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Vol. 4 No. 190 – Tuesday, June 13, 1944
Articles’ Headlines:
Yanks 18 Mi. In; Carentan Falls – Allied Beachhead Now 60 Mi. Broad; Cerisy Forest Taken – U.S. Fighters Using Air Strips in France; Churchill, Smuts Visit Battle Zone; Gains ‘Better Than Satisfactory’
1,400 Heavies on One Mission – Record Made By Bombers Over France – Luftwaffe Offers Strongest Resistance Since D-Day As Weather Clears
The War Today
S & S Eyewitness Reports: The Rangers ‘Join the Cavalry’ Astride Seized German Nags / By Bud Hutton
Finns Retreat Towards Vipuri
Nazis Still Determined To Wipe Out Jews-FDR
U.S. Top Brass Tour Beaches, Nazi Defenses – Arnold, King, Eisenhower And Marshall See Areas Won 48 Hours Before / By Bud Hutton
Paris Ready With U.S. Flags
Triple Play
Tricks of the Trade
‘We Haf Come!’
Hash Marks
S & S Reporters’ Stories of Assault
Every Ranger A Hero on the French Beach / By G. K. Hodenfield – Wounded Get Back With a Few Tips to Those Going Over / By E. M. Llewellyn – E-Boats Fail To Stop LST In the Channel / By Jack Foster
Army Poets – Hope / T/S Frank Seracino
Yanks Slide to Fourth After Double Setback – Red Sox Whip Champs, 2-1,4-1, Climb to Second – Browns Divide With Tribe; Tigers Win, 1-0, After 4-2 Loss to Chisox
Sammy Byrd’s 274 Captures Philly Match; Wood Second
Sports SIDELIGHTS
Minor League Results
Help Wanted–AND GIVEN
Cardinals Take 5-1/2 Game Lead – Redbirds Slap Reds, 3-1, 4-1; Cubs Clip Bucs – Giants Cop Twin Bill From Phillies; Dodgers, Braves Split
Warmerdam Leads Crack Field in 56th AAU Title Tourney
Major League Results
Bosox Acquire Fran Barrett
Eaker Returns From Soviet on Bomb Mission – General Led First Assault From Italy; Rumanian Targets Pasted
Radio Programs
Guam Blasted By U.S. Force – Carrier Task Force Also Pounds Jap Positions In the Marianas
Jap Counter-Attacks Repelled in Burma
Nazi 14th Army Routed in Italy – Germans Rush Up Division Of Russians; 5th Nearly 73 Mi. North of Rome
Vote Day’s Pay for Relief
Flier Shoots Down German Locomotive
NEWS FROM HOME – U.S. Envisions Record Wheat Crop in 1944 May Pass Billion-Bushel Mark; Prospects Good For Other Produce ….. 45 Seized in Gaming Raids
Two Hospital Ships Weekly
Induction Pool Planned
Four Guilty of Fraud
Lindbergh’s Work Revealed
‘Quake in Los Angeles
Orphan Fund Is Swelled By 9,420 in 8 Weeks
Terry and the Pirates / Milton Caniff