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Vol. 4 No. 188 – Saturday, June 10, 1944
Articles’ Headlines: … Yanks 17 Mi. From Cherbourg – Town on Peninsula Seized; Allied Units Smashing Into Caen – British and Canadian Forces Link Up; 15 Miles Past Bayeux, Nazis Admit; Single U.S. Glider Takes 1 Place ….. 2nd Front Fails to Stop Reich Raids – Munich Hit Hard From South; Weather Curbs Flying Over Beachhead ….. The War Today ….. Assassin Fails to Get Umberto; New Italian Premier Is Named ….. Red ‘Offensive’ Just Nazi Jitters ….. The Sgt. York of Oratory – Yank Talks 156 Captors Into Giving Up ( Capt. William J. Adams ) ….. Nazis Report Allies 45 Mi. NW of Rome – Tarquinia Falls; Germans Lose Junction 30 Mi. Due North of Capital ….. Bombs Damage A Jap Cruiser ….. Grim Warning ….. Beachhead Mail ….. Scouting Revived ( Italy ) ….. Hash Marks ….. He Set Ship Down On Trees, Ran Into Enemy Fire / By Lt. Alexis Neel ….. Suicide Mission – Assault Engineers Went In First, Cleared Out Defenses Under Fire / By Lionel Shapiro ….. PRIVATE BREGER / By Dave Breger ….. Battle Sidelights ….. New Draft Board Wrinkle – Baseball-Minded Board Defers Cards’ Litwhiler ….. ‘Hello, Boss, I’m Abducted’ The Beau Informs Manager ( Beau Jack ) ….. Minor League Results ….. Dodgers Buy Youngster ( Eddie Miksis ) ….. Major League Results ….. Race Fans Storm Track After Disqualification ( Suffolk Downs ) ….. Byrd’s 66 Paces Rich Golf Meet – Ex-Ball Player Leads Field By Two Strokes; Hamilton 2nd ….. Meade Finishes 2nd In First N.Y. Try Since Suspension ( Don Meade ) ….. Williams Seeks Tiff Against Juan Zurita ….. Marines Transfer Hirsch, 23 Others ( Elroy “Crazy Legs” Hirsch ) ….. Walters Leads Reds to 2-1 Win Over Cardinals – Bucky Turns in 9th Victory; Tribe Edges Browns; Yanks Beaten ….. Navy Accepts Heusser ( Ed Heusser ) ….. Li’l Abner / By Al Capp ….. Cutter Rescues At Least 126 in Assault Drama – Small Coast Guard Ship Defies Disaster in Waters Off Beach / By Carter Barber ….. Roosevelt Says DeGaulle Soon Will Visit Capital ….. American Forces Network ….. Where’s Luftwaffe? Some Say Nazi Chiefs Just Can’t Risk It ….. James Stewart Promoted To Lieutenant Colonel ….. Food for Starving Greece ….. Parachutist Back, Says Losses Low, Mission a Success ( Col. Ralph B. Bagby ) ….. Typhus Is Licked ….. Stark Praises Navy For Role in Landings ….. Yanks Close In On Cherbourg ….. Channel Survivors Eagerly Wait Chance to Get Back Over / By Jack Foster ….. NEWS FROM HOME – Utah Colonel, 28. To Be Youngest General in U.S. – Another, 29, Is Nominated By Roosevelt to Be One-Star Officer ( Lt. Cols. Richard C. Sanders and Clinton D. Vincent ) ….. Avery Assails U.S. Agencies ( Sewell Avery ) ….. Farley Quits State Post ( James A. Farley ) ….. Ace Out of Big Game ( Maj. Robert Johnson ) ….. FDR’s ‘Health Excellent’ ….. Union Approves Merger ( United Steel Workers and Aluminum Workers Union ) ….. Terry and the Pirates / By Milton Caniff