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“THURSDAY, FEB. 22, 1948
STRAUSS SAYS:
Th ITS ONE DAY NEARER VICTORY PLANE PLANTS
Reveal 36 Ships, 809 Planes Wrecked or Damaged In Tokyo Raids.
By E. G. VALENS
gunners
THE INDIAN APOLIS TIMES .
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Marines ‘Make Easy Targets For Japs in Iwo Landing
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their movements so that they became an easy prey for Japanese
Only a few trucks got ashore. For two days practically all sup~ plies moved by hand to the front. Even the unconquerable je®p was
United Press Staff ‘Correspondent . stuck, OARD U. 8S, FLAGSHIP, OFF TOKYO, Feb. 17 (Delayed). —Pro-
duction“dt three major Japanese
One can see amphibian tractors turned upside down like pancakes on a griddle;
derricks
brought
battle for Iwo Jima are the boys who sweated out the invasion.
© They are the coxswains who
steered the landing boats through a gantlet of fire and who didn't get back. They are the unloading parties who for one entire day unloaded hardly a boat because. few boats made it. Instead they hugged the beach while shells hit into the sand all around them.
Reds Battle to Cron Neisse, Jéin Forces East of Berlin
LONDON, Feb. 22 (U. P.) —Marshal Ivan S. Konev's 1st Ukrainian army battled to cross the Neisse river along a 60-mile front southeast Smith of Berlin today. ’ -
|'NE TAKE IWO AT ANY PRICE
That's What Gen. The Neisse is the last water barrier before Berlin's Spree. river,
; | At the northern end of the attack front, Konev's army pushed along Says as He Hurls 3d (the west bank of the Oder to, its confluence with the Neisse only 48 Marines Into Battle.
miles. southeast of Berlin, i (Continued From Page One)
Kuschern, nestled at the junction! ips Soviets ‘probably will unleash & of the two rivers, was captured.
The advance carried to within {sank two American aircraft car-| { five miles of the first of the bridgeriers and a battleship Monday! | heads which the Germans said night off Iwo. Two other warships | Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's 1st
a A FEW STRAY NOTES!
THE CIGARETTE situation being what it is——parhaps it might be a good idea to write to "Luckies"—and ask permission to use their famous LS/MFT during the stringency—| STRAUSS MEANS FINE TAILORING—
So with a deep bow to "Luckies"— and a reminder that if Luckies and others are scarce . . . how about going into SUGAR BARREL—It's a swell pipe tobacco—a mixture of unusual mildness and flavor—A packet of 13 ounces 25¢c. 8 ounces for $1.
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Now that Spring is almost here— we may be pardoned for closing this little announcement with a poem— - or a reasonable facsimile thereof.
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How much more tastefully How much more sweetly . . Had Burns his love told — ah! With a box of ALMONDOLA
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aircraft plants was completely disrupted by American carrier pilots in daring raids on the Tokyo area vesterday. and today. The surprise attacks launched from this mighty fleet of warships which roamed unchallenged through Japan's home waters, also brought destruction or damage to 809 Japanese planes and 36 ships. Among the enemy’s naval casualties were a medium carrier, sunk in Yokohama harbor, a sub chaser, one destroyer® and two destroyer escorts. (A Pacific fleet communique said 499 enemy aircraft were destroyed and 150 damaged in the two-day assault.) ~~ U. 8. Lost 49 Planes "The Americans lost 49 planes in the raids, but every vessel in the | huge armada escaped unscathed. Not a single enemy aircraft or ship was able to penetrate our destroyer screen, although the fleet cruised for two days and one night through the mine-filled waters off| the main Japanese island of Hon-| shu. | The three high-priority war factories put out of commission, at least | temporarily, were the Makijima| Tama and Nakijima Musashima engine plane plants on the outskirts of Tokyo and the Ota fuselage plant 40 miles northwest of the capital. Photographs taken after the raid showed that all hits but one were in the heart of the Makijima Tama! plant.
Mitscher Happy The pictures were gratifying to Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, who commanded the carrier force. “It looks as if we really ‘em,” he said. Both officers and men of the fleet were baffled by the lack of opposition to our surface units so close to Tokyo. Mitscher was asked why the fleet was left untouched after. thrusting to right. under the emperor's nase. The lean, weather - beaten admiral said: “I think the Jap fishing boat captain we captured had the best an-| swer to that — he said meekly: ‘I guess we (the Japanese) didn’t | have ‘enough planes.’’ A great deal of the time, the U. 8.! warships were only a" half hour| flying time .from any of Tokyo's more than 60 air fields. The lack of enemy “interception indicated the Japanese patrol boats and aircraft were unable to flash a warning before they went down. Both pilots’ reports and photographs revealed a number of mysteries off why the Japanese failed to strike back. At many of the airfields in the Tokyo area fighters and bombers were found on the ground. Many did not explode. Apparently they were out of fuel. Some Japanese anti-aircraft guns were not even manned.
TWO: PEDESTRIANS INJURED BY AUTOS
Junie Pyle, 49, of 4731 E. 19th st. was critically injured today at 20th st. and Martindale ave., when she was struck by a car driven by Clarence Hatcher, 23, of 1906 Martindale: ave. She was treated at City hospital for a broken ankle, broken hip and internal injuries. | Another pedestrian; R. E. Scott, | 55, of 2428 N. New Jersey st., was | treated and released from the hos- | pital after being struck by a car driven by Henry Thomas, 29, R. R. | 20, Box 193, at 16th and New Jer- |
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ashore to unload cargo are titled at insane angles where shells blasted them; antiltank guus a chance to fire a shot, Even some hulldozers landed too early to clear ‘wm path for following vehicles. Artillery could not, be landed for 24 hours, Packs, clothing, gas masks and toilet articles, many of them ripped by shrapnel, are scattered | across the sand for five miles Rifles are blown in half. Even letters are strewn among the debris ‘as though the war insisted on prying into a man's personal lite. Amid the wreckage is death. __ Perhaps the real _heraes of this
GREENLEE RESIGNS BEER ASSOCIATION
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| tide ‘came in.
fore Democrat-dominated beer dis-| tributing business. | It was believed by persons High | {in the wholesalers association that | it might be slightly difficult to cope | with the heavily-armored Repub- | licans if the organization retains its! strong Democratic flavor. In the past, beer wholesalerships
{have_been considered as so much
political patronage by Democrats, and the G. O. P. has indicated a | continuation of this policy. + “If my presence would -be politically embarrassing to the association,” said Mr. Greenlee, “I feel I should step aside.” : He said; however, that he had conferred with Governor Gates yesterday and that the chief executive had expressed satisfaction with him as beer wholesaler secretary: Mr. Greenlee plans to retire to his farm at “Shelbyville. Joseph B. Kyle, Republican of Gary, is No. 1 candidate for the wholesaler’s post. Meanwhile, the house second reading of the administra|tlon’s liquor bill this afternoon: . O. P. leaders said one amendment would recommend 11 p. m. as {the closing deadline of week-days, | with. midnight set as #oor- -locking time on Saturdays.
WAR. FRONTS
(Feb. 22, , 1945)
WESTERN EBT TA army cracks into Saar basin in sweep through Saar-Moselle triangle.
EASTERN FRONT—First Ukrainfan army battles for Neisse river crossing southeast of Berlin,
PACIFIC—Marines slash within 200 "yards.of Iwo's central airdrome: battle for Manila nears end,
ITALY—Americans strengthen positions on newly-won Mt. Belvedere and Mt. Gorgolesco.
OPPOSE ‘SOFT PEACE’
MOSCOW, Feb. 22 (U. P.).—The periodical War and the Working Class condemned in an editorial yesterday advocates of a SOft peace for Germany.
IN INDIANAPOLIS PAGE 9
VICTORY
fon!
"This is the Anniversary of the Birthday of Washington—
On that name: an eulogy is expected
It can not be To add brightness to the s
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—or glory to the name of
Washington is alike impossible
Let none attempt. it
In solemn awa prondunce the
name. and in its naked
deathless splendor leave it,
shining on."
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STRAUSS AND. co MPANY— INDIANAPOLIS
| move up to the comparative safety i of the forward area. Our battalion | aid station lost 11 of its 26 corps< |
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were said to have been set afire.) White Russian army has driven The biggest marine force in his-| across the Oder east of Berlin, tory—40,000 strong—was Nn A thrust across the Neisse at |estimated 20,000 Japanese on Kuschern would outflank the key bloody, rugged Iwo, an elght- | river fortress of Guben, seven lsquare-mile arena on Japan's front | miles to the south. Guben lies | doorstep. | astride the Neisse and guards the 23-mile gap between that river and
: : the Spree south of Berlin. Lt. Gen. Smith, throwing elements, Once Koney. links up with Zh xe
{of a third division into the bile kov's bridgeheads east of Berli vesterday, said that never before i {the marines’ 168-year history oh |s0 many divisions fought together | in a single operation. (A Mutual broadcasting corres- |
{pondent at Guam estimated that | 145,000 to 60,000 marines were fight- | ing on Iwo.)
Casualties Heavy
On D-day beach parties suffered heavy casualties in killed and wounded. And there were the aid and evacuation stations which couldn't
Biggest Marine Force |
men in the first two days. . Death is not a pretty sight, taken possession of they
but our had
were smashed before CASUALTIES OF U, ¢ beach. An officer in charge of a tank landing boat received a direct | shell hit while trying to free his boat from the sand. He was blown in half. A life preseryer supports the trunk of his body in the water,
Buried Under Sand
Marines killed on the beach | were buried under the sand as the
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since D-day. These are in addition to the 100,692 German pris fers taken in Sicily and Italy The invasion, entering its fourth 134,300 taken in North Africa day, wis proving the toughest of This makes a grand total of 1.2 the Pacific campaign. Only a single 134397 German prisoners captu i ’ > y “since November, 1942. Japanese prisoner has been cap- Stimson said U. S. army tured, but more than 830 Japanese. ties on all fronts compiled {bodies have been counted. Hundreds Feb. 14 were 711.497.
t t the |more probably were taken away by fotlee B) ptt events through th anuary. . the eriemy. middle of January
Toughest of Campaign andl
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On the third day we began to get vehicles and supplies ashore Wire matting made the - beach passable and naval gunfire knocked out most of the Jap artillery.
- The miracle was that we were | The marines were advancing il able to supply our troops at all
{the face of almost point-blank a= Navy, marine corps and coast |chine-gun, mortar and tifle fire guard casualties to date {poured down on them from Jap-|totaled 89,665. The grand total of anese positions on commanding {801,162 was an increase of 18,982 (heights. - Casualties rose steadily, over last week's total. {but the advance continued. | The army casualties included 138,-
casualthrough
Increase of 18,982
shelling on this beach. The boys who did it, as the saying goes. deserve a medal, but a lot of them won't be around when the medals are passed out.
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powerful frontal assault across the Oder toward the capital. The Ger man radio said last night such an offensive appeared “imminent.” Northeast of Berlin, Marsha} Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's 2d White Russian army seized an 18-mile stretch of the Berline Stettin-Danzig railway and cape tured Nicponie, 35 miles south of Danzig, in advances of up to six miles through the Polish corridor. . Other Soviet forces reduced the enemy's East Prussian pocket south. west of Koenigsberg to 350 "square
. miles
723 dead; 44444 wounded, of whom nearly half have returned to duty: 60,086 prisoners of war and 92,223 missing in action. The navy dead. 40,78 and 4474 prisoner of war. Stimson said-the overatt-atited pos the Western front is shaw steady improvement contrasted with a steady deterioration of the Nazi forces. “There are no serious difficulties w regarding supplies in the fore ward dumps of the various (allied) armies,” Stimson said. “The ape desperate efforts of the {Germans to strike at Antwerp with {V-bombs and rockets continue ine effective. 2 : “The number of U. 8. divisions has heen constantly on the increase since the opening of the port of the Antwerp and particularly during the pHst four weeks.”
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VICTORY
3 wounded, 10,546 missing-—*