Texas Rangers Brave Mounting Cliffs at Pointe du Hoc
The story recalls Rudder's Rangers under Lt Col E Rudder as they stormed the 100 foot cliffs at Pointe du Hoc. They faced heavy fire, rough seas, and rough coast defenses while attempting to seize gun emplacements and inland strongpoints. Many were wounded or killed during the landing.
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Texas
Rudder
E. Rudder
Brady
France
Point du Hoc
USS
Satterlee
Navy opens shipyards to women welders and electricians
The Navy ends a 143 year tradition at Brooklyn Navy Yard as women join men in building warships. About 4,000 of 65,000 yard workers are women, noted by Rear Admiral Kelly, commandant, who says their worth is recognized.
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New York
Brooky
Navy Yard
Navy
Kelly
Orchid Bonanza Fuels Luxury Black Market Rise in Sydney
Orchids dominate Sydney black market trade with prices hitting high hundreds. A potted orchid with blooms fetches 280 dollars versus pre-war values, while sellers seek more stock and growers profit, one earning 4000 dollars in a single month.
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Syd- Australia
Private Two Babies and Family of Four at Fort Warren
A Fort Warren report recounts a mounted police inquiry about Private Amos Twobabies an Indian. The response notes he and his wife have four babies though one was left at home.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
M. P
Fort Warren
Amos
Elevators Delay Bogota High Rise Building Plans
In Bogota Colombia builders face elevator shortages delaying downtown skyscraper work. Banks will not finance tall buildings without a clear elevator priority. Nineteen large buildings under construction lack elevators, restricting office space above third floor due to steep stair climbing.
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Bogota
Colombia
Ineteen
Camp Pickett Corporal Wonders All About It
Camp Pickett correspondents report Corporal wonders about a letter that says I’ll be in town for the weekend. He ponders which weekend which town and who is the girl while joking about army regulations.
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Camp Pickett
Corporal
Lewis H
Unlucky Two Dollar Bills Drive Demand in El Paso
The two dollar bill, once seen as unlucky, becomes currency of exchange at El Paso border booths. Banks struggle to supply $2 bills as locals and visitors swap across the border with a one percent discount. The scheme stems from wartime currency controls between the United States and Mexico at the Juarez gateways.
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EL Paso
Texas
Germany
Japan
Mexico
United States
Britons Buy Five Times More Poetry Since War End
London reports show British readers purchasing poetry at five times prewar levels with publishers unable to meet demand. More than 20,000 copies of Rupert Brooke's poems sold last year as readers in the services seek classic and modern poets, including Tennyson Shelley Keats Browning and contemporary writers with French and Indian works also popular.
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London
Rupert Brooke
Brooke
Tennyson
Shelley
Keats
Browning
World War II era weapon and falconry note
The piece cites a 42 inch chemical warfare mortar as America’s principal weapon in smoke warfare and notes falconry as possibly the oldest sport in the world.
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America
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