One Man Massacre Breaks Jap Line at Okinawa
Pfc. Clarence B. Craft of Santa Ana California reportedly killed about 30 enemy soldiers during a 10 to 15 minute assault on a 450 foot hill near Shuri. Craft crawled through trenches tossed grenades and fired his Garand to rout a fortified position sealing a cave with a demolition charge. He and his platoon left behind 58 enemy corpses three knee mortars three machine guns and 80 rifles along with ammunition.
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Okinawa
Clarence B. Craft
Santa Ana
Calif
Craft
96Th
Radio Helps Close Jaw Of Fisherman Out at Sea
A fisherman 200 miles at sea had his jaw locked open and was saved by remote control from a medical officer at a Alaskan coast guard base. Radio operator Guy Delp relayed step by step instructions to the boat as Lt. (j g) Kaack and Lt. (j g) Nugent oversaw the procedure. The fisherman was reported safely O K after the sequence of movements was completed.
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New Orleans
Coast Guard
Guy B. Delp
J. G
Harry F. Kaack
Clinton
Iowa
Kaack
Edward Nugent
Bad Axe
Mich
Delp
O. K
Brotherless dancer honored on 18th birthday in Macon
Miss Frances Newman marked her 18th birthday at Warner Robins field as orchids and a gown sent by her brother's marines unit accompanied her dance. Sgt. James R Newman died on February 23 in Iwo Jima. General Clifton B. Cates praised the heartfelt letter and note from Bob’s buddies.
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Macon
Iwo Jima
Frances Newman
4Th Marines
Warner Robins Field
Here
Clifton B. Cates
Bob
James R
Bob) Newman
Lumpkin, Ga
Frances
Cates
Throttle Shot Off, Pilot Crash-Lands His Bomber
Lt William H Carls 25 of Chicago served as a combat navigator bombardier with the 9th air force. On a Sauerlaten raid his radar aided precision bombing while the aircraft sustained 300 bullet holes and a fire upon crash landing at Eindehove Holland.
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Chicago
William H. Carls
N. Mozart Street
9Th Air Force
Sauerlaten
Germany
Ruhr
Eindehove
Holland
Carls
Postwar Air Freight to Reach Every Farmer and Community
Walter A. Shead reports on Civil Aeronautics Administration records showing wartime air transport advances paving peacetime civilian services. Applications for flying ambulances armored airships tendered currency delivery by air and numerous plans by veterans, store chains and women to run feeder lines helicopter taxis and door to door deliveries across the United States.
Taxi Firms Eye Air Helicopter Service Expansion
Postwar rush sees many firms filing for general air taxi by helicopter or airplane. Prominent applicants include Frank Sawyer’s Checker Taxi of Boston and John F. Carey’s Grand Central Cadillac Renting to run heli taxis between airports and city sites. Joe Ferrant’s Airdrome Transport may serve west coast stars, while William E. Hann aims to replace horses with air tours of Grand Canyon and Utah monuments. Over 600 applications exist with Civil Aeronautics Board as of June first, with more expected after V-J Day.
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Civil Aeronautics Administration
Department of Commerce
Los Angeles
New York
James Walker Case
Sutter Creek
Calif
Navy
Case
California
Nevada
Norsemen Air Transport Company
New England
John C. L. Adams
Panama
Cristobal
Balboa
Alberta
Angeline Harris
Rutherfordton
N. C
North Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Winifred Lucy Shefferly
Detroit
Michigan
T.W. Lanier
el Paso
Texas
Frank Sawyers
Checker Taxi
Boston
John F. Carey
Grand Central Cadillac Renting Corpora
Tion
LaGuardia
Airlines
Joe Ferrant
William Edward Hann
Grandon National Park
Bow Bridge National Monument
Utah
Canyon de Chelly National Monument
Arizona
Civil Aeronautics Board
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Jacksonville
Fla
Big Joe
Uncle Sam
U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps
Lamar
Houston
Walter A. Shead
Washington
New Mexico
Air Transport Command
Army
Shannon’s
Fort Worth
Continental
U. S
W. C. Croy
Poplar Bluff
Julian Bondurant
Armored Motor Service
Memphis
France
H. I. Moul
Coastal Tank Lines, Inc
York
United States
Alaska
Canada
Mexico
T. P. Geddes
Automobile Air Freight Corporation of
Great Lakes
Middlewest
Hecht Company, Inc
Washington, D. C
William Filene Sons Company
E. J. McKeown
Producers Air Lines of
Toledo
Fish Airlines Corporation
Charles J. McGowan
New Bedford
Mass
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Pearl Harbor
B.F. Goodrich
Ordnance Tire Repair Company
Italy
Bfgoodrich
Kilmer
Department E
Kilmer & Co. Inc
Stamford
Conn
Swamp Root
Scott
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