Fortress City Kuestrin Falls to Soviet Armies Opening Berlin Drive
Soviet Marshal Zhukov's First White Russian army captured Kuestrin after a 35 day battle on the Oder, seizing a key fortress city on the river's west bank and signaling the start of a direct push toward Berlin. Stalin announced the victory in Moscow, noting the enemy stronghold on the Oder approaches.
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London
U.P
Gregory K. Zhukov
Oder River
Kuestrin
Berlin
Josef Stalin
Red
Stalin
Moscow
Oder
West Bank
Red Army
Zhukov
Poland
Germany
the Oder
Warthe
Neustadt
Bataan Heroes Parade Through San Francisco Streets
San Francisco crowds on Market Street cheer 274 liberated veterans from Bataan Corregidor and Mindanao as they ride in motor lorries after medical checks at Letterman hospital. Heroes wear new Army uniforms and receive gold lapel medallions bearing the City of San Francisco seal. Purple Heart and other medals were awarded at Letterman Hospital.
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San Francisco
Market Street
Bataan
Corregidor
Mindanao
Letterman Hospital
Weather outlook for Butte and Montana regions
Partly cloudy with light showers in Butte on Tuesday. Tuesday night fair with mild trend. High around 50. Monday records show 55 high and 27 low. In Montana west of the Continental Divide, Tuesday and Wednesday stay partly cloudy with moderate temperatures and highs 40 to 50 Tuesday. East of the divide, partly cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday with cooler conditions and strong west winds, highs 50 to 60 Tuesday.
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Butte
Montana
Continental Divide
Operations on Iwo Jima in Mop-up Stage
U S Pacific Fleet reports Fifth Marine division reduced the last sizable Japanese pocket around Kitano Point on Iwo Jima while small resistances remained in the northeast and northwest sectors. Marines massed tanks and demolition units for a final assault on a north east butte as air and naval support continued.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Guam
Keller E. Rockey
Fifth Marine Division
Kitano Point
Graves B. Erskine
Third Marine
Clifton B. Cates
Navy
Iwo
Fifth Fleet
Leathernecks
Bonins
Eleventh Army Air Force Liberators
Kuriles
Suribachi
Paramushiro
Kataoka
Shumushu
Babelthuap
Palau Islands
Marshalls
Iwo Jima
A. P
Morrie Landsberg
Fourth Marine Division
No Cig Line Jokes Spark Tax Office Line
Police redirected onlookers outside a cigar store in Atlanta on Monday as a crowd formed two lines. Bored observers asked which line led to the cigarette store, then moved on after learning both ended at the Bureau of Internal Revenue where income tax returns were being received.
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Atlanta
Bureau of Internal Revenue Office
Denver strike grinds on with 400 city workers walking out
Picketing at the city county building resumed Monday night as 400 city truck drivers, helpers and laborers from the highway and street cleaning departments kept a four day old walkout for higher pay.
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Denver
Liberated Allies En Route Home From German Captivity
Deliriously happy Allied troops, first batch of thousands freed by Russians, arrived at a Middle East port on their way home. The group included 427 British, four Norwegians, eight Palestinians, eight Egyptians, one Frenchman and a Pole. Some were captured during Von Rundstedt’s December offensive and released by Russians from German POW camps in Poland after about a month.
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Cairo
Middle East
Karl von Rundstedt
Poland
Tanks Spearhead American Drive in Mindanao
Maj. Gen. Jens A. Doe's 41st Division seized Zamboanga and the San Roque airdrome as American forces push swiftly through southwest Mindanao. Japanese defenses crumbled with minimal American casualties as Seventh Fleet units bombarded Basilan and Jolo. East of Manila, the First Cavalry captured ground east of Antipolo while the Sixth Infantry moved toward Montalban amid counterattacks. Continued action reported in Batangas province.
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Manila
Jens A. Doe
Zamboanga
Mindanao
San Roque
Oe MacArthur
Toay
MacArthur
Seventh Fleet
Basilan Island
Zamboanga Peninsula
Jolo Island
Basilan
First Cavalry
Antipolo
Sixth
Montalban
Batangas
International Bill of Rights to be Sought at World Security Conference
London reports say small European nations may push for an international bill of rights at the San Francisco world security conference. They seek a formal charter securing security against aggression and a world free press to influence public opinion and uphold league decisions.
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San Francisco
Alex Singleton
London
Europe
League
Tical
Singapore Naval Base Bombed by Superforts
India based Superfortresses attacked the Singapore naval base as part of a two front raid against Japanese targets. The 20th Air Force mission reported all planes returned with limited damage while Tokyo claimed minimal effect. Nagoya and Tokyo raids followed heavy firebombing and fires in the industrial heart of Nagoya.
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Washington
U.P
Singapore
Malay Peninsula
Nagoya
Japan
Roger M. Ramey
20Th
Federal Communications Commission
Tokyo
Kuala Lumpur
21St Bomber Command
Curtis le May
Two Men Sentenced for Forgery in District Court
Earl Clifford Penstrom and Chauncey E. Lake, both 30 and 31, received four year terms in the state penitentiary after pleading guilty to a forgery charge. County Attorney Frank J. Roe filed the case. Lake and Penstrom, who claimed to be ordinary seamen from San Francisco, were arrested by Officer Ed OKeefe and Night Chief Jack Duggan. They admitted theft in Los Angeles and passing American Express checks, with over 700 dollars in money orders and 860 dollars in currency recovered. They reportedly cashed checks in Denver, Great Falls, Helena, and other western cities.
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Earl Clifford Penstrom
Chauncey E. Lake
J. J. Lynch
Frank J. Roe
Lake
Ed O’keefe
Penstrom
Jack Duggan
Los Angeles
American Express Company
San Francisco
Merchant Marine
Duggan
Butte
Express
Denver
Great Falls
Helena
West
House Votes to Extend CCC for Two More Years
Washington March 12 The House approved extending the Commodity Credit Corporation for two years and raising its borrowing authority from 3 billion to 5 billion dollars in a 359 to 8 vote Republican efforts to block shorten or cut funding failed Republicans joined Democrats to extend the agency which pays subsidies to producers of key commodities.
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Washington
House
Commodity Credit Corporation
Nagoya Bombing Devastates Japan's Aircraft Center
Fires raged through Nagoya, home to Japan’s largest aircraft plant, after 300 B 29s struck the city. The raid matched Tokyo in destruction with around five square miles of Nagoya reported burning and heavy to light anti aircraft fire. General Le May promised further destruction of Japanese industry as U S air power grows.
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21St U. 8S. Bomber Command
Guam
Nagoya
Japan
Tokyo
20Th Air Force
Washington
Honshu
Saipan
Tinian
Curtis le May
21St Bomber Command Office
Ruhr Munitions Basin Facing Greatest Peril
Allied forces push east of the Rhine in a major early spring offensive with the U S First Army gaining up to 2.5 miles and expanding a bridgehead nearly 5 miles deep and 11 miles wide. Cities northeast of Remagen fall as Hodges shifts 40 000 troops into the advance threatening the Ruhr basin factories.
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First Army
Paris
U. S. First Army
Rhine
Ludendorff Bridge
Remagen
Courtney H. Hodges
Ruhr
Remagen Bridge
Ginsterhahn
Hargarten
Honnef
Hoenningen
Associated Press
Don Whitehead
Westerwald
Anti Nazi Riots Rage in Munich
Stockholm dispatch says riots broke out in Munich as protests against the war continued. Soldiers cordoned the city hall and all post, telephone, and telegraph communications were severed amid street fighting during exercises honoring German heroes.
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Stockholm
Aftontidningen
Munich
General Hodges Near When Shell Explodes at Rhine Bridgehead
A Deserting frontline report notes Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges inspecting the Remagen bridgehead under heavy German shellfire. The Remagen area endures continual bombardment as air forces struggle for a clear day to degrade the perimeter. Maj. James Townsend of Stanton Kentucky pilots an artillery spotter’s cab across the Rhine.
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U. S
Rhine
Courtney Hodges
Remagen
James Townsend
Stanton, Ky
General Bradenmeyer Dismissed Amid Panzer Losss
New York March 12 British radio reported General Bradenmeyer chief of the German Seventh Panzer army dismissed in disgrace. The broadcast said half of the Seventh Panzer army had been destroyed in the Eifel campaign on the U S Third army front.
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New York
Bradenmeyer
Seventh Panzer Army
U. S
Third Army
Eifel
Reich Ravaged in Heavy Air Assaults
Daylong air offensives by 2,550 planes from Allied air forces hit Germany from the Ruhr to the Baltic in support of Soviet advances. The RAF led a Dortmund strike with 1,200 bombers, while 650 American heavies attacked Swinemuende. The US Eighth Air Force bombed yards between Frankfurt and the Ruhr, with Liberators targeting Vienna area oil sites.
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London
Germany
Ruhr
Baltic Sea
Russia
Dortmund
Swinemuende
Stettin
British
Air Ministry
Essen
U. S. Eighth Air Force
Prankfurt-on-Main
Italy
Vienna
U.S
Eighth
Nazi Resistance in Italy Strong in Latest Front Push
Rome reports Field Marshal Albert Kesselring ordered German troops to defend every inch of Italian soil as if fighting in Germany. The warning came as enemy resistance stiffened along the U S Fifth Army front, contradicting talk of a northern withdrawal. Allied air action has closed the Brenner pass rail line for 44 days. Patriots in northern Italy step up attacks on German communications.
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Rome
Albert Kesselring
Germany
Fifth Army
Italy
Hitler
Austria
Brenner Pass
Kesselring
Conviction of Japs Upheld at Hart Mountain Relocation Center
The 10th U S circuit court of appeals upheld the conviction of 63 Japanese Americans from Hart Mountain Wyoming for refusal to report for military induction. Each defendant received a three year sentence from Federal Judge T Blake Kennedy. The ruling covered Shigeru Pujii with agreement that the decision would bind the other 62 defendants.
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Denver
10Th
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Hart Mountain
Wyo
T. Blake Kennedy
Wyoming District Court
Shigeru Pujii
Army Nurse Killed in Plane Crash on Ledo Route
Grass Range reported that Second Lieutenant Evelyn Gerdrum, an Army nurse, was killed March 4 in a plane crash while flying the Ledo route into China. State authorities said she was Montana’s first recorded woman war fatality.
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Grass Range
Magnus Gerdrum
War Department
Evelyn Gerdrum
China
Central
Montana
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Pacific
U. S. Navy
International Soundphoto
Reds
Cig
Mindanao Falls
India
Vern Haugland
By Austin Bealmear
Ludendorff
Hodges
Whitehead
General Hodges
Scribe
By Howard Cowan
Fifth Infantry Division
U. S. Third Army
Rhine River
Signal Corps
Reich
Charles Chamberlain
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