Burma War Strategy and Air Link Aims Ahead of Monsoon
Reports describe a middle route for Allied aims in Burma linking India with China by air and later highway, using raids to strain Japanese back areas. Weather, rivers, and limited airfields shape operations as US and British engineers build fields in rice paddies and tea gardens for Pacific style support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe” Stilwell
Akyabtes
Burma
Assam
India
China
Tojo
Pacific
Java
Khyber Pass
Russia
United States
Japan
Famie
RAF
Hirohito
MacArthur
Nimitz
Wartime labor shifts and diesel engine growth in 1940s
The draft program notes a surge in women workers in wartime industry with forecasts of millions employed and potential postwar continuance. It cites unions and possible shifts in labor roles as veterans return. It also highlights a surge in Diesel engine output from 4.5 million hp in 1940 to over 15 million today and discusses production methods, material shortages, and wartime logistics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ting
America
Service Men and Women Complete Training and Promotion
Sgt. Russell F. Brewer, son of Mrs. B. C. Brewer of Jamestown Route One, has completed training as a gunner in a Liberator bomber crew at the Pueblo Army Air Base. He joined in August 1942 and expects overseas service soon. Sgt. Gaither Trogden, son of Mrs. Geraldine Trogden, has recently been promoted from corporal at a Som Army Air Force base in England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell F. Brewer
B. C. Brewer
Jamestown Route One
Pueblo, Colo. Army Air Base
Gaither Trogden
Geraldine Trogden
Centennial Avenue Extension
I Som Army Air Force Base
England
WWII servicemen from local area listed with assignments and visits
In the quartermaster corps Pvt. William Hunt Atkins 20 son of Mr and Mrs J D Atkins of 315 Fourth Street is clerking for a detachment at a USAAF station in northern Ireland. Horace Haworth Jr A S in the US Naval Reserve completed V-12 training at Chapel Hill and reports March 16 to the University of South Carolina Columbia for preliminary naval air cadet training. Cpl. David S Payne of 807 East Green Street promoted from private. with a tank destroyer training group at North Camp Hood Texas. Sgt Warren M Hill on twelve day furlough visiting Mr and Mrs William S Poole. stationed at Camp Stewart Ga. resident of Chicago Illinois. enlisted January 1941. radio technician.
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Quartermaster Corps
William Hunt Atkins
J. D. Atkins
Fourth Street
USAAF
Northern Ireland
Army
Atkins
E Universal Distributing
Columbia
Horace
Haworth, Jr
United States Navalir Reserve
Chapel Hill
University of South Carolina, Columbia
Naval Air Forces
David S. Payne
East Green Street
L. D. Payne
North Camp Hood
Tex
Sergeant Hill
Warren M
Jack) Hill
William 8. Poole
Hill
Camp Stewart
Chicago
Ill
Texas
Florida
California
Missouri
Illinois
Seaman Wilson on first leave home for ten days
Julius Gurney Wilson seaman first class with the United States Coast Guard is spending a ten day leave with his mother Mrs. Mina Wilson. He has been in service nine months and this is his first leave. He will report back for duty on next Monday.
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Julius Gurney Wilson
United States Coast Guard
Mina Wilson
Seaman Wilson
Draft Dewey resolution adopted at North Carolina GOP convention
The North Carolina Republican state convention adopted a draft Dewey resolution praising Estes Kefauver to lead the party to victory and opposing a fourth term. Frank Patton was nominated for governor and A. S. Ferree for U. S. senator, with other statewide tickets named and Sam A. DeLapp reelected state chairman.
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Charlotte
E. of
New York
Frank Patton
Morganton
U. S
A. S. Ferree
Asheboro
George S Green
Marshall
Cuocenate
Watt Gragg
Boone
J. M. van Hoy
Steve B. Roberts
Carl B. Fussell
Wilmington
C .T. Allen
Aurora
Halsey B. Leavitt
Asheville
James FE. Spence
Siler
Supreme Court
Jp, Stillwell
Sylva
Algernon L. Butler
Clinton
Hiram B. Worth
State Board of Elections
Roberts
Sam A. DeLapp
Lexington
Charles A. Jonas
Lincolnton
Mary Few
William Preston Few
Duke University
Eugene Hester
Reidsville
Mrs. Sallie Clinard Dies in Thomasville At 80
Mrs. Sallie Kaney Clinard 80 widow of Jacob A. Clinard died at her home 102 Moore Street Thomasville after an extended illness. She was born in Davidson County to Jacob Kaney and Charlotte Lohr and spent her life there. Surviving: son Gurney Clinard Trinity Route Two. daughters Mrs. Fred Eddinger and Mrs. Smith of Thomasville. sister Mrs. Joe Clinard. brother T. L. Kaney Route One. four grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral from Rich Fork Baptist Church Saturday at 2 30 with interment in church cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Sallie Kaney Clinard
Davidson County
Jacob A. Clinard
Moore Street
Davidson
Acob Kaney
Charlotte Lohrer
Mar Clinard
I. Ak
Clinard
Three Days Cough Warns of Danger Signal
An old wartime advertisement warns that a three days cough may signal chronic bronchitis if untreated. It promotes Creomulsion as a non narcotic remedy that reaches the bronchial membranes to loosen phlegm and aid healing, urging buyers to consult a druggist and buy war bonds.
Liberators Strike Truk From Marshalls Front
U S fleet reports first wartime air raid on Truk fortress in the Carolines. B-24 Liberators from the Seventh Army Air Force hit airdromes fuel dumps and ammo stores at Kwajalein Eniwetok Doublon and Eten and damaged a ship. Additional raids targeted Oroluk Ponape and other Eastern Marshalls bases.
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U. S. Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Truk
Keystone
Central Pacific
Japan
Marshalls
Seventh Army Airforce
Carolines
Santea
Ishalls
Eniwetok
Kwajalein Atoll
Doublon
Eten
Oroluk
Ponape
Chinese leader calls for Japan disarmament after the war
T. S. Tsang of the Chinese executive council urged total disarmament of Japan in New York as the first step toward lasting peace. He framed postwar disarmament as essential to secure enduring global stability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
New York
INS
T. S. Tsaing
Chinese Executive Council
Thomasville Boy Killed in Action in Italy
Pfc. Reavis A. Worky 20, son of Frank Workman and Mary Fouts Workman of Petree road, was killed in action in Italy while serving with the Army. Born in Thomasville, he attended Fair Grove school and South Baptist church, enlisted March 10, 1943, and went overseas October 3. Survived by parents, six brothers and two sisters, with several brothers also serving in the Army at Bragg, Colorado, Tennessee, and Washington D C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Pfc
Reavis A. Worky
Frank Workman
Mary Fouts Workman
Petree Road
Italy
Workman
Santry
Fair Grove
South Baptist Church
North Africa
Old Workman
Army
Colorado
Ralphman
Tennessee
Elbert W
Bragg
Billy Workman
Clifton Workman
Dalton Workman
City
Mary Wiman
Washington, D. C
Peggy Workman
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ER Lorelei
United States Labor Department
St Joseph Cam Pa
Frank Sinatra
Jack Haley
Michele Morgan
Ken Maynard
Hoot Gibson
Bob Steele
Death Valley Rangers
Paramount
Martin
Franchot
Masked Marvel
Rialto
Roy Rogers
King OF the Cowboys
Buckley
Buckley's
Neduckley
Mann
State Theatre
Salem Street
Michel Morgan
Smith
Malaya
Soviet Union
Red Army
United
Cie
Wiaria Montez
Gon hAll
Juthan Bey
V Technicolor
With Andy Devine
Fortunio
Bonanova
Frank Puglia
Sallie K. Clinard
Marianas
Broadhurst
Young American Club
Golden Glove Slingers
Chicken
Tom Tyler
Ace
RED Cross
Dr.Fosters
DUCKS
Seward’s Market
East Commerce
Goodrich
Tire Information Headquarters
B. F. Goodrich
Silvertown Stores
North Main St
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