July 1, 1944

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7/1/1944, Massive Russian Offensive Overwhelming Germans; Red Army Reaches Poland, Road to Baltic States Under Siege

7/1/1944, Reports from Russian Front Tell of German Disaster & Countless Casualties; Germans Retreating in Disorder

Map, Fortress Europe Under Siege, Wikipedia [Moscow Radio Declared German Armies in East Doomed]

7/1/1944, Map Showing Polish Pre-War Frontier & 1939 German-Soviet Demarcation Line

7/1/1944, Map, Minsk Sector

7/1/1944, Three Russian Armies Converge on Minsk; Convoy of German Supply Lorries Two-Miles Long Ambushed & Wiped Out

7/1/1944, British 2nd Army in Normandy Turns Back Powerful German Counterattack Near Caen; Fierce Fighting Still Raging

Map, Normandy Bridgehead, 1944, Ibiblio

7/1/1944, Strong German Flank Attack Prevents Caen Encirclement by Allies; U.S. Troops Repelled N.E. of St. Lo

Map, Normandy Front, Wikipedia

7/1/1944, German Resistance on Cherbourg Peninsula Diminishing; U.S. Forces Continue Mopping Up Operations

7/1/1944, Allied Strategy, Cherbourg Will Get Ports & Numerous Bulldozers to Build Roads for Relief of Supply Jam-Ups, Part 1

7/1/1944, Allied Strategy, Cherbourg Will Get Ports & Numerous Bulldozers to Build Roads for Relief of Supply Jam-Ups, Part 2

7/1/1944, U.S. Troops Gain Two Miles on Saipan, Japs Hold North, Extensive Tunnel Network; Liberators Raid Jap-Held Islands

Map, Saipan Island, Ibiblio, Hyperwar

7/1/1944, Jap Resistance on Saipan Intense; Heavy U.S. Casualties, 2,352 Killed or Missing, 7,400 Wounded; Terrain Difficult

Map, Saipan, Google

7/1/1944, (Via Navy Radio) U.S. Invaders of Saipan Drive Ahead in Tropical Heat in Hardest Battle of Pacific War

7/1/1944, Japanese Troops Boxed in Between U.S. Garrison at Aitape & Australians Pushing Up New Guinea Coastline

Map, New Guinea Area, Army History

Map, Pacific Theater, Army History

7/1/1944, U.S. 5th & British 8th Armies Advance on Broad Front in Italy North of Rome Against Strenuous German Resistance

7/1/1944, Map, North of Rome

7/1/1944, Map Showing Encirclement of Hitler's Fortress Europe

3,000,000 Jews Murdered in Hitler-Dominated & Occupied Europe, 6/30/1944

7/1/1944, Between 1,500 & 2,000 U.S. Heavies & Escorts Bomb Military & Industrial Targets in Central Germany

7/1/1944, Berlin Reports Germany Negotiating New Agreement with Vichy Government

7/1/1944, German Robot Flying-Bombs Continue Crashing into S. England; Churchill Watches Battle Against Winged Missiles

7/1/1944, Japs Capture U.S. Air Base in S.E. China; Chinese Retreat to Nearby City, Heavy Fighting & Casualties Both Sides

7/1/1944, U.S. Liberators Based in China Bomb Formosa; Japs Launch Drive Northward from Canton, Part 1

7/1/1944, U.S. Liberators Based in China Bomb Formosa; Japs Launch Drive Northward from Canton, Part 2

Photo, U.S. B-24 Liberators in Formation, Wikipedia

Map, Japanese Empire, Cambridge

Map, Canton China, Google

7/1/1944, Chindit Forces in Burma Strike Japanese Positions East of Irrawaddy River

Map; Irrawaddy River, Burma; Aptouring

Fighting in Burma Develops into Fierce Battles for Supply Lines, 4/8/1944

C.B.I. Roundup, Stillwell's Men Take Mogaung in N. Burma; N.L. & A.L. Baseball Standings, 6/29/1944

Mission to Burma with Brigadier Wingate, 9/10/1949, Part 1

Mission to Burma with Brigadier Wingate, 9/10/1949, Part 2

Book Review, Gen. Wingate Led Chindit Brigade in Raids Behind Jap Lines in Burma, 9/7/1952

7/1/1944, Seaman Raymond Johnson Tells of Mass Attack by German Torpedo Planes on His Ship Carrying TNT to Russia

7/1/1944, Most German Soldiers Caught in Draft, Part 1

7/1/1944, Most German Soldiers Caught in Draft, Part 2

7/1/1944, G.I. Letter from Iran Describes Trip Across Persia to Teheran in Large Truck Convoy Hauling Supplies for Russia

F.D.R. Returns from Teheran & Broadcasts Details of Allied Agreement to Launch Gigantic Attack on Germany, 12/29/1943

Map, Teheran Iran, Google [Roosevelt Revealed Gen. Eisenhower Would Coordinate Combined Attack on Germany]

7/1/1944, Direct Land Communication Between India & China Expected Soon with Opening of Burma Road

7/1/1944, V.P. Wallace at Superfortress Base in Western China Meets B-29 Crews Tasked with Smashing Japanese Industry

Photo; B-29 Superfortress Bombers of the 462nd Bomb Group at West Field, Tinian, Mariana Islands, 1945; WWII Data Base

Photo, B-29 Bomber Assembly Line in Wichita Kansas, Wikipedia

7/1/1944, U.S. 99th Fighter Sq. Shoots Down Eight German Planes Attacking Allied Beachhead in Italy

7/1/1944, (Air Mail) U.S. 93rd Division Efficiently Eliminates "Sons of the Rising Sun" Pillboxes Near Torokina R. in Solomons

Map; Torokina River, Bougainville Island, Solomon Islands; Google

7/1/1944, Washington Breaks with Helsinki Due to Finland's Association with Nazi Germany

7/1/1944, Heavy German Troop Reinforcements & No Change of Gov't in Helsinki Killed Russo-Finnish Peace, Part 1

7/1/1944, Heavy German Troop Reinforcements & No Change of Gov't in Helsinki Killed Russo-Finnish Peace, Part 2

7/1/1944, U.S. Break with Finland Causes Universal Joy Throughout Soviet Union

Finns Absorb Soviet Offensives, 12/22/1939

7/1/1944, Washington Military Authorities Believe Lack of Oil One Principal Reason for Shortage of German Luftwaffe Missions

7/1/1944, Col. Silverthorne Killed by Jap Sniper on Saipan & Lt.-Col. Terry Killed Directing Artillery Fire from Plane

7/1/1944, Technician 5th-Grade Vayle Miller Killed in Action on June 6 with Commando Forces in France

Map, Norcatur Kansas, Google [Vayle Miller's Parents Mr. & Mrs. Floyd Miller Resided in Norcatur Kansas]

7/1/1944; Cpl. Harold Noggle of Warsaw Indiana Wounded in France, Was Hit 60 "Hot" Hours After Landing on D-Day; Part 1

7/1/1944; Cpl. Harold Noggle of Warsaw Indiana Wounded in France, Was Hit 60 "Hot" Hours After Landing on D-Day; Part 2

Map, Warsaw Indiana, Google

7/1/1944, Crying Baby Heard Outside of Saipan Cave Saves 25 Japanese/Okinawan Civilians from U.S. Grenade

7/1/1944, F.D.R. Expected to Stand for Fourth Term as Independence Day Approaches; 32 U.S. Presidents Reviewed

7/1/1944; Agile & Alert Alsatians, Most Sought After Canines by World's Armies, Thousands Used by Allies as Sentinels

7/1/1944, Baseball Standings, S.F. Seals Pace P.C.L. at 44-39; Top Seven Teams Separated by 3.5 Games

7/1/1944, Bucky Walters Improves W-L Record to 13-3 by Pitching Cincinnati Reds to 3-2 Win Against Boston Braves

7/1/1944, Carnegie Institute of Technology Graduates 82 Engineers; Commencement Speech Stresses Value of Technical Men

Map; Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh; Google

7/1/1944; Atwood Wife Gets Letter from Husband Now in France, Hit Beach Running, "Not a Healthy Place to Live"

Map, Atwood Indiana, Google [Mary Campbell Summers' Husband Sgt. Edward Summers, "Every Night Like 4th of July"]

7/1/1944, New Book Covers British Home Front from April 1942 to March 1943, Many War Workers Don't Follow the War

7/1/1944; Cold Storage, Perfect Coordination Between Offloaders, Stacking Gangs, & Truckers Always Necessary

7/1/1944, AWOL Soldier Walter Novak Arrested for 14 Robberies & Three Auto Thefts, Novak Entered Army in '43

7/1/1944, Eleven U.S.-Japanese Youths Sent to Prison for Refusing Army Draft on Grounds Their Citizens Rights Violated

7/1/1944, By Ernie Pyle, On Cherbourg Peninsula; Normandy Green & Natural, Like Rural England Without Neat Trimming

7/1/1944, Kansas Flushed with Most Cash Ever; General Fund Boosted by War Time Taxes & Record Income Tax Payments

Map, Kansas, Google

7/1/1944; U.S. Pledges Independence to Filipinos After Japs Ousted, but F.D.R. Wants Collaborators Purged First

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