Nazi Offensive Soon Promised by Hitler Says Broadcast
Reports say Adolf Hitler declared a coming German offensive in a broadcast while addressing troops on the eastern front. The appeal referenced Allied breakthroughs and warned of actions against hostages if amnesty or concessions were demanded. Reports place Hitler at Berchtesgaden after retreat from Berlin, with enemy advances cited near Luxembourg and European fronts.
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Adolf Hitler
Isitler
Luxembours
Hitler’s Body of War News Amid Escalating Allied Push
Reports from Stockholm claim Joseph Goebbels was injured when a car crash near Berlin killed two Gestapo guards. Axis leaders Greiser and Hess are named among war criminals held by Allies, while Soviet and Polish authorities discuss Greiser’s capture and the Reich’s measures on the Eastern front. Allied offensives push toward Bavaria as Patton’s Third Army attacks across Poland, with a millionth ton of ordnance bombs dropped in a Merseburg refinery raid.
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Aews
Poz-nan
Arthur Greiser
Poznan
Mst
Rudolf Hess
Fuehrer
Germany
Forster
Danzig
Free State
Plagen
Reich
Plauen
Bavaria
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Elbe
Rhine
Ruhr
U. S
Bradley
U. S Ninth Army
Bernard L. Montgomery
Omar
George 3. Patton
Third Army
Paulingia
Doring Bic
Bavarian
Army Air Force
Merseburg-Leunt
Allied Forces Break Through In Worming German Front
Western Front reports indicate Dortmund area overrun by enemy bomb factory threat. U S Seventh Army advances to 11 miles and cuts the highway toward Wurttemberg. French First Army pushes near Ramsbu rk and nearing Stuttgart. Third Army drives through Thuringian hills toward the capital.
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U. S. Seventh Army
Kittingen
Mgia
Wuersburs
Wwernberg
Ramsrubkei
Paris
Stuttgart
U. S
Thuringia
Friday the 13th Roughest Day for Troy Plane Gunner
Sergeant Belcher 23 of Crocket Avenue Troy recalls a Friday the 13th mission over Germany in a Liberator bomber. Despite 78 hits from flak and a damaged plexiglass canopy he describes surviving the roughest flight as the crew fought through intense anti aircraft fire and returned safely. Belcher earned the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters.
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Ronald. B. Belcher
Crocket Avenue
Tros
Liberator
Bember Uprer
Thharmer
Germany
Stadt
Betesab
Bas
Bors
Benny Bex
Sargeant Belcher
Alice Belcher
Crocket Avénue
AOH Division Plans Social For April 19
Mrs Helen Hogan joined AOH Division 4 in their rooms at the Chasis Building with Mrs Alice O Grady presiding The meeting noted Mrs Mame Clifford recently had an operation at Leonard Hospital Plans outlined for a social on April 29 with Mrs Julie Gaynor as refreshment chair The group also discussed Saturday afternoon speak events and Bra O Grady led the luncheon after the business meeting.
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Helen Hogan
A. O. H. Division
Chasis
Alice O'Grady
Mame Clifford
Leonard Hospital
Julie Gaynor
O'Grady
Legion Post Initiates Class of 127 War Veterans
Noble Gallaher Post Americas Legion initiated 127 veterans in a special ceremony with 16 World War I vets and others from WWII and EF programs. Nine additional applications were received. plans for annual American flag sale to aid Rich and Disabled Veterans Fund were approved. Joseph Quinn led the initiation committee. William M. Burke commanded.
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Cochet
Noble Gallaher Post
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Joseph R. Qunn
Post Kitchen
Thomas J. Jackson
Ae E
Jarrangen Nvalliam
Jona Heenan Attends Installation and Entertainment Event
Adjutant Jona Heenan will attend the installation of the postwar unit. An entertainment program was presented and 2 junes served after the meal. The postwar rayon industry will be larger than prewar with Nylon and similar fibers expected to hold more than 50 percent of former business.
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Jona Heenan
Noans
Leo Hi Blume Bost
Fommer “Ste
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A.O.H
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Legion Post
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