Ice Bound Flyers Return to Contact in Greenland Rescue Effort
In January 1943, stranded U S flyers in Greenland await rescue as letter from home and mail delivery lift spirits. Spencer and Turner select a safe landing area and set up snow stake indicators while awaiting Catalina air rescue. sleet wind and deep snow delay the final attempt.
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U. S
Arctic
Oliver la Farge
Monteverde
Lieut
Spencer
Sergt
Tetley
Turner
Balchen
Catalina
Neary Sworn Into Air Corps Under Navy V-5 Program
Bill Neary 17 son of Mr and Mrs C J Neary 649 Eighteenth avenue SW Minneapolis was sworn into the naval air corps May 7 under the Navy V-5 program He took the examination March 19 and will be called to active service after his eighteenth birthday in November A student at Wilson high school he is president of the student council editor of the school paper active in football track and dramatics and boxed in the Golden Gloves tournament this year and last He was a delegate to Hawkeye Boys State in 1942.
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Bill Neary
C. J Neary
Eighteenth Avenue
Naval Air Corps
Minneapolis
Neary
Wilson High School
Cornel
Hawkeye
High Officers Honor Victims of Andrews Crash in Iceland
Lieut. Gen Frank M Andrews and 13 others killed in an Iceland plane crash were memorialized in a large Allied officers service at Wellington barracks royal chapel. Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten and many senior officers attended the service marking a major postwar tribute to the fallen.
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London
Frank M Andrews
Iceland
Royal Chapel
Wellington Barracks
Louis Mountbatten
Military service at high altar with candles and psalm
British generals admirals and air marshals attended a simple service before a high altar lit by six long candles and a shining silver cross. The Twenty-third Psalm was read and the hymns Lead Kindly Light and Abide with Me were sung.
U S Surpasses World In Plane Production
President Roosevelt announced the United States now produces more airplanes than all other nations combined and notes the country is six months ahead of December production. He cited heavy bombers and rising pound output reaching 911 million by 1943 and 1.417 billion by 1944.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
United States
Edgar A Guest The Poet of the People
A poetic tribute highlighting Edgar A Guest as the poet of the people. It extols the noble side of humanity and the hospital as a place where mercy and skill unite. The verse frames hospitals as the finest use of ground, justifying human effort through care and compassion.
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Edgar A. Guest
the Poet of
the People
Raiders Strike at Eastern England
Allied reports say two Axis bombers were shot down during a raid on an East Anglian district on Wednesday. The attackers bombed a residential area elsewhere, killing two and trapping several others in a house. German planes also dropped bombs on an East Anglian coastal town Tuesday night. In a separate note, rubber tree yields have quadrupled over 67 years since cultivation began.
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London
Line
Afglian
Gasoline for Men on Leave Under OPA Plan
Members of the armed forces on leave or furlough may obtain five gallons of gasoline for personal errands when no other transport is available. The plan, announced by the Office of Price Administration, allows a local ration board to issue the approval for up to five gallons with leave or furlough papers valid for at least three days.
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Turner
Washington
Office of Price Administration
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St.Joseph
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Uneo
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England
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