Allied forces press Caen area as German reserves shift
Supreme Headquarters reports heavy fighting near La Byude north of Caen and across the Odon. Montgomery widens bridgehead, seizing high ground around Esquay as German 15th and 17th Armies pour into the battle near Caen. Air battles over France and Germany erupt with numerous German fighters downed.
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Wes Gallagher
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
la Byude
Caen
Normandy
Germany
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Odon River
Esquay
France
Supreme Command
Marshal von Rundstedt
Cherbourg
Cap de la Hague
Vauville-Beaumont Hague-Greville
Ile Pelee
Montgomery
Soviet armies converge on Minsk drive Germans back toward Warsaw
Soviet forces push toward Minsk within 37 miles of the capital as they drive German troops back along the road to Warsaw and Berlin. The Red Army forms a grasping hand northeast of Minsk with strong groups to the southeast, freeing Mogilev for a rail link from Leningrad to Odessa.
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Minsk
Warsaw
Moscow
Wgarsaw
Berlin
Napoleon
Red
Mogilev
Vitebsk
Orsha
Zhlobin
Ivan Bagramian
Lepel
Fifth Army Captures Castagneto Near Livorno in Italy
Allied forces of the Fifth army advance along the west coast of Italy, seize Castagneto 25 miles from Livorno and push toward Siena. A second column penetrates inland toward Siena while French units gain at Monticchiello Pienza and Montalcino southeast of Siena. Prizes exceed 25 000 prisoners since the offensive began.
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Noland Norgaard
Rome
Fifth Army
Italy
Castagneto
Livorno
Leghorn
Siena
Pisa
Florence
Sassetta
Monticiano
Montatciiello
Monticchiello
Pienza
Montalcino
Air Force abandons Hengyang airfield in China
U S forces destroy Hengyang airfield in Hunan with P 51 bombs to stop its use by Japan. Hengyang flames reported as the air base falls to Japanese lines. Stilwell and Chennault vows to disrupt Canton Hankow railway to aid Chinese and American forces.
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Chungking
U. S
Hengyang
China
Joseph W. Stilwell
Hunan
Claire L. Chennault
Japan
Canton-Hankow
Stilwell
United States Airforce
Kienowe
Lishui
Suichuan
Lingling
Kueilin
Dewey to Confer with GOP Leaders on Presidential Plans
Chicago June 29 AP Dewey says he will confer with all Republican leaders including Willkie on campaign plans. He endorses party platform planks on foreign policy and Fair Employment Practices, declines cabinet speculation, and answers reporters by first names at a lengthy press conference after a late reception.
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White House
Dewey
Cordell
Hull
Jim
Charley
Chicago
Thomas E. Dewey
Wendell L. Willkie
GOP
The
Chicago Tribune
Tribune
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Fortresses and Liberators Sweep German Centers
In a 12 hour Allied air offensive, about 1000 Fortresses and Liberators attacked Germany hitting aircraft plants at Leipzig Scherpsleben Aschersleben and Fallersleben and a Bohlsen refinery. Night raids by Mosquitos hit Saarbrucken and an Essen oil plant. 20 British planes were lost at Metz.
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London
Germany
Reich
Leipzig
Scher- Sleben
Aschersleben
Fuallersleben
Bohlsen
Europe
Oschersleben
Ascherseben
Berlin
Fallersleben
Hannover
Metz
Verdun
Saarbrucken
Essen
Ruhr
Georgia Weather Today and Tonight Forecast
Considerable cloudiness and hot today. Fair warm tonight with scattered thunderstorms late afternoon and evening mainly in the south. Friday partly cloudy and very warm with a few scattered afternoon thunderstorms. Extreme Northwest Florida shows showers and scattered thunderstorms this afternoon tonight and Friday.
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Georgia
Florida
Red advance through White Russia signals Nazi retreat
Analysis argues the speed of the German push into White Russia, with Minsk in sight, shows Hitler pulling major forces back to shorter lines in Poland. Berlin broadcasts and prior notes suggest a pullback to the Bug River and a looming fight along the Vistula, with renewed Allied pressure and air superiority shaping a potential winter stalemate.
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White
Russia
J. M. Roberts, JR
Minsk
Hitler
Old Poland
Bug River
Orsha
Mogilev
Berlin
Bug
Vistula
Kovel
Brest Litovsk
Baranowicze
Bialystok
Lwow
Italy
France
Channel
Mediterranean
Baltic
Danube
Capture of Hengyang Bases Part of Plan to Cut China
Japanese troops seized U S Air Force base at Hengyang in a move tied to a larger scheme to bisect China along the Hankow Canton railway. Chungking reported Hengyang under heavy fire as Chinese forces and Allied air power contest Saipan and the Marianas.
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China
Alitape
Hea Bay
Gen. MacArthur
Ind
Solomons
Tim Selaroe
Babo
Manokwari
Wak
Sorong
Yap
Woleai
Bougain
Major Garnet Palmer's squadron flies 49 missions in 60 days
Continued on page 8, Da Ga based Liberators under Major Garnet Palmer completed 49 flights in 60 days without losing a plane. Ten missions went into heavily defended targets. A single aircraft failed to return and is believed to have landed in neutral territory.
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Dahlonega
Garnet Palmer
Daga, Ga
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Saipan
J. B. Krueger
Associated Press
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Pacific
Claire Chennault
Jengyang
Chennault
14Th Air Force
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