Rescue Effort Near Titus Contingent After Plane Sighting
A plane reported a low passage over the water at 3 30 a.m. and the search area plotted by Lt Kelph matched the vicinity of a bombing raft. Twelve hours after the SOS, a plane found the raft and fire, guiding the navy repair vessel to pick up survivors at 4 p.m. on January 18 before continuing to Australia. Lt Titus uses two watches for Greenwich time and local time.
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Kelph
Navy
Australia
Titus
Greenwich
England
Rescue at Sea Ties Navy Crew to Memphis Belle Navigator
A Navy ship rescued bystanders note watchful calm aboard with a watchmaker on board. Lt Titus, returned to Long Beach Jan 29, meets the Memphis Belle navigator aboard en route from Tokyo bombing runs. They land Jan 30 and Titus seeks the navigator without success.
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Titus
Long Beach
Air Force
Tokyo
Navigator Lt Titus Led Thrilling Wartime Missions
Lt Titus, navigator on Flying Fortresses, recounts long ocean passages and a raft scare as a 900 mile from land moment. His crew survived a downed transport, internment in Switzerland, and two ferrying missions to England before a Hawaii bound flight went down. His brother, Lt John E Titus, later flagged as missing in the Southwest Pacific.
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Gazette
Robert A. Titus
Marion
Pacific
California
Switzerland
United States
Germany
Memphis
Tenn
Long Beach
England
Hawaii
Camp, Roberts
Calif
Santa Ana
Army Air Base
Mather Field
Spokane
Wash
Rapid City
S. C
University of Iowa
Titus
Iowa City
Goebbels Bag to Halt Publication
The German Transocean agency says Der Angriff, Goebbels propaganda minister’s Berlin evening paper, will cease on Saturday. Only Berliner Nachtausgabe will remain as Berlin’s evening edition.
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Hitler
Berlin
Goebbels
der Angriff
Mustrierte
Illustrierte Beobachter
London
INS
German Transocean Agency
Berliner Nachtausgabe
Goldberg Assails Senate Committee As Surplus Hearing
In Washington AP dispatch, auctioneer Jacob Goldberg accused the Senate war investigating committee of wrecking his business during a heated surplus auction sales hearing for the Defense Plant Corp. He demanded indictments or prison if he was guilty as Chairman Mead suspended the inquiry after four hours.
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Washington
Jacob Goldberg
Senate War Investigating Committee
Goldberg
Mead
D-N.y
Goldman
Defense Plant Corp
Surplus Liquidators, Inc
Ferguson
Rmich
War Department
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