Russia poised to launch new offensives in Europe
Moscow reports Russia ready to mobilize Red Army for a major push against Germany. Red Star says allied forces will mount a strong attack fully developed, with united nations moving toward Berlin. Muscovites read invasion bulletins as celebrations fill the city.
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Russia
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Red Star
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Allied navy reports first invasion round victory at English Channel
The British and American fleet declared a successful first round of the invasion, dominating routes across the English Channel. Admiral Ramsay said losses were light and signaled confidence in a strong second round as U S losses totaled two destroyers and one LST.
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London
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Roosevelt
Washington
Uni
Ted States
United States
Alan Goodrich Kirk
U. S
Augusta
Morton L. Deyo
Tuscaloosa
Nevada
Trip over France in giant C-47 no milk run
Newsman Howard Cown reports a June air assault over Nazi occupied France in a twin engined C-47 with a glider. The lead ship flew under heavy German fire as air defenses opened up, with vivid details of tracers flares and ground fires as the invasion force penetrated behind enemy lines.
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Champ Johnson
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England
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Normandy
Airborne trains carry troops across channel in massive assault
Allied air forces commanded the air over invaded France flew over 13 000 sorties from dawn to dawn in support of assault forces. U S raiders joined heavy bombers and fighters in raids toward the French front as German opposition waned and Cherbourg Peninsula paratroopers descended.
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London
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Crete
Japs In Changsha As Americans Get Nearer Philippines
Japanese troops penetrate toward Changsha in Hunan province as Chinese resistance stiffens the flank. In Biak, Americans push toward Mokmer airdrome while Allied planes blast Manokwari and other Japanese bases in the Pacific and Marshall Islands.
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Associated Press
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Manokwari
Japanese withdraw from Kohima sector in India
Allied headquarters say Japanese forces are retreating rapidly in the Kohima area of northeastern India after heavy losses. British units have occupied a village six miles east of Kohima, with contact broken due to the rapid retreat.
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Southeast Asia Command
Kandy
Ceylon
India
European peoples promised relief on the way by radio
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration head Herbert Lehman said in a shortwave address that relief is coming to Nazi enslaved western Europe. He stressed the goal of self sufficiency and self determination and that UNRRA has laid out plans for a secure new life.
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Western
Europe
Radio Today
Herbert H. Lehman
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Lehman
UNRRA
Losses Reported in Normandy Airborne Reinforcements
Twelve C-47 troop carriers and twelve gliders were reported missing today from overnight reinforcing sorties beyond the Normandy beach heads. This marks the first specific loss report from air borne operations since the invasion began, with three waves delivering equipment and reinforcements to the beach.
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Ninth Air Force
Normandy
Allied Air Losses Totals Seventy Planes in Europe Invasion
London reports Allied air forces have lost 70 aircraft in the invasion period. The breakdown lists 17 Allied fighters, 12 American C-47 troops, 12 American OC-42 gliders, 13 British heavy bombers, 6 American Thunderbolt fighters, 4 American Havocs, 2 American Lightning fighters, 2 American medium bombers, 1 RAF Boatfighter, and 1 American heavy bomber.
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London
Ten dollars becomes small change in Rome on D-Day
Rome Georgia June 7 ten dollars became small change on D-Day as a News Tribune newsboy was tipped a ten dollar bill for an extra edition and told to keep the change. A carrier also said a customer paid five dollars for six papers, illustrating wartime impulse buying in the field.
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Rome
News-Tribune
Allied forces press inland near Cherbourg in heavy fighting
Allied troops push inland in France near Caen nine miles from the coast after clearing beachheads. Parachutists and glider troops join a 50 mile reinforcing aerial train while air forces fly tens of thousands of sorties.
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F Expeditionary Force
France
Caen
Cherbourg
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Sixth Air Force
Europe
Calais
Supreme Headquarters
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Republicans Win Seat in Congress II New York
Republicans celebrate a 14 269 to 10 764 special election win in New York City 11th district ending 35 years of Democratic control Ellsworth B Buck defeats Thomas V Cantwell with American Labor party aid in a race to fill the late James A O Leary seat In Brooklyn New York fourth district John J Rooney wins as Democrat with American Labor party support over Penecan William G Nolan by 4 860 to 1 850.
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Associated Press
New York City
Ellsworth B. Buck
Thomas V. Cantwell
James A. O’learyn
Vfo
New York
Brooklyn
John J. Rooney
American Labor Party
Pene Can
William G. Nolan
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