Record Loss for RAF in Nuremberg Raid
London reports the RAF suffered its heaviest single loss with 96 planes shot down during the Nuremberg operation amid a large night bombing raid on Nazi transport hubs. The attack hit Nuremberg and other Reich targets as German defenses, including night fighters, mounted strong opposition. Nearly 700 airmen are believed killed or captured. the raid marks a major Allied effort in March.
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London
R.A.F
Nuremberg
Reich
Vienna
Austria
Hessen-Nassau
Prussia
Frankfurt
R.af
Germany
France
Low Countries
Ruhr
Berlin
Munich
Italy
Reichsmarshal Goering
Archibald Sinclair
Europe
Leipzig
Britain
Sakhalin Oil and Coal Leases Surrendered to Soviet Union
The Soviet Union signed a protocol with Japan to surrender oil and coal leases on northern Sakhalin. Japan will hand over concession equipment and property and receive 5 million rubles and 50 000 tons of oil annually for five years starting after the war. All Japanese nationals to be removed from Sakhalin.
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Moscow
Tokyo
Sakhalin Island
Pacific
Japan
Soviet Union
Russia
Sakhalin
Siberia
Kuriles
Far Eastern
Okhinsky
Solomon Lozovsky
Naotake Sato
Pravda
Londogm
London
U. S. Fleet Attacks Palau In Early Pacific Offensive
The United States Pacific Fleet opened the war’s first attack on Palau near the Philippines. Admiral Nimitz said strong forces struck Japanese-held Palau as Japanese ships fled the area. Air arms coordinated with MacArthur to target Palau and Truk, with bombers hitting Woleai and Truk’s air strength.
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Pearl Harbor
Philippines
Palau
Chester W. Nimitz
Truk
Japan
Nimitz
Palau Islands
Carolines
Marianas
United States Navy
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Woleai
Allies Hit Truk Bases in Wide Pacific Raids
Allied Liberators and Lightning fighters raided Truk and Hollandia in New Guinea in large two raid offensives. The Truk attack destroyed or rendered useless 92 planes and 40 fighters were shot down. Hollandia was blasted with 15,600 fragmentation bombs, with 125 enemy planes likely destroyed. Three American PT boats were sunk and four men lost.
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Southwest Pacific
Japan
Hollandia
New Guinea
Trak Atoll
Carolines
Solomons
Truk
Eten Islands
Liberators
Douglas MacArthur
Open Bay
New Britain
United States
Bougainville
Hungary in Air: Soviet Near 15 Miles From Borders
London reports Stalin announcing the capture of Ochakov on the Black Sea as Soviet forces advance. Zhukov’s First Ukrainian army pushes through Cernauti toward Hungary and Romania, with the Second Ukrainian army manning the Prut east bank and Malinovsky pressing on Odessa.
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London
Ochakov
Black Sea
Bug
Dniester
Stalin
Moscow
Prut
Storozhints
Rumanian
Ivan S. Konev
Rumania
Konev
Bessarabian
East Bank
Myakovtsy
Kamenets Podolsk
Kitaigorod Ail
Proskurov
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Odessa
Ukraine
Dniester River
Kamenets-Podolsk
Malinovsky
Bug River
Voznesensk
Roosevelt lets soldier vote bill become law without signature
President Roosevelt announced he would allow the soldier vote bill to become law without his approval, calling it inadequate to guarantee servicemen a feasible voting path. He urged Congress and states to act to protect military political rights and to use the federal ballot where possible.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Conogress
O’mahoney
D-Wyo
Theig
Behind scenes Battle Over Dewey Willkie in Iowa Rally
In Des Moines a committee session at 2 30 p m weighed a seventh delegate at large for the national convention fueling Dewey and Willkie tensions. Coburn leads Dewey camp 6 2 while Thornburg seeks a minority report risking floor fight. Willkie backers include Hise White Cowles power broker for Willkie. convention delayed 40 minutes. Other at large picks include York Wilson Hickenlooper Spangler Jacobson and Wilharm.
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Iowa
A. A. Coburn
Mark Thornburg
Des Moinnes
Coburn
Dewey
Thornburg
Willkie
George Hise
Ed White
Harlan
Mike Cowles
Willis York
George Wilson
B. B. Hickenlooper
Harrison Spangler
Art Jacobson
Waukon
Gertrude Wilharm
Sumner
Hereford Steer Saves Flyers in Belly Landing
A Hereford steer was acclaimed posthumously as the involuntary hero of a forced landing near Mullinville Kansas. The Marauder plane hit the steer and jettisoned its nose up while the tail dropped for a belly landing. The airmen escaped uninjured but the aircraft burned and the steer was killed.
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Dodge City
Kan
Dodge City Army
Mullinville
Jackie Coogan Becomes A Lieutenant After Burma Mission
Hollywood star Jackie Coogan known as The Kid has earned a promotion to lieutenant. The news comes in a letter he wrote after returning from leading glider troops behind Japanese lines in Burma. Previously he was reported as a flight officer by family and friends.
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Hollywood
INS
Jackie Coogan
the Kid
Japan
Burma
Jackie
Marshall Irked by Presidential Talk
Washington associates of Gen. George C. Marshall say he is angered and annoyed by ongoing talk of drafting him as a presidential candidate. They note he has repeatedly expressed a desire to avoid politics, and denying the chatter would acknowledge it, an impossible position amid unofficial suggestions.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Army
Marshall
Lee
British Yield Burma Base Amid Burma Front Crisis
New Delhi reports Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck says Tiddim, a forward base in Burma, has fallen and that Japanese forces cut the Imphal Kohima highway while advancing toward Kohima and Imphal. Mountbatten notes jungle troops push 30 miles across the frontier, threatening rail and river links into Assam.
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New Delhi
Tiddim
Chin Hills
Burma
Imphal
Claude Auchinleck
India
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Kohima
Imphal-Kohima
Tamu
Palel
Auchinleck
Warmer Weather Moves Into Iowa as March Dies Quietly
Cedar Rapids notes warmer weather as March ends its run with 30 to 35 degree lows statewide. Chambers Inskeep recorded 41 degrees at 2 30 p m in Cedar Rapids while humidity ran 20 percent and skies were clear. Highest temp in Iowa reached 32 in the late afternoon and 29 by evening with towns like Lamont at 38 and Spencer at 16.
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Iowa
Chambers
Cedar Rapids
Lamont
Spencer
Last day to file taxes and renew auto inspections in Iowa
Iowans were reminded this is the last day to obtain semi annual auto inspections with gasoline books, pay state income taxes, and file for home tax credits.
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Des Moines
Chaplin recites threat by former protege Joan Barry
Los Angeles AP Chaplin testified on Friday denying government charges he transported his former ward Joan Barry for immoral purposes. He described a December 23 1942 confrontation at his Beverly Hills home in which Barry threatened to kill him with a pistol and later said she would kill herself. He said she stayed the night, left with the gun, and he gave her fifty dollars with a promise of more.
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Los Angeles
Charlie Chaplin
Joan Barry
New York
Miss Barry
Chaplin
Beverly Hills
Army to Pull Out of Coe Training Programs in Iowa
Senator Guy M. Gillette said the War Department advised that army air crew training programs would be discontinued by June 30 at six Iowa colleges including Coe Cedar Rapids Iowa State Teachers Cedar Falls Morning Side North Sioux City and Drake Des Moines.
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Washington
Guy M. Gillette
Iowa
War Department
Coe
Cedar Rapids
Iowa State
Teads
Cedar Falls
Morningside
Sux City
Drake Universe
Des Moines
Senator Gillette shocks Coe aircrew officials on cuts
Senator Gillette announced reductions to the aircrew complement by one third. Coe officials learned of the cut only days earlier with no notice of Friday cancellation. The army contract with the college may be cancelled by either party on 30 days’ notice.
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Gillette
Coe
Army
British Blast Our Plane by Mistake
Washington reports British carrier fighters protecting an Allied Atlantic convoy shot down a U S Army Air Forces C 54 transport by mistake. Six crew members aboard the four engine cargo plane were killed. Fighters mistook the C 54 for a German Focke Wulf 200.
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Washington
Atlantic
War Department
British Admiralty
United States Army Air Forces Air Transport Command
Willkie Snubbed by Republican Official
John S. Samson president of the Nebraska Young Republican federation refused to meet Wendell Willkie at a Lincoln conference saying Willkie has declined to commit to supporting the GOP nominee. Samson stressed party unity and the aim to win in the general election.
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Omaha
John S. Samson
Nebraska Young Republican Federation
Wendell Willkie
Lincoln
Willkie
G.O.P
Samson
Republican Party
Hitler Honors Two Beaten Generals on Russian Front
Adolf Hitler awarded Field Marshals Fritz Erich von Mannstein and Ewald von Kleist with Oak Leaves and Swords to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The Berlin radio disclosed the decoration Friday for their actions on the southern Russian front.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Fritz Erich von Mannstein
Ewald von Kleist
Berlin
Nazis Hold Hill Positions Near Cassino as Air War Rages
Allied and German forces clash around Cassino with Hill 202 and 146 reoccupied by the Germans. Alloted air power strikes hit Sofia, Rome areas, and targets in Yugoslavia as Fifth and Fifteenth Air Forces push a broad bombing campaign. Casualties reported as German planes bombed an Allied hospital area near Anzio while beachhead defenses repulse fresh German thrusts.
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Allied
Naples
Monastery Hill
Cassino
Anzio
Fifth Army
Conti
Sofia
Fifteenth Air
Italy
Yugoslavia
Hangman’s Hill
Carroceto
Beach-Head
Eighth Army
Orsogna
Imotski
Leghorn
Orte
Rome
Ancona
Rimini
Adriatic
Fifteenth Air Force
Ander
Lonergan Murder Case Sent to General Sessions Jury
New York AP report says Wayne Lonergan faces first degree murder charges in the bludgeon death of his heiress wife Patricia. Judge James Garrett Wallace directs the jury at 12:45 p.m. Friday after the state presents evidence alleging the defendant planned to kill. Testimony references Lonergan's state of mind before the October 24 apartment attack.
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New York
Wayne Lonergan
Patricia
James Garrett Wallace
Aers
Sean Ta Tee Meek
Gagan
Building Use Denied for America First Rally in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis city council denied the use of the city auditorium for a May rally led by Seeeeeere K. Smith of the America First party. The decision follows concerns over public safety and orderly conduct during political gatherings.
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America First Head
Minneapolis
Seeeeeere K. Smith
America First Party
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