Americans Capture Big Riviera Resort of Nice
Allied troops seized Nice in the Riviera with little resistance as Seventh Army advances toward the Italian frontier. The capture boosts prisoner totals past 50,000 with heavy German losses including hundreds of vehicles and guns.
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Lyon
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Flyers Flail Nazi Transport Planes in Romania Airfields
American Mustangs strafed Romanian and Hungarian airfields on Wednesday destroying scores of Nazi transport planes gliders and bombers aiding Germany in Romania. Negro pilots made five assaults on an airdrome near Oradia Romania.
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Rome
Romania
Oradia
Mosquito raids hit Frankfurt and rail targets across Europe
London dispatch says British Mosquito bombers struck the Frankfurt industrial center without loss and damaged rail targets from the front to the German border in northern France and Germany amid poor weather conditions.
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London
France
Germany
Frankfurt
Germans Fear Reds Push Makes Germans Surrender Fast
U S troops report German troops surrendering readily as fears of a Russian advance toward Germany grow. Prisoner counts rise with about 1 200 Germans reported in three days by a military police unit. Eyewitnesss describe Nazis fleeing into the open after tanks advance.
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Reims
Germany
Raymond A. Fight
Detroit
Berlin
Melvin Cunningham
Indianapolis
Objection to Diamond Block Coal fence on city street
Edward Machula and about 42 property owners protested a Diamond Block Coal fence on Tenth Avenue between Sixth and Seventh Streets SW. They argued the fence sits on city property, blocks a sight line, and request removal of the fence, a new walk, and weed trimming while council weighs postwar improvements. City officials noted 15 feet of city property is used and urged contacting Iowa Electric Light and Power for cooperation.
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Diamond Block Coal Company
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Seventh Streets
Edward Machula
Seventh Street
Machula
Ment
Iowal Electric Light and Power Company
Frank Young
D. L. Williams
Light Company
Council
Council Rules Out Walk Construction Until After War
Council members agreed that a walk must wait, keeping the area in question until postwar conditions allow work. The decision reflects wartime priorities and resource constraints.
Provisional French Government Formed Under De Gaulle
Paris AP reports the French National Committee of Liberation announced a provisional government led by General Charles de Gaulle as president of the council. The body includes some Communist members and aims to govern France in the interim period.
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Paris
French National Committee of Liberation
Charles de Gaulle
Land men in disguise await ballots after war prisoner return
A wartime group plans to stay largely the same until prisoners and French nationals deported by the Nazis to work inside Germany are brought home to vote in a general election.
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