Jap Destroyer Force Appears Off New Guinea
Allied HQ in Australia reports Japanese destroyers have appeared off Buna on the Northeast New Guinea coast as Australians and Americans advance in a pincer. Eight destroyers in two groups maneuver near the coast, while Allied bombers press attacks on Buna Lae Salamaua and Gasmata airfields and targets in Portuguese Timor.
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Australia
UPA
New Guinea
Buna
High Command
Opon
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Lae
North New Guinea
Salamaua
Gasmata
New Britain
Rabaul
Portuguese Timor
Baucau
Macbisse
Icebergs and Killer Whales Threaten Life Boats
Baltimore reports survivor Bart Anderson describes a convoy to Russia where his ship was sunk by Nazi bombs near the Arctic. Lifeboats faced freezing temperatures as icebergs loomed and killer whales chased the vessels for two days, adding peril to rescue efforts and survival.
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Baltimore
Arctic Circle
Bart Anderson
Negro
Russia
Anderson
Duck soup on voyage to island amid war and flood
Aboard a life threatening journey the crew improvise to feed on ducks after ducking from seals near the lifeboats. They reach an island with thousands of wild ducks and a fresh water spring. Anderson spends weeks hospitalized after exposure and a bombing blast near his hospital. His family remains at home. Milk production in the United States totals 51 billion quarts with butter and fluid milk leading uses.
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Anderson
United States
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