Continued from yesterday. Coincidentally, February 18 would become my own birthday 7 years later – HJS.
James Bradley, with Ron Powers, Flags of Our Fathers
Manila Bay Opens (Parrott) – 2-3
War News Summarized – 3
Corregidor: ‘The Rock’ in the Pacific to Which Our Forces Have Returned (photo) – 4
Iwo Battle Grows (Moscow) – 5-6
Iwo: Pacific Base Now Under Attack (photo) – 6
Japanese Attack on China Railroad – 7
United States Third Fleet Unit On the Move in the Pacific (photo) – 7
Tommies Cut Road – 8
Red Army Crosses Dresden Barrier – 9-10
Bulgaria Offers Alliance to Tito; Balkan Hatreds Still Are Threat (Levy) – 10
Fortresses Batter Frankfort, Giessen – 11
The Veteran (Hurd) – 12
Japanese Official Warns Tokyo Residents They May Have to Spend Lives in Shelters – 13
Delay is Voted on Nurses’ Draft – 13
Iwo a Strategic Prize (Baldwin) – 13
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in Various War Zones – 14-16
Expands Navy ROTC for Training 24,000 – 16
The News of the Week in Review
Roads that Lead to Tokyo (map) – 17
Closing In – 18
Toward Tokyo – 18-19
Toward Berlin – 19-20
Crimea Charter – 20-21
Abroad – 21-22
Quotations – 22
Fifteen News Questions – 23
Germany: A Fortress Besieged (map) – 24
Agreements at Yalta Speed Germany’s Fall (Baldwin) – 25
“The Voice of Doom” (cartoon) – 26
Answers to Fifteen News Questions – 26
