German Strength Is Spread Dangerously Thin Along Under Belly of Yugoslavia
Dispatch from Yugoslav Partisan Brigade headquarters notes German forces thin along the Dalmatian coast and in inland towns like Zara Fiume Split and Dubrovnik. It details partisan gains in Fiume and Susak, a heavy German counterattack, and strained relations with Chetniks led by Mihailovic amid weapons and armament transfers.
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Yugoslavia
Dalmatia
der Teufel
Prinz Eugen
Trieste
Danube
Giulia
Zara
Fiume
Sibenik
Split
Metkovic
Dubrovnik
Omis
Optizen
Badoglio
Britain
Idaho Marine Accounts for Eleven Japs
Pfc. James O. Walker of Idaho Falls Idaho, 22, USMC, praised by his commander for killing eleven Japanese soldiers on Vangunu in the New Georgia group of the Solomon Islands. He reported seven enemies in one nest and described a bold flank maneuver and a second kill from a tree platform with a machine gun.
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South Pacific
James O. Walker
USMC
Bert Walker
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Vangunu
New Georgia
Solomon Islands
Walker
Secrecy Veils WAC Slaying in Sioux Falls
Army inquiry into the murder of WAC Lt. Naomi Kathleen Cheney 25 of Jasper Louisiana remains secret as witnesses are questioned. Cheney left the post Monday night asking a police officer about safety to walk to her apartment and was found dead after 18 hours in a clearing near a busy thoroughfare. Autopsy shows no rape and $7 found in her purse argues against robbery as motive.
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Sioux Falls
Army
WAC
Naomi Kathleen Cheney
Jasper
E. E. Seiler
Army Air Force Technical
Cheney
Sigis
Army recruiting of women protested in Los Angeles
In San Diego, Roy Ferguson of the U S Employment Service urged curtailment of WAVES WACS SPARS and Women Marines recruitment to the Los Angeles war manpower commission due to employers reporting loss of women to the services and a need to meet production schedules. Vi Nelson had only 27 ships at Trafalgar in 1805.
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San Diego
Calif
Roy Ferguson
U. S. Employment Service
Ferguson
Los Angeles War Manpower Commission
Nelson
Trafalgar
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Daniel DE Luce
Parenzo
Rovigno
Ustachi
Hero Guard
Susak
United States
Belgrad
Boka Motorska
Bay of Ontario
Boka Kotorska
Draja Mihailovich
Balkans
Mihailovic
Idaho Marine
Earle W. Johnson
North Little Rock
Ark
Marine Corps
Pantex
Uncle Sam
van Buren
Amarillo
Certain-feed Products Corp
Atty
Big Value
Jimoe Gornie Homan
Football
Pennsylvania
Penn
S.E.A. Fed
Polk ST
Oturden
Los Angeles
Brothers Ambulance
Dumas Perryton
Spearman
USCC
War Production Board
Wt. Brown
Long
Westcraft
Corsair
Piniator
Eta
Western Auto Stores
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