Battle drives toward Manila as Allies expand Luzon advance
U S Sixth Army pushes inland from Lingayen Gulf beachhead toward Manila while Japanese rush reinforcements. MacArthur launches a large scale Luzon strike with Mindoro overrun and air superiority aiding landings. Nimitz’s fleet shields lines of communications as German and Allied eastern front actions unfold in Europe.
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Great Plain
Manila
Luzon
Philippines
Lingayen Gulf
Pacific
U. S
Philippine
MacArthur
Mindoro
Arthur
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Chester Nimitz
Montgomery
Bradley
Belgium
Luxembourg
Ruhr
Saar
Alsace
Strasbourg
U. S. Seventh Army
Bitche
von Rundstedt
Bulge
Bliz
Hungary
Baranow
Warsaw
Silesia
Government tightens wartime home front with drafts and economy cuts
Congress debates a work or fight draft for men 18 to 45 and a plan to induct those refusing essential work. An $18 per hundredweight ceiling on live cattle is set until July. Households urged to keep thermostats at 68 degrees and advertising lighting is banned to conserve coal as 1945 fuel use projections loom.
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Roosevelt
Stimson
Walter Shead
Washington
James F. Byrnes
Army
Navy
Selective Service Commission
Tydings
Selective Service Act
Vinson
OPA
Colleges oppose immediate peacetime draft plan
The Association of American Colleges endorsed adequate defense but criticized immediate compulsory peacetime training for youth. Dr. Donald J. Cowling of Carleton College warned that lack of foreign policy caused past troubles, and education groups fear indoctrination and political weaponization from wholesale military instruction.
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Association of American Colleges
Donald J. Cowling
Carleton College
Japan
Italy
Boeing C-97 Strato Cruiser completes record flight
A converted B-29 transport, now the C-97 Strato Cruiser, flew Seattle to Washington DC in about six hours surpassing Lockheed Constellation’s time. The postwar airliner will carry 100 passengers with over 3,000 horsepower engines.
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America
Boeing
Seattle
Wash
Washington
D. C
Los Angeles
Calif
Army
Youth Cornerstone of Germans War Machine
Baukhage describes the Nazi youth system and affiliated organizations shaping German manpower for total war. He traces prewar youth groups from Wandervogel to Hitler Youth, SA, SS, Labor Front, Todt, and welfare outfits, highlighting indoctrination and military training from childhood to adulthood.
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WNU
Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
Baukhage
Germany
von Rundstedt
France
Arnhem
Cologne
Hitler Youth
Hitler
Eifel
Reich
Fuehrer
Ordensburg
Himmler
Labor Service
CCC
Hitler Youth Organization
Veterans Organization
Labor Front
Westwall
People’s Welfare Agency
Nazi Transportation Corps
National Socialist Womanhood
Infantry Journal
Washington
Second Army
Herr Goebbels
WACs Slash Food Bill to Save Uncle Sam Millions
The War Department reports the WACs eat less than male GIs, enabling a menu readjustment that will save about 2.7 million dollars annually. WAC women require 3100 calories daily, 650 fewer than male soldiers but 600 above the minimum for moderately active women, and prefer similar foods in different portions.
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WAC
G.I
War Department
Women's Army Corps
Sam
Welfare official outlines 1945 food outlook for Americans
WFA Supply and Distribution Director Lee Marshall says Americans can expect substantial nutritious fare in 1945 but supplies will be below 1944 levels. Beef should be similar, while pork veal and lamb drop. poultry should rise. dairy stocks be spotty with more fluid milk and evaporated milk but less butter. Fresh fruits and vegetables will lag last year, and canned fruits and juices fall about 12 percent. Cereal foods stay plentiful but sugar will be tight due to smaller reserves and higher military demand.
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WFA
Lee Marshall
Marshall
Barbs by Baukhage on wartime jokes and wordplay
A collection of sharp one liners and quips about war, deferments, labor, craft, poultry and smoke culture. The piece uses ironic humor to critique wartime shortages and social habits with rapid, brisk lines.
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Volkssturm
WACS
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Grove’s
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DR. Kilmer
Department B
Kilmer & Co., Inc
Stamford
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