Okinawa Invasion Reaches East Coast Amid Strong Push
Allied forces advancing along the Okinawa front reach the island's east coast near Tobara with several thousand yards gained amid scattered resistance. Navy reports say airfields Katena and Yontan captured. Japanese planes attack Yank positions with five shot down. Buckner commands the assault as supply lines surge ashore.
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Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
24Th Corps
Tobara
Japan
Katena
Yontan
Yanks Seize Legaspi Port on Luzon Southeast Front
American forces led by Brig. Gen. Hanford MacNider's 158th Regiment Combat Team landed at Legaspi on Luzon's southeastern tip and secured the city and nearby airfields after bombardment. MacArthur's communique reports light American losses and rapid exploitation as Corregimientos advance on multiple fronts in the Philippines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Sixth Army
Hanford MacNider
Legaspi
Luzon
le’ Sespi
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Philippines
China Sea
Ith
Bicol
Balete
Baguio
Infante
Fortieth Infantry
Negros
Americas
Sedu
Commuuniques
Pravda Sees Allied Rhine Drive Slow Despite Progress
Pravda comments that Allied advance beyond the Rhine was not extraordinary. It cites 91 miles in three weeks for Americans versus 150 miles in a week by the First White Russian Army, noting limited German resistance on the western front and heavier fighting on the eastern front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
UPI
Pravda
Rhine
Mikhail Galactianov
France
Red Army
Galactidnov
Siegfried Line
Army Drops Claim on Five-Cent Candy Bars
The War Food Administration regional office announced that candy manufacturers will no longer set aside 50 percent of their five cent bars for the armed forces. Revised military estimates enabled the cancellation order, which had been in effect since October 7, 1948.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
War Food Administration
WEA
Seventh Army Tears Reich City From Map
The Seventh Army reports Reich City Aschaffenburg wiped from maps as U.S. forces under Lt. Gen. Alexander Patch advance into Bavaria. Thunderbird infantry of the 43rd Division and First Tactical Air Force Thunderbolts led a five day assault amid rubble and firing Germans.
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Seventh Army
Aschaffenburg
Alexander M. Patch
Germany
Bavaria
Thunderbird Infantry
43Rd
Thunderbolt
First Tactical Air Force
Thunderbolts
Wehrmacht
Tokyo raid likened to destruction of Rome by Tokyo radio
Japanese radio compared the March 10 American B 29 incendiary raid on Tokyo to the destruction of Rome. Tokyo acknowledged factories were gutted and thousands of residents homeless as the raid's impact was described.
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San Francisco
Byrnes Quits War Mobilizer Post After Resignation
President Roosevelt accepted the resignation of James B. Byrnes as War Mobilizer with an official hint that Germany is near defeat. Fred M. Vinson was named to succeed him as director of the Office of War Mobilization and Conversion. Byrnes had agreed to stay until Germany was eliminated and spoke of VE Day as not far distant as Allied forces pushed into the Reich.
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Washington
Roosevelt
James B. Byrnes
Germany
Byrnes
Fred 3. Vinson
Federal
Office of War Mobilization
Rhine
Reich
Supreme Court
Capitol Hill
Johnson
Civil Fe
Senate
Mississippi Flood Threat Alarms Army
U S Army engineers plan to open the Morganza floodway north of Baton Rouge to divert water into the Gulf and ease flood pressure on lower valley levees. Col George H Hudson says flood action could begin within two weeks as backwaters rise and residents near Warren County evacuate about 300 families with Red Cross support. Governor James H Davis urged funds for levee patrol sandbagging and maintenance as Louisiana braces for the worst flood since 1937.
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New Orleans
U. S. Army Engineers
Eampest
Mississippi River
Baton Rouge
Gulf
George H Hudson
Mississippi
Red Cross
Vicksourg
Warren County
Miss
Tron
Yazoo
James H. Davis
Louisiana
State Board of Liquidation
Dewitt Prourn
Department of Pubic Works
Ted Mathaia
Dar Ana
Saboteurs Wreck Train On U S Seventh Army Front
Reported strike by Nazi saboteurs on the U S Seventh Army front. A German train and several coaches plunged through a shattered overpass onto a military highway near Erbach 23 miles northeast of Mannshet, killing several American troops and delaying an armored column. Bulldozers cleared wreckage and traffic resumed.
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U.S. Seventh Army
U.S
Seventh Army
Erbach
Twe
Manns Het
Germans Attack In Ruhr and Soviets Near Slovak Capital
Allied dispatches report German offensives in the Ruhr while Soviet forces drive toward Bratislava and approach Vienna from the south. Soviet tanks break into Slovak territory as Moscow tightens blackout measures and Russian success claims extend into Hungary and Romania corridors.
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Ruhr
Holland
Britain Hopes End of Nazi V Weapon Threat Near
London reports marked the longest lull in German V weapons attacks in nine months as Britain prepares for possible new revenge strikes. Authorities warned of remote controlled aging bombs and dynamite loaded Junkers 88 bombers while Easter optimism grows that the V weapon era may be ending.
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London
Britain
Holland
Leite
Supreme Headquarters
Montgomers
Cevice
England
Germany
Liberated Yanks Tell Of Reich Death March
American and British prisoners freed after the U S Third Army overran Grimmenthal describe a forced march across Germany to the Russian front and back It claimed more than 1000 deaths among captives Included 70 Americans and over 40 British Most Britons were captured in the Arnhem airborne expedition last September A senior American officer cites bread rationing of one loaf daily for eight men as a cause of deaths
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London
Rugsizen Assenk
Bratishiva
Slovakia
Berlin
Vienna
Wiener Neustadt
Moscow
Austria
Semmering Pass
Europe
Seop Dietrich
Hitler
Dietrich
Germany
Folbushin
Nagykanitsa
Mahinovsky
Danube
Topolchany
Nitra
Bratislava
U.S. Third Army
Ith . Armored
Grimmenthal
Arnhem
Stand of London Defended by Reich Defense Commissioner
Reich Defense Commissioner Alois Hitler declared last night in a broadcast that London stands ordered to be defended at all costs using every means at the garrison's disposal as a safeguard against invasion.
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London
Reich Defense
Baiur “Ot Schirach
House Probes Black Market Meat and Food Storage
House food study committee plans trips to Boston and New York to probe alleged black market meat in those cities and study fish supplies and consumer issues in Cleveland and Chicago. The panel may visit Minneapolis to inspect butter. prior talks include War Mobilization successor Vinson and Army meat needs. Senate hearings on dead storage food continue with Wherry urging scrutiny of canned goods and warehouse stock.
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Washington
Anderson
D-N.m
House Food Study Committee
New York
Boston
Chicago
Cleveland
Fred M. Vinson
James F. Byrnes
Minneapolis
Senate
Wherry
Neb
War Food Administration
Lee
Allied Bombers Hit Nazi Escape Routes in Italy
Allied medium bombers targeted German escape routes in northern Italy as missions struck communications and installations near the Po Valley. Royal Navy ships operated along the French Italian frontier including San Remo while reports mention U S S destroyer Laub among combatants on the front. The British Eighth Army repelled a German assault on two Senio River positions as ground fighting eased elsewhere.
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Rome
GPU
Ith
Po Vader
San Remo
Niga Command
Com
Munique
Aghting
Petit
Little) St) Bernard
U. S&s
Laub
Eighth Army
Senio
Werewolves Killings Claimed by German Underground
The Nazis claimed yesterday that officers of the Werwolf underground terror group conducted murders in Aachen Meschede and Frankfurt Heidelberg with the aim to disrupt Allied occupation forces. An underground radio boasted assaults on Americans and threatened Gordon Baruch claiming he "in his crimes" started World War I. The broadcasts urged violence against occupation authorities and urged dissemination of the "wolf trap" symbol on tanks walls and ruins.
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London
Aachen
Meschede
Berlin
Wertwolf
Ajr
Frankfurt
Heidelberg
Radia
Bernard Baruch
Germany
Baruch
Moscow
Mild Outbreak Of Polio Reported At Ft. McClellan
Fort McClellan public affairs office reported a poliomyelitis outbreak affecting two soldiers with one service member dying last week and another yesterday. Names were not released, but officials said the latest cases are less severe and the peak may be past.
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Ft. McClellan
Asia
Charles GC. Demer
Mi Bic- Glerian
British Mosquitos Hit Berlin and Magdeburg Tonight
German cities Berlin and Magdeburg were attacked by Mosquito bombers during the night, according to the Royal Air Force bomber command. The raids form part of ongoing Allied air operations over occupied Europe as World War II intensifies.
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London
Berlin
Magdeburg
R. A. F. Bomber Command
General Rose Dies Leading Tank Attack
General Maurice Rose commander of the Third Armored Division was killed in action while leading his division in Germany. He had spearheaded a rapid advance with a dash described as possibly the fastest in combat history by correspondent Thomas R. Heary. Rose had recently been cited for the Distinguished Service Medal for fearless leadership in France and Belgium.
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Washington LP
Mej
Maurice Rose
Germany
Third Armored Division
Courtnay Hodges
First Army
Thomas R.heary
Washington Star
Rose
France
Belgium
Henry
Fire damages burning LST at Pier 22 North River
Crew members formed a chain to unload shells and depth charges from the burning LST at Pier 22 as flames spread from the after hold. Sparks from a welding torch started the blaze at 2 28 pm. Coast Guard fire tugs and city fire units fought the blaze with water and foam. Six people were slightly injured among Navy, city fire and watchman personnel. No damage estimate yet.
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New York
Pier 22
North River
Navy
Ninth Army Nears Berlin Amid German Counterattacks
Allied dispatches report Ninth Army forces advancing toward Berlin with 1535 miles to the city as German counterattacks in the Ruhr and Warburg areas are repelled. Bradley’s 12th Army Group says 350000 Germans have been captured, with ongoing efforts to prevent retreat into the Bavarian Alps.
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North Sea
Sinred
Andy
First Army
Winterberg
Warburg
Ruhr
Gemers
Coors
Pederborn
Germany
Ninth Amer Sere
Berlin
Werra River
Eizenach
Leipz
Patton
Kets
Czechoslovakian
Bavarian Alps
Come and Get Us Song Reveres Patton Rescue Tale
A wartime note recalls American captives singing a theme song in a German camp praising General Patton and the 3rd Armored Division. The improvised chant imagines release as U S forces led by Patton free prisoners, ending with a call to return home.
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Siegenmann
Germany
Giorgie Patton
Giory
Glom
Satelujah
Georgie Fabson
Patton
Seth Armored Division
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University City
Signal Corps
Okinawa
Nakagusuku Bay
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr
Qhinawa
South
Army
Reich City
Tani
Wes
Czechoslovakia
Oland
Kassel
Nuernberg
Glogau
House
Italy
Chaim
Ninth Army
Georgie
Ord Edi
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