U. S. Airmen Sink or Damage 14 Japanese Warships Off Philippines
At Nimitz headquarters the U S fifth fleet disclosed that U S planes attacked as Japanese ships left the Luzon Formosa channel. Four aircraft carriers and a battleship were among vessels sunk or damaged in a major naval victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S S
Philippine Islands
William F. Tyree
Pearl Harbor
U.P
United States
Philippines
America
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
United States Fifth Fleet
Luzon
Formosa
Raymond A. Spruance
Nimitz
Mariana Islands
Comei
Tokyo
Flying Bazooka Joins Bombs in Pacific Air Attacks
Boston dispatch reports Lt. Col. Whitney Stone says the Army air forces now use rockets with bombs in simultaneous attacks on Japanese installations. Rockets hit stationary targets like warehouses. one pilot set six warehouses afire in six attempts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitney Stone
Boston Ordnance District
Allies Close On Ancona And Camerino In Italian Campaign
Allied and Italian troops push toward Ancona on the Adriatic coast within 32 miles as eighth army nears Camerino and Perugia area encounters. American forces advance near Grosseto while air and naval operations intensify with heavy losses reported for the Japanese in Pacific battles.
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Lynn Heinzerling
Rome
Ancona
Adriatic
Eighth Army
Camerino
Perugia
Grosseto
Venice
Fermo
Rimini
Florence-Rimini
Nocero Umbra
Lake Trasimeno
Sid Feder
Italy
Mediterranean Air Force
Livorno
Ventimiglia
Riviera
Naval victory fuels Yank drive toward Japan
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson hailed a naval victory off the Philippines as a major spur to the Pacific push toward Japan. He noted Saipan landings and B 29 raids as signaling lines of Japanese defense retreat, while warning the battle with Japan’s fleet is not yet resolved. Four or five Japanese ships were sunk and nine damaged in the engagement, with Chinese labor and American airpower contributing to the raid.
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Sandor S. Klein
Washington
U.P
Philippines
Pacific
Japan
Henry L. Stimson
Saipan
Marianas
Stimson
President Roosevelt Signs GI Bill of Rights
President Roosevelt signs the GI Bill of Rights creating extensive veteran aid including federal loans hospitalization job insurance schooling and other ex service benefits with costs estimated at 3 to 6.5 billion dollars. He urges further wartime service legislation for social security credit education unemployment for mariners and postwar job guarantees. He calls for prompt action on postwar surpluses and orderly disposal and stresses employment as veterans' top priority.
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Washington
Roosevelt
G. I
Merchant Marine
Congress
Dewey Open to Talks on GOP Foreign Policy
Chicago report says Gov. Thomas E. Dewey would be glad to confer with the Republican resolutions committee on foreign policy if they desire his views. The disclosure followed Gov. Bricker’s call for no postwar military alliances and was relayed by Herbert Brownell Jr., a Dewey draft manager.
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Chicago
WUP
John W. Bricker
Thomas E. Dewey
New Yorker
Republican Resolutions Committee
Dewey
Herbert Brownell, Jr
New York
Draft Dew
Stevens Hotel
Cherbourg siege nears as American forces close in on port
Allied siege troops push toward Cherbourg with air and ground assault. Hundreds of Allied planes bomb fortifications while Ma rauders strike inland. German defenses stiff, but the coastal approaches are being cut as Bradley’s forces close the city from east and west.
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Allied Supreme Headquarters
London
U.P
Cherbourg
Martinvast
Virgil Pinkley
Supreme Headquarters
Richard Christiansen
Lake Geneva
Wis
Festung Cherbourg
Omar N. Bradley
Henry T. Gorrell
United Press
Cap de la Hague
St. Pierre- Eglist
Maupertus
Great Harbor
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bricker Resists Second Place Offer for GOP Nomination
Ohio Governor John W. Bricker told reporters in Chicago he would not withdraw his name from the Republican presidential race and did not expect a vice presidential offer. He spoke before tomorrow's appearance before the convention resolutions committee where he chairs a postwar advisory group on domestic issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Russians Launch Two New Offensives Against Finland
London report details Red Army drives on a broad front north of Lake Ladoga aimed at ending the war with Finland. Soviet forces push from Viipuri toward the Karelian border while Finnish government upheaval looms, with Stockholm and Helsinki dispatches signaling possible armistice terms.
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London
Red Army
Lake Ladoga
Finland
Moscow
Viipuri
Karelian
Helsinki
Reuters
Stockholm
Associated Press
Svenska Dagbladet
Soviet Union
Murmansk- Leningrad
Svir River
Ladoga
Onega
Onezhskoe
Lake Onega
Japanese Push Toward Hengyang Rail Junction
Chungking June 22 Japanese army communique admits setbacks in Hunan as Japanese forces push south along the Canton Hankow railway reaching Shihwan 36 miles north of Hengyang a key rail junction. Hsianghsiang 47 miles southwest of Changsha fell to another enemy column. Changsha area supply lines attacked by 14th air force. aircraft sank damaged and destroyed Japanese boats along the Hsiang river.
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Chungking
UPR
Hunan
Canton-Hankow
Shihwan
Hengyang
Hsianghsiang
Changsha
14Th Air Force
Hsiang River
Anti-Roosevelt Forces Move to Bolt Democratic Party
In Chicago on June 22 the American Democratic national committee began uniting anti fourth term groups by merging them and planning a separate convention if Roosevelt is renominated.
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Roosevelt
Chicago
American Democratic National Committee
Democratic Party
Rocket Plane Bases Blasted By Yank Planes
Allied air forces pounded rocket launching grounds in Pas de Calais for the fourth time in 24 hours. American Fortresses and Liberators joined Mosquito raids over Berlin and Ruhr targets as Britain and the United States increased pressure on German rocket sites and cross‑channel defenses.
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Allied Expeditionary Force
Pas-de Calais
France
Germany
Ruhr
Berlin
Russia
Poltava
Ukraine
London
Styria
Italy
U. S
Pas de Calais
Cherbourg
Warn Fishermen To Stay In Port Until June 29
Allied forces warn fishermen from Denmark Norway Holland Belgium and France to remain in port until 9 p m June 29. This marks a second seven day extension of the prior warning as Eisenhower stresses port defense during the Cherbourg operations.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Cherbourg
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Denmark
Norway
Holland
Belgium
France
Supreme Command
Eye Witness Tells Story Of Slaying In Court Hearing
Detective James C. Herron uncovered Mrs Mildred Counts account of the fatal beating of Consolidated subforeman Richard O Hara outside Rincon drug store on East Sixth street Campbell. Counts testified to a manslaughter charge shifting toward murder against Liberate Paladino.
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James C. Herron
Mildred Counts
East Fourth Street
Consolidated
Richard O'Hara
Rincon Drug Store
East Sixth Street
Campbell
Counts
Justice Court
O'Hara
Edward Paladino
Jap Fleet Caught Way Off Base But Is Not Crippled
Washington June 22 The victory over the Japanese fleet west of Saipan is a great but not crippling blow to Japan's naval force. The enemy fleet was caught off base, and US Fifth Fleet carrier planes blasted the enemy's carrier force. Distances were vast and many ships escaped, leaving Japan a factor in the western Pacific offensive.
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Washington
Saipan
Japan
Tokyo
U. S. Fifth Fleet
Maj. Gen. Bonesteel Named Commandant of West Defense Area
Maj. Gen. Hartwell Bonesteel, who has led U.S. Army forces in Iceland since 1942, is named commanding general of the western defense command. He succeeds Lt. Gen. Delos C. Emmons who is relieved for another assignment. Bonesteel returns to the United States after leading the infantry school at Fort Benning since September 1943.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Hartwell Bonesteel
U. S. Army
Iceland
Western Defense Command
War Department
Delos C. Emmons
Bonesteel
United States
Fort Benning
Trap Springs On Jap Navy's Pacific Fleet
Washington dispatch reports U S naval sources say a Japanese task force hit by Adm. Spruance’s trap faced baited defenses and a weakened American fleet near Lucon and Formosa. After a Sunday air battle Japan claimed sinking two battleships and several carriers, while U S surface forces patrolled Saipan shores.
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Washington
U. S
Fifth Fleet
Raymond A. Spruance
Luzon
Formosa
Saipan
German Gen Hellmich Killed In Cherbourg Peninsula Fight
London June 22 German communique reports the death of Lt General Hellmich in the fighting on the Cherbourg peninsula during the peninsula campaign. The report confirms the loss as part of ongoing battles in Normandy.
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Hellmich
Peninsula
London
Cherbourg
Nye Promised Evidence For Defense In Sedition Trial
An affidavit in U S district court claims Senator Nye promised to provide defense material in the mass sedition case but did not. Ira Chase Koehne, attorney for three defendants, asks Chief Justice Eicher to compel Nye to release papers he alleges are in Nye's possession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U. S. District Court
Sen. Nye
R-Nd
Ira Chase Koehne
Edward C. Eicher
Nye
Koehne
Government Returns Coal Mines To Owners
The government returned the last thousand coal mines to their owners today, except for two in Virginia, effectively ending government operation of coal mines after 13 months.
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Washington
Virginia
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Dielette
Carteret
Creances
Scoutances
Vaast
Normandy
Boston
Army Air Force
Midway
Rembert James
Joint Expeditionary Force
Mariana
Bricker
Farflung
O’hara
By John M. Hightower
Maj. Gen. Bonesteel
West Defense Area
Jap Navy
Pacific Fleet
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