The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-16
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By LOUIS F. KEEArLE lHlnifad Prem War Edianrl

The war exploded with new fury all around the world today.
 The Germans loosed their fantastic secret weapon on England, shower ing the island with pilotless, death- dealing miniature planes or rockets in Q continuous stream.
 American forces fought their way inland on Saipan, island fortress 1,500 miles south of Japan. The 2 assault on Japan proper by Ameri- < can super-fortress bombers was fol- lowed by an enemy announcement that Korea and the Bonin islands, the latter SIS miles south of Tokyo, had been bombed.
 ' The Allied invasion forces in ? Normandy extended their grip in furious fighting, with the Americans rapidly choking oil the great port of Cherbourg.
 The Fifth and Eighth Armies in Italy drove northward up the penin- sula, sweeping the shattered Ger man forces before them from sea to sea. The Russians were method ically cleaning up the Karelian Isthmus, widening their breach in the Finnish lines to more than 46 miles.
 The new weapon which the Ger mans turned on southern England apparently has powerful explosive and incendiary effect when it hits.
 BritonS were warned that the ''pilotless bombers," as they were most generally described, contain an explosive charge which may go of within five to IS seconds after the missiles engine or propellant stops. The ministery of home security said it carries a tail light which goes out just before the explosion. The people were advised to dive for cover on seeing such signal.
 Weapon
 The weapon was first tried out on a small scale on Tuesday night, Home Secretary Herbert Marrison told Commons. The missiles began coming over in great quantities last night and during the morning hours, and Morrison pointed out that they. can be used with equal effect in day light as well as darkness.
 Descriptions of the weapon varied. Some observers said the missiles re- sembled midget planes or giant scale models that whoosed 41T barely above the roof tops, leaving a fiery trail in their wake. That would indicate they were rocket or jet-propelled. Others thought some of them had motors. presumably radio controlled, since there certainly were no pilots. It was considered possible that two types were being used.
 British authorities did not scoff at the new weapon and all southern England was put on the alert. Nor riSon promised Commons that coun- ter-rneasures were being taken.
 Across the channel, the great AL lied air offensive was slowed down somewhat this morning by unfavor- able weather. During the night large forces of RAF heavy bombers plas- tered the Boulogne harbor area with six-ton block busters, aiming at concentrations of German tor pedo craft which menace Allied Supray lines across the channel, and perhaps at the source of the new pilotless bombers. Other RAF planes ranged over France and western Germany.
 The invasion forces were present. ing Q threat to Cherbourg which , Allied headquarters said is sub stantially increasing American . tank and infantry vanguards thrust across the peninsula to within lit- tie more than two miles of the main highway and last railway leading out of Cherbourg.
 The Americans were advancing on @ ten-mile front some IS to 25 ' miles below the port. They were re- {. ported to have captured Reigneville ;. and pushed on towards St. Sauver- le Vicomte, less than six miles from . the key point of Lay Have du Puts.
 The great armored battle raging 2 in the Caen area went into its third day without appreciable advantage on either side. Caen and Troarn still were in enemy hands. At the other extreme of the beachhead. Montebourg waSN no-man's land, with both sides in the town engaged in fighting which resembled the struggle for Casino in Italy.