Red Pilots Take 5,000 Air Street Cars Over Arctic
Russian pilots ferrying crews report delivery of nearly 5,000 American planes since September 1942. Brig. Gen. Bob Nowland outlines new routes Snowball and Crescent, a high-speed China Burma India line, and Arctic Russia ferrying beginning Sept. 3 1942.
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Arctic
Paul Mason
Associated Press
Cincinnati
Dnvision
Air Transport Command
Bob
Cq) E. Nowland
North Atlantic
England
Miami
Fla
India
Newland
Wilmington
Wel
China-Burma-India
Taj Mahal
Russia
Edmund J. Avermat Jr
Pittsburgh
Fairbanks
Alaska
Rose Funeral Services for Clarence Rose
Funeral services for Clarence Rose 59 of Daniels are set for 2 p m at Shady Spring Community Church with burial in Camp Creek cemetery. He died from a self inflicted shotgun wound after two years of ill health. Surviving spouse, seven children in Baltimore and Daniels, several sisters and brothers. Also notes G M Gilbert injured in Saturday auto wreck on Hinton road has returned home to W A Warden at 112 Mason street after hospital care.
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Clarence Rose
Daniels
Shady Spring
iCamp Creek
Bethlehem Steel Company
Baltimore
Maryland
Loita Moye Rose
Fimer Jackson
Charles White
Hallie Versmo
Clifford Rose
Pavia i Rose
Leslie Rose
Wille Rose
U. S
Amy
Maine
John Helm
Lawrence Maxie
Lola Rose
Camp Creek
A. Ledohnson
Montcalm
Eva Rose
Huntington
Mr. Rose
Princetton
Robert Rose
Hewitt
G. M. Gilbert
Hinton Road
W. A. Warden
Mason Street
Huntington Hospital
Navy says 65,000 ships built in five years
Navy Secretary Forrestal said the United States built 65,000 vessels of all types in the last five years, totaling about 9,000,000 tons. Warships account for 36 percent, landing craft 22 percent, with auxiliaries and other vessels making up the rest. About 1,150 fighting ships exist now, a threefold increase from prewar totals of 383.
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Associated Press
Washington
Navy
Forrestal
United States
New Church Opens at Pine Grove with Revival Plans
Patrick leads effort to complete a cinder block church near Pine Grove with a bell donated by John Carr. Seating for 250, three lots for parking, electric lights due soon, revival services to start in Live weeks, and Denominations to share Sundays. Beckley quartet to sing. piano not yet available. Patrick, born in Dothan, Fayette County, now resides on Third Street in Beckley and helped erect the building.
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John Carr
Fartey
Patrick
Beckley
Juanita Smith
Anne Propps
Imogene Warley
Chris Corsone
Berkley
Pine Grove
Dothan
Fayette County
Soldier In France Marries Girl In Oklahoma By Mail
Tulsa reports a GI abroad and a Oklahoma girl wed via mail, a legal first and likely a pattern as Oklahoma laws recognize marriage by agreement without cohabitation. Attorneys say contract marriages are valid in Oklahoma by common-law precedent, potentially shaping wartime nuptials nationwide.
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France
Oklahoma
Associated Press
Tulsa
Okla
Oakland
Calif
Gretna Green
U. S
Army
Navy
GI Joe
War Department
National Association of Legal Aid Committees
Supreme Court
Okahoma
Lilly Killed in France as Gypsy Division Soldier
Staff Sergeant Lionel E. Lilly, 31, son of Mrs. Fred Lilly of Fast Beckley, was killed in France on July 29. He led a machine gun squad in the Gypsy Division, a famed U.S. Army unit. Lilly, a Woodrow Wilson High School graduate, joined the Army in 1940, trained at Fort Custer, served at Camp Grant, Iceland, England, Northern Ireland, then France. He had also escorted new recruits and helped build bases abroad.
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Lionel E. Lilly
Fred Lilly
Fast Beckley
France
Lon
Gram
War Department
Lilly
Infantry
U.S. Army
Woodrow Wilson High School
Army
Fort Custer
Michigan
Camp Grant
Illinois
Iceland
Heent
England
Northern Ireland
Potigny and Poh-Teend Harmonic Pronunciations Noted
Regional linguistic notes describe Potigny as a city south of Warsaw and Caen in Poland with the French phonetic guide RAH-1 and Poh-Teen dohm for local readers.
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Radom
Warsaw
Potigny
Caen
Poland
France
Earning New Friends Through Wartime Home Front Service
People describe cooperative effort during the war to maximize scarce resources while maintaining quality and service. The narrator notes building a lasting tradition of support and pride in community work and civilian contributions to the war effort.
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Tony Spano
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Leslie
Milwaukee
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Rose
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