Letter Writing for Soldiers Morale from Home
Kathleen Norris urges concise home letters to military personnel, advising regular brief updates. She cites vivid home scenes, clipping items, and small gifts as morale boosters, with anecdotes of families sending bound comics and birthday jingles to faraway sons.
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Kathleen Norris
Foreign Service
Air
Ringo
Sis
Roger
Carrie
Mama
George
Davis
America
Kate
Tom
Another Chennault Leads Aleutian Flyers
In the fog shrouded Aleutians American air force men bombard Kiska the main Japanese stronghold daily. Morale stays high under Lieut. Col. John Chennault son of Brig. Gen. Claire Chennault, following in his father’s air campaign legacy. A bomber pilot and navigator observe raid progress as a Zero is knocked off.
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Aleutians
Alaska
Japan
Kiska
John Chennault
Claire L. Chennault
U. S
China
Col. Chennault
Colleges and football in wartime shift under war department
Inside sources in the war department predict 1943 will see over 200 to 300 colleges reorganized for war training. About 300,000 two draft age youths will enter ROTC for officer training, especially in the flying corps, with 70,000 new pilots eyed. After 1942 college leadership yields to the war department’s program.
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War Department
Flying Corps
Football as war training and outside competition 1943
The author argues 1943 football should be a broad training program not intramural. He cites Gen MacArthur and Capt Moran, urges near travel outside competition, favoring regional matchups over national titles, and warns against abolishing football as war service continues.
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Douglas MacArthur
Mike Moran
Boise
War Department
Washington
Baseball chiefs regain momentum for 1943 season
Major league moguls, after talks with Judge Landis and Joseph Eastman, settle on a spring training plan and an April 21 opener. Training camps set north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi, with Missouri’s Browns and Cardinals options. several clubs eye Indiana or Ohio sites for workouts and exhibitions.
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K. M. Landis
Joseph Eastman
Office of Defense Transportation
Landis
Anapimtos
Dber
Arso
Ohio
Potomac Rivers
Mississippi River
St. Louis
Browns
Cardinals
Missouri
Washington
Chicago
Eastman
Chicago Cubs
White Sox
French Lick
Ind
Boston Red Sox
Tufts College
Mexican figure stamping inspires home crafts display
Mrs Spears reports sending for a stamping pattern of Mexican figures and using it for tea towels pot holders and curtains for her granddaughter. Her husband fashioned racks and a triangle corner shelf with painted scallops and towel rod.
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Vicki VapoRub
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Housewives
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