Christmas Parcel Mailing Rules for Overseas Servicemen
The War Department releases rules for Christmas mail to overseas army personnel. Mail window is Sept 15 to Oct 15 1944 for parcels with a 5 lb weight limit and 15 by 36 inch size, endorsed Christmas Parcel. Cards may be mailed any time. Include rank, name, serial number, unit, and APO address, with prepaid postage. Packages packed in sturdy boxes, wrapped, and tightly packed.
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War Department
Army Postal Service
United States
Apo’s
Army
C.o.d
President Roosevelt closes Pacific tour amid Alaska remarks
President Roosevelt, with Vice Admiral Fletcher, tours remote Pacific islands and Alaska installations. He says the United States has driven out the enemy and that many soldiers may seek new homes in Alaska after the war, while avoiding discussion of war plans or politics.
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Frank Jack Fletcher
North Pacific
North America
Roosevelt
Bradley Commands American Forces In France In widening clash
Supreme Headquarters dispatch reveals Lieutenant General Omar N. Bradley as overall commander of American forces in France. Lieutenant General Courtney Hodges becomes first army commander, with Major Generals Brooks and Haislip leading the Second Armored Division and Fifteenth Corps respectively. The Third Army is identified as commanded by General X, with Montgomery continuing to lead the Twenty first Army Group. Bradley’s command marks the largest U S force ever under one flag in France. Hodges, a Perry Georgia native, has 40 years in service and earned the DSC and Silver Star.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Omar N. Bradley
France
George S. Patton Jr
Brest
le Mans
Seventh Army
Bradley
First Army
Coutney H. Hodges
United States Army
Edward H. Brooks
Second Armored
Wade H. Haislip
Fifteenth Corps
United States
Bernard L. Montgomery
Twenty-first Army Group
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Montgomery
Eisenhower
Army of
Hodges
Army
Infantry
United States Military Academy
West Point
Perry
John J. Pershing
Mexico
St. Mihiel
Meuse-Argonne
Air Corps
Frank Baily Receives Commendation for Air Sea Rescue Work
Corporal Frank C. Baily of Big Timber Montana shares in a commendation for the Eighth Air Force Air Sea Rescue Control Wing. Lt General James Doolittle praised the unit for saving airmen at sea including a bomber crew rescued ten minutes after crash landing in the North Sea, highlighting their training and alertness.
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England
Frank C. Baily
Big Timber
Mont
James H. Doolittle
Eighth Air Force
W. E. Kepner
Eighth Fighter Command
Jesse Rut
Doolittle
North Sea
Baily
Hitting Japs on 3 500 Mile Front Across Pacific
Secretary of the Navy Ralph Bard reports American naval forces are pressing a 3 500 mile western front from Paramushiro to the Bismarcks and a 2 400 mile line to New Guinea. He cites 11 000 enemy dead on Guam and a total of at least 40 000 losses in the Marianas campaign.
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Washington
Western Pacific
Pacific
Ralph A. Bard
Paramushiro
North Pacific
Kurile
Bismarck Sea
Mid - Pacific
Marshall Islands
New Guinea
Chester W. Nimitz
Douglas A. MacArthur
Bard
Bas d
Guam
Marianas Islands
Japanese Conspirators Await Treason Sentence in Denver
The Shitara sisters Tsuruko Wallace Florence Otani and Billie Tanigoshi await Judge Symes sentence after a 10 hour jury verdict convicting them on conspiracy to commit treason for aiding two German POW escapes. They were acquitted of treason. max penalty two years in prison and $10000 fine.
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Denver
Shitara
United States District Court
J. Foster Symes
Tsuruko
Toots) Wallace
Florence
Flo) Shioze Otani
Billie Shitara Tanigoshi
Inglewood
Cal
Granada Relocation Center
Amache
Colo
Goebbels Urges German Farmers to Boost Food Production
In Berlin on August 13, Mobilization Chief Paul Joseph Goebbels urged representative farmers to increase food output to offset shortages caused by Nazi losses in the east. He framed the effort as a last-ditch total war measure to feed the nation.
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London
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Berlin
Dusting Off The Old Ones Debts Cut. Infantile Paralysis Case
Twenty thousand dollars of the high school debt has been paid and the levy reduced from five to three mills. A case of infantile paralysis has developed in the family of Andrew Broughton and is recovering nicely. A camping party from Lewistown and Hollandale visited the Crazies since Friday. New births recorded: a girl to Olson of Big Timber on Aug 6, a boy to Raisland on Aug 14, a boy to Sandsness on Aug 15, and a girl to Roth on Aug 11. Mayors Claiborn and Elliot, with families, enjoyed a camping trip in the park last week. Dellitney also returned from a park trip.
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Andrew Broughton
Svend Mauland
Nils Iverson
Norma Egeland
Lewis
Anna
Jonas
Ansa Mauland
Alma
Agnes
Joseph Mauland
Lewistown
Mont
Iver Steensland
Hollandale
Wis
John Thomp
Dora
Willie
Gladys Iverson
Paul C. Olson
Big Timber
Sivert B. Raisland
Henry Sandsness
Glasston
Victor Roth
Claiborn
Yor Elliot
C. D. Paulson
Dellitney
Neer
Rupert
Nelton
Still Water Tragedy Claims Pioneer Fi Ray Flannagan
Ray Flannagan of Pioneer society drowned after a wagon tong struck his legs during a Still water incident on Wednesday. Mrs. Maria T. Hathaway dies after six months of cancer illness at Big Timber hospital. survivor husband and four sons. Picnic for Pioneer society draws 500 to 600 at Rapstad grove. Henry L. Myers delivers major address. Miss Maggie J. Irvine returns to Big Timber after 21 years away. County commissioner Lew Webb suffers left-side paralysis at the Park hotel in Livingston. J M Sandsness and a partner lose two work horses during a storm. four horses bolt as they unhitched and crawled under a wagon.
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Howard Mason
McLeod
Theodore Roosevelt Jr
Lesley J. McNair
Normandy
Col
Douglas McNair
Guam
Kipling
Judy O’grady
Maria T. Hathaway
Co. O. Hathaway
Big Timber Hospital
the Pioneers Society
Rapstad Grove
Henry L. Myers
Billings
Maggie J. Irvine
Los Angeles
Big Timber
Lew Webb
Park Hotel
Livingston
J . M. Sandsness
Melville
Taylor
Three-fold Offensive Opens in France
Allied air forces amounting to over 8,000 planes attack German targets from the Mediterranean to deep inside Germany. The plan includes U S Fifteenth air force strikes along the southern French coast, a climactic British air surge over France to trap the German Seventh army, and RAF bombing of Brest U-boat pens plus raids on Brunswick Russelsheim Keil and Frankfurt.
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Allied Supreme Headquarters
London
Mediterranean
Germany
United States
Fifteenth Air Force
Italy
Italian Riviera
Britain
France
Seventh Army
le Havre
le Mans
Vitre
R.A.F
Brest
Brunswick
Russelsheim
Keil
Predictions Paris Falls To Allies Within Ten Days
Bayeux France Aug 13 An dre Le Troquer French commissioner for liberated territories predicted Paris would fall to the Allies within 10 days. He said there would be additional landings in France and that General Charles de Gaulle and the Algiers government would fly to Paris once liberated. He arrived from Algiers and said his main task is supplying food for Paris as the city is starving and cut off with limited river traffic and no lights or gas.
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Bayeux
France
Andre le Troquer
Paris
le Troquer
Algiers
Charles de Gaulle
Seine
Parodies and Poems by Jerome Williams
A brief note on Jerome Williams presents light verse and parodies titled two cents. The piece showcases witty rhymes and compact poems in a humorous street language.
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Jerome Williams
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