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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1945
Page
2
A West sheriff chased a drifting Japanese balloon bomb, grabbing its shroud line after a 200 yard sprint. The craft tugged him 55 minutes across fields and over a 35 foot rut, finally halted with a tree hitch and FBI aid. Another sheriff later shot down a balloon with a rifle.
Mrs. Thelma Hammond Nelms seeks annulment of her remarriage to William R. Nelms after believing S/Sgt. David E. Hammond was dead. She had heard he was missing in Europe in 1943 and only learned three months ago he had been liberated from Stalag 30.
Brig. Gen. J. E. Barzynski reports three large caves in Normandy are used by a quartermaster refrigeration company to store up to 3000 tons of meat for Allied forces. Caves lie 50 feet underground in a coastal cliff, with an ammonia pipe system and a Freon cooler maintaining about 14 degrees F. Tunnels run about 250 feet long and 30 feet high with side bays. meat arrives from refrigerated ships and is later issued to refrigerated vans for front-line delivery.
AAF transport craft evacuated over a million wounded or sick American and Allied soldiers from battle areas since early WWII. Nearly all eastern front casualties in the final phase were carried by air. More than 300,000 patients moved from forward to rear areas between D-Day and V-E Day. The report covers late 1942 to post Guadalcanal and New Guinea campaigns.
Washington reports preventive measures cut malaria infection in American soldiers overseas by 75 percent since the 1943 peak. The Office of War Information warns that cases among veterans returning home may rise and that Anopheles mosquitoes exist in every state, posing domestic spread risks.
Washington reports April lend-lease aid to China surged to 61 million dollars, over fifteen times April of last year. Foreign Economic Administrator Leo T. Crowley said total lend-lease to China since March 1941 reached 458,874,000 dollars.
S A Ingersoll, founder and farm boy inventor, developed a rolling coulter by 1884 to cut prairie sod ahead of mold boards on horse drawn plows. He opened a Sandoval Illinois factory to manufacture blades and grew a multi role leadership in his early lumber and grain business era.
Tough Prairie Sod ies maker who built and ran a canning facility moved operations to Galesburg Illinois twenty years after starting the business. The plant served fruit growers and supplied farm implement parts during World War I before a devastating fire destroyed the site. Workers persisted through winter as new walls and a roof were erected.
The Beach-Buster amphibian tank, built by Ingersoll Steel & Disc division of Borg-Warner, made its combat debut at Okinawa. Led by Ben A Swennes, designers adapted auto engineering to produce LVT series and a rear ramp, saving lives and delivering 10,000 pounds of cargo or 50 men per load.
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