Yanks Learn By Experience How to Deal With Japs in Three Years
In three years of Pacific War Americans say they learned the know how to fight Japan. From Pearl Harbor to Leyte they recount early deficiencies, battles at Savo Island and Guadalcanal, Attu and Tarawa, and the gradual shift to modern carrier night and jungle fighting. The piece argues future victories will be cheaper in blood.
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Eugene Burns
Pearl Harbor
U.S
Enterprise
Pacific
Burns
Solomons
Aleutians
Ceylon
San Francisco
United States
Savo Island
Guadalcanal
Attu
Tarawa
Leyte
British Tanks And Planes Battle Greeks in Athens Area
Maj. Gen. Scobie said progress was made clearing the Athens-Piraeus area of EAM, attacked by RAF and artillery. Fighting spread to Thrace as Spitfires and Beaufighters hit resistance nests. Field guns cleared strongpoints as EAM combat continued and Greece faced potential civil war. Premier Papandreou warned the EAM was plunging Greece into civil war and elections were delayed.
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Athens
R. M. Scobie
Greece
Piraeus
EAM
RAF
Thrace
Eras
George Papandreou
London
Scobie
US Faces Heavy Losses as War Casualties Rise
Under Secretary of War Patterson cautioned of severe casualties on the western front with grim prospects ahead. On the third Pearl Harbor anniversary, U S battle casualties reach 552,018. army totals through Nov 22 rise to 474,892 with 91,625 killed and 268,099 wounded. Navy casualties stand at 77,120 with 29,738 killed and 33,469 wounded. Prisoners total 60,734 for both services.
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Washington
Patterson
Pearl Harbor
United States
Navy
Newson obtains view into Atlanta prison revolt via Morgan Blake
Morgan Blake, Atlanta Journal columnist and Sunday school teacher, brokered a deal with 25 convict hosts during a takeover at the Atlanta federal penitentiary. He reported the seven grievances and the pledge to end the siege if the paper published them. Blake spoke through a barred window for 45 minutes as warden Sanford called some inmates constitutionally psychopathic.
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Atlanta
Morgan Blake
Atlanta Journal
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Blake
Today
Journal Am
Joseph W. Sanford
Yankees Raid Jap Lines Below Ormoc
American cavalrymen in amphibious Tractors crossed Leyte Bay to strike Japanese positions 10 miles below Ormoc on Leyte’s west coast. Lt. Col. ONeill Kane led the force as they hit Tabgas and Balogo, meeting light resistance while dispersing Japanese troops.
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MacArthur
Philippines
Ormoc
Leyte
Palanas
Associated Press
Manila
AmTracs
Tabgas
Balogo Village
O'Neill K. Kane
Dopkin
Greeks Test Case for the Big Three Unity
The piece argues the Greek imbroglio tests the unity of Britain Russia and America amid postwar peace shaping. It notes Churchill's intervention to block a communist takeover and Eden's stance against Count Sforza while the US calls for democratic government free from outside influence. Marshal Stalin remains largely silent as Moscow weighs the situation.
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Britain
Russia
America
Balkan
Greece
Bam
Athens
Churchill
Eden
England
Count Sforza
Italy
Washington State Department
United States
United
Stalin
Moscow
Draft Plans Call Of Younger Men
Idaho's selective service will draft most men under 26 who are in civilian clothes and physically sound next month. Lt. Col. Norman B. Adkison says the January quota has doubled, though no order has been given to reclassify the 26 to 29 age group.
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Boise
Idaho
Selective Service
Norman B. Adkison
Romulo Reports Secure U S Hold on Leyte
Brig. Gen. Carlos P. Romulo arrives in Washington to testify on Leyte invasion. He says the United States hold in the Philippines is secure and notes the Leyte assault featured vast naval, air, and rocket bombardment. He praises Filipino guerrillas and declares reestablishment of the Philippine Commonwealth on Philippine soil achieved with dignity.
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Washington
Congress
Leyte
Carlos P. Romulo
House
United States
Philippines
Pearl Harbor
Douglas MacArthur
Romulo
America
Leyte Bay
Bataan
Filippino Guerrilas
Tokyo
Luzon
Commonwealth Government of the Philippines
Philippine
Idaho Men Listed on Navy Casualty Lists
Two Idaho servicemen, a sailor and a marine, appear on navy casualty lists. William Harold Bunch is named seaman first class, naval reserve, husband of Frances Audrey Bunch and son of Oren C. Pisher, 605 South Seventh, Pocatello, with residence in Pocatello.
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Washington
Idaho
William Harold Bunch
Naval Reserve
Frances Audrey Bunch
Oren C. Pisher
South Seventh
Pocatello
Idaho Couple Receives Marriage License in Spokane
Seaman 2/c Ross C. Totten of Farragut and Adeline Roth of American Falls Idaho obtained a marriage license in Spokane yesterday.
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Spokane
Seaman
Ross C. Totten
Farragut
Idaho
Adeline Roth
American Falls
Russians Close In On Budapest From Three Sides
Berlin reports a major Soviet push toward Budapest as Feodor Tolbukhin’s third Ukraine army drives along the Danube west bank and Malinovsky’s second Ukraine army holds positions on Csepel Island near the city. German forces retreat from Ercsi, 13 miles south of Budapest, amid armor advances that overran multiple towns.
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London
Red Army
Lower Lake Balaton
Berlin
Budapest
Feoflor I. Tolbukhin
Ukraine
Danube
Ercst
Racalmas
Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Second Ukraine Army
Csepel
British Bomber Raids Hit Merseburg and Berlin Targets
British bombers attacked the Merseburg synthetic oil plant and two rail yards with 7 000 tons of bombs last night after US forces struck the same area in daylight. Another RAF raid hit Berlin for the 172nd night assault while Allied air forces bombed Osnabruck Giessen Bielefeld.
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London
Germany
Merseburg
Berlin
Leuna
RAF
Osnabruck
Giessen
Bielefeld
Air Ministry
Reich
Britain
Belgium
France
15Th Air Force
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Austria
Italy
Mediterranean
Bomber Command
Saipan
Tokyo
21St
U. S. Bomber Command
New York
Morgan
Little Gem
J. T. A. Archer
Brownwood
Texas
Archer
Donald T. Black
Rushville
Americans Extend Saar Holdings to 22 Miles in France
Allied assault on the Saar river zone pushes west bank control to 22 miles as U.S. Seventh Army and French forces drive toward Saarbrucken and Forbach. Patton’s Third Army seizes Ostheim near Colmar while German lines retreat in Alsace. Air war continues with B 29 daylight raids on Manchuria and Tokyo.
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Saar River
Paris
Saarbrucken
Forbach
Siegried
Pittsburgh
Sarregue Mines
Saar
Saarlautern
Lorraine
Alsace
George
Patton
Third
Karlsruhe
France
Saarland
Palatinate
U. S
Seventh Army
Ostheim
Colmar
Rhine
Breisbach
Seventh
First
Vosges
German Palatinate
St. Louis Les Bitche
Lemberg
Maginot
Bitche
Soll
Fall Kills Worker at Utah Idaho Sugar Plant
Blackfoot Utah Feb 25 1937 Leon Thornock 37 was accidentally killed at the Utah Idaho Sugar plant when his head was drawn into a boiler room drive wheel. No witnesses. he died after a physician arrived. Thornock had farmed at Rose and taught school in Gray and Tetonia before joining the sugar company six seasons.
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Leon Thornock
Utah- Idaho Sugar Company
C. M. Jacobsen
Thornock
Rose
Sugar Company
Blackfoot
Gray
Tetonia
Counties urged to push Idaho war relief drive over top
President C. J. Strike of the Idaho War Punch asks thirteen lagging counties to provide the extra contribution to complete the war relief fund for USO and allied agencies. Incomplete quotas listed as Bonner Clearwater Gem Owyhee Ada Custer Blaine Clark Teton Jefferson Bear Lake Minidoka Lemhi.
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Boise
Idaho
C. J. Strike
Idaho War Punch, Inc
USO
Bonner
Clearwater
Gem
Owohee
Ada
Custer
Blaine
Clark
Teton
Jefferson
Bear Lake
Minidoka
Lemhi
Pocatellans Enlist in Navy with Caldwell Recruits
Fourteen remaining names include Tommy Gust George and Richard Leroy Glover of Pocatello and Sipka Evert Wynia with Lewis Edward Chevallie of Caldwell among seventeen-year-old volunteers enlisting yesterday in the navy.
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Boise
Tommy Gust George
Richard Leroy Glover
Pocatello
Sipka Evert Wynia
Lewis Edward Chevalley
Caldwell
Navy
GOP Holding Edge in Game Wards and Seats
Governor Bottolfsen appointed J Paul Thoman of Twin Falls as a Republican member of the state fish and game commission and reappointed Alton R Howell of Idaho Falls as a Democrat. Howell and Booth's terms expire Saturday. both six years. The governor noted sportsmen's recommendations and the law requiring one Republican and one Democrat among new appointments.
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Boise
Bottolfsen
J. Paul Thoman
Twin Falls
State Fish and Game Commission
Alton R. Howell
Idaho Falls
Howell
George E. Booth
Burley
Thoman
Booth
Fiveman Commission
Two Men Rob Aged Woman In Junction Valley
Sheriff Warren W. Hyde of Box Elder County Utah said two men robbed 80 year old Mrs Sigrid Magni in Junction valley on November 30. They fled via Oakley Idaho 18 miles away taking two gold cased watches a small diamond ring and $80 after holding the woman on her bed with a blanket. The delay in reporting aided their escape.
Idaho Farmland Ready for Nearly a Million People
Idaho Agriculture Commissioner R. H. Young told a Rotary luncheon that the state has about 2,000,000 irrigated acres and a similar amount of land suitable for development, with water sufficient if impounded. He warned against forcing servicemen into farming and cautioned that subsistence farming is no longer viable in Idaho.
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Boise
Idaho
R. H. Young
Young
Rotary Club
State Department of Agriculture
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Linnich
First Army
Courtney H Hodges
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Worker
Pocatellans Enlist
Gop
Alton Howell
Coeur d’Alene
Walter A. Fiscus
Commission
James O. Beck
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