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The first of the following two excerpts is continued from yesterday.

Winston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy

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Junction Beckons (Middleton) – 2-4
42d Division Ends German Treachery (Johnston) – 4
2d Armored Rolls at 4 Miles an Hour – 5
Fifth and Eighth Armies Gain At Both Ends of Italian Front (Bracker) – 5-6
4 Italians Heroes of Massa Capture – 6
The Scheer Sunk at Kiel by RAF – 6
Luftwaffe Shuns Our Fighters’ Bid – 7
Cossacks Move Up – 7
‘Slave Labor’ Plan for Russia Denied – 8
5,000,000 Reported Slain at Oswiecim – 8
Poland and Soviet Exchanging Minorities; Austrian Partisans Now Fighting Germans (Sulzberger) – 8
London Hears Hitler is Dying; Himmler Reported at Nazi Helm (Daniel) – 9
War News Summarized – 9
Okinawa Fighting is Grim in South (Rae) – 10
Americans Smash Enemy Positions and Planes on Okinawa (photos) – 10-11
Rain of Fire Halts Okinawa Advance (by Warren Moscow) – 10-11
Relief Ship Sunk by U.S. Submarine – 11
Swift Gains Made in Southern Luzon – 11-12
American Air Bases Move Closer to Japan (page 1 photo) – 12
One More River (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 14
Chief of Second Armored Becomes Major General – 14
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 15-17
Ex-Slaves’ Food Ration to Top Reich’s; Set at 2,000 Calories to Natives’ 1150 (by John MacCormac) – 17