Reds Report Oder Crossing Near Kuestrin as Berlin Drive Gathers
Pravda reports the Red Army crossed the Oder at Kuestrin and advanced toward Berlin less than 37 miles away. Berlin defenses near Kuestrin lie in ruins as retreating SS units pull back, while Zhukov’s forces pour in across the Oder toward the capital.
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Reds
Oder
Kuestrin
Moscow
Pravda
Red Army
Oder River
Berlin
Warsaw- Berlin
Gregory K. Zhukov
Frankfurten-Oder
Frankfurt
Yanks Destroy 45 Nazi Planes in Air Attack
Paris AP reports American fighter bombers destroyed 45 German planes lined up at an airport near Limburg ready for a Rhine bridgehead strike. Twenty more were damaged. American losses were two Thunderbolts after a collision during the raid.
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Paris
Limburg
First Army
Rhine
Woman Loses Purse Containing $160 in Downtown Cedar Rapids
Mrs Doris L Brent of North Liberty reported losing a purse containing 160 dollars while shopping downtown Cedar Rapids between 10 and 11 15 a m. She had visited several stores and is unsure where the loss occurred.
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Cedar Rapids
Doris L. Brent
North Liberty
Brent
Leathernecks Seize Two Iwo Islets In Amphibious Landings
US Marines landed on Kangoku Iwa and Kama, two islets west of Iwo Jima, unopposed and flanked the Iwo sector under Maj Gen Keller Rockey. Tachiiwa point pocket on Iwo reduced further as 115 more caves sealed. Gen Holland Smith narrowly escaped a sniper blast while observing the action.
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Guam
Iwo
Navy
Kangoku Iwa
Kitano Point
Iwo Tuesay
Kama
Holland M. Smith
Pacific
Doughboy in Rhine Foxhole Replies To Tax
AP reports Pfc Sidney I Jaffe serving in a Rhine foxhole replied to Internal Revenue for 1943 income tax with a blunt statement listing his weaponry and rations. He asked for tax relief until he returns to civilian life, joking that Germans dislike American tax collectors. Westover granted an extension to keep the employee on payroll.
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Los Angeles
Internal Revenue
Harry C. Westover
Pfc
Sidney I. Jaffe
Jaffe
Rhine
Westover
Rhine Pontoon Span a Monument to Engineers
Lt. Frank W. Rhea and the 1st Army engineers built a near 200 pontoon span across the Rhine under shellfire and air attacks. Seven engineers died before the site, seven more died during construction as shells hit cranes and crews. The bridge was completed on time despite constant bombardment and frosty, exhausting conditions.
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U. S. First Army
the Rhine
INS
United States First Army
Rhine
Frank W. Rhea
Waldo
Ark
Rhea
Faulty fuse cap blamed for Remagen bridge failure
American engineers on the Rhine attribute the German attempt to blow the Remagen bridge to a defective fuse cap that prevented TNT from exploding. Mortars create geysers near the lifeline as a pontoon replacement is prepared and supply trucks begin crossing the river. The crossing is described as a miracle of courage and skill.
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First Army ON
Rhine
Remagen
Reading at Council Bluffs 70. Cedar Rapids 62
Forecast for Cedar Rapids and vicinity calls for mostly cloudy and cooler conditions with occasional light rain. Iowa highs set records at Council Bluffs 70 and Cedar Rapids 62 Tuesday, with 4 to 5 pm readings. Temperatures fall tonight to near freezing with showers possible later.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Mercury
Iowa
Council Bluffs
Chambers
Doughboys Repel Attacks in Italy
In Rome American forces launched a counter attack and inflicted heavy losses. A second enemy assault was repulsed at an outpost south of San Martino, farther northeast.
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Rome
San Martino
Inter-Agency Clash Over Food Exports Hits Policy
The War Food Administration proposes halting meat shipments to Great Britain and liberated areas and trimming military demands, sparking a bitter inter-agency dispute. President Roosevelt may decide due to potential impacts on international relations and home-front morale. The conflict centers on whether civilian food supplies should be further reduced to meet commitments amid overall shortages.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Great Britain
Inter-Agency
Roosevelt
WFA
Marvin Jones
Sea of Fire at Osaka in B 29s Wake
Osaka endured a massive pre dawn fire raid by over 300 B 29s with 2200 tons of incendiaries converting the city’s 10 square mile target into a holocaust. The bombing follows Nagoya and Tokyo raids, totaling 24 square miles destroyed in 96 hours.
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Osaka
Guam
Japan
21St
Bomber Command
Tokyo
Nagoya
New York
Manhattan Island
Jersey City
William G. Reed
Long Beach
Calif
Thomas S. Power
Fort Worth
Texas
Marianas
Pilot Second Lt Elroy L Marion Killed in Action Mindoro Island
Second Lt Elroy L Marion 4 fighter pilot son of Mr and Mrs Ed Marion 1 15 Third avenue SE killed in action Feb 22 on Mindoro Island. Parents notified by the War Department. He had been in the Philippines since December. Marion attended Fort Yates High School ND and Fargo College work before enlisting. He trained at Aloe Field Texas and earned his wings in April 1944. Three brothers serve in the Navy in the Pacific and a sister Marcia is at home.
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Elroy L. Marion
Ed Marion
Third Avenue SE
Mindoro Island
War Department
Philippines
Marion
Fort Yates
N. D
Cedar Rapids
Fargo
Aloe Field
Texas
Merle
Yeoman
Joe
Leo
Seaman
Pacific
Marcia
Churchill Forces Apology by M P for Lie Charge
In the British House of Commons Prime Minister Churchill challenged Richard Stokes to repeat a charge that he lied about British tanks. Stokes apologized admitting unparliamentary language and terming his comment a terminological inexactitude while asserting the substance remained unchanged.
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London
LLP
Churchill
Richard Stokes
Commons
Stokes
Quaker Oats Tops Red Cross War Fund Drive
Quaker Oats employees exceeded their quota with a total of $92,812.54 raised, though staffing was lower than last year. Co chair Harvey C McClary announced the 1945 effort fell 60 percent short of the prior year but still near the $135000 target. Mrs Morgan Foster urged final tallies be brought to the War Fund office by Friday between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
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Quaker Oats
Red Cross War Fund
Harvey C. McClary
Morgan Foster
War Fund Office
$4,000 Judgment Awarded Against Theater
A Cedar Rapids jury in Judge J. E. Heiserman's court awarded Mrs. Rachel Wood $4,000 against Tri States Theater Corporation after a trial that began March 5. The jury foreman was Bernard E. Stark and the panel retired Tuesday after convening Monday. The suit claimed injuries from a February 8, 1944 fall in the Paramount theater lobby.
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Rachel
Tri-States Theater Corporation
J. E. Heiserman
Bernard E. Stark
Cedar Rapids
Wood
The
Corporation
Paramount Theater
Japan Cuts Cigarette Ration to Three a Day
The Nazi Transocean agency reported from Tokyo that starting March 20 Japan will limit smoking to three cigarettes daily, reduced from seven due to production and transport constraints.
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Japan
Nazi Transocean Agency
Tokyo
Remagen Bridgehead Advances and Rhine Crossings Report
Allied forces push near Remagen as German reports claim Patton crossings west of Coblenz. The 70th Infantry advances into Saarbrucken area, with Ludendorff bridge repair aiding the Remagen crossing. German resistance clusters around Staktharinen and the Saar district sees new drives toward Siegfried Line. 27,127 Germans captured in nine days.
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Paris
First Army
Remagen
Frankfurt- Ruhr
George S. Patton
Moselle
Severa Points
Coblenz
Third Army
Patton
Seventh Army
Germany
Saar River
Saarbrucken
Ludendorff
Staktharinen
Ruhr
Honnef
Saar
Saarburg
Hochwald
Hunsbeck
Third
Eifel
Magen
Rhine
St. Catharinen
Hoenningen
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Oupen-Kuau
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Zinten
Koenigsberg
East Prussia
Gdynia
Bay of Danzig
Associated Press
Cologne
Cathedral
Marquis Childs
David Lawrence
Wwe
Paul Mallon
Drew Pearson
Walter Winchell
See
Lee Carson
Cedar Rapids News
Italy
Ovid A. Martin
U. S. Army Signal Corps
Roy V. Porter
France
Catherine Montillon
James
Bruce
Twenty-seventh Street
Ira T. Wyche
79Th Infantry Division
Elroy Marion
M.P
Bridgehead
Koenigswinter
United States
Ninth Armes
Lower Rhine
Emmerich
Eee
Ninth Army
Guir
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