Allied French Underground Wins Arms Support in Liberation Efforts
Washington diary recounts the French underground’s bite and courage with 250000 fighters ready to deploy arms to France. It details sabotage successes like destroying a key dam and halting a German train, plus plans for a provisional French government under Allied guidance.
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French National Committee of Liberation
Provisional Assembly
France
Algiers
Fresch
Africa
Generous Treatment of Axis Prisoners in U S Improves Conditions
Article outlines how U S POW camps treat Axis prisoners and how this aligns with Geneva conventions. It cites Major General Allen W. Gullion on prisoner care, reciprocity with German camps, and the impact on American POWs abroad. Details include numbers of prisoners by nationality, escape recaptures, and use of prisoners in labor such as logging, pulpwood, road work, and laundries.
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U.S
Geneva
Allen W. Gullion
International Red Cross
Gullion
el Paso
Lordsburg
N. M
Crossville
Tenn
United States
Japan
MacArthur
Gulliqn
4 H club members reach 1.7 million nationwide
Baukhage notes 1 700 000 rural 4 H club members ages 10 to 21 across all counties in the United States including Alaska Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The War Department says US Army Air Forces destroyed 40 percent of Germanys fighter plane production. Prewar domestic ice refrigerator production will not resume soon due to long change over. Civilians will see more frozen vegetables in the next five months from expected record production.
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Europe
United States
Africa
Sicily
Italy
Alaska
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
War Department
Army Air Forces
Germany
WPB
U S
Yanks Blaze Kwajalein Holes In Pacific Invasion Tales
Col Sybil E Faine recalls Seventh Division doughboys who captured Kwajalein and other Kwajalein atoll islands. Japs hid in hundreds of shell craters. Americans blasted holes, used grenades and flamethrowers to clear pillboxes, with engineers using 400 tons of dynamite.
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Seventh Division
Leader of Italian War Prisoners Inducted by U S Army Veteran Pellegrino
Joseph Pellegrino of Passaic, New Jersey, led an improvised orchestra of Italian war prisoners in Bizerte Tunisia after being drafted into the Italian army during World War I era. He was captured by American forces in North Africa and later accepted for induction into the U S Army.
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Bizerte
Tunisia
Joseph Pellegrino
Passaic
W. J
United States
Italy
Pellegrino
U. S
Superman origins and rise from rejected strip to syndication
The tale traces a comic strip creator mocked by an editor and boss, then rejected by syndicates, but finally reaching fame as Superman. It notes his wartime service, postwar career as an arranger, and later success in newspapers, radio, and gadget ads amid a nostalgic era of popular culture.
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New York
OWI
Pim
M.e
Your Old Woolens Go Into New Rugs
An advertisement urges readers to repurpose worn woolen garments into hooked rugs. It notes scraps from coats dresses and trousers can be transformed into attractive rugs and mentions BOOK 10 with additional project directions and patterns.
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Mark Twain
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Louis Nizer
H. Whitman
Jack Frost
A. Lincoln
Richard Todd
Lincoln
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Chennault
Tokio
One- Eyed Connolly
Chicago
One-Eyed Connolly
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
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Holland
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