65 Years Ago: June 30, 1944: US P-47 Thunderbolt in Air-Sea Rescue shoots down a German V-1 buzz bomb over the English Channel.
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65 Years Ago: June 29, 1944: Soviets trap 70,000 German troops in Bobruysk pocket in Byelorussia.
65 Years Ago: June 28, 1944: Last Japanese planes leave New Guinea as Allies advance.
65 Years Ago: June 27, 1944: US First Army liberates Cherbourg, France, a vital port.
65 Years Ago: June 26, 1944: Republican convention opens in Chicago. Thomas Dewey of New York will be nominated for president, with John Bricker of Ohio as his running mate.
65 Years Ago: June 25, 1944: US Eighth Air Force flies first “Zebra” mission. B-17s drop supplies and arms to French resistance fighters.
65 Years Ago: June 24, 1944: French Resistance blows up hydroelectric plant near Limoges.
65 Years Ago: June 23, 1944: US Eighth Air Force establishes Project Aphrodite, which will attempt to use remote control to guide unmanned, war-weary planes loaded with bombs at targets.
65 Years Ago: June 22, 1944: President Roosevelt signs GI Bill of Rights. Soviets launch Bagration offensive in Byelorussia, which will lead to the heaviest German losses in the war.
65 Years Ago: June 21, 1944: US Eighth Air Force flies first “shuttle” mission to USSR. B-17s leave bases in UK, bomb targets in eastern Europe, and land at Poltava. That night the Luftwaffe bombs Poltava, destroying 44 of 72 B-17s.