Eisenhower declares Germans whipped on land sea and air
Paris May reports massive German collapses across northwest Germany Holland and Denmark with half a million surrendering today and four million prisoners in the last four days. Allied forces press toward Norway Austria and Czechoslovakia as negotiations for capitulation intensify and US British Canadian troops prepare to occupy surrendered sectors.
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Lambsach
Japs Launch Last Stand On Okinawa In Massive Attack
Amid fierce fighting on Okinawa Friday Japanese forces emerged from caves to mount coordinated land sea and air assaults on American units. US naval losses included five ships sunk and 154 planes shot down. Allied forces repelled the attack with tank led counterattacks and amphibious operations, killing many of about 4000 enemy attackers. In the Philippines, Rangoon and Davao cleared of Japanese forces as Marianas B-29 raids continued on Kyushu and Kure. The Swordfish submarine was reported overdue.
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Hiro Naval Aircraft Plant
Kure
Kyushu Island
Kyishu
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Dnp
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Japsim Oil Field Give Up
Manila May. JaP) Iap military strategy in the Borneo invasion shows the enemy has written off rich oil holdings in southwest Asia. Gen Sir Thomas Blamey says the invader is proceeding very well and is in Manila with General MacArthur. He notes Japs are not defending Tarakan oil fields but engaging in relaying warfare. Blamey reports Allied forces to reconvert petroleum and rubber areas. He says Japs at Bovpesmville New Britain and New Guinea hold 86 000 troops, about half around Rabaul, with better supplies on Bougainville than New Guinea.
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Bovpesmville
New Britain
New Guinea
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Balkans Bomb Nazis in Slav Area
Rome reports Allied Balkan air command leaders met to plan harassment of Nazi columns retreating from northern Yugoslavia. No new hostilities reported in the Mediterranean theater.
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Hanass
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San Antonio Area Weekend Weather Outlook
Forecast predicts a warm Saturday afternoon with a high near 82 and a low around 56 Sunday morning. Increased cloudiness arrives Saturday night and Sunday morning as a warm trend continues from Saturday into night.
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Vicinit
Fst
Texas
Weather Bureau
Swedes See Surrender For Norway
Swedish leaders express belief that German circles in Norway will surrender, following Denmark and Holland, despite no Allied force to accept capitulation. Reports cite concentration camp prisoners released in Norway and Quisling’s actions, suggesting a climate favoring German retreat and a potential surrender formula.
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Stockholm
Norway
Denmark
Holland
Renmark
Norwegian
Stockholms Tidningen
Per Albin Hansson
Bard
Vidkun Quising
Quisling
Frank Boeme
Newsmen See Camp Horrors in Germany Visit
Paris May 5 7 members of a party of 18 newspaper editors and publishers returning to the United States after a World War II visit to France convinced newspaper correspondents have not exaggerated reports of German concentration camps. They toured Buchenwald and Dachau near Weimar and Munich and said conditions defy adequate description. Their accounts reflect a burning hatred for the Germans and reverence for Allied soldiers who faced them.
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Tarras Ane
United States
France
Geremany
Amer
45Th Division
Political Crisis Shapes in Belgium
Brussels May 5. A position crisis shapes up as the socialist party seeks King Leopold's abdication and the Catholic party threatens to withdraw from the government if the Belgian monarch, after release by the Germans, is prevented from exercising his constitutional powers.
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Téopold
Freed U S Prisoners Arrive in New York May 5 1988
Two transports carrying 1988 American sailors who were POWs in Germany arrived at New York port of embarkation today. They boarded trains for Cart y Kilmer New Jersey and furloughs will follow. A separate report notes a raid in Mazatlan Mexico destroying opium poppies and over 400 plants.
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Germany
Embarkadot
Carty Kilmer
N. J
Oruum Chor
Mazatlan
Mexico
Judietal
Molotov Seeks Stalin Guidance on World Security Plan
In San Francisco on May 5 Molotov asked Stalin for instructions on changes to the Dumbarton and World security plan. The Big Four nations United States Russia China and Britain were reportedly in accord on most amendments except review of international relations and regional defense. Molotov agreed in principle to review and regional security proposals but asked 24 hours to decide. American officials, hopeful for Russian concurrence, warned Russia could propose alternatives if no agreement by midnight.
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San Francisco
Stalin
World Security Council
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Russia
China
Britain
Executions in Paris of ex-Vichy police chiefs
In Paris on May 5 1944 Lucian Henry Rattee and Fernand David former Vichy officials were executed after convictions for torturing and killing members of the French Resistance.
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Lucian Heny Rattee
Vichy
Fernand David
Special Police Brigade
Nazi Staff Headquarters Found but No Hitler Body
Moscow reports Pravda dispatch describes the German general staff fortress near Berlin. 26 concrete houses in Zossen, camouflaged among artificial pines, with high-tension fence and nets. Telegraphed room shows Hitler memorabilia and damaged equipment. no body recovered.
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Boris Polevoy
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Zossen
Polevoy
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