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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1945
Page
1
Ernie Pyle writes of a Pacific voyage toward war where calm seas and mock peace give way to preparation. The crew shifts to battle routines, improved armor, extended action rules, and safety measures as they near Japan and brace for cold weather and bombardment.
London reports a fourth Russian offensive toward Germany's southern mountains as Moscow dispatches say units are moved from the western front to defend Vienna. Two Russian armies have overrun much of Hungary below the Danube with a warhead within 36 miles of the Austrian border and 77 miles southeast of Vienna. Berlin broadcasts place the assault near the Danube in Slovakia.
Dare county workers press into service every vehicle to haul the vast croaker catch. J H Haywood and Dan Baum gathered 80 000 pounds, packing 800 boxes while D D Whitson bought 45 000 pounds at ten cents a pound toward an 8 000 dollar haul. The report notes the season’s good signs as larger fish are appearing. The story also notes war correspondent Robert C Wilson, a 29 year old AP reporter, returned safely to Paris after covering the Rhine airborne operation.
Two Tar Heel soldiers from North Carolina join the first tank across the Rhine as the Fifth Infantry Division forms the Mainz Worms bridgehead. Cpl James A. Kimbrell of Lexington and Pfc H Motley of Salisbury serve on the crew that led the advance and also ferried the first 12th corps tank into Germany.
After supper the night before a strike a group watched The Magnificent Dope. It drew a typical crowd and provoked laughter, but the mood turned toward silence as night fell and folks prepared for the looming action.
Five sea-going Tar Heels transferred to river duties join Navy forces ferrying operations on the Rhine with Ninth Army engineers. Coxswain Leonard Bobbitt, Samuel Outlaw, James Watts, Barron Moore, and Joseph Gilliam are listed among the crew in North Carolina hometowns.
A stranded observer describes twenty nine paratroopers leaping from a C 46 troop carrier after crossing the Rhine at dawn. The plane shuddered a wing spat flames and crashed one ship exploded while another skimmed over the field. British gliders and a bombardment of debris created chaos as survivors fled into a plowed German field.
Moscow radio reports the Free German Committee claims the Wehrmacht officer corps has been purged and replaced by Himmler’s SS. Soviet forces under Konev drive toward Bratislava, with a new offensive across the Danube’s south bank near Budapest and heavy fighting in the Gyor area amid thawed, swollen rivers and fortified positions.
German patrolling along the Fifth Army front in Italy grew more aggressive with sharp clashes southwest of Bologna. An American patrol killed 11 Nazis. another ambush attempt failed with three enemy killed. The first all Jewish brigade patrolled the Eighth Army front led by Brig. Gen. Frank Benjamin. many members had Nazi concentration camp origins and diverse family backgrounds.
Domei agency said American troops were attempting landings on the Okinawa group as heavy bombardment hit the Ryukus and southern Japan. Tokyo reported Okinawa was bombarded three times by U S battleships of Admiral Spruance s Fifth Fleet.
Churchill to brief Parliament on the western front action observed from the Rhine east bank as he visited Wesel. He faced a near miss when a German shell exploded close by while he reviewed the shattered town and riverfront with Lt Gen. Simpson.
In Washington on March 6 senators pressed for a broader probe into the nations food supply asking why Britain purchases less meat from Canada and more from the United States. The inquiry aims to uncover and destroy black markets and may use subpoenas to reveal food product flows.
In London on March 26, 300 American bombers attacked southeastern Germany targets including two oil plants, a gun factory, and an armored car works. They split into two groups, hitting Seitz near Leipzig and Plauen near the Czechoslovak border. The raid marked the 41st heavy bomber strike in 42 days and aligned with Allied actions in Italy.
Allied forces have crossed the Rhine and pushed into German soil east of the river. Heavy counterattacks are anticipated especially north of Emmerich, as Patton’s Third Army drives toward the Reich with potential to cut off German forces.
The War Production Board will seek penalties only after the War Manpower Commission certifies a manpower ceiling violation at night spots. A ceiling set by WMC could shut a club by forbidding any employment. If a ceiling is ignored and certified to WPB, a hearing would determine if priority sanctions are warranted to conserve materials for the war effort.
Palm Springs dispatch reports 56 year old entertainer Al Jolson married his 21 year old fourth wife Erle Galbraith after eloping to Quartzsite Arizona. She has had minor film parts and the ceremony was performed by a justice of the peace.
Allied troops led by General Patton press toward Frankfurt as Fourth Armored Division drives across the Main toward Aschaffenburg and the Prankstadt bridge area. Reports say Frankfurt may be entered with radio silence across the city and a swift advance beyond the Rhine disrupting German defenses.
The 80th Division broke through German lines on the Lippe river east of Dorsten, 17 miles east of the Rhine, in a heavy infantry and tank battle today near the Ruhr.
General Eisenhower rode in a jeep over a pontoon bridge to inspect the Rhine bridgehead seized by the First Army. He predicted a rapid advance as the Ninth Army and British Second Army pushed east of the Rhine with Bradley and Hodges at his side. Battle fronts extended along a 31 mile line toward the Ruhr with decisive western war action underway.
British 20th Division armored troops pushed 10 miles north along a railway from Kume and captured Myittha, a key rail and road hub in Central Burma. Front line reports say armor surprised Japanese, with about 500 enemy dead. further south, Japanese casualties rose as Allied supply lines were pressed. Chinese forces linked Lashio and Hsipaw efforts, clearing the Lashio Hsipaw stretch of the Burma road. Northwest of Meiktila resistance remained strong.
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