Pacific Fleet planes battle hot sectors over Japan
Pacific Fleet search planes fly dangerous missions in hot sectors around Japan to guard enemy island neutralization, support air sea rescues, and bombard shipping and coast defenses. Crews endure daily patrols and near misses as they press toward Tokyo area targets.
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Robbin Coons
Lisub
R. C
Baz
San Antonio
Fexas
Honshu
Moore
Couip
Pacific
Robert A. Evans
Seattle
Waal
Llewt Comdr
Walter
Michaels
Salq Evans
Calif
Howe
Tokyo
Dnp
Yokohama
Michael
Bvana
Liice
Zobe
Tir
Vets Face No Reinduction Policy Announcement
Washington reports that veterans with long honorable service are not to be re inducted under the selective service rules. War Department clarifies that honorably discharged officers remain inactive for war duration plus six tenths and subject to conditions, while those with other than honorable discharges face reinduction only if waived or allowed by original action. Enlisted personnel discharged under readjustment rules are precluded from reinduction unless they volunteer.
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Washington
War Department
War Departmental
Army
Rick's Air Line Profit Up 95 Pct
Eastern Air Lines reported a 2 percent increase in profit for the first half of the year over 1944. Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker announced net earnings of $856,757.03, or $1.44 a share, for six months, versus $434,413.15 or 73 cents a share in the same period last year.
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Abw
York
Eastern Air Lines, Incorporated
Eddie Rickenbacker
Fall Causes Head Injuries in Robey Green Hospital
Eapnant A Santth, 54, of 432 Hays Street, was in Robey Green hospital Monday after slipping on Sunday night and striking his head on the curb.
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Eapnant A. Santth
Hays Street
Robey B. Green Hospital
At Your Service questions on service benefits and coasted effects
A long reader Q and A column covers next of kin rights to personal effects from a soldier killed in action, Navy awards eligibility, and dependency reporting. It outlines Army Effects Bureau contact in Kansas City, and explains entitlements for medical care, pensions, family allowances, and how to apply. It also notes Navy prenatal care continuation, WP patrol vessels, and when survivor benefits become effective.
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Mia
Bucean
Kansas City
Neopet
Pext-Of-Kin
Servicgman
Army Effects Bureau
Navy
R. B.S
Maritime Commission
Office of Dependency Benefits
Lea
San Antonio
Light
Irving Street
Washington
D. C
Germany
Veterans’ Administration
Grateful Nation Showers Hero Limbless Vet
Mas ter Sergeant Frederic Hensel, wounded in action, received over 60000 in donations from Michigan Illinois and Kentucky contributors. The presenting ceremony at Percy Dones General Hospital marked his third wedding anniversary and supported plans for life after service on a Kentucky farm. Gifts totaled across multiple outlets, with funds from Detroit Free Press Chicago Herald American and others.
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Battie Creek
Mich
Frederic Hensel
Michigan
Illinois
Kentucky
Hensel
Percy Dones
General Hospital
Threlly
Detroit Free Press
Chicago Herald
Louisville
Sportsman
Morose Nazi Ex Leaders Await Trials
Morose former Nazi leaders sit in Nuernberg jail awaiting war crimes trials. Goering Ribbentrop and others are held under guard of U S Army at a Luxembourg transfer site. Trials set for the palace of justice with expanded seating for spectators. Simpler note on calf brains follows.
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Aushnelig
Nuernberg
Loainy
Pats
Palace of Justice
General Clark urges ban on Hitlerites at Salzburg festival
Gen Clark told Russian people he hoped they would cast out the Hitler servants as a wicked minority. He spoke at the opening revival of the Salzburg festival, banned since 1937, as American representative on the Allied control commission for Austria.
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Clark
Salzburg
Hiter
A Ned. Control Commission
Anstyia
Norte
Truman Honors Byrnes With Distinguished Service Medal
President Truman awarded Secretary of State Byrnes the Distinguished Service Medal in a brief White House ceremony in the south garden. The citation praised Byrnes for vast understanding, exceptional ability as an arbiter, devotion to national interests, and unyielding determination, noting his major contribution to the war effort over more than two years as director of war mobilization.
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Truman
Byrnes
DSM
Washington, Ave. 13
CINB
White House
Byres
Atomic bomb ends war glamour for soldiers
A war correspondent writes that the atomic bomb destroys the myth of glamorous warfare. It shifts combat from battlefield heroism to laboratory power, revealing mass destruction and challenging notions of courage, chivalry, and survival as nations face unprecedented devastation yet to come.
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MacArthur
Arthur Glamorout
Bathie
Fire Chief Warns Of Fuse Tampering
Fire Chief M. J. Butler warned residents to avoid tampering with electric fuse boxes after a new fire damaged the home of Max Martines at 2601 Sandera Avenue, causing about 150 dollars in damages when a fuse box shorted. Butler noted that many offenders are those who can afford to replace burned fuses, while poorer residents are not targeted.
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M. J. Butler
Max Martines
Sandera Avenas
I. Butler
Balete Pass Monument Honors Dead
Balete Pass in Luzon Aug 13 General Walter Krueger unveiled a monument honoring 25th Division soldiers who died in the Caraballo mountains and the Jagayan valley campaign for the gateway to the last Jap stronghold. He said their sacrifice should spur renewed devotion to victory. The inscription notes 1403 Japanese killed in taking the pass.
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Luzon
Walter Krueger
Agmng
Balete Pass
Caraballo Mountain Yaule
Jagayan Valley
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