End of Fight For Jap Island Near Okinawa
U S marines drive toward complete control of the last Japanese air field on Okinawa after a surprise amphibious landing. 10th Army troops advance to the southern coast and three miles inland while paratroopers overrun part of Big Naha airfield. Mitacher notes Japanese planes increasingly neutralized as defenses shrink.
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GUAM
Okinawa
Oroku peninsula
6th
Naha
Naha bay
10th army
Chester W. Nimitz
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Okinawa Campaign Quietly Advances Amid Mud Delays
Supplies parachuted to battle as mud slowed advances and kept vehicles stuck. Japanese propagandists warned of invasion plans while Tokyo papers noted signs of an imminent mainland assault. Maj Gen. Lemuel Shepherd’s 4th Regiment pushed from the 1800 yard beachhead toward Naha air field, one of the island’s key Japanese air strips.
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Okinawa
Tokyo
Domei
Lemuel Shepherd
Naha
Pacific Veterans Arrive on Coast
More than a thousand bronzed soldiers, the first Pacific theater veterans to return under the point system, arrived in San Francisco aboard the U.S.S. Bergen. Cheerful crowds, harbor whistles, bands, and Red Cross canteen support greeted them as telegraph forms were issued for messages home. Lt. Gen. Robert Richardson led the party, who disembarked at the pier and moved to Ft. McDowell for formal welcome ashore.
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SAN FRANCISCO
United States
Golden Gate
Tooting harbor
U.S.S. Bergen
Red Cross
WAC
U. S.A
Robert Richardson
Bergen
Ft. McDowell
Kobe in Flames After Great Raid
GUAM June 5 Approximately 450 Superfortresses fought through snow fog and flak to torch Kobe turning it into smoke and flame in a one hour incendiary strike. B 29s without escort hit largest port city in Japan with 3000 tons of bombs as 40 Japanese fighters engaged. Japanese reports claimed 56 Superforts shot down and 144 heavily damaged with fires spreading toward Osaka bay area. Brig Gen Orval R Cook said 1000 raids could drop 10000 tons before year end as aircraft plants ramp up production.
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GUAM
Kobe
Japan
Yokohama
Nippon
Tokyo
Mikagemachi
Ashiya
Ozaka harbor
Yodo river
Bangkok
Thailand
Orval R. Cook
Cook
Dayton
Ohio
air technical service command
Mindanao action speeds as U.S. divisions advance
On Mindanao island rapid progress by the U S 24th and 31st divisions broke two Japanese resistance centers in three days. Ula village was seized with little opposition as the 24th moved northwest. The 31st drove inland garrisons eastward while Maj Gen Clarence Martin’s 21st advanced along the Kab Awe Talomo trail. Air forces dropped hundreds of tons of bombs on Borneo Brunei and Formosa targets.
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MANILA
Mindanao
Associated Press
Richard Bergholz
George Willets
Seaside Park
Ula
Davao gulf
Davao
Clarence Martin
Kabawe-Talomo
Kabawe
Pulang river
Cagayan valley
North Luzon
37th
38th
central Lazeen
Wawa dam
Formosa
13th air force
7th fleet airwing
royal Australan air force
Borneo
British north Borneo
Brunei bay
Textile Executive Slain in New York
New York police baffled by the murder of 63 year old Albert E. Langford a wealthy textile executive and sales manager for Colin and Smith found fatally shot in the hallway of his Park Avenue hotel suite at the Hotel Marguery. His wife Marion discovered him shortly after 9 PM with a bullet wound to the head. No suspects or motive identified.
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NEW YORK
Park avenue
Vincent J. Kiernan
Albert E. Langford
Colin & Smith
Langford
Marion
Marguery
Yugoslav Officials Recalled From Istanbul
ISTANBUL June 5 Yugoslav officials in Istanbul have been recalled to Belgrade by Marshal Tito, with no immediate explanation given.
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ISTANBUL
Belgrade
Marshal Tito
Compromise Seen at San Francisco Conference
UW Lester B Pearson Canadian ambassador to the United States says compromise can be expected at San Francisco but worthwhile if it yields an organization acceptable to all. He spoke at a civic luncheon and called the conference a beachhead in a slow struggle toward lasting peace, noting no easy path from foxhole to millennium.
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LOS ANGELES
Lester B. Pearson
United States
San Francisco
Parents of Playful Lad Don't Think He's Very Cute
In Richmond California on June 5 a mother named Julie Harneis reported her 18 month old son Kenneth Harneis had hurled a purse containing $900 and five ration books from a car window onto a busy street, prompting a police search.
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RICHMOND
Calif
Kenneth Harneis
Julie Har
neis
Kenneth
steest
Balloon bombs turned playthings for children in West
Spokane Chronicle reports Japanese balloon bombs found by woodsmen in a timbered area where children removed arming devices from a fragmentation bomb. Incidents included an incendiary and a fragmentation device, with no explosions. Page 2 continues the timeline of sightings, interceptions, and one fatal incident near Lakeview, Oregon.
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SPOKANE
Wash
United States
the
Chronicle
Lakeview
Ore
office of censorship
Severe Fighting Reported in China
Chungeing June 5.2 The Chinese high command said today Chinese forces were executing an enveloping movement against Japanese forces at Liuchow and Ishan, 43 miles west. Severe fighting was reported in Szelo on the road to French Indo China, 70 miles southwest of Liuchow. The high command announced the recapture of Kweihsien, port on the West River in Kwangsi, 95 miles south-southeast of Liuchow. From Kweihsien one column moved down the West River while another stabbed northwest toward Muson, about 55 miles south-southeast of Liuchow. In Fukein province, Japanese remnants are being pursued northeast of Foochow.
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CHUNGEING
Liuchow
Kweihsien
West river
Muson
Fukein
Foochow
Eisenhower welcomed by Russians in Berlin reception
New York June 5 Gener al Eisenhower arrived in Berlin to a rousing Russian reception NBC said a Russian band played The Star Spangled Banner as aircraft landed flags of the United States Russia Britain and France lined the field Zhukov aide met the commander who said he was happy and proud to attend the canteranes.
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NEW YORK
Eisenhower
Berlin
United States
Russia
Britain
France
Gregory K. Zhukov
Allied control commission
Civilian Defense Office Abolished
Washington June 5 UP The office of civilian defense established May 20, 1941, was abolished by President Truman effective June 30. He said the need for such a protective organization had passed and through executive order transferred its property to the Commerce Department. Secretary Wallace to dispose of it under the surplus property act. The Treasury to wind up the agency affairs including separating any excess personnel.
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WASHINGTON
office of civilian defense
Truman
OCD
commerce department
Wallace
secretary of the treasury
Gains Recorded On Burma Front
Southeast Asia command headquarters said the British 14th army broke Japanese positions 16.5 miles east of Toungoo and advanced about a half mile through a minefield. The report noted a total gain near five miles toward the Thailand border since yesterday, with earlier repelling a Japanese attack 12 miles east of Toungoo, 150 miles north of Rangoon.
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CALCUTTA
UPI
14th army
Toungoo
Southeast Asia command
Thailand
Rangoon
Doolittle Returns to Washington After Rest Break
In Miami on June 5, Lt. Gen. James Doolittle head of the 8th Air Force arrived in Washington after more than a week of rest in the city, according to army disclosure.
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MIAMI
Fla
James Doolittle
8th air force
Washington
Britain Denies Stirring Trouble in Levant Area
London reports Prime Minister Churchill rebuts Gen De Gaulle charge that Britain stirred trouble in Syria and says Britain is ready to withdraw troops once a France Levant treaty is signed. He denies ambitions in Levant states and backs a three power France Britain United States approach. France proposes a Big Five conference including Russia China and Arab states to address Middle East issues.
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LONDON
Churchill
Gen. De Gaulle
Syria
Britain
France
Levant
United States
De Gaulle
Russia
China
commons
Paris
Beyrouth
Middle East
King Haakon to Reach Oslo After Five-Year Exile
King Haakon of Norway sails home aboard a British warship after five years in Britain and is expected to arrive in Oslo on June 7. The voyage marks his return to a liberated homeland.
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LONDON
Haakon of
Norway
Britain
Oslo
Occupation Zones For Defeated Reich Announced by Powers
Allied leaders announce postwar Germany divided into four occupation zones for Soviet Union United Kingdom United States and France with Greater Berlin under inter Allied control. The plan sets borders back to 1937 12 31 and excludes immediate Austria Czechoslovakia and future arrangements await peace talks.
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WASHINGTON
Germany
United States
Great Britain
France
Russia
Hitler
Austria
Czechoslovakia
Moscow
London
Paris
Renner
Vienna
Britain
United Nations
Prague
Soviet union
United Kingdom
Greater Berlin
Churchill Reveals Russian Demand After Italy Surrender
London June 5 Prime Minister Churchill said Britain met Soviet demands by handing over eight former American destroyers and other ships. The United States also turned over ships including the cruiser Milwaukee. Russians asked for one battleship one cruiser eight destroyers four submarines and 40000 tons of merchant shipping. The transfer was agreed at Tehran with an equal number of British ships loaned to the Red Navy. The Milwaukee was the only U.S. cruiser specified. Churchill took personal responsibility for the deal. The fate of the Italian fleet will await the peace conference.
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LONDON
Prime Minster
Churchill
Britain
United States
U. S
Milwaukee
commons
Italy
tur
Russia
Tehran
Mediterranean
Red navy
Royal Sovereign
Churchill Cheered By Conservatives In Commons Row
London June 5 UPI Labor benches derided Prime Minister Churchill as he entered the house of commons after his election address. He cited that no social system could operate without some form of the gestapo. Conservative cheers greeted Churchill while Clement Attlee, leader of the Labor party and deputy prime minister, was set to reply with a nationwide broadcast.
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LONDON
UPI
gestapo
Churchill
house of commons
socia
Labor party
Clement Attlee
Four Inch White Radish Grows Through Button Eye
Wilbur Washington June 5 A four inch white radish grew through the eye of a button in a garden. George Schoolcraft displayed the unusual vegetable noting the root’s top and slender neck still nourished as it passed through the button’s eye, highlighting odd plant growth.
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Button
WILBUR
Wash
George Schoolcraft
Shortage of Eggs Seen This Summer
Washington June 5 The house food investigating committee heard that black market purchases of laying hens could cause a very serious egg shortage this summer and next winter. National Poultry Defense committee witness Leon Todd of Trenton urged immediate lifting of government ceiling prices on eggs to give poultrymen incentives to hold hens for egg production.
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WASHINGTON
house food investigating committee
National Poultry Defense committee
Leon Todd
Trenton
N. J
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navy department
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MACHINATO AIRFIELD
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vore
venbaru AIRFIELD
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Philippine
gusuke
Toman
Hirarara
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Shinzato
Gen. Eisenhower
Civilian Defense Office
Burma
DOOLITTLE
KING
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