We Fight Our Country's Battles Marines Tell How They Fly
Technical Sergeant Harry Bolser recalls a late night Guadalcanal mission aboard a B-24 Liberator with Lieutenant Crume and a Louisville crew. The account details nervous anticipation, the water landing plan, anti aircraft fire, searchlights, and the successful bombing run over a Japanese bivouac, ending with praise for the Louisville bomber and camaraderie.
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Guadalcanal
Jerry
Crume
Bolser
Henderson Field
Marine Corps
Louisville
Solomon Islands
Army Navy Training Courses To Be Given November 9
The Army Navy College Qualifying Test will be held nationwide on November 9 offering tens of thousands of young men a path to training as technicians specialists or officer candidates. Eligibility covers high school graduates or those in final term who will be 17 but under 22 on March 1 1944.
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Army
Armed Services
Navy
Navy College
Army Specialized Training Reserve
U. S. Office of Education
Devildogs Stormed a Hill at Battle of Bairoka Harbor
Corp. William J. Haines recalls the final 25 yards of the assault at Bairoka Harbor after weeks of fighting on Wangunu island. The squad reached the top but suffered heavy casualties including Thornburg and Shipp, while Corporal Strauss was wounded. Hacker kept the machine gun in action as snipers paused the offensive.
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Bairoka Harbor
Wangunu Island
Corp
William J. Haines
Samuel
Strauss
Thornburg
Shipp
Hacker
Who's News This Week in Plymouth and Beyond
A colorful column notes Plymouth mayor Viscount Waldorf Astor serving a fifth term and linked to Nancy Langhorne amid discusses of wealth and nutrition. It also references German actress Marlene Dietrich, Burgess Meredith, and global figures with a Colombia focus on President Alfonso Lopez.
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New York
Viscount Waldorf Astor
Plymouth
Roosevelt
Astor
Park Avenue
London
Nancy Langhorne
Virginia
Viscount
Oxford
Jacob
Bogota
Alfonso Lopez Y Pumarejo
United States
le Ie
Colombia
Eigtelipe
Lopez
Eduardo Santos
Dona Maria Michelsen
House of Representatives
Enrique Herrera
Herrera
League of Nations
Frontiers and Flags Quiz From an Old Army Ad
A quirky old Army advertisement presents quiz questions and answers on frontier history the Danish flag whale blows and U S territory Texas. It also explains the word mess and touts Camels cigarettes as a soldiers favorite meal and a gift option for mail to servicemen.
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Post
U. S
Navy
Marines
Coast Guard
Yellowheads: the Sicily circulation stamps named on greenbacks
A note explains yellowheads as familiar greenbacks printed with a yellow seal bearing the place of circulation, issued for use in Sicily. The item clarifies the nickname and origin of the term in regional currency history.
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Sicily
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Reich
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Barbara Bell
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
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Iceseves
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Denmark
Et Soap
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BF Goodrich
Fleischman
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