Night Before Christmas Ends With Navy Mercy Flight
A fragmented 1940s newspaper page mixes a Christmas poem with a WWII air rescue tale. Captain Benjamin Shiffrin guides a C-46 to aid ten stranded crewmen in Greenland, dropping supplies and whiskey, while later aiding a Fortess aircraft before its sinking.
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Burns
Air Transport Command
North Atlantic
Sweet Charity
Goose Bay
Newfoundland
Iceland
England
Greenland
Benjamin Shiffrin
Hyannis, Mass
Shiffrin
St. Bernard
Red Cross
Greenland rescues praised as pilots enjoy forced landings
Army Air Forces at Bluie West One Greenland recounts rescue work after downed tactical aircraft. Captain Joseph A Burns, 24, heads Search and Rescue, noting crews aged 20 to 22 enjoyed the unusual experience of survival on the ice during wartime drills.
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Greenland
States
Peter Edson
NER
Blaie West
Army Air Base
Bernt Balchen
Palchen
Bluie West
West Green
Joseph A. Burns
Fasadena
Calif
Army Air Forces
Burns
Greerland
Postwar marriage trends and wartime aims cited
Sociologist Ernest W. Burgess predicts a rush to marriage after conflict with men courting younger partners if past patterns repeat. Quote attributed to Koiso criticizes U S war aims and hints at efforts to end the war quickly.
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Ernest W. Burgess
U. of Chicago
Lt Col John F McDonough Returns From Saipan
New York's Lt Col John F McDonough arrives back from Saipan noting that American soldiers fight with businesslike calm and restraint rather than savagery. The report frames his remarks on discipline and conduct of U S troops during the campaign.
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John F. McDonough
New York
Saipan
Hitler’s Rule Deepens Nazi Reach Across Germany
The speaker notes nearly twelve years of Nazi control in Germany and argues that most youths from age six to thirty five have been exposed to Nazi influence, predicting a long wait, possibly decades, for a genuinely anti Nazi Germany to emerge.
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Hitler
Germany
Strange Parens on Guadalcanal hatches unseen fowl
In Guadalcanal a bush fowl nests with eggs covered by a mould of fermented leaves and sand. The hatchlings never know their parents as the mother rakes the nursery. Read the Ada News Want Ads.
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Guadalcanal
Ada News
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