Landing Behind Enemy Lines Is No Milk Run
A June 1 dispatch from a Ninth U S Air Troop Carrier Base recounts a perilous Allied airborne landing behind Nazi lines in France. The narrator, flown in by Lt Col John Neale of Shawnee Oklahoma, describes heavy German defenses, damaged C-47 craft, and the first experience of being under fire, noting casualties among others and the general danger of the mission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Cowan
U. S
Allied Expeditionary Air Force
France
John Neale
Shawnee
Oklo
Billy Neale
Champ Johnson
Army
Pennsylvania Central
England
Orphans Court Sets Hearing on Lucy Henson Estate
Baltimore City Orphans Court on June 1 1944 orders September 14 1944 as the meeting date for heirs and creditors regarding the Lucy Henson estate. Notices will be published in The Star Winchester Virginia for four weeks and served to listed residents and unknown heirs. Attorneys Charles L Merriken administrator d b a Lucy Henson estate with judges and register of wills overseeing distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Lee Merriken
Orphans’ Court OF
Baltimore City
Lucy Henson
Lucky Henson
Maryland
Kathryn Williams Cooper
Brewer Street
Baltimore
Sandy Alexander Jackson
Ida E. Williams
John Williams
Bunker Hill
West Virginia
Clayton Williams
Winchester
Virginia
Florence Williams
Pearl Bundy
League Street
Philadelphia
Sinclair Beamer
Star
Philip L. Sykes
Samuel Lasch
Leo J. Cummings
John H. Bouse
Register of Wills
Allied invasion outlook and contested Normandy assault
General briefing notes progress on the Normandy landings, noting Cherbourg peninsula as a prime invasion base and the possibility of other landings. The author stresses that German counterattacks are expected, reserves are needed, and Allied diversions could shape the broader invasion strategy across fronts including the Rhone Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
Atlantic Wall
Cherbourg
Normandy
Eisenhower
France
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Asault
Rhone
Eden reports German pledge on POW shooting inquiry
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the Commons that on June 5 the Swiss government was informed by Germany that a full report on the shooting of British prisoners of war at Stalag Luft would be prepared and delivered this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Anthony Eden
Commons Today
Stalag Luft
Invasion Fleet Dominates English Channel Routes
Allied naval forces led by Admiral Ramsay dominated invasion routes across the English Channel. American and British ships with Polish Dutch Norwegian French Greek crews supported yesterday's landings, losing few ships and shells reaching the coast as overpowering fire, with two US destroyers and one LST reported sunk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
English Channel
Bertram Ramsay
Ramsay
Roosevelt
Washington
United States
Alan Goodrich Kirk
U. S
Augusta
Morton L. Deyo
Tuscaloosa
Nevada
Pearl Harbor
Scylla
Sir Philip Vian
Texas
Arkansas
Nelson
Ramillies
Glasgow
Enterprise
Orion
Sioux
Britain
United
Channel
Curb Market Opening Planned by County Agriculture Committee
County Agent Office announces a Farm and Home Curb Market Committee meeting on June 10 at 1 30 PM in the County Court House second floor. Grover Schlack chairs the committee to plan the market opening for this year with farmers and consumers invited. The market has been on the Municipal Parking lot near Kent Street the past two years with similar arrangements expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm and Home
County Court House
Grover Schlack
Kent Street
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Kay
Kyser
Marlena Maxwell - Gargan - Pendleton - Horne
Kay Kyser
Harry Babbitt
Sully
Julie Conway
Trudy Irwin
America
Warner Bros. Cool Capitol
Errol Flynn
Paul Lukas
Dad
Palm Beach
Hickok
ARROW
Jantzen
H. C. Sheetz & Son
Gray and Sheetz
Haldeman
Bell
Bell Clothes Stores
Front Royal
Lupton Orchard Service CO
DIAL
Education
The
Aes of
Shebeedo
Ira Allen, Chape
Green Mountain State
Farmers & Merchants
Winchester, Virginia
DR. L. M.allen
Ray Robinson
Paul M. Haldeman
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
George W. Kurtz
Paris
Telephone 4306
Ww. E. Henderson
Fairfax Inn
Hay
Denzil Bolen
Shenandoah Ave
H. L. Garber
Parkway
Boyce Lumber Corporation
Portsmouth
James
Harrisonburg
Iene
Victor Klopp
Greenwood Road
Club Coune
Bickers Motor Co
J. W. Hart
Orchard Ave
City
Health
Cork St
Valley Ave
School
Pine Motor Co
Plymouth
Fairmont Ave
Reg A. K. C
Fairmont
S. Kent St
N. Braddock
N. Main
C. Edmond
Clifton Forge
Mount Hebron
Kurtz
W. M. Stickley
Vaucluse
Star Office
Valley
A. J. Crafts
P. O
Richmond
J. A. Hotinger
N. Loudoun
Bermuda
Preston Foster
Ann Rutherford
Charles Butterworth
Henry Busse
Carter
Nature
Earl L. Mason
J.W. Grove Furniture CO
Chapman Motor CO
W. Boscawen St
Roy P. Duvall
North Main Street
Gray & Eddy
Olsen Roofing Co
Loudoun St
Just Dial
C. B. Smalts & Son
National Ave
J. W. Arthur
Rouss Ave
Hansbrough & Carter
North
Loudoun Street
Bet
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