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Dem leaders said to favor O'Dwyer; fusion with Repubs in choice of candidate seen unlikely
US, GB and Sweden agree on use of Swedish shipping by Allied pool; fleet strength and possible uses discussed
UMWA policy com rejects operators counter-proposals
43d Div wipes out southern flank of Jap Shimbu Line, Luzon; Japanese south and east of Manila reptd cut off from retreat southward by 11th Corps astride Highway 21; Amers seize Maybancal; 33d Div closes in on Baguio; 43d Div controls rd net around Teresa; US Army planes using skip-bombing tactics seal Jap cave defenses in Shimbu line; Maj Gen L F Wing revealed in command of 43d Div; map
Russians within 4 1/2 mi of Stettin with Rosengarten capture; Berlin repts inner defenses penetrated; other forces reach Oder east bank on 3-mi front, hurling Gers back into stream after taking Neu-Bruenken, Wintersfelde and Greifenhagen; troops driving toward Danzig and Gdynia take Osowo, 6 mi away; Moscow repts Ger counterattacks supported by fire from naval vessels; Rebiechowo and Zukowo taken; Ger repts Klessin encirclement broken by Ger artillery
1945Michael Hayden, American general, 20th Director of the Central Intelligence Agency[†]
Michael Vincent Hayden is a retired United States Air Force four-star general and former director of the National Security Agency, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He currently works as a visiting professor at the George Mason University – Schar School of Policy and Government and co-chairs the Bipartisan Policy Center's Electric Grid Cyber Security Initiative.
1945The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany, collapses, ten days after its capture.[†]
The Ludendorff Bridge, also known as the Bridge at Remagen, was a bridge across the river Rhine in Germany which was captured by United States Army forces in early March 1945 during the Battle of Remagen, in the closing weeks of World War II, when it was one of the few remaining bridges in the region and therefore a critical strategic point. Built during World War I to help deliver reinforcements and supplies to German troops on the Western Front, it connected Remagen on the west bank and the village of Erpel on the east bank between two hills flanking the river.