Three Hundred B29s Strike Tokyo in Devastating Raid
More than 300 B 29s hit Tokyo’s industrial waterfront in a night raid, destroying 15 square miles of area and causing fires at seven points. General Curtis Le May called it a major blow and said it may shorten the war. In the Philippines, American forces pressed gains near Manila and Mindanao with heavy air attacks on Balete Pass and Zamboanga.
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Twenty-First Bomber Command
Guam
Tokyo
Indus
Curtis le May
21St Bomber Command
Assau
India
Malay
le May
Imperial Palace
Naka River
Tass
Manila
Mindanao Island
Balete Pass
Luzon
Douglas MacArthur
Zamboanga
Mindanao
First Cavalry
Santo Tomas
Antipolo
Sixth
158Th
Lake Taal
Batangas Bay
Caegayan Valley
MacArthur
Toko
Key City
George C. Kenney
Far Eastern Command
Cotabato
Moro Gulf
U. S
Kenney
Borneo
Maggar
Balikpapan
Aparri
Zambales
United States
Philippines
Formosa
China Sea
American lands in Japan predicted as large air raid burns Tokyo
AP dispatches report Nippon leaders foresee an American landing in the homeland soon. A record of about 300 Yank superfortresses left Tokyo in flames after fires swept the capital including the imperial palace. Stalin informs Romania of Transylvania return under the Sept. 12 armistice terms. Japanese offensive nears Swatow as forces press near the China coast.
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Associated Press
Nippon
Tokyo
Radio Tokyo
Imperial Palace
Moscow
Transylvania
Hungary
Hitler
Romania
Marshal Stalin
Petru Groza
Chungking
China
Swatow
Formosa
Marines Split Jap Defenses Into Three Parts
Marines on Iwo Jima report the island divided into three segments as U S forces press the offensive. Fourth Division gains reach Ta Chiwa Point while Third and Fifth divisions secure northeast beaches. Communique calls the action the beginning of the end of the fierce Pacific battle.
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Iwo Jima
Vern Haugland
U. S. Pacific Fleet
Guam
Iwo
Kitano Point
Fourth Marine Division
Tachiwa Point
Eight Square Mile Island
Motoyama Town
Third Marine
Clifton B. Cates
Graves B. Erskine
Keller E. Rockey
Pacific Fleet
Mora
U S 15th Army Moves to Continent Under Gerow
Paris reports the U S 15th army has landed on the continent under Lieut Gen Leonard T Gerow. He previously led the fifth corps during Normandy while Gen Dwight D Eisenhower commanded allied forces in the theater.
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Paris
U.S
15Th Army
Leonard T. Gerow
Supreme Headquarters
Gerow
U. S
Bradley
12Th Army Group
15Th
Eisenhower
Rhine
First Airborne
Road to Berlin fronts distances update
Eastern Front reports 25 miles from Seelow, Western Front 272 miles from Remagen, Italian Front 54 miles from the Reno river. This map-like briefing tracks Allied advances and remaining gaps across Europe.
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Seelow
Remagen
Reno River
Soviet Forces Press On Toward Danzig After Kuestrin Breakthrough
London AP reports Russian troops began shelling Stettin and pushed four armored spearheads toward Danzig as German authorities claim the Red Army has captured half of Kuestrin, a key Oder river fortress 38 miles east of Berlin.
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London
Stettin
Red Army
Kuestrin
Oder
Berlin
Danzig
Nogat River
East Prussia
Free City
New City
Warthe River
Altdamm
Franzhausen
Klebow
Moscow
G. K. Zhukov
K. K. Rokossovsky
Baltic
Pomerania
Gdynia-Danzig
Stalin
Lauenburg
Gdynia
Danzig City
Landschow
Schmelsin
Russians Reach Near Danzig as Siege Tightens
Soviet forces push toward the Danzig region across the Nogat and Warthe rivers, with the city of Stettin in Soviet sights. Allied air crews strike Remagen and Ruhr targets while Zhukov and Rokossovsky advance, squeezing German positions in Pomerania and threatening a Baltic coast split.
Papers show Jap diplomacy hid aims with smokescreen in 1930s
State Department releases from 1930 reveal Japanese propaganda and doubletalk at the London naval conference. Japanese experts advised a 7 to 10 naval ratio to counter American power, with plans for submarines from the Marshalls to block U S forces.
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Washington
Japan
Asia
Pacific
State Department
London
American
Britain
Tokyo
America
Pearl Harbor
Manila
Marshal and
Caroline Islands
Pocatello Area Weather Summary March 10
The Weather Bureau summary for Pocatello Municipal Airport covers the 24 hour period ending 6:30 PM March 10 with high 54 and low 55 degrees, mean 48, and total precipitation 0.0 inch. Normal values show 34 for mean and 0.50 inches month to date, with a 0.47 departure. Forecast calls for partly cloudy and colder conditions with snow flurries in the mountains. Nearby stations report varied highs and lows from Idaho Falls 52/26 to Salt Lake 60/41.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Pocatello Municipal
Pocatello
Idaho Falls
Dubois
Pacific Drive Now Awaits Wider Base
War analyst Kirke L. Simpson notes Admiral Nimitz sees a broader base needed for a Pacific attack on Japan. The Ryukyu island chain could serve as stepping stones and the last major link to cut Japan's Asiatic mainland communications, affecting supply lines and potential invasions.
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Kirke L. Simpson
Associated Press
The
Rhine
Germany
Japan
Rington
Pacific
China
Admiral Nimitz
Washington
Iwo Jima
East China Sea
Ryukyu Chain
Formosa
Nimitz
Ryukyu
Police name Medley in Washington murder case
Police charged 43 year old escaped convict Joseph Medley with first degree murder in the slaying of Nancy Boyer in a Washington apartment. Detectives linked fingerprints from Boyer's scene to Medley and noted pawnshop visits as supporting evidence while he remains at large for related bathtub death cases of two other women.
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Washington
Joseph Medley
Nancy Boyer
Boyer
Medley
Fort Hall Man Enlists in Navy on Saturday
Kenneth Darr ell Draper of Fort Hall enlisted in the Navy on Saturday joining the ranks.
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Fort Hall
Boise
Navy
Kenneth Darrell Draper
Allied push near Remagen opens new Rhine front
American forces widened the Remagen bridgehead east of the Rhine as German resistance collapses on the Wesel west bank. U S Ninth army reports cut off the Wesel escape route and advances toward a rail bridge, while Third Army nears Coblenz and frees 9,000 prisoners in the Eifel. German countermeasures include artillery buildup and air defense as U.S. fighters disrupt enemy bombing attempts.
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Bonin Island
Iwo
Army
Chichi Jima
Bonins
Palaus
Kusai
Ponape
Carolines
Navy
Wake Island
Tur ‘Hla Rae
London
Berlin
The
Reich
Remagen
Rhine
Eighth
Ninth
Germany
Third Army
Moselle
Lennep
Lippstadt
Niederscheld
Eindtebruck
Ruhr
Altenkirchen
Siegen
First Army
Linz
Eighth Air Force
Ninth Air Force
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Paris
West Bank
Wesel
Eifel
U. S. First Army
Associated Press
U. S
Ninth Army
35Th Infantry
Netherlands
Waal
Holland
Amsterdam
Rotterdam
Hague
Utrecht
Cologne
U.S
U.S. First Army
0.S. Third Army
Coblenz
First
Ahr
Ahrweiler
Grueck
Ardennes
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Heart of Japan
Bulletins
Saigon
Fifth Fleet
William R. Castle, Jr
Masanao Hanihara
Hanihara
Castle
Manchuria
Marshalls
Joseph Kusaila
Waterbury, Conn
George C. Marshall
Pacific Drive
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