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June 11, 1944
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BYRD'S 202 KEEPS LEAD IN OPEN GOLF; He Cards 69 at Philadelphia for Third Straight Sub-Par Round in $17,500 Event TEEING OFF IN WAR BOND GOLF TOURNAMENT BYRD'S 202 KEEPS LEAD IN OPEN GOLF
By the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, June 10 -- Except for the formality of playing an 18-hole round of golf tomorrow, Sam Byrd of Detroit was all set today to pocket $6,700 in war bonds.
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ALBERTA TRIUMPHS IN SOUND REGATTA; Hound and Salut Also Win as 17 Skippers Brave Heavy Wind and Rain ALBERTA TRIUMPHS IN SOUND REGATTA
By James Robbinsspecial To the New York Times
PORT WASHINGTON, L.I., June 10 -- Under a driving rain, with blasts of thunder and the fog horn on Execution Lighthouse for sound effects, the special regatta of the Manhasset Bay Yacht Club was held on Long Island Sound today.
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Outstanding Figures in Sports To Aid in Fifth War Bond Drive; Athletes Open Campaign With Carnival on Saturday Night -- Aqueduct and Local Major League Clubs Also Have Days SPORTS AID IS SET IN WAR BOND DRIVE
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The Fifth War Loan campaign, which starts tomorrow with the highest quota in history as its goal, will attract approximately $20,000,000 from local sports activities, according to estimates made by officials of the War Finance Committee for New York.
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1944USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.[†]
USS Missouri (BB-63) is an Iowa-class battleship built for the United States Navy (USN) in the 1940s and is a museum ship. Completed in 1944, she is the last battleship commissioned by the United States. The ship was assigned to the Pacific Theater during World War II, where she participated in the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and shelled the Japanese home islands. Her quarterdeck was the site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan at the end of World War II.