Current Events June 6, 1942: JAPANESE INVASION FLEET REPULSED , FLEEING FROM MIDWAY;

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SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 6, 1942

Japanese Invasion Armada Flees From Midway Area;

Sixteen To Twenty Enemy Ships May Have Been Hit

Damage Said Greater

Than First Reported;

Carrier Is Torpedoed

PEARL HARBOR. HAWAII — At least eight and

probably more warships and transports of a powerful

Japanese invasion fleet have been damaged in the Pacific.

where the enemy is withdrawing under relentless attack of

American naval and air forces.

Waves Of British Bombers Keep

Up Tempo Of Attacks On France

LONDON — Wave after

wave of RAF planes speeded

across the English Channel

today in attacks on northern

France. maintaining the

tempo of Great Britain's

week-long "devastation offensive''

by more than 3,000

long-range bombers and hundreds

of fighter planes.