Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 22, 1995 TAG: 9502230040
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 8 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Veteran American paratroopers and amphibious infantry landed on rocky Corregidor Island guarding Manila Bay, and its capture was assured, Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced. The assault, which took the Japanese by surprise, was made two years, nine months and 11 days after Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright surrendered the island to Japanese invaders.
Despite intense shelling and 70 days of air attacks, Japanese resistance on Iwo Jima was still considerable. Tokyo radio reported that U.S. troops had landed on the stepping-stone island, which Admiral Chester Nimitz later confirmed.
Allied air bosses had made the long-awaited decision to adopt deliberate terror bombing of the great German population centers as a ruthless expedient to hasten Hitler's doom. More raids such as British and American heavy bombers carried out recently on Berlin, Dresden, Chemnitz and Cottbus were in store for the Reich.
A Dutch officer accused of turning traitor and tipping off the Nazis to an Allied airborne attack at Arnhem in Holland was being kept in the Tower of London.
The Canadian First Army swept ahead after a two-mile advance in which it had outflanked the important Siegfried line bastion of Goch, and the U.S. Third Army drove a new breach in the western wall with the capture of Rohrbach.
While the Canadian First Army was battling into Germany, hundreds of other Canadian soliders were hiding out in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec and other remote areas resisting a change in a long-standing government policy that only volunteers would be sent to fight overseas.
Nurses who were questioned about their reasons for not joining the Army and Navy nurse corps said they had been discouraged by family and friends, particularly the men.
A $10 million expansion of the Radford ordnance works had been approved by the Navy.
The U.S. Fourth Marine Division, veterans of every landing since Guadalcanal in August 1942, was facing its stiffest fight ever on the south end of Iwo Jima. The Japanese defenders were strongly established in hundreds of caves on the island.
In a fuel-saving action, war mobilizer James P. Byrnes clamped a midnight curfew on every nightspot in the nation from saloons to sports arenas.
An Army undercover agent testified in the court-martial of an Army major that looting and black-market operations were so widespread in the major's outfit in France that they were known as the "million-dollar battalion."
Hitler's Bavarian Mountain retreat, Berchtesgaden, was subjected to its first Allied air attack of the war.
The Third Marine Division landed on Iwo Jima to reinforce the men of Fourth and Fifth divisions. The Marines were taking 90 casualties an hour in the battle for the island and its airbase.
Seventeen people were killed and five injured when an American Airlines plane bound from New York to Los Angeles crashed on top of a mountain near Rural Retreat.
The U.S. First and Ninth Armies opened the supreme assault against Germany, crossing the Roer River on a 22-mile front, capturing Juelich and battling into Dueren only 19 miles from Cologne.
by CNB