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Four Journal-Every Evening. Wilmington, Delaware, Tuesday, April 10, 1943 Battle Heroes Delaware Casualties Ya hs Unco ver German 'Mu rder Western Front (Contlnaed From Faa One) niversary, Jan. 2, on board ship going to Europe. After the death of his father. Carmine Dalessandro, he took over the management of Stella's Junk survived by three brothers.

Marine Pfc. Henry J. Nawrocki, Staff Sergt. Edward F. Nawrocki, and John Nawrocki at home, and a sister.

Miss Eleanor Nawrocki, also at home. Factory' Where 20,000 Died Italian Front Cntlnae4 From Far One) bombers, plai hundreds of lighter planes which fiw thousands of sorties, had thoroughly drenched German defenses wl.h bombs and fire, and the croMir.ga were accom-pll'hed qukk'y against relatively light opposition. The imash across the Ser.io brought to an end the prolonged Nazis Gas, Cremate 15,000, In As ylum; Skulls Used Inmate LIMBURG, Germany, April 10 (fP). American troops have discovered a German "murder factory," rivalling any house of horror dreamed up by fiction writers, where it is estimated 20,000 persons viewed by the Nazis as "undesirables," were systematically slain. Located in an insane asylum near Limburg, the terror-filled establishment was in charge of a tall, scar-faced 70-year-old Nazi surgeon, assisted by a husky 45-year-old chiefj woman's nurse and middle-aged Danube, thus denying the Germans rine base.

Hannover is a meeting place of five railroads and seven main highways and a producer of aircraft, guns, tanks, trucks, and four-fifths of Germany's airplane tires. Front Aimed at Elbe The whole Allied front was aimed at the Elbe River, 60 miles away at Hamburg and less than 70 at Magdeburg. The river is the last be fore Berlin. The Ninth Army on the high road to Berlin was less than 20 miles from Brunswick: the Third Army was five from Erfurt; the Seventh was four miles from Schwelnfurt; and the French were nine from Stuttgart. The Ruhr trap was squeezed down to less than 2,500 square miles, a death trap 50 miles long and 50 wide holding tens of thousands of Nazis-Fighting raged in the streets of Dortmund (537.000) for the third day.

The total bag of prisoners from the Ruhr pocket rose to more than 25,000 as the Eighth Division captured Olpe, 13 miles north of Siegen, where the Germans had been reported concentrating tanks and troops for a counter-attack. Re sistance, however, was light ana there was no sign of massed strength. More than 25,000 square mues naus been hacked from western Germany and Allied armored spearheads are jabbing deeper. General Eisenhower's tanks were clanking about the Reich virtually at will; the shattered Wehrmacht drained by casualties in 10 days and by the entrapment of 180,000 more in the Ruhr and Holland was fighting by day and running by night. The Canadian Fourth Armored Division advanced 10 miles during the niht to within 25 miles of Em-den (27,000) and 15 miles from the North Sea.

The north German city of Oldenburg was menaced by 40 miles away. Hamburg, Germany's second city of 1,682.220. was less than 50 miles from Allied vanguards, and the port of Luebeck was brought within 95 miles of British lines thrust across the Weser at Hoya. Allied Planes Active More than 6,000 bombing, rocket-; aruis aira rn ac Uiiif ur: zllt. Allied; Kill 5,000 More by Drugs for Drinking Toasts As Is Checked Off hoP of SCP by air.

Malinovsky's columns then turned north and battled German tanks and self-propelled guns in Vienna's suburbs of Flordisdorf and Jedlersee through which runs the highway to the Czecho-Slovak city of Bruenn. The right wing of the Second Ukrainian Army was 38 miles south east of Bruenn. Only 1,700 Nazis Surrender The Germans fought to the death behind street barricades in Vienna. Only 1,700 Nazis surrendered in night and daylong fighting. Panic swept Vienna, Moscow accounts said.

A Soviet front dispatch stated that Nazi storm troopers, seeking to quell a disaster, had fired on throngs of hungry housewives. Referring to the Koenigsberg victory, where 42.000 prisoners were taken, the Russian army newspaper Red Star declared editorially: "For almost seven centuries this bandit town has stood on the Baltic, ravaging and ruining the tribes of Lithuania. "From now on and forever East Prussia, the birthplace of the arrogant aggressors and would-be enslavers of the Slavs, has been seoa- rated from German soil." V-EDay (Continued From Pare One) fantry combined can set out for anv place in Germany now and reach it within a reasonable time. Line May Be Fixed I militant mAn Iiava V. joint rhi.f, r.r ft will lx some definite line in Ger many to which either the Russians! or the western front Allies will ad-! I "tV, LtTTm Jri wh.V mih, i probably ul end what might be railed organized resistance rt in Wie, chief warden.

Allied officers said. On the staff were SS (Elite Guard) officers from Berlin. Tales told by German residents cf the village of Hadamar, four miles north of Limburg, led U. S. First Army Officers Lieut.

George Walker of Deshler, Ohio, and Capt. Alton H. Jung of San Antonio, question ofncials in the village. ana resulted in locating the asylum. Maj.

Harvey M. Coverly. Sausalito, Calif, ordered the arrest of the three In charge of the "factory," said by the officers be one of six set up by the Nazis inside Germany to dispose scientifically of unruly slave laborers or those who had outlived their usefulness. 15,000 Gassed, Cremated German civil authorities estimated 15,000 victims were gassed and cremated and another 5,000 killed by drugs or poison and buried in communal graves. The stench of burning bodies caused Hadamar residents to complain, and the Bishop of Muenster lodged protests with the asylum officials.

That caused the Nazis to witch from gas to hypodermic injections and from cremation to mass burial. The alayings were described "mercy killings" authorized by a 1939 Nazi statute. Two investigators, Capt. Brinkiey Hamilton, a British officer attached to an American infantry division, and Lieut. W.

R. Johnson, Loveland, told a macabre story of death and torture and ghoulish feasts by drunken executioners in the asylum, where 300 crazed Inmates were permitted to run free in underground dungeons. 'Flyinj- BaU, Craiy Men "Nobody would believe it," said Johnson. "It had underground i Shop, the family business at thej East Third Street address. Aj younger brother, Raymond, is now assisting his mother In their ness.

Francis J. Gilaon Sergeant Gilson is hospitalized in England for a severe wound of the left leg. An infantryman, he has; been in the service for four years and overseas since January. Before! going Into the Army he was em-' ploved by the General Chemical, Company. He attended St.

Jo.vph's-j on-the-Branrtywine Parochial School' and Alexis I. duPont High Four brothers are in the Three of them are serving overseas; with the Infantry, Pfc. Jorin F. Gil-1 son, Corp. James W.

Gilson. andj Corp. Joseph A. Gilson. The fourth brother, Corp.

Wiiiiam Gilson, Is with the engineers stationed at Fort! Jackson, S. His brother-in-law. First Clarence B. Jackson, U. S.

Army Air; Forces, is now recuperating at Petersburg. from wounds which! he suffered when his plane was shot down over enemy territory in south-1 eastern Europe. Through the heip; of the underground he managed to return to his base in Italy. Arthur F. Jennings Private Jennings had training with anti-aircraft artillery batteries in North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.

Six weeks before going overseas In February, he was trans- ferred to the infantry. Before entering the services Aug. 12, 1343, he was employed by the Ford Motor Company at Chester. A John, is with the medical corps in Italy. Robert M.

LeCates Corporal LeCates had been over- seas with the infantry for six weeks when he was wounded. He entered the service a year ago. Before going overseas he trained in Georgia. Corporal LeCates attended the Sea-ford High School. Three brothers are in the service, Charles and Edward in France, and Herbert en route overseas.

Charles Edward Maclary Corporal Maclary is now hospitalized in France. He served with the f- famous 36th (Texas) Division of the Seventh Army. This is the second time he has been wounded, so wears the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf cluster. Pre vious he had been awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action. A brother Corp.

Harry F. Maclary is with the Air Charles E. Forces at Drew I Maclary 1ekL Tampa, i Corporal Mae- jlary's wife, the formpr Evelyn E. Peckett. is now living in Coates-Iville, Pa.

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AUDIPHONE CO. Delaware Trust Bldr. Arcade iOO Market St. Phene 2-1824 I y. r- Assembly (Contlnned From Fare One) with the budget committee and postwar planning committee, is critical of the cost accounting systems in the various school districts, and is highly desirlous that a new standardized method should be employed because.

statistics submitted by districts show wide discrepancies. Special Districts May Be Oat The committee further feels that a study of the existing system will prove that it might be feasible to completely abolish special districts and put all public achoools of the state under a commissioner of education. The resolution calling for the appointment of a commission to study the situation is the outgrowth of the findings and opinions of the joint legislative budget committee, the post-war planning committee and and the joint legislative committee on education. The members of the commission would be granted broad powers and an appropriation would be authorized large enough to carry the work to a successful conclusion. Much of the study, especially that of a statistical nature, would be conducted by competent and unbiased public accountants and investigators.

The commission would hold hearings from time to time and release accounts of its findings to the Governor. A full report would be made to the 1947 session of the General Assembly. A conference was recently heid among members of the Joint education committee and several educators of the state. Including Dr. H.

V. Holloway, state superintendent of public instruction; Dr. W. H. Lem-mel, superintendent of Wilmington Board of Education; Millman Pret-tyman, president of the State Principals' Association and superintendent of Sea ford School; Dr.

John Shilling, assistant superintendent In charge of high schools; Dr. H. B. King, assistant superintendent in charge of elementary schools; John J. Murray, business manager of the Wilmington Board of Education, and Dr.

Rene L. Herbst, director of research for the State Board of Education. L'niform Tax I'rged This group was unanimous in the belief that a small uniform statewide tax to support schools would be a remedial step, together with the establishment of a uniform teachers' salary and Increment distribution schedule. Last week, a bill was passed after it had been Introduced a substitute for a skeleton mesaure by Senator W. Dearie Johnston -Dover) to provide for a uniform system of teachers' increments.

Under the provisions of the bill, the increments would be regulated on a state-wide basis. Currently, there are differences existing in special school districts, the Wilmington Board of Education, and schools which are under the supervision of the State Board of Education. The increments would be ascertained and determined under the act by the use of a teacher's rater.g card approved by the State Board of Education. 10 French Air Force Officers Held in Plot PARIS. April 10 iP).

French military intelligence disclosed today the arrest of 10 French air force officers on suspicion of complicity in a recently uncovered plot against the government. The officers were charged with attempting to incite insubordination among French air force personnel. Let freedom ring on Uncle. Sam's cash register! Buy U. S.

War Bonds and Stamps! Pvt. Lewis F. Foley Killed Pvt. Anthony J. Dalessandro Wounded -3 Pvt.

Arthur Sergt. Francis F. Jennings J. Gilson Wounded Wounded Casualties (Continued Fram Fare One) 628 East Third Street; March 4 In Germany. Sergt.

Francis J. Gilson, 26, son of Mrs. Estella Gilson of DaPont Road, Westhaven; March 16 in France. Private Arthur F. Jennings, 28, husband of Mrs.

Ann Olscewski Jennings. 103 South Harrison Street; March 15 in Germany. Corp. Tech. Robert M.

LeCates, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Baxter LeCates, Seaford; March 16, in Ger many. Corp. Tech.

Charles Edward Ma-clary, son of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Maclary. formerly of Stanton, now of Chesapeake City, Md March 16.

in France, for the second time. The War Department today announced 4529 casualties, including 933 killed. 2,711 wounded and 580 prisoners of war. The Navy Department today announced 314 casualties in the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, including 86 dead, 200 wounded and 28 missing. Lewis F.

Foley Private Foley was graduated from St. Ann's School and Salesianum Catholic High School where he played basketball and baseball. Before enlisting In the Army In September. 1942, he was employed by the DaPont Company in the Traffic Department. He served with the mechanized cavalry and had his training at Fort Riley, Kan.

He had been overseas for the past 13 months. Philip A. Beaman Sergeant Beaman was serving with the 33rd Infantry Division on Luzon when he was killed. He entered the service in February. 1942, and went overseas in June, 1943.

He was a graduate cf Somervilie, N. High School and Amherst College. Before going overseas he trained at Fort Lewis. Wash. A brother.

Tech. Sergt. Ralph Beaman, is serving overseas with the Army Air Forces. A sister, Barbara, who lives at home, also survives. Anthony J.

Dalessandro Only five days after he went into actual combat. Private Dalessandro was wounded in the back by shrapnel. He is now in a hospital in Luxembourg and writes that he is getting along all right. He has been awarded the Purple Heart. He entered the Army in July, 1944, had training at Camp Blandmg, and went overseas in December.

He spent his 19th birthday an I sat i mm ii i ii irr a-t ian jLLiui.n-uu uiawi me to? oi middj GerI Htf, min and a.dmjnister flrst asi. niiiii. 5riisn neavy oomoers, Kt strength loosed terrific ruin! chambers with dripping water, bats iZr on the Kiel shipyards. command post to his forward obeying around and little crazy The U. S.

8th Air Force alone de-! nervation pat so that he could con- stroyd 166 Plans- nd damaged 53itinue his mission, stacks on airfields and dis- he spotted v. oi.uvaj mil. step." Of the Nazi surgeon in charge, Johnson said: "I never saw a tougher i "1'" around Munich, 95 miles from the: he directed fire on them so accu- looking man in my life." iA minVy fne u' (Seventh Army. Pilots found evi-Irately that one was destroyed and The job of the chief nurse. he.an1 tne "ussiarvs would cut Oer-dence that the Luft-the other withdrew.

His effective added, "was to put the death needle I m.ny lnto t0 ia a was using makeshift opera- artillery direction helped to inflict into women patients. She was about I wlu mlUal tetween tne tional bases. Many destroved planes! much, lo.ss in men and materiel on six feet tail, built like a football I Anny and the Russians near Benm were on Many were the enemy. player and as ugly as a witch." would accomplish a simwar Lieutenant Vignola was wounded 500 Russians Vanish making it impossible for the German The Canadian Fourth Armored twice on the same day. Aug.

27. Captain Hamilton, a veteran ofHigh Command to conduct any, revision racing north along the Ems after the invasion of South-20 years at London's Bow Street of organized war. 'fought within 15 miles of Doll art I em France, and was hospitalized in nolice station, said that, on one davi Such a cutting up of the German Bay, between Germany and Hoi-i Italy. Reich, militarv authorities ptrrsai scrounas in a Hreat circle A salient to this arm of the land from the Reich; all railroads (already have been cut and it is esti- mated 80,000 Germans are pocketed flooded polders and the Ca- nadian troops Last Escape Route Cut The last escape route had been cut eight miles northeast of Zwolle bv armored cars within sight of the Zuider Zee. One Canadian group 500 Russians were taken into theiarmy "ouid a.iow German soldiers surrenaer itn nonor, oecau5esNortfl sea.

would totally sever Hoi winter lull on this front. A strike beyond Ligo would endanger Nazi strongholds upstream alor.g the Senio Into the northern Apennines, and the ccmparatlvely easy manner In which bridgeheads were established, together with the display of an Allied material superiority, suggested that the 25 German divisions, six Italian Fascist divisions estimate to be in Italy, would not be able to withstand the pounding for lor.g. Toufh Going Ahead The attack came after Field Marshal Albert Keve.ririg, expert in delaying tactics, had been called away to take charge of the Germans' western front. His place is reported to have been tafcn by Col Gen. Friedrich von Vietinghofi, credited with a leading ro in constructing the defenses of Ahead, however, lay tough going for the British tackling what apparently meant to be the last battle for norr.ern Italy.

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"One assistant said the doctor was regarded as a kind man because if one of the victims fought against taking the hypo needle the surgeon would not let the attendants beat him into submission," Hamilton recounted. "He Just let the man go without food until he was too weak to The cas chambers and torium were operated by SS men from Berlin, the investigators added. i their miUtary situation would be im-. possible. Almost all Germans, officers and civilians, say the German soldier would like to stop fighting, but that he wiu not give up until he knows he can surrender without danger of retaliation from the Nazis.

OM a tea (Continued From Fe One) Kn nnnimn site of Jan- anese submarine pens. I it. wax a different atorv on! Artillery Slugging Match Japanese may be using more and heavier artillery than they have 7 Z- A 4 Lieut. Anthony Corp. Marvin J.

Vignola LV Atkinson Lieut. Malvin Gelof Edmund L. Nawrocki Decorations (Continued From Pas One) of vantage on a hill under heavy artillery and mortar shelling. Voluntarily, Lieutenant VignoU took his section forward through the shelling to the top of the hill where he set up his radio, calling back to headquarters the location of enemy batteries and directing heavy artillery fire on enemy positions. While the batteries were temporarily silenced, the infantry moved up to the hilltop.

Lieutenant Vignola's position was quickly learned by the Nazis, who oegan shelling his post, wounding five men and smashing the radio. The Wilmington officer, himself rClL j.h uuiiri uiavra ciipmy urp to lay a telephone line from the 1 niais" vmti uvupa, A graduate of Sacred Heart School and Salesianum High School, he was inducted in March, 1941. He attended Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill, and was commissioned in November, 1942. He went overseas in November, 1943. He was first stationed in North Africa, and went on to Italy where he took part in the fighting for Cassino.

A brother is Staff Sergt. Carmen tional Guard in 1940, Corporal At kinson had been employed by the Continental-Diamond Fibre Com- pany in Newark. as graduated in 1939 from Newark High School. ratuii mi uie iC wun Bat7 He returned home in August. 1943 and transferred to the A brother, Corporal William Hooven, is serving somewhere in France.

Malvin Gelof Lieutenant Gelof has returned to action after being hospitalized in southern France. He was awarded the Bronze Star for action with the Third Armored Division in Belgium, of which the late Maurice Rose was the commander. His parents do not know for what action he was cited. The soldier's father is running the poultry farm bought by the soldier before he went into the Army. The family formerly lived in New York.

Lieutenant Gelof attended Dartmouth College. He was inducted in April, 1943, from Wilmington. He received basic training at Fort Bragg. N. and attended Officer Candidate School there.

He was commissioned in May, 1944, and went overseas two months later. Edmund L. Nawrocki Petty Officer Nawrocki was turret gunner on a Navy torpedo plane. He was awarded the Air Medal posthumously in recognition of his part in delivering destruction to the Japs in raids on Guam, the Palau Islands. Central and Northern Philippines, Formosa, and the Battle of Leyte Gulf, between August and October, 1944.

News of his death reached his parents last November. The citation reads in part: "Nawrocki fought his gun with determined aggressiveness during numerous bombing, rocket, and torpedo strikes against important enemy ground positions, merchant shipping and vital installations despite concentrated anti-aircraft fire and the terrific cross-fire frequently encountered when his pilot, diving to perilously low altitudes, flew close to hostile screening vessels while pressing home devastating attacks. "Participating in a powerful raid against Japanese shipping in Manila Harbor on Oct. 19, Nawrocki, by his unfaltering courage and expert marksmanship, contributed materially to the extensive damage in flicted on a large tanker and a me dium cargo ship. A former resident of Scranton, Nawrocki had lived in Wilmington about three years.

He had been employed at the National Vulcanized Fibre Company and at the Pusey and Jones Corporation. He served In the Pacific theatre from April, 1944. until his death. He entered the Navy in December, 1942, and trained at Newport, R. Fort Lauderdale, and San Di- Calif In addition to his parents, he is 0 pushed six miles northeast to!" Borgen and awaited the arrival of; E.

Atkinson fTrnt-. fnrr ri.l wlr.h fier- BefoT6 Joining the Delaware Na- Drink Oat or "Victims bkalls 'southern Okinawa, where the enemy I "After their killing the.nas concentrated the bulk of a de-i SS men had a drinking Hamilton saia. iney cieanea fin nnn trooDs tne skuijs oi some oi ineir victims ana usea mem a nrmiung cups i lownspeopie nu luiiun riiip.uj.es at the asylum testified to this. mustered before, but still it was no formed a strong assault arc around "Gantry before going to the Euro-The surgeon, confronted by evi-, match for tRe American batteriesj the south side of Bremen and Pan theatre in December. 1944.

He dence and testimony on operations mas5ing their in a furious ail-1 threatened to burst loose in an out-' received the Bronze Star for action of the murder factory, was quoted basins: match. Battleships' Rankina- t.hnt north to the Helso-1 January. stroying a number of gun emplare-jbure. ments in the rugged terrain well) The corridor northeast to Bremen suited to defensive tactics. 'alreadv has been shouldered out at r-n i IQlfVi re V.

ItriU.H Alic OCVCIIIII 11VIUU iea5u allies W1UC UCUWCCU XlUCiI Regiment recaptured Red Hill yes-jhausen and the Weser opposite Ver Naziiterday after concentrating artillery I 9TH STREET iN wiviAll Loretta Original. A 9frrZAf daintily patterned rJJlfeVl CharbeMe Fabric in Ifc 5 vVWi (pun rmyon trimmed KI'uI'j YicTi with black grosgrain eWs90 ribbon. In aqua, shell i i Vjii pmk and limeade. Stzrx fflii 19-95 ki, -h arms 1 nthf rranadian and British S5e- ond Army infantry and guards armored divisions were making nnrthiiict rvprmanv hetuwn thp Ems and the Weser. Sir Miles C.

Dempsey'si Desert Rat (7th) Armored Division i den. Nienburg Surrenders The large garrison at Nienburg northwest of Hannover, surrendered to the 11th. The Tommies then ran into the open, capturing Lichtenhorst, Nienhagen and Esperke, all west of the Liene River. On the 21st Army Group left flank, the Germans still resisted Canadian attempts to cut across the Issel River in Holland. Hassalune, road Junction 10 miles east of the Ems, fell to the troops of the 43rd Wessex Division, who drove two miles east.

The guards armored division entered Meslage. The Desert Rats' penetration within a mile of Wildeshausen already threatens the main escape route for Germans southwest of Bremen the 7th and 8th Paracuhte and the 15th Panzer Grenadier Divisions. The British had a 11-mile bridgehead across the Leine River. The line the Germans hope to establish on its banks was turned hopelessly. The Seventii Army of Alexander M.

Patch, hero of Guadalcanal, gained four to six miles along virtually its entire difficult, hilly front. Japanese Lose 400 In Assault on Laohokow CHUNGKING, April 10 P). The Chinese High Command acknowledged today that Japanese forces had entered Laohokow, former site of an advanced U. S. air base 200 miles northwest of Hankow, but said the garrison still was battling stubbornly within the city.

Four hundred of the Invaders were slain, the announcement said. The Chinese reported their counter-attacking forces in northwestern Honan Province had fought into the town of Changsuichen, 70 miles from the Shensi border. Snoozers PEORIA. 111. April 10 (JP).

The Alex podak family sleeps soundly. While they slept burglars ransacked the refrigerator, took a package of cigarettes from Podak's clothing, and carried a heavy radio through the house and out the back door. by Captain Hamilton as saying have always been a doctor honor." Reds Sav ZS'azis Killed tm ftf I 111 Latvia I LONDON, April 10 (P. covemment and the German High Command were charged today by a Soviet investigating committee with the merciless slaughter of 577,000 men, women and children In Latvian concentration camps. A report broadcast by the Moscow radio said an additional 175,000 Latvians were deported as clave laborers, and on explicit orders of Nazi officials and the military a- ruthless destruction of factories, public utilities, libraries, museums, hospitals and homes was carried out during the German occupation.

"The German fiends murdered men and women, healthy and sick, children and old people," the report said. "In the central prison in Riga they murdered more than 2,000 children whom they had taken away from parents, and in Salaspils Camp they killed more than 3,000 children." More than 56,000 civilians were tortured to death in the latter camp, it was charged. Russian War (Continued From Fare One) at Tulln apparently was aimed at Prague, 139 miles away. While the Berlin radio claimed the Germans still were opposing the Russians "with wild stubbornness" In Vienna, Moscow dispatches pictured the carved up Nazi garrison as a "disorganized mob fighting to escape from the city." By enemy account the Russians now have entered the world famed Prater, the big amusement park which lies in the southeastern part of the smoking city between the Danube River and the Danube Canal. Ringstrasse Taken Moscow announced that the inner heart of the Austrian capital had been overrun.

Soviet Infantry and tanks, driving from the west, broke across the famous Ringstrasse Vienna's center late last night and captured such structures as the Town Hall, parliament buildings, opera house and central police headquarters. Marshal Rodlon Y. Malinovsky's eeond Ukrainian Army swarmed acrosa the much-battered Aspern airport, on the north side of the The fire on it during the night I he mil was seized from the Yanks earlier in a bitter, close-range counterattack fought with tanks, bazookas, small arms and grenades. Prolonged Siege Style Fight It was likely the southern battle fought in an 85-square-mile area, or 10 times the size of Iwo Jima, would continue in siege style for some days. Two Japanese have been killed for every American killed or wounded in the first nine days of fighting, a 24th Corps spokesman said today.

American casualties, he said, Include a very small percentage of killed while tne counted enemy losses are almost entirely of dead. By comparison the rate of Japanese dead to American casualties on Saipan and Iwo islands was one to one, on Luzon in the Philippines four to one, and on Leyte in the Philippines seven to one. Busy minesweepers have cleared 3,000 square miles of ocean of mines, generously strewn by the Japanese around the Ryukus and surrounding waters. Suicide Craft Active Although hundreds of Nipponese suicide boats were captured in the invasion of the Kerama Islands, preceding the Okinawa assault April 1, tiie little craft are still appearing and attempting to ram American ships. An illuminating flare from a cruiser thowed one 1,600 yards away but It apparently escaped in the darkness.

Another was destroyed. Enemy planes still attempting to raid the amphibious force lying off Okinawa, failed to get past the destroyer screen. Landing craft helped a destroyer shoot down three. Nearly all invasion ships have been unloaded and returned to rear areas. The Japanese Domei news agency today claimed nine American aircraft carriers were sunk in the Okinawa area between March 23 and April 7.

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