Final Round On Knockout Coming Says Montgomery
Allied forces push toward Duisburg as Montgomery declares knockout blow coming in the last round of the Germany battle. Patton expands US front to 225 miles in the Eifel while Patch’s Seventh Army advances into Saar basin with 1000 prisoners and Auersmacher. Goch, a 13500 population hub, endures heavy bombardment as Scots and Canadians assault fortified town, fighting house to house along a 17 mile front.
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Associated Press
Paris
Goc
Montgomery
Germany
George S. Patton, Jr
U. S. Third Army
Eifel” Mountains
Niers
Kleve
Besa Ce Pire
Goch
Canadian First Army
Group Seeks Probe of Farmer Draft Policy
A lively committee session prompted a House floor inquiry into farmer draft policy. Members urged a three senators and three representatives investigator group to study drafting of farmers, with Rep. Lemke and Rep. Michener among the speakers. Maj. Gen. Hershey faced questions on selective service administration.
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Quiry
House
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Proposedive Lemke
R-Nd
Michener E
Mich
Rules
Farm Census Data Sparks Resistance in Green County
A number of Green county farmers refuse to let census enumerators on their properties citing distrust. County Agent Edwin Baker and Marvin E. Smithback urged cooperation, stressing the census is a routine five year agricultural count to aid postwar planning and not for tax purposes. Officials aim to complete the census before March 1 and request farmers prepare interview data.
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Green County
Edwin Baker
The
Times
Marvin E. Smithback
Madison
Wisconsi. Wnt
Smithback
Baker
Department of Agriculture
Foreign Cheese Men Opposed to Federal Grading
Wisconsin cheese makers at Turner hall rejected federal grading for Swiss cheese, choosing to accept a fixed 33 cent price set by the OPA and pursue a voluntary quality program. The meeting heard from producers, the state dairy department, and associations, with 75 in attendance. debate covered moisture and butter fat limits and potential three-tier grading under federal supervision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin Foreign Type Cheesemakers Associaion
State Dairy Department
Wisconsin Cheesemakers’ Association
Turner Hall
OPA
Otto Anderegg
Basco
Leonard Kopitzke
Marion
Horace Malloy
Alex Bruhn
W. L. Witte
State Department of Agriculture
Harvey Thew
Madison
Fred Marty
A. H L. Stoldt
Fred Flickinger
Wisconsin Swiss and Limburger Producers’ Association
Patrol Activity Spreads Across Italian Fronts
Allied patrols roamed the Italian front to gauge German strength as forces may retreat to a last ditch fortress. Fifth and Eighth army units clashed in northern Italy amid continued air activity targeting rail lines and Austrian routes. Argentina-Haiti talks reference a possible open debate at the Inter-American Conference as Buenos Aires protests Berlin over safe conduct for diplomats.
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Sven
Hitler
Italy
Fifth Army
Sala
Eighth Army
Mexico City
Brenner
Argentina
Germany
Linz
Aera
Austria
Vienna
Buenos Aires
Berlin
Road distances to fronts from key points
Eastern front lies 32 miles from Zellin while Western front is 296 miles from the west bank of the Rhine at Emmerich and Italian front extends 544 miles from the Reno river toward the front.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Eastern Front
Zellin
Western Front
West Bank of Rhine
Emmerich
Reno River
Yanks Press Iwo Hold and Rescue Civilians in Manila
Allied forces tightened grip on Iwo Jima and released about 7000 civilians in Manila amid ongoing mopping up of Corregidor. American troops entered Intramuros while 60 clergy and lay volunteers sheltering at De LaSalle College were slain by Japanese soldiers. MacArthur reported bombardment of Cavite shore as operations continued on Corregidor. A turn to No. 2, Back Page.
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Iwo
Manila
Manila_ bay
Intramuros
Corregidor
Philippine General Hospital
Oscar W. Griswold
Ith Corps
A de LaSalle College
Malate
Francis J. Cosgrave
Sydney
Australia
Navy
Seventh Fleet
Cavite
Douglas MacArthur
Bay Entrance
U. S
Iwo Jima
Tokyo
Philippines
Ihe Sian
New York
Texas
Nevada
Arkansas
Idaho
Tennessee
Iwo Island
Hot Rock
Webley Edwards
CBS
Marianas
Edwards
Louie
Cmdr
L. R. Gehl
Uncle Sam tips for wartime citizens in week 167
The Office of War Information urges citizen action in five points. Fill 6,700 jobs in 175 plants making castings for trucks and tanks. Reinvest proceeds from Series A savings bonds maturing March 1 for a higher return. Look for price ceilings on shoe repairs under OPA controls. Order fertilizers and insecticides early for farms and victory gardens due to shortages. Use V-mail to save overseas cargo space and reserve V-1 mail space for blood and typhus vaccine shipments.
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Washington
Office of War Information Today
OPA
Victory Gardens
V-1
Eyewitness account of Iwo Jima battle by Navy and Marines
United Press reporter William F Tyree aboard a Navy Liberator bomber describes the invasion of Iwo Jima beginning with waves of Marines landing under strafing and bombardment. The island shows heavy fires, smoke, and fierce anti aircraft fire as battleships bombard offshore.
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Navy
Iwo Jima
United Press Wi Jar
William F. Tyree
Tyree
Mount Suribachi
Nazi Counterattacks Fail To Slow Russians
The Red Army presses forward on the eastern front amid German counterattacks in Pommerania and Silesia. German reserves rush to the lines as Konev’s First Ukrainian Army advances toward Dresden and the Oder, while Zhukov’s forces establish a bridgehead over the Oder near Crossen, deepening Soviet reach toward Germany.
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Associated Press
London
Red Army
Dresden
Berlin
Moscow
Heinrich Himmler
Pomerania
Silesia
Konev
Ivan Konev
Czech
Oder
Lauban
Queis River
Naumburg
Goerlitz
Neisse
Czechoslovakai
Gregory Zhukov
Crossen
Cpl Babler WIA Receives Purple Heart and Oak Leaf
Corporal Myron Babler writes from a Luxembourg hospital that he has earned the Purple Heart and an Oak Leaf cluster for two wounds in action. He describes freezing hands and feet, a foot ailment, and his jeep duties in the territory. His brother Duane is stationed nearby in Luxembourg after serving in France, Germany, and Belgium.
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Irs
J. L. Babler
Cpl
Myron Babler
Luxembourg
Babler
Pfc
Duane
France
Germany
Belgium
Balrgmaz to Lead Green County Farm Dairy Tour
W C Balrgmaz of Albany, former war food admin assistant, returns to county extension work to promote dairy practices and a farm to farm tour. Edwin Baker cites increased milk quality as the goal. focus is herd management, sanitation, breeding, feeding, and test association benefits. Pasture renovation, fertilizing, reseeding on hillside fields risks runoff. recommends chrome grass alfalfa mix as long term solution.
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W. C. Balrgmaz
Albany
War Food Administration
Green County
Edwin Baker
Baumgartner
Marines Push Inland As Resistance Grows
United States forces report a secure beachhead on Iwo Jima with marines advancing inland to the airfield area. Admiral Nimitz said Fifth Fleet air and submarine support aided the morning invasion as battleships and rockets hammered southern positions, signaling a step in widening the air offensive against Tokyo.
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United States Pacific Fleet
Guaam
Iwo Island
Iland
Chester W. Nimitz
Fifth Corps
America
Nimitz
Normandy
Tokyo
Iwo Jima Formed By Two Volcanos Invasion Landfall
Iwo Jima formed by Suribachi and Moto Yama volcanoes linked by a lowland neck. Suribachi extinct, Moto Yama vents steam and sulfur, with two airfields and a third under construction. Main field toward the south with three runways in a triangle. no large anchorage. 1943 population 1,091, all Japanese. Marines first occupy hostile ground as guerrillas or neutrals populate prior invaded areas.
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Vu. S. Racine
Guam
Iwo Jima
Suribachi Yama
Moto Yama
Suribachi
Iwo
B-29s Strike Tokyo And Kuala Lumpur In Major Allied Raid
Air force reports 150 to 100 Superfortress bombers hit Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur in a two day carrier supported raid from the Marianas. Strikes targeted rail yards and industrial plants while Kuala raid faced little opposition. All planes reportedly returned with Tokyo claiming ten shot down.
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Ningwn—Ory
Tokyo
Kuala
Malay
20Th Air Force
Marianas
Kual
Indo-China
Burma
Iwo Jima invasion lifts press on Pacific war effort
United States forces expect fewer B-29 losses from Guam to Iwo Jima 750 miles south of Tokyo as a fueling stop boosts bomb loads. Marines press through pillboxes and ridges while naval guns and carrier aircraft soften defenses. The operation, opened with a 9 am assault, targets Iwo’s airfield for land based fighters and bombers to reach Nippon.
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Iwo Jima
Iwo
Tokyo
Air Force
Guam
Webley Edwards
Wisconsin Sentries Freed From Manila Prison
The war department announced four Wisconsin soldiers rescued from Bilibid prison in Manila by U S troops on Feb 5 and 6. Named are Pvt Reginald D Brynets of Green Bay sister Mrs Palmyra Phillips Pvt Harold A Jerschefske of Thiensville mother Mrs Mary Jerschefske Pvt William J Lovelace of Madison father William Lovelace and Pvt Carl N Nickols of Janesville parents Mr and Mrs Frank Nickols Nickols 29 belonged to the Janesville tank unit and endured the March of Death on Bataan after capture.
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War Department
Wisconsin
Bilibid
Manila
United States
Reginald D. Bvrnets
Palmyra Phillips
W. Mason St
Green Bay
Harold A. Jerschefsk
Mary Jerschefske
Red
Thiensville
William J. Lovelace
William Lovelace
Sherman Ave
Madison
Carl N. Nickols
Frank Nickols
Washington St
Janesville
Nickols
Wisconsin National Guard
Philippines
Pearl Harbor
Bataan
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Aurn
Shell Cavite
DOR
Volcano Islands
Aracas
Marianas Islands
Saipan, Ian
Caroline Islands
Uncle Sam
Cpl. Babler
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