Prisoners Knew Belsen Butcher As Music Lover
BELSEN Germany June 4 ENSI A XVII century poet said music soothes the savage breast. Josef Kramer camp commandant who ordered murders loved music and tolerated weekly violin, jazz, and song performances by prisoners Lily Naphe and Eva Steiner recount how Kramer listened to tunes while atrocities occurred. He claimed obedience to Berlin and justified cruelty as duty.
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Belsen
Germany
Ensi
Josef Kramer
Wari
Lily Naphe
Europe
Belson
Kramer
Eva Steiner
Ber-lin
Kram
Carrier Lake Champlain Commissioned by Navy in One Day
Portmouth Va June 4 The Aircraft Carrier Lake Champlain was christened and commissioned yesterday in a historic first for the Navy. Named for the Lake Champlain defeat of the British, the 2710 ton Betex class craft was launched at Norfolk Navy Yard where it was built. Mrs Warren R Austin christened it, Rear Adm C H Jones placed it in service, and Capt Logan Ramsey praised its power saying it surpasses Essex and could better resist attacks than Franklin whose crew suffered bomb damage months ago.
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Portsmouth
Lake Cham Plaih
Lake Champlain
Essex
U. S. S. Franklin
Jap Grenade Billiards From GI Head to Kill Ja
During a Japanese courier attack in Cebu a US GI Merle Jones of Dayton Washington heard a muffled noise near his foxhole. He raised his head and was struck by a Japanese hand grenade that bounced and exploded on his head. Jones fell back but revived to find a Japanese soldier outside the foxhole dead from grenade wounds.
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Cebu
Merle Jnnes
Dayton
Wash
Jones
Inductee Asks Questions Before Draft Board Response
In Emmett Idaho a selective service registrant facing induction wrote a long letter to the draft board posing questions about military life. He concluded that they need not answer, sharing thoughts from an inductee’s mind after receiving final papers. Meanwhile California store employees join the War Loan drive, with Long Beach reporting $250,000 pledged on opening day.
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Idaho
Selective Service
Orly
Aumer Ous
Dust
California
Ith War Loan
Third Army
Long Beath
Two Japanese Carriers Sunk By U S Submarines
Pearl Harbor June 5 The two large Japanese aircraft carriers were sunk by American submarines late in 1944 during the Pacific war. Cmdr J E Enright Fargo Md led a moonlit pursuit, torpedoes struck, fires and explosions engulfed the carrier, and depth charges from pursuing destroyers followed.
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Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Philippines Sea
Enright
Eit
Cmdr
L. DB. Mee Gregor
Annapoux
America
Jess
Carrier Fliers Battle Weather on Kyushu Raid
Aboard Admiral McCain’s carrier flagship off the Ryukyus on June 2, US Navy aircrews reported brutal weather as they attacked southern Kyushu. Lt Fred C. Hamilton and Lt (jg) Howard W. Fung described planes returning damaged, gas exhausted, and one pilot landing with critical losses. They claimed two Japanese planes shot down, 11 destroyed on the ground, and multiple vessels damaged or destroyed, including a locomotive and small cargo boats near Miyazaki.
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Grant MacDowall
ADM
John W. McCain
Ryukyus
Kyushu
Fred C. Hamilton
Pratt
Kas
Linding
Mehler
Miyaziaki
Howard W. Fung
Chicago
Ferai
Kagoshima
Bumbo
Fght TV
Hamilton
Hacky Sky Sovanski
Audrey Hyves
St. Louis
Sovaraki
Dishonorable No 1: Denning Named by FBI list
Maurice Denning, once an Iowa bootlegger turned bank robber, is now the FBI’s No 1 criminal on the wanted list. Sought since 1934 for a Superior Nebraska National Bank holdup with two accomplices, he remains at large as authorities pursue him. A separate wartime report notes carrier crew restoration after a Christmas attack, with morale improving after a hard siege.
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Maurice Denning
Iowa
FBI
Superior
Neb
International
Iwo Jima Mustangs Transfer to 20th Air Force Control
Iwo Jima based 7th Fighter Command units are now under the 20th Air Force instead of Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. The shift aims to better coordinate fighter escorts for B-29 Superfortresses and fighter sweeps against Nipponese cities, signaling possible Pacific-wide consolidation for an eventual land invasion of Japan.
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7Th Fighter Command
20Th Air Force
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Mustang
Japan
Pacific Ale Opera Minna
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