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The success of the fifth United States flee
against the Ja s off the Marianas, is
&e11ribea iB
l11a•>on
tonigh\ -as perha
p
s the most important
psychological
triu■ ph
of the entire Pacific naval war
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The first accounts of
thi
enga
g
ement sounded
apect
a
cular
1
,u;,,/.
hinted at the destruction
of
capital Japanese ships.
But as the official reports
from Admiral Biait1 were digested and analyzed, we
learned that this was not the big show-down battle
with
the
Mikado's
grand fleet, the battle for which
the officers and aen of our lavy have
80
,<the main
~enemy fleet
is~1J,,.,
intac
Ho
we
ver, the action fought by
as important
-
--
as the Battle of the Coral Sea, t.ee
Ba-4rbil,,e
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_ , the great sea battle ~uadalc
a
nal.
ier
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2t
forced the Ja
p~
to withdraw:
•ae
th••
e,s~ • . , , . ,
c~
8niti4
etMn.
f
orces on
Mle lei••• ••
Saipan ..._. get
on with t h 1 ~ , o f conquering
the
i■land
without!;;,
.
0.
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~ u r t h e r inte;f{renceAfroa th·e enemy
The Japs fled
in the direction
of
the channel between Foraosa and
-1AI.
'
the Philippine island
Whil@
\aer,en..t.•
A
five or six carriers,
tankers,
and
a strong
screen
of
eruisers
But they
were
takin
g
no ch
a
nces.
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~ r e is the
score~-
Spruance'
s fleet
sank
one
Ja
p
ca
r
rier of the new Hayataka c
l
a
s
s,
a
n
d
three of
f~!!:!£ -
3
the tankers which
probabl>:,
a
h
one
w
re
serving the
fleet'
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~
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'J
destroyer.
~
damaged one twenty-nine
thousand ton battleship mounting fou1
·
teen inch guns,
one twenty thousand ton carrier, another carrier of the
~-
Hayataka class, one
li~ht
cruiaer, one ~dentified cruise,
two destroyers, two tankers.
In other words, fourtee~
Jap units sunk and damaged. Furthermore,
Hi ■ itz
reports
the coaplete destruction of three hundred and fifty-three
Jap aircraft •
.ALJIA--•Jauz,
TheAbattle
began
on Sunday, when carrier borne
planes
fro■
the Jap fleet attacked the Aaerican
task
force.
One American battleship was damaged and two of
our carriers, but only superficially. They kept on
fighting with complete
efficie~cy.
The second
phase
occurred when
planes
of Spruance's fleet spotted the
our
own
carrier planes attack~nd
01r
main feet
under
f!£![!Q -
4
Admiral
Spruance and
Vice-Admiral
Mitscher
closed in
on the Jap squadrons.
As
they
did so,
darkness fell -
414-*hca«
~
quickl;iln those latitudes -
and enab ed the
enemy to run.
Secretary of War Stimson said the Battle of
the
Marianas
will be a mighty iapetus to the speed
of our advance across the Pacific and into the inner
defenses
of
Japan.
The Secretary then
pointed
out that
landings on Saipan and the attack of the Super-Fortress
on Yawata, of themselves show how the Japanese lines
of defense are
going
backward all the
time.
Secretary of the
~
avy Forrestal admit.,.._
/\
that the conc
l
usion of the ba
t
tle, although it was a
victory, was also
disappointment. "Our Navy,• he said,
"is not going to be s
a
tisfied until the Japan•se grand
fleet
is
entirely wiped out.•
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He reported that dispatches showed the Japs
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l«-16
4-"
east for
'
~ a m a
e
ia
t
we
inf
l
icted on them w
a
s
the result of
just one air attack from our carriers.
at
long range,
just before dark
when
the
enemy
fled •
.
Our
l
and forces on S
a
ipan are already taking
advanta
g
e of the withdrawal of the Jap f
l
eet. They have
made
a f
urther adv
a
nce of four miles on that
~
j u n g l e - c l a d ~
.ad-
a-ri1\.
ood the
occupation of
~~
the bi
g a
irfi
e
ld at
A
slito.
l:i1
Ceil+
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Seabees
hav
ext..e
i
Ame
r
ic
·
n
ed ho such e
f
fect, re
p
i
r
in
~
n
••••
t
irty-six bun r
~
d
f
?o
t
runw
a
y, that
n
es
·
r
al
r
e
"
us1n
1
t.
To cap that climax, General MacArthur
sends word ,u thi *iWllllp.tonight that the conquest
~~~/
of Biak islan~Ais so complete that all ita/Jree
airdromes are now being used
by
the U.
s.
Fifth Air
Force.
General Ienny,
1
has bia heavy bombers
concentrated there tor attacks on Japanese installation
and they have already~••• begun operations
They.
started working on an adjacent island northwest
ot
Biat
where
they
have cauaed large fires and explosions.
!!!6SIOL
At this
moment, General
Omar Bradley's
flyin
g
columns are locked in ba tle with the Nazis
in an
all-out
attack on Cherbourg.
lhis
final stage of
the
assault
w
ould have begun two days ago, but for the
bitter resistance that the Germans put up in the
outskirts. The American divisions have fought all the
way to the north coast of the
p
eninsula on either
side of the great harbor.
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Thus they completely
.
,I\
•• surrounded it on land, and cut the German line across
the upper
peninsula into
three se
gm
ents.
Iker
122pen..
fn
order to
shorten
the fighting and
~
~void
too he
a
vy
i
nfantry losses, the Allied comman~ sent
.. 4~~,,,~
l:"ik•-:.:·•rm-c
■ s
mbn
eh)."ver the city
1
in§an un~roken
wave1 for
t
w
o
hours, dropping
their,;~:;:;~;.:;:◄
~ ~
aeatt11e4:-Ne-~mtn
It
1w o.u,aetS:Jsed
M
the
g
re
ates
t
that
a r e a - : : : ~ ~ •
/J
concentration of
air p
ower•• ove
r
INVASION - 2
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Five hundred Th
b
1
~
ea. • ..,.
un e
r
o ts began it• aad ~•87t formations
of
Yara
d
er medium bombers and Havocs.hlleoe~
Britiab and American pilots as they returned reported
~
th
a
t their bombs . . . . tu•••• the whole area occupied
~~1~~
by the Nazis i n t o ~ ? ·
1
ebnea.,
The Uermans put up
a
terrific
flak
def~nae,
but the ~ e ~ , ~
J
Soon after the aerial bombardment had begun,
great concentrations of a hundred and fifty-five
■ illi ■ eter
Long !oms and a hundred and five
milli■eter
siege cannon opened up on
the
Ger
m
n fortifications.
One
corres
p
ondent r
e
ported that from where he sat,
~~
\be Germans were being blown to pieces by
"au f.l\the
~bl..,~.
greatest combined a
e
rial-arti lery
barrag&?fh ■ l
ks•e
A
f
t
e
r t
w
o h
o
ur
s
of t
h
is, there was a sudden
41t.
balt
l i l t
silence,
a
lmost
eoa•
dea
fe
nin
g
~
the r
A
A-
oar
of the cannon.
Then the infantry went to it, swarming over
!or the final aesualt.
As yet thF outcome is
indefinite.
It is estimated that twenty thousand of the
Geraan gae•ison
have withdrawn to the lorthwest tip
of
the Cherbourg peninaula. There they evidently
expect to put up a laat stand after Cherbourg falls.
That does not
■ ean,
however, t.hat the Bazi garrison
baa been
weakened
·
;
eYtD
though tonight Cherbourg
is
in
fla■ ea.
Cberbourg
afternoon
that even official reports from
h
e
adquarters hinted
at a
capitulation of the
Geraan
garriaon within
forty-eight hours.
l later
and more
conservative calculation
warns ua
that it
ia iapoaaible
to predict how Aong it wil
l
take to get the place).,../
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HI
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n
iia~
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0 ~
a,.-41.
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appears
The
French underground organization of patriot•
~
' "-~~---+- -
to b
1
'
This we have
on the word
of an official report
fro■
London. The7
have
virtually isolated Paris, cutting the city off
fro ■
telephone and telegraph
co ■■ unicatiLn fro ■
all
■ ajor
points. They have snarled German military
transportation all oYer France. The7 have helped
lontgoaery's armies in lormandie and
Brittainy
with
attacks
on the
Nazis
behind the battleline. They
have
delayed reinforcements of
■en
and materials for
which
Field Marshal von Rundstedt had called.
1hey have
sabotaged
underground cabl,s.
In the
Province
of Lorraine, all traffic• is
at a standstill. Troop and ammunition trains
froa
/ l
Germany have been deAailed.
In the Vosges Mountains
4"
in the low r v
a
lley of the Rhone, they have seized
several im.ortant
loc
lities.
They
have joined battle
PAT]l9!§ -
2
-
with
large forces in Brittaioy, preveota-.,~ forces
fro ■
helping• resist
the Allied invaders. They are
/\
also fighting with large German units in the French
Alps.
ire
for
more
then
one hundred and sixty hours. But~
Both British and American plane:,~~cz::1::i:lld::~
ua,y
-1u,••a•d-MM8 ea,
the
launching
p l a t f o r m s ~ ~
..,,lll■la•!!i--'"1"1'-i■t-G■■it
.~tftc:&~1;.ais.
'rbey
1
bombed
that region four times in less than twenty~
four
h
ur ,
l,.o\
e■ J.f
medium
bombers,
••tt/Flying
0
~
Forts and
Liberators
of the
a
It
Eighth Air
Force~
*Qads e£ eomt,s on
the takiag -of.f JTSiRNoo
~ l a u n c h i n g
~
camouflaged
4
p
latforms
are
cleverlyKaa■■ giaf
A
lMi•
+sha,-traT,Te l,een 911,
a
l;
-da.■aP'ffla
Technical experts
of
the British
a
nd American
forces
h
a
ve
been
a■
ex
amining d
~
ell
into
their hand
s
.
Alsoll....
tak"'i:of
f
r
a
■ps
that the
American1
\pe
aptured
~
Cberbourg~r.aiazat■,
Iba hll&es
are
cvae,ea,l7,
f}1i•g \orpeao,e,
One of the harrowing incidents
of
the invasion was
related today by
four
American flight officers. Three
of t h e f ~ ~
p
ilnt:fA1 glldwr~ the other
a
transport.
~~
in the early days
of
the
invasion.
The
gliders
came over the
peninsula
in the night, and the
Germans sent up auch a thick
_a ■ oj,e-screen
that the.
lti\t.,
~ i t t ~ ,
Wl!B-1
/\could~ see theA."1.ow planes. AThey caae down about
~
four
■ ilea fro ■
the west coast
·of
the peninaula.1-Coae
,,,
•f
the
■ea
were killed in
~
landing•.,
. ( l t h e r s
were saved by the French underground. The transport was
loaded with paratroo
p
ers.
Just as it was over the
place of rendezvous, German flak hit the
ship
and
knoc~ed it
out of contlol.
The pilot
ordered everybody
to
bail out an
'
t
hen
follow
d suit.
All
these
~ e
fourteen
l i n e s ~ the Frenc~people
« ~ , <
days
behind
the
German
of the countryaide
41(,
/{ere
a
l
ittle
lee
ry
of them.
~&~t~fW?.J~"""
The princip
news out of
Russia
today concerns
the battle of Finlan.
This was the second day of
the latest attack in that region.
Marshal Govorov's
~,,~~
Red
armies
have adv
nce'!-1■ ore
than nineteen
■ i
es
along that most vital railroad
fro ■
Leningrad to
llur11ansk~•"••••
1i I
eie
8011••
And the eastern wing
of Govorov•s Army has widened'its bridgehead southwest
of Lake Onega.
At tbe present rate of progress
Govorovt..a will soon have that life-line railroad
completely cleared
of
the
enemy.
100-
Since
\M
invasion of lormandy began, our people
baYe f
~
iled to appreciate the importance of recent
eYents in Italy.
So we hear from Washington today,where
■ ilitary
experts pointed out that the campaign north
of
Ro ■e
is not a side-show, but is a contribution vit~l
to the success of the forces under lontgoaery in the
attack on Cherbourg.
However,
hu ■an
nature being what it is, thia
ia
excuaable.
lot only is the in¥asion of France a long-
dreaaed-of
event, but the
■ agnitei•
of the operation, the
1i1e of the araies and equipaent engaged, is ao auch
creater, that it is natural we should no• be watching
the news
fro ■ lor ■andy.
Of course, each operation helps the other.
ITAL
Y
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~
amai
n
Ylhich
l
e
d
the
British
E
i
gh
th
,.
Fifth,
and
the
French
c
on
tin
g
ent pa
s
t
Army,
the
American
Rome~"!ea~
into north
e
rn Italy, h
ws
created a
reat drain on
Ger
m
n man
p
ower
and
e uipment. for this
we
have ae\ eal,
ia ■
infeY@Re-e---b'M the actual testimony of prisoners
ta
ke
n by the Fifth A~my. Some
of
the
Nazis
captured
there
have
been rushed to Italy from Belgium and
northern France,
a
sure indic
a
tion that the German
high command has been obliged to ·weaken its garrisons
in those parts in an effort to
ate ■
the tide of the
Allied advance in Italy.
~~
cat,
--rc;night
~.ae-'M-.tN pleae,.1l
news that the
•
British Eighth Army
a
dvanced fourteen miles in one day
I \
~
-
up the
Adriatic coas~
.we
capturd
FeJ'lllo,
.
,
A
eighty-four miles
to I
Iii
south of Rimini,
and
~
thirty-four
miles away
from Ancoma,
a
bi
g p
o r t ~
wi
1
be
a great
asset to
Ueneral Alexander when
it
~ ~ ~ ~ ¥ - t . . .
G.:..!.!.
The much
iscussed
G.I. Bill of ni
g
hts
accom lish~d
fact
toni
,
ht.
Jialrecam
l
aw this afternoob
when
President Roosevel
si ned it, usin
ten different
~
ens.
A
nd so
we
h
a
ve the
m
ost
liberal
me
a
sure
veterans in
t
he history of the nation or, for that
matter, in the history of the w·orld.
Officials of the
l■■ zaa
Veterans' Administration estimat~ that it will
distribute at leaat six and one half billion dollar~~
\\ will
~ive
protection to all veterans of this war,
including the one mi
l
lion or aore who have already been
discharged.
ABIALL
-------
President Roosevelt today had a visitor
fro ■
Georgia -- Gov~rnor Ellis Arnall.
As he left the
presence, Governor Arnall told newspapermen that he
exp
~
cts the President to
make a
public
state ■ent
shortl
:
taking the whole country into his confidence and
announcing his willingness to run for a fourth
tera.
As Arnall put it, Ir. Roosevelt will abide by bis
party's decision, irrespective of his personal desires.
,
Backing up their governor, Georgia.Deaocrats
at Atlanta tonight choose a delegation solidly pledged
to a Fourth Term.
Arnall said, aoreover, that Vice-President Wallac
will be
reno ■ inated,
and that is worth noting, since
Arnall ia a Southerner and the supposition
-
is that
Southerners as a whole do not share the
eetee■ of le•
Deal Democrats for the Vice-President.
Governor Arnall
ad■ itted
that he discussed politio
with ~be President.
And, he prophesied that Mr.
Roosevelt's will be the only name submitted to the
Democratic Convention at Chicago next month.
On the other side of the fence the Republicans
engaged
in drafting
Dewey
at Chicago now, are
■ oving
smoothly.
T
,
ey are obviously confident.
The
boo ■
for Governor Bricker of Ohio, according
to late reports
seems
to be peterin
g
out--althougb be
has
■ any
supporters.
The California Republican delegates left
Sacraaento tonight with Governor larren as their
leader
The California Governor will play a prominent part in
Chicago; bis first appearance at a Republican Rational
Coavention
as a
leader of latio~al stature. Governor
larren announced that the California delegation is not
pledged to anybody and will not engage in any •jockeyin
or bargaining• as be phrased.it. The delegates
fro■
California said arren, should hold a caucu1 Monday,
decide ho• they want to vote, then step up to the
plate, and take a cut at the ball.