Reds Overrun Berlin Suburbs in World War II Assault
Paris reports three Allied armies racing south toward Hitler's Bavarian redoubt after capturing Nuernberg and nearing Lake Constance. Berlin suffers peace riots as Soviet and American forces push toward the Elbe with Hamburg under British attack and Munich near falling. Eisenhower forecasts defeat as Western and Soviet armies converge on the capital.
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Capital
Munich
Eixenhower
Paris
Hitler
Bavaria
Nuernberg
Lake Constance
Alps
Hamburg
Germany
Supreme Headquarters
Mienhower
U. S. Ath
Ist
Aid
Bere
Ithe
Nazi Party
Sth
Bremen
North Sea
Frante
Bordeaux
Gironde
Eisenhower
Ruhr
al Burane
Elber
Poviei
Elbe
Berl
Fliming Capijtal
American Troops Break Out in Po Valley Advance
Allied forces in northern Italy drive from the Apennines toward Bologna and Castiglione as British 8th Army nears Ferrara Portenariago and Pianoro pockets are cleared. American units advance toward Bologna and Ferrara with renewed optimism about destroying German forces in the region.
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Bologna
Castalecchio
Apennine Mountains
Italy
Alpe
8Th Army
Argenta Wap
Esal
Portenaggiore
Po Valley
Ferrara
8Th
Arene Ere
Parrars
Fertate
Pianors
Pianoro Jontene
Bolsgas-Pistoix Highey Doughboys
AL Sani Cle
Sient
Mt. Mario
Reno
la Soma
Forressea Oere
Adice
Charleston Seeks Bypass Route for City Traffic Relief
State Planning Engineer M Earl Campbell outlined a traffic survey showing 149000 daily Charleston trips with 76 percent terminating in the city and 29 percent in the business section. He said local traffic will double by 1965 and recommended a limited access highway along US Routes 21 25 8 to alleviate congestion and connect the business district, with access points limited to about six locations.
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Charleston
M. Earl Campbell
West Virginia Society of Process
Campbell
U. 5
Patrick Street
W. Washington St
Washington St
Air Force Bares New Rocket Bomb
Secret work by Air Force engineers produced a rocket bomb for submarine and E boat pens. The device, fast and penetrating, was tested aboard B 17 Fortresses during February and March raids on U boat bases. Col. Benjamin Kelsey led the project with British collaboration, as engineers fielded nearly 2,888 projects while advising combat crews.
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London
Air Force
U. & Sid
Azores
HK Air Force
Vna
E-post Gee A
Uspuiden
Dige
Ath Air Force Engineering Teem
Xircrat
Benjamin Kelsey
Waterbury
Conn
Beth
Britain
Bough
Plymouth
Willie Willis Memoir Snippet Sparks Public Debate
A terse quote from Willie Willis surfaces in a dusty clipping, reflecting on gender and propriety. The fragment hints at personal opinions about public behavior and dirt, raising questions about past events and reception in the community.
Okinawa Costs Heavy U S Ship Losses Reported
Fleet communique across Okinawa operations notes 14 American naval craft sunk between March 18 and April 18, with 10 enemy ships sunk and 2588 enemy aircraft destroyed. Amphibious forces push on southern Okinawa breaking a 13 day deadlock, while losses include five destroyers and several support vessels. Japanese counterattacks persistent with battleship Yamato listed among losses.
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Guam
Okinawa
Mai Ou Ie
Okin
Awa
Inlictory
MacArthur declares Cebu battle ends huge Japanese garrison
General Douglas MacArthur announced the central Philippines campaign concluded with the extermination of most Japanese on Cebu. He cited 5,000 enemy bodies counted, liberation of 6,490,000 civilians, and control of the Visayan group after heavy air and sea strikes that damaged freighters and coastal vessels. He noted Japanese garrisons on multiple islands were eliminated as U S forces push toward Mindanao and Davao.
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Manila
Douglas MacArthur
Central Philippines
Garison
Cebu
Philippines
Davao
Mindanao
Baguio
Lauzon
Netherlands East Indies
China
Formas
East Indies
MacArthur
Visayan
Leyte
Samar
Dota
Panay
Palawan
Nerihoy
Masbate
Bantayan
Biliran
Burias
Tabans
Pare
Tabhus
Teta J
Dress Drive Aids Needy Through Community Pledge
Cobb's donates 100 dresses as AFI, Teamsters, and Charleston business houses pledge cooperation. Volunteers collect garments from centers including fire stations, churches, Union Temple, Elk Lodge, and American Legion post, routing to rental centers and showrooms. Frank A. Knight explains union and press club support while drivers are urged to work in spare time to speed collections.
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Officine
AFI
Teamsters’ Unions
Charleston
Union Temple
Tennessee
Elk
American Legion
Pennyvaria
Quarrier and Dunbar Std
United Fuel Gas Cn
Frank A. Knight
United Nations Diive
Press Club of
William T. Brive
Frank Connally hopes Frisco will produce fair pact
Washington April 21 Senator Connally Texas told the foreign relations committee in Washington that the Dumbarton Oaks plan for world organization would be liberalized to provide for more equitable text in future years. He said the American delegation is in harmony and that the United States has a lofty duty to perform toward world peace. Ernie Pyle receives the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for war correspondence, while a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor for Ernie Pyle is proposed in the Senate by Senator Willis Smith.
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Connally
Frisco
Washington
Im— Sen
World Organization
San Janeisie
Annally
Foreign Relations Committee
San Francisco
United States
Thie Wward
Pdenberg ‘Roerich
J.ale Loking Trove
Clapper Memorial Prise
Pyle
Ernie Pyle
Raymond Clapper
Sigma Delis
Chi
Scrippes Howard
Kiied
Fe Jima
Kénate
Willis R.ind
Capehart
Hatch
Mor Chaves
Noomlt
Ike Invites Commission To Inspect Horror Camps
British parliament members and US representatives consider presenting witnesses at the World Security conference in San Francisco urging unity to prevent German aggression. A US congressional and editorial inspection group may visit Nazi camps, while Patton’s troops report harsh conditions for American POWs amid censors easing limits on frontline reporting.
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Lon
United States
San Frantisco
House of Commons
Eisenhower
George C. Marshall
Star
U.S
Sar Edward Spears
Syria
Witness to Atrocity at Belsen Camp Describes Mass Graves
Pages from a wartime field diary describe the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation by the British. The account details naked corpses hauled in trucks into pits, with hundreds and thousands dead from starvation and disease. Survivors remain alive but unable to eat or live, awaiting the next grim fate. The narrator recalls the horror and the moment of rescue by allied forces.
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Witlem Frye Helsen
Imithec
Belsen
Ita
Dent
Alter Fiver
Bremen
Protesque
Berlin Suffered Major Allied Bombing On Hitler’s Birthday
London reports RAF bombers struck Berlin at night following daylight raids by Fortresses and Soviet Stormoviks. U S 9th Air Force fighter bombers, despite losses, hit rail yards and airfields across a 300 mile area from Ludwigslust toPilsen, while Soviet artillery pounded the city. Mosquitoes were not used, and Berlin’s radio and sirens faltered as coalition forces assault continued.
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U. S
London
Royal Air Force
Berlin
Fort
Resnen
Savare
Dowrttown
Annaburg
Nuembers
Citg
Adolf Hitler
Munich
Prague
Lend-Lease Accord Signed With Reds
The United States Britain and Canada have signed the fourth lend-lease agreement with Russia in Ottawa. The pact covers July 1, 1944 to June 30, 1945, includes a wartime supplies schedule largely delivered, with no dollar value set and no long range purchases for Russia. Russia sought a billion-dollar credit, but postwar uses were not included in this protocol.
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Washington
United States
Britain
Canda
Russia
Ottawa
State Department
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Strausberg
Clark
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Willie Willis
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Texas
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Third Army
George S. Patton
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