Chutists Relate Heroic Arnhem Bridge Battle
Allied airborne survivors recount a three day siege at Arnhem bridge in which Red Devil parachutists fought through pillboxes and tanks. They blew a gun emplacement, faced Tiger tanks, and evacuated wounded before capture and daring escape back to Allied lines.
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Rhine
Arnhem
Red Devil
Germany
Dennis Simpson
Lower Rhine
Osterbeek
Cpl
Charles Weir
State Rifles of Invading Yanks
Two crew members of the troop transport Elmer A Sperry were accused in federal court of stealing two army carbines on June 15 near the Normandy coast. Edward Burton Henry and Glenroy Gee, merchant seamen from Lynn Massachusetts and Cincinnati Ohio, were arrested as they tried to land ashore with the weapons and held on $2,500 bail awaiting grand jury action.
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New York
Normandy
U. S
Robert Mitchell
Garrett W Cotter
Edward
Burton Henry
Lynn
Mass
Glenroy Gee
Cincinnati
Ohio
Elmer A. Sperry
Omaha
Mitchell
Yonkers
New Lifeline to China All Ready
The Post-Intelligencer reports a usable Ledo road link with China found by a visiting source near the Chinese embassy and confirmed by U S army engineers. Future usefulness depends on keeping pressure on Japanese advances via Yunnan feeder roads and securing eleventh hour supplies for Chinese forces.
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Seattle
China
Ledo
The
Post-Intelligencer
U. S. Army
Washington
Yunnan
Fight Over Fair Employment Bill Faces Senate
The Senate education and labor committee issued a misleading unanimous report on the fair employment practices bill. After the election a filibuster and floor fight are anticipated with opposition from southern Democrats Republicans and organized labor likely. The bill would prohibit discrimination by employers and unions based on race creed color national origin or ancestry.
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Washington
LLP
Congress
Senate Education and Labor Committee
Senate
Land Calls For Carving Up Enemy Trade Among Allies
Vice Admiral Emory S Land, head of the wartime merchant fleet, urged Washington to carve up German and Japanese foreign trade and divide it among the Allies. He argued denial of world commerce would crush the enemy economies, signaling a move toward restoring Germany to an agricultural state per Morgenthau’s line.
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Washington
Emory S Land
America
Treasury
Morgenthau
Germany
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