Fort Payne Private Artie Bracknell a Hollandia hero
Private Artie Bracknell of Fort Payne Alabama sacrificed himself to save his platoon near Hollandia New Guinea. He led a cautious advance, drew Japanese fire, killed a pillbox defender and fought until mortally wounded, waving comrades to safety before he fell.
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Marlin Spencer
Hollandia
Dutch New Guinea
Artie Bracknell
Bracknell
Fort Payne
Ala
Artie
Memorial Day Observance at Basham's Chapel
Basham's Chapel will observe Memorial Day on Sunday May 21 with grave decoration and morning preaching. Afternoon singing will follow and the public is invited, with a special invitation to singers.
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Basham
War bond leaders meet to plan fifth campaign
In Birmingham leaders of state and district war bond committees discussed organizational work for the fifth war loan campaign. Marc Ray Clement, manager of the state war finance committee, called the drive the biggest and toughest task on the home front to date.
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Birmingham
Ala
Marc Ray Clement
State War Finance Committee
Alabama Lions Convention Opens With Breakfast Banquet Ball
The Alabama Lions Club 21st annual convention opened with a breakfast honoring officers from clubs statewide and will conclude that evening with a banquet and ball in Birmingham.
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Lions Meet
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama Lions Club
Liberated Enough for Me in Yugoslavia with Tito Visit
The narrator arrives in Yugoslavia and travels by night with Partisans and officers including Maj Randolph Churchill and John Talbot. Tito greets them at a large youth congress as banners fly and vows are pledged, amid bombed towns, mountain roads, and a landscape of Partisan power.
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Yugoslavia
Randolph Churchill
John Talbot
Sreten Zujevich
The
Tito
Marshal
Josep Brozy
Wlomy
Prince Eugen
Talbot
Savez! Savez! Savez
Alliance
Youth Congress of
Marshal Tito
America
National Liberation Army of
Reporters Glimpse Liberated Country
Cairo headquarters arranged a Yugoslavia visit for Time Life’s Stoyan Pribichevich and Reuters John Talbot. others including Fowler and Slade joined as photographers. Censors of Allied command blocked Tito interview while U S AP officials pressed for clearance and reasons.
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Marshall Josip Broz
Tito
Cairo
Stoyan Pribichevich
Time and Life Magazines
John Talbot
Reuters
Lot
Yugoslavia
G. E. Fowler
U. S. Navy
Los Angeles
Max Slade
British Army Film Photographic Unit
Associated” Press
Sir Henry Maitland Wilson
Allied Mediterranean Command
Wilson
Kent Cooper
Associated Press
General Wilson
Joseph Morton
Bari
Italy
Edward Kennedy
Mediterranean
London
Kennedy
Daniel de Luce
de Luce
Adriatic Sea
Mediterranean Command
Pribichevich
Talbot
Ministry of Information
Yugoslav Partisan Territory Visit Behind Front Lines
An Allied correspondent describes entering Partisan territory in Yugoslavia ten miles behind the fighting line, traveling 25 miles on partisan rail, passing patrols, viewing a procession of German Ustachi and Chetnik prisoners, and visiting the last session of the Anti-Fascist Youth Congress in about three hours.
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Yugoslavia
Mediterranean
Yugoslav Youth Rally Ends After Five Days of Debates
About 800 delegates aged 15 to 25 concluded a five day rally in a mountain village. Many faced over a month of marching back through enemy lines with clashes against German and Quisling forces. Two main resolutions urged broader links among youth groups and aid for liberation and federation of Yugoslavia.
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Tito
Churchill
Roosevelt
Stalin
John Talbot
Associated Press
Yugoslavia
National Liberation Army
Roosevelt Dominates 1940 Democratic Delegates In Primaries
A.P. reports California and New Jersey primaries set on a first ballot Roosevelt victory with Delaware and Montana delegations likely for FDR. Washington's tally nears 677 pledged votes, 589 needed. California slate backs Roosevelt Wallace. New Jersey Democrats back a 34 vote slate with Hague leading a fourth term line. Republicans in California and New Jersey back Warren and Dewey aligned groups.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma
California
New Jersey
Roosevelt
Delaware
Montana
Washington
Wallace
Earl Warren
Frank Hague
Jersey City
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
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