Sergt Murray Decorated For Valor In Air Force Fight
Sergt Edward J Murray of the 15th Air Force is awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement in combat. He and fellow gunners shot down two enemy fighters and damaged others, enabling a crippled Liberator to return home safely with no crew injuries.
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Edward J. Murray
1Th Air Force
Raly
Bas Bees
Airs
Witla A. Murray
Marres
15Th Air Force
Atreggiers
Labor clashes tied to UAW faction purge on West Coast
The article recounts a 1940s UAW convention ejecting West Coast director Lew Michener amid charges of Communist faction ties linked to Harry Bridges. It traces Michener’s repeated comebacks, deferments, and political alignments within the union and related labor groups, naming figures such as Wyndham Mortimer and Harold Christoffel, and noting wartime labor sabotage fears and internal UAW politics.
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New York
United Auto Workers of the C. 2
Lew Michener
Thte
West Coast
Harry Bridges
Michener
Roosevelt
North American Aviation
Inglewood
Cal
United States
Russia
Boeing
Nazi Germany
Mr. Roosevelt
Sidney Hillman
Hitler
Britain
United Aaw Workers
Hhis
Stooge
Ul A W
Michener Hes
Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
Warfaber Board
Ths
Comisionist Association
UL. W
Wyndham Mortimer
Mortimer
UL. A. W
Ichener
Stalin
Cleveland
Stoie
Thompson Products
Tanatenturers
UC. A. W
Harold Christeffel
Allis-Chalmers’ Union
Paarl Harbor
Department of Justice
Christoffel
Wmart
Bud. Thomas
Nations Presi
France
Comemander
Death Dealing Fifty Best Small Weapon
Reports from Lake City Ordnance plant near Kansas City identify the caliber 50 machinegun as America's most deadly small weapon. Supplied to Army Navy and Air Forces by the Ordnance Department, the gun was praised by Gen H H Arnold as the best gun for airplanes to date.
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Kansas City
Amertca
Lake City
Here
Army
Navy
Ordnance Department
Army Service Forces
H. H. Arnold
Special Hobby House Grows From One Man’s Collecting
In Morthield Minnesota William Schilling’s hobby expanded into a special house for a vast Tatwseum spanning five continents and three centuries. The two-part residence also includes a chapel for his daughter with miniature Christ and St Peter statues, a rare 23-year-old Christ figure, a Vatican papery missal, and a bell tower with six bells from railroads and farms.
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Morthield
Williase
K ShitUng
Tatwseum
Abraham “Lincoln
Minnesota
Schilling Bax
United States
Europe
Bobilling
Limer
Margaret
Francis
Superin
St. John's Hospital
Christ
St Peter
National Cathedral
Washington
St. Patrick’s’ Cathedral
New Orleans
Vatican
Dundas Village
Be‘Lanecey
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Music Headquarters
STATE
ST. Schenectade
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Soprani Sax
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Trombon
Harseors
Sway
Bed SK
Civic Forum
Louis Fischer
Jewish Community Center
Lester AL Rosengardt
Center
Charles Upton
Russell Sage
Art Fred A. Glass
al- Hed
Ube
Ord- Lande Department
Heatrola
Pearl Street
Albany
Winthrope
Onsen
Construe
Duncan Phyfe
Phogany Duncan Phyte ‘Suite
Hassocks Cory Coffee Brewers
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