Carrier Planes Blast Palau Installations
Eyewitness account of a two day carrier air strike off Palau in the western Carolines. Planes reduced airfields and facilities to rubble, sank a destroyer and several vessels, with minimal enemy air opposition and no major warships found. Lt. John J. McGuire of Youngstown scored a mast level four thousand ton merchant ship kill.
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Palau
Carolines
Edward F. Osbo 28
Chicago
Koror
John J. McGuire
Youngstown, CO
Cmdr
Ralph Shiffey
Mounds, Ill
Oswego
N. Y
Shirley
Peter J. Vanderlinden
Vernon Fierce
Hawthorne
Calif
Nine American Generals Decorated For Normandy and Italy
The Army announced Distinguished Service Medals to nine generals for leadership in Italy and Normandy. Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley heads the list for training the First Army and directing its Normandy assault. Others include Maj. Gen. John B. Coulter, Maj. Gen. William W. Eagles, and Maj. Gen. John E. Sloan for actions in Rome, Anzio, and the Italian campaign. In Kansas City a police report notes a dog could not bite a woman wearing a girdle, sparking a quirky safety remark.
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Washington
Italy
Normandy
Omar N. Bradley
Moberly
Cherbourg
John B. Coulter
el Paso
Tex
Rome
William W. Eagles
San Antonio
Anzio
John E. Sloan
Kansas City
Earl E. Treanor
Guam Natives Return Under U S Protection After Japanese Move
Hundreds of Chamorros gathered at Mt Alifan as American forces restore protection and promise safe return home two years after Japanese occupation. Cmdr John B Cooke told villagers many can return to homes with no Japanese presence, offering hospital care, food, transport options, and supplies for farming and fishing.
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Guam
Mt. Alifan
Cmdr
John B. Cooke
Ventura
Calif
Cooke
California
Cotton Goods Future Looks Encouraging
ABSECON New Jersey August 10 Donald B Tansill vice president of Pepperell Manufacturing Company predicts better cotton goods supplies soon and says the future looks slightly more encouraging for the civilian consumer War contracts are expected to fall 30 to 40 percent after the end of the war in Europe He told the postwar planning conference of the National Retail Drygoods Association that during the remainder of the Far Eastern war cotton goods should be tight but not as acutely short as at present.
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Absecon
N. J
Donald B. Tansill
Pepperell Manufacturing Company
War Production Board
Europe
Tansill
National Retail Drygoods Association
Cirl Becomes Widow Twice In War Years
Seattle. Twice in 11/2 years former Rachel Pool has lost a husband in war. Ensign Howard B. Dilatush Jr. died in a 1943 Washington transport crash. Seven months later she wed Lt. Malcolm Lawry, who died at sea recently, soon after a daughter was born. Her father William F. Pool notes she bears her grief bravely.
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Seattle
Rachel Pool
Ens
Howard B. Dilatush, Jr
Washington, D. C
Malcolm Lawry
William F. Pool
Wartime Yankees interview with Boston boss hints at past
An interview with the former baseball boss from Boston unfolds during wartime, reflecting on the Yankees and their wartime era. The piece hints at organizational changes and memories from the prior season.
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Yankees
Boston
U.P
McCarthy Blasts Yankees Roster Amid War Involvement
Yankees manager Joe McCarthy vented about the club not recognizing its players. Sportscaster Bump Hadley quipped that without the war, none of them would be out there, prompting McCarthy to respond that wartime service keeps the team intact.
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Joe McCarthy
New York Yankees
Bump” Hadley
Yankees
McCarthy
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Peleliu
Londonderry
London
Derry
Howard Street
San Francisco
Simmon
Axminster
ONA Home Supply
Congress
U. S
Cirl
Tucson
T. Ed Litt Drug
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