Ernie Pyle Dies in Action on Okinawa Front
Washington reports celebrated front line correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by a Japanese machine gun bullet on Okinawa. He had chronicled Allied campaigns from England to France and, though he dreaded death, chose to return to the Pacific to cover U S troops.
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Washington
Ernie Pyle
Scripps-Howard
U. S
Okinawa
North Africa
Sicily
Italy
France
Pyle
Truman mourns Ernie Pyle as war correspondent dies
Pyle dies after island landing on Okinawa during World War II. President Truman lauds him as the man who told the story of the ordinary American in arms, a spokesman for fighting men whose mass and power defined the war narrative.
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Ernie Pyle
Ernie Pyle Predicted His Death On Pacific Duty
The Amarillo visit details Ernie Pyle’s belief his war reporting career might end with a Pacific assignment. He spoke of using up chances, worries for his ill wife, and longing for his prewar life as he prepared to join Navy ground forces. He became famed for home town war columns and later film and book adaptations.
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Ernie Pyle
Pacific
Amarillo
Privvanciy
Ernie
English Field
Washington
Navy
Mrs. Pyle
Albuquerque
The
Globe News
Perryton
Ochiltree County
Scrrep Hooks and Photo Albums Sold by Scationery Co
Scrrep hooks and photo albums are reported sold by the Scationery Company in a local sale notice. The item list highlights household hardware and paper products moving at reduced prices.
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Russell Scationery Company
Oak flooring in all grades offered by John Maynard Lumber Co
Oak flooring in all grades available from John Maynard Lumber Co located at 800 West 5th street. The ad highlights complete stock and local lumber supply for builders and homeowners.
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Crades
John Maynard Lbr. Co
W. 5Th
Patton’s Third Army Halves Germany as Berlin Battle Looms
Allied advances widen as Patton's Third Army enters Czechoslovakia and U S Ninth Army seizes Magdeburg while British and American forces press toward Hamburg and Berlin. Soviet forces ring Berlin from the east as pockets across Germany brace for a final, shared push.
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U. S. Ninth Army
Magdeburg
Elbe
Second Army
Bremen
Hamburg
Elbe River
Berlin
Madgeburg
Supreme Headquarters
Dday
Eisenhower
Red Army
Neisse River
Germany
U. S. Third Army
World War II Allied Advances Report Across Europe and Asia
Allied forces reported significant progress from the Ruhr to the Zuider Zee. American troops entered Duesseldorf as Brussels rumors spread, while Briel fell near the Italian border. Soviet dispatches claimed advances toward Vienna and Brno with oil centers captured, and French forces mopped up Bordeaux. Canadian armor neared the Zuider Zee as fighting intensified across multiple fronts.
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Gironde
Bordeaux
Vienna
Erlauf
St. Poelten
Linz
Melk
Danube
Zisterdorf
Second Ukraine
Bruenn
Brno
Czechoslovakia
Battle Report From Philippines And Japan Air Raids
Mud spattered American infantry pressed toward Baguio as Igorot tribesmen evacuated 7 000 civilians from the city amid heavy rain. Meanwhile Allied air forces struck southern Japan destroying dozens of ships and airfields including a Tokyo incendiary raid that burned extensive industrial districts.
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Associated Press
Baguio
Philippines
Japan
Kyushu
Nimitz
Okinawa
Pacific
Superfort
Jimmy Doolittle
Tokyo
Amnesty Granted for Brazilian Political Prisoners
President Getulio Vargas decreed amnesty freeing 148 political prisoners including 140 Communists and 18 Integralistas detained between 1935 and 1938. Notables Luis Carlos Prestes and Belmiro Valverde are among those released.
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Rio DE Janeiro
U.P
Getulio Vargas
Integralistas
Luis Carlos Prestes
Belmiro Valverde
Fritz Kuhn's Family Taken Near Nuernberg
A field dispatch reports American troops near Nuernberg intercepted wife and daughter of Fritz Kuhn, former German-American band leader in the United States. Mrs Kuhn and her 21 year old daughter had lived north of Nuernberg and received funds from the Nazi party.
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Paris
Nuernberg
Fritz Kuhn
United States
Exchange of prisoners amid Dunkerque pocket truce
Lille reports an exchange of prisoners and the evacuation of 200 civilians from the Dunkerque pocket during a 24 hour truce between the German garrison and the Allied besieging force. The event marks a rare pause in fighting as hoping voices call for further humanitarian moves.
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Lille
France
Dunkerque
Last Stand Zones Drawn
Max Krull notes nine major German fighting zones to endure the war in isolated pockets. He lists Ruhr, Dutch front, Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, Brandenburg area, Saxony Franconia with Chemnitz under attack, Norway, Emden to Hamburg coastal arc, Bohemia Moravia, and northern Italy as pockets where resistance will continue amid Allied advances.
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DNB
Ruhr
Holland
Bavarian
Brandenburg
Saxony-Franconia
Chemnitz
Bohemia-Moravia
Italy
London
Germany
Max Krull
Krull
Bavara
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Stockholm
Dagens Nyheter
Bavarian Alps
Berlin
Way
Emden
Wilhelmshaven
Bremen
Denmark
Hamburg
SGT. MATTHEWS HERE
H B Matthews of the drivers license division of the Texas Highway Patrol stationed in Lubbock is spending this week at the Amarillo offices in the court house.
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Sgt. Matthews
H. B. Matthews
Texas Highway Patrol
Lubbock
Amarillo
Weather outlook for Amarillo and West Texas
Mostly cloudy with light rain today. Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with little temperature change. West Texas fair but Panhandle remains cloudy. New Mexico sees decreasing clouds northeast this afternoon others fair with warmer temps. Low tonight 40 to 55 degrees, high Thursday 65 to 80. Observed 24 hour totals show 56 high 38 low 44 noon 44. Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes, Insurance.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
New Mexico
Gifts for Memorial Pour In in Amarillo
Voluntary contributions to the Roosevelt Memorial Fund in Amarillo began today. Virgil Patterson of the First National Bank receives donations, with early gifts totaling about 225 dollars. Memorials will be erected in Ellwood Park and other sites, with the final form to be decided later.
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Roosevelt
Amarilo
Virgil Patterson
First National Bank
Ellwood Park
Franklin Roosevelt
Amarillo
Municipal Auditorium
Joe Siegel
West Tenth
Hubert Cole
John Welch
Court House
R. E. Underwood
Joe Jenkins
Ted Lokey
E. M. Vernon
John McKnight
Charles Ware
J. C. Richardson
Fred Carr
Charles Rogers
Airfields and Rails Targeted in Allied Bombing Campaign
In a continuing raid across the Reich more than 2350 American and RAF aircraft attacked rail targets and German airfields. The Eighth Air Force deployed 1350 bombers and fighters into southern Germany and western Czechoslovakia while RAF forces hit the Heligoland base and the Dune airfield. Over 1000 bombers with unknown fighter escorts pursued the strikes as 600 Mustangs and Thunderbolts again hit German air fields. The raids mark the third straight day of air operations reducing Luftwaffe strength after losing 1447 planes in the prior 48 hours. Over 750 Flying Fortresses and Liberators targeted rail lines in the corridor between Allied forces to hamper Nazi movements into the Bavarian Alps.
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Er Avre
Berlin
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Luftwaffe
Helgeland
North Sea
London
U.P
Reich
Eighth Air Force
Heligoland Naval Base
Dune
Bavarian Alps
Swedish Fishermen Claim Allied Bombers Sink German Transports
Fishermen from Sweden's west coast say Allied bombers sank four large German troop transports en route to Norway last Thursday night in the Kattegat.
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Stockholm
Kattegate
Norway
Truman in Far Fight over tariff and monetary bills
President Truman clashed with Congress as the House Ways and Means Committee opened hearings on extending the reciprocal trade agreements act for three years and expanding tariff powers. Officials Stettinius Vinson and Wallace testified as opposition grows. a related Bretton Woods monetary pact hearing also resumed.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Roosevelt
House
Ways and Means Committee
Robert L. Coughton
North Carolina
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Fred M. Vinson
Commerce
Henry A. Wallace
House Banking Committee
Bretton Woods
Magdeburg Falls to American Troops After Jugend Stand
American forces battling fierce Hitler Youth resistance push to the Elbe River in Magdeburg. Troops of the Second Armored Division and the 30th Infantry Division suffer casualties as youths armed with mortars, panzerfausts, bazookas and grenades put up stubborn resistance. Civilians are seen amid ruins on Halberstadter Strasse as tanks move through the city after bridges are blown.
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U. S
Baguio
33Rd
MacArthur
Magdeburg
Germany
Elbe River
Second Armored
30Th Infantry
Elbe
Hitler Jugend
Frederick Brems
Chicago
Jugend
Halberstadter Strasse
Hitler
Henry Zeien
Fessenden
N. D
119Th Infantry Regiment
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Tion
Perryton Chamber of Commerce
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Seventh Army
Stalingrad
Moscow
Stettin
Niesky
Dresden
Lower
Oder
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Brussels
Zuider Zee
Utrecht
Amsterdam
Maritime Alps
Briel
Menna Islet
Ie Island
Okimawa
Philippine
Quintin Paredes
Lofilo Sison
Jose Yuio
Antonio de Las Alas
Jose Laurel
Lomoyuki Yamashita
Malaya
Brazil
Morris
Insurance
Dial
O S Weather Bureau
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes, Insurance
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