Walker's Successor Promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff
Lieutenant General Werthew Ridgway, newly named commander of the Eighth Army in Korea, is a World War II pioneer of airborne operations. He led the first large scale U.S. airborne assault in Sicily in 1943, jumped at Normandy, and later commanded the 82nd Airborne Division before serving in Italy, Belgium, and the Pacific theater. Ridgway has held Washington posts and diplomatic defense roles, including senior U.S. delegate to the Inter-American Defense Board and the U.N. Military Staff Committee.
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Werthew Ridgway
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Korea
Ridgway
U.S
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Italy
Comandeg
82Nd Infantry
Ision’ Tig
Redmmandin
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R Dgway
Normandy
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Belgium
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18Th Airorne
Pacific
Japan
Mediterranean
Beaver
Fire Destroys Pleasant Valley Convalescent Dormitory
In Pleasant Valley near Amarillo Texas rescue workers completed recovery of ten bedridden elderly residents, including three blind victims, from a barnlike convalescent home. Four survived including a nurse helper and a visitor. The warehouselike structure was an old Army barrack converted into a home. A fire started in the barracks and the building burned to ashes.
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Amarillo
Texas
Pleasant Valley
Texas Panhandle
Panhandle
Lucy
J. W. Wright
Walter Convalescent Home
Ridgway Takes Caribbean Command and Deputy Chief Role
General Ridgway was assigned to lead the Caribbean command during the summer, a position he held for a little over a year before becoming deputy chief of staff to administration. His interim duties and subsequent promotion shaped U.S. military leadership in the region.
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Ridgway
Caribbean
Fire blasts through hospital room amid Christmas laughter
A fire erupted in a northwest hospital area when an attendant opened a door to fetch a match for a patient. The blast drove a woman back into the room, and she believes the fire began with an explosion amid patients including a blind man named Matt Kerwin who had been laughing and opening gifts.
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Northwest Part
Matt Kerwin
Regional Road Link Proposed Across Kashmir Frontier
A 375 mile motor road is proposed to connect southern Kashmir with the north west frontier of Pakistan, linking important regions and signaling strategic aims. The route would start near Hunze and end at the frontier, facing blockage at times. The road would border Afghanistan and China as well as Pakistan, highlighting geopolitical significance.
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Kashmir
Northwest Frontier
Pakistan
Afghanistan
China
Woman fined for trespass at police compound in IPOH Malaya
A 43 year old Tan Say Mooi was fined 20 dollars after trespassing into the police compound in Malaya IPOH. She was arrested while attempting to hand over a package to an officer, and the incident is described amid statements about kindness not paying.
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Ipoh
Malaya
Tan Say Mooi
Spacket
Togat Pa
A. Woe
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