Why Germans fight on two fronts and Vienna’s siege years
The article argues German resistance to the Russian assault on Vienna shapes a key question about why Bitlite forces defend the eastern front less than the Rhineland. It outlines why Soviet pressure, fear of Russian retribution, and Nazi terror influence morale, while notes the Oder frontier’s proximity to Berlin makes breaks there potentially more dangerous than a breakthrough on the western line.
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Vienna
Rhineland
Reich
Hitler
Berlin
Oder
Ilne
War progresses with B-29 raids on Toryo Nagoya
A new phase in the war against Japan opens as B 29s attack Toryo and Nagoya with land based fighters for the first time. Mustang fighters from Iwo Jima suffer losses while aiding 400 superforts delivering demolition strikes on air plant targets. Imperial reports claim 270 planes in the raid with Tokyo and Nagoya targets.
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Guam
Toryo
Nagoya
Iwo Jimas
Dennis
Muslanks
Iwo
Tokyo
Nakajima-Musashino
Mitsubishi Aircraft Plant
Imperial Japanese
U. S
Donel
Seventh Fighter Command
Ernest M. Moore
Tokoyo
Army Air Force
Japan
Moore
Disparaging Remarks at FDR Soldier Given 20 Years
A former Irish-born soldier, Hugh Callan, aged about 50, was ordered by the U S Fifth Circuit to begin a twenty year federal sentence for making derogatory remarks about President Roosevelt. The appeals court overturned a Georgia habeas ruling that vacated a Camp Blanding court martial sentence and remanded to Atlanta penitentiary for service. The remarks included insults toward the president and condemnations of U S and Allied actions in Europe and Asia.
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New Orleans
Roosevelt
U. S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Hugh Callan
Atlanta
Georgia
Camp Blanding
Fia
Callan
Ireland
Induta
St Cemp
No Meat for Export After July
A five state protest from 162 firms in Maryland Pennsylvania New Jersey Virginia and the District of Columbia seeks immediate revocation of about 25 000 slaughtering licenses issued by the War Food Administration and argues for controls on licenses after revocation. A House food committee proposes army takeovers and lifting of some meat standards to ease shortages with July 1 looming on potential 1 000 000 000 pounds shortfall for meat needs.
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Baltimore
National
Independent MestPackers’ Association
Maryland
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Virginia
District of Columbia
War Foods Administration
War Food Administration
Armed Services
Washington
Toray
War-Food Administration
White House
Hannover Ahead in Allied Drive Toward Berlin
Allied forces surged toward Berlin with U S Third Army within 130 miles of the capital as they swept to Eisleben and pressed from the Ruhr toward Erfurt and Jena. British Seventh Armored divisions pushed toward Bremen while Canadian units neared the Dutch frontier. American First and Third Armies expanded Weser bridgeheads and cleared Struth near Muelheim, repelling a German counterattack.
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Zuider Zee
Third Army
Berlin
Germany
Eisleben
Patton
Seventh Armored Division
Bremen
Dispholz
Wagenfeld
Buecken
Weeer
Seventh Armored Division Uits
Schwaforden
Holland
North Sea
Imore Weser
Hannover
Hessian
Ruhr
Thuringian
Erfurt
Jena
U. S. Third Army
Sixth Armored
Keula
Muchl- Wausen
U5th — Infantry
Langensalza
Gotha
Associated Press
Edward D. Ball
Struth
Muel‘heusen
Mrs Edward Martin Admitted to Harrisburg Hospital
Mrs Edward Martin 65 wife of Governor Martin was moved from Indiantown Gap Military Reservation Hospital to Harrisburg Hospital and is resting comfortably. Her secretary said she stopped the trip very well after a fractured vertebra and several bruises from a fall during an inspection at Indiantown Gap Reservation.
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Harrisburg
Edward Martin
Martin
Indiantown Gap Military Reservation Hospital
Harrisburg Hospital
Howard Gale
Liberated Peoples Become A Major Problem For Allies
April 6 report from First Army describes millions liberated from Nazi oppression becoming a challenge for advancing American forces. Displaced men women and children from Russia Poland and other overrun lands walk toward home with small bundles and minimal possessions. They sleep in barns haystacks and receive occasional aid as they travel through Westphalia. Incidents of lingering hostility and revenge emerge as freed slave laborers recount brutal conditions and a village baronial factory owner is found slain after liberation.
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U. 8
First Army
Europe
Russia
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Wolking
Greas
Westphalia
Ervin
Hanse
Lincoln
Neb
Plea of Guilty Filed by 14YearOld Murder Suspect
In Scranton on April 7 Myron Sommehick a 14 year old honor student pleaded guilty before Judge M J Eugen to the January 2 murder of Mae Barrett a 9 year old girl in Vandling Lackawanna County. He answered yes to the killing while his attorney asked for time to prepare. The court set April 25 for testimony and District Attorney James F Brady said he would seek first degree murder but would not pursue the death penalty. The United States aircraft industry has delivered more than 360000 war planes since the war began in Europe.
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Scranton
Myron Sommehick
Honor
M. J. Eugen
Jen
Mae Barrett
Vandling
Eagen
Barrett
James Barrett
Carbondale
Sentinehick
Irving L. Epstein
William M. Murphy
Lackawanna County
James F. Brady
Sumunchick
Suzuki Forms New Jap Cabinet
San Francisco April 7 AP A new Japanese cabinet was formed by Adm Baron Kantaro Suzuki who will serve as foreign minister and premier The wartime minister is Gen Korochika Awami Mitsumasa Yomi remains navy minister Hiromasa Matsuzaka is retained as justice minister The list includes Toyosaku Hirose Teijiro Toyoda Kozo Ota Gen Abe Takeshige Ishiguro Hiroshi Shimomura Seizo Sakonji Hyogoro Sakurai Hisatame Sakomizu Chokkyo Murase and others The formation followed a Tokyo Nagoya raid by B 29s and reflects discontent with Koisos fall over Allied bombings.
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San Francisco
Adm
Kantaro Suzuki
Comel
Federal Communications Commission
Suzuki
Greater East Asia
Korochika Awami
Army Aviation Headquarters
Adj
Mitsumasa Yomi
Navy
Hiromasa Matsuzaka
Koiso
Comet
Toyosaku Hirose
Teijiro Toyoda
Kozo Ota
Gen[ki Abe
Takeshige Ishiguro
Hiroshi ‘Shimomura
Board of Information
Seizq Sakonji
Hyogoro Sakurai
Hisatame Sakomizu
Chokkyo Murase
Kunsaki Hoiso
Domei
Tokyo
Nagoya
Matsuzaka
Japan
Engineers Burn Japs Out of Pillboxes
American engineers on Caballo Island used a pump and 1000 feet of pipe to pour burning oil and gasoline into Japanese tunnels. Fire spread from vents and drains, aided by tracer and phosphorus shells, after attempts with grenades mortars and dynamite failed. The burning oil caused massive explosions in the pits and ended the effort.
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Manila
Caballo Island
Caballo
Manng Bay
Arebomba
Ceballo
Soviet Forces Close on Vienna Core from Fronts
Soviet veterans from Stalingrad and Budapest push toward central Vienna as German defenders collapse under repeated counterattacks. Russians seize four suburbs and push to Danube shore east of Vienna while encircling the capital’s southern and southeastern approaches.
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London
Stalingrad
Budapest
Vienna
St. Stephan's
Moscow
Gergimans
Danube River
Morava River
Schwechst
Alt-Kettenhof
Rothneusied
Hannersdorf
Feeder
Tolbukhin
Burek
Bratislava
Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Fischamend-Markt
Fischamend-Dorf
Europe
Funeral for C A Gessler Monday in Indiana
C A Gessler, longtime chief clerk retired a decade ago, will be buried Monday. He involved in religious civic life in Indiana, member of First Presbyterian Church, Kiwanis, Elks, I C O F, and Masons. He sang in the church choir and played municipal music. married Lulu Lytle in 1903, who preceded him in death.
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Gessler
Indiana
First Presbyterian, Church
Leech Bible
Indiana Kiwanis Club
Indiana O Ae of Elks
Indiana Lodge 313
Presbyterian Church
Indiana Municipal
Lulu Lytle
Freed Prisoners Trek Home From Germany Amid War’s Aftermath
Thousands of Allied prisoners and foreign workers walk westward toward home from liberated Germany as Allied forces push east. They travel in mixed uniforms and civilian clothes, mostly on foot, with little work available in liberated areas. Food and transport are scarce, but the mood is spirited with a longing for independence and return. Local Germans show signs of fear and propaganda fatigue, while sightings of Goebbels material and Nazi symbols fade. A nine-year-old boy at Lollar reacts in fear to American helmets, then returns to fascination as tanks roll by. Surviving individuals include Lt. Ralph and several others named in the piece.
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Godfrey Ht. P. Anderson
Paris
United States First Army
Reich
France
Poland
Russia
Hamburg
Germany
Smile of Liberty
Hitler
Rhine
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Rey
Lollar
Yim
Jand
Bombing, Ship Losses Mount in Philippines Theater
In reports from Manila on April 7 General Douglas MacArthur cited a busy Pacific front. Hong Kong suffered heavy bombardment for a third day with three merchant ships hit and fires along the waterfront. Farther north, Toyohara airfield faced 72 tons of fragmentation bombs. In the Pescadores and Tarakan oil zones, several ships and storage facilities were torched or damaged. A bold airborne assault ferried paratroopers to Lucena, capital of Tayabas, with two airfields seized. The operation marked a new peak in southwest Pacific actions.
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Manila
Phillipines
Douglas MacArthur
Hong Kong
Toyohara
Formosa
Pescadore Islands
Sewawe
Tarakan
Barrico
Sith Airborne Division
Lucena
Tabayrs
Luzon
Lth Airborne
Tajeeng
Coal Strikes Cut Deep Into Steel Production
Wildcat soft coal strikes in Pennsylvania cut steel production as U S Steel shuts 37 open hearth furnaces, with 10 000 tons of steel lost daily in Pittsburgh and Youngstown mills. Sixteen of 35 blast furnaces banked, idle coal mines in Birmingham and Tennessee affected. UMW efforts to recall miners continue as Fayette county Frick Coke Co mines reopen at 8 to 24 percent of normal output. labor action halts at Jones Laughlin, Weirton, Bethlehem, Republic across the region.
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Pittsburgh
Anru 'T
Thoughuids
Pennsylvania
U. 8 Steel Corp
Youngg.town
Birmingham
Ala
U. S. Steel
S.coal
Tennessee
United
H.C. Frick Coke Co
Fayette County
Frick
UMW
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Weirton Steel Co
Bethlehem Steel Co
Republic Steal Corp
Advance of Peace Sows Tougher Path for Germans
A wartime account notes growing hate toward Germans despite advancing peace. It contrasts soldiers’ indiscriminate anger toward SS and Wehrmacht with the plight of civilians. It highlights grim camp conditions, slave labor on farms, and the visible joy of liberated Jewish girls when freed by American forces.
Obituary Notices for Frank L. Dorr and Augustina Perottli
Frank L. Dorr of Kansas City Missouri died Tuesday April 3. He was a civil engineer educated at Lehigh Ohio University and worked with the Kansas and Southern Railroad then moved west in 1906. Survived by wife and two sons Frank and Robert both of Kansas City. Services held in Kansas City. Augustina Perottli of Fulton Run died April 5 at 11:00 pm. Born November 1 1885 in Italy, she is survived by husband Peter Perottli two sons Tony and Edward and daughter Minnie Poso. Services at First Presbyterian Creekside April 9 10:00 am. Interment Oakland Cemetery Indiana.
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Frank L. Dorr
Kansas City
Missouri
Indiana
Frank
Robert
Lotar
Indiana County
Lehigh, University
Ohio
Kansas and Southern Railroad
Augustina Perot
Fulton
Run
Joseph and
Domenica
Qberto
First Presbyterian Church
Creekside
J. KK
Boston
Oakland Cemetery
Lutheran Conference At Apollo in Fifty-first East Conference
Delegates from 24 parishes representing 47 congregations in Armstrong Indiana and Westmoreland counties attend the Fifty-first Convention of the East Conference Pittsburgh Synod at First Lutheran Church Apollo on Friday April 13. Morning session opens at 9 30 with Holy Communion led by Rev G Bowersox and business includes officer reports and committee nominations. Afternoon session at 130 features devotions by Rev Raymond Agnew and topics Lutheran World Action summer camp evangelism and ministerial tensions plus an address by Rev C N Shindler on The Twofold Church Looks to the Future. Discussion on postwar service to veterans led by Rev M S Goldier follows.
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Pittsburgh
Apollo
East Conference
Armstrong
Indiana
Westmoreland County
Bowersox
D. D
Leechburg
W. E. Sullivan
J.B. Troutman
Smicksburg
Bowsersox
Pittsburgh Synod
Raymond B. Agnew
the Grove Parish
Lutheran World Action
Twocal Church
C. N. Shindler
Homer City
Goldier
Vandergrif
State Police Warn of Spring Dangers and Roosevelt Radio Dinner
Washington April 7 UPI reports President Roosevelt will speak April 13. A safety advisory warns drivers of spring hazards and slippery curves on highways after dusk. The broadcast on NBC is part of a campaign to ease dangers as networks join in. The note mentions health risks and ranking of causes of death, including heart disease and cancer.
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Washington
UPI
Roosevelt
Mittes
Truman
Berm
Jane Bent
Forres
al Lea
HE Romail
Warnet
NBC
United States
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J. J. Clark
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Bubscrice
the Gazette
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Coast Guardsman
Little Island
Okinawa
Heart of Vienna
C. A. Gessler
Ralph
Camp Cooke
Callf
Blairsville
Robert’ A
Caroline M
Fillion Studios
Mildred S
Williamsport
Elizabeth A
Ford City
Carrie
Fannie Gessler
Los Angeles
Calif
E. W. DeVere
Santa Monica
Clyde
Pitcairn
Betsy Ann
R. U. Gessler
Hongkong
Hane Zane
General Rose
Matthies Rose
Derborn
Yank
Wehrmacht
Jefferson
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Wooresade Millen, Pa
Luxenberg
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