Bombers Knock Out Japanese Ships and Naples Raid Report
North Africa air command bombs Naples with 200 bombers under General Doolittle, destroying 21 Axis ships and damaging fields. In the Pacific, MacArthur forces sink seven Japanese warships and five cargo vessels. RAF bombs Kiel and Essen. Petain protests US France raids. fighting in Tunisia at a standstill.
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Naples
Army Air Command
North Africa
Africa
Doolittle
South Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Coral Sea
Midway
Kiel
Essen
Royal Air Force
Marshal Petain
France
Tunisia
Turkish diplomat backs Allied victory and offers luck
A Turkish Diplomatic Service representative stated the Allies will win the war and wished them luck. The remark caused a sensational reaction worldwide. Turkeys strategic position between Russia and the Allies frames the context of the claim. A. N. Green, Texas legislator, was home for the weekend. Sam B. Houston visited Cameron on Monday.
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Turkey
Russia
Germany
A. N. Green
Texas
Sam B. Houston
North Elm
Cameron
Brothers Vaculin Serve In Army And Air Corps
Two brothers Cpl Stanley Vaculin and Cpl Victor Vaculin are featured with their parents in Ad Hall. Stanley enlisted February 1942 and trained at multiple U S camps before serving overseas with Headquarters Company. Victor joined January 1942, trained in Manchester New Hampshire and now serves in England as a key cooking unit leader feeding troops.
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Cpls
Stanley
Victor Vaculin
Joe Vaculin
Ad Hall
Cpl
Stanley Vaculine
Army
United States
Headquards Co
Air Corps
Manchester
N. H
Uncle Sam
England
Tunisia Scene of Bitter Decisive Fight
Allied forces slam into Axis in Tunisia in a fierce battle that could shape Europe invasion plans. Rommel pressured back as British and American troops close in from multiple angles with Bizerte near reach, air power pounding retreating units. Simultaneous Red Army moves to reclaim Smolensk and Kerch Peninsula while MacArthur's planes strike another Japanese fleet.
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Tunisia
Europe
Rommel
Germany
America
Britain
Bizerte
Japanese assaults on Australia defenses repelled
Heavy damage and repeated Japanese attempts to break through defenses above Australia were frustrated. FOR SALE large five year old bay horse. Gentle and versatile. Contact James L. Coleman. 3-3tp.
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Australia
Gentle
James L. Coleman
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Grady Stidham
Doris
Patsy O'Neil
May Brewer
Waco
Sam Vitrano
Ernest Howard
Vitrano
Grady Stidham Jr
U. S. Coast Guards
Vicksburg
C. B. Leonard
Buckholts
Corporals
Stanley and
Temple Life Insurance Company
Temple, Texas
Vernon Roberts
Walter B. Smith
Dan Lunsford
Emory B. Camp
G. S. Baskin
Cameron, Texas
Power Grid OF
Texas Power & Light Company
Tp&l
Waxahachie
Denison
Paris
Taylor
Tevac
Southwest
U.S
Texas Power
Drouth
Tennessee Valley Authority
Arkansas
Texas. Power. & Light Company
Says J. A. Krug
Office of War Utilities
War Production Board
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