Allied advance enlarges beachhead as railways cut to Cherbourg
Allied forces push west in Normandy as rail lines and highways to Cherbourg are severed. Bradley reports ashore progress with British and American units driving toward St Mere Eglise Caen and Bayeux amid stiff German counterattacks and worsening weather.
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London
Cherbourg
St. Lo
Bayeux
Omar WN. Bradiey
BNC
France
Bradley
Harq
Grimly
Cherbourg-Carentan
Carentan
Erwin Rommel
Caen
Supreme Headquarters
Roosevelt
Washington
St. Mere Eglise
Bayeny
St. Formigni
Normandy
West Wall
Rouen
Havre
Honfleur
Cherbourgh
Guernsey
Jersey
Fifth War Loan Drive Opens Next Monday On June 12
The community is urged to support the Fifth War Loan by investing idle money in U S government bonds. County volunteers from all walks of life will canvass neighborhoods to meet the county quota, with a forthcoming Fifth War Loan Day expected to oversubscribe. Citizens are called to join and aid the campaign until victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Washington County
Four Local Men In Troop Carrier Group in England
Four men from Washington Iowa serve with a Ninth Air Force Troop Carrier Command unit in England. Sergeant Karl Fisher Sergeant Harold Reynolds Private First Class Lloyd Miller and Private First Class Max Haifley attend radio and clerical schools and perform roles in radio operation clerical intelligence and transportation. They travel with a troop carrier group that carries paratroopers towed gliders and wounded evacuation as part of Allied preparations for the invasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ninth Air Force Troop Carrier Command
England
Washington
Iowa
Karl Fisher
Harold Reynolds
Lloved Miller
Max Haifley
Fisher
Reynolds
Miller
Haifley
Carier
Ninth Air Force
Allied Expeditionary Air Forces
Tactical Air Arm
St. Petersburg
Army
Sioux Falls
S. D
Ridmond
Okla
Hig Service Group
Clarence Dodds Taken by Death
Clarence Dodds 53 died last night at eleven in Davenport. Born July 21, 1890, he spent most of life in the county before moving to Davenport two years ago to work for Gordon-Van Tine. Surviving include his father T. L. Dodds, a son Clyde, a sister Lois, a brother Bert, and two half siblings. His wife Alma Johnson Dodds died in 1939. He was a Methodist church member.
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Mareacre C. Dodds
Davenport
Washington
Mr. Dodds
Sarah (Scranton) Dodds
Gordon-Van Tine Company
East Washington Street
Clyde
Lois
Bert
Hunter
Okla
George
Muscatine
Maurice Meyer
Alma Johnson Dodds
Methodist Church
Wheat crop estimate for winter and spring wheat
Washington June 8. The Department of Agriculture estimated that this year’s crop of both winter and spring wheat will total 1 034 785 000 bushels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Dept. of Agriculture
Marriage licenses issued at courthouse in Washington Pleasant Plain and Brighton
Marriage licenses issued at the courthouse for Robert L Gates and Gayle Davis of Washington William K E Popejoy of Pleasant Plain and Virginia Shaffer of Brighton. The plan includes circulating the home flown newspaper among recipients. The report notes Iowa’s Cleanest City representation at a Troop Carrier base in England.
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Court House
Robert L. Gates
Gayle Davis
Washington
William KE. Popejoy
Pleasant Plain
Virginia Shaffer
Brighton
Iowa
England
Germans in Italy Still in Full Retreat
Allied Sth army troops captured the railway center of Viterbo on the Rome Florence line and pressed into the north of Rome. British and American units pursued the 14th army toward Orbetello as the German withdrawing front stretched from the Adriatic coast toward the area around Rome.
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Italy
Naples
Sth
Viterbo
Rome
Florence
Pescara
Fifth Army
Civitavecchia
Terni
Lake Bracciano
5Th Army
14Th Army
Tiber
Sabing Hills
10Th Army
8Th Army
Palombara Sabina
Monte Rotondo
Agosta
Adriatic
Pollo
Pest Cara River
Harold R. L. G. Alexander
Denmark
Pola
Orbetello
Heavy June Rain Baffles Farmers With Record Downpour
Rainfall totaled 3.03 inches from Wednesday night through last night, with 1.20 inches by noon yesterday and 1.53 by seven pm. The heaviest rain fell after midnight, flooding pavements and challenging sewers while keeping farmers out of fields but providing beneficial moisture.
Gunfire Disrupts Rome Royalist Demonstration
In Rome a burst of gunfire disrupted a royalist demonstration near the Quirinal palace as Marshal Badoglio handed power to Ivano Bonomi’s new government. Crown Prince Humbert briefly appeared on a palace balcony to greet about 5,000 demonstrators before the shot rang out and police detained the wrong man. The gunman escaped.
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Rome
Humbert
Quirinal Palace
Pietro Badoglio
Italy
Ivano RE. Bonomi
Victor Emmanuel
Wag
Methodists Cancel Sunday Preaching at Des Moines Church
The Iowa Des Moines annual conference ending its session at Grace Methodist Church leaves no Sunday morning or evening sermon due to Dr Fred Miller's absence. Church school and Methodist Youth Fellowship proceed as usual and Vacation Bible School begins Monday for two weeks with a full staff and daily sessions 9 to 11 30 except Saturday.
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Iowa-Des Moines
Thea Methodist Church
Grace Methodist Church
Des Moines
Fred
Miller
Methodist Youth Fellowship
P. 38. Hebner
Idna Mercer
Leslie Dunlap
Floyd Sturgis
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U.S
Signal Corps
Big Seaport
Satis
More Allied
Jung
United Nations
Alsgiers
St. Mere Egliese
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Orange
G. E. Mace
County War Finance
Clarence Dodds
Central Park
Ralph W. Young
God Bless
America
the Admiral
Gal
Bonnie
India
Crosley
Nell
Eisenburg
Russell
McHugh Bagley
Yoder
Bennett Fillmore
Woodin Panella
Door Richards
Caprarola
Civita Castelana
9Th Air Force
English Channel
Ivasion
Ally
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