Saipan battle broadens as U S planes, ships engage large Japanese air effort
American carriers and warships claim to have shot down about 300 Japanese planes near Saipan as forces push from a widening beachhead toward Kienne Bay. The campaign includes airstrip seizure on Saipan's southern coast and ongoing combat along a broad front, with Guam and Rota targets hit to deter shuttle landings.
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Hepdarters
Pearl Harbor
Saipan
Midway
Surge
Urs
Nimitz
Seaes
Assite
Suthern
Japan
Central Pacific
Tokyo
Finda
Kienne Bay
Guam
Mati Janas
Agingah Point
All Bran touted as a constipation remedy letter
A reader urges use of Kellogg's All Bran to ease constipation in a forthright letter. Scientists note natural fiber helps colon function, while Kellogg's All Bran is described as a regulating food, not a purgative.
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W. J. Meeetbiln
Camden
Collogu’s
Battle Creek
Tokyo Claims Capture of Changsha
Tokyo radio said Japanese Imperial headquarters announced the complete capture of Changsha and Liling, with Changsha’s suburban defenses breached by over 50,000 troops and radio contact broken. An American communique reported continued air attacks on the Changsha area with “excellent results” as Chinese forces defend the city. Chinese spokesmen say the Hunan thrust aims to split China and thwart Allied invasions from eastern China.
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Huban
Tokyo Radio
Liling
Oday
14Th Ammerican
Chihbexe
Hunan
Chin
Japan
China
Rev Ira L True Attends Nazarene Assembly in Minneapolis
The Rev Ira L True Sr superintendent of missionary work for the Nazarene church in the San Antonio Monterrey district attends the ill Nazarene quadtennial Assembly in Minneapolis. He resides at 731 Peck Avenue.
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MEET
Ira L. True Sr
The
Nazarene Church
San Antonio-Monterrey
Ill Nazarene
Minneapolis
Peck Avenue
Loss of U S Sub Reported Grayback Missing
The navy announced the loss of submarine Grayback, a 145 ton submersible with a crew of five officers and men. Its captain, Commander John Anderson Moore, 34, of Brownwood Texas, is listed as missing. Moore's wife resides in Memphis Tennessee. Grayback’s loss raises American submarines missing since December 7 1943 to 24, with two sunk in the Atlantic during training and one destroyed to prevent capture. The subs have sunk 67 Japanese ships.
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Washington
Navy
John Anderson Moore
Brownwood
Texas
Aghlon
Moore
Virginia
Memphis
Tenn
Atlantic Ocean
U S Artillery Uses Propaganda Leaflets in Normandy
A CBS report from New York states American artillery on the Normandy front shifted batteries to leaflet drops over Nazi lines. The leaflets urged surrender and promised safe treatment, reflecting a change from combat role to psychological warfare during the campaign.
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New York
Uns
Normandy
CBS
Allied Drive To Clear India Gains
Allied drive in Asia reports parallel columns of Imperial troops advancing from Kohima toward Imphal, a record 17 miles in one day as part of the India-Burma front. New York dispatch notes 10,000 Japanese killed on the Imphal front. 3,500 in this sector reported by headquarters. Chinese communique says Gurkha and Kachin forces seized Tiangzup, 40 miles north of Myitkyina, amid ongoing Mogoung valley operations and Chindit pressure around Mogatng.
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Kandy
Ceylon
Louth
Kohima
Impka
New York
Imphal
India
Chungeing
Tiangzup
Myitkyina
The
Fort Beers
Burma
Asia
Mogoung
Kamaung
A. Lentaigne
Chindit
Mogatng
Airport Service Franchise Sought By Drought and Taylor
Frank T. Drought and Deal Taylor seek city council approval Thursday to operate three station wagons linking the Municipal airport with 108 Dwyer avenue. A $30 check and $5000 bond were filed Tuesday. offices are at 302 Frost Bank Building. If denied, they may appeal to the Texas Railroad Commission.
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Frank T. Drought
Deal Taylor
Drought
Dwyer Avenue
Frost Bank
Texas Railroad Commission
Flier on 50 Missions Melvin W Naylor Home on Leave
First Lieutenant Melvin W Naylor son of Mr and Mrs Joe Naylor of 1080 Rigsby Avenue is home on leave after a year in the European theater as navigator on a Liberator with the Eighth Air Force. He flew 560 combat missions including derate raids on German strongholds and served from England and Italy earning the Air Medal and four Oak Leaf Clusters. Naylor, a Brackenridge High School graduate, attended San Antonio University and joined the 36th Infantry at Camp Bowie in 1940. He later transferred to the air arms and received navigator wings at Selman Field Monroe Louisiana by April 1943.
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Melvin W. Naylor
Joe 0. Naylor
Rigsby Avenue
Yanks advance in New Guinea reach near Philippines
Fifth Army force advances into contested Bougainville area 880 miles from the Philippines. Airfields on Owl Island and Mokmer airstrip captured, with Allied planes using both. In Biak, Mokmer and Borokog air strips secured, Yanks push toward enemy bases as Liberators bomb Truk and Carolines. 165 Japanese killed on Saturday, total 1820 since Biak invasion. Myon Taylor returns to Rome as Roosevelt's Vatican envoy.
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New Guinea
Fifth Army
Asi
Bouten Islands
Owl Island
Biak
Mekmer
Dutch New Guinea
Mokmer
Borokog
Sorida
Netherlands Fast, Indies Army
13Th Air Force
Truk
Carolines
Endurance Flier Killed in Crash El Paso
Endurance pilot Captain Forrest E. O Brine died when his two engine A 26 crashed on takeoff at El Paso Municipal Airport. O Brine and Dale Jackson had set a world endurance record in 1930 and earlier flights shattered the Question Mark record by Maj Carl Spaatz and Capt Eaker. Jackson was killed January 6, 1932, in Miami Florida.
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Mediterranean
Forrest E. O'Brine
Dale Jackson
O'Brine
Army
Chicago Southern Airlines
Jackson
St. Laws
Miami
Fla. Ak
Carl Spaatz
Spaatz
United States
Strat Vegie
Europe
Capltra
Eaker
Allied Air
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