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JANUARY

Patton Opens A New Drive Into Nazi’s Flank; Western Tip Of Salient Again Smashed Back; Hitler Bars A Surrender, Warns Defeatists

3d Army Drills Into Salient Above Bostogne; Germans Attack 7th In Diversion To South; Luftwaffe Raids Airfields, Loses 241 Planes

Attacking Nazis Broaden Saar Basin Front; Gain Two Miles In Drive To Clear Reich Soil; Patton Meets Stiffer Resistance In Belgium

1st Army Opens Drive At Top Of Belgian Bulge; 3d Gains Beyond Bastogne, 7th Forced Back; U.S. Fliers Bomb Luzon, Formosa And Japan

1st Army Drives 3 Miles In Sleet Into Bulge; Neck Of Salient Now 11 Miles As 3d Gains Too; 7th To The South Gives Up Foothold In Reich

Allies Cut 3 Miles Into Nazi Bulge In North, But 3d And 7th Are Hard Pressed In South; Americans Land On New Island Near Luzon

Roosevelt Demands A National Service Act, Draft Of Nurses And 4Fs, Postwar Training; 1st Army Smashes Deeper Into Belgian Bulge

Americans Cut A Main Road In Belgian Bulge; Nazis Strike Across Rhine Near Strasbourg; U.S. Ships Shelling Gulf On Luzon, Tokyo Says 

Americans Hack Both Sides Of Belgian Bulge; Check Enemy Around Strasbourg And In Saar; Tokyo Reports Balking Lingayen Bay Landing

Americans Land 107 Miles From Manila, Seize Four Lingayen Gulf Beachheads; President’s Budget Asks 83 Billions

Americans Drive 10 Miles Inland On Luzon; Wins 4 Towns And Airstrip; Resistance Light; Germans Retreat From Tip Of Begian Bulge

Americans Deepen And Widen Luzon Foothold; Meet Resistance; Planes Rake Manila Roads; Germans Falling Back 23 Miles In Belgium

3d Fleet Planes Sink 25 Japanese Ships, Hit 13 More In Convoys Off Indo-China; German Bulge In Belgium Is Collapsing

Russains Open Winter Offensive In Poland; Break Nazi Lines 25 Miles On 37-Mile Front; Americans Drive To Cut Of Fleeing Germans

Russians Cross Last River Before Cracow; Nazis Flee Belgian Bulge, Lose 232 Planes; Americans On Luzon Plain Beyond Agno River

Carrier Planes Bomb 3 Ports On China Coast; Into-China Bag Is 41 Ships Sunk, 28 Damaged; Russians In Kielce; U.S. Units At Hub Of Salient

Russians Seize Stronghold Flanking Warsaw; British Strike At German Salient In Holland; U.S. Planes Blast 30 Ships In New China Blows

Russians Take Warsaw, Reported In Cracow; Win A City 14 Miles From Reich In 24-Mile Gain; British Advance, Americans Close On St. Vith

Russians Reported At Frontier Of Silesia; British And American Drives Gain In West; Churchill Warns Nazis To Surrender Now

Russians In Lodz And Cracow, Smash Nazi Line In New Advance Of 28 Miles In East Prussia; Allies Gain In North, Check Foe Along Rhine

Roosevelt Sworn In For Fourth Term; Extends Good Neighbor Policy To World; Russians Gain 25 Miles; French Open Drive

Allies Now In Reich Proper In East And West; Russians Smash Into Silesia, Win Tannenberg; Germans Quitting Bulge, French Push Ahead

Russians Sweep On, Now 150 Miles From Berlin; Seize Insterburg, Allenstein In East Prussia; U.S. Fliers Hit 3,000 Vehicles On West Front

Russians Reach The Order On 37-Mile Front, Flank Silesian Mines, Squeeze East Prussian; Americans Take St. Vith. Back In South

Red Army Now Is Four Miles From Breslau; Germans Jam Roads East From Rhineland; British Drive Into Siegfried Line In North

Russians 4 Miles From Pose, Nearing Baltic, Eight German Divisions Lash Out In Alsace; Americans Take Clark Field In Manila Drive

Russians Reach Baltic, Cut Off East Prussia; 8 Miles From Koenigsberg; Posen Outflanked; Allies Drive Germans Back Across The Roer

Red Army Overruns Silesian War Arsenal; Surrounds Posen And Closes On Brandenburg; 3d Army Drives 4 Miles To German Borders

Russians Win All Silesia Plants, Take Memel And Advance To Point 109 Miles From Berlin; U.S. First Army Strikes Suddenly In Blizzard

Red Army Sweeps On 93 Miles From Berlin; Invades Pomerania, Closes On Koenigsberg; U.S. Third Army Smashes Into Germany

Soviet Push Unchecked 73 Miles From Berlin; 2 U.S. Drives Crack Siegfried Line Outworks; Americans Land North Of Bataan Unopposed

FEBRUARY

Russians 63 Miles Off, Berlin Hears Guns; U.S. Troops Enter Germany At 3 More Points; Americans Win Subic Bay Navy Base On Luzon

Nazis Report Russians 39 Miles From Berlin; Americans Find Westwall Fringe Weakend; Landing Flanks Manila; Luzon Captives Freed

Russians Near Oder In Stettin-Berlin Drive; U.S. Gains 3 Miles In Westwall; Colmar Taken; 3 Columns Press On Manila, One 18 Miles Off

Russians Close On Frankfort And Kuestrin; ‘Forts’ Batter Berlin; First Army Pushes On; Two U.S. Columns Are 15 Miles From Manila

Americans In Manila, Seize Prison Camp; 1st Army Unit Cuts Through Westwall; Russians Flank Kuestrin, Fort On Oder

Manila Falls, 1,350 Freed From Second Prison; Russians Arrayed At Oder On 75-Mile Front; Patton Clears Westwall; Colmar Trap Set

Russians Battle Cross Oder On 50-Mile Line; U.S. 1st Army Nears Biggest Roer River Dam; Americans Enter Bataan; Foe Fires Manila

Big 3 Set Final Steps To Crush Germany, Turn To Peace Issues In Black Sea Talk; U.S. 3d Army Invades Reich At 10 Points

Allies Widen Big Offensive In The West With Canadian-British Drive Near Cleve; Americans Gain; Russians Push On Stettin

Canadians Drive On, Now 4 Miles From Cleve; Roer’s Biggest Dam Is Under American Fire; Russians Push Nine Miles Nearer To Stettin

Main Roer Dam Won After Foe Looses Flood; Canadians Reach Rhine, Converges On Cleve; B-29’s Hit Tokyo Area; Russians Gain In North

British Enter Cleve, Cut Foe’s Lateral Road; Americans Smash Into Outskirts Of Pruem; Russians Almost Ring Breslau In Wide Swing

Big 3 Doom Nazism And Reich Militarism; Agree On Freed Lands And Oaks Voting; Convoke United Nations In U.S. April 25

Budapest Is Taken At Cost Of 159,000 To Foe; British Clear Reichswald, Patton Pushes On; Cavite Won End Of Manila Campaign ‘In Sight’

8,000 Planes Batter Nazis Close To 2 Fronts; Dresden Hit Thrice As Russians Move On It; Breslau Reported Ringed; New Gains In West

1,200 Planes Of U.S. Fleet Attack Tokyo As Ships And Fliers Bombard Iwo Isle; Russians Nearing Cottbus, We Bomb It

Fleet Planes Renew Pounding Of Tokyo; Ships Hit Iwo Again; Bataan Recaptured; British Gain In West; Russians Press On

M’Arthur’s Troops Land On Corregidor; Iwo Shelled Again, Foe Reports Invasion; British Split Nazi Defenses Near Goch

U.S. Marines Storm Ashore On Iwo Island; 509 Planes, 36 Ships Smashed In Tokyo Blow; British At Edge Of Goch; Patton Strikes Again

Marines Fight Way To Airfield On Iwo Isle; Win 2 1/2- Mile Beachhead; 800 Ships Aid Landing; 150 B-29’s Pound Tokyo; Scots Drive Into Goch

Marines Conquer Airfield, Hold Third Of Iwo; Roosevelt Gets New Churchill Vow On Japan; Patton Speeds Up Advance On 50-Mile Front

3d Army Surge Gains 5 1/2 Miles In Saar Area; Marines Halted On Iwo, New Division Lands; Americans Parley Opens, Argentine Issue Rises

Marines Take Suribachi, Chief Point On Iwo; 5 Air Forces Join To Cripple Reich Railways; U.S. 3d Army Clears Saar-Moselle Triangle

Eisenhower Opens Wide Roer Offensive, 1st And 9th Armies Drive Toward Rhine; Marines Gain Slowly In Center Of Iwo

Americans Drive Four Miles Beyond the Roer; Our Carrier Aircraft Slash At Tokyo Again; Marines Win Half Of Iwo’s Central Airfield

Americans Win Duern, Forge 25-Miles Front; Carrier Planes And 200 B-29’s Pound Tokyo; Marines Seized Most Of Second Iwo Airfield

Americans 10 1/2 Miles Away, Shell Cologne; 4 Armies Striking For Rhine As Foe Weakens; U.S. Planes Use Iwo Field, Marines Push On

U.S. 9th Army Races North Toward Canadians, Enters Muenchen- Gladbach, Rips Foe’s Line; B-29’s Burn Out 240 Blocks In Heart Of Tokyo

MARCH

U.S. Tanks Cross Erft 7 Miles From Cologne; Marines Step Up Iwo Drive; Manila Bay Open; Roosevelt Back, Speaks to Congress Today

9th Captures Muenchen-Gladbach, 3d In Trier; M’Arthur Invades Palawan; Iwo Drive Gains; Roosevelt Puts World Peace Up To Senate

9th Army At The Rhine, Foe Flees In Rout; First Advances, British Drive Reported; Russians Closing Trap; New Gains On Iwo

Ninth Army And Canadians Join Near Rhine; Battered Nazis, Retreating, Blow Up Bridges; Navy Shells Island 450 Miles From Japan

Americans At Rhine Near 2 Duisburg Bridges; 2 Miles From Cologne, They Nearly Ring City; Russians Reach Baltic, Cutting Off Danzig

3 U.S. Columns Enter Cologne, One A Mile In; 1st Army Nears Bonn, 3d Heads For Coblenz; Russians Capture Two Outposts Of Stettin

Shattered Cologne Falls To 1st Army; 3d Sweeps Within 20 Miles Of Coblenz; Soviet Gain Near Stettin Secures Flank

3d Army Races To Rhine Near Coblenz; Overwhelms Germans In 50-Mile Plunge; 7 Soviet Armies Push On Berlin, Says Foe

1st Army Across Rhine South Of Cologne; Bridgehead Is Firm; Most Of Bonn Seized; Foe Reports Fierce Battle West Of Oder

1st And 3d Armies Trap 5 Nazi Divisions; Rhine Bridgehead Grows, Foe Repelled; 300 B-29’s Fire 15 Square Miles Of Tokyo

Wesel Bridgehead Collapses, Enemy Cut Off; Americans Gain Mile On East Side Of Rhine; Center Of Tokyo Devastated By Fire Bomb

Seven Towns Captured In Rhine Bridgehead; B-29’s Blast Nagoya In 2d Big Blow In 2 Days; Americans Land On Mindanao In Philippines

1st Army Opens Sharp Attack East Of Rhine; RAF Deals Dortmund Heaviest Blow Of War; Russians Capture Kuestrin On Berlin Road

Americans 2 Miles From Ruhr Superhighway As They Expand Bridgehead Under Air Cover; New B-29 Blow Fires 4 Square Miles Of Osaka

Ist Army Fans Out In The Rhine Bridgehead; 7th Joins 3d In Smashing At Saar Salient; RAF Uses 11-Ton Bombs; Russians Cut Oder Line

7th Army Surges 3 Miles In Saar Offensive; 3d Crosses Moselle, 1st Is At Superhighway; U.S. Bombers Blast Hitler’s Headquarters

Saar Battle Won, Germans In Flight To Rhine; Ruhr Superhighway Slashed At Two Points; 300 B-29’s Set 12 Square Miles Of Kobe Afire

Coblenz Falls In Swift Assault By 3d Army; Patton And 7th Closing Trap On Nazis In Saar; 1st Tightens Grip On Approaches To The Ruhr

3d And 7th Armies Cut Deep Into Saar Pocket; Remagen Bridge Falls, But Repair Is Speeded; B-29’s Join Carrier Planes To Attack Japan

U.S. Tanks Closing Vast Traps Around Saar; Foe Flees East, Lashed By Shells And Bombs; Carrier Planes Blast Kobe And Kure Bases

German Saar-Moselle Armies Smashed; Foe’s Loss Tops 40,000; U.S. 3d And 7th Join; Carriers Blast Japanese Fleet In Lair

Foe Surrenders By Thousands In Palatinate; Escape Gap Is 20 Miles; 3d In Ludwigshafen; 4,500 Allied Planes Rip Reich Oil, Airfield

Germans Report A Big Push By Montgomery; Planes Blast Path; Saar Rearguard Hacked; Twin Soviet Drives Crush 45,000 In Silesia

Patton Crosses Rhine In A Daring Drive Without Barrage, Expands Bridgehead; Nazis Russians Are Moving On Berlin

Allies Storm Across Rhine At 4 Points, Join Chutists In Bridgehead 5 Miles Deep; Russians Drive 43 Miles In West Hungary

3d Army Crosses Main In 27-Mile Dash; 1st Hits Out; North Bridgehead Grows; Tokyo Reports U.S. Landing In Ryukyus

7 Armies Smash Nazis In Deep Thrusts; 1st Passes Limburg, 3d Is In Frankfort; Red Army 31 Miles From Austrian Border

British Break Into North German Plain; U.S. 1st And 3rd Sweep East On Wide Front; Reich Army Whipped, Says Eisenhower

1st And 3d Armies Drive Toward Leipzig; British Tanks Approaching Muenster; Russians Cut Vienna Line, Win Gdynia

1st Army Races 55 Miles To Cut Off Ruhr; Russians Smash To Border Of Austria; British Fleet Joins In Ryukyus Attack

3,000 Allied Tanks Plunge Deep In Reich; Russians Take Danzig, Invade Austria; Fleet Pounds Ryukyus 8th Day In Row

APRIL

Allies Sweep On In Reich As Rout Grows; Eisenhower Bids Isolated Nazis Yield; Russian Armies 33 Miles From Vienna

Americans Invade Okinawa In Ryukyus; Seize 2 Airfields; First Resistance Light; 9th And 1st Armies Join, Circling Ruhr

British Sweep Menaces Foe In Holland; Patton’s Tanks 155 Miles From Berlin; American Thrust Cuts Okinawa In Two

British 25 Miles From The Zuider Zee; Enter Osnabrueck; U.S. 3d Wins Kassel; Russians Now Six Miles Outside Vienna

U.S. 3d Army Drives To Bisect The Reich; British Cross The Weser, Race For Ports; Russians Win Bratislava, Shell Vienna

Soviet Voids Japanese Neutrality Pact; M’Arthur Heads U.S. Army In Pacific; British Drive To 40 Miles From Bremen

Allied Left Flank Rolls Ahead In Reich; Russians Tighten Vast Vienna Siege Arc; U.S. Fleet Downs 150 Planes Off Okinawa

U.S. Fliers Sink Japan’s Biggest Warship; British Near Bremen; Hanover Flanked; Patton Seizes Nazi Hoard Of Gold And Art

British Shaping New Trap, Shell Bremen; U.S. 9th Army’s Tanks By-Pass Hanover; Red Army Drives Three Miles Into Vienna

U.S. And British Armies Drive For Elbe; Canadians Cut Off 80,00 In Netherlands; Russians Capture The Heart Of Vienna

5 Allied Armies Break Germans’ Center; One 114 Miles From Berlin; Hanover Won; Russians Closing Vienna Escape Route

U.S. Ninth At Elbe 63 Miles From Berlin; Battles In Brunswick; Essen Captured; Russians Said To Mass At Order For Push

President Roosevelt Is Dead; Truman To Continue Policies; 9th Crosses Elbe, Nears Berlin

Roosevelt Rites In White House Today; Truman Turns To Congress And Byrnes; 3d Cut Berlin Link To South; Vienna Won

Nation Pays Final Tribute To Roosevelt As World Mourns; Hyde Park Rites Today; Americans Close To Splitting Of Reich

Roosevelt Is Buried Solemn Rites; One Elbe Crossing Lost, Second Widened; Ruhr Sack Cut; Canadians At North Sea

Truman Asks World Unity To Keep Peace; 7th In Nuremberg; Soviet Push Reported; Nazis Lose 905 Planes, Mostly Aground

British Army 25 Miles From Hamburg; U.S. Thrust Toward Berlin Is At A Halt; Nazis Report 4 Soviet Drives On Capital

3d Crosses Czech Border And Bisects Reich; Magdeburg Won; Canadians At Zuider Zee; Nazis Report Soviet Drive To Flank Berlin

Soviet Push, In Full Swing, Is Nearing Berlin; U.S. 1st Takes Leipzig, Ruhr Pocket Cleared; Americans Open Big Attack In South Okinawa

Nazis Report Russians 7 Miles From Berlin; Allies Drive In Bavaria; Nuremberg Falls; Hamburg Is Shelled; 5th Gains Italian Plain

Russians Fighting 3 Miles Inside Berlin; Are Close To A Junction With Americans; Allied Drive In South Gains; Bologna Won

Russians Win Sixth Of Berlin, 16 Suburbs; French And U.S. Units Move On ‘Redoubt’; Molotoff, Eden And Stettinius Confer

Russians Bore Into Berlin, Swing North; Reach The Elbe Close To American Lines; U.S. 3d Breaks Loose In Thrust For Alps

Two Soviet Armies Join Inside Berlin; U.S. 3d Slashes Foe’s Lines To Redoubt; 5th Crosses Po, Wins La Spezia In Italy

Truman Opens World Security Parley; Russians Encircle Berlin, Cross Elbe; 3d Near Austria; Berchtesgaden Bombed

Parley In Dispute Over Permanent Head; British Win Bremen, Patton Sweeps On; Russians Seize Stettin, Most Of Berlin

U.S. And Red Armies Join, Split Germany; 3d Army In Austria; Russians In Potsdam; Parley Bars Lublin, Soviet Gets 3 Votes

Allies Bar Peace Plea That Omits Russia; Surrender Report Untrue; Truman Says; Munich Revolts; Hitler Said To Be Dying

U.S. 7th In Munich, British Push On Baltic; Russians Tighten Ring On Berlin’s Heart; Milan And Venice Won; Mussolini Killed

MAY

Russians Fly Victory Flag On Reichstag; U.S. 7th Wins Munich, Drives For Brenner; Foe Broken In Italy; Tito Men In Trieste

Hitler Dead In Chancellery, Nazis Say; Doenitz, Successor, Orders War To Go On; Berlin Almost Won; U.S. Armies Advance

Berlin Falls To Russians, 70,000 Give Up; 1,000,000 Surrender In Italy And Austria; Denmark Is Cut Off; Hamburg Gives Up

Doenitz In Copenhagen, Peace Talks Seen; North Front Collapses, 150,000 Captured; Planes Rake Foe In Danish ‘Dunkerque’

500,000 More Surrender To Montgomery; Yield In Holland, Denmark, North Reich; U.S. And Soviet Units Hack Czech Pocket

Nazis In West Austria, Bavaria Give Up; Send Seems Near In Norway; Czechs Rise; 16 Polish Leaders Seized, Russia Admits

Nazis Reported Ready For A Full Surrender; U.S. 3d Army Captures Pilsen In Czech Drive; Prague Patriots Say Help From Allies Is Near

The War In Europe Is Ended! Surrender Is Unconditional; V-E Will Be Proclaimed Today; Our Troops On Okinawa Gain

Final Surrender Signed In Berlin Ruins; Soviet Joins In Proclaiming Triumph; Truman Warns Victory ‘Is But Half Won’

Vinson Warns Nation Of Bitter Pacific War; He Eases Some Curbs But Lists Shortages; Germans Yielding To Russians; Goering Taken

Demobilization Plan Announced; Three Red Armies Still Fighting; Japan Gets Worst Air Pounding

Men Of Africa-Europe Campaign Freed From Further Fighting; Americans Advance On Okinawa

Americans Enter Naha Suburbs; Russians In Mop-Up Take 700,000; U.S. Frees First 2,500 Veterans

500 ‘Superforts’ Blast Nagoya; Chinese Fight Into Foochow Port; Churchill Bars New Tyrannies

Americans Conquer Key Okinawa Hill, Gain Mile And A Half To Seize Airfield; U.S. And Britain Ask Tito To Quit Trieste

U.S. Carrier Fliers Smash 284 Planes In 3-Day Strikes At Southern Japan; Another Key Hill Is Won On Okinawa

B-29’s Again Rain Fire On Nagoya; Reich To Share Burden Of Rule; War Crimes Board Meets May 31

Marines Win Foothold In Naha; Infantry Gains In East Okinawa; Loss Of 832 On U.S. Ship Revealed

Okinawa Gains Are Slowed As Resistance Intensifies; Big B-29 Force Hits Tokyo

Okinawa Battle Unabated; Key Hill Won For 5th Time; Tito Warned By Alexander

Three U.S. Columns Enveloping Shuri, Strong Point In South Okinawa Line; Allies Take Precautions On Trieste

Marines At Naha Repel Foe Some Clad In U.S. Uniforms; 1st Army Going To Pacific

Americans Enter Smashed Yonabaru In Surge On East Coast Of Okinawa; Workers Past 30 Exempted In Draft

550 B-29’s Set Tokyo Fires; Marines In Corner Of Naha; German Government Ended

Big 3 Meeting Definitely Projected; U.S. Opposes British Desire For Delay; Himmler, Caught, Ends Life By Poison

Japanese Lose 111 Planes In Attack Off Okinawa But Hit 11 Light Ships; 500 ‘Superforts’ Fire Tokyo’s Heart

Tokyo Laid Waste By B-29’s, Royal Palaces Devastated; Fighters Smash At Kyushu

Ships Bombard Okinawa Foe, Who Gives Signs Of Retreat; Chinese Cut Line To Malaya

Marines Occupy Two-Thirds Of Naha; Foe Hits 13 U.S. Ships, Loses 77 Planes; ‘Superforts’ Drop Fire On Yokohama

Marines Smash Into Shuri, Win All North Part Of Naha; Tokyo Erased, Says Lemay

Group To Rule Reich Called; Fighting Spreads In Syria; U.S. Flag Is Hoisted In Shuri

JUNE

British Demand Syria Strife End; French Are Reported Complying; B-29’s Hit Osaka; Shuri Line Bent

U.S. To Double Army In Pacific; New Syrian Clashes, Russia Acts; Okinawa Drive Smashes Ahead

De Gaulle Blames The British, Asks Parley On Pan-Arab Issues; Halsey Returns To Pacific Fight

Swift Okinawa Thrust Gains 2 Miles And Cuts Off East Coast Peninsula; Levant States To Defy French Force

Marines Win Half Of Naha Field; Okinawa’s South Coast Reached; B-29’s Drop Fire Bombs On Kobe

4 Allies Take Control Of Reich, Impose ’37 Borders, Stern Terms; Churchill Denies Inciting Syria

All Of Naha Airfield Now Ours; Foe Driven To Last High Ground; Soviet To Occupy Half Of Reich

Marines Below Naha Reach West Coast, Trapping Foe; Oroku Peninsula Is Cleared

B-29’s Batter Plane Plants At Nagoya, Osaka And Kobe; Trap Tightens On Okinawa

Bitter Resistance On Okinawa Slows American Advance

Americans On Okinawa Open Big Push To End Campaign; Begin Scaling Last Barrier

Okinawa Surrender Is Demanded As Americans Top Final Ridge; Invasion Of West Borneo Gains

Last Okinawa Line Cracked; Americans Drive Fiercely As Foe Defies Plea To Yield

Marines Cut Up Japanese In Wiping Out Oroku Pocket; 2 Forces Closing On Brunei

Peak Of Okinawa Ridge Won; Scores Of Foe Surrender; 520 B-29’s Smash At Osaka

Big Three Will Meet In Berlin Area; Ribbentrop Is Captured In Hamburg; Japanese Pressed Back On Okinawa

Americans Seize Last 3 Key Hills Of Foe On Okinawa

Russians Demand Curb On Assembly Or They Won’t Sign

Buckner, Okinawa Commander, Killed By Shell As His Men Smash Foe’s Line; Japanese Fleeing Southward In Open

Welcome To Eisenhower Is City’s Greatest; He Calls For Strong U.S. To Maintain Peace; Marines Smash To Okinawa Tip, Splitting Foe

U.S. Okinawa Guns Hold Fire As Americans Dig Out Foe In Last Three Tiny Pockets

Okinawa Is Ours After 82 Days; 45,029 U.S. Casualties, Foe’s 94,401; Gen. Stilwell Heads 10th Army

Marshall Sets All-Out Pacific Blow; Americans Take Luzon Escape Port; New Polish Regime Formed In Moscow

59 Enemy Planes Downed In Attack On Okinawa Ships

Japanese Blasted By 1,000-Ton Blows On Vast Air Front

‘Superforts’ Bomb 10 War Factories In Blow At Japan

Truman Closes United Nations Conference With Plea To Translate Charter Into Deeds; B-29’s Keep Up Assault On Honshu Plants

All Luzon Freed As Two Forces Join; Our Ships Hit Convoy In Okhotsk Sea; Loss Of 392 On U.S. Carrier Revealed

500 Superfortresses Fire Four Key Japanese Cities; Sasebo Navy Base A Target

50 B-29’s Batter Air Fuel Refinery On Honshu Island

JULY

Balik Papan Bombed Again; Tokyo Holds Invasion Near

Australians Ashore At Balik Papan, Drive Inland Near Borneo Oil Port; Record B-29 Fleet Smashes At Japan

Truman Presents Charter To Senate For Ratification As World’s Hope For Peace

Western Allies Take Over Occupation Zones In Berlin

U.S. Flier Smash Japanese Convoy, Bag 2 Destroyers

Morgenthau Quits His Treasury Post; In Office 11 Years

‘Superforts’ Slash Honshu Industries In New Fire Blow

Plan To Re-Orient German Prisoners

Eight Germans Slain, 20 Shot By Guard at Prisoner Camp

Carrier Planes Swoop On Tokyo Area; B-29’s Also Score, Some Go 3,960 Miles; Truman At Sea On Way To Big 3 Parley

154 Enemy Planes Smashed In Carrier Blow At Tokyo; No U.S. Warship Is Attacked

Air Blow At Japan Shifts To Kyushu; Tokyo Is Worried

B-29’s Strike First Blows At 4 More Japanese Cities; Big 3 Meeting Due Monday

Halsey Fleet Shells Japan Homeland; Planes Bomb Hokkaido And Honshu; 21 U.S. Warships Damaged In Typhoon

Huges Battleships Rake Hokkaido As Ship-Plane Assault Smashes Northern Japan For Second Day

Truman And Churchill In Berlin For Start Of Big 3 Talks Today; U.S. Fleet Scorches Foe’s Cities

Fleet Planes Swarm On Tokyo; British Join Blow; B-29’s Strike; Big 3 Parley Is Delayed A Day

Truman Is Selected To Preside As Big Three Conference Opens; Fleet Still Hammers At Honshu

Carrier Planes Lash Remnants Of Foe’s Navy As Our Warships Shell Tokyo Bay Entrance; Big Three Again Confer, Japan Seen As Topic

Record B-29 Assault On Japan Hits Fishing Port, 4 Other Cities; Third Fleet’s Movements Veiled

Truman Says We Want No Territory, Ask Only Peace And World Prosperity With ‘Mankind’s Greatest Age’ As Goal

Big Three Achieve Marked Progress Toward Accord On Peace In Europe, U.S. Delegation At Potsdam Reports

Destroyers Smash Convoy Off Tokyo; Japanese Battleship Hit By Fliers; ‘Superforts’ Bomb Honshu Oil Works

Big 3 Accord On Japan Reported; Stalin Said To Yield To Truman; U.S. Planes Hit Kure, Navy Base

Kure Bombing Hit 2 Battleships, Three Cruisers And 2 Carriers; Attack Goes On, Honshu Shelled

Stalin Talks With Mountbatten As Chief In Far East Meets Big 3; 20 Japanese Warships Damaged

Churchill Is Defeated In Labor Landslide; Attlee Promises Prosecution Of Pacific War; Allies Order Japan To Quit Or Be Destroyed

Fleet Strikes As Tokyo ‘Ignores’ Terms; B-29 Chief Names 11 Cities To Be Wiped Out; Attlee Picks Bevin As Foreign Minister

Bomber Hits Empire State Building, Setting It Afire At The 79th Floor; 13 Dead, 26 Hurt; Wide Area Rocked

Fleet Planes Pound Tokyo Area; Battleships Shell Hamamatsu; Big 3 Close To Accord On Reich

U.S. Destroyer Shell Japanese City; Navy Planes Hit 60 Honshu Airfields; Stalin Slightly Ill, Parley Slowed

AUGUST

Nagoya Area Heavily Bombed Again; Fleet Planes Also Hit A Naval Base; Big 3 Reconvene, May End Task Today

820 B-29’s Drop 6,632 Tons On Foe; Battleship, Planes Strike Wake; Big 3 End Talks, Communique Due

Germany Stripped Of Industry By Big 3; 5 Powers To Plan Peace; Franco Barred; Bombers Fire Great Nagasaki Shipyard

B-29 Mines Seal Off Japan, Closing All Main Harbors; Korean Coast Also Barred

M’Arthur Assumes Ryukyus Command To Prepare ‘Final Conquest Of Japan’; 12 More Cities Are Warned By B-29’s

50,000 Civilians Liquidated By Japanese, Chinese Aver

First Atomic Bomb Dropped On Japan; Missile Is Equal To 20,000 Tons Of TNT; Truman Warns Foe Of A ‘Rain Of Ruin’

Atomic Bomb Wiped Out 60% Of Hiroshima; Shock Awed Fliers; Tokyo Cabinet Meets; Carrier Planes Strike Near China Coast

Soviet Declares War On Japan; Attacks Manchuria, Tokyo Says; Atom Bomb Loosed On Nagasaki

Truman Warns Japan; Quit Or Be Destroyed; Says We Will Hold Military Bases We Need; Soviet Pincers Drive 14 Miles Into Manchuria

Japan Offers To Surrender; U.S. May Let Emperor Remain; Master Reconversion Plan Set

Allies To Let Hirohito Remain Subject To Occupation Chief; M’Arthur Is Slated For Post

Allies To Loose Mighty Blows On Japan If Surrender Is Not Made By Noon Today; Carrier Planes Renew Tokyo Attacks

Japan Decides To Surrender, The Tokyo Radio Announces As We Resume Heavy Attacks

Japan Surrenders, End Of War! Emperor Accepts Allied Rule; M’Arthur Supreme Commander; Our Manpower Curbs Voided

M’Arthur Calls Foe’s Envoys; Cabinet Quits; Our 3 Armed Services Plan Demobilization; ‘Gas,’ Oil Rationing Ends, Business Bans Eased

M’Arthur Sanctions Delay By Envoys As Tokyo Asks 2-12 Days To Cease Fire; Russians Insist Foe Give Up By Monday

Foe Agrees To Send Envoy Tomorrow After M’Arthur Bars Further Delay; Premier Orders All Japanese To Yield

Japanese Reach Ie, Go On To Manila; U.S. Airman Killed By Foe Over Tokyo; Russians Fly Enemy Envoy To Talks

Foe’s Envoys Confer In Manila; Ask Swift Disarming Of Japan; Wainwright Found Well In Camp

Japan Will Sign Surrender In 10 Days; Troops To Go Ashore In Battle Array; Tokyo Warns ‘Hotheads’ May Resist

Air Units Due In Japan Sunday; Occupation To Begin Near Tokyo; Foe Asks Kamikaze Men To Yield

Big 3 Moving To Bar China Strife; Division Of Northeast Asia Fixed; M’Arthur Lists Orders To Foe

7,500 Sky Troops To Land In Japan With M’Arthur; Ship, Plane Rules In Force

Surrender Plans Deferred 2 Days By Typhoons Circling Around Japan; Rival Chinese Armies Seizing Towns

U.S. Warships Enter Bay Below Tokyo When Typhoons Delay Our Landings; Chiang’s Forces In Nanking, Shanghai

Envoys Board U.S. Ship Off Tokyo As 1,200 Planes Guard Big Fleet; Soviet-China Pact Rebuffs Reds

First Troops Land In Japan From 48 Planes Prepare Way For Vast Invasion Thursday; Fleet Units Begin To Move Into Tokyo Bay

M’Arthur Starts Trip To Japan As Halsey Sails Into Tokyo Bay; Atsugi Airfield Ready For Army

M’Arthur In Japan; Yokusuka Is Taken; Army, Navy Report On Pearl Harbor; Marshall, Hull And Stark Censured

M’Arthur Opens Headquarters In Yokohama; Finds Japanese Acting In Full ‘Good Faith’; Freed Prisoners Charge Brutality By Foe

SEPTEMBER

Japanese Premier To Sign Surrender Tonight; U.S. Troops Reach Southern Edge Of Tokyo; Stassen Horrified By Prison Camp Outrages

Japan Surrenders To Allies, Signs Rigid Terms On Warships; Truman Sets Today As V-J Day

U.S. Units Poised To Enter Tokyo; Stalin Declares Russia Regains Kuriles And Southern Sakhalin

U.S. Forces Widen Grip Around Tokyo; Prepare To Occupy South Kyushu; British Fleet Steams Into Singapore

U.S. Troops Occupy Tokyo Saturday; Captives To Take Over Prison Camps; American Flag Is Raised On Wake Island

U.S. Accuses Japan Of Massacre, Torture, Starvation Of Captives; Scouting Parties Go Into Tokyo

Truman Gives Congress Program For Peace; Sees U.S. Near Era Of Greatest Prosperity; 7,000,000 Japanese To Be Disarmed In Month

M’Arthur Sets Up Power In Tokyo; Sees Flag Raised Over U.S. Embassy; Foe Threatened To Kill Wainwright 

Occupation Of All Japan Is Speeded; Americans Take Over Korean Port; Wainwright Home For U.S. Tribute

M’Arthur Outlines Policy For Japan; Will Let Regime Carry Out Orders With Troops Ready To Act If Needed

Arrest Of Ex-Premier Tojo Is Ordered By M’Arthur; Asks End Of Imperial Staff

M’Arthur Seizing 40 For War Crimes; Tojo Shoots Himself To Avoid Arrest, But Is Kept Alive By American Doctor

Transfusion Aids Tojo; Countrymen Scorn Him

Wainwright Hailed By City Millions; Warns U.S. To Remain ‘Impregnable’ And Opposes ‘Soft’ Policy For Japan

Ford Ends All Production, Blames Crippling Strikes; All Auto Industry Menaced

M’Arthur Orders Tight Censorship; Foe’s Attitude Hit

U.S. Will Test Atomic Bomb On Enemy Battleship Nagato

M’Arthur Sees Cut Of Force To 200,000 Within Six Months

Stimson Resigns As War Secretary; Patterson Named

Social-Economic Overturn In Japan Declared State Department Policy; Size Of Occupation Forced Undecided

Army Cuts Point Basis To 70 On Oct. 1, 60 Nov. 1, 2-Year Men Out This Winter; U.S. Diplomatic Aide Sent To M’Arthur

M’Arthur Declares Japan Ended As A Great Power; Orders Doihara Arrested

U.S. Reaffirms Stern Policy On Japan In Revealing Its Order To M’Arthur; Italian Reparations Opposed By US

M’Arthur Places Japanese Economy Under Rigid Rules

Hirohito In Interview Puts Blame On Tojo In Sneak Raid; Says He Now Opposes War

Soviet Asks Allied Council On Japan; Molotoff Assails U.S. Policy There; Big 4 Issue Code To Bar German Rise

WLB Calls Building Owners And Strikers To Meet Today; National Oil Tie-Up Looms

Spread Of Elevator Strike Halted By Mediation Move; Army And Navy Warn On Oil

Dewey Intervenes In Service Strike; May Name Arbiter

Building Strike Here Ended As Dewey Plan Is Accepted; Elevator Service Resumed

OCTOBER

Americans Seize 21 Banks In Japan And Oust Officials

Five Billion Tax Reduction, Exempting 12,000,000 Payers, Urged On Congress By Vinson

London Peace Parley Ends With No Accord On Issues; Byrnes Is Still Hopeful

Truman To Seize Oil Plants Today; Port Here Paralyzed, 30,000 Strike; Nation-Wide Telephone Tie-Up Set

Navy Takes Over Stuck Oil Plants; Port Tie-Up Still On, 200 Ships Idle; Bus Lag Ends; Phone Men Out Today

Phone Strike Vote Is Asked, Long Lines Tied Up 4 Hours; Krug Sees Reconversion Hit

Lewis Bars Order Asked By Owners To End Coal Strike

U.S. Experts Urge Reich Export Rise; Russia Suspicious

U.S. Will Not Share Atom Bomb Secret, President Asserts

Marshall Warns U.S. Not To Disarm; War Report Asks Universal Training; Krug Bids Industry Keep Mobilized

U.S. Bids 9 Nations Join Advisory Unit To Help M’Arthur

$5,350,000,000 Tax Cut Voted Quickly By House, 343 To 10; First Big Slash In 16 Years

Argentine Cabinet Out, Peron Jailed; Violence Flaring

CIO Chip Tie-Up Threatens As Many Dock Men Return; Vote On Milk Strike Is Set

Test In Port Strike Today; Mayor’s Plan Is Accepted By Rebels, Shunned By Ryan

Laval Is Executed As Suicide Effort In Cell Is Balked

7,000 Back At Piers, Defying Pickets; Big Police Guard

Argentine Power Regained By Peron As Workers Rally

Big Four Indict 24 Top Nazis For Plotting Against Peace; Atrocities In War Charged 

German Trial Set for Nov. 20 As Indictments Are Served

Stiff Fight Raging In Venezuela City; 300 Reported Dead

250,000 Turn Out To View 44 Units Of The Fleet Here

U.S. Holds Russian Breaks Yalta Pact By Hungarian Deal

One-Year Military Training For Youth Asked By Truman; Congress Split On The Plan

$5,788,000,000 Tax Cut Passed By Senate In 6-Hour Debate; Now Goes To Conference

Ley Kills Himself in Prison In Fear of War-Crime Trial

Millions To Hail Fleet Here Today As Truman Reviews Navy, Air Show; He Will Make Major Policy Speech

Truman Bars Recognition Of ‘Imposed’ Regimes And Sets 12-Point U.S. Policy For World Peace; 5,000,000 See Mightiest Naval And Air Display

Horror Recital On In Yamashita Trial

Vargas Resigns As Brazil’s Head; Troops Guard Rio

President Says Wage Increases Are Possible Without Price Rise, But Short Week Must Affect Pay

NOVEMBER

Attlee To Propose Vesting Atom Data In Security Council

Hitler Ended Life In Berlin Bunker, British Feel Sure

Angry Senators Debate On ‘Records’ Of Pearl Harbor

O’Dwyer Victory Viewed As Certain; Goldstein Confident, Scores Mayor; Morris Forces Predict A Big Upset

Dispute on Milk Is Settled; Skip-a-Day Delivery to Go On

End Industry-Labor Wars, Truman Warns Conference; Action By Congress Hinted

O’Dwyer Elected Mayor In City Sweep; Carries Ticket With Him; Goldstein 2d; Molotoff Rebukes US On Atomic Policy

Drop In Republican Vote Here Brings Criticism Of Dewey And City Chiefs; Amendment Aiding Veterans Passes

Outlawing of Atomic Bombs Advocated by Capt. Stassen

Attlee Flies To U.S. For Talks To Shape Atomic Age Society

$10,240,000 Program Set For Metropolitan Museum

Attlee Favors UNO Atomic Pool If Soviet Frankly State Aims; Arnold Sees New Era In Defense

Attlee Says Bomb Cannot Be Banned; Asks A Strong UNO

Says FBI Warned Of Japan’s Attack: House Investigators Declare Hoover Gave Data to Armed Forces 11 Days in Advance

Truman And Attlee Agree Atom Bomb Should Go To UNO

We Knew Japanese Secrets 6 Months Before Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor Data Show

Navy Used Convoys Before Dec. 7 ’41; Report Foe Seen On Way To Attack; Hearing Marked By Party Clashes

Foe Fliers Briefed Oct. 5, ’41, To Hit U.S. Fleet On Dec. 7, Admiral Inglis Discloses

Iranians Revolt, Led By Red Party, Teheran Reports

Roosevelt Expected Error By Japan To Force US Into War, Admiral Says; President Kept The Fleet At Hawaii

Blockade Of Japan In 1940 Considered By Roosevelt; Admiral Says He Opposed It

Nation-Wide Strike Shuts GM Plants; 96% Effective, Asserts Reuther; Walkouts Stir Action In Congress

Frick Calls Goering Killer In Affidavit Baring Nazi Split

GM Note Bars Arbitration; Shutdown Looms For Ford, Chrysler, Others In 14 Days

Churchill Asked Roosevelt On Nov. 30, ’41, To Warn Japan Of ‘Gravest Consequences’

RAF Planes Stop Java Broadcasts With Rocket Fire

Grew Denies Saying Hull Note ‘Pushed War Button’ In 1941

Hurley Assails Our Policy In China; Resigns As Envoy; Marshall Named; Pearl Harbor Charge Angers Hull

Congress Inquiry Demanded As Hurley Adds To Charges; Byrnes Restates China Aims

Truman Opposes Further Big 3 Talks, Saying UNO Should Settle War Issues; Soviet Rebuffs Iran On Troop Shifts

DECEMBER

Industry-Labor End Parley; Divided On Basic Subjects; Each Side Files Reports

Army, Navy Bases To House Veterans

59 High-Ranking Japanese Put on War Criminal List

Truman Asks Law Curb Strikes, Patterned On Railroad Labor Act; To Name Fact-Finding Board On GM

Truman’s Labor Proposals To Be Put In Congress Bill; Murray Assails President

Hurley Accuses 5 Officials Of Sabotaging China Policy; Says 2 Sought Chiang’s Ruin

British Get 55-Year 2% Loan; Lend-Lease Debts Settled; World Trade Spur Sought

Foreign Ministers Of Big 3 To Meet In Moscow Dec. 15; Atomic Control On Agenda

Germans Tapped Atlantic Phone, Marshall  Says

Patton Seriously Injured As Auto Hits Army Truck

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Navy Had War Tip On Dec 3, ’41; Files Now Missing

Truman Names Fact Finders For GM, Defying Opposition; Labor Curb Passed By House

Britain to ‘Free’ Women From Jobs

Counsel And His Staff Quit The Pearl Harbor Inquiry; Barkley Considers Retiring

Truman Says Aid To China Hinges On Ending Of Strife And Unification Of Nation

Big Three Meeting Formally Opened In Moscow Palace

Admiral Spotted War Move 4 Hours Before Oahu Blow

Ford Offers Pay Increase Of 12.4%; Union Sees ‘Jokers’ And Rejects it; Oil Fact Finders May Shift Prices

Truman Asks Service Union In One Defense Department With Army, Air, Navy Chiefs

Truman Sees Right To Scan Books Esential In Pay Rise As GM Bars It; Washington Hopes For Ford Peace

Gen. Patton Dies Quietly In Sleep; Burial In Europe

Throngs Marooned In Yule Travel Jam Across The Nation

Spellman Chosen To Be A Cardinal; 31 Others Named

Big 3 End Impasse On Peace Treaties; Give France Role, Fix 21-Nation Parley; Pope Sees Menace In Totalitarianism

Neither Storm Nor Delay Depresses Arriving GI’s 

Big 3 Seek Atom Rule By UNO Council; Plan 4-Power Control Body For Japan; Moscow Parley Closes; French Irked

Big Three Re-Establish Unity In Wide Accord; Agree On Atom, Treaties, Japan, China, Korea; 28 Nations Set Up The Bretton Woods Bank

Truman Assures Congress Atom Secret Will Be Kept Till Safeguards Operate

Hitler’s Private Will Found; Affirms His Suicidal Plans

Byrnes Sees Gain At Parley Through Conceding Flaws; M’Arthur Hits Japan Plan

News Source: New York Times

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