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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1944
Page
6
A meeting of orientation officers and regional service leaders will be held at Eagle Pass Lammy air field on Friday and Saturday. The event aims to align wartime planning and regional operations with local defense officials.
London dispatch reports public telephone service between Britain and parts of Italy, cut last April to prevent leakage of glass information, has been resumed today. The restart marks a return to normal communications after the earlier disruption.
Morris Apter, a merchant mariner, reports U S troops on Saipan battling cave defenses. He recalls captured Koreans and Chamorros pressed into cleanup and labor, observations of young Japanese youths resisting Americans, and a surrendered Japanese holding grenades. He mentions Koreans and Chamorros aiding U S forces amid the fighting.
S A Ganner, a 20 year old air gunner from Base, credited with shooting down two enemy fighters over Germany on a Liberator mission. He flew 39 combat missions and participated in a three plane formation where one plane opened fire and exploded, another damaged, and a third smoked.
Ten Cuban army officers toured Randolph's Central Flying training command and the Central Instructors school on Wednesday. The group included Col. Regstio Lopez commander of the Second Cavalry, Lt Col. Rene Acatt executive officer of artillery, Lt Col. Fernando Aaleedo inspector Cuban army reception center, and Capt. Carlos Pascual patrol leader of a Cuban pursuit squadron. MARINER PRAISED The marines deserve praise for the Saipan operation. M4 was among the toughest of the South Pacific with Apter overseas two months. He was discharged from the navy in 1943 and joined the merchant moving service. He previously worked in Light's circulation department.
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