First Block of Cassino Falls to 38 Yanks and Five Tanks
Major Warren Chapman leads 38 soldiers and five tanks in the first assault on Cassino. The I company gains a precarious toe hold after two attacks as German self propelled guns disrupt tanks and infantry. Reinforcements arrive after a brutal night fight with creeping artillery and mined streets.
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Cassino
Washington
I Company
Warren Chapman
West Pointer
Nevada City
Calif
Chapman
Ivan de Graff
Alton
Bill Higgins
Wyoming
Wayne Fraizer
Jamestown
Inglwald Anderson
Lake Mills
Andy
Jerry
Wellborn Colvin
Greensboro
H W Sweeting
Everett Thomas
Minneapolis
Vision range at different altitudes from a height
The observer’s line of sight extends about 82 miles from 5,000 feet and about 194 miles from 25,000 feet, illustrating how altitude increases view distance.
Tule Lake Internees Return to Work in California Camp
Tule Lake segregation center in California reports nearly 4,000 internees back at work for the first time since November 4 when the army assumed control after disturbances. They fill roles from janitors to farm hands as Red Cross opens an office hoping for shipments to prisoners in Japan. Cozzens notes fewer crimes than in similar towns and cites about 300 agitators. Many are elderly awaiting repatriation to Japan.
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San Francisco
Tule Lake
Calif
Robert B. Cozzens
War Relocation Authority
Cozzens
Army
WRA
Red Cross
Japan
Mypass Cozzens
America
Northwestern Library Receives Downes Book Collection
Evanston Illinois Admiral John Downes retired Ninth Naval District commandant has donated his personal book collection to Deering Library at Northwestern University. The university confirms Downes gift expands the library’s holdings with maritime and naval works.
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Evanston, Ill
John Downes
Ninth Naval District
Deering Library
Northwestern University
Library Adds Private Collections and Boas Library
The university library expanded with private collections and the late Prof Franz Boas anthropology library of 5,000 volumes and about 10,000 reprints. Overall volumes rose to 411,020 from 265,000 in 1935, a 55 percent increase over ten years.
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Llection
Allfred Lord Tennyson
Washington Irving
Thomas Carlyle
Victor Hugo
Franz Boas
University
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Tom Treanor
Rapido
Iowan
Fighting I Company
Tank
Colvin
Zemo
Sable
Second Street
Northwestern Library
Downes
Smulekoff
Davenport
Smalekoftf’s
3Rd Avenue
Ist Street
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