The News of the Week in Review
Fifteen News Questions – 17
Beachhead Supplies for 250,000 Men for One Month (chart) – 18
Cherbourg Only Beginning of French Campaign (Baldwin) – 19
“Congratulations From One Who Knows” (cartoon) – 20
A Jolt for Dr. Goebbels – 20
The Red Army’s Summer Offensive Sweeps Ahead (map) – 21
Nazi Manpower Shrinks under Big Allied Blows (Middleton) – 22
Report from the Nation (by Lawrence Dame, Virginius Dabney, James E. Crown, Louther S. Horne, Roland M. Jones, and Lawrence E. Davies) – 23-24
All Roads Lead to Berlin (cartoon) – 24
Answers to Fifteen News Questions – 24
The New York Times Book Review
A Guide to Public Opinion Polls, by George Gallup (reviewed by R.M. MacIver, first-time contributor) – 25
Some Criminals at Large (by Beatrice Sherman, first-time contributor) – 26
The Best Selling books, Here and Elsewhere – 27
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/jul44/02jul44.htm#
Allies land on Numfoor
Sunday, July 2, 1944 www.onwar.com
In New Guinea... There are Allied landing on Numfoor Island. About 7100 troops, including elements of the US 168th Infantry Division and Australian forces, under the command of US General Patrick establish a beachhead on the north coast near Kamiri Airfield. There is no Japanese resistance. Admiral Fechteler commands the naval support with US Task Force 74 and TF75 providing escort and a preliminary bombardment. On Biak Island, remnants of the Japanese force continue to resist.
In the Mariana Islands... On Saipan, American forces conduct a general advance. Garapan village is overrun.
On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces cut several rail lines leading west from Minsk.
In Italy... Allied forces advance in the west and the center. Foiano is captured by elements of the British 8th Army.
In the United States... The Bretton Woods conference continues.
