Roosevelt Views War Front Amid Surprise Wounded Troops
President Roosevelt toured war zones in Hawaii observing jungle training and battlefield drills. He spoke to Seventh Division Seabees Marines and sailors at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel rest center. Three wounded jungle fighters were brought from Saipan as he inspected hospitals, airstrips, and supply bases with brief addressed remarks.
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Honolulu
Roosevelt
Hickamidh
Air Transport Command
Saipan
Navy
Aeia
Army
147Th General Hospital
Marshalls
Royal Hawaiian Hotel
Waikiki Beach
United States
Seabees
Fleet Marine Force
Submarine Rest
P.d.rs
Oe Mdi
Presta Roosevelt
North Africa
Baer
Eisenhower
Marshall
Clark
Doolittle
Patton
Washington
Cupid's Arrows Bind Seamen To War Brides At Beebe
Nazi submarine campaigns along the Atlantic in early 1942 left three merchant seamen injured and later married their nurses at Beebe Hospital Lewes Delaware. Among the couples were First Engineer Joseph Wexler of New York and Second Mate Vladimir ...
Rotary District Governor speaks at Thomasville meeting
Charles Stone of Charlotte, Rotary International district governor, addressed the Thomasville Rotary Club at the Woman's Club building. He noted Rotary's 40th year with 5225 clubs and 227000 members and paid tribute to local leaders and charter members. Visitors included Tom Marlowe, J R Terry, Wade Phillips, Tom Gunn, Rev Li Jerome, and Tom A Sykes. The gathering was led by club president Paul Hassler.
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Thomasville
Charles Stone
Charlotte
Rotary International
Rotary Club
Woman's Club
R. L. Po
Stone
Rotary
Club
Tom A. Marlowe
High Point
J. R. Terry
Wade Phillips
Lexington
Tom Gunn
Sanford
Li Jerome
Raleigh
Tom A. Sykes
Paul Hassler
Japanese diary items recount naval losses near Guadalcanal
A World War II diary entry from December 8 1943 notes that in an engagement northeast of Guadalcanal four enemy warships seven cruisers seventeen aircraft carriers and countless transports were sunk by the Navy and that the American Pacific Fleet Commander was killed. December 9 1943 mentions beriberi trouble and Australian reinforcements strained.
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New York
TNS
Guadalcanal
Ceylon Uses Basic English For Jungle Recruits
The Ceylon command rejects multilingual policy for the island and instead employs a basic English common tongue to train Singhalese and Tamil jungle recruits. Within weeks barefoot troopers swap native dress for uniforms and learn the language to coordinate with British officers.
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Colombo
Ceylon
Yale Guarded Gutenberg Bible In Underground Vault
The Gutenberg Bible owned by Yale University sits in an underground vault since the outbreak of war. Massachusetts in 1694 established the first American game law setting a closed season on deer.
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Yale University
Massachusetts
Parchment Name Traces to Pergamon Invention
The name parchment derives from the city Pergamon where the writing material was first made as a substitute for papyrus.
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Pergamon
City
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