Americans mop up Cherbourg as four Russian armies join advance
Allied forces push toward Cherbourg docks capturing one third of the city and clearing Nazi pockets. German shelling from Cape La Hague delays harbor use while Montgomery’s offensive drives from Tilly-Sur-Seulles toward Bretteville and Fontenay Lepresnel. 20,000 prisoners taken since the breakout. sea bombardment aided the assault with battleships and cruisers.
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Wes Gallagher
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
A&p
Cherbourg
Cape
Normandy
Tilly-Sur-Séulles
U. S
France
Cape de la Hague
Chérbourg
Geran
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Brettevillette
Tilly-Sur-Seulles
Téssel-Bretville
Tilly
Fontenay Lepresnel
Jaycees canvass business section for Fifth War Loan
Thomasville Junior Chamber of Commerce members will canvass the local business district today and tomorrow for the Fifth War Loan Drive. They will work with the War Finance Committee and City Chairman to run the campaign in the business area, urging merchants and service firms to set and meet self chosen quotas before July 8.
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Jaycees
Thomasville
Japanese Losses Hit 747 Planes in Saipan Defense
Allied forces tighten grip on the Marianas as Saipan shelling and island battles surge. Mt Tapotchau falls to U.S. forces while Hengyang and Changsha face heavy Japanese pressure as China braces for a major railroad barrier conflict.
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Marianas
West China
Hong Kong
Peiping
Raymond A. Spruance
Saipan
Chester W. Nimitz
Britain
Imperial Force
Pacific
Sorong
New Guinea
Manokwari
Palau
Chinese Offer Stiff Resistance to Japanese Advances
Severe fighting raged in the northeastern outskirts of Hengyang as Japanese forces pressed toward the Hankow Canton railway. Chinese high command reported gains by Japanese east wing at Yuhsien and Hengshan, while west wing progress toward Liangjiang was halted. The Canton Hankow line threat risked severing China from Allied bases in the theater.
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Chungking
Nurtheastern
Hengyang
Hankow-Canton
China
Yuhsien
Hengshan
Liangjiang
Canton-Hankow
Florida Delegates Adopt Dewey Bricker Voting Plan
Florida's 15 uninstructed delegates decided to award 10 votes to Governor Thomas E. Dewey and 5 to Governor Bricker for the Republican presidential nomination. National committeeman C. H. McNulty said the five may join Dewey later.
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Chicago
Florida
Thomas E. Dewey
Bricker
C. H. McNulty
Dewey
Bombers Hit Six Refineries in Vienna Area Raid
Between 500 and 700 American heavy bombers attacked from Italian bases under heavy opposition and struck six oil refineries, an aircraft factory and a railyard near Vienna. RAF Mosquitos from Britain aided by targeting German troop concentrations and rail facilities as weather limited further operations.
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Austin Bealmear
London
Vienna
Britain
Normandy
Italy
Budapest
France
Homberg
Duisberg
Dewey Seemed Assured of Nomination at GOP Convention
At the Chicago Stadium the first session of the 23rd Republican National Convention drew strong Dewey support with 539 pledged votes and 159 more believed assured. Governor Dwight Green opened the meeting praising GOP unity while platform debate touched crop control as a last resort. Rumors swirled on Bricker and Warren strategies as Byrd potential hints surfaced, though Byrd dismissed interest.
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Paul Miller
Chicago
Thomas E. Dewey
Repubicans
New York
Dwight Green
Hlinots
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Earl Warren
California
Dwight Griswold
Nebraska
Dewey
Griswold
Green
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Owen Brewster
Maine
Byrd
Washington
Sudden 4 Degree Drop Shocks Jasper Georgia
In Jasper Georgia on June 26 AP reports a sharp 4 degree temperature drop over 12 hours ending Sunday morning. Residents, previously sweltering, lit fires and dug out sweaters as heat faded.
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Jasper
North Georgia
Americans Press Cherbourg Encirclement Advance
Cherbourg endures rubble and shellfire as American Doughboys consolidate control after storming the peninsula. Tanks support infantry battling stubborn German holdouts in houses and pillboxes near the Amiot plant, with heavy enemy artillery from Cap De La Hague and continued house-to-house fighting as the city comes under Allied siege.
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Don Whitehead
Cherbourg
Cap de la Hague
English Channel
Amiot Aircraft
Macon Pilot Downs Flying Bomb On Test Flight
Lt James Billington of Macon Georgia a Thunderbolt pilot in SHAEF reports sighting and shooting down a German flying bomb during a test flight over southern England this weekend The action highlights wartime air combat experiences of Allied pilots in World War II June 26 AP report.
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Macon
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
James Billington
England
Stalin announces fall of Vitebsk as Reds surge on wide front
Premier Stalin proclaims the capture of Vitebsk amid a gigantic Russian push on a 250 mile front. Four Russian armies drive westward, encircling Vitebsk and threatening Orsha Mogilev and Bobruisk, with a fifth army in Ostrov sector and more armies poised toward Berlin. Red forces seize German equipment and towns, aiming for the Baltic and East Prussia.
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Vitebsk
Polotsk
Sirotino
Orsha
Zamostochye
Stalin
REDS
London
Fatherland
White Russia
Ostrov
Finland
Berlin
Orcha
Mogilev
Bobruisk
Moscow
Red Army
Baltic Sea
German East Prussia
Joseph Stalin
Ivan Bagramian
Dvina
Wallace talks on Russo China be prem Premature
Wallace substitutes for DeWitt MacKenzie and visits Chungking after Russia and the United States. He suggests a Sino Russian boundary plan similar to the U S Canadian model as Chiang Kai-Shek voices support while warning about broader border tensions and outer Mongolia and Sinkiang.
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Wallace
China
DeWitt MacKenzie
U. S
Chungking
Russia
America
Chiang Kai-Shek
Stalin
Chiang
Outer Mongolia
China's Destiny
Sinkiang
Georgia Weather Tonight and Tuesday Outlook
Georgia forecast calls for fair to partly cloudy skies tonight and Tuesday. Temperatures stay moderately high today with mild tonight and slight rises expected Tuesday.
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Georgia
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Whitehead
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Slutsk
Minsk
Swotnok Shpaki Lepel
Borsov
Velikie Luks
Gomel
Chamber of Comerce
U.S
J. B. Krueger
Heneyang
Marianas Island
Japan
Garapan
Mt. Tapotchau
Changsha
Hips
Allied
Lepel
Red
Weather Report
Helen Watters
Judith Watters
Helen
Dianne Santucci
Chartiers Hill
Waynesburg
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