June 28, 1944; NORMANDY CASUALITYS ANNOUNCED;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JUNE 28, 1944:

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS

ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY

FORCE, June 28. (AP) —

 The supreme command the first two weeks of the European invasion cost the Allies 40,549 casualties, including 24,162 Americans killed, wounded and missing

—figures that still do not-in include last week's losses in the Cherbourg assault or the start of the present British offensive in the Caen area.

FRANCE, June 28. (IP)—

Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's offensive has broken through German infantry defenses on the River Odon and a big tank battle is now blazing in open country within one 'mile northeast of Esquay

 

By Eddy Gilmore

MOSCOW, June 28, (/P)—

Supported by one of the greatest air attacks ever hurled against the Germans, on the Russian front, the Red army closed in from three directions today on Minsk, the capital of White Russia.

 

Lowell Mass. Wednesday June 28 1944

Report on First

Two Weeks of

Normandy Invasion : .

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS

ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY

FORCE, June 28. (AP) —

 The supreme command the first two weeks of the European invasion cost the Allies 40,549 casualties, including 24,162 Americans killed, wounded and missing

—figures that still do not-in include last week's losses in the Cherbourg assault or the start of the present British offensive in the Caen area.

Of the casualty total for the period from June 6 to June 20. inclusive, 5287 were

killed—of which 3082 were Americans, 1842 British and 363 Canadians.

Big Tank

Battle Raging

in France

Monty Offensive

Breaks Through

Infantry Defenses

By Roger Greene

AT TIIE BRITISH FRONT IN

FRANCE, June 28. (IP)—

Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's offensive has broken through German infantry defenses on the River Odon and a big tank battle is now blazing in open country within one 'mile northeast of Esquay. "The operation is very successful and we hold a very strong corridor across the Odon," a staff officer said.

"We are firmly established along the Villers Bocage-Caen road south of Granville

Sur - Odon, Colleville and Mouen."

Esquay is about midway between the Odon and Orne rivers, south west of Caen.

Reds Close

in on Minsk

Supported by One of

Greatest Air Attacks

By Eddy Gilmore

MOSCOW, June 28, (/P)—

Supported by one of the greatest air attacks ever hurled against the Germans, on the Russian front, the Red army closed in from three directions today on Minsk, the capital of White Russia.

Dispatches .from the front said t h a t probably never before had Stormoviks (dive-bombers) been thrown with such strength and effectiveness against Nazi armored

forces. Hour after hour they were reported searching out Germans tanks plastering them in mass with their flying artillery and blasting the. way for four armies

converging in a great senility in a great semicircle on the gateway city to Warsaw

and Germany/

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