Okinawa dispatch captures two Japanese soldiers by Marines
Ernie Pyle reports from Okinawa as Marines flush two Japs from bushes. A 16 or 17 year old and a corporal surrender with rifles in hand. The scene shows fear and survival in combat pockets with Marines taking arms and a prized Japanese rifle becoming a sought prize.
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Okinawa
Navy
Japan
Home Guard
Corp
Jack Ossege
Silver Grove
Cincinnati
Pie
Lawrence Bennett
Port Huron
Mich
Bennett
Ossege
Pop Taylor
Paris Says Meeting Of Two Forces Near Berlin
Allied forces converge in central Germany as U S Ninth Army and Soviet troops near Berlin amid rapid advances. Reports say Russians inside Berlin outskirts and the Ninth Army poised on the Elbe with reconnaissance confirming armored activity east of the Elbe.
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Paris
Berlin
James M. Long
Germany
U. S
Ninth Army
Red Army
Associated Press
Wes Gallagher
Magdeburg
Elbe River
Germans Admit Red Tanks Are Fighting Three Miles Inside Berlin
German broadcasts claimed Red Army tanks had pushed three to four miles into Berlin amid an 16 army assault on the encircled capital. Soviet reports of the day said units were fighting on Berlin’s outskirts and had captured Erkner on the eastern fringe, signaling a potential break in the Nazi stronghold.
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Flaming
Richard Kasischke
London
Berlin
Moscow
Erkner
Adolf Hitler
Greater Reich
Red Army
Paris
Baltic
Denmark
Norway
Germany
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Italy
Potzdamerplatz
Weissensee
Pankow
Bernau
Alt- Landsberg
Von Papen Intended To Be Captured In Ruhr Pocket
Allied officers concluded Franz Von Papen allowed capture in the Ruhr pocket to gain a potential peace mission for the Nazis. His services were declined and he remains under guard in a house in Reims.
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Paris
Franz von Pappen
Ruhr
von Papen
Reims
Former Ford Employee Led Nazi Plant in Brunswick
German Willow Run plant, aimed at low cost civilian cars, used to produce jeeps and V-1 bombs under a technical expert who claimed 20 years with Henry Ford. Eighth Air Force halted V-1 and jeep operations last June. U.S. Ninth Army overran the factory near the Elbe. Herr Mayer, once living in Detroit, described copying Ford plans for a car for every laborer and recalled coming to Germany for his health in 1937.
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Brunswick
Germany
Willow Run
America
Henry Ford
Eighth Air Force
Airmen Bomb Hitler Hideout and Munich
Allied air forces bomb Munich and the Berchtesgaden region with heavy raids as 820 American planes strike in tight formation. The Ninth air force expands to Austria with 120 A 26 Invaders targeting Alt Nany Pucheim rail yards near the Salzburg Linz line. Luftwaffe losses mount.
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London
Munich
Berchtesgaden
Eighth Air Force
Ingolstadt
Lands
U. S. Third Army
Luftwaffe
Vet Hospitals Given Clean Bill Of Health
Congressmen said nothing found to substantiate charges of shocking mistreatment in veterans administration hospitals. The VFW criticized VA home insurance claims as they noted generally good conditions overall. The survey found no evidence of a scandal in care of wounded veterans while flagging red tape and delays in insurance processing.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Veterans
Rep. Philbin
D-Mass
Casey Jones
National Service Officer
VFW
U S Flag Planted On Tingle As Bitter Fight Continues In Southern Okinawa
American forces report gains on southern Okinawa with the flag raised over Ie Island and Mt Eigusugu after hard fighting. Marines clear Motobu peninsula while US air power pounds Japanese air fields and bombing targets across Kyushu and Mindanao.
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U.S
Okinawa
Fleet Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Ie Island
Mt. Eigusugu
Hill 178
Motobu Peninsula
Napanese
Ryukyu
Kyushu
Japan
Philippines
Mindanao
Lanao
Davao
Big Port City
Hemp Center
Luzon
Cagayan Valley Road
War Fronts Map Postwar Occupation Zones
The article outlines postwar occupation plans ahead, with American forces to occupy southern Germany and British and Russian zones to the north and east. It discusses expected command arrangements and the coordination of Allied forces as fighting ends.
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J. M. Roberts
Associated Press
Germany
Patton
Patch
Simpson
Hodges
Gerow
15Th Army
Ninth Army
Baltic
Ion Samunrina
Ontline
Mulde
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Europe
Truman Sets Precedent At Cabinet Meet
President Truman invited Kenneth D. McKellar president pro tempore of the senate to sit in on cabinet meetings a move seen as unprecedented in White House history. The bill of cooperation follows the era without a vice president since Coolidge after Harding death.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
White House
Kenneth D. McKellar
Senate
Calvin Coolidge
Warren G. Harding
Small Nations Seek Greater Prestige At UN Conference
Latin American representatives arriving for the United Nations conference demand a stronger voice in war and peace issues. They push for four additional temporary seats on the security council, enlarging the body beyond its current five permanent members.
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San Francisco
World Security Council
United Nations Conference
Security Council
Dumbarton Oaks
Warsaw Poland Russia Pact Shakes San Francisco Talks
Warsaw announced a friendship treaty with the Soviet backed Polish regime as three powers spar over Warsaw's seat at San Francisco ahead of the UN conference. Molotov's late arrival clouded briefings while Hull, ill at Bethesda, urged law based world peace and Stettinius to press ahead with allied unity.
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Washington
Warsaw
Russia
San Francisco
Molotov
Vyacheslav Molotov
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Hull
A. S
Britain
Allies Break German Ring as Bologna Falls in Historic Victory
Allied forces breached Bologna after a six day siege led by the American Fifth and British Eighth armies. American, Polish and Italian troops entered at dawn to cheering crowds while a lone American tank forced the last German self propelled gun from the highway bridge opening the city to liberators.
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Sid Feder
Bologna
Italy
San Giovanni
Americcan
Bruncarchi
Fort Iowa
Coryton Woodbury
Roswell
N. M
Gayle Stockdale
Enterprise
Ore
John Klondike
Albany
N. Y
Jack Redding
Pfc
Blickley
Via Rizzoli
Casthedral Square
Marchi
Cognac-Inspired German Division Cut To Pieces
In Germany 50 miles from the Elbe the veteran Nazi Von Clausewitz division was halted by U S Second Armored Division forces. The mechanized American units trapped the Germans near Wofenbutte and forced their defeat with prisoners taken and casualties reported. Combat Command B under Brig Gen Sidney Hinds coordinated the operation along a roadblock trap.
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U. S
Ninth Army
Germany
Unerein
von Clausewitz
Elbe
Wofenbutte
Second Armored Division
Combat Command B Commando
Sidney Hinds
Nashville
Tenn
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Reich
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Ulm
Hitler
Stuttgart
Brandenburg Gate
Unter der Linden
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Stetinius
World Peace Agency
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Stettinius
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