Superforts Smash Big Jap Arsenal Over Tarumi and More
General MacArthur announced a massive fire raid by Okimawa based air forces on Tarumi and surrounding targets in Kyushu. Liberators Thunderbolts and Mustangs bombed munitions dumps and storage centers while fighters attacked wharves and shipyards. Fires raged across Tarumi, with smoke rising 22,000 feet as Japanese defenses offered moderate anti aircraft fire. Simultaneous strikes by Mustang and Liberty aircraft hit Tokyo area and other targets including Gunzan and Miti Airdrome. Far south, Lighting Fighters completed a record flight to Singapore knocking down two enemy fighters. Australian Kittyhawks supported ground operations near Balikpapan and Balikpapan road. Liberators hit Java shipyards and western Borneo ports.
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Manila
Upi
Tarumizu
Far East
MacArthur
Okimawa
Kyushu
Kagoshima Bay
Japan
Fortress
Guam
Korea
Gunzan
Ama
Singapore
Balikpapan
East Borneo
Samarinda
Banjoewangi
Java
1Th
Miti
Halmatera
Borneo
Seventh Fleet
Pontianak
Kuching
Chinese Troops Clear Invasion Coast Line
Chinese forces breached Yeungkong port and cleared a fifty mile stretch of the invasion coast west of Hong Kong, gaining control of coastal streets toward Tinpak and opening the area to potential landings. General Chiang Kai-shek’s headquarters reported the advance yesterday.
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Chungking
South China
Yeungkong
Hong Hong
Chiang Kai+ ahek
Yeungkon 3
Sifty-nila
Tinpak
Luichow
South China Sea
Baseball Scores and Postponements Update
National League games were postponed including St. Louis at Pittsburgh and Brooklyn at Boston due to weather. American League results show Detroit 6 Chicago 2 and Chicago 7 Detroit 0 with Cleveland beating St. Louis 9 7 and 8 4 in other matchups. Eastern League games all postponed by rain.
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St. Louis
Pitsburg
Wes. Grounds
Brooklyn St. Boston
Tain
Onis
Detroit
Chicags
Chicago
Clevalatia
Cheveland
Top U S Ace Killed in Plane Crash
Top US ace Major Richard Ka Bong is killed when his F 80 jet disintegrates shortly after takeoff near Burbank California. Eyewitnesses describe an explosion as the right wing fails and the escape hatch comes off, with Bong seen in the air and authorities reporting a panting blast that scatters debris across the area.
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Burbank
Cal
CPI
Richard Ka Bong
Lorkweed
Lockheed
Frank Bodenhamer
Bong
Margret
Bodenbamer
Acre
George H. Zane, Jr
Zane
U.S
New Bomb Could Change Nature of Warfare
Washington UP reports the atomic bomb may rank as a major warfare innovation possibly surpassing planes tanks or gunpowder in impact. Detailing Truman remarks observers caution on full effectiveness until Hiroshima results are revealed. One source notes potential for fewer planes and bombs if ample atomic weapons exist for Japan.
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Washington
Truman
Hiroshima
Japan
Greund Slaw
Bomb Blast Marks First Atomic Test in New Mexico Desert
The first atomic explosion, set off at the Alamogordo test site in New Mexico, sent a fireball many times brighter than the sun and a cloud rising to 20,000 feet within five minutes. Observers 10 miles away felt the shock. a massive fireball and mushroom cloud formed, with questions reaching 250 miles away.
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Los Alamos
N. M
Japan
New Memiza Desert
Fate
Fts Place
Alamogordo, N. M
Albuquerque
Associated Press
New ‘Mexico
Arizona
AL Albuquerque
Lestie R. Groves
War Department
Petain Sought Nazi Aid in Africa in Trial Remarks
Paris report says Prosecutor Andre Warner charged Marehai Petain and Hitler exchanged letters weeks after Allied landings in North Africa. The defense sought to admit a fragment dated Nov 6 1842 from Petain replying to Hitler, claiming collaboration was misinterpreted and that Petain aimed to work with Britain and the United States against Germany.
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Paris
Andre Warner
Marehai’ Petain
Hitler
North Africa
France
Mornet
Petain
Treasan
Polar
Chancellor
Penn
Britain
United States
Germany
Death by own action waves in Germany reported
A European radio broadcast cited a Swiss newspaper saying Potsdam reports a surge of personal crises after a major industrial crisis. CBS noted about 200 Berlin businessmen and industrialists took their own lives in the past week, while nearby regions reported lower but significant figures.
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Stockholms
Germans May Form Local Trade Unions
The United States and Britain authorized Germans in the American and British zones to form free local trade unions and political parties with Allied approval. Eisenhower warned that full democracy requires work, no idleness, and ongoing denazification as courts and schools are freed from Nazi influence while guiding Germany toward rebuilding life on liberal democratic principles.
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Berlin
United States
Britain
Eisenhower
Bernard L. Montgomery
Germany
Potsdam
Five American Soldiers Killed in French Truck Collision
Five American soldiers were killed and eight injured in a late night collision of two trucks near Unis in the Aisne department France. Names were not released pending notification.
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Beautor
France
Unis Aisne
Future Possibilities of Atomic Power
Churchill credited God for the Allied discovery of atomic power and urged Japan to surrender or face destruction. He noted German efforts lagged, highlighted raids on heavy water in Norway, and praised Roosevelt’s role in the project. The piece cites figures like Enrico Fermi and Meitner, and discusses the bomb’s immense destructive potential and the birth of a new science.
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Lendon
Japan
Churchill
Norway
Roosevelt
United States
Toman
Tiny Bits of Material Used In First Atomic Bomb Tests
Richland Washington reports scientists worked with ultramicro amounts for the first atomic bomb tests while massive earth moving and heavy construction proceeded. Early discovery in 1991 led to plans for plants producing ten billion times more material, with microgram level experiments advancing to grams by July 1944. Excavation reached 23 0000 cubic yards. materials moved nearly 50 000 catloads. concrete poured 780 000 cubic yards. steel 30 000 tons. bricks 750 000. high voltage wiring and poles extensive. long-distance miles of transportation documented during construction.
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Richland
Wash
Porter
Chicago
St. Louis
Ghoedes Aneut HS
Bugs
Trains Crash in Georgia Wreck Kills One and Injures Many
A Seaboard Airline collision in Lampkin Georgia fatally burned the engineer J T Hines of Americus and injured about 18 others. The passenger train rear ended a freight train west of Station Ascent Cy. The caboose burned as two crewmen suffered serious burns and many passengers sustained lighter injuries. The route was from Savannah to Montgomery.
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Savanah
Montgomery
Ala
Parker
New Atomic Bomb Powers and Hiroshima Raid Details
The Associated Press reports the atomic bomb’s annihilating power equals 2000 Superfortresses. Leaflets promise terror and a rain of ruin over Japan if war continues. Hiroshima received no warning and was not listed among initial targets in the 20th Air Force report. President to urge Congress on next steps as the first bomb is reviewed.
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Japan
Washington
Hiroshima
Tokyo
20Th Air Force
Congress
Envisions Use of U-235 to Aid Mankind
Dr Langer of Caltech warned in Collier s magazine that U-235 and U-233 could yield weapons of extreme power and fuel value. He described catastrophic potential if in wrong hands and envisioned vast transformation of transportation, infrastructure, and daily life through atomic energy and access to global production.
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New York
F. M. Lanzer
California Institute of Technology
Collier's Magazine
Langer
Important Jap City Picked for First New Bomb
Washington reports Hiroshima as the first target for the new atomic bomb. Described as an army city and major depot port of embarkation, it supported guns tanks and machine parts production. Population around 515,000 with industrial and warehouse constriction and storage districts noted.
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Washington
Hiroshima
War Department
Tovie
cTatt
Putanirns
Ickes Takes Vacation as Cabinet Future in Doubt
Interior Secretary Ickes left Washington last Friday for an extended vacation. His aides would not disclose his whereabouts or how long he will be away, and his future in the cabinet remains uncertain as President Truman travels in Europe.
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Washington
Ickes
Truman
Europe
Physicist 34 Led Part In Atomic Bomb Work
A University of Minnesota physicist Dr Alfred O Ninz aged 34 played a leading role in the development of the atomic bomb. While at the university he aided experiments naming a sub unit C 295 linked to uranium atoms. In 1940 he traveled to Washington for confinement studies and was asked not to speak of others work. Now in New York the scientist remains a figure of interest for his wartime contributions.
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St. Paul
Minn
University of Minnesota
Japan
Alfred O. Ninz
Uni
Aciéntifc
Nier
Washington
Baer
du Mier
New, York
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Tenn
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Anamelet
Italy
Enrico Fermi
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Fatlaw Senate
Rome
Meitner
Georgia
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