Sugar Ridge Assault By Marines On Guam
Marine writer Charles P. Arnott describes the July Guam battle for Sugar Ridge. Brig. Gen. Alfred Noble oversees the operation as Marines press up a cliff dominated ridge amid bombardment, machine gun fire, mortars, and sniper fire, driving Japanese forces from their caves and foxholes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles P.arnot
Third Marine
Guam
U.P
Sugar Ridge
Alfred Noble
la Jolla
Calif
Chonito
Woman Sells Husband to Kansas Voters in Door to Door Push
Mrs. Albert Cole conducted a nine week, six day campaign visiting Kansas households to back her husband State Sen Albert Cole for the Republican U S representative nomination. She averaged 20 visits an hour and limited talks to a minute, never urging a vote but hoping she would.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holton
Kas
Albert Cole
Kansas
U. S
Congress
Cole
Coles
Sen. Cole
Albert
Premonition Of Being Wounded Proves Too True
Second Lt. Walter E. Lovejoy texted his parents July 8 that he expected to be wounded in France. He was seriously wounded three days later by an 81 mm shell near him. he recuperates in an English hospital. Air Medal awarded to Staff Sgt. Wade E. Dyson of Tucson for meritorious achievement on eighth AAF bombing missions aboard a B 24. Richard Stanley Reid, Phoenix native, returns to New Orleans as signalman 2c aboard a merchant ship after eight months at sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Walter E. Lovejoy
Walter Lovejoy
East Speedway
Wade E. Dyson
Tucson
Eighth Aaf
W. W. Dyson
Fontana Avenue
AAF
Dyson
Tucson Laundry and Dry Cleaners
Bluejacket
Richard Stanley Reid
Phoenix
USN
Armed Guard Center
New Orleans
Eleventh Naval District
Irene Reid
Date Street
San Diego
Calif
Phoenix High School
Phoenix Junior College
Bluejacket Reid
Hearn Neon Products Co
Naval Service
War family notices and honors from Arizona in wartime news
Miss Addie A Hall learns her brother Tech Corp William A Hall, an Army radio technician in Italy, is in combat. Jack Baker visits family in San Simon and Tucson. Pvt Manuel R Valdez of Tucson earns commendation from Lt Gen Spaatz for supplying air command troops in the France battle. Ralph L Michelena receives promotion to first lieutenant as Mustang pilot. First Lt Myron E Mershon earns the Air Medal for meritorious flight with B 24s over Toulon Belgrade and Vienna. Frank W Long keeps Liberators flying.
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Addie A. Hall
Wood Street
Tech. Corp
William A. Hall
Army Communication Corps
Italy
Corp
Hall
Petra A. Hall
Edward V. Hall
Southwest
James K. Hall
Prescott Corp
Albert Steinfeld Co
Army
Aleutians
Jack Baker
ARM 2c
A. J. Baker
San Simon
Ariz
M. E. Devine
Grant Road
Tucson
Manuel R. Valdez
Air Service Command
Britain
Carl Spaatz
France
Valdez
South
Tenth Avenue
Myron E. Mershon
Annie Procter Richards
East Sixth Street
Mershon
Toulon
Belgrade
Vienna
Weiner- Neustadt
Wreckage After London Bomb Hit Empire Ranch and Muted Strikes
A wartime report details Cpl. Long and his 13th AAF heavy bomber squadron at Empire ranch Sonoita repairing Liberators after missions against Japan. Long’s crew has sunk a Jap cruiser, downed nine Zeros, and dropped 305000 pounds of explosives. Master Set Frank B. Watkins of Tucson serves as flight chief in the same squadron, with two commendations and the American Defense Service Medal. Watkins entered service in 1939 and has been overseas since October 1942. his wife Helen Wise and their two-year-old son Frank reside in Tucson. Hobbs Army Air Field in New Mexico announces Major Theodore B. Forbes of Tucson promoted to major and serving as flight commander. Louis Downing, a former Tucson postal worker now in the Navy in San Francisco, advances from Petty Officer First Class to Chief. Capt. W. J. Bray Jr. and family visit Tucson before leaving for Ft. Meade to join the European theater, after earning the expert infantryman badge. Mrs. Bray and children will return to Phoenix.
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Empire Ranch
Sonoita
Cpl
Long
13Th Aaf
Cpl. Long
Frank B. Watkins
North Third Avenue
Tucson
Watkins
Guadalcanal
Solomons
Central
Southwest Pacific
W. J. Bray, Jr
Camp Howze
Tex
War Department
Bray
Ft. Meade
Tucson Woman Sworn Into WAC Weighs Orders Today
Mrs Esther Claiborne Brackley of 1130 East Ninth Street is sworn into the WAC and awaits orders. Daughter of Mrs Dorothy Claiborne of Tucson she attended Tucson and Phoenix schools and was a student pilot in New Mexico before joining. Corporal Joe D Pulido of Tucson has completed an England orientation course bridging training to combat in France and worked as a cashier and clerk at Grand Central Public Market before Army Air Force service.
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Esther Claiborne Brackley
East
Ninth Street
Dorothy Claiborne
Tucson
WAC
Army
Brackley
Phoenix
New Mexico
Army plans to reclaim waste paper from combat areas
The Army pledges to salvage and return to the United States significant waste paper including fiber boxes from at least two combat zones as part of civilian campaigns to collect waste paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
United States
Wounded Marines Arrive Aboard U S Flagship Off Guam
Sailors and officers crowded the rails as the first Guam casualties were hoisted to the main deck for urgent treatment. Medics rushed men to the sick bay for morphine plasma and surgery, while coxswains and crew showed visible concern for the wounded aboard the flagship off Guam.
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U. S
Guam
U.P
May War Effort Ads Reach $2.38 Million Total
The Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association reports that May war effort advertisements in daily and Sunday papers totaled $2,379,332. For ten months since August 1943 the campaign totals $47,287,107.
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New York
Bureau of Advertising
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Fifth War Loan Drive Tops Arizona Quota
Arizona residents bought 42.77 million dollars in war bonds across all categories, surpassing a 32 million quota by 31.21 percent. Walter R. Bimson, head of the state war finance committee, called it the best performance in any of the five drives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Arizonians
Walter R. Bimson
State War Finance Committee
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Solomonville
Eighth Aaf Fighter Command
Michelena
Rebecca Jaime
Florence
Gila Junior College
Air Corps
Craigfield
Selma
Ala
University of Arizona
Air Force
Frank W. Long
Subway Cleaning Service
4Th Ave
Bulta
London
Hobbs Army Airfield
Hobbs, N. M
Theodore B. Forbes
Army Air Force Training Command
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Forbes
Hobbs
Louis Downing
Navy
San Francisco
Paramount News
Mickey Mouse Club
Oklahoma
FOX
Fred Jackson
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EL Dor
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Andres Soler Y
Blanca de Castejon
Maria Elena Marquez
Pedro Infante
Carolina Barret
William Boyd
Hal Greene & His Orchestra
The
Blue Moon Ballroom
the Lodge Club
Fifth Avenue
Congress St
Ebert Sisters
Columbia
Edmund Lowe
Janis Carter
Robert Williams
Richard Hale
Charles P. Arnot
Pioneer Hotel
Priser’s
Featuring
June Merrill
Virginia Etting
Gill Larry
Dancing Darling
CLUB
Ginger Rogers
Ray
Robert Benchley
Rita
Johnson
Diana Lynn
Humphrey. Bogart
Conrad Veidt
Peter Lorre
Kaaren Verne
Jane Darwell
Judith Anderson
Hagis
and the GO
Alice Faye
Carmen Miranda
Betty Grable
George Jessel
John Carradine
Gale Sondergaard
Isle OF
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Gary Cooper
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Dr. Wassell
Signe Hasso
Dennis O'Keefe
Carol Thurston
Carl Esmond
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