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April 24, 1945

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DEFENSES CRUSHED; Red Army Holds Third of Capital--Pankow District Captured FRANKFORT IS SEIZED Cottbus Citadel Falls-- Koneff Striking for Tempelhof Airfield

By C.l. Sulzberger By Wireless To the New York Times

Russians at Muehlberg only 22 mi from US 1st Army along Mulde River; Moscow repts Ger counterattacks repulsed, inner Berlin area; USSR tanks cross belt rr; met gas works captured; Zhukoff troops take Koepernick, Karlshorst and Friedrichsfelde; other units take Pankow dist; Oranienburg and Hennigsdorf taken; Stalin order of day to Zhukoff lauds feats; troops take Frankfort; Koneff forces pound Berlin southern defenses, capturing Cottbus, Zossen, Luebben and Beelitz; enter Berlin sts; city 1/3 captured; Russians advancing on Dresden take Jessen, Kirchhain, Falkenberg, Muehlberg and Pulsnitz; caution in artillery fire to avoid striking possible US patrols probing for junction noted; last ry trunk line and main highway link between Berlin and Dresden cut; maps

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Notable Births

Doug Clifford

1945Doug Clifford, American drummer and songwriter[†]

Douglas Raymond Clifford is an American drummer who is nicknamed "Cosmo". He is best known as a founding member of Creedence Clearwater Revival for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. After the group disbanded in late 1972, Clifford released a solo album and later joined CCR bassist Stu Cook in the Don Harrison Band. In 1995, Clifford and Cook formed the band Creedence Clearwater Revisited, performing live versions of Creedence Clearwater Revival songs.

Notable Deaths

Ernst-Robert Grawitz

1945Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (born 1899)[†]

Ernst-Robert Grawitz was a German physician and an SS functionary during the Nazi era. Grawitz funded Nazi programs involving experimentation on inmates in Nazi concentration camps and was part of the group in charge of the murder of mentally ill and physically disabled people in the Aktion T4 programme. In April 1945, as the Soviet Red Army advanced on Berlin, Grawitz killed himself and his family.