Fall of Cherbourg Nears as Allied Push Advances
Allied forces press to trap German defenders on the Cherbourg peninsula. American troops drive toward Cherbourg and the Douve river while British units seize nearby objectives. An American pilot reports German trucks moving south as the escape route narrows. casualties total 15,883 in the first 11 days of the invasion.
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Wes Gallagher
Develdrive
Cherbourg
U. S
Cape
St. Sauveur le Vicomte
Chebourg
Douve River
la Haye du Puits
St. Sauveur le Vicente
Bricquebec
Valognes
Orne River
Caen
U.S
England
Omar R. Bradley
James Earnhardt
Rutherford College
N. C
Sevastopol
Normandy Front
France
Montebourg
St. Sauveur
Caumont
Tilly
Allied Air Power Puts Heavy Strikes Across France and Germany
Allied heavy bombers hit six airfields in southern Normandy and near Paris, while raids on Boulogne and Pas de Calais targeted German bases. RAF and US aircraft struck Duisburg and Berlin oil plants as weather hampered missions and several planes failed to return.
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Austin Berliear
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Normandy
Paris
Boulogne
Britain
Pas-De-Calais
France
Cherbourgh
RAF
Duisburg
Berlin
Pas-De- Calais
U. S
Pas de Calais
Hitler
Sterkrade
Germany
Air Ministry
Ruhr
Georgia weather outlook bright but hot with scattered storms
The forecast calls for fair to partly cloudy skies in Georgia with continued heat today and Sunday and widely scattered afternoon thundershowers in the mountains and extreme south. Northwest Florida will have considerable cloudiness tonight and Sunday with a few scattered storms Sunday afternoon.
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Georgia
Florida
French Forces Land On Elba Island For Allies
Allied reports say French army detachment led by Maj Gen Jean de Lattre de Tassigny landed on Elba near Corsica and faced strong resistance. Pianosa and several mainland advances, including Foligno and Spoleto, were reported as captured or secured in rapid operations across Italy.
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Rome
Allied
Elba
Napoleon
Pianosa
Elbin
Srna
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
Corsica
Portoferraio
Marino di Campo
Porto Longone
Eighth Army
Foligno
Terni
Spoleto
Trevi
War Developments Across Europe Asia In Last 48 Hours
The article surveys rapid wartime shifts in Europe and Asia, noting German secret aerial weapons, Roosevelt’s postwar plans overshadowed by B 29s, and De Gaulle’s shifting influence. It highlights renewed Russian activity and signals from the Pacific theater as MacArthur hints at a return to the Philippines with advances from the Marianas toward Palau and further toward the Philippines.
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Europe
Asia
Roosevelt
Russia
Pacific
New Guinea
Kuriles
MacArthur
Nimitz
Philippines
Tarawa
Marianas
Marshalls
Truk
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Palau
Viipuri Falls to Reds Imminent Moscow Declares
Moscow warns Viipuri will fall as Soviet forces press on the Karelian Isthmus. Finns blow bridges to slow the advance but front reports say Soviet capture seems inevitable with heavy artillery and tank waves. Finnish withdrawals from Uusikirkko Seivistoe and Kanneljaervi noted along with evacuations.
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Viipuri
Moscow
Eddy Gilmore
Karelian
Red Army
Front
Red Star
Grigory Ivanov
Karelian Isthmus
Uusikirkko
Robots Strike Southern England Night Bombardment
German explosive robot planes hit southern England in a dawn to morning attack. Nurses home at a hospital suffered a direct hit, causing multiple deaths and injuries. Fire crews battled blazes as rescuers risked digs to free buried victims.
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James F. King
London
Germany
English Channel
England
RAF Spitfire
Britain
Stockholm
Hitler
London Daily Express
Saipan Invasion Advances Amid Heavy Bombardment
U S forces push inland on Saipan after seizing Charan Kanoa and its air strip while Bonin and Kazan islands suffer the war's first major air and naval attack. 47 planes destroyed, two ships sunk, ten damaged as part of a wider operation across the Marianas.
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Associated Press
U.S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Saipan
Marianas
Japan
Bonin
Kazan
Paramushiro
Palau
Charan-Kanoa
Guadalcanal
Tarawa
Richard W. Johnston
Tokyo
Johnston
Europe
Aslito
Garapan
Carolines
Nippon
Finnish Minister Ordered to Leave the United States
Washington report says Finnish Minister Hjalmar J. Procope and three legation counselors were ordered to depart as officials cited inimical activities. Procope and the diplomats were held under police guard at home while the government considered actions affecting Finland and its ties with the United States and Allies. The move follows Finland being blacklisted for its alleged German alignment.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Hjalmar J. Procope
State Department
United States
Procope
Finland
Legation
T. O. Vahervuori
Urho Toivola
Risto Solanko
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sAuderville
Barfleur
Quineville
Ste. Mere Eglise
St Aubin
Granville
Sienne R
Thury
Harcourt
Arc
Czecho-Slovakia
Island OF
Italy
de Gaulle
J. M. Roberts, Jr
DeWitt MacKenzie
Arthur
Moluccas
South England
Kazan Islands
Tawara
Ing
Chester W. Nimitz
Yawata
Kyushu
China
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