Seafaring Life On a Western Pacific Carrier
A wartime diary on a U S Navy airship crew. Seaman Paul Begley from Rogersville Tennessee shares monotony, camaraderie, and a mix of homesickness and resolve aboard a light carrier. He notes good food and baths, crowded quarters, and why sailors stay in the war at sea despite isolation and fear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Pacific
Pacific
Europe
Paul Begley
Rogersville
Tenn
Germany
America
Philippines
Mary
Reds Break Through Baltic, Push Toward Berlin Front
Soviet forces knife three miles into Stettin defenses as Zhukov’s army extends control along the Oder east bank. In Hungary a 13 day battle near Lake Balaton yields 20,000 German deaths and 600 tanks destroyed amid German counterattacks. Coblenz falls to Patton the Saar front advances into Siegfried line with 6 to 8 mile gains, Mainz and Rhen section threatened by Third Army progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Kasischke
London
Yes
Stettin
Germany
Baltic
East Prussia
Strena
Brandenburg
Koenigsberg
Berlin
Oder River
Gregory K. Zhukov
Moscow Radio Front
Red Army
Lake Balaton
Budapest
Hungary
REDS
Cne
Moscow Radio
Red
Italy
Zhukov
Frauenhof
Retzewsfelde
Ferdinandstein
Oder
Griefenhagen
Paris
Coblenz
Bonn
U. S
Palatinate
S. Patton
Seventh U. S. Army
Saar
Siegfried Line
Seventh
Hornbach
Zweibruecken
Seventh Army
Third Army
Rheinboeller
Eliern
Rhine
Mainz
First Army
Remagen-Erpel
Ruhr
Nahe
Home Meat Supply To Be Cut 12 Percent April 1
The Associated Press reports a 12 percent reduction in home meat supply effective April 1 across national channels. Frontline updates note broader wartime rationing effects on households and markets.
Government orders 12 percent cut in civilian meat supplies
The OWI announced a 12 percent reduction in civilian meat for April to June, lowering per person yearly allotment from 130 to 115 pounds, with beef and pork available but more veal lamb and mutton. Britain to receive reduced lend lease meat while U S Army and Navy use rises. Authorities move to parcel cattle equitably among slaughterers and adjust subsidies starting April 1.
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Washington
Office of War Information
War Food Administration
OWI
U. S. Army
Britain
England
War Mobilization
James F. Byrnes
Police Power Expansion for State Highway Patrol Backsed by House
Raleigh March 1 4 The House passed a bill granting wide police powers to State Highway patrolmen in the highways and adjacent property and in cases when called by sheriffs or police chiefs The measure is described as a compromise between Governor Cherry and the Sheriffs Association Opposed by Barker of Durham who warned it gave patrolmen too much authority The Senate moved a separate measure creating a state board of short term commissions and adjournment plans were under way through the week end.
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Raleigh
House
Senate
Assembly
Cherry
Sheriffs’ Association
Barker
Durham
Patrols clash as drying Italian front shifts toward Salvaro
Allied Fifth and Eighth armies clash with German forces along the drying Italian front. The U S First Armored Division failed to seize Salvaro near the Bologna Pistoria highway but briefly held several buildings in Calvaro behind Vergato’s stubborn line after its Rome breakout and pursuit.
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Rome
Fifth
Eighth
U. S
First Armored
Salvaro
Bologna-Pistonia
Anzio
Calvaro
Vergato
Draft Of Older Men Expected To Be Boosted
Washington March 17 heavier drafting of men 30 and older from essential jobs is expected as selective service authorizes deferment of about 145 000 younger men in five vital war industries steel coal mining transportation synthetic rubber and non ferrous mining including copper lead and zinc. A spokesman said if the 18 29 group cannot be kept under deferment the older men will be drafted as combat replacements from less critical industries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling F. Green
Washington
Selective Service
Siate
Fleet Bombards Matsuwa In Kuriles And Sulu Island Invasions
Associated Press reports Fleet bombardments target Matsuwa in the Kuriles and Basilan near Mindanao as MacArthur announces invasion plans for northern Sulu. Tokyo broadcast confirms carrier strikes led by Mitscher's task force with B-29s over Japan amid Kobe Osaka devastation and rising enemy losses.
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Matsuwa
Kuriles
MacArthur
Sulu Island
Associated Press
Te Oer Radio
Marc A. Mitscher
Kyushu
Shikoku
Tokyo
Japan
Basilan Island
Sulu
Matsuwa Island
Kobe
N. Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Luzon
Basiland
Zamboanga
Mindarao
Borneo
Osaka
India
War Today: Red Army Reach West of Oder in Broad Front
The column analyzes the eastern front as Soviet forces push toward the Oder and threaten Berlin while the Rhine and Saar defenses hold. It notes Moscow’s silence on mid Oder advances, the strategic value of Stettin toBerlin, and the likelihood of continued maneuver warfare if frontal assaults stall.
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Middle Oder
East Front
Rhine
Saar Basin
Europe
Marshal Zhukov
Kuestrin
Berlin
Moscow
Kuestrin - Frankfurt
Oder
Vistula
Neisse-Oder
Sudeten Range
Stettin
Oder Estuary
Red Army
Schwedt
Lower Oder
East Prussia
Germany
Goder
Ake Oder
Statewide heat wave drives record highs across Carolinas
Sweltering conditions hit the region as an unseasonal heat wave pushes temperatures upward. Raleigh led at 91 degrees, with Greensboro also reporting scorching heat as officials warn of continued high temps ahead.
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Charlotte
Raleigh
Greensboro
U. S. Soldiers Return To Coblenz After 22 Years
U S Third Army troops reclaim Coblenz Germany in a dawn assault 22 years after its prior occupation. Lt Gen George S Patton commands a swift river crossing as 87th Division troops push into the city amid light German resistance and shelling from Ehrenbreitstein. Civilian casualties and prisoner movements are reported. (Continued on Page 2 Sec A)
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Thoburn Wiant
Coblenz
Germany
U. S. Third Army
Rhine
George S. Patton
Third Army
Moselle
87Th
Ile
Ehrenbreitstein
James Wilson
Orangeburg
S. C
Anna Klier
Cleveland
Ohio
G. N. di Mascio
South Pierce
Philadelphia
Raymond J. Dionne
Grande Isle
City
Mrs Hooks Fatally Burned At Family Farm
Mrs. Fallie Best Hooks sixty of W207 Parkway died in a woods fire at the family farm near Pleasant community around 2 30 in the afternoon. Husband C C Hooks and grandsons were fighting the blaze when she collapsed from the heat and could not be revived. She was a member of First Baptist Church and the Women's Missionary Society. The tragedy occurred in a heavily wooded area with ample fuel.
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Fallie Best Hooks
Parkway
C. C. Hooks
Rmn
Pleasants
Notris
Encores County
Allison
Nour Kluttz Bost
First 1Ist
Tly
Women’s Missionary Society
Spaniards May Go To War Against Japs
Madrid officials discuss possible war against Japan after U S envoy Armour prepares to meet Franco. Reports credit Japanese atrocities in Manila and Philippines with fueling Spanish anti Japan sentiment amid a tense diplomatic backdrop.
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Madrid
Jose Felix Lequerica
Andalusia
U. S
Norman Armour
Japan
Armour
Francisco Franco
United States
Manila
Francisco Lucientes
New York
BE. F. E
Philippines
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Ernie Pyle
Navy
LUX
Cochem
France
Frankfurt
Imainz
Rhine River
Koenigswinter
Ruhr- Rhineland
Trier
Saarbruecken
Schorbach
HY Edward Kennedy
Supreme Allied Headquarters
Allied Europe
Supreme Headquarters
Coblenz Falls
Zerlin
Western
Remagence
Reno River
Dewitt MacKenzie
William Bowen
Omaha
Neb
Bowen
Guels
Kinston
David . Warren
Son
Mattie Warren Ennis
Here
F. A. Garners
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