Give the Job To Seabees They Can Fix
A Pulse Feeler column, from Washington, collects reader questions about fantastical postwar ideas such as bridging oceans. Contributors include MRS OLSON and JAKE LISTON offering varied opinions. satire from BOB TRIGG and others contrasts with cautious views on feasibility and dangers at sea. Chaplain Garrenton comments on conduct of service members and moral topics during leave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olson
Hayden Lawson
Lanell Ackers
Katherine Gregg
Bob Trigg
San Francis- BS
Golden Gate
Seabees
Jake Liston
Specialists Reported Landing On Slav Coast Debunked
Dispatches from Allied sources in Algiers labeled the claim that crack Allied divisions landed in Yugoslavia as completely erroneous. Reuters Stockholm and Zagreb-origin reports spread through Budapest, with no verification on force size or national allegiance. London officials and liaison officers noted the tale may be a German planted feeler amid Balkan invasion rumors.
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Algiers
Yugoslavia
Reut
Stockholm- Meiween
Zagreb
Croatia
London
Stockholm
Budapest
Reuters
Zurich
Strong
Italy
Bari
Balkan
K. A. N. Anderson
Tunisia
George S. Patton, Jr
Sicily
Panhandle blizzard worsens across four states and Panhandle towns
The Panhandle region faces its worst blizzard in years with heavy drifting snow and 15 degree temperatures dropping near to five. Cattle losses could reach twenty percent on the North Plains. Highway travel halted, buses canceled, and railroad and industrial operations scaled back as Amarillo and Dalhart brace for record conditions. Emergency measures activate with AAA cattle feed aid and military officials offering support. Weather records warn this storm may rival 1898 as the period’s cold, brutal storm persists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle
New Mexico
Oklahoma Panhandle
Oklahoma
South Plains
Big Spring
Abilene
Wichita Falls
North Plains
Canadian River
Dalhart
Polk Ivy
Highway Patrol
State Highway Department
Sid Harper
Tommy Thomas
Amarillo
Pantex Ordnance Plant
Canadian River Gas Company
Bivins
Vega
Canyon
Raley
Sheriff's Office
Police Department
Weather Bureau
Reds Break Toward German Lifelines in Ukraine Offensive
MOSCOW January 7 AP Gen Nikolai Vatutin’s forces push 10 miles into pre war Poland gaining momentum. The Russian advance forms a great fan shaped offensive aimed at vital enemy lifelines in the Ukraine and Dnieper Bend as Nagis appear unable to halt the advance.
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Moscow
Nikolai Vatutin
Poland
Ukraine
Dnieper
Berlin
Associated Press
London
Dnieper Bend
Vatutin
Second Ukraine
Ivan S. Konev
26 Fliers Killed as Army Bus Hit by Train at Kingman
At least 26 Army air cadets died when a Santa Fe freight train collided with an Army bus at the entrance to Kingman Air Base. Officials warned additional deaths among the seriously injured were possible.
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Kingman, Artz
Kingman Air Base
Army
Weather Summary for Amarillo and West Texas
Snow and colder with strong winds sweep Amarillo and surrounding areas with subzero to near zero night temperatures. Panhandle and South Plains see continued cold Saturday with clearing by morning and strong gusts. Del Rio Eagle Pass region experiences rain and snow mix with cold fronts and livestock warnings issued for overnight lows.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
del Rio- Eagle Pass
Pecos Valley
Big Bend
el Paso
del Rio-Fagle Pass
New Mexico
Continental Divide
No Quarter Battle for San Vittore Rages On Front Line
Allied forces press the Fifth Army offensive along a 10 mile front toward Rome amid heavy fighting in San Vittore and Cassino area. American troops seize Monte Maio and advance through snow, while British push Rocca D Envandro and air power aids. Spitfires tally three victories with no losses among Allies.
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Richard G. Maslock
Algiers
San Vittore
Fifth Army
Via Casilina
Rome
Cassino
San Vitore
Monte Maio
Viticuso
Venafro
Cevaro
Titicuso
San Vitto
Rocca D’envandro
Eighth Army
Adriatic
San Tommaso
Allied Troops Repulse Jap Attacks in Burma
Allied ground forces on the western slopes of the Mayu mountains northwest of Akyab in western Burma repelled counterattacks and advanced. American trained Chinese forces in Hukawng Valley drove Japan from the west bank of the upper Chindwin River, crossed to the east bank, and took new positions as a push toward Myitkyina and the Burma road linked to Chinese forces is noted. Myitkyina was attacked by American fighters and fighters-bombers with hits on airfields.
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Kiev-Warsaw
Sarny
Vatutin
Warsaw-Odessa
Dnieper River
Gorodnitsi
Novograd-Volynski
Chudnoy
Zhitomir
Rumania
Tarasha
Zhashov
Kazatin
Dnieper
New Delhi
Jar
Mayu Mountains
Akyab
Burma
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Southeast Asia Command
Hukawng
Chindwin River
Myitkyina
Yunnan
Bur‘ma
China
Mandalay
Americans Push on Madang Base in New Guinea Campaign
Allied forces press toward the Madang area on New Guinea as Marines kill 600 Japanese near Cape Gloucester and air operations threaten Tokyo. American and Australian units advance along the coast while carrier strikes damaged two destroyers and 10 planes in the Kavieng area.
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Madang
New Guinea
Vitiaz Straits
Cape Gloucester
New Britain
Bismarck Archipelago
Kavieng
New Ireland
Japan
Los Angeles
Adm
William F. Halsey
South Pacific
Tokyo
Southwest Pacific
Berlin
Saidor
Cape Gumbi
Saidor Peninsula
Huon Peninsula
U. S. Sixth Army
Cape Gloucester Tose
Leathernecks
Borgen Bay
Marauder Bombers Parade Over Northern France Actions
American Marauder bombers smashed at military objectives in Northern France and returned without losses. Mosquito raids over Germany and northern France accompanied the Allied offensive with flying fighters and fighter bombers. Berlin reported raids including Berlin diversion and Baltic targets while six Allied aircraft were missing and three enemy planes were shot down. Martial law was proclaimed in several Polish towns near the Soviet frontier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Charles M. McCorkle
Newton
N. C
Wesley McKee
Port Neches
Tex
McCorkle
McKee
Messerschmitts
Frosinone
London
France
Air Ministry
Germany
Geneva
Swiss
Paris
Berlin
Baltic
Stettin
RAF
RAP
Dominion
Ministry
Nazis Report Invasion Troops Face 7700 Heavy Guns
Berlin radio claimed Allied invasion forces would meet 7700 heavy guns along a coastal Atlantic rampart from the Pyrenees to Narvik, plus 3000 heavy anti-tank guns and millions of land mines laid along the coast, per the broadcast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Berlin
Atlantic
Pyrenees Mountains
Narvik
Norway
North Sea
Germans Reported Splitting in High Command Over Dnieper Bend
London dispatch reports military observers believe Hitler ordered no retreat without a fight while German generals favor a withdrawal from the Dnieper Bend if the Red Army threatens Zhmerinka and the Odessa Warsaw railroad. Up to 50 divisions and as many as 750000 men could be moved, with forces potentially shifting to Poland or Romania as the Russian advance develops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Russia
Adolf Hitler
Dnieper
Red Army
Zhmerinka
Odessa-Warsaw
Hitler
Dniester
Bug Rivers
Fritz von Mannstein
Old Poland
Balkans
Krivoi Rog
Poland
Rumania
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Army Air Transport Command
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Gulf of Mexico
Tampico
Mexico
Joe Crawley
Des Moines
Towa
United States
11 Stationery Company
Noah
R. B. Vance
AAA
Mr. Vance
Charley Thomas
Pampa
District A&a
Gizzard
Col. E. W. Raley
Amarillo Field
By Henry C. Cassidy
Pripet Marshes
Rakitno
Zhaskov
Belaya Tserkov
Nevyel
Ivan Bagramian
Leningrad
Black Sea
Kirovograd
Rovno
Novograd Volynski
Kiev
Shepetovka
Vinnitsa
Odessa
Warsaw
First Ukraine
Gervaro
Aquino
Fondi
Terracina
Morrie Landsberg
Marauder Bombers
Tass
Lublin
Radom
Jaroslaw
Edward W. Beattie
Neely-Greenhill- Lowndes Insurance
John Maynard Lor. Co
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