Rhine crossing advances as US forces link Remagen to Honnef
American troops push across the Rhine north of Remagen near Honnef linking with the Remagen bridgehead. German reports say Honnef was captured and recaptured, with renewed American assaults across the river. The front widens with Third Army near Coblenz and Bonn in Allied hands as German resistance stiffens along the Rhine banks.
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Paris
Remagen
Berlin
United States First Army
Rhine
Honnef
Wesel
United States Third Army
Coblenz
First Army
Ludendorff Bridge
United States
Third Army
Fourth Armored
Buchenach
Tottering Coblenz
Third
First
Eifel
Bonn
Cologne
Bad Godesberg
Rhine Bank
Holland
Ludendorff
Ninth Armored Division
Broh
Andernach
Moselle
Trier
Saar
Oder
Kuestrin
Gregory K. Zhukov
Seelow
Reich
Signal Corps
Rhine Bridge
Germany
Tokyo Raid Dims City as 300 B 29s Hit Palace Area
A massive night raid by 300 plus B 29s on Tokyo unleash incendiaries over the central district, reaching the imperial palace area. Brig Gen Power says the city resembled a sea of flame, with fires strategic to the palace under control by dawn.
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21St Bomber Command
Guam
Tokyo
Imperial Palace
Thomas S. Power
Tokyo Radio
Power
Curtis LeMay
20Th Air Force
Pacific
Lauris Norstad
Washington
LeMay
Norstad
Saipan
Tinian
Marianas
21St Command
Russians Push In Stettin Suburb and Danzig Lines
Soviet forces reportedly held a foothold on the east bank near Stettin and pressed into Altdamm while advancing toward Danzig. Paris radio claimed breaking into Danzig with ongoing street fighting as Zhukov’s army consolidates a bridgehead on the Oder front amid a broader push toward Berlin.
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London
Altdamm
ofStettin
Dammscher Lake
Berlin
Baltic
Moscow
Stettin
Danzig
Paris
Oder Dammscher
Oder
Airborne attacks on Kuala Lumpur target rail yards
About 40 India based Superfortresses bombed Kuala Lumpur Malay peninsula rail yards and communications center northwest of Singapore on Saturday. All B 29s returned to base. They met enemy resistance and probably shot down one own aircraft.
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Washington
Kuala Lumpur
Malay Peninsula
Singapore
Indo China Falls Under Japanese Military Control
Japanese armed forces have seized full military control of Indo China disarming French troops and occupying key establishments. Tokyo radio reported that France’s 1941 defense pact was repudiated and suggested U S air forces run a secret base at Taigin near Hanoi.
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United Press
Indo- China
Tokyo Radio
Japan
San Francisco
Tokyo
Jean de Coux
U. S
Taigin
Indo-China
Hanoi
Weekend Weather To Continue Mild In Cedar Rapids
Forecast for Cedar Rapids and vicinity calls for a mild weekend with increasing cloudiness tonight and Sunday. Temperatures remain mild with tonight’s low around 30 degrees. Cedar Rapids reached 54 degrees today with a 54 degree high yesterday in the area. The state low today was 23 at Charles City and Mason City.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Burlington
Weather Bureau Today
Chambers
Charles City
Mason City
First Across Rhine Bridge Hero Emerges From Ohio
Sgt. Alexander A. Drabik of Holland Ohio is named the first American foot across the Rhine bridgehead. Brig. Gen. William M. Hoge cites his action leading the first platoon under heavy fire, with his men advancing through machine gun and sniper fire to secure the entry while others followed.
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Rhine
Ohio
United States First Army
William M. Hoge
Ninth Armored Division
Alexander A. Drabik
Holland
Hoge
Drabik
William B. Goodson
Rushville
Ind
William E. Richard
Shrewsberry
W. Va
Berthold Fried
Shade Hill
S. D
Robert A. Jones
McKee, Ky
Timmerman
Karl Timmerman
West Point
Neb
Pye
Post-V-E Furloughs for Combat Men Not Others
In a Saturday address Lt. Gen. Brehon Somervell outlined post V-E day redeployment plans. Combat troops would return to the United States then sail to the Pacific, while engineers service forces and many support personnel head to the Orient.
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Washington
Europe
Orient
Brehon Somervell
Army Service Forces
Pacific
United States
War Department
Germany
Engineers
Signal Corps
Transportation Corps
Army Air Forces
Somervell
France
Belgium
Italy
Asia
Silver Star for Bartosh posthumous honors in Germany
Capt. Emil D. Bartosh son of Mr and Mrs Frank Bartosh 1459 Second St SE awarded the Silver Star posthumously for gallantry in action Sept 20 1944 in Germany He was killed Nov 17 1944 in Germany He commanded a company in an armored regiment under Lt Gen Hodges First Army The citation notes his bravery evacuating wounded and exposing himself to enemy fire to direct tanks and destroy an enemy Mark V tank and an anti tank gun
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Emil D. Bartosh
Frank Bartosh
Second Street
Germany
Gladys
Third Street
Bartosh
Hodges
First Army
Roy
A. J. Stevens
33Rd ‘Armored Regiment
Mindanao Battle Reports From Zamboanga Invasion Strain
Tokyo reports say American invasion forces fought at Zamboanga on Mindanao after landing on Thursday with battleships cruisers and air support. MacArthur noted heavy bombing and ground advances near Manila as American divisions push along the Kobayashi line with heavy cave defenses.
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Manila
Tokyo
Zamboanga
Mindanao
Philippine
United States
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
First Cavalry
Sixth Infantry Division
Luzon
Marakina
John Liddle Hurt In Plane Accident
John Liddle formerly of Cedar Rapids and Franklin high school was seriously injured in a plane crash on takeoff at a naval base in Norman Oklahoma. He received an intracranial injury and remained in serious condition at the naval hospital Friday night. His parents, Mr and Mrs George T Liddle, recently moved to Pasadena California.
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Cedar Rapids
John Liddle
Franklin High School
Naval Training Base
Norman
Okla
the Gazette
Liddle
Naval Hospital
George T. Liddle
Pasadena
Calif
Iwo Jima Battles Narrow Japanese Pocketed Lines
Marine divisions tightened a hold on Iwo Jima as three units closed gaps on the north and east coasts. The Third division severed land links and advanced to the sea. Fourth division faced heavy resistance while engaging a main pocket. Total enemy dead reached 564 as the fight neared its endgame.
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Guam
Iwo
Pacific Fleet Headquarters
Japan
Kitano
Fourth Division
Richard S. Brown Freed From Luzon Camp
Mrs R J Brown learns her son Richard S Brown 34 was liberated from Los Banos internment camp in the Philippines. A former purchasing agent for Manila Public Works and civilian Manila government employee, Brown spent 15 years in the Philippines and served three years on Corregidor and three at Nichols Field.
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Cedar Rapids
R. J. Brown
Sixteenth Street
War Department
Richard S. Brown
Los Banos
Philippines
Manila Public Works
Brown
Army Air Corps
Pearl Harbor
Manila
Army
Corregidor
Nichols Field
Santo Tomas
Rundstedt Ousted as Wehrmacht Leader Replaced by Model
Paris report quotes German prisoners on the Third army front claiming Field Marshal Karl Gerd von Rundstedt has been removed and Marshal Walther von Model named as his replacement. The prisoners say the Nazis will fight to the last man and that changes reflect Hitler and Himmler's desperate decisions.
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Paris
Karl Gerd von Rundstedt
Western Front
Walther von Model
Stars and Stripes
Wehrmacht
Hitler
Himmler
Nippon Invaded? Confused Jap Says Misstated Claim
A Tokyo radio review of the war situation was misreported when a Japanese broadcaster in San Francisco bungled his English. He stated that the enemy was attempting a landing on Japan, clearly not meaning the remark, while media coverage noted American naval forces in Japanese waters pose a threat.
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San Francisco
Japan
Tokyo Radio
Git Along You Little Dogies Cowboys Nab Cows
Cedar Ranids News Ray Ales and Bill Milke were policemen turned cowpunchers. They rounded up three cows and two halves and corralled them in a garage at 1317 B avenue NE after the animals fell off a truck at Avenue and Fifteenth street.
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Cedar Ranids
Ray Ales
Bill Milke
B Avenue NE
Fifteenth Street
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Malaya
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Acme
John W. Leonard
Ninth Armored
Don Whitehead
Ohioan’s
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Courthouse
Deathseer
David Lawrence
Marion
Cease
Sven Nveneens
Drew Pearson
Sesaeeeee Radio
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Eset Dav
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Silver Star
Cedar Rapids News
Richard Brown
Rundstedt
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