British Open Major Attack Near Caen Crips German Front
British troops drive toward Caen in eastern Normandy as Cherbourg falls. Allied dispatches say Nazi casualties near 70,000 with 32,000 prisoners. Montgomery’s forces seize La Gaulle Cheux and St Manvieu as Cherbourg becomes a bridgehead port and airfield complex.
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Caen
Germany
Cherbourg
Wes Gallagher
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Normandy
Bernard L.montgomery
Tilly-Sur-Seulles
Paris
Seventh Corps
Joseph 1
Colfins
Carl Wilhelm von Schliebett
Nasi
Hennecke
Omar N. Bradley
Montgomery
Odon
France
St. Vi Quettekau
Barfleur
Tessel-Bretteville
Ste. Honorine
Pacific convoys cross great watery wastes to Saipan
Aboard a convoy to Saipan on June 12, correspondent William L. Worden describes brutal Pacific transport conditions. Men endure crowded holds, iron cots four deep, foul sewage leaks, scant water, and strict deck blackout while adapting to heat and long, tedious journeys far from Saipan.
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William L. Worden
Saipan
Hell
Admirals
States
I. S
Fierce Battle Rages for Hengyang Rail City
The Chinese high command said heavy fighting continued at Hengyang over the Canton Hankow rail line with severe casualties on both sides. The communique noted several Japanese columns prepared for a coordinated assault on the beleaguered stronghold.
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Chungking
Canton-Hankow
Hengyang
Japs Making Stiffer Fight On Americans At Saipan
Japanese defenders on Saipan stiffened resistance along a line from Garapan to Mt Tapotchau and Kagman peninsula as U S forces shifted to a large scale infantry battle. Garapan, the capital, is partly in American hands while Nimitz reports rapid progress and air raids continue in the Pacific theater.
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France
Pennsylvania
Ira T. Wyche
Cherbourg
Raymond O. Barton
Manton S. Eddy
Naval
Channel Island of
Jersey
Caen
Saipan
Associated Press
Tokyo
Howard Handleman
Garapan
Mt. Tapotchau
Kagman Peninsula
Handleman
U.S
Tokyo Radio
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Guam
Marianas
William Worden
Admiral Nimitz
Nimitz
Kagman
Magicienne Bay
U. S
China
India
Burma
Douglas MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
George C. Kenney
MacArthur
Brillant
Netherlands East Indies
Philippines
Kenney
New Guinea
Truk
Palau
Noemfoor
New Tires Delayed To 1945 Says OPA Head
Washington June 27 AP Chief Charles I. Phillips of the Office of Price Administration said new tires for A card motorists will probably not be available until early 1945, not this fall as earlier. He cited a huge backlog of applications since May 1 when R card drivers became eligible and demand far exceeded expectations.
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Washington
Charles I. Phillips
Office of Price Administration
Phillips
Republicans Clash Over World State Plank At Platform Meeting
The Republican platform committee endorsed a foreign policy plank opposing a world state and urging peace through cooperation and "peace forces" while rejecting calls to remove the final aim. Willkie and Gov. Sewall condemned the draft as ambiguous, and governors pressed for more input before the convention.
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Chicago
Sumner Sewall
Maine
Vlandell L. Willkie
Republican Platform Committee
Willkie
Sewall
Germans plan to evacuate Paris report says
French and Spanish frontier reports quoted by the Vichy radio claim Germany is completing plans to withdraw troops from Paris and the city is being heavily armed as a precaution.
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Paris
New York
Witish Radio
Northwest Florida Weather Briefing
Fair tonight in Northwest Florida with partly cloudy conditions on Wednesday. Light winds and no significant weather events expected.
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Ceergtia
Florida
Soviet Push Drives On in White Russia Front
Red air fleets from four fronts pound German positions as four Soviet armies converge on the Minsk corridor and Orsha Mogilev Bobruisk bulges. Generals Vershinin Kruikin Rudenko and Rokossovsky lead advances while Cherniakhovsky becomes youngest Soviet general. Prisoners march east as Germans evacuate civilians ahead of the sweep.
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Moscow
Germany
Orsha
Mogilev
Bobruisk
Minsk
Warsaw
Hitler
Reich
Bulge
Red
Vershinin
Sevastopol
Timofey Kruikin
Sergei I. Rudenko
N. P. Papivin
Ivan Bagramian
Baltic Front
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Vitebsk
White Russia
Cherniakhovsky
Soviet Union
G. F. Zakyarov
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Drut
Berezina
Bobbuisk
Khlobin
War Trends Now Run According to Expectations
War trends mirror expected outcomes with Cherbourg captured as Allied forces push from the beachhead. In Russia, rapid movements suggest an envelopment of the Baltics and a Soviet plan to trap German forces in the Minsk pocket. A northern anvil strategy aims to pin remaining Germans southeast of Minsk while Baltic cleanup proceeds.
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J. M. Roberts, Jr
Cherbourg
Russia
Baltics
Lithuania
Latvia
Polotek
Minsk
Orsha
Mogilev
Bobruisk
Baltic
Gomel- Kowell
Red Army
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la Gaulle
Cheux
St. Manvieu
Tilly
Dwight Green
Illinois
Pacific
Tropics
Asgarapan
By J. B. Krueger
Mogaung
Sun
OPA Head
Warren
California
By Jack Bell
Council of United Nations
Joseph W. Martin
Massachusetts
Martin
House
Earl Browder
Sidney Hillman
CIO
Roosevelt
Congress
By Eddy Gilmore
CBS
Red Star
Pavel Pavelenko
St. Nicholas
Izvestia
Abraham Roben
Montebourg
Mere Eglise
Ine
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