Polish Soldier as Witness at Terrorist Trial
A regional commander of the Polish Home Army testified at the terrorist trial of 16 members that he received orders from London to stage diversion against the Red Army. He described propaganda aimed at fostering hatred of Russians and claimed contact with London’s delegate. Fifteen defendants pleaded guilty. Gen Okulicki faced incriminating testimony.
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Henry Shapiro
Moscow
A.P
Polish Home Army
London
Red Army
Stanislaw Dzyalewsky
Wilno
Poland
Leon Okulicki
Cine Army
Dzyalewsky
Jan Jankowski
Jankowski
Federovich
Tempe Sergeant Hauls Wounded In His Tank
Tempe Sergeant Joe R. Alvarez operates one of two tanks evacuating wounded Marines from Kunishi ridges under machine gun fire. He and Sgt Freeman A. Aden call their service the Nambo trolley. The 1000 yards to the ridge takes 3 to 5 minutes, but 25 minutes to return with the wounded. Casualties are placed inside tanks or on top under sandbag protection.
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Tenth Army
Okinawa
Joe R. Alvarez
Tempe
Ariz
Kunishi
Alvarez
Freeman A. Aden
Golden
Two Thousand One Hundred Eleven Jap American Troops Casualties
Army figures show 2,111 Japanese-American soldiers suffered casualties in Europe. Among 361 killed in action and 59 died of wounds were 1,651 wounded, 34 missing, and six captured. Service with the 100th Infantry and 442nd Regimental Combat Team included many Hawaii Japanese. They fought from Salerno through Cassino to Rome.
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Pacific Ocean Areas
Italy
France
Hawaii
Salerno
Cassino
Rome
Single Shift To Suffice At Convair Plant
The Tucson division of Consoli dated Vultee will move to one shift per day starting next Monday. Second shift workers transfer to first shift this week, with completion by early next week. Some indirect departments already on one shift while production remains on two shifts this week. Plant to stay open into early August to finish planes on hand. Night shift workers shift to day, boosting day shift strength to meet schedules this month and next.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tucson
Consolidated Vultee
Wenchow Recaptured By Advancing Chinese
Chungking reports Chinese forces recaptured the port of Wenchow in Chekiang province at 6 a.m. Monday. Wenchow, about 220 miles from Shanghai, marks the second coastal city retaken in under a month after Foochow on May 19.
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Chungking
Wenchow
Chekiang Province
Shanghai
Foochow
Okinawa
China
Japanese Seen Giving Up Part Of China Area
AP analysis from Chungking notes Japan withdraws north along the China coast including Wenchow due to fear of Soviet entry. Amoy Swatow hold little strategic value while Hangzhou Shanghai northward remains key. Japanese reinforcements reported near Bias Bay. Chinese press urge Americans to find routes to supply China.
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China
J. M. Roberts, JR
Chungking
Wenchow
Russia
Amoy
Swatow
Hangchow
Shanghai
Indo-China
Malay Peninsula
Bias Bay
Hong Kong
Kowloon
Japan
Canton
Formosa
Foochow
Wenshaw
Okinawa
Siangshan
Sanmen
Taichow
Japanese Territory Threatens Supply Route Across China
Discussion notes a Japanese controlled area about 150 miles from the Shanghai Indo China rail line. China holds a 350 mile coastal strip opposite Okinawa. The text suggests the route could enable Chinese aid with Japan's Russia fear possibly forcing a full invasion, echoing European wartime terms.
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Shanghai
Indo- China
Lungning
Nanning
Okinawa
Japan
Russia
Europe
Tucson Truck Route Planning To Be Started
The state highway commission orders completion of engineering and rights of way for the Tucson truck route following a Tucson delegation. Immediate steps are requested to start construction when projects resume. The commission kept the 1945-46 budget at 15,715,713 dollars, transferring 100 dollars from other projects to survey work on the Black Canyon road and on highway 77 from Cutter to Winkelman and Hayden. The budget includes 7,964,798 for postwar construction and 1,648,600 for administration.
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Commission
Monte Mansfield
Tucson
Maricopa
Black Canyon
Phoenix
Prescott
Cutter
Winkelman
Hayden
King Leopold Reassumes Belgian Throne
King Leopold of the Belgians rejects abdication and announces his return to Belgium to resume full constitutional prerogatives after five years in German hands and weeks with the American Army. The Belgian government resigned in protest, and Leopold will govern from Brussels as Allied forces monitor the situation.
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Salzburg
Austria
Leopold
Gatlen Viscount du Parc
Belgium
106Th
15Th Corps
U. S
Leo
Achille van Acker
Captain du Pare
Leopold's Return Plans Unclear After Liberation Speech
The article notes uncertainty about when Leopold will return to Belgium or if his family will accompany him. It states his marriage to a commoner was proclaimed in Belgium churches on December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor day, and that this was his first public statement since liberation on May 7, with the family still at Villa Strobl on Lake Wolfgang.
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Leopold
Belgium
Villa Strobl
Austria
Seventy Percent Of European Equipment Battleworthy
The Army estimates at least 70 percent of its European equipment remains battleworthy for use against Japan. The figure was supplied to the Senate military subcommittee on war contracts yesterday by the War Department.
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Europe
Japan
War Department
Senate Military Subcommittee
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Globe
Miami
C. D. Hall
E. Broadway
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