Red Spearhead Near Danzig as Soviet Push Looms
Reported Soviet forces crash near Szekesfehervar and threaten the Komarom bridgehead while German units evacuate. Bulgarian communique claims 6000 Germans killed at Siklos on the Drava front. Marshal Konev set to drive toward Cottbus as Neisse crossing looms.
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Komarom
Komarno
Hungary
Budapest
Bratislava
Vienna
Berlin
Szekesfehervar
Drava
Siklos
Dresden
Konev
Ukraine
Neisse
Cottbus
Russian gains press German lines on Baltic front near Danzig
Allied and German reports describe Soviet forces advancing from Danzig toward Gdynia and Stettin, sweeping nine towns, capturing 600 Germans, and threatening Berlin from the Oder region. Zhukov reportedly massing battalion forces west of the Oder as drives toward Berlin and Stettin loom.
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London
Danzig
Flaming Stettin
Kuestrin
Oder River
Berlin
Danzig-Gdynia
Klein Boelkau
Free City
Moscow
Danzig Bay
Koenigsberg
Passarge
Grinau
Heiligenbeil
Jettin
Austria
Danube
Reich
Sprenberg
Shelltorn
East Prussia
Gdynia
Baltic
Zoppot
Danzig-Gdyna
Zhukov
Oder
Kienitz
Stettin
Allied air assault pounds Ruhr in largest operation yet
British and American air forces launched a massive raid on the Ruhr and northwestern Germany, unleashing about 12,000 tons of bombs on 11 airfields near Münster and other targets. The raids included Mosquitos and jet-focused strikes, with targets spanning Gestapo HQ in Copenhagen and oil refineries at Bremen.
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Berlin
Reich
Ruhr
Rhine
Germany
Muenster
Montgomery
Rhine Front
Field Marshal
Memphis
Tenn
James H. Doolittle
Eighth Air Force
Liberators
15Th Air Force
Italy
Neuburg
Munich
Death Closes Colorful Plains Life of Service
Judge H. E. Hoover died in Canadian at 44 after a five month illness. He moved to Lipscomb County 59 years ago, built a trail supply store, and helped Hemphill County farms during the 1930s downturn. A Panhandle civic leader, he funded local enterprises and was honored in Perryton and Canadian. Funeral Friday at First Baptist, burial beside his son Tom R. Hoover. Born November 16, 1861 in Hoover's Gap Tennessee.
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H. E. Hoover
Panhandle
Lipscomb County
Kiowa Creek
Timms City
Judge Hoover
High Plains
Geep
Hemphill County
Perryton
First Baptist Church
Canadian
Fern Miller
Tom R. Hoover
Hoover's Gap
Marphreesboro
Tenn
Hoover Brothers
Allies Break Through Ludwigshafen in Rhinefront Drive
American Third and Seventh Armies crushed toward the Rhine, seizing Ludwigshafen and Neustadt as they drive into the Siegfried defenses. Prisoners flood in, with Allied air forces supporting the assault and the bridgehead at Remagen opening a solid left flank toward the Ruhr.
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Paris
Ludwigshafen
Rhine
U. S
Third
Seventh Armies
Patton
Third Army
Nuested
Seventh Army
Neris
Rhine-bank
Worms
Mainz
Neustadt
Speyer
Tenth Armored
Kaiserslautern
Patch
Siegfried
Lauterburg
Pirmasens
Tical
Ruhr
Siegfried Line
Next Smash Across Rhine Awaited on Monty's Front
Allied plans for a cross Rhine assault gather pace as Field Marshal Montgomery encamps on the west bank with American British and Canadian forces awaiting Eisenhower's signal. Air reconnaissance reports intensified Nazi reinforcements north of the Rhine while Allied losses mount to a possible 100000 in the campaign.
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Rhine
Monty
Field Marshal
Montgomery
ABC Army
Eisenhower
Germany
Cologne
Arnheim
Neder Rhine
Ruhr
Murals in Maine To Be Replaced
Washington March 21 report says Congress likely will approve replacing the Kennebunkport mural in Maine post office. Senator White of Maine pushed the measure within a large appropriation bill saying citizens object to the current depiction of scantily clad figures on a beach. The bill awaits joint Senate House conference action as art critic George Dixon outlines the issue.
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Washington
Kennebunkport
White
Maine
Senate House Conference Committee
George Dixon
Senator White
Spring cattle drives flood Amarillo markets
Plains herds flood Amarillo Stockyards and nearby pens as record numbers move from Panhandle wheat fields. Western Stock Yards reports the largest sale in yard history with 80 carloads in a single evening and shipments reaching about 69 cars over the past week. Cattle arrive by truck or driven in, with rail cars loading above 50 cars in early days and projected counts near 73 for the three day period as shipments accelerate toward March 28.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Edward B. Johnson
Western Stock Yards Corporation
Santa Fe Railway
Coast of Jap Homeland May Get Next Navy Raid
Manila reports Major General Kapp’s 10th Infantry Division and guerrilla support cleared Panay coast, with Penny city harbor intact. MacArthur praised Col. Peralty's guerrillas as the interior and coast were secured, while Antipolo War line fell and armor and artillery were captured. Fifth Fleet jets hit Japanese home shores with significant naval losses and damaged facilities.
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Manila
Mareh & ‘P
Army Announces V-E Day Movie
Washington reports the Army will show a motion picture about V-E Day at the film screening bureau of the War Office. The official event aims to document victory and the allied effort for servicemen and citizens.
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Army
Memoir of Dobie Speech Quotation Misquote Debate
Fort Worth March 21 open letter from Martha Morris Fort Worth Star Telegram reporter to University of Texas professor J Frank Dobie. Letter defends accuracy of quotes from a Fort Worth High School talk about US political history and Jim Crow issues amid wartime paper shortages.
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Fort Worth
University On Texas
J. Frank Dobie
Martha Morris
United States
University of Texas
Ledeber
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