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Vital Road is Cut (Middleton) – 2-4
Allies Reinforced (Graham) – 4
Bombings Curtain Our Ground Front (Denny) – 4-5
Eisenhower Holds War Council on Battleship near Beachhead (by Stanley Burch, first-time contributor) – 5
Canadians Land in Broad Daylight (Munro) – 6
Airborne Power Impresses Enemy (by S.C. Solon, first-time contributor – 6
London Sits Tight as Battle Rages – 6-7
Allies’ Orders Go to French Underground by Leaflet Planes and Code Broadcasts – 7
Veteran Nazi Troops on Beaches Beaten by Seasick, Untried Men (by Larry Meier, first-time contributor) – 7
Anzio Surpassed, Witness Asserts – 8
Ninth Air Service Chief Demoted, Sent Home, for Talk about D-Day – 8
Allies Moving In on the Beachhead as Reinforcements Arrive by Air (photos) – 9-11
War News Summarized – 11
Foe Flees in Italy – 12
U.S. Awards for Valor – 12
Italian Socialist Slain by Germans – 12
Americans Win Biak Airfield within Range of Philippines – 13
4 Pacific Islands Bombed in 2 Days – 13
Burma Road Cut, Isolating Enemy (by Brooks Atkinson) – 14-15
Two Enemy Forces Nearing Changsha – 15
Will Name Envoys to Exile Regimes (by James B. Reston) – 15
Latest Casualties of Army and Navy – 16-17
Americans Establishing Beachhead on the Coast of France (page 1 photo) – 17
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 18-20
Editorials – 21-23
Allied Fleet Said to Be Near Genoa – 23

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/jun44/08jun44.htm#

Normandy beachheads link up
Thursday, June 8, 1944 www.onwar.com

American soldiers just off the Utah beach [photo at link]

On the Western Front... A second wave of Allied troops has landed. Elements of the US 7th Corps, from Utah beach, advance toward Cherbourg. The 4th Division engages in heavy fighting near Azeville. Elements of the US 5th Corps, on Omaha beach, capture Isigny but cannot establish a link with the American forces on Utah. A link is established between Omaha and Gold beach once British Marines, part of the 30th Corps, take Port-en-Bessin.

In Italy... German rearguards slow the advance of the US 5th Army and British 8th Army.

In New Guinea... Fighting continues on Biak Island. A Japanese attempt to ship reinforcements to Biak is intercepted by the cruiser squadron commanded by Admiral Crutchley. It is forced to retreat. On the mainland, at the American beachhead around Aitape, US forces begin counterattacking.

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