U S Air Power Items From Global Fronts
Reports from London and China recount expanding U S air power against Axis forces. Capt Charles C Kegelman of El Reno Okla receives the Distinguished Service Cross for cool leadership during a daylight raid on three Holland airfields. In Hengyang American forces clash with Japan and shoot down five planes in a fierce central China battle. Australian and American units strike at Salamaua and Lae in New Guinea, with six Jap planes downed and six damaged. FBI arrests eight Nazi saboteurs and Panama Zone HQ seizes 20 German spies amidst wartime disruptions.
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America
London
United States Army Air Force
Europe
Holland
Charles C. Kegelman
el Reno
Okla
Dwight D. Eisenhower
U. S
Kegelman
AEF
U. S. Army Air Force
China
Hengyang
Claire L
General MacArthur
Central
Salamaua
Lae
New Guinea
United Nations
Pincers and Oil Drive Mark World War II Fronts
The article notes Sevastopol fall opening a Nazi push toward the Caucasus oil fields while Timoshenko counters in Crimea. It describes Kharkov battles as a key 1942 front and Rommel facing stiff resistance in Egypt. Navy reports detail raids on Kiska Agattu and Konfrontations in the Aleutians.
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Sevastopol
Kharkov
Red Navy
Black Sea
Crimea
Hitler
Caucasus
Khar
Semeon Timoshenko
Don River
Moscow
Kursk-Kharkov
Old-timers in golf struggle to match modern stars on 72 holes
A Chicago golf feature argues that legendary names from baseball and golf era would wow crowds in war fund events. It notes Chick Evans Francis Quinnet Walter Hagen Bobby Jones Gene Sarazen and others as faded for 72 holes yet capable of every shot, while endurance and nerve pace separates past and present stars.
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Cy Young
Ty Cobb
Nap Lajoie
Tris Speaker
Joe Jackson
Ed Walsh
Babe’ Ruth
George Sisler
Rogers Hornsby
Hans Wagner
Jim Corbett
Bob Fitzsimmons
John Lawrence’ Sullivan
Jim Jeffries
Jack Dempsey
Gene Tunney
Joe Louis
Chicago
Chick Evans
Edgewater G. C
Francis Quinnet
Harry Vardon
Ted Ray
Brookline
Massachusetts
Walter Hagen
Midlothian
Bobby Jones
Merion
Gene Sarazen
Skokie
Jones
Sarazen
Hagen
Jones i Hagen
Cobb
Ruth
Speaker
Young
Lajoie
Sisler
Hornsby
Ted Williams
Joe Gordon
Bobby Doerr
Joe DiMaggio
Pete Reiser
Terry Moore
Byron Nelson
Ben Hogan
Sammy Snead
Craig Wood
Old Guard
Nelson
Hogan
Snead
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U. S. Marine Corps
Continental Congress
William H. Taft
Veterans Administration
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