Croats and Greeks in World War II Fronts Reach New Phase
Washington reports detail a German push into Greece with Greek and British forces forming a defense line along a mountain barrier from Chimara to Mount Olympus. Estimates place allied Greek forces at about 300,000 with Australians and New Zealanders reinforcing along the southern ports as Italy and Germany drive through the Balkans.
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Associated Press
Greece
Thrace
Salonika
Athens
National Broadcasting Company
London
Macedonia
Yugoslavia
Balkan
North Africa
Chimara
Adriatic
Mount Olympus
Phiorina
Lake Preapa
Perister
Olympus
Piraeus
Africa
Libya
Germans drive into Yugoslavia and seize Balkan capitals
Nazi forces push westward through Yugoslavia breaking Greek lines and occupying Belgrade Zagreb and Ljubljana as Hungary moves to claim disputed Slovene and Banat territories. German air power thins Allied defenses while Croat regime consolidates in Zagreb under Pavelic and Kvaternik with Macek as a key figure.
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Kovzane
Greece
Vardar
Yugoslavia
Croatia
Zagreb
Ljubljana
Slovenia
Belgrade
Yugoslav
Bern
Switzerland
Hungary
Banat
Romania
Kingdom of the Serbs
Ante Pavelic
Kvaternik
Pavelic
London
Berlin
Zagrev
Dalertian
Italy
Armans
Red Sea
Massawa
London Faces Night Raid After Berlin Bombing
London endured a wartime raid as German threats followed the British bombing of Berlin. Sirens and heavy gunfire disrupted several districts while three German bombers were shot down, and a London district suffered structural damage with five residents hospitalized.
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London
Berlin
Britain
England
West Midlands
Easter Parade Burlesque Show Tonight At High School
Dress rehearsal completes for an 8 15 p m Easter Parade in the high school auditorium featuring 25 business men as models in lingerie sport and afternoon wear plus evening ensembles. Milady fashions from Gordon's Style Shop highlighted by Dixie Dice Debutantes and Dixie Dice Babies. Proceeds fund the October grand chapter entertainment of the Order of the Eastern Star in Bonita Amarillo. Tickets 20 cents children 35 cents adults. Army strength report sets force at 1 185 600 with officers and enlisted men.
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Gordon's
Grand Chapter
Order of the Eastern Star
Bonita
Amarillo O. E. S
Dixie Dice and Co
Streamline Sport Review
Dixie Dice’nd Company
Dixie Dice and
Aviation editor Dick Martin leaves Amarillo for Oklahoma City
Dick Martin, longtime aviation editor of the Globe-News and News KGNC, will join the Daily Oklahoman and Times as aviation editor. He departs Saturday for Oklahoma City, marking a full time shift from hobby to career in aviation journalism.
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Dick Martin
Amarillo Globe News
KGNC
Amarillo
Martin
Daily
Oklahoman and Times
Oklahoma City
The
Globe News
National Association of Aeronautics Writers
Oklahoman
Amarillo News
Fort Worth
United Press
Denver
Larry Mardick Martintin
Denver Post
Mike Martin
University of Colorado
West Texas
Sigma Delta Chi
S Taverning
News
Panhandle
News‘Globe Flying Cadets
News-Globe
Globe-News
Vincent Lockhart
Washington
Rachael ‘Dunaway
National Woman's Magazine
Bascom ‘Timmons
Fone
Charles Ferguson
the Readers Digest
Forrest Warren
San Diego Sun
Gene Elo
West Texas Utilities Co
Abilene
Hilton R. Greer
Dallas Journal
Texas
Joe Cannon
Los Angeles Times
Frank Tolbert
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
J. J. Henry
Louise Evans
Rich Associates
Claude Fitzgerald
Atchison
West 28Th Street
British African Troops Captured in North Africa Setback
London reports a severe blow to British strategy in North Africa with the probable loss of three senior generals and about 2,000 troops captured by German Italian columns at El Mechili. The war office names Lieut. Gen. Py Neame and Lieut. Gen. O Connor among the missing. Prisoners total 2,000 with six generals and two colonels reported by the Germans.
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Yugoslavia
Zagreb
Gerwins
Belgrade
Ljubljana
Berlin
Thrace
Greece
Aegean
Salonika
Serbia
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Creece
Dienst Aus
Metaxas
Macedonia
Associated Press
London
British War Office
North
Africa
Libya
Py Neame
Richard Nugent
O Connor
MD. Gambier-Parry
War Office
el Mechili
Derna
O'Connor
Archibald P. Wavell
Near East
Henry Maitland Wilson
Churchill
Wavell
Egypt
Bach
Bath
Gambler-Parry
Rome
Neame
Palestine
Frince
Viscount Gort
Flanders
Tripoli
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
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