic coast and Avezzano fell as German forces pulled back toward Rome. Allied air forces targeted railways and oil facilities while 2,400 sorties were flown.
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Italy
Pescara
Adriatic
Avezzano
Montalto di Castro
Rome
Eighth
Atlantic
14Th Germany
Viterbo
Fifth
Santo Stefano
10Th Germany
Eighth Army
Chieti
Francavilla
Sulmona
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Caen
Signal Corps
Associated Press
Karl von Rundstedt
Edward W. Beattie
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Rommel
Erwin Rommel
Marianas Isles
Black Bear
Pope
Dillon
Cotentin Peninsula
Gladwin Hill
By Lynn Heinzerling
Tuscania
Camino
Tessan
Nano
Soriano del Camino
Bassanello
Sienena
Lake Bolsena
Trieste
Ploesti
Mediterranean
Albania
Brod
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