Marine Corps grease monkeys keep planes aloft in Chicago training
At the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Chicago Marine aviation mechanics and metalsmiths endure a 21 week course combining basic math drawing blueprint reading and specific aircraft hardware skills. Top graduates earn corporal rank while others rise to private first class. The program emphasizes accelerated calisthenics and combat conditioning.
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United States Marine Corps
Naval Air Technical Training Center
Chicago
Maj
Joe Foss
Carlton Hill
USMC
Marine Aviation
Aviation Metalsmith
Ration Party Games for Family Fun During Shortages
A list of old time party ideas themed around wartime rationing including pantomime identity games with rationed items, two cast shortage skits, a ration geography activity listing products by country, and a ration songs round with period titles. Each activity aims to engage guests while reflecting material shortages and humor.
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South America
East Indies
Japan
India
Australia
Germany
Russia
Western
Union
Maritime unions back USS aid for merchant seamen
After Pearl Harbor the USO served fighting forces, but merchant marines lacked support until September 1942 when the United Seamen's Service USS was formed. The piece notes maritime unions pressed for this new aid as essential to the first line of defense.
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Pearl Harbor
USO
Maritime
United Seamen's Service
USS
Ini
Minute Make- Ujas By GABRIELLE
The piece offers quick beauty tips for hands and nails focusing on finger position ring choice nail color and light makeup. It then shifts to praise for USS and WSA efforts aiding merchant seamen with medical housing rest homes hotels clubs and morale initiatives abroad and at home.
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Ledger Syndicate
WNU
WSA
USS
Broadway
New York
N. Y
U. S
Army
Navy
Red Cross
State Department
Army and Navy
Western
Union
Red Cross Uses New Refrigerated Container for Blood
The Red Cross aims for four million blood donations this year and operates 36 blood banks nationwide. Maj. Elihu Church invented an insulated refrigerated container that keeps temperature variation under two degrees, enabling long transports to laboratories for plasma processing and overseas shipment. Plasma use has slashed abdominal wound deaths from 80 to 5 percent and overall wound mortality from 7 to under 1 percent.
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Red Cross
Maj
Elihu Church
When to Entertain Before a Fall Wedding
The letter advises that once the engagement is announced you may entertain anytime. If returning only a week before the wedding, set a date early in the week prior, as the bride will be busy. If home setup is uncertain, suggest a luncheon at a country club or nearby hotel or restaurant.
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Ledger Syndicate
WNU
Gems of Thought on Patriotism and Faith
A collection of short quotes on love of country, living in the present, and faith. Notable lines include Burke on loveliness of the homeland, Longfellow on immediate action, Aquinas on faith and hope, a Texas Ranger quip about endurance, and Cicero on greatness and inspiration.
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Howe
Longfellow
Thomas Aquinas
Bill McDonald
The
Texas Rangers
Cicero
Military photo units document wartime film work
A total of 24 000 army and 2 800 navy personnel are assigned solely to photographic duty. They shoot stills and motion pictures on reconnaissance trips and also film bombings and battles.
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Army
Navy
Captain Towns Leaps Over Jeep in North Africa Practice
Capt. Forrest Towns of Athens Georgia, the world record holder in the 110 meter high hurdles, is shown leaping over a jeep in North Africa as he trains for a planned Berlin visit to defend Olympic records set in 1936.
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Berlin
Capt
Forrest Towns
Athens
North
Africa
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Bernard L. Mont 1Ery
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Abbie Condit
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Telefact
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Tarent
War Department Office of
Burke
Pacific Photo Service
P. O
San Francisco
Calif
Northwest Photo Service
Fargo
North D
Grosz Sudo Potene
Peter Etsy Paten
Guernsey
Heifers
Springer
Fred Chandler
Chariton
Iowa
Bones
Welsh Mineral Company
13Th St
Billings
Mont
Feathers
Mitchell
D. D
Westmore Teachers’ Agency
Nat’l Bank
Spokane
Wash
Chemical Enterprises
P. O. Box
Bala-Cynwyd
Army of Photographers
Lydia & Pinkham
Pinkham
Wwnu
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