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14 PAGES
8, 1944
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Allied Troops Battle Nazi Reserves
As Second Phase Of Invasion Opens on Reaches England
“First American Ca
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To Seal Off
‘Reported
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hips Liberating Forces Driving June -28-Un— South From Bayeux; Receive In the Invasion
Rocket-Firing Used 1 Against Nazis
Move To Cut
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vast quanth onto beaches quickly than has. ever Deen done before by «War ar the British information serv
Reinforcements By Air, Sea
LONDOD June 8-UR "The GerBy Wes Galli EXPEDIHEXDOUATIERS. * AL LIED nn high com mmand said today that UP! REME shad Inunched an atl liberating troops, June 8—(/P)—Allied FORCE, TIONARY | Mtouthwrest Mirection || USNR Re ahion ion accomplished, struck rocket 5] phase of invasi withethe first wis= ea of experiencce in uthward from captured Bayet ux today in fierce fighting the Britian a a mand The ncta i denrae- Jand began the second step of defeat ing German tactical -treserves thrawn into battle. rerarves: nia] Mey gt toomberdment Since A steady stream of reinforce ments by sea and air ¢ Is ne splinter. but a blast | strengthened the mnasive spearhead,a and Berlin reported declared the the a pincers threat to seize the tip of the jutting Cherbourg peninsula and its great port of Cherbourg. Ing end. Great navigation mits e first phase of invasion, ‘which might be said to needed to bring these ships to the be securing a foothold and def ting local German replace of action.” serves, has been accomplished, * supreme headquarters ‘The ships were described new secret British covet apn announced. The Allies now are beginni ing the second stage of de-
By W. W. Hercher SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, June 8-UP—A powerful force of 730 to 1,000 American heavy bombers swept a wide are of south Normandy carly toda bridges, alrdromes and yards and junctions In a vigorous effort to clamp an air seal on the While Fortressea and Liberntors, operation of In the blegest aerial the Invasion, hit
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fo tempted to extablisn no new ones yt at the Bay of St. Martin ccthwestern Up o€ thi basi he communique said. The Ton of France FeneTrey- Evers ad The first American casualty of the . 0 paratrooper, recelved a head wou ind from enemy small arms, (Si Tiel corps Fadia telephoto from NEA)
MacArthur Captures Air ‘ss|Base On Biak
Allied pin Wad fowl 22600 aorrien in the last 48 bourke and alr operations were today as weather tmnd Lightning fightince 6 p. m. yer
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WITH THE PEDO BOAT NORMANDY,
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that the Russians had launched an or other theaters, warantp, offensive on a broad frant in the Bombers Strike Heavily At Caen ae Germans a erte Speeifle dicestons and p rogress in_today’s rr 30 four-en- K broagea ed planes, x,Including rters were shot down dur ae ald "heavy fighting In prog-|} were not gined bom the town of C ium bombers had stuck heavily at fires. ing. -the Mane “over the Innding sana?” The “Allies 2ave miles sorgheast of Bayeux, starting "DNB sald in © Butlin, broadcast ‘There was no confirmation im-|plunged hear Caen, nine miles inland on the peninsula's reecale & has but mvatnTetr ontromtheBtoscow: south of Asevine,ie, |{ offensive Mtace Russlan front rime Minister Churchill said Tuesday that.there was Tee pills north been expected to put new pressure fighting in Caen. pechaps referring to parechutiets who had resched on Germany's east while American there. Nazt counter-diows near Caen were repulsed yesterday, Aiea"
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neon wormed back by coastal Bat LONDON, June 8—UA—PRB_1n} Report SinkingWarvhly 8 Berlin broadcast today announced A German
Germans Still
Hero Of Philippines Stalks Nazi Boats
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By Larry Allen (Just returned from a German ietieen Tights, setting out om new and Delish forces are attacking In prison camp) missiongwithout wailing to repalr Te 3 Uv. the of 4 railway installations at Rennes, flect a |o? France and aly. American heavy bomber! Gen. Dougins MacArthur owned NEW YORK, June 8—Up—Naal jpusning about seve bullet holes In slowly withdrawing cow communique Laval, Tours, Le Mana, Nantes and Angers, in support of the beachhead fan alr base tofay within, bomber| heading, today's sete invasion, rman’ re tian 2 her armies along. the uigate It about four mites € range of (he Pbillppines the Ale force: of the mouth af the Ome river| auld 1.300 ailders steamroller| qiieq naval ‘A German broadcas totally. without confirmation, Hes’ first aince Japan's Arromanches ly jphout 20 n destroyed of captured. rushed them back agninst Aut|upon the dar used to rush Ina huge alndorne army, hed Capture of Bayeux snipped the railway between Parts and: Chere " alia early In the Pacifle war. “the German news the arent Toughtened American Invader: |minesweepers cleating the wey for waves of German hea bourg, 45 miles ta the northwest, and opened the way for a thrust deeper Jnst night sank four transport ships Jargest tsland of the [toe gmatins anes of iv raft Inland, and a freighter and probably sent p eff) Dutch New pleddn But farther we: the Germans pletured Allied forevs streedy within 4 tive bottom another crulrer_ in teal. Bi mi jun Hon that would choke0! Tans [oat but supe estuary, Two ght eruisers, and mi had landed on the west coast only id parechu! Of rae the savace Tlenting near other transport and, {wo freighters iat weat of Ste. Mere-Egilse, 4 heavily through "eatrace omer Is only 880 mile both er added. confirmation of wert coast landings ot fighting ‘There From personal observation, from were se! tian at equipment, southeast of the Phillpping bourgleaving Mere-Egliae.on one of es two main roeds to soldiers, {rom ADMIT ALLIED CAINS Announcemento!of the Yank 3° Maktd. A Merlin broadcast exceed| ‘he at Ste.Heavy Toxses to the Individual commands. battien with tanks 1dreserves sped up by both aides, flared tle hind ended,bi ONDON, June 8 -UM—A Berlin eines, repens 4 to, covering, rer telumph highlighted Japanese troops are linking up ‘ith ale-borne the penintuls. Aled Deachheed theater| Sostet rifle divine bad oxer te improvementIn headquarters said, and farce dropped deeper inland, at of decisively adverse weather alded reinforcements from gitd Tana 35h tncinding "a pritien except. central Ch me, heavy bornbers: falling to. return Chinese. resistance was being er Report Number OF Towns ‘Changsha, from night missions. two ‘Amertean | co: h-Canadian troops had captured # num Field reports declared y Hankow-Canton rally -ladmitted slight Allied gains at 4 a&-American her of French towns. and villages, dvancing cnopen roads to points way center in Hunap provincew "| viers, four miles scuth of‘viervite, Prime Intantrymen rode up to battle om bleycles June 8 —Up— LONDON, Churenill slowly by sieea alfs | Minister ta ranged the warned and “anh to speed the& y hy the! tice ‘aprarheods rlin_ broadcast sald British t roope pushed through Baywus arty north to fguth, | louse of Commens loday to guard two SpE China. from s = Supreme Court Asked In the today and ore savencing southwest toward against. “over-optimism™ m jocat at, oe caine prentedJn ean acroas the peningula. front provincethe batile of Europe and against 7 “the river To Stay Graft Trial Salween roughly In the Teglons2 of Chatenu- of the Yunnan foun cunt, withdraw= Ori-the third day of the Invasion, Supreme Commander Gen. Dwight Lemans, Ri Nantes and! steadily were other Allipe |Mea that these things are golng to D. Bisenhower declared: LANSING, Mich. paJune B-UP-— all large French towns and] toward k Y N ot upply State Senator Jerry T: Logie, Bay | Ph y somplete confidence in th ability of the Allled armies. naviei points forces are feng to link the Rur-|be settled In a rush, dangers LOr 4 ta do has been completely juatlLYEW MA and ale fares 1a, do.all roads. In India, Aitied | “Although copreme| tm tn commrsenieslo mea ean Siete by ‘abou no! fireing | behind.” he German says of the cour odny to" Feohsit Monde The and —iames June 8c Ris lexertions Iie before us spoke, Bertinradia cape the Russiths had launched of 33 trial the of start led rex today } "the stream—of mews from ine | 82! mn FéTroat: announced jebeginning of a coors 1g nothing to worry about fefendante on cha ooa Mrariey at chara, of (ne rw an oticnnive north fe Pus splency, In order Japaneses |vasion reporters temporarily de~ ae |unaion mmocratic atic alate state comm|ttce comm| : inated nuteracker lor Sen Wee din the |prived, the stocky premle®, once & far enough, then we shall prem $4; and @ UrGrninth ale tance freee had previously, Tt was ince the f o one of post he has held 4 years himself, trike with great. force and Eisenhower dectared the ind cartier report of flying In Jeeps the war by|Jow rt En conatitutinnallty of tle tian's | that amall formations of Next planes Reaviest at belng of. pm atatement that bus! bestthat ker bombers, |reles be out the Hatshey are "performing magnificente guns disclosed the Allles had ca; had allacked Allied troops on the strong forces ot heavy command] Jona, wrod troopsPres blo to give» first Rand sceuunt what the naval landing oper- Sonat ‘or built at Iaast cud airfield* Asia’ Jbeaches_yestentay for the | Brat Aled Southeest th sang laf mujer developments—and he aald oun passing any other ie ale Ministry tee alae: ohio “operations ary state body wate Ke Raa tee railway shape he aid not plats te battered ‘le British tancasters ‘and Hall- [ald Monday: ing sion b a t l e s curing the forthcoming national camyards and the port ment on the tn The nd present nd lauded the “long and brilliant” fon of Jackaoa, special tral jase, uy taxes hale} ed more enemy| excep tomething ever, tniends 40 protect the great aedefendant apparently were the. dy" ine terial campaign 1 auc | Hotere than ural last night. | ity's defers” Ploestl allfelds them, Ger tonal turns up. Sat to pare % effective preparation for- landings. many has been xetting about 30 BATIEEAHITA, at ACHON. _ Powerful alr .armadas scourged per cent of her oll, 1. Willson, crman defenses, with 750 1,000 Germany DON June8 uP seven Als But trom them, too, ‘ein Fo has amaysed Med battleships—thre Ke sa that fi the Bala are dial, Twat |e aleflekda la it Jong time {miles south of (ie beacnheads, and really sofa 1 Marauders starting. fires In} my ‘alaise and Germans Yugh at “Allied clair priged the tnsk forces f n great bulge, ‘anadian and British troops have toutneast of Caen with stroet ght D, Memillan reduced Ploest By Richt the first breaches red aeveral hundred prizani Noland Norgaard battal tach ni themselves to In have T pave just Completed a tnur of The Ausociated (Diatripured 7S per cent, And me to whrbtever higher echelon Ie aval and scores Gnd ahot Up numerous Naz) BB-milof oll cars jane Into le! r said. wrrit THE, ALLIED INVADING the teomt ine covering nearly and30 |limeter gun meanwhile. southern Germai “Te Eighth he Army, not to hott FORCES IN FRANCE, June 8—The [mies We have captured towns Seeing ererar Tiber valley aboveng |e king When ‘advised to Munro, with can the war Is going 1 [so-calieg Autaniie wall along the | villages-and thewitwhale coianleyalee equndron also Included the battle Tiber today vaplured CIvita Caster. a planes eater dentified tution, sald, the’ Germans [is bellagged weplutt 5 | Stare were reported TATTng BaeR- Ione] aay nd Stripes amv of Re me, Grawer To Wal” kage feo {St ihe whole war for sc simaly. ‘The_ en eastern. force je by junction 22 miles north ea unde: At AMACKS, ANd Tunsry Frenan— ving w-arreated the German not exlaty Some prisoners sali the Tricolor are cheering the Deitiah | Rober, Ey chiet the British battleship Mwaralte Civite Liveries troops with fing ahd trength ts being Bullt up rapidly me’ tm Crowds try-| In_when our, Germang had peer {ranticnlly the {and other Ailied. trocps shouting. in the-Allied Dridqoneads for the and. included the hattlewaes labor4 t reaport JB miles northweat- at tne |yerctondo, to completa dofensex but and_ Neto’ You “Elsenhower used a) Herernia the same aletance north- Mitalee Bava Wea the final sicvory ing me any! Gate Tommies, we knewwalling them. | "Brave come. Joo vast Tae far task hi I becaneawn was, given q heen sweat of Tivoll, andthe, nearby have We [would ine tas x Junctlon of pusned have we Aithough the warships involved, but = way, amd alno of electric towns of Sant’ Ange Wy command de ‘enenuntaring serious |for you. Now we wil kil theso cemalaon from. field _dlspatche: Culdonia and Mamata, Guldonta ts Stalin's Assurances mist nat be imagined [nated Garman Rome and Viterbo. mJ opened an atewed ‘it, Inchiding the Amerianble because It has an air field, To-Poland-Qu beer Bayeux Inhabltanty were -702y nat-raatt_as| Cosi idge: ith ‘alceratt. Four Poy ArT s and aa they have avoupem Uiel WT bers ‘and Augusta, The British furnished, jane traiiic’ golng each Arey captured Subiaco, rout flew over Ina. Crowds in shore of the large reed coURter-attacked, panaer forces. 7B per ci tof the larger warships of the nt miles south of the main highthelr hand® fighting spanned the channel’ some name, SUI another et continues, It added. They tried ya bald “ false Farle pointed upward ‘waving from destroyers upward. could sea them. Claim y running actoss Lh Htallan penerman: umn wns reported passii ot Caen and ‘Haye Landing Frustrated ‘Adriatic. | Chl Tn greaser Berlin aad Americans who gained |® Thert—Petgtn feday the Soviet maranal “made thrown Into helt wk 7 appeared to be| Army troops followed up the with: i (Ymysleer that the inde nde American tanks and salt crn and mane before The Germa: a aailllbed lle of Saesboure. Uo qt miles southeast Mate sf ae érewing Germans, salnine two [rabbits shevever ‘your 0 " wlitt thetrarwiinge relenty of Poland] guna, suffered heavy casualti had Training In-U.S. the rallzatlo: yy Inciew:| three anties to aye been lover, During Some of the troops have been near’ the|, | wal ee funyiy recogned by Kus em ‘of these actions ‘ks | also. aimed, ‘auccuayes w invasion the rien f |fore ms the con we tlon yet Avaliable in to when they fot the towne of demormlzing fighting for WASHINGTON, Sung, B= reaponilble mouth, above Caen. Horne . Tr the dizecRivisondoll Ikely. there /Oa¥ morning, and it ia might turn, and tempt wr acter.|tanse-and first British military enemy, All the French people With | were.the terrific, A seating ‘attempt In the bay of may Uon of Sulmona. as fAces of Me, Geonan na be a short lullLn advances ince | mi: whom I talked spoke ofthe Nagi be jon train on United Intern up first |St. Martin at the forthvre HagUp st the the bring continued to] Bayeux, Fighter fat ne re Det! ! | eat mnot an ofelal spokesman declared may They courage: the Revolutionary qusted Btalin. ener tobe | the pen neh tow of the Gare It enemy hia | #592 arene Pes Ss ae Pollsh-born, arrived » strated, reeruitéd in the ‘Cartbben of lines | " “Lame. tony passed. T [lberated, fctendhtn oN ww muda, com talldated In the. United Yerday in Chic te the roadside Command sald, On prisonet«. vehle 304 |German ieart the Ub: ta known dlaorgantzation. ‘of flood “4 the ‘over- | able States and is in training for over: whete he contey ae ae Ave aae ‘man aga Allied of Bae of Civitavecchia. brousht the heiping tn) the eet.a they realize It is }the bodiesunburied, Formation ‘of the new: Sarasa a‘wentuaa Tormattons wk For the moment, to within Titian Wi Bealin sin’ May dead lay epliection of|uard-of the FifinnceArmy i bn vaith. thelr case all all defane- (Turn Fees 34, Opened 3 Coervat nity called the frat Caribe [are ‘aresented in the dus hia frat” statement was negied for fighting. eye 115 malles of Florence and 120 miles mada Our tanks are rapidly lane every, {, was announced Lo-fprisoners taken the ea irip 4b & press conterence beyond.in Apparently of Livorne,. »
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=: 32 Miles North Of Rome:
Atlafilic Wall Does Not Exist, Writer Declares.
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