Yanks Reach Five Miles From Metz Amid Offensive Push
American tanks and infantry pressed southeast of Metz as the Third Army widened a wedge toward the Saar border. Berlin claimed 600 tanks in the offensive, with 2,240 prisoners taken. Sixth armored division reached Luppy near the rail line. other units advanced toward Haboudange and Mazieres amid rain and minefields.
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London
Metz
Sarrebourg
Germany
Saar
Berlin
Fourth Division
Lucy
Delme Ridge
Sixth Armored Division
Luppy
Chateau Salins
Haboudange
Third Army
Mazieres
Moselle
Luxembourg
Koenigsmacher
Pont-a-Mousson
Falquemont
Sgt Palumbo Dies in Raid on Bonin Islands
Staff Sgt Anthony Palumbo 29, son of Mr and Mrs John Palumbo of 1401 K Street SW, was killed in action October 21 as a waist gunner on a Liberator during a raid on the Bonin Islands in the Central Pacific. He formerly attended St Patrick's High School and worked for Hutchinson Ice Cream and the Eddy Paper. He served in medical, air corps, and gunnery training in multiple states and overseas since June. He held the Air Medal, Oak Leaf Cluster, and Distinguished Flying Cross.
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Cedar Rapid
News
Anthony Palumbo
John Palumbo
K Street
Bonin Islands
Central Pacific
St. Patrick’s High School
Hutchinson Ice Cream
Eddy Paper
Palumbo
Pernsamy F
Medical Corps
Air Corps and Gunnery
Mississippi
Texas
Florida
Mike
Mary Palumbo
Los Angeles
Calif
Jose Carolina
Shine
North
Byrnes Urges Fast Home Front Effort To End War
War Mobilization Director James F Byrnes spoke at the South Carolina statehouse Armistice Day meeting urging Americans to speed supplies to front lines. He warned of potential German secret weapons, noted Allied forces are ahead of schedule and that delays in sending shells and materials prolong the war and cost American lives. He warned Japan remains a formidable foe and cited recent Japanese gains in China.
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Columbia
S. C
London
France
James F. Byrnes
Roosevelt
State House
South Carolina
Germany
Byrnes
Bush League
China
Thornton Cavanagh Missing in Europe Thunderbolt Pilot
Cedar Rapids news notes Second Lt. Thornton J. Cavanagh, 27, of Waterloo roots, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Cavanagh, vanished over Germany after serving as P-47 Thunderbolt pilot. He trained at Eagle Pass and Baton Rouge and had worked as an auditor for Cudahy Packing before enlisting. His wife Donna Jean and daughter Cathy Ann remain with his parents.
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Thornton J. Cavanagh
Donna Jean
Cathy Ann
R. G. Holland
Avenue
Germany
Cavanagh
J. P. Cavanagh
Waterloo
University of Iowa
Cudahy Packing Company
Eagle Pass
Texas
Thunderbolt
Baton Rouge
Plaza Ceremonies Honor Dead of World War I
In Cedar Rapids an island plaza service honored World War I dead and World War II fighters. The Hanford American Legion honor guard, VFW color guard, and Coe College units participated under Capt. Hoffmann and Capt. Vesely. Dwight Krumholtz urged readiness and self sacrifice, noting the misjudgment of stopping armament. Taps and a Memorial Coliseum echo closed the ceremony. Roy Decker chaired the Legion committee.
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Island Plaza
Cedar Rapids
Hanford Post
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Army
Coe College
Dwight Krumholtz
John E. DeLong
Krumholtz
Memorial Coliseum
Roy Decker
Legion Committee
Drew Coleman
Legion i Honor Guard
Coe
Leo A. Hoffmann
Stanley Vesely
Lieutenant John F. Bormann Killed in Action in Germany
The War Department notified Mr and Mrs John H Bormann of 1959 Park Avenue SE Cedar Rapids that their son First Lieutenant John F Bormann 25 was killed in action in Germany on October 17 He had earlier been missing in action since October 16 and had served in England France Belgium Holland and Germany He attended Immaculate Conception High School Cedar Rapids Loras College Dubuque Marquette University Milwaukee and held BA and MA degrees He entered the army in 1942 serving in airborne anti aircraft and later infantry He was survived by his parents four sisters and other relatives and had been active in Boy Scout work in Cedar Rapids and Waubeek Area"}
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Cedar Rapids
John H. Bormann
Park Avenue SE
War Department
John F. Bormann
Germany
Bormann
Immaculate Conception High School
Loras College
Dubuque
Marquette University
Milwaukee
Airborne
Army
Infantry
England
France
Belgium
Holland
Bormann, Jr
Hutchinson Company
Waubeek
Lt. Bormann
Mary Jane
Chamber of Commerce
On Rapids
L. O'Leary
Salt Lake
Utah
C. D. Murray
Cleveland
Ohio
Roosevelt observes Armistice Day at Unknown Soldier tomb
President Roosevelt, seeking peace after World War II, prays at Arlington for a swift end to the war and lasting freedom. He places a wreath at the Unknown Soldier tomb amid a national moment of silence marking Armistice Day. No speech was delivered.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
France
Arlington Cemetery
Potomac River
Virginia
Lincoln
Jeffer
Red offensive tightens grip near Budapest and east Prussia
Moscow reports say the Red army massed for a general offensive as ground freezes allow heavy tank and gun movement. Soviet units reportedly crossed the Danube below Budapest while Cherniakhovsky’s Third White Russian army concentrates up to 300 guns along a 95 mile East Prussia front.
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Hungary
Danube
Budapest
East Prussia
Ivan D. Cherniakhovsky
Cherniakhovsky
Konigsberg
Pettengill Sets Two Plans for Postwar and Free Enterprise
Former Indiana congressman Samuel B. Pettengill spoke to the Executives Club at the Montrose hotel outlining two linked plans. One treats the U S Constitution as the master postwar plan, the other promotes free enterprise salesmanship to the American people. He urged education, better teacher pay, Constitution Day emphasis, and warned against deficit spending and government reliance to create purchasing power. He criticized wartime illusions and urged rebuilding peacetime industries to avoid national wealth drain.
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Samuel B. Pettengill
Indiana
Democratic Party
Executives Club
Montrose Hotel
Pettengill
Leyte Island battles surge as Japanese reinforcements arrive
Allied reports say Japan poured thousands more troops onto Leyte, bringing ashore 40,000 plus veterans as destroyers and transports fell in air sea combat. American planes and PT boats wrecked a 19 ship convoy at Ormoc Bay while 3,000 to 10,000 enemy soldiers reached shore. Ground forces, including the Twenty-fourth and First Cavalry divisions, press an angled advance against Ormoc amid heavy resistance and intense air battles, with minimal high level bombing until a smoke screen lifted.
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Philippines
Japan
Leyte Island
Leyte
Associated Press
Mindoro Strait
Ormoc
Twenty-fourth
Ormec
Ormoc Harbor
Fifth Air Force
Carigara Bay
Twenty-fourth Division
First Cavalry
Valencia
Cebu
Mindanao
Ninety
Patok
MacArthur
Ormoc Highway
Richard Berghulz
Lyle E Fuller Receives Flying Cross For WWII Valor
First Lt. Lyle E. Fuller, 23, navigator of the B 17 Purple Shaft, earns the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement during air strikes on Nazi targets. He also receives the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf clusters as part of a bomber group praised for Regensburg shuttle bombing.
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Lyle E. Fuller
Fuller
Messerschmitt
Regensburg
Imany
Arthur J. Fuller
Roosevelt High School
University of Iowa
Army Air Forces
California
Texas
Oklahoma
Kearney
Neb
Air Forces
Chinese Capture Burmese Junction
CHUNGKING UP Chinese forces seize the important road junction of Mormauk eight miles east of Bhamo, a strategic advance reported in latest military dispatches. The capture tightens Chinese control in the region as operations continue against Burmese resistance and enemy supply lines.
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Chungking
Mormauk
Bhamo
Churchill in Paris for talks with De Gaulle
Prime Minister Churchill arrived in Paris with Foreign Secretary Eden for fringe talks with General de Gaulle on France’s postwar role. He met de Gaulle at the Arc de Triomphe for Armistice Day ceremonies and laid a wreath, wearing a marshal of the RAF uniform as crowds chanted in support.
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Paris
Churchill
Anthony Eden
Charles de Gaulle
France
Europe
de Gaulle
Mary Churchill
Riesinliber Cadogan
Nicholas Langford
Eden
Royal Air Force
Union
B-29 raids target Nanking Shanghai and Kyushu
American Superfortresses bombed Nanking in occupied China and the Shanghai area with a broader operation across western Kyushu and surrounding zones. Reports indicate one B-29 may be missing, several enemy planes downed, and limited Japanese losses claimed.
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Washington
Nanking
Shanghai
China
Omura
Kyushu
Tokyo
Japan
Saishu Island
Sanyo
Honshu
Kobe
Kure
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Cedar Rapids News
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Moscow
Red
Carroll Mitchell
United States
Leyte Isle
Flying Cross
Lyle Fuller
Burmese
Britain
Russia
European Advisory Commission
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Subs Link
Saishu
Sasebo
Nagasaki
Omuta
Yangtze River
Pacific
Far East
Incific
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Pacific Fleet Headquarters
Navy
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Marianas
Sixth Marine Division
Chester W. Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Imperial Iron and Steel Works
Yawata
Naneas
Angtze River
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