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Foe ‘Shortens Line’ – 2-3
Eden Prods Poles to Accord with Russia, Recalls Their Commitment to 1941 Treaty (Daniel) – 3
U.S. Awards for Valor – 3
Allied Pace Slows (Middleton) – 4
Normandy Battle is Hedge to Hedge (Denny) – 5
Eisenhower Flies over Nazi Lines (by Merrill Mueller, first-time contributor) – 6
American Fireworks for Germans on Fourth of July (photo) – 6
Canadians Forced to Quit Airfield (MacDonald) – 7
At Cherbourg: The Navy Appraises Damage to the Port (photo) – 7
Churchill to Talk on Robots Today (Daniell) – 8
War News Summarized – 8
Allied Airmen and Leaders Visit Robot Sites (photos) – 9-10
‘Forts’ Blast Rails on Triple Shuttle (by David Anderson) – 11
Washington Welcomes de Gaulle Today Almost as Head of State (by Harold Callender) – 12
Two Death Camps Places of Horror (by Daniel T. Brigham) – 13
Hungary Deports Jews, Eden Says – 13
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut Casualties in Army-Navy List – 14-15
Mines Still a Problem (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 16
Planks on Negro Worry Democrats (by C.P. Trussell) – 16
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 17-19
Drop Goes the ‘Weasel’ (w/photo) – 19

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1944/jul44/06jul44.htm#

Soviets capture Kovel
Thursday, July 6, 1944 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... Soviet forces of 1st Belorussian Front capture Kovel, 70 east of Lublin. German forces are retreating. Southwest of Minsk, Svir is captured.

From Berlin... It is announced the Field Marshal Kluge has replaced Field Marshal Rundstedt as Commander in Chief West.

In Italy... Elements of British 8th Army advance. The Polish 3rd Division (part of Polish 2nd Corps) captures Osemo, south of Ancona, on the Adriatic. German forces are conducting a gradual withdrawal, from river line to river line.

In New Guinea... On Numfoor, American forces capture Namber airfield. Allied fighter aircraft are flown in.

In Washington... Free French President de Gaulle arrives for talks on the status of his administration and aid for his forces.

In the United States... The Bretton Woods conference continues.

[BroJoeK]

headline: "Two Death Camps Places of Horror (by Daniel T. Brigham) – 13"

"...German 'carelessness' engendered by more than two years of successful concealment of the existence of two 'model extermination camps for Jews' at Auschwitz and Birkenau, in Upper Silesia has final led to the revelation of many startling facts and figures concerning their operation for the two years ended April 15, 1944, during which the execution and 'disposal' of 1,715,000 Jews were effected 'without a hitch'. "

Yes, page 13, but there it is again: war-time reporting on the Holocaust.

[henkster]

Lage West for 7th Army:

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British/Panzer Group West sector:

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Today's German Order of Battle, as attached to the Lage West map:

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