Night on Okinawa Describes Mosquitoes Fleas and a Marine
Ernie Pyle recalls a brutal Okinawa night with Bird Dog and Gross as they lay in a field listening to distant shelling. A Marine named Pop strips in moonlight to quash insects, while Pyle notes his own immunity to fleas and constant mosquito bites.
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Okinawa
Navy
Bird Dog
Gross
Ane
Corp
Leland Taylor
Francis Court
Jackson
Mich
Pop
Russians Capture Seelow and Wriezen Near Berlin
London reports Soviet forces have captured Seelow and Wriezen and moved within 18 miles of Berlin as artillery pummels the German capital. Berlin radio tallies deep penetrations in the four day Iian offensive by 2,500,000 Soviets with Forst on the Neisse River also falling.
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Associated Press
Warsaw Radio
Red Army
Oder
Niesse
Berlin
FCC
Transocean
Karl Bluecher
Buckow
Seelow
Cottbus
Spree River
London
Seeelow
Wriezen
Paris
Forst
Neisse
Brave Bearers Recover War Correspondent Pyle Body Under Fire
An army chaplain and four stretcher bearers crawled 125 yards under heavy fire to recover Ernie Pyle's body near Ie Shima. Cpl. Alexander Roberts reported the mission. tanks failed to reach the site due to machinegun fire. Bearers Cpl. Robert Toaz Sgt. Minter Moore Sgt. ag J. Austin and Chaplain N. B. Saucier completed the dangerous retrieval.
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IE Shima
Ernie Pyle
Cpl
Alexander Roberts
New York City
New York News
Pyle
Roberts
Battle for Rhine Crossing Costs 47023 Casualties
Secretary of War Stimson reports the March battle for the Rhine and river crossing cost U.S. ground forces 47023 casualties with 6214 killed 35443 wounded and 5366 missing. He notes total U.S. ground casualties since D-Day reach 473215 and overall allied losses atop 912478 including navy losses. He cites 900000 Germans captured in April and over 2.1 million Allied troops taken since June landings.
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Washington
the Rhine
U. S. Army
Stimson
Western Front
Navy
Pearl Harbor
France
Mrs. Roosevelt to Continue Columns and Magazine Page
Eleanor Roosevelt states she will not seek public office but will keep writing her daily My Day column and her Ladies' Home Journal magazine page, plus occasional articles. Her My Day contract was renewed for five years, enabling freer commentary. The death of the president briefly halted the column after years of regular publication.
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New York
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ladies’ Home Journal
George A. Carlin
United Features Syndicate
Fifth Army Breaks Through Outer Defenses of Bologna
American Fifth Army troops breached Bologna’s outer defenses after a 60 hour battle, seizing Monte Adone and Monte Rumici. The 91st Division secured Monte Adone as others forced German troops from caves toward the Po valley gateway city, moving within eight miles of Bologna. Continued on Page 2.
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Rome
Fifth Army
Bologna
Monte Adone
Monte Ramici
Po Valley
Rumici
Yanks Overran Northern End of Okinawa
American forces advance on Okinawa as U S Marines seize the island's northern end and Ie Shima. Casualties total 7,988 with 1,482 dead, 4,750 wounded and 1,756 missing as of yesterday. Carrier air operations began March 18 under Mitscher to soften targets for the invasion.
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Guam
Okinawa
Chester W. Nimitz
U. S
Little Ie Islet
Adm
Marc A. Mitscher
Ryukyus
Japan
Doughboys Instructed For Hitler Encounter
War Secretary Stimson said American troops would take Hitler and hold him for higher authority if encountered unless he resists. He answered a question at a news conference about GIs being instructed on what to do, confirming troops would do their full duty if such circumstances arise.
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Washington
Stimson
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
The War Today Question On Germans After War
A reader asks why after this war it is wrong to regret that Germans will remain alive. The column considers the moral and practical implications of postwar attitudes and accountability.
Road to Berlin German fronts report distances
The Associated Press dispatch lists distances on major fronts: eastern front 118 to 20 miles from Ederswalde, western front 45 miles from Tangermuende, and Italian front 5380 miles from Menate.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Eastern Front
Ederswalde
Western Front
Tangermuende
Menate
War Crimes and Allied Resolve Across Europe and Asia
The piece condemns German atrocities in Russia Poland and concentration camps and calls for punishment of war criminals while distinguishing between criminals and ordinary Germans. It notes Allied pamphlets promoting unconditional surrender and reports Allied advances toward Nuernberg Dessau Halle and Czechoslovakia as Bremen is besieged and British forces push toward Hamburg and the Elbe.
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Gardelegen
Buchenwald
Russia
Poland
Manila
U. S. War Department
Reich
Nuernberg
Dessau
Halle
Czechoslovakia
Asch
Duesseldorf
Ruhr
Solingen
Remescheid
Fuerth
Zwickau
Luneburg
Ansbach
Uelzen
Bremen
Heinrich Himmler
Hamburg
Elbe
Ninth Army Seizes Ruhr Pocket As Nazis Rally With Tanks
British forces close on Hamburg from the north and reach the lower Elbe on a 20 mile front. German counterattack of about a thousand troops with twenty tanks pushes 3 to 15 miles into the Ninth army rear near Stendal. Cavalry repels the foray as German units seek the Harz pocket south west of Berlin.
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Hamburg
Lower
Elbe River
Ninth Army
Stendal
Ruhr
Harz
Berlin
Allied Third Army advances toward Prague and Pilzen
German spokesman said American Third Army pushed east from Hof into northern Czechoslovakia reaching Bad Elster near Asch and 95 miles from Prague. Ninth Army prepared for a large scale attack on Berlin along the Elbe between Wittenberge and Dessau.
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Paris
Hof
Czechoslovakia
Bad Elster
Germany
Karlsbad
DNB
Prague
Skoda
Pilsen
Asch
Konrad Henlein
Ludwig Sertorius
Ninth Army
Berlin
Elbe
Wittenberge
Dessau
Wake Forest alumni nominate Bahnson Weathers for president
Members of Wake Forest college alumni executive committee nominate Dr Bahnson Weathers 1915 graduate and Roanoke Rapids physician for president of the general alumni association for 1945 46. Other officers named include Lee B Weathers 1908 Shelby newspaper editor first vice president J Henry Leroy 1920 Elizabeth City attorney and committee members Rev Dr J Glenn Blackburn 1935 pastor of First Baptist Lumberton and Carroll Co Wall 1917 Lexington manufacturer. Election results to be announced at commencement May 28.
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Wake Forest
General Alumni Association of
Wake Forest College
Bahnson Weathers
Roanoke Rapids
Lee B. Weathers
Shelby
J. Henry Leroy
Elizabeth City
J. Glenn Blackburn
First Baptist Church of
Germans Lose Respect For Money Amid German Decline
Eyewitness Olle Olsen, Berlin correspondent, describes in detail the German collapse on the eve of defeat. He notes rampant black markets, devalued money, shortages of food, and the psychological toll of bombing, electricity cutoffs, and fear. Coffins and textiles vanish as rationing tightens.
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Germany
Olle Olsen
Berlin
Associated Press
Stockholm
Copenhagen
Malmo
Reichsmarks
Ger
Valhalla
Big 3 Warn Nazis Against Atrocities
Churchill announced a solemn warning to Germany to be issued jointly by the Big Three. Stalin Stalin and Truman would sign to hold leaders and perpetrators accountable for camp cruelties. Eisenhower reported new discoveries at Weimar and a parliamentary delegation would view camps firsthand.
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London
Churchi
Marshal Stalin
Truman
Washington
Vyacheslav Molotov
Russia
Stettinius
United States
Anthony Eden
Britain
Churchill
Commons
Eisenhower
Weimar
Buchenwald
Vital Nazi Targets Are Bombed
Allied air forces continue heavy bombing of German and Italian targets. U S Eighth Air Force with 600 bombers and 550 fighters attack southern Reich and Czechoslovakia while British and Russian bombers hit Berlin. RAF Lancasters strike near Munich. Italy based aircraft hit railways toward Berchtesgaden and Brenner line. Continuous raids place pressure on Hitler's fortresses and supply routes.
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London
Reich
Czechoslovakia
U. S
Eighth Air Force
Berlin
Pasing
Munich
Bavarian
England
Adolf Hitler
Fortreas
Berchstesgaden
Italy
Weilheim
Garmisch Partenkirchen
Brenner
Rattenburg
Innsbruck
Salzburg
Klagenfurt
Austria
Germany
Beetween
Negro Jailed Over Attempt to Cash Two Life Policies
Raleigh detective said Cal don Ross, a Negro, attempted to cash two life insurance policies belonging to another Negro. Ross forged Jones’ signature and sent the policies to a Fayetteville lawyer to cash. The case is before the Supreme Court.
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Raleigh
Caldon Ross
West
G. Maddrey
William Raleigh
Abe
Edie Dhe
Mawdrey
Rosa
Jones
Fayetteville
Supreme Court
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Enterprise
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Harry S. Truman
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Rhine
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By Dewitt MacKenzie
Great
Lexington
W. Forest Body
Erfurt
Volksturmers
Tokyo Radio
Tokyo
Kanto
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