American Planes Bombard 200 Mile Invasion Front
Allied air forces launched a broad daylight campaign over a 200 mile front from Paris to the Cherbourg peninsula. American Mustangs and Thunderbolts attacked rail bridges and depots while RAF fighters and bombers disrupted French and German rail centers. In heavy fighting, 57 German planes were downed with 65 Allied losses, and air cover helped the ground advance with 2,100 sorties in 24 hours.
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Paris
Bay of St. Michel
Cherbourg
Vire
St. Lo
Coutances
Carl A. Spaatz
U. S. Eighth Fighter Command
Channel
Versaillés
Acheres
Orleans
Dreux
Normandy
Berlin
United States
France
Thunderbolt
Ninth Air Force
Eighth Air Force
Chautemps Renounces Political Ambition After Expulsion
Camille Chautemps, three time prime minister of France, announced he would not seek future government leadership and was quitting politics. He condemned his expulsion from the Radical Socialist party he once led as unjustified.
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Washington
U.P
Camille Chautemps
France
Sikorsky Delivers 30 R-4B Helicopters to Army
Bridgeport Conn June 11 production of helicopters reaches the assembly line as Sikorsky division United Aircraft Corp notes delivery of 30 R 4B models to the Army.
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Bridgeport
Conn
U.P
Sikorsky Division
United Aircraft Corp
Army
Congress Drives Toward Vacation
Washington June 11 Congress aims to recess after June and July conventions. Leaders seek to finish price control, GI Bill, and war-contract bills to permit a August return and a possible month off if no urgent business arises. Senate House committees advance pension, education, and unemployment provisions for veterans.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Bankhead
D.-Ala
House
White House
War Department
Treasury Post Office
State Justice and Commerce Departments
Senate Appropriations Committee
Giant Aircraft Carrier Launched at Tacoma Shipyards
The U. S. S. Sunset, a giant aircraft carrier, was launched at Todd-Pacific Shipyards in Tacoma. The christening was officiated by Mrs. E. J. Hallenbeck, mother of Marine flyer Major Gregory Boyington, with the ship sliding down the ways Saturday night amid U. S. fleet celebrations. Fathers' Day origin noted with Mrs. John Bruce Dodd in Spokane.
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Tacoma
Wash
U.P
United States
E. J. Hallenbeck
Gregory Boyington
Marine Flyer
Todd-Pacific Shipyards
John Bruce Dodd
Spokane
Tank Carrier Gliders Surprise German Forces in Normandy
London reports that Britain's Hamilcar gliders, towed by heavy bombers, delivered fast light tanks with menacing performance. The gliders released tanks that could fire immediately after touchdown, with one early unit silencing a German gun post within two minutes of landing, aiding inland fighting in Normandy.
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London
Air Ministry
Normandy
Britain
France
U.S. Sends Russia 8.5 Million Tons Food and War Material
Moscow reports that the United States has delivered 8.5 million tons of war material and food to Soviet Russia in two and a half years under lend lease. The goods, valued at 5.357 billion dollars, aided Allied efforts and accompanied Soviet praise of the pact signed June 11, 1942.
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Moscow
U. S
Russia
Commissariat of Foreign Trade
America
Britain
Canada
Red Army
Pravda
Union Outing Draws Large Crowd and Awards
Hundreds attend the union outing with members Billy Pickthall Nick Hubber and others organizing entertainment. W. A. Faulkner wins top award for largest family. W. E. Payne second. Sports winners include Frances Byrnes and Alice Pickthall in throwing events, plus Dan Yovetich Tom Pierce and others in dashes and races.
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Billy” Pickthall
Nick Hubber
Martin McGuinn
Pete Rebich
Ray Rashleigh
Edward Olson
Tony St. Peter
Nick Fabatz
Mike Koppo
W. A. Faulkner
W. E. Payne
Frances Byrnes
Alice Pickthall
Nadine Potlack
Frank FE. Kosar
Steven Lean
Dick Paull
Tom Pierce
Dan Yovetich
Charles Jeniker
N. Nickolean
Lillian Busch
J. J. Gorman
Eileen Markovich
Dorothy Klobchar
Geraldine McLeod
Harry Kuntz
Dave Batten
Kenneth Harrington
Vern Peterson
Gerald Williams
Benny Farrell
Phillip Aguirra
Bobby Henderson
Ray Norman
Angeline Bigovich
Vonny White
Irene Silver
Rick Harrington
T. Tomich
Donald Deshazo
F. LeProwse
Clarence Foster
J. Sullivan
Anaconda
Paul Tonkovich
Liberators Hit Palau Island in Grounded Air Raid
Allied forces report Liberator bombers struck Palau island destroying at least 22 enemy planes on the ground. MacArthur said the attack caused no Allied losses. In Dutch New Guinea operations Mitchell bombers sank vessels, and a Liberator team fought Japanese fighters near Truk with one Allied bomber lost. Sea water can be made drinkable with silver oxide and acids.
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Allied
Southwest Pacific
Palau Island
Douglas MacArthur
Truk
MacArthur
Geelvink Bay
Dutch New Guinea
R A F Planes Break Up E Boat Attacks Off Boulogne
London reports coastal command aircraft disrupted German E boat groups attempting landings off the French beachhead. Ten enemy craft damaged as 23 boats were attacked near Boulogne Letouquet and Ostend with Albacore planes sighting explosions aboard one vessel. Alexander the Great sentence appears unrelated.
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London
R. A. F. Coastal Command
Boulogne
Letoquet
Bologne
Letouquet
Ostend
Army moved 2.9 million men and 20 million tons of cargo
The War Department reports that since Pearl Harbor over 2,900,000 soldiers and 20,000,000 tons of Army supplies have been redeployed to 50 countries and U S island possessions.
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War Department
U. S. Island
Pearl Harbor
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