McNarney Refuses to Predict War End Date
Lt Gen Joseph T McNarney testifies before the senate appropriations committee on a $49 1 million war department measure stating the war may continue through 1945 and overseas strength will reach 5 000 000. He says the armed forces have advantages and will win with minimal casualties. He notes 3 698 000 soldiers abroad, close to WWI peak, and discusses age rules for overseas infantry replacements and a policy barring 18 year olds from infantry deployments.
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Washington
Joseph T. McNarney
McNarney
Senate Appropriations Committee
War Department
Europe
United States
Gurney
R-Sd
Army
Infantry
Unu
A-26 Invader and Other War Planes Announced by War Dept
The War Department announced production and improvements of several aircraft. The A-26 Invader, built by Douglas, is an improved A-20 Havoc used in combat. The P-63 Kingcobra is a larger variant of the P-39 Airacobra from Bell, while the Bell P-59A Airacomet is a jet-powered fighter. Northrup builds the P-61 Black Widow night fighter with Pratt and Whitney engines and four-blade Hamilton propellers.
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War Department
Douglas Aircraft Company
Army Air Forces
Bell Aircraft Corporation
AAF
General Electric
Airacomet
Northrup Aircraft, Inc
Pratt and Whitney
Singers living quietly in Rome refuse to sing amid war
In Rome Giorgio de Luca and Beniamino Gigli, famed opera stars, endure wartime danger at home. De Luca recalls 1940 Metropolitan pressure to return to New York, yet fears of clipper raids. both men express intent to resume singing in the United States after the war. De Luca shelters in a bomb-scarred home with wife and terrier Happy, while Gigli stays nearby in a garden house.
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George Tucker
Hal Boyle
Rome
Guiseppe de Luca
Metropolitan Opera
New York
Virginio Gayda
Beniamino Gigli
United States
de Luca
Metropolitan
Gayda
Italy
Royal Opera House
de Lucia
Pope
Special Plane With Elevator Used for Government Missions
Secretary Stephen Early said a Douglas built plane with a passenger elevator is in routine use for government missions. He stressed it is not built for the President or any single official, though it may be deployed abroad later.
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Washington
Stephen Early
Early
Roosevelt
Douglas Company
C-54 Skymaster Nearly Identical to Earlier Douglas Models
In Santa Monica on June 21, Douglas Aircraft Co. officials said the C-54 Skymaster prepared for diplomatic military and government missions is nearly identical to prior C-54s produced. Interior arrangements vary from earlier designs, reflecting airline style from prewar orders. Some 1942 aircraft had passenger fittings before the army repurposed them. the built in elevator design was not for Roosevelt ties.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Wa.p
Washington
Douglas Aircraft Co
Army
Roosevelt
Police of India Target Quinine Theft in Malaria Areas
Indian police intensify crackdown on quinine thefts in malaria zones to curb medicine shortages. The campaign spans multiple districts with raids and seizures as officers pursue suspected smugglers and unauthorized sellers.
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Police of
India
Tail craft with heavy armament and night fighting gear
The craft weighs over 25 000 pounds and is armed with 20 mm and .50 caliber machineguns. It carries the latest night fighting devices and offers long range, high speed, and strong climb characteristics. A crew of two or three men operates it.
Petition Seeks Ban on Japanese Return to California
Rep. John Phillips of California filed a House petition signed by 489 residents asking action to bar the return of Japanese and people of Japanese ancestry to the California coast after Pearl Harbor. The petition cites anti Japanese hatred and warns that their return threatens regional safety and employment policies.
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Washington
John Phillips
Cal
California
Pearl Harbor
Phillips
West Coast
John E. Rankin
D-Miss
Fair Employment Practices Committee
Doolittle
Tokyo
Gertrude Lawrence Tours Army Camps Before D-Day
Actress Gertrude Lawrence arrived in Britain to entertain troops at invasion ports two days before D-day. Her husband Lt Cmdr Richard Aldrich, an American commander, oversaw camps and could not reveal plans. The couple toured camps while Capt Leland Lovette observed from a British warship.
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John A. Moroso
Gertrude Lawrence
Britain
Cmdr
Richard Aldrich
Leland Lovette
Navy
Washington
France
Ceres
War superstition and luck in the Normandy invasion
Lt. Ralph F Pullen of Shreveport recounts wearing the same underpants from Sicily and the same shirt into France, claiming luck. The narrator notes he survived machine gun fire and shell bursts, while a British battleship supported the beachhead with bombardment and cooperation among Allied forces.
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Ralph F. Pullen
Shreveport
France
Beachhead recollection halts burial by Lt Byrd for reporter Hicks
On the beachhead soldiers recall George Hicks, a Blue Network radio reporter, exhausted and resting by the roadside when a burial truck arrived. Lt. Sam Byrd, a peacetime actor, intervened and Hicks reportedly slept through the episode as the scene unfolded.
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George Hicks
Blue Network
Sam Byrd
Byrd
Hicks
Americans Recall Liberty Light for D day Bells
Veterans and families recall the nationwide light up of the Statue of Liberty and church bells on D day as news from home grew scarce. Citizens debated what people did and how the nation observed the anniversary.
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America
Army Crew Said To Get First Mystery Plane
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDI TIONARY FORCE reports a U S Army maintenance crew fired a 40 millimeter gun bound for Normandy and downed a pilotless plane over southern England. Captain Albert E Renning of Jackson Mississippi led the operation after spotting a projectile aimed at the field.
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Army
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Normandy
U. S. Army
Engd
Albert E. Renning
Jackson
Miss
Allied Bombers Report Encounter With Nazi Secret Weapon
The Second Tactical Air Force said its bombers over northern France met another German secret weapon. A square box like missile was fired into the air to burst and scatter long silvery strips, likely intended to foul propellers, but described as completely ineffective.
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London
Second Tactical Air Force
France
Kelland Predicts West Will Support Gov Dewey
Clarence Budington Kelland Arizona national committeeman predicts the western bloc will back Governor Dewey at the Republican national convention. He cites the land grant states plus Oklahoma and New Mexico as likely supporters.
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Kelland
West
Gov
Dewey
Chicago
Clarence Budington Kelland
Arizona
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