Eocliak Mirror
‘‘cffeivs of {America's Last frontier
Published Every Saturday at Kodiak, Alaska
Yearly Subscription Rate $5.00
Entered in the Postoffice at Kodiak, Alaska as Second
Class matter under act of Congress of March 3, 1876.
KODIAK PUBLISHING COMPANY
William H. Lamme, Editor and Publisher
Lillian E. Lamme, Associate Editor
By Associated Press
Guam—Three American Army
divisions, totalling possibly 45
thousand men, jumped off
Thura. in an all out assault
against the solid Jap defenses on
southern Okinawa island. The
Navy disclosed that one of the
heaviest big gun bombardments
ever launched supported the
amphibious troops. Japs fought
(back furiously as artilierv &
fmortars hit the Yanks, who
-made an initial gain of 500
yards on one flank & 800 on the
other. The operation ended a 13
day deadlock on the southern
Okinawa front where the Nips
'have been holding the Yanks
with a defense setup 4 miles in
depth extending all the way
-.across the island. The terrain is
suited to the enemy’s kind of
fighting. It is cut up by ravines
& terraces and the Japs are en
trenched in an interlocking
system of trenches, pillboxes &
blockhouses.
Manila—The American troops
m vde a fresh threat to Borneo as
they invaded Balabac island, 45
miles north of that oil-rich area
Wed. Other infantrymen swept
22 miles inland from a new Min
danao beachhead to within 42
miles of the important city of
Davao
Balabac, about 10 miles n
length, in across the narrow chan
nel from Amercan held Palawan.
Northern Borneo is also men
aced from the East, by Yank
forces on Tawitai, 30 miles away.
On Mindanao Major General
Woo niff’s 24 th Division, strong
ly supported by aircraft, moved
15 miles south of the Parang
beachhead & captured Ootabato,
then drove 22 miles inland to
Lumpogo. Other Yanks landed
35 mile north at Parang & cap
tured Malabang airdrome and
quickly put it in operation.
Paris—British tanks thunder
ed to within a mile of the
suburbs of Hamburg as 3 Amer
ican divisions stamped out the
last fanatical resistance of Nazis
trapped in the walled heart of
Nuernberg. American & Frencb
troops are moving in a wide
circle around Stuttgart, another
Nazi rallying point.
Americans were within 70
miles of Munich & 132 miles of
Berchtesgaden. For all practical
purposes organized German re
sistance on a well-defined froot
ceased here as the war became a
battle of pockets.
London—Ttie German high
command announced that, the
Russians broke through to a
depth of 17 miles in Beilin’s
northeastern outer defenses to
reach the Buchholz area, 7 miles
from greater Berlin’s limits.
1 Marshal Konev’s 1st Ukrainian
army scored a similar t ucce3S
southeast of the capital, pushing
forwaid 16 miles from captured
Cottbus, breaking into Oalnu,
43 miles from Berlin & 51* miles
from the American 1st Army
German broadcasts described
the battle as taking place “at
the main gates of Berlin” and
said German central reserves
have been thrown into the “mur
derous battle”.
Ro no—The 8th Army a t
vaiiced 3 miles & captured Pont -
om&ggiore, 12 miles routheast of
Ferrara. 5th Army forces wcr >
reported advancing slowly aloi g
the highway nearing Piain ie.
News Highlights
Aleutians Base—(Delayed)—
Turbulent winds wafted a Navy
combat plane back into the air
as it attemp ed to hi ri and it
crashed in a nearby bay, lollng
six
Among the six was Ft (j->)
James Patton, of Woodbury. N.
Y , who told friends he was a re I ■
ative of General Patton, leader of
the 3rd Army in Europe, f.t. Pa -
IT IS EASIER
To dig down for War Bonds on
the Home Front than to dig; in
on the War Front.
Support the Seventh Loan Drive
by . . .
BUViNO MOBS BONDS
• on was a former oil company
employe and had been in the
Aleutians several months.
Ie Island, Ryukyus (VP)—
Ernie Pyle famed war corres
pondent, was buried with simple
military honors yesterday along
side the GI Joes, friends and
comrades in life and in death.
Army Chaplain N. B. Saucier,
of Coffeyville. Miss , who went
with the litter bearers under Jap
hre to recover Pyle’s body, offic
iated
Pyle fell in action at mid
morning Wednesday. Out of the
hundreds of the 10th Armv
troops who landed on Ie, 15
were killed in the first 3 days.
Py e was the sixteenth. He re
cently told friends Guam
that he had a premonition
something might happen.
Seattle (.!’)—The Superior
court jury convicted Charles;
Thomas, 16, and Chpster Mabe
and Donald Beal both 15, of sec
ond degree murder for the slay
ing in January of John Embere,
JG, in the county jail. Thev were
accused of beating him fatally
after placing lighted cigarettes
Bf,ajnst his hare flesh
The penalty may ran
10 years to lift1.
Ke f
Top
An armed guard of hon0r
fhe route as the body of p _ n<*8
lin D Hoosevelt is borrie
cai^soti to his final resting ( ^
in Hyde Park estate r)-aee
Center
President Harry s. -p
Cleft) and Mrs. Truman
the burial services for t^p, , tr*
President at Hyde Park. a*e
I
Bottom Photo
j His hand upraised, Harry S.
Truman takes the Presidential
loath of office in the White House
as Mrs Truman (center) and
their daughter, Mary Margaret
(right) look on.
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