Bombers Strike Bucharest In First Major Raid
Allied air forces led by U S Flying Fortresses and Liberators attacked Bucharest damaging rail yards routing German supply traffic to the Russian front. The battle lasted over an hour with 46 enemy planes shot down by heavy bombers and three more by escort fighters. Twelve Allied aircraft were lost in the operation.
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Naples
U. S
Bucharest
Berlin
Balkan
Budapest
Sofia
Geography Is Key To Burma Mystery
The piece maps Burma into three theaters and explains how Japan’s Burma invasion affects supply routes to China. It notes Stilwell and Merrill fighting to reach Myitkyina, concerns about the Ledo Road, and the aim to hold Akyab before an amphibious Burma invasion.
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Burma
Enzie
Bay of Bengal
India
China
Siam
Japan
Ledo
Chungking
Ledo Road
Joseph Stilwell
Frank Merrill
Myitkyina
Rangoon
Indian Army of Freedom
Akyab
Tack Letters Dear Tack Car wreck missing glasses appeal
A reader asks for the return of lost glasses after a March 5 collision between Amarillo and a booster station. The glasses are to be brought to St. Anthony's Hospital Room 305 for a reward, signed by Mrs. A. Kimbrow.
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Amarillo
St. Anthony's Hospital
A. Kimbrow
Personal notices and lost items crowd Amarillo paper
Sailor on leave loses billfold with wife photo cash and Spokane round trip ticket. Reward offered. Bracelet found. owner may claim by calling. Help wanted notices include home laundry child care and job requests from Roy Ellyson and a colored girl seeking housekeeping. Also requests to contact Ada Cresburg and Grace Hodges for work or correspondence. Lost ration book and a copper airplane pin with reward offered for return near Amarillo streets and Pantex grounds.
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Spokane
Wash
The
Globe News
J. H. Slagle
Tack
Polk St
Sixth
Taylor
Polk Streets
Country Club
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Elderly Man Seeks American Status for Pension Play
A recently told story depicts an elderly man expressing a wish to become American to obtain his old age pension. The text then shifts to an advertising line urging readers to keep hair groomed with Moroline Hair Tonic, noting a large 26e bottle sold widely.
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Globe-News
Aru Matias
Ve Optometrist
WFA
WPB
OPA
National
National Cash Registers
South
Fillmore St
Dayton
Ohio
the National Cash Register Company
Associated Press
Manipur
dVicks
Washington
pApor
Deena
Rusk
Roy Ellyson
North Fillmore
Fannin St
Smith
Ada Cresburg
White Deer
Texas
Grace Hodges
Mays Grocery
Arthur
East Fifth Street
Cleo McKee
Brenda
Sgc
Firestone
Burpee
Pka
Ania
J. L. Parmelee
Harrison Street
New Orleans
Parmelee
Fresno
Cal
Edgar Hamel
Sweden
Fifth Ave
New York
N. Y
Dept
Dale
Areg
Steeles
Ando Tyler
Marton
Peiadsed Gronks Sak
Mircitoss Singh
Orebecna
Muerdey
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