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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1942
Page
8
British warships and aircraft bombarded Axis positions near El Daba on the Egyptian coast for 52 minutes. The operation targeted stores, repair shops, and gasoline dumps as Rommel’s forces challenged with air attacks, while Admiral Harwood praised the crew.
Army air forces and Marines wage war in the Solomons with bombers overhead while native Melanesians and Solomon Islanders witness fierce combat and cooperate with U S forces. Officers praise morale as Rear Admiral John S McCain and Major General Millard F Harmon visit island airfields.
The Amarillo Community and War Chest will likely double last year’s budget to about 150 000 dollars to cover war relief agencies including the USO China Relief Greek War Relief and the Polish American Council. A special committee led by Norwood West will review and recommend allocations while public explanations begin with a planned article series before the October 12 to 21 campaign.
A British destroyer off the Egyptian coast, attacked by more than 50 Stukas from El Alamein bases, fought back under one of the war’s fiercest dive bombing raids. Hundreds of bombs exploded nearby as Nazi and Italian planes strafed and shelling from shore batteries joined the action. The crew described a day of long hours as they fired thousands of shells to fend off the attackers.
Amarillo air show features C A P flight instructors at Municipal Airport in a three hour sky review. Thirteen planes participate in acrobatic events, cross country reconnaissance, bombing, pylon races, and shirt-tail race. Winners to be announced at a later CAP meeting. Also notes a Knoxville teen's wartime enlistment at 15 and a proposed 550 mile pipeline from Longview Texas to Salem Oregon to ease oil supply.
Mrs. Carmen Rousseau in Auburn produced what is believed to be Maine’s oldest deed a land title dated 1774 as evidence in a property damage lawsuit stemming from the removal of several oak trees from her property.
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