In Rome today Mr. Stimson the USA Secretary for War met the
Pope. The number of Japanese supply ships sunk by
our submarines which also shelled shore targets is 9.
Under a month before the invasion Mosquitoes dropped
mines in the Kiel Canal, the most heavily defended waterway
in the world. Mosquitoes were specially adapted for it.
Only one Mosquito did not return. A month earlier
mines were also laid in the Königsberg Canal.
Königsberg is the main port for seaborne supplies
to Russia and Finland. A bill to set the herring fleet
on its feet again came before Parliament.
6/7/1944 am. forces progr.
In Normandy American troops driving down the
west side of the Cherbourg peninsula have captured the
railway station at La Haye-du-Puits and were last
reported to be fighting in the streets. Other American
forces have pushed well beyond the town and
control the railway from it to Carentan at the other
end of the Allied front. Germans and Canadians
are plastering (?) each other across the shell torn
airfield of Carpiquet 4 miles west of Caen.
A bitter struggle for the airfield went on all
day yesterday and was still going on last night.
Further south British troops have again enlarged
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