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February 3, 1945

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4,200 PLANES SMASH AT REICH RAILS, OIL; 1,200 British 'Heavies' in Night Blow--2,000 Railway Cars Blasted in Daylight 4,200 PLANES SMASH AT REICH RAILS, OIL

By Unknown Author

RAF blasts Wiesbaden, Karlsruhe, Wanne-Eickel synthetic oil works, Berlin, western Ger rr centers and motor transport carrying Ger troops and equipment eastward; with US planes, takes heavy toll of rolling stock and mil vehicles; Allied air operations pattern and desire for closer cooperation with USSR ground forces discussed

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1ST ARMY DRIVES ON; Reaches Point 4 Miles From Schleiden, Key Siegfried Line Town MORE OF RHINE WON Eisenhower and Staff Discuss 'Current Moves' With Gen. Bradley Bradley Sees Eisenhower 1ST ARMY DRIVES ON INTO SIEGFRIED LINE German Cost Called High French Towns Blazing Escape Gate Under Fire Advance Toward Pruen AMERICANS SMASH DEEPER INTO SIEGFRIED LINE

By Clifton Daniel By Wireless To the New York Times

US 2d Div troops penetrate thickest part of Siegfried Line to point 4 mi from Schleiden as other units, attacking toward Schleiden in north, reach Wuste River valley; 18th Rgt moves up to high ground west of Ramscheid; 82d Airborne Div fights in Udenbreth; other forces reach 12-mi line west of Pruem; Allied tactical planes hit targets in path of advance; map

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Coal Miners Urged To Work on Today

By Unknown Author

Admr Ickes asks Pa anthracite miners to work Saturday, Feb 3, at straight time pay, to alleviate shortage; over 4,500 Lehigh Navigation Coal Co miners refuse to comply with request; SFA Westchester Advisory Com rept informs Ickes and Dockerill of county dealers supply exhaustion; SFA repts diversion from Canadian rrs and plants to some states

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Notable Births

Bob Griese

1945Bob Griese, American football player and sportscaster[†]

Robert Allen Griese is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for the Miami Dolphins of the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He earned All-American honors playing college football with the Purdue Boilermakers before being drafted in 1967 by the Dolphins of the AFL.

Notable Deaths

Roland Freisler

1945Roland Freisler, German lawyer and judge (born 1893)[†]

Karl Roland Freisler was a German jurist, judge, and politician who served as the State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice from 1935 to 1942 and as president of the People's Court from 1942 to 1945. As a prominent ideologist of Nazism, he influenced as a jurist the Nazification of the German legal system. He was appointed president of the People's Court in 1942, overseeing the prosecution of political crimes as a judge. Freisler became known for his aggressive personality, his humiliation of defendants, and his frequent use of the death penalty in sentencing.

Historical Events

Bombing of Berlin in World War II

1945World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 and 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000.[†]

Berlin, the capital of Germany, was subject to 363 air raids during the Second World War. It was bombed by the RAF Bomber Command between 1940 and 1945, the United States Army Air Forces' Eighth Air Force between 1943 and 1945, and the French Air Force in 1940 and between 1944 and 1945 as part of the Allied campaign of strategic bombing of Germany. It was also attacked by aircraft of the Red Air Force in 1941 and particularly in 1945, as Soviet forces closed on the city. British bombers dropped 45,517 tons of bombs, while American aircraft dropped 22,090.3 tons. As the bombings continued, more and more people fled the city. By May 1945, 1.7 million people had fled.

Commonwealth of the Philippines

1945World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan.[†]

The Commonwealth of the Philippines was an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States that existed from 1935 to 1946. It was established following the Tydings–McDuffie Act to replace the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands and was designed as a transitional administration in preparation for full Philippine independence. Its foreign affairs remained managed by the United States.