War era weapons to fight forests postwar plan
A wartime concept envisions using parachute troops, Jeeps, Halftracks, flamethrowers and bomb sighted planes to fight forest fires after the war. Paratroopers would reach fires within minutes, drop portable extinguishers, and form rapid ground air coordinated teams with Jeeps, bulldozers, and backfire tactics to control crown fires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mars
David Godwin
Forest Service
Godwin
America
Navy Mail Delivery In Pacific Fleet Grows Fast
March 1945 saw 86,132,623 pieces of letter mail pass through Fleet Post Office San Francisco to Navy Marine and Coast Guard personnel in the Pacific, more than double March 1944. The navy organizes 5000 post offices worldwide with fleet post offices on ships and bases. Sailors want local news and personal items. they reject certain foods and candy. Pack mail in strong containers with contents list and full addresses and wrap securely to survive sea travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fleet Post Office
San Francisco
Navy, Marine and
Coast Guard
Pacific
Navy
Navy Department
Washington
D. C
United States
Marine Corps
Small Fires Cause Massive Forest Loss Across Nations
The article explains how many small fires collectively cause far more damage than dramatic large fires. It notes that public carelessness causes about 80 percent of fires, with arsonists second, and that about 61,000 firefighters cover state and private lands while around 9,000 serve federal agencies. Despite efforts, annual timber loss reaches up to 800 million cubic feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest Service
Federal Land Administrative Agencies
International finance after the war and its lessons
The article argues postwar creditor nations must secure loan repayments and build markets, noting Canada and Australia replaced the U S in England’s food production, America’s role as a creditor nation, and the need for practical finance policies beyond wartime generosity. It contrasts WWI outcomes with a cautious view of postwar credit. It stresses avoiding repeats of lax collection and calling for realism to prevent “holding the bag.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Tardieu
Paris
America
France
England
Germany
Holland
Belgium
Canada
Australia
United States
Europe
Japan
Russia
Marshall Stalin
Goop bombs scorch Japan in atomic era wartime report
Washington reports reveal the goop bomb a new magnesium oil firebomb used with B 29s to scorch main Japanese cities. The heavy fire resists firefighting water and spreads in gluelike gobs, heightening belief an earlier end to the war may come.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Japan
Henry Kaiser
Kaiser
Poetic Justice and Wartime Wit Echo in Telegram Jests
A Notes of a Newspaperman digest recounts a string of wartime quips and political barbs. It recalls Goering and Dimitroff in a frame up, Churchill talks, Lord Haw Haw taunts, and a joke about a man with a moustache mirroring his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goering
Georgi Dimitroff
Dimitroff
Meyer’ Goering
Ralph Berendt
New York City
Lord Haw Haw
Bronx
Lord Hee-Haw
Tommy
Britain
Downing Street
Winnie
Berlin
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New Guinea
Africa
Italy
Chemical Warfare Service
Navy P. O
Ed Wright
A. Patterson
Western Newspaper Union
U. S
Franklin
New York
Panama Canal
Canal
OPA
Leon Henderson
Henderson
South Africa
Jan Christian Smuts
Jan Masaryk
Czechoslovakia
Glenn Taylor
Idaho
Secret Service
Eisenhower
Cernay
House
Military Affairs Committee
Stettinius
WNU
Security Conference
China
Chiang
Chungking
Joe Davies
Churchill
London-Washington
Capitol
Davies
Joe
Himmler
Tokyo
FCC
Mikadomei
Joe Stalin
Graybeard
Abraham Lincoln
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