Carrier Planes Hit Bonin Volcanoes in Pacific Raid
A carrier task force blasted Bonin and Volcano island bases 600 miles south of Tokyo to support Saipan invasion. Japanese ships damaged and planes shot down. U.S. losses limited to four planes and five crew. The operation preceded the B 29 raid on Japan and pushed toward Saipan defenses.
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Pearl Harbor
U.P
Western Pacific
Bonin
Volcano Islands
Tokyo
Marianas
Japan
United States
Midway
Saipan
Truk
Adm
Chester M. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Bonins
Nimitz
Chichi Jima
Father Island
Haha Jima
Mother Island
Iwo Jima
Nippon
America
Pillars of Flame Visible After U S Raid on Yawata
U S B 29s struck the Japanese steel center at Yawata in a record long range raid. Four bombers failed to return and several were lost to accidents or anti aircraft fire. The mission reported heavy damage and a potential knock out of one fifth of Japan's steel output.
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Chungking
Japan
Pittsburgh
Yawata
Yellow Sea
Washington
Jyushu Island
Tokyo
Kenneth Wolfe
Associated Press
Thoburn Wiant
America
Soviets Capture Over 100 Towns on Karelian Front
London dispatch reports Red Army forces on a 65 mile unbroken front from the Gulf of Finland to Lake Ladoga advancing to 28 miles southeast of Viipuri. Govorov’s Leningrad army seized 100 towns in a seven day offensive, with gains of five to nine miles and heavy combat against Finnish defenses.
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Robert Musel
London
Red Army
Karelian
Gulf of Finland
Lake Ladoga
Viipuri
Luonatyoki
Leningrad-Helsinki
Leonid A. Govorov
Leningrad
Moscow
United States Assault Troops Fight Inland in Saipan
UPI reports United States assault troops move inland in Saipan after a street by street seizure of Charan Kanoa. From the flagship I witnessed the first waves charging ashore under heavy Japanese fire and fleet gun barrages. Marines and landing craft faced mortar and artillery fire from hills toward Mount Potchau as civilians were evacuated from Charan Kanoa.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Saipan Island
Marianas
Tokyo
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Nimitz
Saipan
United States
Charan-Kanoa
United Press War
Combined
Allied Press
Joint Expeditionary Force
U.P
Tarawa
Saipan Barrier Reef
LCI
Potchau
Charan Kanoa
War Bond Drive in Mining City Totals 310 693 Dollars
Investments in the Fifth War Loan campaign by residents of Butte and Silver Bow county reached 310 693 dollars at close of business Friday with Friday sales at 51 282 50. The campaign runs through July 8 and includes an opportunity to autograph displayed 100 pound incendiary bombs.
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Fifth War
Butte
Silver Bow County
R. L. Ruhle
Fifth War Loan
Bankers Sessions Open Today in Montana
The 41st Montana Bankers association convention opens at the Finlen Hotel with a one day agenda. H E Olsson of Ronan presides at 9 30 a m in the Gold room. Banquet at 7 p m, bridge luncheon for ladies at 1 30 p m, with speakers including J E Woodard and T J Davis. Representatives from New York Chicago Twin Cities Salt Lake Seattle and Portland attend.
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Montana Bankers Association
Finlen Hotel
H. E. Olsson
Ronan
Association
Ronan State Bank
New York
Chicago
Twin Cities
Salt Lake City
Seattle
Portland
J. E. Woodard
The
Metals Bank and Trust Company of
Butte
Olsson
T. J. Davis
Rotary International
Montana Weekend Weather Forecast
Montana weather predominantly cloudy with Saturday showers and thunderstorms in the southwest. Light rain in the west and north and in the west and south central regions. Mountain snow expected with cooler temperatures in the northeast and ongoing cool conditions in the west and south.
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Montana
Allies Advance Up to 25 Miles in Italy
Fifth Army troops captured Grosseto and pushed up the Tyrrhenian coast as Eighth Army made a 25 mile advance to Todi and beyond Terni. German civilians were ordered to return to the Reich, signaling possible evacuation of Italy.
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Italy
Rome
U.P
Fifth Army
Grosseto
Florence
Mark W. Clark
Eighth Army
Todi
Lake Bolsena
Terni
Adriatic
Reich
Pisa
Florence-Rimini
Clark
Yanks Capture Vital City to Cut Rail Line
American paratroopers swam the Douve river under heavy fire to seize St Sauveur Le Vicomte Friday cutting the last German rail link to Cherbourg. Cherbourg faces isolation as Montebourg falls after a two day house to house fight and a two pronged push toward the port.
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Allied Supreme Headquarters
London
Douve River
St. Sauveur-Le Vicomte
Cherbourg
Cotentin Peninsula
Cape
U. S. Fourth Division
Montebourg
Quineville
Jackson
St. Sauveur
Douve
Henry T. Gorrell
United Press
Bombers Strike Rocket Plane Sites Near Paris and Vienna
Allied airmen bombed Hitler’s coastal rocket installations near Paris and Laon, and oil refineries near Vienna and in Czechoslovakia, with about 300 tons dropped by U S Eighth Air Force. Separate battles on the Cherbourg front advanced Allied gains as paratroopers secured a rail junction and St Sauveur amid German resistance.
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Allied Supreme Headquarters
London
U. S
Hitler
Paris
Laon
France
Italy
Vienna
Czechoslovakia
Pas-De- Calais
Britain
Europe
U. 8 S. Eighth Air Force
Pas-De-Calais
Fire Ravages Hoonah Alaska Leaving Hundreds Homeless
Fire nearly destroyed the southeastern Alaska town of Hoonah on Chicagof Island. The blaze razed the business district and about 75 percent of homes after windy conditions. One unidentified person died and none other injuries were reported. Governor Gruening flew in to assess needs calling it the decade's most serious fire.
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Juneau
Alaska
U.P
Hoonah
Chichagof Island
Ernest Gruening
Germans Send Pilotless Planes Against Britain
German explosive drone attacks struck southern England as dusk to day light raids continued. Despite crashes and fires in London warehouses, official reports said little lasting damage and Britain remained resolute under Home Secretary Morrison's warning against aiding the enemy.
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Britain
London
England
Atkack
Home
Herbert Morrison
Commons
Transocean
Thames
Morrison
Berlin
Patriots Battle on New Sector in France War Report
June 16 Paris report says patriots and German forces clash in a new sector across Vosges Marne and Ardennes near Paris. Sabotage rises with railways cut and communications broken. maquis fight German armored units while Vichy police desert to join anti Nazi resistance.
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London
France
Vosges
Marne
Ardennes
Paris
Luxembourg
Garonne
Bordeaux
Dauphine
Vichy
Joseph Darnand
King George Visits Normandy Beachhead
King George visited the Normandy beachhead on Friday. The court circular notes he traveled with Sir Alan Lascelles and Capt. Sir Harold Campbell of the royal navy, with no further details released. The king joined a line of leaders crossing the area including Churchill and De Gaulle.
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London
King George
Normandy
Alan Lascelles
Harold Campbell
Royal Navy
Winston Churchill
Charles de Gaulle
Allied High Command
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U.S
Volcano Isles
Garapan
Mariana Islands
William F. Tyree
Channel
By Clyde A, Farnsworth
Richard W. Johnson
John Henry Newton
South Pacific
William F. Halsey, Jr
Halsey
Pacific
Navy
Grosseto and
Reynolds Packard
Kenneth D. Wolfe
Riverside
Calif
20Th Bomber Command
War Department
Edward W. Beattie
By Walter Cronkite
Tilly-sur-Seulles
Caen
Caumont
By Lewis Hawkins
Patriots
New Sector
Beachhead
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