3rd Army Attacks Coblenz and Tokyo Air Raids
Allied air forces and a U S carrier task force launched coordinated strikes across Japan and southern Honshu. Carrier planes flew against Tokyo and the Shikoku Kyushu region while Mitscher's force renewed attacks, with reports of enemy losses and no U S ship damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Shikoku
Kyushu
Tokyo
Chester W. Nimitz
Marc A. Mitscher
Honshu
Federal Communications Commission
Domei
Mitscher
Iwo Island
Special Gifts Group to Lead Red Cross Campaign
Butte volunteers from the Special Gifts Unit will spearhead an accelerated Red Cross drive starting Monday. Each worker has ten contacts to persuade donors to increase last year’s contributions by at least 30 percent as the nationwide effort aims for 200 million dollars. The total raised by Saturday at headquarters reached 7074.85, with significant amounts reported by Hennessy store workers, J. D. Newman, Kenneth Christie, and John L. Boardman, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte Red Cross Campaign
A. J. Davis, Jr
West Broadway
Hennessy
Red Cross Booth
J. D. Newman
Kenneth Christie
John L. Boardman
Special Gifts Unit
Butte
Drive
American Legion Auxiliary
Butte Business and Professional Women’s Club
Hardy Perennial Club
Junior League
Navy Mothers Club
No. 88
Serbian Sisters
Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary
Davis
American Red Cross
America
Red Cross
France Holds Out On Big Three Plan For Liberated Areas
France has not yet accepted the Big Three invitation to participate in the plan for liberated areas, the message disclosed Saturday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Washington
Weather outlook for Butte and Montana regions
Butte remains mostly cloudy with occasional snow flurries Sunday and Sunday night and little temperature change. West of divide expects partly cloudy skies with scattered showers or snow flurries and a high near 35 to 40. East of divide reports similar partly cloudy conditions with scattered showers and snow flurries over mountains, high 34 to 45. Monday turns partly cloudy and slightly warmer.
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Butte
Montana
Divide
Fires Rage Seven Hours in Kobe
Great fires burned a 12 square mile area in Kobe Japan's leading shipbuilding city as 300 B 29s dropped incendiaries. Reconnaissance photos of Osaka raid show seven eighths of a 10 square mile target area burned and list destroyed installations including metal industries Kubota Iron and Machine Works Nakahama Steel Nitta Leather Belt Hatsudoki Engine Fukuzaki Steam Power plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
21St Bomber Command
Guam
Kobe
Japan
Osaka
Osaka Metal Industry
Kubota Iron and Machine Works
Nakahama Steel Company
Nitta Leather Belt Manufacturing Works
Hatsudoki Engine Works
Japan Diestuff Manufacturing Company
Fukuzaki
Edward Merzlak dies in action in Navy service
PhM 2/c Edward Peter Merzlak 18, killed in action with the Fourth Marine division at Iwo Jima. He enlisted Oct. 24, 1943 after junior year at Butte High School and Ferragut training. Survivors include mother Mrs Pauline Merzlak Radetich, brother Pvt Al Merzlak, and several relatives in Butte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Peter Merzlak
Navy Department
Pauline Merzlak Radetich
Gallatin
Fourth Marine Division
Iwo Jima
Merzlak
Grant
Butte
U. S. Forest Service
Farragut
Idaho
Oceanside
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Pvt
al Merzlak
Luxembourg
Phm
Clarence
Nicholas Merzlak
Nick Radetich
Robert Zorich
Anton
Sster
Robert
Annie Zorich
Primary Election Campaigns Close Today in Butte Race
Campaigns wind up Sunday as voters prepare for Monday’s bid in the city primary. Fifteen thousand five hundred thirty eight eligible voters across sixteen precincts in eight wards will cast ballots from noon to seven. Liquor stores must close during voting hours, with 15,538 eligible voters and eight wards. Three Democratic mayoral candidates and two Republican contenders seek the post, plus twenty five alderman candidates, twenty on the Democratic ticket and five on the Republican side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Bar’ Riley
Beryl Wilson
German home front told of shortages in wartime dress
A Berlin broadcast reported that shortages of material will force women to go without black stockings and men without black ties even in case of the death of the closest relatives. Mourning bands for the arms are permitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Berlin
Czechoslovak Leaders Arrive in Moscow from Baku
President Eduard Benes and leading ministers of the Czechoslovak provisional government arrived in Moscow from Baku after a flight over storm swept steppes in a Soviet plane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Eduard Benes
Baku
Yanks invade Basilan island off Zamboanga
American invasion of Basilan island across a 12 mile strait from captured Zamboanga was announced by Gen. Douglas MacArthur in a Sunday communique. The report cites Japanese losses of 282000 troops thus far in five months of campaign and notes American casualties of 18579.
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James Hutcheson
Manila
Basilan Island
Zamboanga
Mindanao
Japan
Basilan
Sulu
Borneo
Luzon
Douglas MacArthur
Balete Pass
Cagayan Valley
Baguio
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Jens A. Doe
Pasonanca
33Rd
Benguet
Civilian Meat Supplies Cut 12 Percent
Washington March 17 government announces a 12 percent cut in civilian meat supplies starting April 1. Civilians to receive 115 pounds per person per year for April to June, down from 130. less beef and pork, more veal lamb and mutton. Lend-lease shipments reduced. Britain to receive about 25 million pounds next quarter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of War Information
War Food Administration
OWI
U. S. Army
Soviets Take Brandenburg Stronghold as Stettin Falls
Soviet forces broke into Stettin’s southern defenses and captured Brandenburg nine miles southwest of Koenigsberg. Zhukov’s First White Russian Army pushed to the east bank of the Oder as Berlin warned of heavy German counterattacks near the Pomeranian capital. Moscow claimed 20,000 German deaths and 600 tanks destroyed in a 13 day battle near Lake Balaton southwest of Budapest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Stettin
Germany
Baltic
East Prussia
Brandenburg
Koenigsberg
Berlin
Oder River
Gregory K. Zhukov
Moscow Radio Front
Red Army
Lake Balaton
Budapest
Hungary
Balaton
Moscow Radio
Italy
Zhukov
Frauenhof
Retzewsfelde
Ferdinandstein
Oder
Griefenhagen
Kluetzer Forest
Altdamm
Pomerania
Moscow
Dammschersee
Berg
Germans Prepare Final Defense Area in Last Stand
German broadcasts say the war enters a decisive phase with the Allied spring push across the Rhine and planned last-stand defenses in Bavaria and Austria. Moscow reports coordinate Allied fronts and heavy weapons moved to the south while Salzberg salt mines may shelter planes and supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Chester
London
Moscow
Germany
Red Army
Coblenz
Kolomeitsev
Bavaria
Austria
Wilhelm Keitel
Alfred Jodl
Associated Press
Alvin J
Sreinkopf
Western Front
Salzburg
Steinkopf
Hero’s praise marks Fitzpatrick Bastogne leadership
First Lt. Lawrence M. Fitzpatrick, 27, son of Mr and Mrs Michael J Fitzpatrick, led his rifle platoon with the 506th Parachute Infantry in Bastogne. A press release from the 101st Airborne in France recalls his bold defense as German forces pressed the city on December 18 and credits his leadership with inspiring his men who followed him “through hell.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence M. Fitzpatrick
Bastogne
Hell
Michael J. Fitzpatrick
916
West Quartz
France
Fitzpatrick
101St Airborne Division
Butte
506Th Parachute Infantry
Coblenz Falls as Allied Armies Break Through German Fronts
Allied forces under Patton advance from Coblenz and drive toward the Rhine as Seventh and Third armies sever rear areas of German defenses. First army gains stretch east of the Rhine while Siegfried line pressure intensifies in the Saar and Palatinate amid rumors of armistice and renewed bombardment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Coblenz
Bonn
U. S
Palatinate
George S. Patton
Seventh U. S. Army
Saar
Siegfried Line
Hornbach
Zweibruecken
Seventh Army
Third Army
Rheinboeller
Ellern
Rhine
Mainz
First Army
Remagen- Erpel
Ruhr
Fourth Armored
Nahe
Allied Europe
Supreme Headquarters
Switzerland
Eisenhower
Frankfort
Mannheim
Ludewigshafen
Rhineland
Rhine Valley
U.S. Seventh Army
U. S. First Army
Strodt
Hoenningen
Great American Air Fleets Bomb Germany in Major Raid
Large American air armadas, over 2,000 bombers and fighters, thundered over the Reich in a daylight strike targeting five rail and oil plants while the RAF pursued a 1,000-strong night raid on the Ruhr. The U S Eighth Air Force split into five groups to hit Leipzig Ruhland near Dresden Moblis Muenster and Hannover. Ninth Air Force jets backed Third and Seventh armies along the Moselle Rhine triangle, blasting road junctions and strafing columns. No serious Luftwaffe opposition reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Reich
Ruhr
U. S
Eighth Air Force
Germany
Leipzig
Ruhland
Dresden
Moblis
Muenster
Hannover
Dortmund
Huls
Recklinhaven
Ninth Air Force
Moselle- Rhine
Coblenz
Midnight curfew liberalized for essential workers
Washington, March 17. The War Manpower Commission announced a broader rule allowing restaurants serving food to essential workers to stay open after midnight. The previous exemption required war plant workers and a written exemption filing, which is now removed. McNutt did not specify how essential worker status will be tested.
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
McNutt
WMC
Heavier Drafting of Men 30 and Older Foreseen by Selective Service
Washington. National Selective Service forecasts heavier drafting of men 30 and older from essential war industries after authorizing deferments for about 145000 younger workers in steel coal mining transportation synthetic rubber and non ferrous mining. The move breaks a 30 percent deferment ceiling for 18 to 29 year olds and shifts deferments to key sectors while older combat replacements are drawn from other industries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Selective Service
Washington
Selective Service Headquarters
Selective Service
Inter-Agency Committee
James F. Byrnes
Navy
War Production Board
Solid Fuels Administration
National Coal Association
Office of Defense Transportation
Great Lakes
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Rangoon
Vern Haugland
Edward Merzlak
Philippines
Edwin D. Patrick
Sixth U. S. Infantry Division
Sixth Army
Luzon Island
War Department
New Guinea
Patrick
By Richard Kasischke
Haguenau
Robert Ley
Rhine Front
Ludwigshafen
By Edward Kennedy
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