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Now, here's Robert Trout. This is the Day of Prayer, a national day of thanksgiving in the United States and Great Britain. President Truman attended services in Washington, and in London the King and Queen drove to St. Paul's Cathedral in the first royal procession since the war began.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill is preparing to broadcast his review of the war and his five years in office. The broadcast on Columbia begins half an hour from now at 3 p.m. Eastern wartime. In the Pacific, the Tokyo radio says the Japanese home island of Kyushu is being attacked by 900 carrier planes and also by a small force of V-29s.

There is no word yet from allied sources of this enemy reported carrier attack on Japan, but Tokyo is adding details and says the Japanese planes have found the task force from which the 900 planes were launched, some 220 miles off the southern tip of the southern most Japanese home island.

In Okinawa, the Marines are reported to be slowly smashing their way into Amike, a suburb of the island's capital, Naha, but front correspondents reporting this advance warn us that Naha itself may not fall before at least several days more of this hard street fighting with grenades and flamethrowers.

There is also hard fighting on the bypassed island of New Guinea, where Australian troops led by tanks have seized the Weiwak airfield and are pushing on to the town of Weiwak, the major Japanese stronghold in northeastern New Guinea. In the Philippines, two American divisions are fighting up narrow river valleys to join a third division and cut the island