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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1942
Page
6
Police arrested an Army deserter suspect after a late Friday detainment for vagrancy. Records show the man deserted in 1930 and lacked a draft registration card. Military police are handling the case as investigators verify identity and service details.
Pierre J. Huss reports from New York on renewed German fortifications in France as Adolf Hitler strengthens defenses amid a grueling Russian campaign and increasing Allied pressure. The exclusive INS dispatch notes mounting U-boat and air activity and hints at soon intensified Allied operations against German positions in Western Europe.
A historical note describes Nazi plans to rebuild strongholds along the old Hindenburg line and even Maginot style fortifications inside Germany. It recalls parallels with World War I trench warfare and hints at the peril of waging war on home soil, while noting classified ads continue in local papers.
An adrift report says Japanese forces probed Madagascar with a dawn May 21 raid, damaging the British battleship Queen Elizabeth and light cruiser Arethusa near Diego Suarez. British patrols claimed sighting two Japanese officers nearby, later shot, with no independent confirmation of further damage.
London June. The Royal Air Force abandoned night raids on Germany for the first time this month and attacked Dieppe in France and airfields in Nazi occupied Holland instead. The Air Ministry said no aircraft were missing. The Dieppe raid marked the second such attack in two nights, with weather cited as the reason for the change in strategy.
London reports U S Army officers mess testing American dishes with a mix of English cooks led by an Australian. Concoctions include peanut butter soup fried carrots and peanut butter cream of celery soup ham with dried onion sprinkles and ham slices with syrup. The trial aims to capture authentic flavors despite limited supplies.
Urgent call from the Third Intercepter command for 65 women aged 18 to 40 to join the air craft warning service. Training centers will open as enlistments meet quotas to replace deployed volunteers. Central defense needs 500 trained women plus reserves, amid 24 hour alert following Lieut. Gen. Walter Krueger’s border and coast order.
Ten million Amperteans register for service in the army. British after many attacks on German positions retake ground near Lens. German planes bomb Essex and Kent. Will warns Vichy government against collaboration with the Axis. Germans stream into Syria by air. French planes cross into Syria and bomb Amman.
Veterans of Foreign Wars plan a closed session at the Elks Club at 2 p m Sunday to discuss introducing a new government hospital in the San Antonio area. Local VFW members say overcrowding exists at hospitals in Leginn Waco and Dajtas and will present a resolution at the department encampment in Harlin gm in June 2024. The morning session on Sunday will be open to the public with a planned sequence of speeches.
General Edwards, a 47 year old veteran, has been appointed assistant chief of staff in charge of organization and training at the War Department in Washington. The move highlights the army’s continuing emphasis on air power and staff modernization. Edwards has a long record from Rockwell Field to Love Field and the Philippines, with posts at Middletown Air Depot and other commands shaping early air force development.
The officer served as executive officer at March Field California from 1927 to 1930. He graduated from the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field Alabama in 1931 and returned to Washington for two years in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of War for Air. He attended the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth Kansas in 1935, served a tour in Hawaii, and attended the War College in 1937. He then was on duty with the War Department General Staff before arriving at Randolph Field late in 1940.
A wartime analysis notes Adolf Hitler strengthens lines from the Hindenburg to the Siegfried areas as a defense rather than offense. It argues new fortifications along the Channel and Belgian coast aim to deter Allied land attacks, while preserving options to threaten Russia or Britain and possibly force a Western counteroffensive.
A misprinted notice reports tile shortages will likely eliminate dog food coffee and candy in Canada. Pork and beats will not be canned. One manufacturer claims a new package will solve the problem and restore supplies.
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