Soviets Encircle Vienna Amid Press Reports of Occupation
London reports Russians complete encirclement of Vienna and push into Moravia and Breslau. Paris radio quotes a free Austrian broadcast saying Vienna is fully occupied with remaining districts evacuated. The German garrison includes schoolboys and sailors fighting as infantry.
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London
Vienna
Marshal Rodion Jr
Moravia
Bruenn
Brno
Oder River
Breslau
Richthofen
Silesian
Paris
Okinawa Marine Sees Harsh First Night Beneath Foxhole Pines
A Marine recalls hauling heavy gear inland on Okinawa as artillery rumbles, sleeping on improvised lifebuoy beds, and battling relentless mosquitoes after digging a foxhole during the first night. He notes the cold dew and the novelty of sleeping on inflated life preservers while others used ponchos.
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Okinawa
Okihawe
Saashen
German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer sunk in RAF attack
London reports reconnaissance confirms the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer was sunk in a Royal Air Force raid on the Kiel naval base on April 9. The British air force announced the finding today.
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London
Admiral Scheer
Kiel
Body Of Baby Sent In Box To Dallas
Postal inspectors traced a box mailed from Palo Alto California containing a newborn boy’s body. The package bore fictitious return and recipient addresses and was found in a dead mail department after a odor alert. An autopsy by Dr. Bert Davis indicated the infant was alive at birth and died of suffocation likely from entrapment.
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Palo Alto
Calif
Dallas
Tex
Betty O'Donald
Merced Avenue
James Dyer
Euclid Street
Bert Davis
British forces seize towns in twin spring offensive across Senio
British Eighth army tanks and infantry breach the Senio river line advancing on Lugo Fusignano and Cotignola on a seven mile eastern Po valley front. American Fifth Army clears Massa hub and pushes toward La Spezia as Alessio Lenhart reports 1200 Germans captured.
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Rome
Lugo
Fusignano
Italy
Fifth Army
Massa
la Spezia
Senio
Eighth Army
Lenhart
Help For Those Striken Slated To Be Delayed
UNRRA told liberated Europeans that aid may be delayed by pockets of Nazi resistance. The second quarterly report to Congress says full assistance will come as armed forces ease up on demands for supplies and transportation. It notes the Nazi military power may be broken soon but pockets of resistance could slow UNRRA’s work.
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Washington
UNRRA
Congress
Roosevelt
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Russians seal Vienna rescue as Danube front tightens
Front dispatches say Red Army storm units push along the Danube in a crescent pocket from Leopoldstadt to Prater, with western areas cleared and German forces reportedly liquidated in the Vienna woods. Liberated slave laborers emerge from cellars as Moravian advance reports surface.
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Danube
Red Army
Danube River
Danube Canal
Leopoldstadt
Itenau
Prater
Vienna
Malinovsky
Moravia
Varg River
Trencin
Moscow
Neenenet Red Star
Morava River
500 000 Believed Held In One Camp Near Weimar
Reports indicate a vast concentration camp near Weimar housing up to 500000 prisoners as U S Army units led by Lt General George Patton push toward the city. Liberated workers estimate the number held there amid Allied advance.
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Weimar
U S
George §. Patton
Gilliam Appears Candidate for Eastern North Carolina Judge
Tarboro attorney Don Gilliam seems to be the next U S district judge for eastern North Carolina to replace retired I M Meekins. Senators Bailey and Hoey await confirmation from the Attorney General and Roosevelt nomination before announcing the name.
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Washington
Don Gilliam
Tarboro
U.S
North Carolina
I. M. Meekins
Josiah W. Bailey
Clyde R. Hoey
Francis Biddle
Bailey
Carolina
Roosevelt
Stanley Winborne
Raleigh
Allied push in northern Italy aims to crush German poise on the Po
DeWitt MacKenzie notes a major allied offensive in northern Italy with British Eighth Army crossing the Senio and American Fifth Army moving into the La Spezia area. He cites about thirty German divisions along the Po with roughly equal opposing forces, led by von Vietinghoff, and underscores the formidable defenses and high stakes of the operation.
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The
Eighth Army
Senio
Fifth Army
la Spezia
Italy
Mark Clark
von Vietinghoff
Hitler
Fuehrer
Reich
Capture Of Jolo Enables Yanks To Control Sulu
Gen Douglas MacArthur proclaims full control of the Sulu archipelago after the 41st Division invades Jolo capturing the capital and airfields. Liberation of Culion leper colony begins as fighting ends on southern Luzon and Tawitawi harbor was already seized.
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Jolo
Sulu
Manila
Mindanao
Borneo
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Cubon
Philippines
Luzon
Jens A. Doe
Tawitawi
Jolo City
Culion Island
Palawan
Culion
Coron Bay
Leyte
13Th Air Force
His
Essen Captured Advances Range Up To 35 Miles
Allied forces push across southern Germany and toward Berlin in a sweeping campaign. U S Ninth Army seizes Essen, crossing toward the Elbe as First and Third Armies close on Russian lines. British and Canadian units deepen gains toward Hamburg and the North Sea.
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Essen
Paris
U. S
Ninth Army
Berlin
Wulferstedt
Krupp
Brunswick
Hell On Wheels
Elbe
Magdeburg
Robert Bunson
Second Armored
Schoeningen
First
Harz
Germany
von A Seen
Don Whitehead
Hitler
Krupp Munitions and Iron Works
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Ninth
Krupp Works
Bremen
Hamburg
Helgoland Bight
North Sea
Issel
Holland
Deventer
Appeldorn
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
T Robert Wilson
Montgomery
Oker River
Fifth Armored
Oker
Leland S. Hobbs
Goering Steel Works
Salzgitter
Nordhauser
Elisenhower
Omar Bradley
Thuringian
Leipzig
Siable
Saxony
Five Million Jews Reported Slain by Nazis at Auschwitz
Dr. Bela Fabian, exiled Hungarian party leader, claims in an interview that 5,000,000 Jews were gassed and cremated at Auschwitz in upper Silesia. He says 400,000 died in the first two months. 1,600 survived. the figure includes Jews from Belgium to Greece.
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Erfurt
Germany
Bela Fabian
Hungarian Independent Democratic Party
Auschwitz
Upper Silesia
Fabian
Theodore Gutman
Los Angeles
Siegmund Fuld
New York City
Belgium
Holland
France
Poland
Russia
Hungary
Greece
Ohrdruf Camp Brutality Shocks German Town
Allied observers report Ohrdruf residents shown gruesome scenes at the Nazi camp. 40 city leaders toured the site as bodies of workers lay in open spaces and pits. Survivors say 4700 internees were killed or maltreated, with 1400 to 1700 a conservative estimate.
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Ohrdruf
Ourdruf
Germany
Hayden A. Sears
Chestnut Hill
Mass
Nord Lager
Buchenwald
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Lindsay Warren
Hoey
Gilliam
Dewitt Mackenziee
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