Patton’s Armor Breaks Through In Moselle Saar Front
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. led an armored division through a breach in the central German front in the Moselle Saar triangle. Tanks advanced about five and a half miles toward Trier as enemy resistance collapsed.
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Associated Press
George S. Patton, Jr
Moselle-Saar
Trier
Third Army
Wehrmacht
Goch
Rhine
Meuse Maas
First Army
Ruhr
Patton
7Th Army
Saarbrucken
Alexander M. Patch
Saar
Forbach
Spicheren
Siegried
Harry J. Malony
94Th
Saarbureg
Moselle
Coblenz
Mainz
World War II Frontline Updates From Europe and Italy
Reported frontline movements show Third Army advances near Saarbrucken and the Moselle valley. Allied troops push toward Coblenz Mainz and Trier as German defenses yield under mass assaults. In Italy and the Balkans, American forces capture Monte Belvedere while Tito’s forces advance toward Belgrade and Zornix.
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Monte Belvedere
Pistoia-Bologna
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Liberation Army
Zornix
Belgrade
Uedem
Calear
Goch
Weather outlook for West Texas and New Mexico
Cloudy and colder with snow flurries and strong winds. Temperatures below freezing tonight with lows 10 to 30 degrees. windy and colder Thursday, with snow in the northeast and east central New Mexico and flurries elsewhere. Precipitation around .12 inches reported.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
del Rio-Eagle Pass
el Paso
New Mexico
Fort Worth
Abduction Trial Sees Rebuttal About Gifts to Milly’s Family
In Fort Worth the State presses a rebuttal claiming Lt. C E Branson loaned money to Milly McGill’s mother to secure acquittal. Defense says the miscarriage story shows Mrs. Branson’s mind deranged by temporary insanity after pregnancy loss. Dr. Grice testified mis carriage can trigger temporary insanity in such cases.
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Melba Branson
Mildred McGill
Fort Worth
Velma McGill
Ort Worth
W.F
Air Corps
Criminal District Court
Mrs. Branson
Milly McGill
Aubrey Charles Tatum
Branson
Casualties Reported as Iwo Jima Battles Rage On
Admiral Nimitz announced that about 3,650 Marines were killed or wounded in the first 48 hours of the Iwo Jima assault. U.S. forces advanced up to 1,000 yards on the central air field while hammering Japanese defenses with naval gunfire, tanks, and air support.
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U.S. Pacific Fleet
Guam
Iwo Jima
Nimitz
Motorama No. 2
Fifth Marine
Iwo
Tokyo
Mt. Suvibachi
Adm
W. H. P. Blandy
Mt. Suribachi
Motoyama Airfield No. 2
Hitler creates convict battalions to fight on front lines
Allied dispatch from Paris reports Hitler uses German soldiers convicted of offenses as death squads. Convict battalions are sent to high risk tasks, clear minefields, spearhead futile attacks, and sometimes fight behind American uniforms in the west and Russia.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
Hitler
Ardennes
Plains Dunked in Snow and Rain Across Panhandle
Snow and rain moved through the Panhandle with light accumulations. Amarillo schools opened as intermittent snow fell, while moisture boosts wheat conditions. Central Texas rivers rose, prompting flood warnings and livestock relocation, with 40 foot Trinity crest forecast south of Dallas.
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Panhandle
Father Glovier
Potter County
Texas
Trinity River
Dallas
Fort Worth
Union Bus
Amarillo
Raton Pass
Raton
N. M
Denver
Bombers Pound Nuernberg Rail Center Second Day
London reports Allied air forces attack Nuernberg for a second day with over 1 850 bombers and fighters targeting railroad and industrial sites. More than 1 200 heavy bombers and 650 escort fighters involved. rail yards reportedly jammed with troop and supply trains.
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Nuernberg Rail Center
London
U.P
Nuernberg
U.S. Eighth Air Force
They Ganged Up Goebbels Squawks
W. J Morris accuses others of ganging up as Goebbels voices objection. Insurance matters referenced with the number 4414 dialing line.
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Goebbels
W. J Morris
Dial
Six Ringling Brothers officials sentenced in circus fire case
Six men and the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey company pleaded nolo contendere to ten counts of involuntary manslaughter for the 168 deaths in last July's circus fire. Sentences range from six months to seven years, with the company fined ten thousand dollars. Judge Shea urged reform over vengeance.
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Hartford
Conn
Superior Court
William J. She
Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc
Corporation
James A. Haley
Gripsholm Arrives in U S With Wounded Americans
The Gripsholm docked in Jersey City from Marseille carrying 1,206 travelers including 463 American soldiers 78 Canadian soldiers and 665 civilians from the United States Mexico Venezuela and Peru. The neutral Swedish flagged liner completed a 13 day journey.
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Jersey City
U.P
Gripsholm
Marseille
France
Mexico
Venezuela
Peru
Subs Whittle Japs Shipping in New Pacific Sinkings
American submarines claimed a new haul in Far Eastern Waters including an escort carrier, a large converted cruiser, a destroyer and 22 merchant vessels. The total U.S. submarine sinkings since the war began reach 1,025 vessels, with 100 warships and 121 vessels sunk since Jan. 1, as operations continued near Japan and its southern empire.
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Washington
U.P
Navy
Tod
U. S
Bombs Hit Hitler Fortress Berchtesgaden In Dawn Raid
Allied warplanes struck Adolf Hitler's Berchtesgaden fortress in daylight, targeting railway yards and the Kehlstein summit. Thunderbolt rockets and anti aircraft fire engaged the mountain stronghold as Nazi guards traded fire. Hitler's location remained uncertain amid Red Army moves toward Berlin.
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Rome
U.P
Adolf Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Fuehrer
Hitler
Exchange Telegraph
London
Kehlstein
Bavarian Alps
Berchtesenden
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Gregory K. Zhukov
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Red Army
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Guben
Forst
Maria Ivan S. Konev
Moscow
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Konev
Ukraine
Neisse River
Schegeln
Crossen
Neisse
Breslau
Glogau
Danzig
Czechoslovakia
Banska Bystrica
Danube Valley
Vienna
U.S. Weather Bureau
Tatum
Black Magic
Idaho
John Llewellyn
Motoyama Airfield No. 1
Suribachi
Chester W. Nimitz
Clifton B. Cates
Jess Hill
Bushland
Mr. King
Stewart
Tucumcari
Cowboy
Morton
Boise City
Santa Fe Railway
Gulf of Mexico
Corpus Christi
Weatherford
Oix
George W. Smith
Leonard 8. Aylesworth
Rolitey
David W Blanchfield
Edward R. Versteeg
William Caley
Shea
Subs Whittle Japs’ Shipping
Hitler Nesi
Nouncement
Mediterranean
Munich
Sible
Red
Keilstein
Berchtessaden
Alps
Berchtesgaden Palace
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