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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1944
Page
10
Londoners greeted the invasion news with cautious relief and calm, queues formed for first editions, and some recalled blitz solidarity. An elderly verger at St Dunstan's noted mixed feelings while linking the invasion to Henry V at Agincourt, dated June 6.
The Farm Machinery Repair Class at Gore High School is postponed tonight due to graduation exercises. It will resume tomorrow night and continue on regular Monday and Tuesday nights until further notice. In New York City public schools about 87 cents of every dollar funds instruction and under three cents goes to administration.
A wartime column chronicles the Allied landings on the Cherbourg peninsula and eastward advance, noting Eisenhower's confidence and Montgomery leading the thrust. It discusses German reserves, expected heavy fighting, and the plan to push toward Paris from the Cotentin base as Caen and the Seine valley shape the early phase.
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Denver based explorer and cameraman Jean M F Dubois plans five books with 50 tales drawn from Central and South America Africa Australia Dutch Guiana the Indies India Burma and American Indian reservations. He cites Arabian donkey legend as sample.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower stood atop a northern France house roof observing the vast air armadas as parachute troops prepared to enter the fray during the opening of the western front. The Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force report details his lone vantage point on June 6.
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