Carrier Sara Back In Fight After Damaged Return
The carrier Sara, oldest surviving U S aircraft carrier Saratoga, has been repaired and is back in service after sustaining heavy damage at Iwo Jima. It previously suffered torpedo damage and now endured its first air crippling hit, Feb 21 near Iwo Jima, with planes bombing Tokyo prior to the strike.
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Saratoga
Iwo Jima
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Bremerton
Wash
Washington
Cartr
Tokyo
Navy
Finst “Sara
Thundershowers Then Cooler Air Saturday
Weather brief notes thundershowers this afternoon and early tonight with a turn to cooler air. Saturday will be partly cloudy and cool with a high near 70.
Gen Rice 29–Year Army Vet New McCoy Commanding General
Gen John K. Rice a 49 year Army veteran takes over as Camp McCoy commanding general succeeding Col George M. MacMullin who assumed command in 1942. Rice served with the 78th Infantry division in Europe and has a long record from the Mexican border to Hawaii with key postings at Ft Benning Lehigh and Washington. He joined the Minnesota national guard in 1916 and rose from private to lieutenant in 1917 amid a career spanning multiple theaters and staff assignments.
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Gen. Rice
McCoy
Camp Mccoy
Wis
John Kirkland Rice
78Th Infantry
Friday
Rice
George M. MacMullin
MacMullin
78Th
Minnesota National Guard
Minnesota
Michigan
Mexican
36Th Infantry
5Th Infantry
Andernach and
Engers
Germany
Ft. Williams
Camp Devens
Mass
Ft. Benning
Tac
Lehigh University
Washington, D. C
27Th Infantry
Schofield Barracks
Hawaii
United States
Infantry School
38Th Infantry Division
Camp Shelby
Miss
Jap Garrison Near Collapse On Okinawa
American forces press to finish off the Japanese garrison on Okinawa as Yaeju peak falls to Doughboys of the 96th Division aided by flame throwing tanks. Surrenders mount while enemy lines crumble and Maj. Gen. Pedro Del Valle warns the Japanese could be crushed within days.
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Guam
Tenth Army
Okinawa
96Th
Yaeju Peak
Yaeju-Dake
Big Apple
Pedro del Valle
Marine First Division
Kinishi Ridge
British Seize Von Ribbentrop As He Sleeps
Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop was captured in Hamburg as he slept in a boarding house. He carried a poison can but surrendered it. British intelligence arrested him after a years-long manhunt, with his sister identifying him. He faces trial for war crimes.
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Montgomery
Germany
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Hamburg
Europe
von Ribbentrop
Hitler
Riese
Neo
Ribbentrop
Berlin
Lueneberg Airfield
Fuehrer
France
Mussolini
Ciano
E Bond Sales In County Lag
La Crosse county has 97 percent of its Seventh War Loan quota with 4,387,973 in purchases but only 56 percent of the E bond quota filled at 995,296. Total individual quota reached 74 percent with 2,737,310. state purchases total 55,000,000 completing 61.8 percent of the E quota. State individual quota 68.4 percent filled with 102,600,000.
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la Crosse County
Big Three Meet To Be In Berlin
Maj. Clem ent R. Attlee said in a letter to Churchill that the Big Three meeting will be held in Berlin. He accepts the prime minister's invitation to attend the prospective conference in Berlin.
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Berlin
London
Clement R. Attlee
Attlee
Labor
Churchill
Yanks Leaving Zones Assigned To Russia
Acting Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew announced that American troops will withdraw by June 21 from German zones of occupation assigned to Russia. The plan covers coordinated pullback from areas under Soviet control as World War II operations continue.
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Russia
Washington
Joseph C. Grew
Wisconsin anti gambling bill delayed in assembly
Madison Wisconsin. Legislative action to tighten state gambling laws was delayed in the assembly on Friday as leaders postponed the debate at least until September during a hectic session. The lower house was reconsidering a previously approved vote.
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Madison
Wis
Assembly
Sgt. Borreson Reported Dead in Germany Prison Camp
Sgt. LaVerne E. Borreson 21, died March 19 in Germany. He went oversea in 1944 with the 106th division, was captured December 16, 1944, and is believed to have died in a German prison camp. He entered the army March 17, 1943, trained at Fort Jackson Nashville and Camp Atterbury, and served in New Britain before Germany.
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LaVerne E. Borreson
Germany
Elmer Borreson
South Avenue
Borreson
106Th Division
Fort Jackson
S. C
Nashville
Hospitals to receive surplus medical supplies nationwide
The surplus property board told a Senate subcommittee it will soon begin distributing surplus medical supplies to hospitals at near mailing costs. The plan also covers expanding the school lunch program by offering inexpensive cooking equipment for 12 million children and converting surplus military electronics for classroom use.
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Washington
Congress
Edward Heller
Senate
No Philippine Sugar Shipments This Year
Manila report states Van Lear Woodward head of the U S economic mission to the Philippines says there is no prospect of any shipment from the Philippines during 1945.
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Manila
P. I
van Lear Woodward
United States Economic Mission
Philippines
President Resigns in Panama Ahead of Assembly Pick
President Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia resigned Friday under a pledge to quit on June 15 when a constituent assembly meets to choose a new president. His term would have expired last January according to schedule.
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Panama
Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia
de la Guardia
Foreman Moosbrugger of La Crosse Tribune Dies at 65
Hugo Frank Moosbrugger 65 of 221 North Ninth street, foreman of the La Crosse Tribune composing room, died in a local hospital after a heart attack in October. Born January 29, 1880 in Dayton Ohio, he lived in several states before settling in La Crosse in 1906. He served 35 years with The Tribune, led edition making, and played in local bands. He married Margaret Murphy in 1910 and is survived by his wife, two daughters, and two sisters. Burial at Catholic cemetery with services Monday.
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H. F. Moosbrugger
la Crosse Tribune
Hugo Frank Moosbrugger
North
Ninth Street
Ohio
Michigan
Wisconsin
Dayton
Kuno Moosbrugger
Anna Kern Moosgrugger
Moosbrugger
la Crosse
Dana
The
Tribune
Milwaukee Journal
No Room
Beyerstedt
Jack Andre
Elks’ Band
Margaret Murphy
Mary Ellen
Charlotte
Chicago
Bertha Moosbrugger
Ann Arbor
Mich
St. Mary’s Church
Robert Condon
3000 Tons Of Incendiaries Dropped On Osaka Raid
A force of 520 B 29 Superforts dropped 3000 tons of incendiaries aimed at Osaka and Amagasaki. Thick weather halted formations. Aircrews fought visibility, not fighters, while Tokyo acknowledged fires started at multiple points. General Arnold warned of continued heavy bombings as Le May predicted extensive destruction of industrial Japan.
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Guam
Japan
Osaka
Amagasaki
Tokyo
Nippon
A B. Miller
Richmond
Arnold
Nagoya
Yokohama
Curtis E. le May
21St Bomber Command
Kobe
Kawasaki
le May
Doolittle
Seventeen Sailors Die In Transport Plane Crash Near Vicksburg
A large transport plane exploded and crashed in woods 16 miles northeast of Vicksburg Mississippi killing seventeen naval personnel including two Waves. A navy lieutenant was seriously injured. Destination and base unknown.
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Vicksburg, Miss
Here
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Yaeju Escarpment
By Robbin Coons
Daniel DE Luce
Sgt. Borreson
Gen. Arnold
By Leif Erickson
Ollie A. Thacker
Pear Valley
Tex
James B. McWethy
314Th
Eugene O’brien
Wabash
Ind
China
Gen
Munich
Neville Chamberlain
Czechoslovakia
Chamberlain
Soviet
Moscow
Italy
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