Allied Air Offensive Keeps Pressure On German Fronts
London reports a three day Allied air campaign with about 14 000 planes attacking 13 Reich cities. Berlin Osnabruck Giessen Oberhausen Munster Soest Isruhe and Merseburg oil plant suffered fires as US and British forces bombed rail yards and Map targets amid strong interceptors. The Fifteenth Air Force began around the clock raids from Italy while heavy bombers struck Yugoslavia Hungary and Czechoslovakia and Austria by night.
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London
Hting
Reich
Berlin
Osnabruck
Giessen
Oberhausen
Munster
Soest
Isruhe
Sound Synic
Merseburg
RAF Mitos
U. S
Leuna
Erseburg
Air Ministry
15Th Air Force
Italy
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Austria
Germany
Ninth Air Force Raids Hit Railways in Merzig Area
American air units of the Ninth Air Force attacked rail lines in the Merzig and Saarbrucken region yesterday. The strikes damaged at least 10 locomotives and disrupted railway movement across the area.
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U.S
Ninth Air Force
Merzig
Saarbrucken
Reuters Joins AP In Campaign For Freedom Of News
Reuters chief Christopher Chancellor announces his organization has joined the Associated Press in promoting honesty and truth in international news. He stresses non discriminatory rates and free access to news at its source, aligning with Kent Cooper’s campaign against press censorship.
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Reuters
London
Christopher Chancellor
Association Press
World's Press News
The
Economist
Kent Cooper
Associated Press
Means Of Shipping Salvaged Fats To Processor Outlined
The OPA outlines a method to ship household salvage fats by rail express to a processor to boost West Virginia collections. Columbus Rendering Co. of St Albans will accept express shipments from any part of the state, with retailers or dealers acting as stations. Shipments are picked up by the express company and payments forwarded by Columbus once received.
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Charleston
W. Va
Railway Express
OPA
West Virginia
Columbus Rendering Company
St. Albans
Collect Express
Express Company
Columbus
Return of C. S. Arnold From South Pacific Leaves Navy Rank
C S Arnold chief commissary storekeeper USN of Bluefield West Virginia returns to the United States for leave and re classification after two years in the South Pacific with the eleventh naval district noting 2000 navy and marine veterans came home after extended service. The voyage brought reunions with families and friends and fresh food aboard a homeward transport.
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Arnold
USN
Bluefield
W. Va
United States
South Pacific
Eleventh Naval District
Solomon Islands
California
San Diego
Marine Corps
New Zealand
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Richman Brothers Clothes
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Chiang Kai-shek
C. S. Arnold
St. Joseph Aspirin
Colonial Jewelers
Colonial Theatre Building
Og Tee
Cox’s
Bargain
Nashua
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