Nimitz Reports Jap Air Attacks Damaging Fleet Near Iwo
Admiral Nimitz announced Jap planes damaged the fleet near Iwo Jima as U S Marines supported by flak feet and ground units fought fierce battles on the island 760 miles south of Tokyo The battle involved heavy naval gunfire air strikes and ground assaults with American casualties reported and Japanese resistance stiffening in northern sectors and around Mount Suribachi.
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Tokyo
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Surviving POWs Recaptured After Luzon Ship Sinking
Navy officer George Karl Petrie recounted at a news conference the December sinking off Luzon of a Japanese prison ship carrying about 1600 Americans. Of survivors, all but two were recaptured or died. one other escaped to Philippine guerrillas. Petrie described crowded holds and air attack deaths, with some prisoners suffocating before the ship went down.
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Corregidor
Aong
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U S Casualties 801 162 Since Pearl Harbor
Washington reports cumulative U S Army and Navy casualties since Pearl Harbor total 801 162 with weekly increases of about 18 98 percent over prior figures. Army totals reach 711 187 killed wounded prisoners missing while Navy casualties stand at 33 062 killed and 40 788 wounded with prisoners and missing figures.
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Roosevelt Plans Visit to France and England
PARIS Feb 22 The United States embassy disclosed that President Roosevelt plans to visit France for a conference with General De Gaulle in the late spring or early summer and will probably go to England on the same trip. The announcement followed Ambassador Jefferson Caffery’s return from a meeting with the president near Algiers.
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Stimson Denies Terror Policy Statement
Secretary of War Stimson rejected reports that the Allies decided on terror bombing of civilian populations. He said the policy has never aimed at terrorizing civilians and blamed a briefing officer for misinterpretation. The reporter quoted a distressed account of German prisoners’ brutal convoy and camp conditions, including travels by boxcars, deprivation, and later Red Cross aid during Christmas.
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Wenke
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Roosevelt Champions French At Yalta Summit
Manila dispatch reports scattered enemy remnants on Corregidor and fierce fighting on the Manila Hotel. In Paris, Roosevelt led efforts at the Yalta conference to invite France to share in governing Germany, despite French reports of a snub and opposition from other powers.
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Allied Control’ Commission
Yalta Teld
Flier's Surprise Ending After Fog Bails to Pub Yard
Lieut. John Brabham, 22, of Forest Grove Oregon, returning from a reconnaissance flight over central Germany, lost instruments in fog. He bailed out and landed in a London pub yard, where a bartender offered him a drink but Brabham declined.
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Ore
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Swiss Released Yanks Back in Fight in Europe
Britain reports that about 800 American soldiers, largely airmen, returned to the U S from internment in Switzerland. The group was evacuated from Mareville after Switzerland released them and they arrived back in U S hands today.
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Forecast notes and scattered conditions for Texas coast
Forecast shows Friday partly cloudy with low temperatures around 29 to 32 degrees, a colder trend for Friday night and Thursday night along the Texas coast. Northwesterly winds persist, and inland readings dip toward the upper 20s. Fragments suggest mixed conditions across regions with gusts and variable clouds.
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GI Bawls Out General in German Village Promotion
In a German village on Feb 22 1945 a U S Army general confronted a machine gun position near a front line road. A GI shouted to clear the area threatening to fire. The colonel promised the soldier a promotion as a result of the incident.
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Deserters Swarm Berlin as Russians Press Fortified Push
Stockholm dispatch reports German deserters flooding Berlin amid paralysis and fear. A Nazi warning urged reporting deserters while Russians plan to seal off the capital, with heavy anti tank fire expected and Berlin declared a fortress as 5.5 million civilians endure siege.
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4600 Planes Strike Reich Worst Blow
London reports massive Allied air raid over central Germany as 4600 planes target rail hubs and freight yards in Dulaburg Worms and Berlin. Night bombers clash with defenders. claims of widespread fires and heavy losses to both sides. The raid punctuates a major effort toward disrupting German rail networks.
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Patton's Third Army Reaches Five Miles From Trier
General Patton's Third Army drives through Moselle valley locations crossing the Saar and advancing toward Trier and Saarbrucken as Seventh Army clears Saar-Moselle triangle. Canadian forces push toward Guicar. German resistance erodes under heavy Allied pressure near Hochwald and Cologne.
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Saarburg
Seventh Army
Juvenile rustlers break up ring steal 25 horses
Four young boys aged 12 to 18 were arrested in a juvenile aid officer led case that ended a cruel ring long stealing horses from northwest town residents. The horses were starved or sold for small sums, with one dying after being tethered by a telephone pole. Mary Morgan of the Animal Defense League said efforts were under way to nurse a second horse back to health. The youths used fake sales and sometimes stole bicycles. two were 14, one 12, and the oldest 18. They will be turned over to County Juvenile Office Dora Day for processing.
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