Commission Miller Band At Victory Ball In Pottsville
General Carl A. Spaatz will personally commission the Glenn Miller Orchestra, official Army Air Forces band, at a Victory Ball in Pottsville to honor over 3,000 returning veterans. The event caps a three hour parade with 60 bands and shows for 50,000 visitors as Pottsville’s 22,000 residents mark a major homecoming. Brigadier General and other honored guests will attend.
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Glenn Miller
France
Army Air Force
Pottstown
Army
Navy
General Spaatz
Pennsylvania
Gen. Spaatz
Parade Air Escort Led by Pottstown Leaders in War Memorial
General Harry Katz of Pottstown heads U S Ordnance planning with Maj Gen Manton Eddy and Rear Adm Frank Wagner in a parade air escort of 150 aircraft from B 28s to P 80s. A gold star float honors 173 Potts town war dead. parade day named a legal holiday.
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Pottstown
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Ordnance Department
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Frank D. Wagner
Pensacola Naval Air Training Station
Army
Navy
Tarawa
Burgess William A. Griffith
MacArthur Plot Had Other Reason
Tokyo June 7 General MacArthur's headquarters announced an 18 year old Japanese youth had related a plot to join forces abroad. The disclosure follows earlier reports of a suspected plan tied to wartime maneuvers and security concerns in occupied Japan.
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Tokyo
Youth to fake assassination plan targets MacArthur rumor
Tenmari Aral, a youth, was arrested after declaring he would pretend to kill General MacArthur to discredit the Communist party in a rumor tied to the emperor. Army psychiatrists found him mentally incompetent and said he planned to join the party, kill Communist leaders, and join savings bond ownership efforts as part of a broader wartime drive.
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MacArthur
Tenmari Aral
Aral
Mrs Truman Urges Women to Back Savings Bonds
First Lady Bess W. Truman urged women to lead in backing the future of American families by buying U S Savings Bonds as the treasury opens an anti inflation bond drive. She said the future well being of most American families rests on women's resolve to invest every dollar needed for living expenses in United States bonds.
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Bess W. Truman
U.S
United States
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