Yanks Land in Ryukyus Amid Pacific Offensives
Tokyo radio said U.S. troops attempted a landing on Okinawa as carrier planes maintained raids and B 29s hit Nagoya. Nimitz reported ships shelled Minami Daito and a Japanese convoy west of Amami Oshima. Mitscher led carrier strikes against southern Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morrie Landsberg
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Guam
Radio Tokyo
U. S
Okinawa
Ryukyu Islands
Japan
Western Pacific
Nagoya
Tokyo
Chester W. Nimitz
Minami Daito
Amami Jima
Ryukyus
Comei
Adm
Marc A. Mitscher
Pattons Forces Set Pace With 27 Mile Advance
American forces push toward Berlin in a rapid multi army offensive. Third Army tanks lead a 27 mile advance crossing the Rhine near Coblenz with additional crossings and breakthroughs by Ninth and First Armies. Patton’s Fourth Armored spearheads the Main bridge capture as Frankfurt nears evacuation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pattons
Edward Kennedy
Paris
U.S
Berlin
Third Army
Rhine
River Main
U.S. Ninth Army
Essen
Reich
U.S. First Army
Remagen-Erpel
Coblenz
First
Grand Western Front
German
Holland
Rees
Worms
George S. Patton
Fourth Armored Division
Germany
Frankfurt-on-the- Main
Aschaffenburg
Frankfurt
Patton
Fifth
Third
Bombers cripple Formosa plant and damage Cebu
Fifth Air Force heavy bombers wreck the Jitsyutsu hydroelectric plant in southern Formosa with 145 one ton bombs. Other bombers hit Cebu island with 210 tons of explosives while patrol bombers sink or damage nine freighters and a destroyer escort. Southern Formosa faces blackout and industry layoff as recon photos show extensive damage to power stations. One American plane was lost to antiaircraft fire. On Luzon, Balete pass sees renewed fighting as the 25th and 33rd divisions advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Hutcheson
Manila
Fifth Air Force
Formosa
Jitsyutsu
Cebu Island
Philippines
China Sea
Takao
Karenko
Japan
Ennis C. Whitehead
Luzon
Balete Pass
Germany Urges Boys and Girls to Fight to the End
Berlin reports quote Arthur Axmann calling on German children to refuse capitulation as Allied forces push deeper into occupied Europe. Swed ish dispatches note anxiety in Berlin over the Rhine crossing and anticipated airborne landings while the German public faces shifting attitudes toward the war and looming defeat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philaust
London
U.P
Germany
Reich
Arthur Axmann
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Axmann
Rhine
Wesel
Bocholt
United Press
Stockholm
Ernst Hepp
Red armies drive toward Austria in major spring offensive
Soviet forces on a 90 mile front push from the south and Danube bank gain up to 28 miles in initial advances. Tolbukhin and Malinovsky join operations recapturing Esztergom and moving toward Györ and Budapest as Vienna area targets loom. Casualty and capture counts rise with 83 000 enemy losses reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Austria
Vienna
Russia
Hungary
Feodor I. Tolbukhin
Third Ukraine
Stalin
Ukraine
Ro‘dion Y. Malinovsky
Danube
Komarom
Bratislava
Gyur
Pap
Moscow
Malinovsky
Berlin
Poland
Moravian
Czechoslovakia
Prague
Heiligenbeil
East Prussia
Koenigsberg
Baltic
Danzig
Gdynia
Tolbukhin
Esztergom
Budapest
Death of Carl O. Howe Noted Mining Engineer
Carl O. Howe longtime chief draftsman in Anaconda Copper Mining Companys mining engineering department died Sunday in a local hospital after a brief illness. A Butte resident for over 45 years he served 25 years with Anaconda and contributed to locating and patenting thousands of mining claims in the Butte district. Born in Brooklyn New York he studied at Lincoln Nebraska and moved to Butte at the turn of the century as an assistant engineer with Barker Wilson. He later joined Barker Wilson as a draftsman before joining Anaconda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl O. Howe
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
West Park Street
Mr. Howe
Anaconda Company
Butte
Brooklyn
N. Y
Lincoln
Neb
Barker Wilson Engineering Company
Barker Wilson Company
Howe
Butte Man Stabbed to Death by Fellow Employe
Butte police say Verner L. Rhueff a Frank Gough ranch employee was killed Sunday night after a dispute at a ranch dinner table with a man named John Smith. Rhueff’s wife lives at 2938 Wharton St Butte. Paratroopers drop into Sweden near Norway border with suspected explosives aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Verner L. Rhueff
Frank Gough
Gold Creek
R. W. Ross
Powell County
Rhueff
John Smith
Wharton Street
Airborne Landing East of Rhine Most Successful of the War
Allied airborne forces hit the east side of the Rhine and seized objectives within eight hours. Lt Gen Brereton and Lt Gen Dempsey praised the operation as among the war’s most successful airborne missions. The 6th British Airborne and 17th American divisions secured bridges and high ground near Wesel despite German resistance. Prisoners described briefings on future landings and a sense that Germany could be beaten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhine
Lewis H. Brereton
First Airborne Army
Miles C. Dempsey
Second Army
Sixth Airborne Division
Normandy
D-day
17Th Airborne Division
17Th
Wesel
Issel
84Th
Emmerich
Germany
First Army Pushes Toward Berlin From Remagen
U S First Army troops and armor drive nine miles east from the Remagen Erpel bridgehead toward Berlin. Tanks and infantry assault Ruhr district flank, reaching Flammerzfeld and Vallendar near Coblenz. Commanders vow to press on toward Berlin despite German resistance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. First Army
United States First Army
Remagen-Erpel
Berlin
Ruhr
Flammersfeld
Rhine
Vallendar
Coblenz
St. Lo
First
Cherbourg
Allied Flyers Knock Out 6 000 Vehicles
In daylight Sunday the Allied air forces struck German targets from England and the continent. Mosquitos hit Berlin for the 34th night, while U S Army Air Forces and Royal Air Force planes flew over 6 500 sorties supporting the ground offensive and knocked out about 6 000 enemy vehicles. Fortresses and Liberators from the U S 15th Air Force bombed airfields near Prague, used by German units opposing Russian troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Chamberlain
London
Germany
Field Marshal Montgomery
Ruhr
Berlin
England
U. S
15Th Air Force
Prague
30th Division Breaks German Rhine Defenses in Bold Advance
The 30th Division under Wes Gallagher and Robert Eunson with the U S Ninth Army drives eight miles from the Rhine into open country north of the Ruhr. German resistance collapses as armored infantry pours forward. The 79th division nearby also advances with limited German pockets delaying progress. The Rhine crossing occurred within about 14 hours.
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U.S. Ninth Army
Hitler
Rhine
Ruhr
Roer
France
21St
U. S. 79Th
Terg
Ninth Army
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Amami
Toku NO
Shiya I
Kume
Sauivaxo LA
Otarama I
Ishigaki I
Ryukyu
Merama
Rhine River
U. S. Army
War Department
Signal Corps
Liberators
Seattle
Skidrow
Sweden
Norway
By Ned Nordness
Hal Boyle
Don Whitehead
Allied Flyers
By Wes Gallagher and
Robert Eunson
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