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Sikeston Herald

Location

Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America

Date

May 10, 1945

Page

18

Step by Step From the Rhine To Germany's Complete Defeat

Chronicle of Allied advances from March through May marking the Rhine crossing at Remagen to Berlin falls. Key events include Patton and Ninth Army operations, Elbe crossing, Berchtesgaden bombing, Mussolini's execution, Doenitz's surrender, and V-E Day proclamation by Truman.

Germany Third Army Patton Berlin Ninth Army Wm. H. Simpson Elbe River Magdeburg Second Armored Essen Bochum Ruhr George S. Patton Third Czechoslovakia Sudetenland Hitler RAF Berchtesgaden Seventh Army Munich Moosburg Austria Karl Renner Benito Mussolini Italy Adolf Hitler Mussolini Switzerland Milan Stockholm Reichstag Hamburg Nazi Karl Doenitz Reichschancellery Goebbels Reich Denmark Norway Seventh Pacific Burma Rangoon Davao Philippines Holand Bernard Montgomery Jacob L. Devers Sixth Gustav Jodl Walter B. Smith Eisenhower Reims France

One Victor Absent On Day Of Triumph

Franklin D Roosevelt missed a day of triumph as his neutrality and arms embargo policies shaped early war aid. Key steps include the 1939 Neutrality Law, destroyer deal with Britain, lend lease, Atlantic Charter, Casablanca, Teheran, Yalta talks with Churchill and Stalin, and postwar planning amid a Navy force discharge note.

Franklin D. Roosevelt America Great Britain Atlantic Roosevelt Churchill Casablanca Churchill i Quebec Japan Cairo Chiang Kai-shek Germany Teheran Marshal Stalin Pacific Stalin Yalta

Navy to Retire Oldsters Over-42 Discharges Planned

The Navy said it will release volunteers over 42 and limit active personnel to improve efficiency. No exact numbers were given. Discharges to inactive duty will be processed by commanding officers on application, without prior Navy Department reference.

Washington Navy Navy Department

800 Planes to Move Yanks From Europe

The War Department announced 800 transport planes would be assigned to redeploy troops from the European theater. The spokesman said evacuation of U S troops would take at least a year and that about half of the troops moved to the Pacific would receive furloughs in the United States.

Ance Italy United States First Army 69Th E. R. Reinhardt Marshal Konev Torgau Germany Berlin War Department United States Europe Pacific

British censorship review cites 900 million war cable words

A review of British censorship activities this week notes that more than 900 million words have been sent by cable from London to global destinations since the war began. The count reflects extensive dispatches and the influence of wartime communications.

London

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