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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1942
Page
7
A Panhandle newspaper notes Christmas in 1942 as troops tour Amarillo streets in uniform. It mentions furloughs for some reporters say Billy Reeves and Maj Jimmy Daley, plus prisoners of war in Japan including Capt Charley Underwood. WAAC recruitment grows and local events, sports results, and social notices fill the page with holiday spirit.
Pvt. Frank E. “Chicken” Wilson, the youngest Marine on Guadalcanal, helped capture a Japanese sergeant major and personally marched the captive back to camp. He survived shell bursts near forward outposts and plans to return home for liberty to visit Imogene Hill, a Birmingham high school student, while his enlistment reveals his early heroism and brief years.
Two Amarillo women received a War Department telegram on Christmas Eve confirming Captain Otho L. Shamblin of the 200th Coast Artillery is alive and a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines. Capt. Shamblin, a Amarillo High School graduate, had been listed missing in action since November 1941. His wife and mother hold renewed hope for his return as further word from the War Department arrives.
Allied forces announced the Buna victory after four weeks of fighting as Japanese ships and ground units weakened. MacArthur air forces bombed and strafed to pressure enemy ground troops while Australians and Americans pushed from Gona toward Sanananda along the Soputa Sanananda trail.
British Eighth Army presses across Tripolitania while reports say Rommel may have abandoned retreating forces after El Agheila and shifted to Bizerte to defend Tunisia. North Africa air force tally through Dec 12 records 70 enemy planes destroyed and 43 damaged with 35 lost flight crews.
Russian forces repelled German counterattacks in heavy fog south of Stalingrad and west of Rzhev. Reports say hand to hand fighting occurred with bayonets and grenades while Russian offensives pinned German forces, inflicted heavy losses, and forced German reserves to relieve a threatened salient near the Don.
Congressman Gene Worley will report on war preparations and rationing on KGNC from 8 30 to 9 00 PM Friday. He will speak at a banquet hosted by friends at Amarillo Hotel and reservations close Thursday noon for out of town and Thursday evening for locals. A 500 person room will host attendees who cannot join the banquet after it ends.
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