Reds Push Toward Danube Outflanking Budapest
Soviet and allied forces advanced toward the Danube north of Budapest, capturing Haivan after a ten day battle and using its seizure to position the Ukrainian army for double aerial thrusts aimed at Budapest. German and Hungarian units reported heavy losses as Soviet reports claimed advances near Hatvan and along key routes to central Slovakia and the capital.
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NOY
Shope
Haivan
Danube
Budapest
Csepeland
Malinovsky
Berlin
Red Army
Csepel
Itunzaty
Petrovs
Slovakia
Kossa
Kosice
Prosoy
Hatvan
Germany
Hungary
Milyysy
Daltic Operth
Weather's A Tokyo Raider Saved From Ocean
After a mission over Tokyo reconnaissance photos showed damaged targets and factory hits on the Nikeshima aircraft plant. Captain Gabe Tudor of Beckley West Virginia landed his B 29 on the ocean 140 miles from base, saved by the crew after fuel ran low and two engines quit. A destroyer guided to the raft, all crew survived and recounted the harbor approach while adrift for 19 hours awaiting rescue.
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Salpwn
Tokyo
Gabe Tudor
Beckley
W. Va
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Plate
Baipan
Tudor
Russell E. Bentt
Fort Bragg
Calif
Mierwatt
Tudor Held
Nou
Tacor
Scott
Rokert F. Moeller
Chiergo
Laurenge Novick
Brooklyn
Charles Daniels
Detroit
Charles EB. Sbars
Ogdonaburg
N. Yi
Anred J. Titone
Trenton
W. 4
Raymond B. Kohler
Gleachville
Oily Weave
Osce
Himstead to Probe Rainey Dismissal
Dr. Ralph B. Himstead, secretary of the Armorican Association of University Professors, was scheduled to arrive in Austin to testify before the state senate investigating committee on University of Texas affairs and the dismissal of President Homer P. Rainey.
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Ralph B. Himetend
Armorican Association of University Professors
Austin
Himstead
State Senate
University of Texas
Homer P. Rainey
Hull Resigns Cabinet Post Amid White House Flurry
Des Moines and Washington react as Secretary Hull announces retirement. Connally and others mourn his loss while speculation rises over a three way race for succession among Byrnes, Wallace, and Stettinius. Hull’s tenure earns praise as a monument to peace and public service.
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Des Moines
Town
Lord Hallfax
United States
Illneas
Bull
Jim
Hull Sucevasion
Washington
James F. Byrnes
Henry A. Wallace
Yce
Edward R. Stellinius
Bynes
Congressione Nvorite
Yanks Push on Cologne Front Amid Heavy Allied Advances
Allied forces press toward Cologne with dug-in German opposition near Koslar and Julieh. Generals captured include Wilhelm Ultersverger and Franz Waterbot as the Ninth Army drives to the Rhine while Bridgeheads across the western Rhine remain intact. about 37,000 Nazis reported killed, wounded, or captured as fighting intensifies along the Cologne plain.
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Germany
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Aachen
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Rhine Ane
Wilhelm Ulersverger
Franz Waterbot
Stesbourg Opera
Hans Rommander
Gol
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Ninth Army
Simon Son
Texas Bus
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Roey
Julieh
Koslar
Just
GrTmans
Gring
Cologne
Marshal von Rundstedt
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