June 17, 1944

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June 17, 1944

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Post by Globalization41 » 12 Jul 2014, 01:29

6/17/1944, German Pilotless Planes Raid Britain, Lite Damage Reported

6/17/1944, Pilotless Enemy Aircraft Believed Controlled by Radio & Propelled by Rocket or Jet, Yellow Glow at Rear During Night

6/17/1944, Pilotless Projectiles Make Noise Like Express Train, Tracers Follow Pilotless Planes Across the Sky

6/17/1944; U.S. B-29 Bombers, Based in China, Launch First Attack on Japanese Homeland; Tons of Bombs Dropped on Steel Mills

6/17/1944, Army Discloses New B-29 Bombers Form an Independent Super Air Force, New Bombers Seen as World Police Force

Note: The B-29 could carry a 20,000lb bomb load. ... As a comparison, the Vietnam-era F-4 Fighter Bomber could haul 16,000 pounds of explosives while the B-52 could deliver a 70,000lb payload.

B-29 Specifications

6/17/1944, American Troops Pushing up East Coast of Cherbourg Peninsula, Quineville Captured, Hard Fighting, Great Air Activity

6/17/1944, First Film Clips of Invasion Shown in London

6/17/1944, Americans Cut Vital Road in Cherbourg Peninsula, Only One Supply Route Left to Germans

6/17/1944, U.S. Troops Storm Saipan Island (1,500 S.E. of Tokyo), "Beachheads Secured and Advancing Inland"

6/17/1944, Preliminary Stage of Allied Buildup in France Now Complete; Heavy Fighting in Progress, but Little Change in 24 Hours

6/17/1944, Some Miners Being Given Leave from the Army Without Pay to Work in Coal Mines

6/17/1944, President Roosevelt Outlines Plans for Post-War World Order

6/17/1944, Germans Fall Back in Italy, Allied Medium Bombers & Fighter Bombers Attack Targets in Italy & S. France

6/17/1944, Germans Shoot 50 Allied POWs

6/17/1944; Red Army Approaching Mannerheim Line; Russians 32 Miles from Viipuri; Reds Clearing Way to Finnish Port

6/17/1944, Eisenhower Reports Local Successes in Cherbourg Peninsula

6/17/1944, Army Cooks Keep Army Fed Despite Bombing & Shelling, Equipment Includes Standard Mobile Field Kitchen

M-1937, Army Primary Field Stove

6/17/1944, Afro American Showbiz Writer Gleans Gossip from Theatrical Folk Along Great White Way, 7th Ave., & in Between

6/17/1944, Terrain in Cherbourg Peninsula Favors Defense, Stubborn Enemy Giving Americans Hard Fight

6/17/1944, Jonas Gains, Ace Pitcher for Baltimore Elites, Photo & Caption; Gains Puts Indian Sign on Negro National League Teams

Indian Sign

6/17/1944, Soviet 23,000-Ton Battleship "October Revolution" Heads Baltic Fleet in Pounding of Finnish Coastal Batteries

6/17/1944, Nazis Launch More Flame-Spitting Robot Explosive-Plane Attacks on Southern England, Part 1

6/17/1944, Nazis Launch More Flame-Spitting Robot Explosive-Plane Attacks on Southern England, Part 2

6/17/1944, Fierce Fighting Near Villers Bocage Area, Advancing Germans Mowed Down by British Army

6/17/1944, Crowd of 26,000 at Briggs Stadium, Detroit, Watches Baltimore Elites Divide Doubleheader with New York Cubans

6/17/1944, Burma Fighting, Kidima Captured, Determined Japanese Resistance, Heavy Rain & Flooding Hamper Operations

6/17/1944, Business Must Prove it Can Covert its War-Time Inventions & 'Know How' Developed Thru War Work into Useful Riches

6/17/1944, Colored Enlisted Men Applying for Transfer to Infantry to Join Doughboys in Fighting Enemy at Close Quarters

6/17/1944, German Armored Formations Near the Orne River Drive Wedge into Allied Bridgehead

6/17/1944, Heavy German Armored Counterattack Near Villers Bocage Suffers Heavy Losses, Allied Patrols Meet Strong Resistance

6/17/1944, Quineville Capture Represents Northerly Most Allied Position on Cherbourg Peninsula, Montebourg Pounded to Ashes

6/17/1944, U.S. Offensive Power in the form of B-29s Flying Deep into Japan Contradicts Tojo's Assertion that Japan Has Initiative

Note: During the Great Depression, Roosevelt strong-armed Congress for authorization to build the Grand Coulee Dam for the purpose of facilitating wealth creation from agriculture and electricity. The Dam was completed in 1941, just in time to supply power to giant aircraft factories manufacturing B-29 Super Fortresses used for the strategic bombing of Japan. ... The B-29s contributed to the early surrender of Japan. ... There were 72 million Japanese in 1945. All able-bodied citizens were prepared to fight to the death against an American invasion before Hirohito finally vetoed the war effort.

6/17/1944, German News Agency Reports Strong U.S. Battle Group Halted by Counterattacking Germans Between St. Lo & Caen

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Post by Globalization41 » 13 Jul 2014, 03:17

6/17/1944, Official Warning to Public: When Engine of Pilotless Plane Stops & Light at End Goes Out, Explosion May Follow

6/17/1944, Allied Drive on Caen Slows Due to Stiffing German Resistance, Nine Tiger Tanks Knocked Out in Pitched Battle

6/17/1944, Red Army Advances Nine Miles Along Gulf of Finland Toward Mannerheim Line, Helsinki Evacuating Women & Children

Note: It was in Stalin's strategic interest to pull his punches against Hitler during the initial battles of Normandy. Stalin would benefit if the D-day Invasion were defeated in France because both the Allies and Germans would be weakened. ... Or, if the Allies defeated the Germans in France, the Red Army's steamroller would see less resistance in Eastern Europe. ... Stalin felt that from the western point of view it was unnatural for Germany to be at war with Britain and the U.S. He feared a capitalist encirclement because it would be more natural for an Anglo-American-German alliance against Bolshevism.

6/17/1944, King Visits Normandy, Lunches with Monty at H.Q., Six Miles from Fierce Fighting, Cruiser & Spitfires Provide Cover

6/17/1944; British 8th Army Captures Narni & Tarni, 50 Miles N. of Rome; Allies Fighting for Aquila, Most Southern Bulge in Line

6/17/1944, Negro Publishers' Association Holds Fifth Annual Convention, Negro Press Will Send Correspondent to War Zone

6/17/1944, England Crammed with Tanks, Trucks, & Troops Awaiting Deployment as Battle in France Rages Along 80-Mile Front

6/17/1944, Stream of Bombers Observed from England Heading South, Flow Continues on Scale Unequalled Since Invasion Day

6/17/1944, U.S. Troops Retake Montebourg, Cut Last German Rail Escape-Route Out of Cherbourg After Furious Four-Day Battle

American Armed Might Engages Enemy from France to Far Pacific

6/17/1944, Allies Gearing Up for Concentrated Attack on Japanese Home Islands; Allies Bypass Considerable Japanese Holdings

6/17/1944, Japan Negotiating with Russia on Pickup Point for American POW Supplies

6/17/1944, Paris Radio Reports Seven "Terrorists" Executed

6/17/1944, Allies Consolidate Foothold in France & Expand Flanks, Americans Survive Fierce Counterattacks at Carentan

6/17/1944, U.S. Dive Bombers Hunt Japanese on Buka Island

6/17/1944, Two Sisters from Weirton, W.Va., Married to B-29 Crewmembers Who Participated in Raid on Japanese Steel Mills

6/17/1944, Eisenhower Visits Easter Sector of French Beachhead

6/17/1944; Allied Threat to Cherbourg Peninsula Increasing; Allied Air Forces Fly 3,000 Missions, 14 Bombers Fail to Return

6/17/1944, 117 B-29 Engine Makers Stage Work Stoppage

6/17/1944, Coastal Aircraft Harass German Shipping in Channel, Allied Bombers in Great Strength Attack Many Targets in France

Map of Normandy Beachhead, June 14, 1944

6/17/1944, Americans Storm Beaches of Saipan Under Curtain of Fire from U.S. Battleships & Fan Out Against Jap Machineguns

6/17/1944, Finland Reports Large-Scale Battle Underway with Reds Near Siiranmaki, Finns Throw Every Available Man into Battle

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