World War II chronology from Europe to Pacific fronts
A sweeping chronology covers major 1945 events: Allied advances from Bastogne to the Rhine, Tokyo and Nagasaki atomic milestones, Japan’s surrender and occupation setup, Moscow atomic parley, and postwar trials. It notes key defeats, capitulations, and leadership changes across Europe, Asia, and the Pacific.
Truman Reaches for Postwar Policy and Budget
A chronology of 1945 46 events including Rayburn re elected speaker Roosevelt Roosevelts death Truman oath inauguration and major policy moves. Highlights cover the budget for 1946 835 billion dollars OPA rationing strikes demobilization and the move toward postwar reconstruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Sam Rayburn
House
Roosevelt
Office of Defense Transportation
Montgomery Ward Co
Rose Bowl Triumph Sets Southern California U. Ahead
Southern California U. defeats Tennessee in the Rose Bowl as Duke Alabama 26 and Miami 26 are noted among other scores. East Southwestern U. 36 def National U. of Mexico 0 amid a roundup of major sports results and notable athletes across golf, tennis, baseball, and football events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern California
Tennessee
Duke
Alabama
Miami
San Wers
Southwestern U
National
U. of Mexico
Sammy Snead
New Yankees
Adicate
Larry McPhail
Disaster Chronicle of Killed and Damaged Across States
Record of multiple disasters including a Maine nursery fire with 17 deaths, a Mississippi tornado corridor with hundreds hurt, Ohio River flood across five states, Mississippi River flood evacuations in Louisiana, a deadly Arkansas Missouri Illinois tornado, a Milton Pa train collision, New Jersey floods and Berkshire losses, a B 25 crash into the Empire State Building, Michigan North Dakota crash casualties, Texas coast hurricane damage, Miami inland hurricane, Lake Chelan school bus drowning, Lumberton truck crash, Fox River Grove home fire, a deadly northeastern snowstorm, and a Chicago passenger train crash with casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mtassippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Missouri
Illinois
Antlers
Okla
New Jersey
Berkshire Mountain
Massachusetts
Empire State Building
New York City
Fox River Grove
Chicago
Condh
War spending soars in 1944 amid U S production rise
The Department of Commerce reports war expenditures in 1944 reach seven billion dollars, an 18 percent rise from 1943, with bootleg activity excluded. The note cites Secretary Stimson regret over a cargo plane mix up and lists various wartime and cultural items and events from that year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Department of Commerce
War Stimson
Elliott Roosevelt
Faye
Hollywood
Calif
England
Adolf Hitler
Oor
Notable Deaths From Public Figures Across the Nation
An obituary roundup lists Francis T. Maloney, U S Senator from Connecticut, died in Meriden. William E. Johnson, 82, prohibition advocate, died in Binghamton. Charles W. Bryan, Nebraska governor and brother of William Jennings Bryan, died in Lincoln. Alfred V. De Forest, 55, engineer and radio inventor, died in Mali a. Franklin D Roosevelt died in Warm Springs, Georgia. Ernie, war correspondent, killed by a machine gun on Ie island. Heber J. Grant, 88, president of the Mormon church, died in Sak e. Hiram W. Johnson, 79, senator from California, died in Washington. John McCormack, lyric tenor, died in Dublin. Jerome Kern, composer, died in New York. Robert Benchley, 56, critic and humorist, died in New York. Gen Alexander Patch Jr, former Seventh Army commander, died in San Antonio. Dwight Davis, promoter of the war effort, died in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred V. de Forest
Malia
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Warm Springs
Ernie
Ie Island
Is Thomas
Peneter
Idaho
Washington, D. C
Jerome Kern
Pete
New York City
Robert Benchley
Laywright
Alexander Patch Jr
Seventh Army
San Anto Tex
Dwight Davis
Calvin ‘Coolidge
Union
Also Mentioned on This Page
FDR
In Review
Bastogne
France
U. S
Italy
Pacific
Luzon
Negros Islands
Philippines
Lgium
MacArthur
Saas
Oder River
St. Withoeea
Germany
Germ
Oberhausen
First U. S. Cavalry
Manila
U. S. First Army
Boer River
Japan
Guam
Tokyo
Yalta
Russia
Pest
Bataan
Berchtesgaden
Hitler
Chaling
Hunan
Mindanao
London
Jum and
Holland
Cobienz
Peel
Van
Rs Ludwigshaf
Rhine River
Okinawa
Vienna
Austria
Tate
Oet
Nuremberg
Berlin
Jrst
Stettin
Elbe River
Torgau
Gegenbach
Kurt Dittmar
Magdeburg
Benito Mussolini
Congo
Wv. S. Oe
Munich
Azi Party
Venice
Milan
U. S. Fifth Army
Reichstag
Stalin
Mas
Caserta
Bertin
Zhukov
Konev
Borneo
Netherlands
Denmark
Hel
Frisian Islands
Montgomery
U S
Devers
Swinemuende
U. S. Third Army
Czechoeslovakia
Pilsen
Gustav Jodl
Reims
Europe
Gwe
Nanning
Admiral Halsey
Osaka
Apan
Island
Philippine Islands
Macarth
Honshu Island
U. S. Twentieth Air Force
Wathem
Hiroshima
Nagasaks
Hirohito
Manchuria
Truman
Emperor Jo
Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni
Truk
Rota
Yap
Jaluit
Yamashita Preares
Jonathan Wainwright
Mukden
China
General MacArthur
New Grand Hotels
Yokoama
U. S. Eighth Army
Yokohama
Tokyo Bay
Army
Navy
Hideki Tojo
Britain
George Patton
Bavaria
Pierre Laval
Vikdum Quisling
Poeceaen
Syria
Lebanon
Egypt
Palestine
Shanhaikwan
Java
Iran
Nuernberg
Teheran
Nashimoto
Tomoyuki Yamashita
The
Levant
Prince Fumimaro Konoye
Great Britain
Moscow
Byrnes
Henry A. Wallace
Commerce
Senate
William Davis
Fred Vinson
cNarney
Bradley
Krueger
Mera Kenney
Clark
Andy
OPA
PA Dent Roosevelt
Bene Springs
Harry S. Truman
United Mahone Contecoeee
San Francisco
War Production Board
Robert 4. Jackson
US Supreme Court
Allied War Crimes Tribunal
Robert E. Hannegan
Democratic National Committee
Tmaster
Frank Walker
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Delaware
Thomas Clark
Francis Biddle
Lewis Schwellenbach
Francis Perkins
Clinton Anderson
Claude Wickard
Agriculture
U. S. Supreme Court
Office of Price Administration
James Doolittle
Omar Bradley
Randolph Co
James F. Byrnes
Secretary of
Agriculture Anderson
Bretton Woods
Petroleum Administration
WMC
Washington
Bermuda
Commission
Western Union Telegraph
Eee
Attlee
Washngton
Pearl Harbor
United Auto Workers Union
General Motors
Montgomery, Ward and Co
Karl Hoffman
Robert Storz
Ida Grove
Iowa
Governor Green
Republicanational Committee
Earl Wilson
Sugar Branch
US. D. A
U. S.iy
George C. Shall
Far East
Byron Neilson
Jag McSpaden
New York Athletic Club
Frank Sinkwich
Detroit Lions
Ann Curtis
Mocapantes
Westmnocke
Guenley
Ed Wings
Sen
Albert
Happy) Chandler
Kentucky
Kenesaw M. Landis
Hoop Jr
Eddie Arcaro
Sammy Byrd
Detroit
Byron Nelson
Welby van Horn
Tommy Holmes
Boston Braves
Charles Beaudry
Marquette U
Milwaukee
Bloomfield
N. J
Hambletonian Stake
Titan Hanover
Harry Pownall
Goshen
N. Y
Michigan State College
Robert Feller
Cleveland Indians
Green Bay Packers
Sarah Cooke
Boston
Pauline Betz
Los Angeles
Forest Hills
Sgt
Frank Parker
Forest Park
Popes
Chicago Cubs
St. Louis
Detroit Tigers
Louisville Colonels
American Association
Newark Bears
Louisville
Joe Louis
Billy Conn
Phil Cavarretta
Hal Newhouser
Washington Redskins
New York Giants
Engenera
Auburn
Meridian
Miss
Ala
Ohio
Amage
Milton
Michigan
Texas
Lake Chelan
Chelan
Wash
Lumberton
N. C
Surbyariety
Greer Garson
Ales States
Galluppo
Bing Crosby
Ingrid Bergman
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science Awards
Gloria Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Leopold Stokowski
Mexico
Variety
Leland S
Larry) MacPhail
N. Y. Yankees
Jean B. Wanamaker
Baltimore
Lauren Bacall
Humphrey Bogart
Mansfield
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Riverside Church
Axis Sally
Turin
Taly
Rita Louise Zucca
Deanna Durbin
Felix Jackson
Las Vegas
Merle Oberon
Lucien Ballard
Juarez
Mex
Montana
Canada
Virginia Lee Simms
Dehn
Verly Hills
Billboard
Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe
Betty Hutton
Theodore Briskin
Shirley Temple
John Agar
Lake Forest
Glouesters
Billboard Magazine
Navajo Trail
U. S. Navy
Honolulu
Glenn Seaborg
U. of California
Wright Field
Dayton
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Judy Hackman
Seattle
Baby
Carole Landis
W. Horace Eens
Jorge S. Patton Jr
Soneroa
Navy Hospital
Vallejo
Francis T. Maloney
Den
Conn
Meriden
William E. “‘Pussyfoot’” Johnson
Prohibition
Binghamton, N. Y
Charles W. Bryan
William Jennings Bryan
Nebraska
Lincoln
Neb
Heber J. Grant
Latter Day
Mormon Church
Sake
Hiram W. Johnson
Waston
D. C
John McCormack
Dublin
Etre
Quisling
Mac
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