7th Army Opens Rhine Crossing With Duesseldorf Shelling
Allied forces push across the Rhine at Neuss and drive toward Duesseldorf, as the Ninth Army advances through the Ruhr and Canadian and British units strike near Venlo and Roermond. The assault features heavy air and ground pressure with 150,000 American troops committed under Lt Gen William H Simpson.
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Paris
U. S. Ninth Army
Rhine
Ruhr
15Th
Duesseldorf
U.S. First Army
Cologne
U. S. Third Army
Trier
Uerdingen
Weeze
Kerrenheim
Xanten
Maas
Ninth Army
Venlo
Roermond
Second Army
Eisenhower
Wehrmacht
U. S. First Army
Erst River
First Army
Bonn
William H. Simpson
Marines Drive 700 Yards on Iwo Island
U S Pacific Fleet report says Maj Gen Graves Erskine's Third Marine division pushed 700 yards into Iwo Jima’s north end seizing a 362 foot hill and closing to 600 yards from the northern garrison. Fifth Marine division repelled counterattacks as engineers near a captured southern airfield. Japanese losses exceed 7,000 dead in four days. plans for carrier air support and close air support grow.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Guam
Graves B. Erskine
Third Marine
Iwo
Clifton B. Cates
Fourth Marines
Hell
Tokyo
Keller E. Rockey
Fifth Marine Division
Motoyama
Plane Overdue From Jackson Hole Elk Count
A six place private plane piloted by Dick Johnson of Missoula Montana with two men aboard was reported overdue after failing to land by late Friday in northwestern Wyoming. The crew included Orange Olson of Ogden Utah a forest service official and Bob Brown of Jackson a deputy Wyoming game warden. The party was conducting a cooperative elk census in the Jackson Hole district and was due back to Jackson by 3 p.m. Mountain Time.
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Jackson
Wyo
Dick Johnson
Missoula
Mont
Jackson Hole
Wyoming
Wilford Hansen
Teton National Forest
Johnson
Orange Olson
Ogden
Utah
Forest Service
Bob Brown
Hansen
Johnson Flying Service
Olson
Brown
Snake River
Grand Canyon
Weekend Snow For Butte And Regions West Of Divide
Weather forecast shows mostly cloudy skies in Butte with occasional light snow Saturday into Saturday night and little temperature change. West of divide expects light snow fading to flurries Sunday with highs 30 to 35. East of divide experiences cloudy with snow flurries Saturday and colder conditions Sunday.
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Butte
Montana
Divide
Missing Pacific general Lt Gen Harmon Reported
Washington reports on March 2 said Lt Gen Millard F Harmon commander of Army Air Forces in the Pacific was missing after a plane carrying him was overdue. War Department could not confirm details and a Blue Network broadcast claimed a crash with an intensive search under way.
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Washington
Millard F. Harmon
Army Air Forces
Pacific Ocean
War Department
Blue Network
Harmon
Pacific
Yankees Invade Lubang and Palawan Islands in Philippines
MacArthur announced landings on Lubang 35 miles southwest of Manila Bay and Palawan where Maj. Gen. Jens A. Doe’s 41st division completed occupation of Puerto Princesa harbor and seized the Swahig penal colony airfield. The drives marked the 18th and fifth island invasions in a week.
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Manila
MacArthur
Philippines
Lubang Island
Manila Bay
United States
Douglas MacArthur
Palawan Island
Frederick A. Irving
Leyte Island
Corregidor
Lubang
Jens A. Doe
Palawan
Puerto Princesa Harbor
Swahig
Berlin Reports Sensational Russian Gains
Berlin says Red army spearheads moved to four miles from the Baltic Pomeranian coast and trapped thousands of Nazi troops in northeastern Pomerania, with 30 villages captured on the Baltic salient’s western side. Moscow’s confirmation awaited as Rokossovsky’s Second White Russian army advances toward Zanow and Koeslin along the Berlin Danzig railway corridor.
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London
Red Army
Berlin-Stettin-Danzig
Koeslin
Pomerania
Danzig
Baltic
Moscow
Bublitz
K. K. Rokossovsky
Koeslin- Schlawe
Zanow
Berlin-Danzig
Germany
German Transocean Agency
Dubbertech
Convicted Yanks Get Chance to Redeem Themselves
In Paris on March 2 a U S Army plan offers 115 of 156 American soldiers convicted of stealing Army supplies a path to redemption by serving in a special fighting unit. Eisenhower ordered most to battle service after leaders and recalcitrants were excluded. Volunteers report March 7 for combat training. prior ratings wiped out, all privates.
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Paris
Pleas B. Rogers
Seine
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Senate Tightens Farm Draft Restrictions in China?
The Senate voted to tighten deferments for farm workers, basing eligibility on regular farm work and replacement availability. It rejected Taft’s newspaper employment ceiling proposal and left open how manpower will be channeled, with May Bailey reform debated.
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Washington
Senate
Tydings
D-Md
Taft
Ohio
House
Brown brothers honored with Silver Star awards in WWII
James Brown, 33, of Butte receives the Silver Star for gallantry in Holland on Oct 26 and a later battlefield promotion to major in Germany on Feb 1. Douglas Brown, 30, already earned a Silver Star for Wadke Island action and a Bronze Star for New Guinea. Douglas is at Camp Fanning Texas replacement center. James has six months overseas and just earned his first major engagement citation.
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James
Douglas Brown
Butte
John G. Brown
West Granite
Holland
Germany
Douglas
Wadke Island
Montana
41St
New Guinea
South Pacific
Camp Fanning
Texas
Jap Commander Losing Iwo Rat Holes
Associated Press reports Lt. Gen. Kuribayashi the Japanese commander on Iwo Jima is depicted as a strong willed leader. Marines have pressed the garrison into the island's north and prepare for a final offensive.
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Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Iwo Jima
Tokyo Radio Saturday
Eisenhower Reports Progress Near Düsseldorf In Offense
General Eisenhower said the Ninth and First armies made satisfactory progress in the offensive begun February 8 by the First Canadian army. He noted Rhine reach near Duesseldorf and 17,500 prisoners captured by Simpson’s troops, with light casualties. He toured by jeep near the Roer, but could not reach the army objective.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ninth
First
Rhine
Duesseldorf
William H. Simpson
Eisenhower
Simpson
Ninth Army
Roer River
Superfortresses Hit Singapore in Daylight Bombing
India-based B-29s of the Twentieth Air Force struck Singapore in daylight operations described as integrated with plans to cut Japan's empire. About 40 giant bombers took part against the naval base and supply bottleneck with results deemed good.
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Washington
Singapore
Japan
Twentieth Air Force
Great Naval Base
War Production Strikes Shut 24 Plants in Three States
A general shutdown of 24 Chrysler Corp and Briggs Manufacturing Co plants in Detroit Chicago and Evansville Ind affecting 126000 workers was forecast as 34125 employees joined stoppages closing 10 plants and curtailing others. Discharges were announced as authorities called the strike the most serious war production threat since Pearl Harbor. The dispute began at Chrysler Dodge main plant and Briggs plant actions escalated prior week.
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Detroit
Pearl Harbor
Chrysler Corp. Dodge
Briggs
De Gaulle Says Key Industries Should Be State Run
Paris March 2 4 Gen Charles De Gaulle told the consultative assembly that France must place coal electricity gas transport communications and heavy industries under state control for the war period. He urged leaving private initiative room until a constitutional convention defines limits. He spoke as France seeks higher industrial and agricultural output.
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Paris
Charles DeGaulle
France
Consultative Assembly
de Gaulle
Young fighter pilot destroys five Nazi planes in epic solo duel
Lt. Roscoe Allen of Dunlap Illinois, flying for the Eighth Air Force in England, engaged 15 German aircraft and shot down five in a 120 mile running battle. He believes two more were probable and could set a new single day record with confirmation pending gun camera results.
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Charles Chamberlain
Eighth Air Force
England
Roscoe Allen
Dunlap
Ill
Germany
Allen
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Joe Rosenthal
7Th Army
15Th Army
Ruhr Basin
Rhine River
Neuss
Lower Rhine
Emmerich
Reich
Iwo Island
By Elmont Waite
Millard Harmon
By C. Yates McDaniel
Berlin
W. W. Hercher
Solons
Maj
James G. Brown
Capt
Associated Press
FCC
Kuribayashi
United State
Tokyo Radio
9Th Army
By Jules B. Grad
Stars and Stripes
The
American Press
MLB
James L. Bixby
DeGaulle
Dummer Lake
Charlie
Jerry
No. 5
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
355Th
Friy
J. Melvin McDowell
Frank McDowell
Wisdom
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