Allied Drive On Ludwigshafen Mannheim Shrinks Nazi Remnants
Four columns of the U S Third Army closed in on Ludwigshafen Mannheim as German forces fled from the Saarland and Palatinate. The Seventh Army breached toward the Palatinate while French units approached Karlsruhe and Frankfurt on the Main. The Allies held the Rhine west bank and extended 24 miles on the east, with Patton and Patch deploying to seal pockets west of the Rhine. Eisenhower warned German civilians to flee the Ruhr as a new Lower Rhine offensive looms.
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Associated Press
U.S
Third Army
Ludwigshafen-Mannheim
Saarland
Palatinate
Saarbruecken
Kaiserlautern
Voelkingeh
Worms
Zweibruecken
Wissembourg
Rhine
Karlsruhe
Frankfurt
Kaiserslautern
Ottweiler
Montgomery
U. S
Seventh ‘Army
Altdamm
Berlin
Germany
Austria
Zstlin
Tolbukhin
Ukraine
Hungary
Tata
Danube
Komarom
Upper
Remagen Bridgehead Breaks Open Amid German Collapse
General Hodges notes rapid expansion of the Remagen Bridgehead across the Rhine after Ludendorff’s bridge is wrecked. Allied breakthrough yields thousands of German prisoners, with 20,000 awaiting transport and 45,000 casualties reported across First and Seventh Armies in Saarland Palatinate and Hesse. Patton’s Third Army and Seventh Army press advance.
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Ludendorff
Rhine
Remagen
Bette
Saarland
Palatinate
Hesse
Seventh
Patton
Three Pockets Trapped Behind Allied Lines Amid War Debris
Fragmented report notes several pockets of German troops trapped behind Allied lines as major battles shift. Allied officers, wary and hopeful, anticipate the war's end within sixty days amid rationing strains and strategic setbacks.
Ohio National Guard Infantry Regiment Honors Cast in 1942
The 2 Ohio National Guard infantry regiment earned five Legion of Merit awards nineteen Silver Stars forty three Bronze Stars one Soldier's Medal and thirteen Purple Hearts as their unit recalled actions since April 7 1942 overseas. The regiment fought in Tongatabu Saricg emirau in the Bismarck Archipelago the Fiji Islands Walh Guadalcanal and is now stationed in a present base with readied troops.
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Ohio National Guard
Ja7th
Hasgery m. Tongatabu
Emirau
Bismarck “Archipelago
Fiji Islands
Wal- Hs Guadalcanal
Major War Criminals Will Get No Mercy
Lord Wright of the United Nations War Crimes Commission told the House of Lords that major war criminals including Hitler will be treated as murderers and torturers. He spoke after the Archbishop of York urged avoiding spectacular trials and calling for execution of principal war terminals once caught and identified.
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London
Hitler
Lord Wright
Unitied Nations War Crimes Commission
House of Lords
York
U.S. and British Air Fleets Hit Reich Targets
A combined force of about 2,000 American bombers and fighters attacked nine German air fields and a tank factory near Plauen while British aircraft hit a large Bremaen oil refinery. Berlin reported U.S. 15th Air Force bombers from Italy operated over Austria, punching major railway lines through Vienna and Munich. The bombers and fighters struck before noon, with missions including wreckage from Britain and attacks extending into other regions.
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London
Germany
Plauen
Bremaen
Berlin
U. S. 15Th Air Force
Italy
Austria
Vienna
Munich
U.S
Britain
Jear -Hopstein
Al“Achmer
Hesepe
Ischonahn
Wittmundnd
Marx
Studied Guaranteed Wage Gains White House Review
Washington advisers study a guaranteed annual wage as postwar job security plan. CIO demand last fall propelled the issue. Roosevelt-led War Labor Board previously rejected it. Tax receipts show gasoline revenue down from last year. Col Otto Brunzell now acting director of the university aviation school.
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Washington
White House
CIO
United ‘Steelworkers
War Labor
Columbus
Otto L. Brunzell
OO Coommandant
The
Reserve
Officer Training Corps
University
School of Aviation
Hitler’s health and memory dimmed after July 20 bombing
A German fugitive reporter claims Hitler, wounded and increasingly memory impaired, now seeks comfort in films showing purges of plot participants. He alleges Hitler knows the war is lost and blames Germany’s elite for the defeat, prompting altered radio broadcasts. The account notes potential selective editing of speeches.
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Louis P. Lochner
Bonn
Germany
Becai
Hitler
Fuehrer
Gorhband
Berlin
Wehrmacht
Big Guns of Soviet Army Ring Stettin
Soviet forces push toward Stettin as the First White Russian Army dominates the east bank of the Oder and closes on Berlin. Zhukov probes along the river while Konev clears garrisons at Breslau and Glogau. Vasilevsky leads a southward push from Koenigsberg as Braunsberg falls.
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Daniel DE Luce
Moscow
Oder
Baltic
Neisse
Stettin
Altdamm
Berlin
Marshal Zhukov
Marshal Konev
Breslau
Glogau
Upper Oder
Ukraine
Neisse Line
East Prussia
Vasilevsky
Red Army
Koenigsberg
Cherniakhovsky
Stalin
Midnight curfew for military men enforced in New York clubs
Reported orders set a midnight curfew for all military personnel in New York City venues with military police enforcing the measure at establishments like the Stork Club. The move follows a broader wartime security push, while Chilean papers blame Axis sabotage for recent shipboard fires risking many lives.
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York
Santiago
Chile
Axis
WMC Policy On Transfers Is Endangered
Washington reports the War Manpower Commission faces threat to its forced labor transfer policy as officials acknowledge strain on the national system. A New Bedford demonstration cited national service legislation needs. The National Labor Management Committee, including labor industry and agriculture reps, signed the statement. Chief MecNutt ignored parts urging national service, while manpower leaders fear defiance of the labor directive.
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Washington
Manpower Commission
New Bedford
Mass
WMC
National Labor Management Committee
Commission
Industry
Paul MW MecNutt
State Officials To Join Probe
Washington report states that Chairman Thomas and state agriculture commissioners will join a Senate agriculture subcommittee inquiry into current food shortages. He stressed the probe aims at solutions, not muckraking, noting widespread cattle activity while meat and butter fail to reach dining tables.
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Washington
Thomas
Next Two Weeks To Be Vital to Farmers
Columbus report says heavy March rainfall did not harm crops but cautions that the coming two weeks are crucial for Ohio farmers. The fate of crops hinges on rainfall totals and a possible killing frost after an unseasonal warm spell.
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Columbus
Ohio
Major US Raid Damages 17 Japanese Warships in Home Waters
Allied air power crippled at least 17 Japanese warships including a 45,000 ton battleship and eight aircraft carriers in home waters near Nippon. More than 1,000 carrier planes destroyed or damaged 475 enemy aircraft. No American warships sunk. one damaged. Mitscher’s task force penetrated near the homeland, prompting Japan to fortify and evacuate areas while Tokyo vowed fire breaks for future raids.
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Associated Press
Nippons
Tnland Sea
Mitscher
Japan
Radio Tokyo
Battle of Leyte Gulf Sinks Musashi and Destroys Japanese Fleet
Allied air and naval forces struck Japanese warships and bases, sinking the 45 000 ton Musashi and damaging others as carrier planes and destroyers pursued Nippon’s fleet. American forces reported heavy fires in Iloilo and advances into Panay as MacArthur announced gains in Luzon. Guerrilla actions and air strikes expanded footholds from Lingayen Gulf to San Fernando and Bauang.
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Japan
Faron
Gulf
Adm
Nimitz
Prin- Japan
Cipal
Mitscher
Iig
Nippon
Leytestroyer
Philippines
Kyushu
Honshu
Loilo
Panay
Philippine
MacArthur
Rapp Brush
Luzon
San Fernando
Lingayen
Manila
Bauang
Fifth Air Force
Cagayan Valley
Vigan
River Towboat Capsizes Near Catlettsburg
CATLETTSBURG Ky December report details the towboat Julius Fleischmann capsized while towing 12 empty barges from Cincinnati to Point Pleasant West Virginia near the Ohio shore. Captain W D Kimble ports mouth C pilot says all hands saved. Witness Charles Simmons saw a flash but denies explosion. Small boats from shore secured barges. vessel owned by Hatfield Campbell Creek Coal Co and operated for nearly 25 years.
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Catlettsburg
Julius Fleischmann
Cincinnati
Point Pleasant
W Va
Julius Fielschmann
Hatfield, Campbell Creek Coal Co
Ohio
Kanawha
Moten Stanley
Churchill Denies High Food Stock Reports In London
Prime Minister Churchill rejected American rumors that Britain held 700 million tons of food. He said the country had about 6 million tons and, after aid to liberated nations, that total would fall to roughly 4.75 million tons by the end of June.
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London
Churchill
United States
Britain
Submarine Barbel Feared Lost On Patrols
The submarine Barbel is overdue from patrol and presumed lost with its officers and men, normally about 65 aboard, in a Washington AFP report.
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Barbel
Washington
AFP
Conservancy Districts May Be Permanent
Columbus report says soil conservancy districts could become permanent under a bill approved by the House and sent to the Senate. Current law requires a referendum among former members every three years to decide continued existence.
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Columbus
Soil_ conservancy
House
Senate
First Suit Arises From Cleveland Fire
In the first death claim suit following the East Ohio Gas Co. fire last Oct. 20, Mrs. Eileen Moran asks $100,000 damages from Pittsburg Des Moines Steel Co. and the city of Cleveland. She contends the city allowed tanks to be set up in violation of local ordinances.
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Cleveland
East Ohio Gas Co
Eileen Moran
Patrick J
Pittsburg-Des Moines Steel Co
Public aware of war more than government heads says Chandler
Senator Chandler laments public readiness and questions government control while urging workers to stay on the job. He cites wartime restraint and postwar pullbacks as signs of national mood shifting toward production discipline despite calls for easing in some policies. He notes Byrnes remarks and flags potential strikes and recalls wartime regulations.
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Chandler
Washington
A.s
Jaber
Amer Yard
J. A. Krug
Kentuckian
Congress
Ohio
Germany
James F. Byrnes
United
Marton—Jp
Metl
Mérion Engineering Depot
Lightning Division Mops Up Three Towns Near Bonn
The Lightning Division men from Ohio Illinois Pennsylvania and New York overran Bevel and cleared the eastern Bonn sector east of the Rhine. They cleared Putzchen and scattered Hangelay two miles northeast of Bonn.
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Paris
T&th
Ohio
Ilinois
Pennsylvania
New York
Bevel
Bonn
Rhine
Putzchen
Hangelay
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Ober
Wese
Sorregue
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Ottweiter
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Bitche
Hagueneu
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Bernheim
Mannhein
Ludwigshafen
Neustadt
Sterbourg
Reich
Paul EB. Wurtsmith
13Th Air Force
Ring
Pvt
Harold Lee Gerson
Hawaii
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New Guinea
Leyte
Mindoro
Tokyo
Raymond A. Spruance
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Fifth Fleet
Hamilton W. Faron
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