Large British Fleet for Drive in the Pacific
Tokyo said a large British fleet including seven aircraft carriers massed in the Indian Ocean for a simultaneous invasion of islands off the Malay peninsula Sumatra Burma and southern Thailand. Sydney saw HMCS Uganda, Canada’s first warship visit to Australia, en route to join the British Pacific fleet as Ottawa confirmed Uganda’s service with the fleet. The broadcast named planned invasions of Andaman Nicobar Sabang Puket and Langkawi with forced landings in southern Burma and Thailand.
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London
Radio Tokyo
Indian Ocean
Malay Peninsula
Sumatra
Burma
Thailand
Red Sea
Tokyo
British United Press
San Francisco
Port Said
Sydney
Uganda
Australia
Bruce Fraser
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Sabang
Puket
Langkawi
Singapore
T. C. Davis
Regina
Saskatchewan
HMCS
Edmond Rollo Mainguy
RCN
Duncan BC
Davis
Ottawa
Angus L. Macdonald
House of Commons
Pacific
R.C.N
Ontario
Mainguy
Atlantic
Milustrious
Victorious
Furious
Canada’s Navy Plans for Pacific War Include Ontario Uganda
Navy Minister Macdonald told the Commons that Canada’s Pacific force will be more than a token presence. The Ontario cruiser will join Uganda in Pacific waters, with Canadian crews and some British air personnel, and two additional aircraft carriers possible.
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Ottawa
Canada
Macdonald
Commons
Pacific
Royal Canadian Navy
War Council
Defence
Japan
Ontario
Uganda
Belfast
British
Fleet Air Arm
Large grain shipments planned to move by rail in 1945
Montreal reports the grain transportation committee approved a program to move about 1,150 railroad cars of grain daily on the prairies from April 1 to December 1. The plan aims to shift 460 million bushels from the Head of the Lakes to eastern ports and to supply Great Britain and European allies, with heavy loading and unloading requirements at Fort William Port Arthur and U.S. lake ports.
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Montreal
Grain Transportation Committee
Prairies
Lockwood
Western Canada
United States
Canada
Great Lakes
Maritime Provinces
Fort William
Port Arthur
Head of the Lakes
U.S
Duluth
Buffalo
Lake Erie
J. J. Liewellin
R. A. Furness
Great Britain
Combined Food Board
Washington
Europe
Mediterranean
Rose Death Confirmed in German Capture Battle
Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose of Denver commanded the U S Third Armored Division and was killed after surrendering to German Tiger tank crew in Germany. His aide said Rose already had surrendered when a nearby tank crew fired a burp gun.
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U.S
Germany
Maurice Rose
Denver
Colo
U.S Third Armored
Rose
Robert Ballinger
White Plains
N.Y
Jap Admirals Killed In Action Reported
The Domei agency says 14 Japanese flag officers were killed in action raising casualties to 108 since May 1944. The latest losses include Vice Admiral Noritada Ishi and 13 rear admirals.
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San Francisco
Domei Agency
Noritada Ishi
Re-gains Sight Edmonton Girl After Eye Operation
Edmonton girl Lillian Cameron who was partially blind has normal vision after surgery by Dr Ramon Caestravigo at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. On return home she recalls the moment bands came off and she opened her eyes seeing screws in ceiling shades. she could not distinguish faces before the operation.
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Edmonton
Lillian Cameron
Ramon Caestraviejo
New York
Columbia Presbyterial Medical Centre
Britain to Supply Food as Talks Shape Meat Ration Policy
Ottawa reports that Washington conferences with Britain will decide possible meat rationing in Canada. Britain will take all beef, bacon, ham and eggs Canada can supply through 1946 under signed agreements. Current contracts set 60.6 million pounds of beef and 450 million pounds of bacon, with extra quantities likely accepted. Canada to emphasize shell eggs with 500 million eggs slated for Britain. Buy War Savings Stamps regularly.
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Ottawa
Washington
Canada
Dominion
Britain
J. J. Liewellin
Gardiner
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Col
Oliver Lyttleton
Raid on Wilhelmshaven Ports by U S Eighth Air Force
The U S Eighth air force hit Wilhelmshaven naval dockyards on March 30 sinking a 370 foot motor ship and setting ablaze the Koln and four other vessels. One thousand four hundred heavy bombers escorted by nine hundred fighters carried out the largest coordinated attack on enemy ports with direct hits on at least three shipyards and buildings in Bremen.
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London
Koln
U.S. Eighth Air Force
Wilhelmshaven
Bremen
German village mayor candidate killed in explosion
Trans ocean reports a German teacher and his whole family killed when their house exploded after he offered his services to the Allies as mayor of a village near Monschau.
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London
Trans-ocean
Monschau
F.D.R
Earl of
RCAF Record In This War Has Been Enviable
Air Minister Gibson outlined interim estimates of 453 million dollars and a future plan for the RCAF including training in Canada, disposal of surplus, strength reductions, and postwar police squadrons for Germany with fighting units for the Pacific. He cited 72,729 Canadian graduates of 131,000 trained and 5,166 honors in battle skies, plus bomber and fighter group achievements.
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Ottawa
Gibson
RCAF
Canada
Canadian Overseas Bomber Group
British Bomber Command
Bomber Command
Normandy
R.C.A.F
R.A.F
War Assets Corporation
Air Ministry
Europe
Pacific
Pilot by Mistake Warnes Missing After Bailout
Squadron Leader Geofrey Warnes, an R A F pilot created by clerical error, wore contact lenses to hide poor eyesight and earned the nickname Strafer for attacking trains and convoys. He went missing and is presumed dead after bailing out over the English Channel.
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London
Geoffrey Warnes
English Channel
Evening News
Warnes
R.A.F
German Pilot Lands Among Allies Near Frankfurt
An astonished Allied force at an airfield near Frankfurt recounts a German pilot flying through heavy anti aircraft fire to land on an Allied airfield. He calmly declared he wished to join the Allied air force as troops closed in and determined their response.
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Frankfurt
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