How It Feels to Handle Controls of a Superfort
A Warfront B 29 flight report from Saipan details the pilot’s skill needed to land the bomber. Capt. Sam Durham and crew transition from relaxed cruising to precise, high stakes approach as the pressurized cockpit maintains 8000-foot equivalent altitude.
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Saipan
Ins
Army Air Corps
Suicide Cliff
Honolulu
Tokyo
Sam “Bull” Durham
Franklin A. Schaller
Camden
N. J
Schaller
Donald G. Lee
Donora
Durham
Bull
Charles E. Hibbard
Bull Durham
New York
Philadelphia
Nazi Attack Rebuffed by British Eighth Army in Lamone Fight
In Italy along the Lamone river German forces battered the British bridgehead southwest of Faenza but were driven back about 400 yards. The 90th Panzer Division joined the assault, aided by the Desert Air Force, and suffered heavy losses in what officials called a definite drubbing. Casualties mounted on the battlefield.
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Rome
INS
Lamone
Faenza
Albert Kesselring
Celle
Pideura
Desert Air Force
Fifth Army
Italy
Bologna
Lucian K. Truscott
East Iowa Firms Settle with OPA
Treble damage settlements and voluntary contributions totaling 3402.17 were paid by 11 firms or individuals in Iowa and Illinois per the district OPA enforcement division. Payments include Lester Borcher of Big Rock 184.88 for turkey overcharges and Anamosa Farmers Creamery 1297.12 for butter upgrades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moline (Ap
Iowa
Ilinois
District Opa
Lester Borcher
Big Rock Turkey Raiser
Anamosa Farmers Creamery Company
Analmosa
Lagomarcino-Grape Company
Burlington
Onslow Lumber Company
Onslow
Tipton Implements Sells Tractor To Itemize Sale
Tipton company records a sale of a tractor for 48.07 dollars in a listed overceiling transaction.
Brakeman Fatally Hurt In Waterloo Collision
Waterloo AP report details Maurice K. Buckner 24 a brakeman for Cedar Falls and Northern railroad killed in a collision between a hog truck and a switch engine. He suffered internal injuries and pelvic fractures pinned against the engine front. Survived by wife and 16 month old son.
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Waterloo
Maurice K. Buckner
Cedar Falls
Northern Railroad
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Clark .Lee
Steinbeck
Hibbard
Bull’s
John Steinbeck
U.S.A
Stillwater
Oklahoma
Oliver A. Wallace
Riverside
Calif
Somerset Maugham
Wally
Philippines
Atoll
Clark Lee
Pacific
3Rd Avenue
S. E
Lax
Santa
East Iowa
OPA
Kamore
Bunny Slippers
Woolf
America
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