Wounded In Eyes, Alabamian Pilots Plane Home
U.S. Fourth ace in China story of John E Meyer from Birmingham Alabama flying a P51 with shrapnel in his eyes. Captain Egan guided Meyer's damaged craft home after a perilous river strafing mission. Ground fire and a brave rescue test his endurance and skill in wartime.
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Clyde A. Farnsworth
U.S
China
John E. Meyer
Burmimghacs
Ala
Moh
Les Allot
Jobo FE
Egan
Fortaoderdale
Meyer
Gill
Christmas Morning Miracle Over Battle Field
Yodsy Meyer, injured in combat, lies at Bation hospital with vision impaired but healing. An eye specialist removes six metal shrapnel pieces from his right eye and several from the left. He recalls seeing his reflection in the canopy glow and guiding his crippled aircraft toward friendly territory with teammate Egan. A stuffed injury tale ends with a Christmas dinner lucky charm baked in a mince pie.
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Egan
Meyer
French Youth Luter From Malnutrition During Occupation
Paris report to the Academy of Medicine by Lesne and Ribedeau-Dumas, with Pasteur Vallery-Radot, details the German blockade’s toll. Four years of rationing left 54 percent of under twos with rickets, infant mortality rising to 4.68 percent in 1941, and rising tuberculosis among youths and young adults.
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Eosette Hargrove
NEA
Paris
Academy of Medicine
Edmond Lesne
Ribedeau-Dumas
France
Pasteur Vallery-Radot
Vallery-Radot
France Feels Aftermath of War Food Shortages and Health Decline
The piece discusses forced labor camps in Germany, dire nutrition in occupied France, weight loss among middle aged and elderly workers, underweight newborns, nervous disorders in women, and wine and coffee shortages. It notes some rural areas fared slightly better due to food access and cites Professor Wallery-Radat hopeful for recovery as German theft ends and supplies rebound.
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Germany
Wallery-Radat
France
Frasce
Hog Cholera Brought Under Control In 1944
Auburn reports hog cholera has been brought under unusually effective control in 1944 through swine growers veterinarians and serum industry. 1944 serum output approx 1 286 405 000 cc could immunize about 40 million pigs at weaning. Total pig crop about 88 million vs 122 million last year. Warns disease remains threat to nonimmune hogs and urges immunization strict quarantine and careful stock movement.
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Auburn
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Department
William M. MacKellar
Bureau of Animal Industry
Mending Leaky Pana and Peils for Outdoor Watering
A simple method to stop leaks in pana and peils used outdoors for watering chickens dogs pigs and cats involves applying two good coats of roofing cement to the bottom of the vessel for a durable seal.
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Pana
Peils
Oradour-sur-Glane Terror: Town Destroyed by Germans
The German column near Limoges burned Oradour-sur-Glane after rounding up residents and killing all. Only 52 body fragments identified remain. the town is preserved as a monument with two signs, Hotel Milord and Cafe du Chene, amid ruins. A survivor recounts the tragedy observed six months later.
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France
Limoges
der Fuehrer
Oradour-sur-Glane
Tom Wolf
NEA
Gradour-sur-Vayres
Oradour-sur-Vayres
Lidice
Lidi
Hotel Milord
Emile Resourteaux
Record Peanut Crop and War Atrocities Revealed
A wartime column recounts 1944 German atrocities in a French village, including shootings, arson, and deaths in a church shelter, with wider notes on postwar famine and a major peanut harvest in Auburn Alabama. It notes 793 new fish ponds planned in Alabama and farmer plans to build ponds in 1965 for food and water supply.
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Auburn
Alabama
Allen M Pearson
Pearson
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