Allied strategic Q and A on Rhine crossing plan
A wartime briefing outlines Allied aims for the Rhine assault. Immediate objectives include seizing the Ruhr industrial heart, annihilating German field armies, and opening routes to Berlin for an eastern junction with the Russians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruhr
Hitler
Berlin
Reich
Germany
Rhine
Field Marshal Montgomery
Twenty“First Army
First Army
Ninth ‘Army
Monty
Duisburg
Tmmerich
Wesel
Montgomery
Luftwaffe
14-Year-Old Messiah Leads Family Into Trouble
Washington March 24 The House Foreign Affairs Committee debated U S war guilt policy as members urged Congress to define policy for war crimes. Rep Flood criticized the Allied War Crimes Commission and pressed for a Congressional body to guide definitions and demand clearer reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Allied War Crimes Commission
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Congress
U. S
Allied Commission
Rep. Flood
D-Pa
Herbert A. Pell
Pell
State Department
Department
Army
Joseph V. Hodgson
Bloom
D-Ny
Foreign Affairs Committee
Flood
Foreign Affairs
Congressional
United Nations
United States
MacArthur closes on Baguio in Philippines drive
Allied forces push toward Baguio after capturing Naguilian town and airfield on Lingayen Gulf axis. American divisions advance along Naguilian road, defending air blockade and logistics while continuing naval and air strikes against Japanese ships and targets across Cebu, Panay, and the China Sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean Schedler
Manila
Amet
Fcan
88Rd
Scdivision
Dougtboys
Baguio
Douglas MacArthur
Nagulian
Benguet
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Lingayen Gulf
San Fernando
Yanks
Kinnan
Camp Three
Fred Hampson
Little Gulmaras
Tlaite
Panay
Cebu
Philippine Island
Rapp Brush
Noilo
Guimaras
Philippines
Della
Cabu City
Lons
Ato
Cebu City
China Sea
Luzon
Percy W
Lake Taal
Bougainville
Solomons
Soraken
Matchin Bay
Crossing the Rhine by CBS Observer Report
A CBS Observer recounts the crossing of the Rhine by commandos. RAF Pathfinder planes and heavy bombers painted the sky as troops moved, crossing in waves, taking prisoners, and engaging remnants amid rubble and fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CBS Observer
RAF
Aren
Diary of Sgt Joe Orlando Lost Both Legs in Tank Siege
Battle Creek dispatch recounts Sgt Joe Orlando of Erie Pennsylvania detailing six days trapped in a damaged tank on a German battlefield. He describes being hit, losing two legs to amputation in England, and awaiting artificial limbs as he recovers at Percy Jones Hospital. His brother Sam, in the air force, is en route home from China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Battle Creek
Mich
Joe Orlando
Joe
Erie
Second St
Hore
Europe
Walter Can
U. S
Orlando
Vossneck
Dock
England
Noiv
Percy Jones Hospital
Sam
Air Force
China
They Took Care Of Us Doughboys Aid Medics On Rhine
War reporter Hal Boyle describes frontline care as the 27th Armored Infantry Battalion pools extra pay for aid men. Signal Corps crews repair the Ludendorff bridge while Pvt Jack Sheahan and others describe crossing the Rhine under fire. Chaplain William Gibble presided over prayers before Linz surrender. The article also notes the mastiff dog’s long-standing traits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Boyle
Ninth Armored Division
Germany
The
Rhine
Congress
27Th Armored Infantry Battalion
Signal Corps
Ludendorff Bridge
Renagen
Jack B. Sheahan
Hutchinson, Kan
John Finder
Spencer
Ademar Breaux, Jr
Loreauville
Finder
William T. Gibble
Af St. Vilh
Gibble
Linz
Rhine Crossing Push Breaks German Lines Across Europe
Allied forces launched the third Rhine crossing with heavy air bombardment and a vast smoke screen. British, American, Canadian and French units crossed at multiple bridgeheads driving inland toward Wesel and Rees while engineers laid crossings at dawn. The operation involved major US armies under Eisenhower and Bradley with Montgomery and British commands asserting decisive German defeat near the Rhine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhine
Wincton Churchill
Montgomery
Europe
Germany
Berlin
William H. Simpson
U. S
Ninth Army
Wesel
Ruhr
Duesseldorf
Rees
Eislich
Xanten
Siegfried Line
North German Plain
Broadas Kansas
Pennsylvania
Eisenhower
Palatinate
Speyer
Upper Rhine
Omar N. Bradley
12Th Army Group
Lower Rhine
Channel
England
Supreme Headquarters
Pennsylvania Week of the Grocer Consumer Anti-Inflation Campaign
A six day Pennsylvania Week anti inflation drive runs from March 26 with leaders from the grocers and major state retail groups cooperating. The aim is to lower prices through dealer and housewife cooperation, display ceiling prices, and educate the community on inflation risks. Shopping lists, OPA posts, and school materials are part of the effort across multiple cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Cate Lpaign
Pennsylvania Week
OPA
Spod
Anti-Inflation Grocery List Campaign Urges Use
Between March 26 and 31 shoppers are urged to use this form at least once to learn how to use ceiling price lists posted by leading grocers. Part of Pennsylvania Week of the Grocer Consumer Anti-Inflation Campaign arranged by the Office of Price Administration and the Consumer Committee of the State Council of Defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Consumer Interest Committee
State Council of Defense
Pennsylvania
Pennnsylvania
Francis 8. Haas
Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction
Out Pennsylvania
Conway Zirkle
Consumer Interests Committee
State Council of Detense
Pennsylvania Week
Pernnsylvania Grocers Association
Pennsylvania State Chain Store Council
Pennsylvania Retailers Association
Pennsylvania State Council of Defense
Office of Price Administration
New York
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Scranton
Harrisburg
Williamsport
Altoona
Consumer Committee
Beginnings of psychoanalysis marked by two key dates
The text notes 1895 as the publication year of Studien Uber Historie by Dr. Josef Brewer and Sigmund Freud and 1960 for Freud's Traumdeutung, then vaguely links hotkey Irish hurling and possibly golf and cricket to polo, and states tungsten is not found free in nature but with siren and manganese.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josef Brewer
Sigmund Freud
Freud
Siren
Blairsville district surpasses quota in Methodist drive
In the annual Crusade for Christ drive, all participating churches met or exceeded quotas. Blairsville district ranked second in the Pittsburgh area and exceeded its goal with total subscriptions of 130,495 against an apportionment of 112,022. Subscriptions and quotas for area churches include Armagh Seward 1,204 1,204 and Indiana 4,692 4,700 among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crugade For Christ
Exer
Blairsville
Pitttsburgh
Pittssburgh
Iirle
West Virginia
Blatraville
Pittsburgh
Blairaville
Armagh
Seward
Black Lick
Bolivar
Brush Valley
Violence and Crime Rise at Home During War Years
Washington report notes 1944 saw record crime increases as the war mobilized. FBI tallies daily: 24 killings, 30 rapes, 150 aggravated assaults, 120 robberies, 555 auto thefts, 749 burglaries, 2,176 larcenies. Rapes up 27 percent, assaults 19 percent. women arrests rise sharply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Marlow Washington
Therhome Front
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Selective Service Act
OPA
Obituary notices from Armstrong and nearby townships
Obituaries report the deaths of Robert Clinton Kinter of Armstrong Township Indian County Martha Kinter, andrei Katrenich of Red Bari near Homer City, Gertrude Walbeck of Homer City, Milford Howard of Blairsville with details on birthplaces, survivors, and funeral arrangements. Services listed at United Presbyterian Church Shelocta Homer City Trinity Lutheran Church Blairsville and burial in local cemeteries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Clinton Kinter
Armstrong Township
Indians County
James
Annie (Armstrong) Kinter
Shelocta
Gertrude Mardick Walbech
Juniper Street
Homer City
Allied air armada pounds Nazi targets across Ruhr and Rhine
United States Eighth Air Force and British heavy bombers unleash a vast assault over Achmer Vechta Vechtel Rheine Hesepe Nordhorn Steenwijk Zwischenahn Plant hmne Varrelbusch and Varrel. Thousands of bombers and fighters strike airfields, rail yards, and towns. Ruhr towns report burning districts as RAF and USAAF formations press the D-Day era air offensive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Eighth Air Force
Montgomery
Achmer
Vechta
Vechtel
Rheine
Hesepe
Nordhorn
Steenwijk
Zwischenahn
Planthmne
Varrelbusch
Varrel
Fieht
Rhine
Dght
RAF Lancaster
Mosaukes
Berlin
Ruhr
Underground Nazi factory captured near Rhine by U S Army
U S Army troops from the 78th Infantry find a $1,000,000 underground Nazi plant carved from rock near Koenigs winter. German civilians and 500 slave laborers crowded the site for eleven days, awaiting rescue after evacuating orders. Factory produced fuel pumps and Focke-Wulf parts. owner offered to resume Allied war material production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. First Army
Rhine
Othe
Bonigswinter
Soman
Focke-Wi 190
78Th “Lightning
R. W. Keyes
Houston
Texas
Koenigs
Reich
Gestz
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Arkansas
Columbia Picture
Nas
Alexander M. Vasilevsky
Red Army
Ivan D. Chernyakhovsky
White Russia
East Prussia
Milo
Andy Katrenich
Red Bari
Indiana Hospital
Czechoslovakia
Katld Katrenich
Annie
America
Coral
St. Marys
John J. Baycura
St. Bernard's Cemetery
Milford Howard
Spring Street
Latrobe Hospital
Andrew
Margaret (Wright
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Cora Dixon
Clara Swanger
Catherine Newman
Derry
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Moorhead
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