The Other Fellow Marrying a Sailor’s Ex-Girl
A Marine shares a quiet moment at a Pacific coast naval station as he learns his Pennsylvanian girlfriend plans to marry another man. The narrator reflects on wartime separations, letters, and the broader question of how soldiers will reintegrate into a changed world after the war.
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Young Marine
Tom Thompson
News-Globe
Naval Air Station
Pacific Coast
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Stanger
Pennnsylvania
Commando Gets Flying Start in Bond Battle
Amarillo retail workers spearhead the Retailers For Victory drive with Mrs. Louis Victor leading the charge on Polk Street for a White Out. The campaign runs July 1941 through July 10 with a goal to sell bonds and stamps equal to 4 percent of July gross sales. Army, state and civic groups join in a 15 minute noon blackout, Taps, prayer, and a final bond sale before a July 10 gala to cap the effort.
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Louis Victor
J. C. Penney Company
Flying Tigers
Polk Street
Victory Drive
Amarillo
America
Victor
May Wagner
Jenney Company
Uncle Sam
Paul V. Alexander
Bomb Wake Wake Island Raid Damages Air Field
United States bombers attacked Japanese held Wake Island in the Central Pacific on June 27. Under favorable weather our planes damaged the airfield and shore installations. enemy anti-aircraft and fighter defense was weak, one bomber took minor damage, all returned safely.
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Navy
United States
Wake Island
Pacific
Central Pacific
RAF Squadrons Strike Inland Targets in Nazi-Occupied France
A Southeast English port reports that large Royal Air Force squadrons roared over northern France in the evening, targeting inland locations in Nazi-occupied France as part of ongoing air operations.
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Royal Air Force
France
Fake officer robs man then car stolen later
In Los Angeles a man posing as a policeman demanded A. S. Hankins license. Hankins offered his billfold, the thief grabbed it and ran. A real officer later located the thief who had spent nearly all the $60. Hankins found another thief had stolen his car outside the station.
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Los Angeles
A. S. Hankins
Hankins
Hawkins
Fall of Matruh London plans evacuation of Alexandria and hold
Cairo dispatches report Axis forces breaking into British lines and probing 15 miles southeast of Matruh as battles rage. Alexandria evacuated and shelled. British defense in depth debated. Rommel seeks to encircle Matruh and threaten the Suez path, while RAF and US bombers hit rear lines amid heavy fighting and overall strategic stakes in the Near East.
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Cairo
Matruh
London
Tobruk
Rommel
RAF
United States
United Press
Richard D. McMillan
Eighth Army
Hitler
Near East
United Nations
Europe
Alexandria
Egypt
Bir Fuad
Siwa Oasis
Qattara
Royal Air Force
Berlin
Russian Ukraine
Sevastopol
Kharkov
Weather and war brief mix from Amarillo region
The forecast shows continued warmth in Amarillo and West Texas with scattered thundershowers later, and similar patterns across New Mexico Panhandle and South Plains with evening cooling. 24 hour extremes reached 65 to 94 degrees, noon at 84, while World War II updates note halted Kharkov effort, Kursk offensive, Finnish plans to cut Russian rail to Murmansk, and Allied raids on Lae Salamaua and Tulagi as Japanese actions persist.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Neely-Greenhill-Lowndes Insurance
Kharkov
Kursk
Finland
Murmansk
Baron Carl Gustav Mannerheim
Hitler
Far East
Nanchung- Hangchow
Honan
Linhsien
Lae
Salamaua
Tulagi
Solomon Islands
Ickes Steals Big Rubber Mat at White House Entrance
Secretary Ickes told reporters about the rubber shortage then seized a large rubber mat near the President's wing. He rolled up the mat and had it driven to a local scrap collection depot for disposal. White House Secretary Early said no one would try to reclaim it and it should go.
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Washington
U.P
Ickes
White House
Stephen T. Early
Moon is Down Occupied as Invaders Take Town
In a swift prelude to occupation, the peaceful town falls to invaders after a dawn campaign. The town’s 12 local troops disperse. six die and three wounded as machine guns rake the streets. The postman and policeman are captured. the invaders set up a brass band and celebrate.
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Corell
Massacre of Jews Reported by World Jewish Congress
London June 29 The German regime is said to have murdered at least one million Jews in Europe since the war began. East European areas especially harsh with Poland Latvia Lithuania and Romania cited. Estimates include 700000 in Lithuania and Poland 125000 in Romania 200000 in Russia and 100000 in other parts of Europe. The figures reflect prewar Jewish population of 6 to 7 million. The slaughter is tied to Nazi policy of physical extermination.
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Berlin
United Press
New York
Alexandria
Ankara
Transocean
Cairo
London
U.P
Europe
World Jewish Congress
East Europe
Poland
Latvia
Lithuania
Rumania
Russia
Germany
Japanese losses in Midway Battle revealed by navy
Pearl Harbor June 28 U P. Final communique confirms Japan sunk four aircraft carriers including its two largest. Battleships damaged and possibly sunk. heavy cruisers and destroyers damaged or sunk. Amarillo reports 300 plus war-worker bedrooms available with rents from 3.50 to 8 dollars as local housing needs rise.
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Pearl Harbor
U.P
Japan
Midway Island
Mikhailovitch Raids Germans With Planes
Gen Draja Mikhailovitch's Serbian patriots use airplanes to raid German forces in Jugoslavia. Radio Moscow cites Croat quisling fears as guerrilla pilots strike and Germans counter with air units. Reports say planes were seized from Yugoslavs and fuel obtained by trading Italian prisoners. Also notes spread of executions in Prague and Belgian disappearances. A Dayton bomber crew of four died in a midstate crash after attempting emergency landing.
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London
Draja Mikhailovitch
Jugoslavia
Quisling
Radio Moscow
Jugoslav
Mikhailovitch
Czechoslovakia
Reinhard Heydrich
Gestapo
Prague
Transocean
Brunn
C of C Directors Discuss Housing and War Effort
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce directors plan a meeting tonight at 8 in the conference room at 311 Polk Street to discuss housing and other war effort matters Rex Baxter says offices will close 1 pm on Saturdays starting this Wednesday with possible extension through August Also notes a Greek government in exile report that 62 Greeks were shot by Germans in Crete for sabotage and that Germans are reinforcing Crete with airborne troops and airfields.
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Amarilo
Rex Baxter
Chamber of Commerce
Amarillo
Polk
London
Crete
Roosevelt Extends Scrap Rubber Drive to July 10
Washington June 29 President Roosevelt extended the scrap rubber collection campaign until midnight July 10 after noting a total yield of 219000 tons by June 27. The move comes as the nation presses for materials for war needs amid ongoing mobilization.
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Washington
U.P
Roosevelt
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Cher- Naya
Geo
A. Tomlinson
Orden
Captain Bentick
Aneta
Holland
Vichy
Jacques Doriot
Parti Populaire
Bourges
Doriot
Belgium
Dayton
Ohio
Here
C. of C
John Maynard Lbr. Co
John Mason
Queens
Atkins
Lovett Atkins
Belgrade
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