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Current Events June 21, 1942: FIERCE DAYLIGHT B0MBING RAIDS ON LE HAVRE:

                          The Charleston Gazette  
                 Charleston, West Virginia, Sunday Morning, June 21, 1942.
 
Cripps Pledges Great Allied 
Offensive on Hitler in West As Air Attacks are Resumed 
1,000-PlaneArmada Hits At Le Havre Fierce RAF Daylight Raid 
Pounds Continental KeyPoints—
American Bombers Used 
LONDON. June- 20.—(INS)—
A mighty RAF air armada estimated to have included at least 1.000 bombers and fighters smashed at Le Havre and other key points in northern France today in one of the war's largest daylight sweeps.Wave upon wave of huge bombers and their fighter escorts droned across the channel, maintaining a continuous shuttle of destruction
---Docks Are Blasted 
Singled out for a particularly heavy pounding, according to an air ministry announcement, was the French port of Le Havre. American-built Boston bombers took part in this raid, pouring explosives on docks and other harbor installations.Channel Drive Jump Off Set In East Anglia 
Britishers  Slow to Enthuse, Eye Red, African Crisis; Foe Mines Skagerrak; 
Churchill 'Phones LONDON, June 20.—OT—Sir Stafford Cripps, parliamentary deputy for Prime MinisterChurchill, promised Britain today that this country and the United States will "launch a great and successful attack upon Hitler in the west" but gave no hint as to when or where.He said Nazi measures to meet it might influence its timing.Simultaneously, the nation received what appeared to be evidence that Britain is making steady preparations to cast the fateful die.The army announced it was taking over as a training area a 38 square mile zone in East Anglia, an obvious possible jumping off place for a drive across the channel.

Germans Face New Gestapo Oppressions Official Nazi Statement Says Purge Under Way To Quell Hitler's Foes in Reich Mass Arrests Started Of Austrians, Czechs' Parachute Jitters' Grow In Germany — Fear Aid Given Enemy 
LONDON, June 20.— (INS)—The spread of anti-Nazi sentimentand activities within"greater Germany" Itself was newly evidenced tonight In an official German announcement of a general "purge" that already has produced mass arrestsin Austria.