Ninth Army Crosses Elbe Pressing Toward Berlin
American Ninth Army tanks crossed the Elbe and pushed 57 miles toward Berlin as of today, with reports they could reach the Brandenburg Gate by tomorrow or Saturday if Germans do not shift forces from the east. The First and Third Armies advanced in Saxony and near the Czech border, while British and Canadian units pressed toward Hamburg and western Holland amid a collapsing German defense.
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Paris
Ninth Army
Elbe
Berlin
William H. Simpson
Brandenburg Gate
Leipzig
Saxony
Halle
Weimar
Heilbronn
Essen
Coburg
Nordhausen
Czechoslovakia
Bayreuth
Hamburg
Germany
Celle
Rethen
Aller
Bremen
Ruhr
Holland
Armiston
Magdeburg
Napoleon
Robert Bunson
Magdebur
Brunswick
Dortmund
Erfurt
Ninth
First
Oder River
Eisenhower
Bitter Okinawa fighting drags on with heavy casualties
News recounts eight days of grueling battle off Okinawa with American casualties near 2,700 for nine days and Japanese losses reported far higher. Reports describe massive artillery exchanges, counterattacks by Japanese forces, and the struggle around Naha as U S. and Japanese forces trade blows and suffer steep losses.
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Okinawa
Guam
Navy
John R. Hodge
24Th Corps
Siegfried Line
Naha
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Roy S. Geiger
Iwo Jima
Saipan
Lepers and Lunatics Released as Japanese Retreat
Maj. Charles G. Sweet said Okinawa officials freed thousands of insane and lepers as Japanese fled northward. He cited about 1,400 insane individuals and unknown lepers roaming the hills. Military patrols struggle with language and identify cases, with many malnourished from neglect by the Japanese.
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Okinawa
Ryukyu
Charles G. Sweet
Sweet
Major Sweet
Alfred Morgenthaler Back from Philippines
Mrs Anna Morgenthaler received a telegram from son Alfred with the merchant marines stating he had arrived in San Pedro California from the Philippines where he had been on duty. He said he would be home soon.
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Anna Morgenthaler
Alfred
Merchant Marines
San Pedro
Calif
Philippines
Superforts Hit Jap Industrial Cities in Force
American B 29s escorted by Mustang fighters struck Tokyo outskirts at 11 am Tokyo time pouring bombs on Nakajima Musashino plant and another force attacked industrial centers 110 miles north of Tokyo. Shizuoka Mitsubishi engine plant also hit as eighth raid of the war and third this month.
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Guam
Japan
Tokyo
Shizuoka
Mitsubishi
Musashino
Koriyama
Honshu
Seventh Air Force
Mustang
Iwo Jima
Soviet Troops Reach 115 Miles From Berchtesgaden
Moscow dispatches say Tolbukhin’s Third Ukrainian army punched a major German defense gap west of Vienna and reached 115 miles from Berchtesgaden. Vienna reportedly nearly occupied as the siege tightens on the German capital. Berlin reports Soviet gunboats and airborne activity in the Vienna area as Zhukov’s forces prepare for a possible quick push from the Oder.
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London
Feodor Tolbukhin
Vienna
Moscow
Berlin
Krems
Melk
Berchtesgaden
Brazil
Vienna-Bruenn
Denubenal
Jon
Gregory Zhukov
The
Oder
Won't Forget Nazi Atrocities Warned by U S Officials
Washington reports the United States charged Germany with deliberate neglect and cruelty in the treatment of American prisoners. A joint statement by Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of State Stettinius called atrocities unprecedented and demanded justice for the crimes against American citizens.
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Washington
U. S
Germany
War and
State Departments
Stimson
Stettinius
Reich
The Road to Berry and Front Line Distances
Fragmentary military bulletin lists distances on the western and Italian fronts. Mentions 32 miles from Zellin, 57 miles from Magdeburg, and 531 from Lake Camacchio, with scattered illegible segments.
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Berry
Associated Press
Stern
Zellin
Magdeburg
Lake Camacchio
Jes
Monroe High School Band Receives Distinguished Service Award
The 80 member Monroe high school band and director Allan F. Barnard were honored with the Distinguished Service citation for wartime musical service. Chief Warrant Officer Richard Kirchoff presented the award at a gala spring concert amid townspeople, veterans, and nearby students. The band has supported war bond drives, recruitment efforts, and patriotic programs, with members joining a larger orchestra and performing at public ceremonies and parades.
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Allan F. Barnard
Monroe
Richard Kirchoff
Army Air Force
Truaxfield
Madison
Barnard
War Council
Burgess Battery
Recreation Park
Cave
Co. K
Wisconsin
William Timmons
Navy
Robert Tracy
Coast Guard Juty
Windstorm Damages Farms and Buildings in Green County
A cyclonic windstorm struck Green County between 3 and 3:30 Wednesday afternoon, damaging farm buildings, a church steeple, a machine shop, and silos across the Browntown Wiota Jordan area. Barns collapsed on several farms, straw stacks were scattered, and oat sprouts were damaged in Sugar River bottoms. Rainfall totaling .12 inch refreshed lawns but did not greatly aid pastures.
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Green County
Monroe
Browntown- Wiota-Jordan
J. B. Heeren
Norwegian Lutheran Church
Jordan
Alfred Westgard
Wiota
Green-LaFayette
Herman D. Fritz
Adams
Jordan-Adams
Brodhead
Sugar River
Albany-Deedtur
Woman Hurt as Driver Arrested After 6th Street Crash
Mrs EMI Grossglauser suffered a possible neck injury and shock after a car owned by John Buehler struck the parked car of Emil Grossglauser in the 1700 block on 6th Street. Buehler, who turned left, faced a driving while intoxicated charge, appeared in justice court, posted $200 bond, with trial set for 1:15 April 25.
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Emi Grossgrauser
6Th Street
John Buehler
1Th Street
Emil Grossglauser
Basco
Buehler
Grossglauser
Justice Court
F. Earl Lamboley
Three Wisconsin Men Die In Army Plane Crash
Colonel William H. Garrison reports 14 killed in a collision at Jackson Army Air Base. Among the dead were three Wisconsin servicemen from the 203rd Army Air Force: Major John F. Cunningham of Milton Junction, First Lieutenant George J. Canavan of Milwaukee, and First Lieutenant Daniel B. Sullivan of Ashland. Both Flying Fortresses were demolished in the early morning crash.
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Jackson
Wisconsin
Jackson Army Airbase
Here
William H. Garrison
203Rd Army Air Force
John F. Cunningham
Milton Junction
George J. Canavan
Milwaukee
Daniel B. Sullivan
Ashland
Four Thousand French Officers Freed by U S Ninth Army
The U S Ninth Army liberated four thousand French officers held in German prison camps for five years on April 6 as its infantry overran barracks near Soest in the Ruhr region. About 200 Russian enlisted men were released with the French and had been used by the Germans for heavy labor around the camp.
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Oms — (P
U. S
Ninth Army
Soest
Ruhr
Pfc Harold Wieck Wounded in Germany Report
William Wieck of 2116 Sixteenth Avenue received a telegram stating his son, Pfc Harold L Wieck, was slightly wounded in Germany on March 15. He enlisted in March 1943 and has been overseas since October, with the family previously lacking mail.
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William Wieck
Javenue
Pfc
Harold L. Wieck
Germany
Hitler III Good News If It’s True
British morning papers greeted reports that Adolf Hitler is seriously ill and may have yielded his place to Heinrich Himmler. Diplomatic correspondents urged caution, noting Goebbels remains a strong propagandist and that peace talks would be unlikely if Himmler sought them. Some papers doubted the significance of the illness.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Heinrich Himmler
Daily Mail
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Himmler
Mail
Daily Herald
Hitler
Yorkshire
Paratroopers Reported Dropped Near Berlin Front
Paris reports from French sources claim parachute troops were dropped at Brandenburg about 20 miles west of Berlin. Washington announces the submarine Seawolf and a large support landing craft lost in the Pacific while Gen Patton’s 11th Armored division lies within 40 miles of Czechoslovakia and has crossed the Saale near Jena.
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Paris
Brandenburg
Berlin
Washington
Pacific
Navy
George S. Patton
11Th Armored
Czechoslovakia
Patton
Saale
Jena
Americans Capture Weimar in bloodless 1919 surrender
In 1919 American Third Army forces entered Weimar after a German bicycle courier delivered a surrender demand. Negotiations began at Troistedt and the mayor riding a bicycle delivered the papers. Crowds cheered as US infantry moved in, passing Goethe and Schiller homes and the theater where the republic’s constitution was signed.
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Weimar
Germany
Mar
German Republic
U. S. Third Army
Troistedt
Goethe
Schiller
Liszt
Russia and Yugoslavia Sign 20 Year Friendship Pact
The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia signed a 20 year friendship and mutual assistance treaty with early ratification expected in Belgrade. Yugoslavia was represented by Premier Marshal Tito and the Soviet by Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov. The pact allows a one year cancellation before the 20 year term ends.
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Aloscow
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Marshal Tito
Vyacheslav Molotov
Russia
New Glarus Captain and Two Pals Capture German Town
Capt Reymond Kundert of New Glarus with two comrades captured the town of Kirschroth, freeing 45 prisoners and seizing firearms, after surrounding the town and compelling German defenders to surrender. The trio, aided by Capt Matthew Landers and Cpl Robert Eamigh, conducted a rapid forceful operation that netted weapons including a burp gun, old weapons, and a ruby-hilt saber. Kundert, four years in service and previously at the New Glarus post office, is now overseas after training at various camps.
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Reymond Kundert
New Glarus
Pals
German Town
Glarus
Theankee
David
Kundert
Reymond Kunder
Kirschroth
Apt
Wis
353D
Matthew Landers
Brooklyn
Cpl
Robert Eamigh
Juniata, Pa
Seace
Landers
Eamigh
Bhow
Milwaukee Conservatory of Music
Seaman Grinnell Earns Pacific Area Bronze Star Award
Lloyd Albert Grinnell, S 2c, of Monroe, earned the Bronze Star for meritorious achievement on June 14, 1944, aboard a landing boat during the capture of an enemy island. Despite heavy enemy fire he prepared the way for combat troops, aiding operations. After 14 months overseas, he was home on leave in November 1944.
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Lloyd Albert Grinnell
S.2/c
Albert Grinnell
Monroe
Pacific
Grinnell
Eighth Army Pushes To Salerno River Barrier
Allied forces push across the Santerno river amid heavy German opposition as American troops with Italian partisans seize Carrara. General Mark W. Clark declares the final battles for Italy have begun, urging coordinated action but noting it has not yet arrived.
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Eighth Army
Salerno
Rome
Santerno
Carrara
Italy
Mark W. Clark
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