SANDUSKY, OHIO,
TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1945
Smashes Past
City
And Cuts Road
120
Miles From
Berlin
BULLETIN
WITH U.
S. FIRST ARMY, Germany, April 10 (UP)—
American
First Army tanks broke into the Harz
mountains
today in a 25-mile advance that outflanked
the
German stronghold of Nordhausen, 115 miles southwest
of
Berlin.
Y BOYD
D. LEWIS
PARIS, April 10 (UP;—
American Ninth Army troops stormed
into burning Hannover today and raced another 23 miles beyond the city
to within 120 miles of Berlin. In an explosive burst of power that
threatened momentarily to cave in the Germans' entire northern
flank, the Americans broke loose on the main Hannover-Brunswick- Berlin
superhighway less than 16 miles from Brunswick and 55 miles from the
Elbe River line that forms the enemy's 1st big defensive barrier in the
west.
Simultaneously, the Ninth Army's
Fifth Armored Division stabbed 23 miles northeastward to cut the
superhighway at a point mid-way between Hannover and Brunswick.
SOVIETS DRIVING
FAR TO WEST OF
FALLING VIENNA
Y RICHARD
KASISCHKE
LONDON, April 10, (fl^-
Russian forces beyond Vienna
headed today for Munich and Prague and a link-up with the Allies in the
west as Soviet storm units within the Austrian capital battled the Germans
for the last few blocks of the city.
Moscow radio said "The
fall of Vienna is imminent."
Far to the north other Russian
troops along the Baltic coast had captured the East Prussian capital
of Koenigsberg after a 33-hour barrage had softened fortifications
surrounding that cradle of
Prussian militarism. The seizure of Koenigsberg was hailed in the
Russian press as one of the great victories of the war.
JAPS SLOWING
U. S. GAINS ON
MANY FRONTS
Resistance
Stiffens on Okinawa
and
Luzon; Philippines-
Based
Bombers Bag
13 Nip
Vessels.
By
LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated
Press War Editor
Stiffening
Japanese resistance
on
virtually every Pacific
war
front limited American
gains
today.
A third Nipponese counter-attack,
increasing fire, and a continuing artillery battle held the U. S. Corps
to "small local gains"in its drive toward Naha on southern
Okinawa.
Several battalions of Marine
artillery were thrown into the South Okinawa battle. To the north the Third
Marine Amphibious Corps fanned out over half of Motobu
Peninsula
and reached a former Japanese submarine base against light resistance.
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