American transports report near Ryukyus amid Okinawa raids
Radio Tokyo said American carrier and land based planes attacked Okinawa and other Ryukyus targets as US naval bombardments continued. Nimitz reported 57 ships and 819 planes damaged across the Pacific fleet in ten days, with massive strikes on Okinawa and surrounding installations.
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Ryukyu
Inks Hkn
Formosa
United States Naval Res
Radio Tokyo
Okinawa
Japan
Ips
Kerth Fin
Okino Oaila
KURE
Honshu
Kyushu
Philippines
Polymesa
Singapore
Odu
Llarher Hearby
Burma
Nanders
United States
North
Wip
Unten Bay
Pacific Féet
Burker
Nimitz
Forecast for San Antonio and vicinity
Forecast shows Clonady and thundershowers Thursday afternoon with partly cloudy skies Thursday night. Friday turns cooler with moderate to fresh east winds. Temperatures near ten degrees lower Thursday night. East Texas expected considerable cloudiness Thursday afternoon with scattered showers in the northeast, and coastal regions to stay partly cloudy with little change and fresh winds.
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San Antonio
Texas
Victory Signal First From Ike Amid War News Flurry
Secretary Stimson indicated General Eisenhower would first announce the cessation of hostilities in Europe. He said Allied forces are pressing from village to village toward Germany as prisoners of war rise past 1,200,000. Churchill and Eden spoke of near success while plans for postwar disarmament and occupation move forward.
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Wir Stimson
Eisen- Ihower
Europe
Poont War Department
Blimson
Siphlemehal
Reich
Gui
Sermison
Germany
Rhine
Usaber
Hitler
Voel- Kiseher Brotachter
Lin London Evening News
Eden
Crimea
Ministry of Labor
Beanlf
Allied Control Commission For
Bunard M. Duruch
Roosevelt
Lotte Dorf
Freirch
Gharehin
Churchill
Danes Block Nazi Evacuation
March 23 report from Stockholm states the Danish press says patriots blasted a bridge linking Copenhagen with Amager Island to blockade ships requisitioned by Germans. The action aimed to evacuate Danish civilians and soldiers. three German police were wounded.
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Stockholm
Danish Preas Service
Lo Sal
Co Penhagen
Amager Island
Baltic
Sali
Mutiny Rumors Hit Graf Zeppelin Crew
London dispatch reports a Moscow broadcast in German alleging a mutiny aboard the German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin at a Baltic port. The broadcast claims Grand Admiral Doenitz ordered all Baltic ship crews to scuttle if unduly endangered, with mutinous sailors allegedly gaining influence from the Heinrich Himmler faction.
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London
Moscow
Graf Zenpelin
Gestapo
Wel
Grand Adin
Karl Deensta
Clef 1
Dalkic
Baltic
Doenitz
Heinrich Himmiler
Clay Named German Civil Affairs Leader
President Roosevelt announced that Lucius D. Clay, already a senior general, will lead civil affairs in Germany under General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Clay becomes deputy to Eisenhower and will oversee occupation administration under the allied plan.
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Clay
Ania
Marsh
All
Stadt
Eisenhower
Pan
Trial Opens As Owners Seek Eviction Of Vets Roommates
Trial opened in Justice of the Peace Frank Vaughan's court as owners sue to evict tenants from 612 East Dewey Place. Ethel Matzdorf testified of disturbances by the Barnes family upstairs while the defense cited rent disputes and prior notices to vacate dating from 1944 to 1946.
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Bataan
Moarang
Battiea
Helghim
Reds Advance Toward Austrian Frontier Amid Danube Breakthroughs
Russian forces surged through shattered Slovak defenses and crossed toward the Austrian frontier, driving from Csorna and pressing toward Graz. Tolbukhin and Malinovsky’s Second and Third Ukrainian armies reported advances along the Danube and through the Bratislava Gap, with tanks and armored units probing toward Szombathely and surrounding regions near Vienna.
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London
Red Army
Bratishlava
Danube Valley
Moskow
Peodor Tolbukhin
Csorna
Pamhae
Vienna
St Johannon
Bratislava
Moscow
Associsind Press
Eddy Gilmore
Austria
Pamhagen
Anya
Gsoran Une
Moson
Gyo
Gyoy
Komnarem
Stalin
Tannube
Malinovsky
Crash kills Col Bump in Dutch East Indies
Colonel Bump, son of a San Antonio family, was killed in a motor crash in the Dutch East Indies. A West Point graduate of 1924, he commanded Brooks Field from April to August 1944 and was due home in January. He hailed from China.
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Arthor
Bump
Iive
San Antonio
Kiied
Morotol
Brooks Field
Apri
Chia
U. S. Losses Rise 24,050 In Week
War and navy departments report casualties across army navy marine corps and coast guard totaling 72 862 since start of hostilities with weekly increases of 24 050. Army casualties lead with 22363 while navy marine corps and coast guard add 167? totals. Prisoners wounded and returns to duty outlined with breakdowns for the period ending early March. Jap losses estimated over 300000 in the Philippine campaign with 177980 killed. remaining losses include captured and wounded. U.S. air force bombers also report sinking freighters off Hainan and damaging a transport.
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Washington
War and Navy Departments
Navy
Marine Corps
Eqasl Guard
Stimson
Philipping Cam Paien
Tynd
Conpala
Bank
Chungking
Muvet
Hainan Island
Weather Halts RAF Berlin Raids
London reports a weather pause halting RAF raids on Berlin. The Luftwaffe strikes reduced by daylight and night assaults, with 400 Fortresses and other bombers concentrating operations earlier in the week. Allied air forces claim 20,000 sorties since February, targeting rail yards, locomotives, vehicles, and tanks across occupied Europe.
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London
Bertie
R. A
Berlin
West
Human Alphabet Saves Prisoners
Allied air action near Limburg disrupted a German plan to move about 2000 prisoners in boxcars. US planes strafed the train and formed a human alphabet spelling PW, prisoners of war, as guards fled. 14 killed and 27 wounded among prisoners, with 277 prisoners moved to evacuation hospitals.
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Don WE
Limburg
United States
Nast Uy
Stigdivision
Stig Item
Hospitls
First Army
Wetalad
Limbice
MK Dafantry
Limbueg
Btalag Mit
Prisoners Moved Near Bomb Targets
London reports Maj Arthur Henderson financial secretary to the war office said the Japanese were moving prisoners of war camps closer to minted target areas to protect targets from bombing. He cited early reports from 2043 noting camps near yards and factories in Tokyo Yokohama Osaka and other cities.
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London
Arthur Henderson
War Office
Commons
Duke
Mero- Pollan
Tokyo
Yokohama
Osaka
Americans Reach Mannheim as Allies Break German Lines
Allied forces push deeper into Germany with Seventh Army crossing the Neckar near Mannheim and Main south of Aschaffenburg. British and American troops race toward Hannover and Nuernberg as rapid advances reshape the Ruhr area, with Nazi defenses collapsing and more than twenty thousand Nazis surrendering in recent days.
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Ruhr
Hannover
Berlin
First Army
Rhine
Mannhmm
Neckar
Aschaffenburg
Schweinheimn
Niedernberg
Black Forest
Mannheim
Kassel
Essen
Heidelsberg
Erzm
Muller
Celesenkirchen
Bochum
Oberpmysca
Dortmund
Sevventh
Neiver Male
Nuernberg
Germany
Leipzig
Cruelties Reported at Nazi Prison Camp Freeing of Emaciated Americans
Eleven hundred emaciated prisoners including about 200 wounded Americans were freed from a German camp by U S Seventh Army infantry. Diets were about 700 calories daily, with potato peel soup and bread as main fare. Guards reportedly refused food despite protests, and Red Cross parcels were scarce for American prisoners while other nationalities received some aid.
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Getmany
U. S. Seventh Army Infantry Cape
Uotenant
Adda
Sbi
Ye Abdeimes
Red Cross
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Ike
Lucus D. Gay
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Tolbukhin
Ogdenburg
Szombathely
Graz
Yuposinvia
Italy
Ukraine
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Grynta
Westtern
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Gregory
K. Sukhov
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Aller Mann Foray
Fastwaugh Sway Supreme Headquarters
Alliedarmor
France
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Macnater
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