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Billboard Top 10 (or Top 11) for the Week of April 21, 1945

#1 - “My Dreams are Getting Better All the Time” - Les Brown, with Doris Day
#2 - “Candy” - Johnny Mercer, with Jo Stafford and the Pied Pipers
#3 – “My Dreams are Getting Better All the Time” - Johnny Long, with Dick Robertson
#4 – “Just A Prayer Away” – Bing Crosby and Ethel Smith
#5 - “I’m Beginning to See the Light” - Harry James, with Kitty Kallen
#6 - “Rum and Coca-Cola” - Andrews Sisters
#7 – “There! I’ve Said It Again” – Vaughn Monroe
#8 - “Dream” - Pied Pipers
#8 – “Sentimental Journey” – Les Brown, with Doris Day
#9 - “I’m Beginning to See the Light” - Duke Ellington, with Joya Sherrill
#10 - “My Dreams are Getting Better All the Time” - Phil Moore Four

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Capital Flanked – 2-3
Allies Race South (Middleton) – 3-4
Area Held by the Germans is Sliced Still Further (map) – 5
Desolate Nuremberg taken On Hitler’s 56th Birthday (Johnston) – 6-7
Where Once the Fuehrer Stood (page 1 photo) – 6
Eisenhower Sees Enemy Doom Near – 7
Allied Air Power Pounds at Berlin (Gruson) – 7
Americans Break Into Po Valley (Bracker) – 8
New Rocket Bomb Rips E-Boat Pens – 9
Nazi Camp Horrors Now Viewed AS Evidence for San Francisco (w/photo) – 9-10
Norway Prodding Sweden to Action – 10
War News Summarized – 10
Gains on Okinawa (Jones, Robbin Coons, first-time contributor) – 11
Ernie Pyle Laid to Rest Under Fire; Funeral Party on Ie Dodges Shells – 11
Big Cebu Victory Won in Philippines – 12
Suicide Attack: A Japanese Pilot Fulfills Only Half His Mission Against Our Fleet (photos) – 12-13
100,000 Japanese Reported in Drive – 13
Burma Cargo Fliers List Records In Aiding Troops During Year – 13
The British Smash 70 Miles South in Burma (map) – 14
Drive at Rangoon Rushed by British (by Tillman Durdin) – 15
9 Kyushu Airfields Attacked by B-29’s – 15
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in the Various War Theatres – 16-19
RAF Bombing Sinks the Luetzow; Nazis Lose Last Pocket Battleship) – 19