Okinawa dispatch notes Navajo radio team in war effort
Navy radio reports from Okinawa highlight Navajo code talkers serving with the US Marines. Pfc Joe Gatewood and his brother Joe Kellwood, both from Fort Defiance, Arizona, along with others from Winslow and Fort Defiance, Arizona, perform crucial communications work and share pride in their service. One brother was wounded and awarded the Purple Heart.
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Navy
Oklahoma
Sicily
Italy
Nava
Weill
Joe
Pfc
Joe Gatewood
Albuquerque
Joe Kellwood
C. Alex Williams
Winslow, Ariz
Pvt
Oscar Carroll
Fort Defiance
Ariz
Navajo Reservation
The
Indian Bureau
Young German Girls Join In Bitter Fight
London report says Soviet forces pushed toward Rathenow near the Elbe as German high command acknowledged a widening Soviet wing west of Berlin. The advance marked about a 230 mile westward gain from Nauen and tightened the encircling belt around the capital.
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London
Flaming
Berlin
Rathenow
Elbe
Havel
Nauen
Sin
Bremen Fall Ends Key Bremen Occupation In World War II
Allied forces clear nearly all Paris area as Second Army advances. American Third Army nears Austria and Munich while Patton’s tanks push toward Vienna. Soviet shells near Elbe signal possible junction with Ninth Army as Bremen falls and its shipyards and factories are noted.
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Paris
Busger Park
Third Army
Austria
Munich
Patton
Vienna
Czechoslovakia
Ruhr
Hitler
Berchtesgaden
Itron
Ninth Army
Elbe
Berlin
Bremen
Germany
Dempsey
Miles G Dempsey
Second Army
Hedtiquar
Focke Wulf
Indian troops perform ceremonial dance before Okinawa invasion
In a Trop island convoy, Indian boys staged a painted face ritual with chicken feathers shells coconuts and cartridges. They chanted prayers to weaken the Japanese and ended with the Marine Corps song in front of several thousand marines before the Okinawa assault.
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Okinawa
Red Cross
Marine Corps
Reds Shells Fall East of Elbe Near Arneburg
Allied forces report Soviet shells landing a mile or two east of the Elbe in Arneburg area, as Red and American troops draw closer to Berlin. The dispatch notes a possible joint Russian American advance and describes civilians and battlefield conditions along the front.
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Arneburg
Germany
Elbe River
Berlin
Ninth Army
Kin
Elbe
Barby
Dresden
Mother Admits Drowning Child In Abandoned Well
Greensboro AP April 26 Mrs Cynthia Grace Hyatt is jailed without bond after police say she confessed to drowning her 14 month old son Arthur in an abandoned well behind the home. She reported the boy missing Tuesday, and the body was found yesterday. Her husband Pfc Arthur James Hyatt is with the Ninth Army in Germany. The child’s 2½ year old sister is in the home.
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Greensboro
Cynthia Grace Hyatt
City
Dave
Arthur
W. T. Jennings
Jennings
Hyatt
Pfc
Arthur James Hyatt
Ninth Army
Germany
Prisoners Treated Under Geneva Convention Policy
The War Department told Congress it will honor the Geneva convention for prisoners of war as long as the law stands. Brig. Gen. R W Berry said the treaty is part of U S law and binding unless Congress acts to change it. He noted POWs in the United States receive food and housing standards equal to U S troops and denied steak rations in Cooley.
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Washington
Germany
Japan
War Department
Congress
R. W. Berry
House Military Committee
United States
Department
Berry
Clason
Destruction of Hitler's Berchtesgaden Home and War Ethics
War today discusses a 12000 pound quake bomb targeting Hitler in Berchtesgaden. It argues defeating the dictator could end the war though the chances he is present are slim. The piece notes unique danger of pursuing rulers and the martyr effect if captured.
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Hitler
Hitler the Hun
Civilians to face lower meat rations in May
The Office of Price Administration announced May ration values raising points for margarine cheeses and most meats while red points apply to all but mutton. About 5 million pounds of mutton remain point free as total meat availability falls 2.5 percent for civilians from May to June 2.
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Washington
OPA
Reporters Asked To Protect Truman
White House reporters were urged to give President Truman the same protection under voluntary censorship as Roosevelt. Press Secretary Jonathan Daniels made the request after premature reports of Truman’s visit to the Pentagon yesterday.
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Washington
White House
President Truman
Roosevelt
Jonathan Daniels
Truman
Army
Pentagon
Key Positions Seized By Americans On Okinawa Front
American forces advancing on Okinawa have seized key terrain including Kakazu ridge Kakazu town strategic hills and Hill 178 on the east coast after breaking the outer defense wall in seven days of heavy fighting. The Yanks pushed into the enemy secondary line with heavy losses reported by Fleet Admiral Nimitz in a daily communiqué.
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Guam
Okinawa
10Th Army
Kakazu
Japan
Fleet
Chester W. Nimitz
John R. Hodge
24Th Army Corps
Roy S. Geiger
Marine
Russians Capture Stettin and Fight In Berlin
Soviet forces reportedly seized Stettin at the Oder estuary as Berlin endures heavy artillery bombardment. Tass dispatches describe Red Army troops fighting through central Berlin with reserves deployed in industrial districts Tagel and Siemensstadt while engineers widen tracks for gauge compatibility.
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Berlin
Temple
Reichstag
Hamburg
Stettin
Oder Estuary
Ares
Red Army
Food Of Germans To Be Exhausted 30 To 60 Days
Washington April 26 Assistant Secretary of War John J McCloy said German food stocks used to feed people in captured areas would be exhausted in 30 to 60 days He noted Europe faces food fuel and cover shortages and that Germany is largely fed by local supplies while American forces rely on emergency army stocks He described Cologne and other large cities as gutted and perforated following destruction and emphasized uncertainty over future food distribution and procurement.
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Washington
John J. McCloy
McCloy
Cologne
Reds Demand Three Soviet Votes for World Assembly
Friction at the United Nations conference rises as Molotov seeks three votes for Ukrainian and White Russian Soviet republics to gain charter seats. Reported Stalin reply to talks on Poland remains unclear. An 11 nation executive committee may form the future security council including five permanent members and six smaller states. President Truman urged peace and order in a radio address from Washington.
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Russia
United States
Molotov
United Nations
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World Organization
Truman
Marshal Stalin
Stettinius
Eden
Poland
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Council
Britain
China
France
Iran
Belgium
Yugoslavia
Canada
Brazil
Mexico
Washington
Opera House
Pe tain leaves Switzerland for France on treason trial
Marshal Philippe Petain 89 and his party depart eastern Switzerland to return to France to face charges of high treason. A four car caravan travels with motorcycle escort as entourage releases a letter dated April 5 to Adolf Hitler announcing voluntary return.
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Weesen
Switzerland
Marshal Philippe Petain
France
Marshal
Vichy
Adolf Hitler
Allies Aided By Uprising On Italian Front
In Italy the U S Fifth Army broke into the Lombard Plain driving toward Parma and Reggio while aiding from a rising partisan movement. The British Eighth Army crossed the Po to attack the Adige line near Venice as German positions near Verona and the Brenner Pass faced pressure amid reports Verona fell.
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Rome
VU. S. Fifth Army
Parma
Reggio
Italy
Eighth Army
Adige
Venice
Dolomite
Apennine
Verona
Brenner Pass
Switzerland
London
Truman Urges Citizens to Expand Victory Gardens in 1945
President Truman called on Americans to plant more victory gardens to boost food supplies for liberated areas. In a letter to Prentice Cooper, head of the national advisory garden committee, he urged growing more than last year’s 18,500,000 gardens and emphasized farmer support and the need for increased gardens at home, community plots, or company sites. WPA said seed, fertilizer, tools, and essentials are sufficient to meet demand.
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Washington
Truman
Prentice Cooper
Tennessee
National Advisory Garden Committee
War Food Administration
Advisory Garden Committee
Mr. Truman
Vic
Tory Garden
Victory Gardens
WPA
German Flotilla Surrenders on Lake Constance to Swiss
Swiss radio reports a German naval flotilla on Lake Constance surrendered to Swiss authorities and will stay in Swiss ports until Allies control the lake shore. The French First Army reached the western lake edge as the German vessels and crews were interned.
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London
Lake Constance
Arbon
Romanshorn
Rorschach
Schat
Lindau
Southern England Declared Free of Nazi Rocket Terror
Prime Minister Churchill announced in London that southern England is now safe from Nazi rocket and flying bomb attacks. The censorship relaxed details on V 2 rocket drops, with 1 050 rockets causing 2 754 deaths and 6 523 injuries from Sept 8, 1944, to four weeks prior.
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London
Churchill
England
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