Allied
supreme headquarters,
London,
June 21 (UP)—
The
fall of Cherbourg was expected hourly to day as American forces clamped an
arc
of steel against the city and wheeled up their heavy weapons for the final
assault on the beleaguered French port.Radio France at Algiers reported violent
street fighting in the suburbs of Cherbourg.
Pearl
Harbor, June 21 (UP)—
The
greatest naval battle since Jutland appeared in the making, if not under
way,
on the approaches to the besieged Marianas today between the American fifth
fleet and possibly the entire Japanese fleet.
MOORHEAD, MINNESOTA. WEDNESDAY,
JUNE, 21, 1944
American Forces
Clamp Arc of
Steel On City
Reports
Say Violent
Fighting
Raging In
Streets
of French Port
Allied
supreme headquarters,
London,
June 21 (UP)—
The
fall of Cherbourg was expected hourly to day as American forces clamped an
arc
of steel against the city and wheeled up their heavy weapons for the final
assault on the beleaguered French port.Radio France at Algiers reported violent
street fighting in the suburbs of Cherbourg.
The
radio France broadcast said the Americans were attacking Fort Duroule, slightly
more than a mile from the Cherbourg docks, and Fort Octeville, less than a mile
west of the docks.
Defense Near End.
The
defense of Cherbourg by the German garrison was described at supreme
headquarters as in its final hours, and field dispatches said the nazis were
speeding up their demolitions and were reported unofficially to have begun
evacuating
the
city.
American, Japanese Fleets May Be
Engaged In Great Naval Struggle
Outcome of Fight
May Determine
Pacific Control
Nimitz Says Nippon
Fleet Has Emerged
From Home Islands
Pearl
Harbor, June 21 (UP)—
The
greatest naval battle since Jutland appeared in the making, if not under
way,
on the approaches to the besieged Marianas today between the American fifth
fleet and possibly the entire Japanese fleet.
Radio London quoted the Japanese Domei agency as saying that a
"fierce" naval battle was raging in the waters between the
Philippines and the Marianas.)
The
outcome of the battle may determine the control of the western Pacific,
including the sea approaches to Japan it’self, as well
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May Have Caught Up.
Washington,
June 21 (UP)—
The
United States Pacific fleet "may have succeeded in catching up" with
all or a portion of the Japanese fleet west of Saipan in the Marianas
yesterday, Secretary
of
the Navy James Forrestal said today.
He
told newsmen that the enemy fleet had been sighted at
various
times "milling around" from 500 to 800 miles westward of Saipan.
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as
the length of the war against Japan.
Fleet Emerges
Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz, commander-in-chief ' of the United States Pacific fleet,
disclosed at a press conference yesterday that strong Japanese units—"possibly
their entire fleet"—had emerged from the Japanese home islands in
force
for the first time in nearly two years and had been sighted between the
Marianas and-the Philippines.
Allies Advance
North of Perugia
Army Forces Encounter Bitter Enemy
Opposition
Rome,
June 21 (UP)—
British
eighth army troops have cleared the Germans from Perugia and advanced
three
to four miles beyond the town, a communique said today, while French and
American units of the allied fifth army on the British left flank pushed slowly
northward
against bitter enemy opposition. Driving rains slowed the allied
armies
all along the central battlefront and desperate nazi rear guards were putting
up a fierce delaying fight everywhere, but there was no indication that the
main
German forces had been sent into action.ejt
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