July 4, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY JULY 4, 1944:

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS

AEF, July 4—(Tuesday)—(AP)

 U. S.  troops exploded an offensive yesterday along a 40-mile front on the lower Cherbourg peninsula and in. rain and 'mud  drove as far as three miles Into stout

German defenses which Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had inspected himself two months ago and considered adequate.

LONDON, July 4—(Tuesday)—(AP)—

Red troops captured theWhite Russian capital of Minsk yesterday, blasting the Germans out of their last major city on Soviet soil, and took more than

1,150 other places as the mighty summer offensive swept westward, Moscow announced last night.

PEARL HARBOR. July, 3.—(AP)—

Battle scarred .marines and infantry closed in relentlessly today on the Japanese defenders of Saipan, squeezing them into the narrow northern neck for- the final battle for -this strategic island of the Marianas.

LONDON, July 3.—(AP)—

Another deadly parade of flying bombs droned over southern England tonight

and an undisclosed number of American soldiers were among the day's victims of the Nazi “spite" weapon.

Charleston, West Virginia     Tuesday July  4, 1944

Yanks Open Drive in Normandy

Reds Capture Minsk by Storm

 40-Mile Front

Gives To Blow;

Of First Army

Big Guns Support-Troops

Pushing Ahead in Mud

For 3-Mile Advance ;

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS

AEF, July 4—(Tuesday)—(AP)

 U. S.  troops exploded an offensive yesterday along a 40-mile front on the lower Cherbourg peninsula and in. rain and 'mud  drove as far as three miles Into stout

German defenses which Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had inspected himself two months ago and considered adequate.

•An artillery barrage plowed thi German lines, and then the doughboys went over the top in a scene reminiscent of the 1st World war. pushing through mire that bogged down their tanks to within three mites of La Haye du Putts, highway hub six miles inland from the Atlantic coast.

Russians Open

Gate for Push

Toward Reich

Street Fight Foreshadows

Speedy Fall of Polotsk

To Soviet Legion*

LONDON, July 4—(Tuesday)—(AP)—

Red troops captured theWhite Russian capital of Minsk yesterday, blasting the Germans out of their last major city on Soviet soil, and took more than

1,150 other places as the mighty summer offensive swept westward, Moscow announced last night.

The fall of Minsk to the storming advance of the 1st and K White Russian armies was the most spectacular coup of the 11-day old drive which already has carried as much as I50 miles on a 350-mile battle front

Marines Bury Dead

Off Saipans Shore

- While a chaplain reads the Burial service, the flag-draped bodies of Marines killed on Saipan are buried- at sea from a troop transport.  Buddies of the dead fighting men act as pallbearers.

American Raze

Saipan Capital,

Corner Japanese

PEARL HARBOR. July, 3.—(AP)—

Battle scarred .marines and infantry closed in relentlessly today on the Japanese defenders of Saipan, squeezing them into the narrow northern neck for- the final battle for -this strategic island of the Marianas.

The capital city of Garapan, on the western coast, had been razed, said field dispatches. Patrols of the American, second .marine –division probed its blackened ruins for isolated Nipponese units still holding out.

American Soldier Toll

Taken by Robot Bombs

LONDON, July 3.—(AP)—

Another deadly parade of flying bombs droned over southern England tonight

and an undisclosed number of American soldiers were among the day's victims of the Nazi “spite" weapon.

Fighter pilots chasing the robots were given credit for shooting down a "high proportion" of them but nevertheless a number got through.

Two pilots in the same squadron each shot down three in a single

patrol.

In some places civil defense services were getting workouts reminiscent of the days of the heavy German bombings of England and there were long hours on "alert."

American soldiers- everywhere have been winning British tribute for the way they have pitched in and helped whenever an "incident" occurs near them.

Victims of the flying rockets

Maj. Gen. Sir Arthur Scott, retired, his wife, Aimee Byng. A novelist, and Sir Percy Alden, lecturer and social worker.

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