Notable WWII Flyers and Sailors Earn Quiet Valor
AP Newsfeatures recounts stories from July 15 1943 off Empedocle Sicily to Bougainville and Bougainville Nov 3 1943 and January 7 1944 England. Lt J Hamilton Napier commands USS STAFF during mine sweep and endures a fatal blast. Ed O Neill Marines fight off a Japanese ambush. Lt Frank Sneed leads B 24 and B 17 crews over Belgium as fear and resolve shape memory of war.
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Empedocle
Sicily
Rommel
Africa
J. Hamilton Napier
USS Staff
45Th Infantry Division
Ham Napier
Napier
Bougainville
K Company
21St Regiment
3Rd Division
United States Marines
Ed O'Neill
Tivershall
England
Ludwigshaven
Germany
Channel
Frank Sneed
Belgium
Pearl Harbor
Children Injured As Tomah School Bus Overturns
A Tomah Wisconsin school bus carrying 39 children skidded on glare ice and overturned in a ditch seven miles southeast of Tomah. At least two sustained fractures while several others had cuts and bruises. Driver Edward Liddane and multiple students were hospitalized for examination.
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Tomah
Wis
Wanda Zillmer
Milo B. Zillmer
Jefferson Lanier
Edwin Lanier
Edward Liddane
Judith Garber
Jack Garber
LeRoy Garber
Sherry Sommerfield
George Sommerfield
Marilyn McCoy
Steuart McCoy
Donald
Keith Giraud
Duane Giraud
R. 2
Norwalk
Tomah Memorial Hospital
John Kenny
Liddane
Dale Trowbridge
Teen Age Bar Zone Rejected By Aldermen
La Crosse Common Council rejects a plan to confine teen age bars to downtown La Crosse between Cass and La Crosse Streets west of 7th Street. Aldermen debate enforcement viability and legal implications with local bar interests and state tax divisions. The measure was not referred for further opinion.
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la Crosse
Common Council Committee
Council Judiciary Committee
Cass and
la Crosse Streets
7Th Street
William R. Lemke
4Th Ward
Loren C. Wardwell
9Th Ward
la Crosse County Tavern League
State
Judiciary Committee
Robert Joanis
The
Tavern League
Julian Bradbury
Municipalities League
Flanagan
Wisconsin Beverage Tax Division
Joanis
Tax Division
Yankees and MiGs clash as air war escalates in Vietnam
U S Air Force leaders in Viet Nam press for bombing of North Viet Nam jet airfields amid a fourth straight day of MIG engagements. U S pilots claim 26 definite kills and two probables, while North Vietnamese losses and antiaircraft strength are noted.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
U. S
Washington
U.S
Hanoi
Haiphong
U S Plane Shot Down in North Viet Nam as Reds Surrender 63
U S forces report another aircraft lost in North Viet Nam, raising this war’s 24 hour toll to three. Two pilots were rescued after a three helicopter airlift. Meanwhile 63 Viet Cong guerrillas surrendered in the Hon Chong area near the Gulf of Siam, with 2,250 local peasants seeking refuge. U S AID arranged rice and supplies.
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Robert Tuckman
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
North Viet Nam
Hon Chong Twin Sisters
Gulf of Siam
U.S. Agency For International Development
Air Force
Dien Bien Phu
North Vietnam air clashes deepen as pilots go missing
North of Hanoi American pilots clashed with MIG17s and MIG211s while both downed aircrews were listed as missing. Saigon sources indicate U.S. Air Force officers will press Washington for guidance amid the intensified MIG challenge.
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Hanoi
Saigon
U.S
Washington
Viet Nam
Marine Wins Highest Honor For Heroism
President Johnson presents the 10th Medal of Honor to Marine sergeant Robert Emmett O Malley for bravery in Vietnam. Wounded three times in 1965, he killed at least eight Viet Cong. Ceremony at the Austin post office precedes a Pentagon briefing with McNamara and the Joint Chiefs.
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Austin, Tex
Johnson
Viet Nam
Robert Emmett D O’malley
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Joint Chiefs of Staff
O’malley
Britain plans economic war against defiant Rhodesia
Prime Minister Harold Wilson vowed to crush Ian Smith’s Rhodesia through broad sanctions despite risks to Britain’s economy. A U N Security Council push for mandatory measures looms as London lists exports to boycott and weighs oil sanctions amid cross Atlantic support and African pressure.
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Britain
Rhodesia
London
Africa
Commonwealth
Harold Wilson
Ian Smith
George Brown
New York
U.N. Security Council
Washington
U.S
United Nations
Moussa Leo Keita
Mali
Keita
Mohamed Fakhreddine
Sudan
Smith
Council
Commonwealth Sanctions Committee
United States
Canada
South Africa
Wilson
House of Commons
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Lt. Napier
Ed O’neill
Hill 100
Sgt
Ralph Neppel
Harry Truman
By Donald W. Affolter
la Crosse Tribune
John K. Flanagan
League of Wisconsin Municipalities
Yank Fliers
USAF
Red
Red Force
Roy Brown
Saskatoon
Sask
Colville
Wash
Brown
Robert O’malley
By Frank Cormier
Ronald Thomson
Bank of England
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