Ten War Dogs' Help To Guard Douglas Field
At Douglas Army airfield war dogs guard the post nightly with their masters from the station security detachment. The dogs are trained at Ft. Robinson and perform heel sit down and up commands while facing possible re training for peacetime life. They are fed daily and examined for health records, with a section 8 discharge as a last resort.
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Douglas Field
Douglas Army Airfield
Western Flying Training Command
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Sandy
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Floyd E. Howe
Ft. Robinson
Nebr
Howe
United States
Carvin W. McIntosh
Harry L. Martinez
Charles W. Portch
Douglas, Ariz
Ninth Service Command
DAAF
St Malo Germans End 11 Day Siege
German garrison of about 605 men under Col Andreas Von Aulock surrendered after an 11 day stand in an underground citadel near St Malo France. American POWs released, Germans drank cognac and shined boots before surrender. U S planes dropped bombs just as the white flag rose.
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Dougald Werner
Rocco Piegaro
New York City
Piegaro
Chicago
de Grazia
Allied fliers report ME-163 jet fighters fastest in dives
Three Allied pilots describe the ME-163 “flying wing” as the fastest controlled flight in a vertical dive. They nicknamed the jet-propelled planes jetties and noted dense white cloud trails. Despite sky speed, Mustang pilots outmaneuvered them.
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Britain
John Murphy
Tulsa
Okla
Aleutians
Cyril W. Jones, Jr
Athens
Tenn
Jimmy C. Shoffit
Fort Worth
Tex
Liepzig
Arthur F. Jeffrey
San Francisco
Calif
Murphy
Argentina Produces Butanol From Corn Mash Ferment
Argentina develops butanol production by fermenting corn mash. The process removes the corn germ, prepares a meal, soaks with water, and sterilizes under pressure to support synthetic rubber manufacture.
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Argentina
Arctic oil fields may lie near Barrow Alaska
UP American naval geologists and Seabees await drilling equipment in Barrow Alaska to test a potential giant oil field inside the Arctic circle. Seeps extend about 300 000 square miles east of Cape Simpson as geologists note possible connection to Canada’s Turner Valley and Canal fields. Eskimos once burned oil infused tundra moss for fuel.
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Point Barrow
Alaska
Arctic Circle
Cape Simpson
Naval
Canal
Turner Valley
Canada
Barrow
Arctic
Naval party recalls near crash during oil lake landing
Members of the naval party recalled a freight plane pilot narrowly avoided a crash when he found the surface he planned to land on was oil instead of water.
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Naval
England's huge naval guns cost $225,000 each
England produced 16 inch naval guns valued at about 225000 dollars per unit reflecting wartime artillery costs and industrial scale. The remark notes the high price of large caliber ordnance during the period.
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England
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