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after the navy planes had fierce sky battles were stL11 fought "unthat the results were pulverized Japanese interceptor but der investigation" and antiaircraft defenses broadcasters said the Report Scout Planes a tl ilaagsn e:s a t)ou t six hours Indicating that s'COUt planes They reported the carrier fleet probably were over the city Sunnumbered 600 to 1600 planes and day night to photograph the damhit from 7 a Tn (4 p m Saturday age Tokyo reported a brief alr M W T) to 10:30 a m Tokyo said raid alarm at 9 p tn (6 a m Sunthe roared over the city in day 2k1 NV T) 'S snowstorm around 2 Enemy broadcasts on the size and dropped bombs for two of the carrier fleet ranged from hours an original count of 1600 to 600 the latter according to a Japanese Marks New NS'arfare d communique They reported that Officials here said the assault first such made the attacking fleet took off from on the Japanese homeland which Cia5rr ter 16 regular and converted rfi and blasted Tokyo as now has been hit a total of 33 to the south as Yokohama times by army and navy planes The last such carrier strike was marked the start of Feb by approximately air warfare against the heart of made 1200 planes which destroyed or Nippon's war machine Tokyo reported that some bombs damaged 659 Japanese planes and fell adjacent to the ministry of 36 ships Tokyo now has ' been hit the imperial household which is once by Mitchell bombers in the on the southern edge of the h is torie raid of April 18 1942: times by carrier planes and Ipalace grounds starting fire Other three bombs fell near the Om 3 a pal- 10 by Superfortresses ace home of the emperor's mother Sadako Omiya DowagerPrincess west of the palace is a half-mil- e PROMPT SERVICE emperor's palace Tokyo said that Premier Gend Kuniaki Koiso expressed "anger at the enemy's arrogance and law7 1 lessness" and had requested an au-- 1 thence with the emperor to offer I his and his cabinet's apologies "for I —WflA the unforgiveable negligence" A I I1 1 around the I Although damage 1 Imperial properties was described II I by Tokyo as light Koiso said "I am filled with trepidation" Koiso and other high officials including those in charge of air defenses would be personally reAll Plain Garments sponsible for any bombing of imperial property and conceivably as the remight commit hara-kir- i )5z1 sult A bulletin announcing the Super-fortreCashattack by planes of Maj Carr7 Gen Curtis E Lemay's 21st bomber command said the sky giants took off "for the continuous task of striking targets in the industrially important Tokyo area" The bulletin stated that the record attack meant that the 6 Convenient Offices Superfortresses now have reached the end of their development stage have been fairly tested in battle 1T:13273r:14S: and are now opening the new East No phase of the air battle of Japan 12nd W 2nd E0 Targets for their huge loads of bombs were factories in the conEast East gested industrialized center of First So 4th So Tokyo—a city of almost 7000000 They had hit Tokyo's outskirts but this was their first blow FOR DELIVERY DIAL against the center of the sprawling city B-2- easy to be impressed by IL S war production when you are "stateside" he said but pointed out that Invasions such ar wpckon as this used up tremendous F vedurrl or bac hWitT4Buebengon amounts of materiel He said p A oltir I 71:y than 10000 tons of shells 0 25 Kr i sruho II more and rocicets from naval guns ifirth Ailmq 41V STATUTE MILES had been poured on this tiny Island up to Friday Need Munitions Watching this quick expenditure of war goods impressed him (Continued from Page One) (Continued from Page One) The 84th division coming up with the fact that the armed from the Berlin defense fighter Aachen The from the southwest count captured forces need ammunition and passed Doveren also force were attacking Zhukov's the 3300 markprisoner three miles from other equipment "fast and In vast amounts" Forrestal deOder spearheads east of the capimiles to the south the Erkelenz beat off several counterclared tal despite stinging losses from IL Sixty S Third army slammed across attacks and fought on to high He said an island like Iwo soviet antiaircraft gunners which the Pruem river at two points and ground farther north In one sector alone brought down drove to within four and a half gives no chance for tactical s"- these of Vanguards enveloping 93 luftwaffe planes e Prise nor subtlety miles of the Eifel mountains com- forces at Katzen were 20 The German objective seemed to munications "There were only two beaches from miles the center of the of A outskirts Bithurg be to stall off Zhukov's offensive front to go on The enemy knew this dispatch said resistance was Rhine city of Duesseldorf as long as possible in order to and prepare to 'defend Unable to match the Americans the m could disorganized " the secretary added complete siege lines around Bersouth the Farther Third on sumthe the Germans army lin At the same time soviet fliers welded two Saar river bridge- moned ground He said he viewed with adconsiderable numbers of miration were ranging west to the Berlin heads into one battled three and and wonder U S pre- which tried which met the metropolitan area blasting defense a half miles east of fallen Saar-bur- g vainly to cut planes iion planning across the bridges works and tangling with German Men and ships test acid here and across with tanks the the Roer planes in swirling battles to be moved thousands of had stream was once more threatening Lt Gen Courtney H The midnight supplement of the to roll alone' the Moselle d miles with timing valley tough First army infantry Hodges' besides daily Russian communique re- toward the Line 60 miles ahead of order and sense a found "I out the last snipers in vealed that the Germans threw on our narrow con- The Third crushed the wiping Dueren fanned out east of the direction large tank and infantry forces last resistance army s tricted beaches which is the one in a stretch in three directions funnel to ruined into attacks on the Samland penin- of the westwall east of the pour everything ashore Duchy against city resistance a for the support sula northwest of Koenigsberg weakening of more than of forces Luxembourg releasing front dispatch said " ForTroops of the late Gen Ivan the for eastward push i Cherniakhovsky's Third White amid Four Towns restal Capture Russian army slew 2000 Germans Foe Breaks Into Retreat The -v captured at least four Commends Rescue Service In a da 3long battle and repelling In the van was the F ourth towns in all attacks followed through with armored division which vitinity and fought He commended the navy's sea-a- ir broke the to within the 15 miles of Cologne at assaults of their own against the of rescue service saying "our now and which Bastogne Germans grouping southwest of siege point in surprise pilots are not expendable and was sending the enemy in disor- an undisclosed night attacks Koenigsberg rescue to to we retreat risks the take ganized Pruerni great Towns taken were Ellen three our men" They captured Amallenwalde Ploessen Woyditten Tiefensee river miles north of Dueren Merzenich Tenth The divisions He said the Japs and Germans armored Muegen and Grosshasselberg all which likewise was at Bastogne three miles northeast Binsfeld care about loss of life The don't 17 situated in the area of Zinten two and a half miles east and American which' was as the unit disclosed way of war is more miles below Koenigsberg to seize on the Snarl Stockheim three and a half miles difficult in planning the secree forged the bridgehead another part of the last 320 southeast north of Sanrhitrx It hnil tary continued because "we miles of East Prussian sal still river The closest approach to Cologne don't made contact with a secotai bridgeregard anyone's life aa of 6held by the enemy head two miles south and forces probably was in the Merzenich no value" The Germans were battling des- were area town 17 since is the barely op eratin g as much as three' miles Referring to his visit tode-a perately to establish c on tact- and a half miles east of SaarH hospital ship near by he inside forces The advancey was contested scribed doctors Koenigs- burg among their and medical Sam-land ber g and the pockets on the ebbed on the north mainly by mortar and artillery corpsmen as a "gallant lot" Fighting west northand fire promontory end of the front held by the Ca— Forrestal said his greatest west of Koenigsberg and south- nadian Ilodges' drive was rolling eastFirst army and on the'l ward thrill came when he saw the west of the isolated Junker capi- south end reas with power gathering of the front held by raised on the Stars and a tenuous the U S Seventh supporting weapons highest lip Stripes tcaolnneiettiaopnpenaorwedexthisatetd army although' inforcements Mount Suribachi of and crowded into the although sharp struggles were e equipment reported at ' oday the soviets had once encircled the one or two in both sectors' bridgehead now averag is about points KoeGermans in the immediate in three miles depth Lt Gen William II Simpson's Lt Gen George S Patton's nigsberg area S Ninth army smashing forThe Germans were fighting from U pace reached Third army sent two divisions thick steel and concrete positions ward at asixrapid m il es beyond the plunging across the Pruem river Rodingen Fast relief for and western Eifels at two points and and five miles from the Erft in re cl uire some days t Moscow dis- - Roer one force seized Wettlin g en six Germans the river which along common headaches! pa tches said are expected to make a stand miles southwest of Bitburg In the battle for Breslau soviet with was the clear It that quick their backs to the Rhine gunners were leveling Germany's stretch of crushing of the as Into house Steinstrass the Fight the west wall had befuddled the eighth city house by Don't let an ordinary headache divienemy because a front dispatch garrison of possibly 100000 enemy of 29th the forces Other spoil your work or your fun Do to carry out sion farther south struck five said as the Fifth and 76th divitroops continued as millions do—take genuine Adolf Hitler ' s reported order to miles due east from fallen Juelich sions plunged across the stream to death the resistBayer Aspirin fight ht into the outskirts of the Germans offered little Troops of Marshal Ivan S Steinstrass 16 mi1 es from the ance and appeared confused 1 Bayer Aspirin provides amaz- Konev's First Ukrainian army in aswent across First troops of These Starts disintetroops Cologne edge igy fastin relief stomach cleared out several more blocks in were Jue- - sault boats but engineers quickly main the in two fighting along your grating the southern part of the city and o e highway and south constructed footbridges seconds—is ready to go to work fought a fierce street battle with of them the Hambach forest was Co almost at once! German defenders in the Hindencleared virtually the where burg square garrison 2 Bayer Aspirin provides sure On the north flank the 102nd NORGE had planted a number of guns relief Has been used in literally division captured Lovenich and millions of normal Katzen three miles south and '1 of Erkelenz a commu40 years—without the slightest 0 southeast nications center at the approaches trace of unpleasant reaction Oven Muenchen-Gladbac- b'ileg IICHE? t "t ‘ ' C s'0 1 ' FCC I ttleuem r 11 ilk t ings Sunday near Lucerne and A near Rippoldsau Germany third plane crashed near Lucerne after the crew had bailed out said the broadcast recorded by the i 4 1111p I By Associated Press A Swiss broadcast said two Am eriscearnioi!slliyers were killed and four injured when two IL S bombers made forced land- 4'3's t A 's-0-1- 1 1 - ---4 1 air 1 7lost!!!t 2 American fliers Die k ''- - k ' NEED ALL ' r ot tactical 4114 1 force planes struck out again in force with planes of the U S 9th a i r force making 400 sorties before noon In one encounter below Bonn seven Lightnings were attacked by 50 Messerschrnitts but they shot down four enemy planes and damaged six while losing one Some 500 fighters accompanied the Eighth air force bombers and 200 other Mustangs strafed north central Germany They shot down seven jet fighters at Giebelstadt and shot up a troop train headed for the Russian front During the night R A F Mosquitoes rained blockbusters on Berlin ifr bright moonlight and tactical fighters flew scveral hundred sorties against nazi communications I 3 r4 2 it )- - i 1 t1 '11 - r- -- : 1 mY : 11 Probably 700 It A F Lancasters and fighters from Britain attacked the Kamen oil plant near Dortmund for the second time In 24 hours sending smoke boiling up Continent-base- d by a brisk chill wind and a pelting rain had removed his helmet and green combat jacket but still was wearing a gray sweatshirt when he talked to correspondents aboard Vice Adm Richmond Kelly Turner's amphibious force flagship Watched Other Invasions Prior to his beachhead visit which he made with Lt Gen Holland M Smith commanding general of fleet marine forces watched the tshtaegseescroefttahrye Iwo invasion the flagship's bridge This was not his first invasion He had watched amphibious operations in the south and central Pacific and on the southern French coast "This operation shows we still amounts of e 40 k trorn Page One) (Continued i 1 - ! Tokyo size of in low to "Qua rii " Italy 4 ' A----- ' 1 ' 'ei'tirt!k pp 1- I from Page One) (Continued 1Nt tt 1 - ' - B-2- 200-fo- Rhein X"--"--- d- -- - Liberators pounded rail yards at Aschaffenburg southeast of Frankfurt-on-the-Mai- n and other Fortresses hit the yards at Ulm southeast of Stuttgart These two cities are junctions on main lines across southern Germany Munich focal point of many direct trunk lines was last hit by American bombers last July Other bombers in the seven waves of the Eighth air force blasted the Siebert tank assembly plant at Aschaffenburg a vast underground oil storage center hidden in woods outside Neuberg between Munich and Nuernberg and airdromes for jet fighters at Gieblestadt and Schwabischhall west of Nuernberg Heavy bombers of the U S 15th air force based in Italy attacked communications at Linz Austria 125 miles east of Munich and Mustangs strafed rail lines south of 5 Munich Mitchel Is of the Italy-base- d fleets bombed Brenner pass rail targets and reported a Vittprobable hit on the peno bridge six miles from the Austrian border in the deepest northerly strike by the mediums Thunderbolts attacked a village in the Klagenfurt district of Austria Gen H H Arnold chief of the U S air forces congratulated the 15th air force for its tremendous activities in the 13 days in which 12274 planes struck out from Navy Chieftain Record Fleet of Superforts Naval Planes Fire Tokyo Tours Iwo 1 actually underestimated Beachheads the the Superfortress fleet coast roared Japanese it numbered 1ü - Arrows point Arohami-Zulphen 1 out main ' hUintrocht j Muenstdpr allied drives on Actar western front vIttboammatmaircite 111211:E:71::1211:1ZA 4acar (broken line) -Hamm t weset 1d American '9 tt9Pe anta:aa we41!: liede troops Dortrour captured i ESSEN Elodhoven 4) es Duren as the 11111111e111 U S First and l''"Dyl C::SBURG 41Q) P Moos Ninth armies G1adbach LIEU 11 oermonci tK moved to m711 EP' s so !dor( 14111' 15 Mlles within A oe r Rl'c 'IP 479 PW-of Cologne Sixty GERMANY Mlles to the BELGIUlof Ba411111Rodinger) LOGNE south )4tJe11:7:11124141k4ItederziLiC 1 the Third A ai!lrs Duere‘n army drove Nitt is traViv across the Pruem atN DAMS I WOW ' fiver as the '75 MeUse -enemy broke into 4 Gem1 u nd Namur 4 disorganized retreat within ( six miles of C 0 BLENZ Bitburg On the Mayen( north flank tr116-Ir the U S steamroller Bastogne Neuerburjg —‘' advanced to - 7k:-I Bit burg I j-within 10 miles Wettla7gen Ma1-1)1nL of MuenehenLUX 71 Gladbach Fc-11‘ Sedan to carrying i —1 0 Saarburge within five miles Pli ''''' GyCO V Se rr lgr ilo --Alatri P4" of the enemy's J WIat) 2tudwigshalen meflig last defense R ‘t lines short of I Mosejte rlauter 1 I FRANCE the Rhine IR 1 German Rails Plants Liberators Spearheaded the dayLght blows Five hundred of these Lit the nazi shrine city of Munich where littler's old guard gathered celebration Asfor a week-en- d chaffenburg and Elm were other rail objectives and another target was tank plants at Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance's shore rear the German-Swis- s frontier An American communique said V S losmea had not yet been tabulated Intense antiaircraft fire Lowever was met over Munich snd 700 escorting fighters and ttrafing teams destroyed 41 German planes 20 of them on the ground 34Sand wrecked 94 locomotives freight cars and 211 motor vehicles More than 40 German aircraft Including 22 jet planes were downed with a loss of 20 of the allied tactical air units sweeping the areas behind the front and ground gunners bagged 20 of 50 German planes thrown against American First army positions Saturday night Erfurt important communications center on the main lines between Berlin and western GerMany also was attacked by the AI' Mosquitoes in their new ( 71-- 1 i Apeldoorn HOLLAND i 1 1 s - (Laterdalftlet cegzm rA arAt - YA ZAZZ anknimgmimi 6 It 1 - j 7 I |