Allied air drives cripple Axis shipping across Sicily Straits
The air war over the Sicily Straits continued with 68 enemy transports and 28 other planes shot down in two days. Allied pilots from the Ninth U S Air Force and desert group hit Rommel shipping, while RAF bombers blasted Spezia and Lorient, with heavy losses reported on both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sicily
Sir
Harold Alexander
18Th Army Group
Enfidaville
Palermo
Cairo
Warnawkk
Apisiermo
United States
Western Desert Air Force
Sicilian Straits
Erwin Rommel
Ninth U. S. Air Force
Ninth Air Force
Junkers
Cap Bon
Mediterranean
Tunis
Alps
Spezia
Lorient
French
France
Skoda
Pilsen
Mannheim
Germany
Avetal
Dover Straits
Ragusa
Porto Torres
Sardinia
Naples
Middle East
Mussolini
Tunisia
Baby Girl Tossed From Burning Boston Tenement
A baby girl aged 20 months was saved by a cab driver after being tossed from a fourth story window in a Boston north end fire. The blaze killed the child’s brother 14, grandfather 63, and grandmother who leaped to escape. the mother and uncles were injured.
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Boston
North End
Connie Sabbie
Ann
James Carrabis
Salvatore Infantino
New Army Air Field Commander Arrives
Brig. Gen. Harvey 8. Burwell assumed command at Amarillo Army Air Field arriving from Denver. A Connecticut native born April 20, 1890, he led Lowry Field since 1941 and served in various key posts including Rockwell and Bolling Fields, and in Germany with the American air forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey
Burwell
Amarillo
Denver
Amarillo Army Air Field
Lowry Field
Colorado
Connecticut
Norwich University
Vermont National Guard
Kelly Field
Texas
Rockwell Field
Cailiff
James Doolittle
12Th Air Forces
North Africa
Love Field
Germany
Washington
Bolling Field
D. C
Air Corps
University of California
Air Corps Tactical School
Montgomery
Ala
John F. Curry
Army Air Forces Technical Training Command
Lee Burwell
No Compromise Yet in Ruml Skip Tax Plan
Washington April 19 Republicans and Democrats remained far apart over the modified Ruml plan to skip an income tax year. The compromise committee met with Speaker Rayburn and leaders McCormack and Martin after Sunday talks without a deal. Democrats favor applying 1941 rates to 1942 with amortized liabilities. Republicans seek abating three quarters of a year and insist on more than half a year.
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Washington
Rayburn
Texas
Martin
Massachusetts
McCormack
Ways and Means
Doughton
North Carolina
Finnish Front Signals First Land Action Since Peace Quiet
A Berlin radio broadcast quoted a Finnish army communique claiming 23 Soviet aircraft were shot down yesterday and today over the Gulf of Finland. It said small Soviet attacks at three land-front locations were repulsed, marking the first land engagement in some time on the Finnish front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Gulf of Finland
Wit
Farflung fronts see air and naval actions across Pacific
Reports from the war front describe Japanese and Allied activity in the Pacific theater. Moorehead air and sea actions include Mitchell bombers' strikes on Timor, Kavieng and Penfoei, with British and Dutch forces engaging in Arakan and Kaladan operations as rains approach. In China, 600 Japanese deaths are reported southeast of Ichang, while six Japanese planes are claimed destroyed on other fronts. Meanwhile Galveston ends a city strike as workers resume duties and wage talks begin.
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Kiska
Navy
Solomons
Guadalcanal
Penfoei
Koepang
Timor
Dutch East Indies
Douglas MacArthur
Kavieng
New Ireland
RAF
Pynchon
Kaladan River
Arakan
China
Ichang
Yangtze
German Mines in American Waters story on page three
Readable fragment notes a story about German mines in American waters. The brief mentions naval or wartime danger and location context, with limited detail due to the fragmented page.
American Bomber Pilot Goes Gunning for Enemy Fighters
An American bomber crew led by Captain Charles P. Whitlock, of New Brunswick New Hampshire, claims a twin engined Japanese fighter shot down over New Guinea area. Whitlock and gunners Tech Sgt Frank A. Matthews and Staff Sgt Walter A. Doiron fought off Zeros during a 1500 mile recon mission and the downed fighter crashed on Rooke Island after a burst from Whitlock's plane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marlin Spencer
New Guinea
Charles P. Whitlock
New Brunswick
N. H
Frank A. Matthews
East Aurora
N. Y
Walter A. Doiron
Port Arthur
Tex
New Britain
New Ireland
Ubili
Whitlock
Kavieng
Liberator
Ysabel Channel
Rooke Island
Vitair Strait
Captain Whitlock
Weather report for Amarillo and West Texas area
The forecast shows little temperature change tonight into Tuesday with general to moderate winds. West Texas experiences minimal temperature change except cooler conditions east of the Pecos and in the Del Rio Eagle Pass region. Today's high 60 low 42 with noon at 53 and .07 inch precipitation in the last 24 hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Texas
Pecos
del Rio-Eagle Pass
Lubbock Officer Prepares for Overseas Duty
An officer at South Plains Army Flying School in Lubbock has been seeking overseas duty, undergoing long runs and strenuous drills. He visited the hospital to witness an operation and said he must get used to it as the patient underwent an appendicitis operation, though the officer fainted.
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Lubbock
South Plains
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Onal
Deyskuyer
Manheim
Italy
Dieppe
London
Army Air Field
Harvey S. Burwell
Marilyn Reising
Chicago
Bob McDonald
Cal Farley
Potter County
Farley
Shriners
Shrine
Ross Rogers
Hitler
Uncle Sam
Joe Pendleton
W. D. Carter
Tom Wingate
Henry Munn
Ray Parks
Western Auto Supply Company
Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau
John Pool
Galveston
City Street
Health Department
Cethe Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
Joe Ene
John Maynard Lbr, Co
Russell Stationery Co
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