U. S. Air Power Expands Across Fronts World War II
Reports from London and other theaters detail American air strength. Six U.S. bombers attacked Nazi Europe, while Capt. Charles C. Kegelman of El Reno Oklahoma earned the Distinguished Service Cross. U S forces in China shot down five Japanese planes in Hengyang and Allied planes hit invasion bases in New Guinea. FBI arrests of Nazi saboteurs and Panama Zone arrests follow. A Chilean navy probe signals potential Pacific disruptions to shipping.
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America
London
United States Army Air Force
Europe
Holland
Charles C. Kegelman
el Reno
Okla
Dwight D. Eisenhower
U. S
European
Kegelman
AEF
U.S. Army Air Force
China
Hengyang
Claire L
General MacArthur
Central
Salamaua
Lae
New Guinea
United Nations
FBI
U. S. Army
Panama Canal Zone
Caribbean
Panama
British Honduras
Canal Zone
Washington
Atlantic
Santiago
Chile
Chilean
Ministry of the Navy
Pan-American Grace Airways
Pacific
Roosevelt
Churchill
Collier’s
George T. Renner
Columbia University
Europe Into 40 Political Units. Dr. Renner
Portugal
Russia
Vladivostok
Constantinople
Turkey
Wilson
Sevastopol Fall and North Africa Clash in World War II News
The Sevastopol defense ended as Nazi forces captured the Crimean base opening a hinge toward the Caucasus oil fields while Soviet Marshal Timoshenko pressed the Kharkov front. British Eighth Army repelled Rommel with a record aerial assault near El Alamein as Suez resistance stiffened and Cairo faced blackout.
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Suez
Egypt
Britain
Eighth Army
Erwin Rommel
Alexandria
Cairo
Middle East
el Alamein
Rommel
Suez Canal
Mustapha Nahas Pasha
FREEDOM AND WAR AGENDA PREDICTS POSTWAR WORLD SHAPE
A collection of news briefs discusses US policy on Puerto Rico freedom war work car purchase by Edsel Ford, French Guiana military prep, a planned July White House wedding of Harry Hopkins and Louise Macy, and AFL CIO labor guidance. It also covers air power importance per Seversky, postwar world questions, and feeding the world after victory.
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Puerto Rico
Mount Clemens
Mich
Edsel Ford
Ford Motor Company
French Guiana
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Roosevelt
Harry Hopkins
Louise Macy
White House
Eleanor Roosevelt
Washington
Brehon B. Somervell
Army
AFL
CIO
Detroit
Union of
The
United States of America
ERSATZ RUBBER: Costs Drop in Synthetic Plant Plan
Government program to produce synthetic rubber at 800000 tons per year will not exhaust the $650000000 appropriated. Officials report production costs are lower than first estimated as two major plants begin operation under Arthur B. Newhall, rubber coordinator.
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Arthur B. Newhall
Congress
High Octane Gas Key to Raids and War Efforts
The piece credits Ed Stettinius Jr. with pushing synthetic rubber and high octane gasoline production vital to bombing missions. It notes U S prisoners in Bataan and Red Cross access in Manila, plus a pipeline decision spurred by Secretary Ickes and Somervell’s dismissal of oil fears. Capitol talk covers war savings and Knudsen’s plant inspections.
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Ickes
White House
Washington, D. C
Bremen
Cologne
Essen
Ed Stettinius Jr
Stettinius
Aluminum Corporation of America
Singapore
Jesse Jones
Jesse
England
Germany
U. S
Bataan
Jack Dempsey
Red Cross
Manila
Corregidor
Tokyo
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Japan
China
Middle West
War Production Board
Gulf of Mexico
Middle Atlantic
Brehon Somervell
Army
Somervell
Capitol
Congress
Morgenthau
OPM
William Knudsen
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Black Sea
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Hitler
Caucasus
Khar
Semeon Timoshenko
Moscow
Kursk-Kharkov
Aleutian
Kiska
Agattu
Agatta Island
Freedom
Interior
Harold Ickes
Alexander P. de Seversky
Seversky
William B. Ziff
Norway
Midway
Henry J. Reilly
Wythe Williams
Greee
Republican Party
British Empire
Italy
United States
Asia
Americas
Senter
Townsend Club
Ergbererglen
Tate
Peter
C.a.wood Preserver CO
ST. Louis
Mo. Steel & Wire Co
N. Broadway
DE Schulte
E. Holly
Wolly
St Louis, Me
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C. M. Coe
Pine St
St. Louis, Mo
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Pinkham
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