Ernie Pyle Spots War Life From North Africa to Algiers
Ernie Pyle describes the Algiers bound voyage with GIs, noting crowded ships, cold water, and strict air on deck. A morale-boosting enlisted men show features a striptease by Joe Comita, while Germany’s U-boat threat looms. troops brace for front-line life with tents, ditches, and shed gear.
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Gibraltar
Joe Comita
Brooklyn
Gypsy Rose Lee
Gypsy
Joe
Germany
Mediterranean
North Africa
Oran
Troops Embrace New Phase After Early Landing
Annieanxious to move forward a jubslance fills the troops as they complete the first phase. Confidence rises despite high ale in England and veterans emerge. The first night of landing saw mishaps including a jeep sliding into eight feet of water when the barge folding end dropped too soon.
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England
Snappy Play Toys For Boy and Girl Pattern 8725
Pattern No. 8725 for boys and girls comes in sizes 1 through 5 years. Size 2 dress requires 112 yards of 35 or 39 inch material plus panties 4 dollars per yard and overalls 112 yards. Due to high demand and wartime conditions, certain orders take longer to fill. Send your order to:
Household Care Tips From an Earlier Era
A mix of practical home advice covers using a curling iron to stretch gloves, cooking fats to flavor vegetables, protecting hands with a cork on a razor, applying perfume dabbed cotton to hems, ensuring external symmetry of window draperies, stacking trays atop gas burners, and organizing dirty dishes before washing.
Soldier learns to squeeze trigger at Fort Custer
At Fort Custer Michigan a soldier is trained to squeeze the trigger rather than pull it a con traption causes a sharp whack on the seat of his pants when the mistake is made imparting a stark lesson in fire discipline for recruits.
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Fort Custer, Mich
I’d Have Been a Goner Plunges to Urgent Nurse Corps Appeal
In a Normandy field near St Lo a wounded veteran recalls dodging bombs and escaping death by diving into a hedgerow. He describes plasma and blood transfusions, gratitude for Army nurses, and urges readers to support joining the Army Nurse Corps.
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Normandy
St. Lo
Plasma
Army Nurse Corps
Army
Red Cross
U. S. Army
Washington
D. C
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Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
W. Randolph St
Chicago
St Joseph Aspirin
Mrs. Gay
Mrs. Ghom
Vural
H&p
Ernie Pyle
Algeria
Pyle
Gis
Algiers
Pacific War
Russia
Murmansk
Norway
Iceland
America
Casablanca
Sister
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
U.S. A
C.O.D
U.S.A
National Bank
Ziphone CO
P. O
San Jose
California
John Schuster
Stelton
New Jersey
U. S. Army Nurse Corps
U.S. Army
Nurse Corps
Momtania Children's Home
Shedair Crippled Children’s Hospital
Helena Avenue
Helena, Montana
Montana Children’s Home and Hospital
Shhooair Crippled Children's Hospital
Helena Avenue, Helena, Montana
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