Reds Report Oder Crossing Near Kuestrin Ahead of Berlin
Pravda dispatch says Soviet forces crossed the Oder at Kuestrin and moved toward Berlin with the main Warsaw Berlin corridor in sight. Berlin defense districts around Kuestrin lie in ruins as Nazi units retreat. Zhukov has poured 135,000 troops into bridgeheads to press toward the capital.
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London
Moscow
Pravda
Red Army
Oder River
Kuestrin
Berlin
Oder
Warsaw- Berlin
Gregory K. Zhukov
Frankfurten-Oder
Frankfurt
FCC
Transocean
Yanks Destroy 45 Nazi Planes Near Limburg
American fighter bombers destroyed 45 German planes lined up at an airport near Limburg, ready for a Rhine bridgehead attack. Twenty more were damaged. American losses were reported as light due to a collision during the raid.
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Paris
Limburg
First Army
Rhine
Woman Loses Purse in Downtown Cedar Rapids
Mrs. Doris L. Brent of North Liberty reported losing a purse containing $160 while shopping in the Cedar Rapids downtown area. She said the loss occurred between 10 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. after visiting several stores and is unsure of the exact location.
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Doris L. Brent
North Liberty
Leathernecks seize two islets off Iwo Jima
Marines landed on Kangoku Iwa and Kama islets west of Iwo Jima as the Fifth Marine Division flanked the sector. The landings were unopposed and followed ongoing attacks that reduced a Japanese pocket at Tachiiwa Point. General Holland Smith narrowly escaped a sniper shot while observing the fighting.
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Guam
Iwo
Navy
Kangoku Iwa
Kitano Point
Kama
Keller E. Rockey
Fifth Marine
Chester W. Nimitz
Tachiiwa Point
Clifton B. Cates
Holland M. Smith
Pacific
Doughboy in Rhine Foxhole Replies To Tax Dem
Los Angeles based Internal Revenue official Harry C. Westover received a reply from Pfc Sidney I Jaffe serving in a Rhine foxhole. Jaffe mocked the tax demand and offered military details and a wish to defer payment until civilian life. Westover granted an extension and kept his least valuable employee on payroll.
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Los Angeles
Internal Revenue
Harry C. Westover
Pfc
Sidney I. Jaffe
Jaffe
Rhine
Rhine Pontoon Span Is Monument to Engineers
U S First Army engineers stood on the east bank of the Rhine to support a second pontoon span of nearly 200 sections. Fourteen Americans died during a shell lit night and next day as they built the critical bridge under heavy artillery, air attacks, and harsh conditions. Lt Frank W. Rhea of Waldo Ark described the night as one he never wants to relive.
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Lee Carson
U. S. First Army
the Rhine
INS
United States First Army
Rhine
Frank W. Rhea
Waldo
Ark
Rhea
Faulty fuse cap cited for Remagen bridge failure
American engineers blamed a faulty fuse cap for the Germans failing to blow the Remagen bridge. They described the Rhine as broad as ever as mortars fired near the floating lifeline. A pontoon replacement was being prepared while supply trucks moved across the Rhine, a feat seen as a miracle of courage and skill.
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First Army ON
Rhine
Remagen
Staktharinen
Ruhr
Honnef
Saar
Saarburg
Reading at Council Bluffs Sets Iowa High
Forecast for Cedar Rapids and vicinity calls for mostly cloudy cooler conditions with occasional light rain. The Iowa record high was 70 degrees at Council Bluffs, while Cedar Rapids reached 62. Skies remained cloudy with temperatures fluctuating from 58 to 42 degrees overnight. Chambers Inskeep noted 2:30 p.m. readouts and humidity around 47 percent.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Mercury
Iowa
Council Bluffs
Chambers
Doughboys Repel Attacks in Italy
American troops held Mt Spigolino near Pistoia after beating off a German counter attack and inflicting heavy losses. Another enemy attack at an outpost south of San Martino was repulsed.
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Rome
Mt. Spigolino
Pistoia
San Martino
Inter-Agency Clash Over Food Exports War Food Move
War Food Administration proposed halting meat shipments to Great Britain and liberated areas to meet civilian needs amid a broader inter agency dispute. President Roosevelt may decide due to potential effects on international relations and home-front morale.
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Washington
War Food Administration
Great Britain
Inter-Agency
Roosevelt
WEA
Marvin Jones
Sea of Fire Over Osaka as B 29s Strike
Osaka, Japan, a major war production center, was hit by over 300 B 29 Superfortresses in a third large raid in five days, burning five square miles. The attack, part of a campaign against industrial cities, damaged factories, warehouses, and dense wooden districts, with 24 square miles torched across Osaka Nagoya and Tokyo in 96 hours.
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Guam
Osaka
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
2St
Nijmegen
Kleve
Rhine
Westerwald
Killed in Action Second Lt Elroy L Marion Pilot
Second Lt Elroy L Marion son of Mr and Mrs Ed Marion 1615 Third Avenue SE was killed in action February 22 on Mindoro Island. He had been in the Philippines since December and was commissioned in 1944 with pilot wings earned in April 1944. He attended high school in Fort Yates North Dakota and later Fargo before entering service. He trained at Aloe Field Texas and has three brothers in the Navy and a sister 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
N. D
Aloe Field
Texas
Merle
Yeoman
Joe
Leo
Seaman
Pacific
Marcia
Churchill Forces Apology Over Lie Charge in Commons
Prime Minister Churchill pressed Labour MP Richard Stokes to repeat a claim that he lied about British tank quality. Stokes apologized in parliament admitting unparliamentary language and inexact terms while asserting the substance of his critique remained accurate, and that the country had been deceived.
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London
LLP
Churchill
Stokes
Quaker Oats Tops Red Cross War Fund Drive
Quaker Oats employees surpassed their Red Cross quota with a total of 92,812.54 raised from the Tuesday audit. The company gave 2,791.75, a 60 percent increase over 1944, despite fewer workers. War Fund officials urged final tallies be submitted by Friday to complete women's division reports.
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Quaker Oats
Red Cross War Fund
Harvey C. McClary
Morgan Foster
War Fund Office
$4000 Judgment Against Theater
Mrs. Rachel Wood wins a $4000 judgment against Tri-States Theater Corp in Judge J E Heiserman’s court after a 22 hour jury retirement. The suit arose from a February 8 1944 fall in the Paramount theater lobby.
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Rachel Wood
First Street
Tri-States Theater Corporation
J. E. Heiserman
Bernard E., Stark
Cedar Rapids
Japs Reduced to Three Cigarettes a Day
London dispatch reports from Tokyo that starting March 20 Japan will allow only three cigarettes per person daily. The reduction comes from seven due to production and transport limits.
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London
Japan
Nazi Transocean Agency
Tokyo
Berlin claims Remagen bridge destroyed by German air force
The Berlin radio said the Remagen bridge was destroyed while Allied advances pressed toward the Saar and Rhine regions. American forces pushed toward the Saar river and Coblenz area as German defenses reeled under heavy air and ground pressure.
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London
Berlin
Remagen
Paris
First Army
Frankfurt- Ruhr
George S. Patton
Moselle
Coblenz
Third Army
Patton
Seventh Army
Germany
Saar River
Saarbrucken
Ludendorff
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East Prussia
Ernst von Hammer
DNB
Zinten
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Gdynia
Bay of Danzig
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Cathedral
Cedar Rapids News
Marquis
Omics
David Lawrence
Paul Mallon Marion
Tae Drew Pearson
Radio
Sposet
Walter Winchell
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Aee
Eerave
Cdl
Oneness Aba
Eas
Eunene
Aseenee
Guy
David Pergrin
Claremont
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
Hochwald
Hunsrued
Third
Eifel
St. Catharinen
Hoenningen
Koenigswinter
Ninth
Lower Rhine
Emmerich
Duisberg
Ninth Army
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