Carrier Battle Update: 82 Nip Planes Downed in Saipan Run
Nimitz announces heavy air and sea actions in the central Pacific. Mitscher’s task force reportedly downed 82 Japanese planes and damaged ships near Saipan and Tinian while American forces push inland. Additional strikes targeted Rota Pagan and Shumushu as U.S. carriers and land bases support operations in the Marianas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marianas
Philippines
Central Pacific
Nimitz
United States
Saipan Island
Magiciine Bay
Tokyo
Richard W. Johnston
United Press
Saipan
Garapan
Mount Tapotchau
Home Remodeling and Roof Services Ad on East Front
An advertisement lists services by 799 East Front including built-up roofs roof repairs cabinet and fixture work floor landing and general home remodeling.
French Forces Gain in Italy Amid Heavy Bombing Losses
Allied air operations report 15 bombers and eight escorts missing after Friday missions. Mediterranean forces flew 1 500 sorties despite bad weather. US heavy bombers retreated after intense flak. Rail depot at Craiova and Oltul bridge saw strikes with good results. Germans recaptured Chiusi as British Eighth Army repelled near Perugia and cleared Monte Gioga. Weather hindered advances and prisoners described long food shortages.
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Mediterranean Air Force
United States
Craiova
Iron Gate
Danube
Oltul
Chiusi
Lake Trasimeno
Eighth Army
Perugia
Corciano
Monte Gioga
Americans Bomb Flying Bomb Nests Across France and Ploesti
American air forces struck targets across France including rail bridges and air fields behind Normandy and in Paris area. Versailles Rheims and Limoges reportedly hit by Vichy radio. Heavy bombers faced flak but no fighter opposition. Ploesti area bombed again, targeting a key railway bridge on the main line to the oil fields. Ninth Air Force Marauder bombers destroyed four Nazi gun batteries at Cherbourg outskirts with 250 tons of bombs. This was the day’s primary air support for ground troops.
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France
Normandy
Paris
Vichy
Versailles
Rheims
Limoges
Ploesti
Piatra-Neamt
Ninth Air Force
Cherbourg
Retailers Seek to Triple War Bond Quota Citywide Drive Surges
The Fifth Army war bond campaign reports Symons store leading with $61,925 raised, eight four star generals among its sales force, and a list of contributing retailers including Hennessy, Penney, Shiner's, Paxson, Grand Silver, Woolworth, Christie's, and J C Penney. Saturday totals show Hennessy $4,450 and Symons $5,925 in sales.
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Grand Silver
Paxson and Rockefeller
Toggery
Penney’s
Ley’s
Hughes, Shiner’s
Hennessy’s
Cohen
Symons
Mabel Mitchell
Cora Williams
Rose Murphy
F. G. Symons
Muriel Selby
Rudy Popish
Rose Braunlich
Doris Richards
Thyra Ham
Ray Ellingwood
Charles White
Stanley Eva
Beth Rooney
Lorraine Shea
Frank Kall
Millie Harden
Elsie Hester
Mary Martina
Helen Hull
Lillian Thembert
Fifth Army
Hennessy
Woolworth
Strain’s
Montgomery Ward
J. C. Penney
Safeway
Emil Marans
Local Store Price List Reveals Wide Range of Sums
A scanned price list shows Penney's at 385 dollars Woolworth 175 dollars Grand Silver 300 dollars Strain's 175 dollars Hughes 150 dollars Weinberg's 225 dollars Shiner's 1150 dollars Stratford 75 dollars Paxson Rockefeller 25 dollars Ney mans 1000 dollars Towle's 200 dollars Flor sheim 25 dollars Ellis Paint 1050 dollars Drei belbis and Newbro 10000 dollars.
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Penney’s
Woolworth
Grand Silver
Strain's
Hughes
Weinberg’s
Shiner’s
Stratford
Paxson & Rockefeller
Neyman's
Towle’s
Florsheim
Ellis Paint
Dreibelbis
Newbro
Republicans unify on foreign policy amid party feuding
The Republican subcommittee leans toward a peacekeeping approach with cautious language and reserves endorsement of a full international police force. Senator Edward V. Robertson pushes a nationalist line, while Arthur H. Vandenberg’s draft is billed as the party’s common denominator. Domestic policy drafts show fewer rifts among six subcommittees. In Australia, soldiers protest Army Defense Can teens charging higher prices for mosquito repellent coils.
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Edward V. Robertson
Wyoming
United States
Santa Claus
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Michigan
Vandenberg
Reds Advance 25 Miles in Two Days
Russian forces push ahead rapidly in the summer offensive. By Belavista they near the Nazi stronghold as Col. Gen. Cherniakhovsky’s Third White Russian army breaches south of Rabinovichi and nears Orsha. The drive swells as 50 towns fall and Vitebsk region actions tighten the noose on the enemy.
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Belavista
Marshal Stalin
Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky
Orsha
Rabinovichi
Red Army
Dnepr
Vitebsk
Dvina
Zaonerye
Stalin
Ivan C. Bagramian
Vitebsk-Polotsk
Polotsk
Riga
Latvia
Storm destroys Shinnston area as multiple twisters strike
Rescuers search wrecked streets after a brief, violent tornado demolished Shinnston and damaged nearby towns near Clarksburg. At least 58 killed in Shinnston while Chartiers and Clarksville areas near Pittsburgh report heavy losses. Weather observers note a possible pattern of at least a dozen storms in minutes. Red Cross and civil defense workers aid victims as planes survey the devastation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Little Shinnston
Clarksburg
W. Va
U. S
Wellsburg
Cumberland
Ravenna
Ohio
Akron
Shinnston
Charles Armentrout
Americans Seize Heights Overlooking Cherbourg Port
Allied forces tightened control near Cherbourg as Americans seized high ground overlooking the port while British ships sank seven small merchant vessels attempting a pre dawn evacuation. About 1,250 Germans surrendered in 24 hours as heavy air and ground bombardment battered Cherbourg defenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cherbourg
Alderney
Channel Islands
Gorrell
la Mare A Canards
Russians Break German Lines Near Vitebsk Front
Russian forces breached German trenches northwest of Vitebsk and advanced up to 50 miles in places. A 22 mile front along the Dvina was formed as crack fortifications were overcome. Encirclement was expected within a day as Russians neared the Polish border. Miners Drum Corps Practice Set for Sunday.
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Vitebsk
Dvina
Miners’ Drum Corps
Miners’ Union
Union Hall
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Adm
Marc A. Mitscher
Tinian Island
United States Pacific Fleet
Tinian
U. S. Naval Battle Line
Rota Island
Aleutians
Shumushu
Kurile Islands
Japan
U. S. Line
Pacific
Ventura
Fleet Airwing Four
Army
Navy
Marine
Marshal
Caroline Islands
Iwo Jima
Bonins
U.S
Pagan
Rudy Lubick
P. Fuller
R.lubick
Pioneer Fuel
S. Maryland
Valspar
South Side Hardware
Tety Store
Vai
Harrison
Samuel H. Neely
General
Italy
RADIO
Slauson
Harrison Ave
Phoenix
Finberg
East Par
House OF Quality Furniture
Australia
Pennsylvania
Chartiers
Clarksville
Pittsburgh
Port of
Richard McMillan
London Evening News
Berlin
Iron St
Rudy Wuerl
Reynolds
M. F. Kiely
Butte
H Hy
W. J. Sewell Hardware CO
Butte, Mont
Just
Johns-Manville
News
Cahill-Mooney
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