Final Assault Opens on Cherbourg After D-Day Air Storm
Allied forces pressed the Cherbourg peninsula with a massive air and artillery barrage. Thunderbolt dive bombers led waves of B-26 Marauders and A-20 Havocs as 155 mm and 105 mm cannon shelling pounded fortifications. American troops pushed from the barrage to breach German defenses near Mont Du Roc and along the St Pierre Eglise to Cherbourg line amid stubborn resistance and scattered advances on the southern flank.
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Octeville
Roule
Cherbourg
Henry T. Gorrell
United Press
Martinvast
Baumont
Cap de la Hague
St. Pierre Eglise
Channel Islands
Carentan
Wife of Soldier Kills Infant Son in Rage
In Los Angeles a 21 year old mother, Lela Eva Pruitt, said she killed her five month old son after learning her soldier husband James had fallen in love with another woman and would not return home. The infant's body, taken to a hospital Tuesday, showed a fractured skull after an autopsy. James was stationed at Camp Polk Louisiana.
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Los Angeles
U.A
Lela Eva Pruitt
Marianas
Luzon
Philippines
Formosa
Nimitz
United States
Navy
Raymond A. Spruance
Marc A. Mitscher
Yanks Sink Four Jap Warships Off Saipan
A correspondent reports the fleet off Saipan as Marines advance four miles across the island from Garapan to Magicienne Bay. Navy Seabees repaired the Aslito air field runway to host American planes. Japanese forces are estimated at about 20,000.
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Can
Saipan
Garapan
Magicienne Bay
James
Navy
Aslito
Allied Bombers Strike Cherbourg and Pas de Calais Invasion Sweep
One thousand American bombers hit Cherbourg with heavy demolitions aided by attack aircraft and Marauders dropping fragmentation bombs on German troops massed to defend the port. Escorted by fighters, 250 heavy bombers and equal escort smashed rocket emplacements near Pas de Calais while Lancasters and Halifaxes attacked rail targets and bridges inland.
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Cherbourg
Pas de Calais
Chauny
Rovecourt
Montdidier
Amiens
Cherisy
Chartres
Coltainville
Conches
Paris
Normandy
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Western Saddle
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