RAF Pounds Rail Centers In Belgium
RAF and US air forces struck rail centers across Belgium and northern France, targeting Louvain Hasselt Tourcoing and other railway hubs. British bombers faced losses while American Thunderbolts and fighters destroyed hundreds of enemy aircraft and damaged several Nazi synthetic plants in a large daylight and night campaign.
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UPI
RL Alf
Europe
Thunderbolts
R.A. F
L Leuvain
Wiissels
Hasselt
Louvain
U. S. Ninth Air. Force
R.A. PL
U. S
Strategic Air Force
A and M Board Faces Student Demonstrations at Meeting
TEXAS A and M college directors meet in College Station to address discipline for about 2000 students after 148 hours of protests. The board eyed a new president as it planned to hear student leaders and consider five demands including access privileges, demerit reforms, walk off reductions, cadet corps representation on the faculty executive committee, and a faculty statement.
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College Station
Texas A. and
M. College
Byron Winstead
A and M Board to meet students over campus protests
F M Law of Houston said the A and M board would grant an audience to six college students amid student body protests after a large demonstration by about 1000 students and the band. Fernando Gonzales, a Nicaragua senior agriculture student, sought the meeting to present facts. The discipline committee earlier acted on a case tied to hazing, suspending a cadet captain who was relieved of duties and moved from the freshman dormitory, with a six week campus exclusion.
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F. M. Law
Fernando Gonzales
Nicaragua
Pont
Ccollege
Avr
Gonzales
New U S Shift Elevates Rome Target in Italian War
Washington reports a strategic drift toward Rome as a major objective. General Clark’s secret U S contacts with President Roosevelt are cited as signaling the change, with Alexander given added forces to press a sustained break through. The Italy campaign’s course is described as swinging from Sicily gains toward a Rome breakthrough.
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Italy
Rome
Clark
Fifth Army
Roosevelt
Sicily
Mediterranean
Tlali
Germany
Alexander
United States
Mr. Roosevelt
South Carolina
Marshall
Pilot Rankin declines claim for extra Nazi kills in raid
At a Thunderbolt base in England Lieut. Robert Rankin of Washington DC shot down five Nazi planes north of Frankfurt in 45 minutes. He refused to claim three more downed aircraft, camera proof showing five kills and leaving his total at nine in a single air campaign.
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England
Robert Rankin
Washington, D. C
Thunderbolt
Germany
Rankin
Frankfort
Liew
Carl J. Luksic
Joliet
Til
Robert E. Woody
Roanoke
Jap Drive Threatens Chungking in China Offensive
Japan's large scale assault in China threatens Chungking with multiple offensives near Loyang Tein HiteEns junction and Sunghsten while pushing toward the Yellow River. Allies widen Pacific air pressure with strikes on Truk and Palau as Kurile readiness grows.
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Maceimeg
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China
Chungking
Loyang
Frm
Nort Honan
Sunghsten
Chungkking
Yellow River
Aleutians
Tokyo
Kurile Islands
Pacific
MacArthur
Southwest Pacific
Nimitz
Central Pacific
Truk
Palau
Nazi E-Boat Force Engaged in Channel
In a May 13 1941 admiralty report a strong German E boat group in the English Channel southeast of the Isle of Wight was scattered by the destroyer La Combattante after a swan battle in which one E boat was sunk and another damaged. British light naval forces carried out offensive sweeps off the French coast and attacked a small German convoy burning two enemy vessels and damaging two others. all British vessels returned safely.
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London
English Channel
Isle of ‘Wisnt
Final Homage Paid Ellis Final Homage Paid Ellis
City Detective Mike Ellis 27 died Thursday after being wounded by shots fired by Mack 3B Newton. Hundreds attended the 9 a m service at his home 15 Hoefgen avenue and at St Geralds church with burial at San Fernando Cemetery No 2. Guard details and motorcycle division escorted the funeral. pallbearers and honorary pallbearers listed.
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Mike Ellis
Santa Rosa Hospital
Fred
Mack
Newton
Hoefgen Avenue
James Sullivan
St. Gerard's Church
San Fernando Cemetery
Castroville
Guard of Honor
Sgls
Burge Long
Chester Barrera
Joe Hester
Frank Vallard
Carl Heinrich
B. Gant
Gus B . Mauvermann
PF. L. Anderson
Henry Hein
Alfred Callaghan
Paul Steffler
Fragments Hit Train Wounding Two Kitchen Staff
Mortar fragments struck a Southern Pacific daylight Limited train near an army camp in Santa Maria California injuring two dining car workers. Verti B. Logan of Los Angeles suffered limb injuries necessitating amputation and Mrs Alice Jones sustained facial and other injuries as investigators probe the blast.
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Santa Maria
Calif
Southern Pacific
Verti B. Logan
Los Angeles
Alice Jones
Stilwell Opens Major Drive Against Japanese Bases in Burma
Southeast Asia headquarters reports Stilwell's Chinese forces launched a major Burma offensive along a two mile front against Kamaung Mogaung and Myitkyina. Tanks dive bombers and artillery supported the advance south of Malakawng on the Kwelon river and west of the Mogaung River. Japanese anti-tank guns were knocked out early. Advance columns held Manpin east of the Mogaung river and 10 miles above Kamaing repulsing an attack with casualties including two Japanese commanders. A force moving on Myitkyina from the north penetrated defenses near Tsangsup about 40 miles north of Myitkyina. Progress by another Chinese column was reported in the Mogaung area.
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Southeast Asia
Kanay
Ceylon
Stilwell
Burma
Kamaung
Mogaung
Myitkyina
Malakawng
Kwelon River
Mogaung River
Manpin
Kamaing
Tsangsup
Yugoslav Partisans Open All-Out Offensive in Allied Push
Yugoslav authorities announced that Tito's Partisan forces have launched a full offensive as part of the Allied drive against Hitler's fortress. Troops of the army of liberation reportedly attacked the Vardar and Ibar valleys, key escape routes for German forces in Greece. Greek patriots were also said to harass four German divisions in Greece and on the Italian front.
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Naples
Tito
Hitler
Army of Liberation
Vardar
Ibar
Greece
Aiia
Italy
Allies Break Gustav Line Push Near Cassino In Italy
Allied headquarters report US and French troops crossed the Rapido river and formed a bridgehead as they pressed gains across the Gustav line. Advances ranged from one to three miles with captures including Monte Falla and Ventosa. Northern French forces seized the Monte Falla crest while Italian front battles raged around Castelforte and San Sebastiano.
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Naplfs
Gustav Line
Italy
Eighth Army
Cassino
Rapido River
Massino
Ventosa
Abatares
Cercobi
Diamane Hill
Garigliano
Tyrrhenian
Monte Falla
San Antonio Weather Forecast Faces Cloudy Weekend
Forecast for San Antonio and vicinity calls for a cloudy Saturday night and Sunday with a high chance of showers. Temperature changes expected with a low Saturday night around 64 degrees Fahrenheit.
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San Antonio
Mustangs Set U S Cross Country Record in Six Hours Two
NEW YORK May 13 A P51 Mustang flown by Col Clair Peterson Fargo New Jersey set a cross country speed record from Los Angeles to New York arriving eight minutes ahead of Lieut Col Jack H Carter of Pasadena Calif whose Mustang clocked 6 hours 39 minutes 30 seconds. Peterson averaged about 38 mph for the 2470 mile flight while Carter averaged 370 mph for 2464 miles. Both planes were stock models from the production line and broke the previous record held by Howard Hughes in a Lockheed Constellation which flew Burbank to Washington in 4 hours 58 minutes. Peterson is personal pilot for Gen Henry H Arnold.
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Fihows
Col
Clair Peterson
Fargo
N.J
Peterson
Los Angeles
Guardia Field
Whiely
Jack H. Carter
Pasadena
Calif
Roward Hughes
Lockheed Constellation
Hughes
Burbank
Washington, D. C
Henry HB
Arnold
Army Air Forces
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Kaw
Carter
Kew
Railea
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RED Cross Blood Bank
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