The News of the Week in Review
Fifteen News Questions 14
The Face of War Hasnt Changed (cartoon) 15
Germans Steel Themselves for the Invasion (Axelsson) 16-17
Pressure Grows on Japans Defense Arc (map) 17
Fierce Fighting Ahead in the War on Japan (Horne) 18
Soviets Show Interest in Balkans (by Raymond Daniell) 19
Advantages Balanced in Invasion Battles (by Hanson W. Baldwin) 20
The Allied Push to Rome Seeks to Trap the German Armies (map) 21
Allies to Push On North after the Capture of Rome (by Milton Bracker) 22
Answers to Fifteen News Questions 22
Northward in Italy (cartoon) 23
The Best Selling Books, Here and Elsewhere (from Book Review) 23
http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/jun44/04jun44.htm#
Americans liberate Rome
Sunday, June 4, 1944 www.onwar.com
Elements of the American 5th Army enter Rome [photo at link]
In Italy... Elements of the US 5th Army (Clark) reach Rome. In the evening, elements of the US 88th Division enter Rome.
From London... The Allied Expeditionary Force convoys, bound Normandy, are called back to port because of poor weather conditions expected for June 5th. Eisenhower decides, however, that the invasion can take place on June 6th. The poor weather has also encourage the German defenders in occupied France. Rommel, commanding Army Group B, decides to go to Germany for his wife’s birthday on June 6th and to meet with Hitler. Other German commanders in the Normandy area are at a training exercise in Brittany.
I would say that Raymond Daniell’s prediction that Stalin did not intend to Sovietize the Balkans was just a little inaccurate.