Europe Food Crisis Ties to Transportation and Liberation
The piece argues hunger alone does not spark unrest in postwar Europe. It cites low calorie intake in Greece and Belgium, explains rail and bridge destruction as key disruptors, notes worse conditions after liberation, and highlights how transport and disorganization fuel famine more than direct crop destruction.
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Myron Taylor
Vatican
Italy
Europe
America
Greece
Piraeus
Athens
Rome
Marseille
Normandy
France
Rhine
Netherlands
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Holland
Germany
Foxhole University Helps Soldiers Learn While at War
The United States Armed Forces Institute USAFI supports Army Navy Coast Guard and Marine Corps personnel with self teaching courses and off duty classes. By November 1944 about 1 000 000 service members studied individually or in local groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Foxhole
Foxhole University
United States Armed Forces Institute
Far-Flong
Army
Navy
Coast Guard
Marine Corps
Pvt
Arnold Brewer
Arctic Circle
Ussaprps
William H. Lindley
Indiana University
USAFI
Salvatore J Ezzo
Philadelphia
Ezzo
Bougainville
South Pacific
Army Institute
Army and Navy
Wisconsin
Madison
War Department
Information Education Division
Army Service Forces
Navy Department
Educational Services Section
Bureau of Navy Personnel
USAFS
Ible
Hawaii
Canada
England
New Caledonia
Alaska
Egypt
Australia
India
North Africa
Panama
Armed Services
Institute
Arthur Davis
Pacific
Edward A. Wittenhauer
Wartime Anecdotes of Victory and Valor From the Skies
A collection of wartime vignettes praising air force ingenuity and bravery. Tales recount night missions using improvised bomb racks over Bataan, pilots flying with minimal sleep, the Umnak dog tree story, a pilot’s joke about the future of this racket, and RAF morale notes. Also recalls Kitty Hawk telegrams, a Flying Tigers veteran’s dogfight, and Battlin Bobbie’s long hedge-hop home despite two engines out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Air Force
Tokyo
Bataan
Air Force
Schweinfors
Bulletin Board for Juniors or Seniors Pattern 267
Feature on a versatile bulletin board for juniors or seniors with decorative trim and a ready to cut design. Includes full instructions for scallops paint formulas stencils and finishing. Pattern 267 offered to readers with 15 cents and return address details.
Barbs by Bankhage on safety razor blades and taxes
The piece notes the quarter’s safe razor blade supply, the WPB’s reassurance, and a sharp quip about big entities and government. It laments Japan’s tax focus and forecasts another farm hand-boom per the agriculture secretary, ending with a mordant remark on mortgages brightening rooms in the poorhouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of Agriculture
Returning Veterans May Get Federal Home Aid Under GI Bill
The GI Bill guarantees veterans up to 50 percent loans or a maximum $2000 for home purchase construction repair or debt payoff. A second down payment loan up to $2000 may be secured if a first mortgage is obtained. Interest limits, 20 year repayment, and income eligibility apply. About 1.4 million married veterans are expected to need housing after discharge.
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MacArthur
Manila
Bataan
Tacloban
Leyte
Batanan
Unn
Philippines
Congress
Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs
Armed Services
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WNU Service
Union Trust Building
Washington, DCc
Donald N Roberts
Coshocton
Ohio
John Alcorn
San Francisco
Anzio
Hoffman
Middle East
Cairo
Corporal Schwarz
Aleutians
Umnak National Forest
Betty Grable
RAF
Hedy Lamarr
Madeleine Carroll
Heavenly Gates
Hollywood
Hap Arnold
Wright Brothers
Kitty Hawk
Katherine
Flying Tigers
Claire Chennault
Bankhage
Stuart Chase
John Q
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
Lee Dy Pemba
U. S
Begoodrich
Grove’s
Lydia BE
Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
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