Monday, July 2, 2012

July 2, 1944; ROBOT BOMB BASES BLASTED:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JULY 2, 1944:
L o n d o n — (Sunday) —'AP) —
Driving irresistibly; westward, Red troops made advances of as much as 20" miles on the flanks of the White Russian' capital of Minsk yesterday and captured more than 500 places including the large railway center of Borisov, VIoscow announced.

Stockholm —(Sunday) —(UP)—
Wild street riots that bordered on. revolution were reported in Copenhagen early
today and Danish press dispatches said reinforced German troops had killed at least a score of persons and wounded up to 700 more in an all day battle against 15,000 rebellious patriots.
 
Supreme Headquarters. Allied
Expeditionary force —
(Sunday)—(AP)—
Two separate forces of Allied heavy bombers, one British and one American, attacked German robot bomb installations across the channel in northern France shortly before dusk yesterday, beginning a new month of operations after they and other planes had flown 'in more than 100,000 sorties in June.
 
 




WATERLOO, IOWA, SUNDAY, JULY 2, 1944 TWENTY-SIX PAGES PRICE SEVEN GENTS
Advances Up to 20 Miles
Take Borisov, Railway Center,
500 Other Places.
L o n d o n — (Sunday) —'AP) —
Driving irresistibly; westward, Red troops made advances of as much as 20" miles on the flanks of the White Russian' capital of Minsk yesterday and captured more than 500 places including the large railway center of Borisov, VIoscow announced.
The day's fighting, adding thousands more killed and captured Germans to the losses already inflicted on the shattered Nazi forces, prepared the. Way for a final assault on Minsk Itself.

SCORE KILLED
700 WOUNDED
DURING RIOTS
Nazis Strafe Street Crowds
When 15,000 Patriots
Stage Revolt.
Stockholm —(Sunday) —(UP)—
Wild street riots that bordered on. revolution were reported in Copenhagen early
today and Danish press dispatches said reinforced German troops had killed at least a score of persons and wounded up to 700 more in an all day battle against 15,000 rebellious patriots. German machine guns and artillery were reported to haveopened fire on the rebels in Copenhagen and one account said Nazi planes strafed the street crowds, 'killing: and wounding many.

BLIND ROBOTS
KILL WOUNDED
OF PREVIOUS RAID
Hit Playgrounds, Schools and
Hospitals in Day's
Attack.
Southern England — (Sunday)—(UP)—
The roar of exploding bombs and the crash of falling buildings .ushered in the 17th straight day of the German robot offensive on southern England this morning.
Adding to the toll of lives and property already lost In the Nazis' campaign of vengeance.
Spreading death and destruction across the blacked-out countryside in blind reprisal for the Allied bombing: of Germany, the enemy's flying; torpedoes landed at a number of points during the night.

Two Bomber
Forces Blast
Robot Bases
Supreme Headquarters. Allied
Expeditionary force —
(Sunday)—(AP)—
Two separate forces of Allied heavy bombers, one British and one American, attacked German robot bomb installations across the channel in northern France shortly before dusk yesterday, beginning a new month of operations after they and other planes had flown 'in more than 100,000 sorties in June.
The American formation was composed of less than 250 Liberators, and escorting fighters shot down eight Nazi fighters, sprayed 29 barges, three locomotives, nine railway cars, three antiaircraft cars and five trucks with machine- gun bullets.
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