1 t
s
ro
.
r
·
ult
o
·
t
e
bi
.>
be
c
clo
o
n,
t
or
on
o
e si·1
1
unch
objectiv
s
1
nned/) ■ ff ■ waix ■A
bein
re ch
"re
·
c
ed
on
c
dule
ith
mixed
resist
r.c
vy
in
o e &ector
and
li
,
t
in
ot
ers"
sys
t
e
offici
1
com uni
q
u
-
.
In some places
the G~rm
~
ns ar
fi htin
ith
stubborn
fierceness
against
t
Ar
rice.n-Bri tisb
push,
·
il
in
others
Allied
ol iers
tav
be
n
avin
an
easy
time,
as
~
rd. ~ i s
i
t
lat
l;
st
the
t
i
e y ~ ~
for
e
on
fir
t
day
of
t
e beaclfh
a
of
enaive,
a
day
t at
be
n
ith
flame
in
t
€
ar
nes
-
-
se
a
ainst
lan
in the
blac
o
ni
ht,
off t
An~io
shore.
In the hours before dawn Naval forces, headed
by
battleships, opened a thundering bomb
·
rdment -- hurling
1
salvos
from their big guns a ainat Ger
~
an positions.
And this began •it• the new offensive that was launched
today from the beachhead,"JF;,he~ dawn came the Raval
artillery was joined by planes and
tneir
bombs, with
massed squadrons of Allied air powe~ hurling high
explosives on the
lazi
positions~
faei:a,g
1,ae
-aen.Anafh-
Then,
in broad daylight
the
iDfantry attack began, with
American and British troops surging to the assault. They
pushed across
fields
of what the
neMs
dispatch calls --
.._
---
~
a~.-.. ~ .
1
bil.ood red poppies.
•A
The major
hrust ~~~oward the
town
of
Ciste~~h:'t-the
sgldiers call: -~loody
mile."
A
A
-
~be direction of the attack was down toward those other
(
Allied forces that are fighting in front of Terricina,
and
a
Swiss
report tells us that today's beachhead
offensive
made
such
swift gai&s
of
ground
that it has
reached a point only nineteen
miles
from
TeITi~na.
Down in that sector the Allies
are
thrusting
l!llL:-1
forward again, after a halt caused by heavy German
counter-attacks.
Terricina is the anchor point of
the new German defense line. It seemed about to be
~
capture~ by the Americans-- oar patrol~•" in the
town. But the counter-attack& forced a retireaent
when
behind Terricina -- until toda_Kthe advance
was r~sumed.
A
force of tanks pushed forward, but the7 had to retire
when the7 enc oud- ered
a
a
tall cliff~eside the
barrage of high exploaiTe
fro■
'
~
Appian
la7A
a
cliff seyent7 feet
there
high -- an~uiAGerman troops were concealed.
As the
tanks moved along the foot o! the cliff, the
eneay
higb-
-,/~ __ J
~~-
• b o v ~
·
..xploaive ci;a~~~ and these put several
of
t~a~~
of c o u i s a i ~ n _ , ~
~
~b·I,
he latest is an American infantry move, with
~ ~ - q , ~
Fifth
Army
soldiersa.~cai••around and threatenm:s the
I\.
.
encirclement of Terricina.
farther inland the British Eighth Army, after
being inactive for some days, smashed forward and drove
a wedge into the enemy positions.
We are
sx
not told just
where this occurred, but it is believed to be in the
!TALY
-__!
valle1 of the Liri River.
The broad picture is one of a two-fold offensive,
with drives launched from the beachhead and froa the
area of Terricina -- drives to catch the Nazis in a
nutcracker.
And
ifetween
those two points --
a
parachute invasio~~~z·
Swarms
of paratroopers
~~:&--l'IA-""''~
• -
~
4co,_.
to cu the Appian Wa7, ~he enea7 life-line between
AC/'
-
~~
the two points.
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IAR
In toaay's news of the war in the air, we can
feature that old phrase, far-and-wide.
The American
sky
forces based on Britain signalized the fifth
atraight
day of the current offensive with one of the
most far flung series o~ assaults. They hit the Nazi
all over the place
froa western France on into
industrial Germany, bombing a great variety of
targets,
which included aany of the key points along the German
Atlantic wall.
The boabers nuabered seven hundred and fifty.
These were escorted by a record-breaking awara of
fighters - a thousand
patterns across great distances of the blue
~
in the far flung raids that struck so far and so
wide.
AIi 1!1! - 2
-
The daylight action tollo•ed one of the
greatest night raids against Nazi German7,
with
a
thousand planes of the R.A.F. dropping tour thousand,
four hundred and eight7 tons
of
bombs on six targets
in France, Belgiu• and Geraan7.
F
A 1
to
e
th r ,
o
r
t
e
p
r
i
o
c!
o
:.:
t
.,
n t
y
-
o u r
hours,
four
thousand and five
hun red
allied
planes
'
"
were
ass
i
1
in
a
the
"1.AW•.-Att·t
■ tllicua
of Hitler
And a total
of
even
tho sand tons of bombs
w
s
dropped.
The
late
.
.
t is
word
.
from
Germany
which states
that, ■
British
night
boi:rs
~re
at it again
calculateU
•
~
The
GP.rmans/\fig••~
they are
flying to Hanover and
Brunswick,
Waz••
key
industrial ,c;,.;e;.;n;;.t;.e;;.;..r,_s .... _ _ _ _ _ _
__,,
The effect of the interminable bombing on the
people of Germany is a dominant question of the day,
and no• we have
some new
observations - given by
a Swi a
newspaperman who has recently returned
fro ■
Haziland.
Be
says
that the bombing is slowly cracking the morale
of the Germana.
_
_
_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _,,
•The Allied air offensive,• he relates, •has
not yet succeeded in breaking the resistance of the
.,..____
----
Ger■ an
people, but it is obvious that resistance baa
already been greatly impaired and
is
irresistibly bein1
worn down.
Workers
gradually slacken,
Owing
to the
terrible
·
uncertainty.life
loaes
■z all sense. Bence,•
he goes on, •there
is a
general attitude of -
'why
make an effort,
when
everything will be finished
tomorrow?••
The Swiss journalist
sums
it
up
in these
worda:
•tt
is
t
·
d
f
a
1n
o
unpoli
t
ical
defeatis ■
that
developa•
,
p
roLLO!...All
WAR - 2
-
and the nuaber of people who simply cannot go on
~
~
,1
fighting or
workin~lt"t~q increas~
0
Here's a late story from London, denying a
report that the Geraans massacred the forty-seven
R.A.F.
prisoners of war, who were killed in what the
Geraans describe aa an escape atteapt.
An acco
u
nt
widely published has been stating that
•
these fliers
when)
were massacre~~~ their
-
lo ■t
their
heads.
This is denied by the British Air MinistrJ,
which
•*•*■axxl
declares: •it can no• be stated that
nothing of the nature described in thia report took
place at the camp in question.•
The
news
brings a couple of
weird
ones
fro■
the
embattled skies over Nazi Europe. For
exa■ple,
the story
of the Allied flyer who accepted an invitation to
coae
into
a lazi
airfield.
Flying Officer Crofts of the
R.A.r.
was on a night boabing
■ ission,
and
'R"
happened
to fl7 near the
base
of a fleet of German night
fighters.
Be saw a
flashing of green lights, the
Nazi
night fighter station signalling
-•Come
in.•
The7 had
■ istaken
the British plane for one of their own, and
Flying Officer Crofts thougbt"be
aigbt
as well continu••
the illusion~So in he flew. At the last
■inute,
the
lazis
~ecognized the
newco ■ er
- a British mosquito
boaber!
•••**
Bastil7 tbe7 signalled with red lights -
'Go away.• By this time the aoaquito was over the
field, and Crofts put a five
·
hundred pound
bo■b
·
squarel7
on an intersection of the runw,1s, blowing up that vital
point of the enemy night fighter base.
Then there's the story of
American
Lieutenan
lillia ■
Oberstreet of Clifton Forge, Virginia - one of
the weirdest in the war.
Lieutenant Oberstreet flew
oYer
enemy
Europe for an hour and a half -
while
unconsciou■:,f;n
a Mustang
fighter plane escortin1
bo ■bers,
he had
just
crossed
·
the Channel at
twenty
thouaand feet, when
ao ■ething
went wrong with bis oxygen
■ ask.
With
not enough oxygen to fly at that high
altitude, he went unconscious - blacked out.
lhat
happened during the next hour and a half he can't guess,
•a•e
that he aust have kept on flying - while blacked
out. Finally, he
ca ■ e
to.
Bis plane was in a spin,
plunging, and the heavier air at lower
altitudes
caused
0
~
~
~~
- "
~ G t . . - - - - ~
0..
~
~
J
~
~
-t!,.~~~W2Vi.~
The monsoon is on in India and Burma, and yet th•
Japs are launching two powerful attacks.
In spite of
the coming of the
great
ra
i
ns, the enemy has taken the
offensive~in one
section
of Burma
1
and
1
in India.
In the Arakan Bills of Burma, the Japs have
aade
gains
of fifteen
■ ilea.
And in India, the invaders
launched a sudden assault southwest of
Imphal. Today'•
news
account
fro ■
Mountbatten
'
headquarters describes the
Jape as being - •in great force.•
A new
ene■y
aray
■oYed apparently across the difficult hill
country
and
has
launched
a
new offensive~IA•••
bl••••••
••8•••••
\e
an end AtHed hopes
-ef eeat.-i-nukg
-the lr
effena i•8'
ill ihos e
pa,i
a
th1Piug
the
aeaeooa.-
In
north
Burma,
kAl'tl;-,.Allied progress
bas
slowed down at Myitkyina
b
- • ere
the
J
aps,
llPlA--
2
having lost the all
iaportant
airfield, are holding the
town.
The
ene ■y
troops are resisting fiercely, and
the rains are pouring
down
without
aercy.
The
deluge
or
the aonsoon.~a
swiftly
tu
riTere of
I
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1na an
n
oun
c
e ~
a~~
succes
s
es in t e
---
fig
h
ti
n
in H~nan
PralinceA central China.
T
he
re
disa
·
ter seemed t
o
impe..J
wh
e
n the Japs struck all
the
way
to Loyan
g
, , . ; . their big at
t
empt to
siezet/.,,
Cpntral
China,.
railroads.
The Chinese
i
n Loyang
are still holding out and meanwh~le Chiang Kai Shek's
troops have started a whole series of offensives,
thrusts
i ■
at one place or another
1
driving the Japs
from key positions.
The
Chinese have again
cut
the
railroad
ail••••~from
Peiping to Hankow, and hold a
six
_
ty
mile stretch of the rails.
ADD PA Ir
'
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-----------
In
t
n
e southwestern Paci ic toni
ht,
the
name
is -- Biak, anot
er
o.
e
of those curious
names
so
com on in
~ew Guinea
.
Biak, is the latest target,
succeedin
g
lakde,
as the bombing feature of the day.
We've
taken Wakde and the latest tells of a new push
~
forward in that sector along tbeAcoast of
few
Guinea.
Bow the prevailing target
has
been moved forw
~
rd,
farther West along the coast to -- Biak where the
Japs were saluted with one-eundred-and-fifty tons
of bomb.
Biak is four hundred
and
seventy miles
west of Hollandia and only Tecently Hollandia was
the target of the day -- before it was capturecJ.~icb
gives an impression of the swift
advance
of
lgacaal
MacArthur's
f ■ zi
forces along the N
e
w Guinea shore.
A new
republic is due to appear on the rostC
of the nations of the earth - Iceland. Today the people
of that island up towar
Circle completed a
referendu■
in which t eyAdecid
d
to sever their bonds
with the Iing of
Den ■ art,
and becoae entirel inde
enden
Iceland
was a
republic befor;-:
~
The Icelandic Parliament ia
■ore
than a thou1aad
years old, having begun its hi1tory in the Year Eight
'
~
l•nclrecl and Thirty/ lllat.
911e-
ke•
~
the
di■
~ o f the Viking•;
the
■ea-roTiDI
lorthaen
hiatoric
who aailetl
acro ■ a
the waters of the north and settled in Iceland.
And there they retained their
parlia■entary
fora
of
independence for four hundred and thirty-three years,
until
Twel•e Hundred and Sixty-Three,
when
the Iing of
lorway acquired the rule
/2«~
~
of Iceland.A A scak(w;
a,ka ►
,
~a•••
toth lorwa, and Iceland
ea■e
••ieP ~he
do■ ina~i••
ICELAID - 2
...........
----
•a~••l
arraa91 ■e ■ t
l•t tbe
I••l•••••• ~••• !••• •'-~'
Neei aa4 a,, . . •h• refeseadua
,hat
eaied
~
•
tor■al
•
proclaaation will be issued on June Seventeenth -
declaring Iceland an independent republic.
Will it
be a
•
European republic, or one belonging to the Western
.
'/ T
Hemisphere, Iceland being in the middle.
oday the
Icelandic Premier said
it
will
'be
neith.er
~
~
oth
•
A••
,C
the
1 tehr.
le
will
be the Republic of Iceland in th
or
Atlantic,• said he.
e
IIIAS
•
An uproar
i
ous political convention was held
AMA
~ q
kind of argumen;, }\
S1At
T e x * • ~ t h the loudest
ta,...
t
1'(
march-. out of Convention Hall.
At
A
.J
Austin) Texas_., selectA- delegates to the Deaocratic
Rational Convention• • • l l i i e r W • o
faction■
-
one
in favor
o f •
UDinatructed
111,
of
delegates, the
other deaanding a list pledged to President ioosevelt.
The first battle caae toda7 with the election of a
teaporary chairman to preside ove~ the atate convention
~ o t h e r debate
'
concern~a propo
1
t
A.
sa
hat a11
tlXAS
-
2
-
Texas delegates to the Deaocratic Convention should
pledge theaaelves to aupport the
De ■ ocratic
noaineea -
no
■atter
who the7
■ight
be. The advocate• of
A.:c:::;lc
uninstructed delegation opposed the pledge, while the
Roosevelt supporter• were fbr
it •
.a
,aot,;,b.,.•l
Mt••••·u
+Ir
J;;
1
t;
a
IMu·aet
\e
tile hr;il:l,
p-ema111d••
~
ta,
••1uan\
of •••
al
taei•
au■b•••
who
proolai ■••._
8 h
t
happeaei •~•• •
••t• •••
ta~eat•
0
w
a
iP
The fourth
ter■
supporters loa~ out again.
WM~
..
-..sc= ...
ae::D
d oniua of hoots and howl•
,-_bolt1t"
s ■ a ■
• ·
AaidJ/.1'.~
fro ■
the majority, thj1 hoisted a huge picture of
President Roosevelt, and marched out.
p
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Mafird. ~ e
conventio'!A,
N Q r ~
voted
to
send
an uninsbructed delegation to the Democratic Convention.
In Georgia, the Republicans had a split
.,.
vi
today -- after a rumpus in the
S+ate
Convention
over a question of seating negro dele1ates.
One
faction, called The Lily Whites, opposed any Negro
l'O
delegates, whereupon the o
·
ther faction bolted and
held
a convention of its own.
EPch
group named
delegates -- The Lily Whites -- uninstructed.
The
group sppportin
g
. - Negro
a■lag■ a&
delegates
pledged to Dewey.
Ho
w
ever, the
Lily
Whites though
Af-o
S : o ~
uninstructed are,\.in favor of Dewey.
A••--••~-
choice of a c
a
ndidate did not ertter into thjfdispute.
,
& ·
~o.
~€.~ei\•
~~,A~•1.
tt..~
I
. . . . . ~ n
Maryf:'n-&
....
t~~ublican T+ar'Jonvent1on
·
•
today
pledged
its thirteen vGte~ to Deweyf while in
N
E
w
Jer ey a Democratic S+ate Convention called on
Pre
s
ident Roos
e
veltto run for
Ma
a
fourth
term.
_!TALY
The latest froa
t
t
+CM
Qe4f:2N&iDe>-tll
Italy tells
of a paratroop battle that might well be a decisive
f r o n ~ t h e
up d
the southern
A
factor in
W11it
linling
~
beachhead.
1leets of American planes dropped
large forces
the southern
of paratroopers along the
a a c t d the beachhead.
A
Appian 1a7 betwee
and there you
have a startling contrast -- the Appian
la7i,
tbe oldest
of those
fa ■ous Bo ■an
roads, built in the centuries befor
Christ: ana,,~ that most modern
■ode
of war, the soldier
•ho
descend
fro■
the
sky I
l Lia
G?urrent ailitar7
aeaning
of it ia clear -- the dropping of paratroopers to cut
the Appian Way, which
is a
doainaiing line of coaaunication
£~~.:;;,~ft::•:O:D:::::r:::•
told that the enemy brought forces hastily tofo,;pose the
paratroopers.
This is the latest on an
'
eventful day that
began with flame in the darkness -- _.. sea agaiust land
in
the black of night, off t h ' ! , A ~ beachhead.
, -
In the central Pacific, the news tells of new
bombings of the Wotje Atoll.
In previous days, the
target of Aaerican sea and air forces had been another
atoll, Jaluit - - " • ~ hit by two hundred-and-fort7.
,e.4
tone of boabs. low the offensive~swung over to
lotje,
where two hundred-and-thirty tone of explosives
were
hurled upon the eneay.
Both of these atolls are in
the larshalla, and the present operation• represent
a continuing clean-up of JapN~•• garrison• that are
virtually isolated.