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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1944
Page
4
Canadian forces in the Trun to Saint Lambert area capture dozens of elite SS troops during the Normandy battle final stages. Prisoners include youths and a Russian woman, with reports of German resistance and air attacks around Falaise.
Arizona's 1945 automobile license plates will be aluminum and designed for several years of use. The War Production Board allocated 110000 pounds of aluminum for plates, with passenger plates likely featuring black numerals on a natural aluminum background. Connecticut is the only other state using aluminum plates.
Alexander Knight of Seabees is promoted to lieutenant junior grade in the U S naval reserve and serves with a Seabee battalion in the Central Pacific. A University of Arizona graduate, he was a civil engineer with Arizona Constructors before enlisting in May 1943. He is the son of the late Brig Gen John T Knight, Camp Knight in Oakland named for him, and his grandfather was Lt Gen S B M Young. Two brothers serve in the armed forces. Col John T Knight Jr with Army engineers and Lt Col O Ferrall Knight with field artillery.
Private Tommy Durrazzo has finished radio training at Ft. Sill and is reassigned to the combat engineers at Ft. Leonard Wood. After 14 months in service, the Tucson High School graduate is visiting his mother Mrs. Rosella Benton Durrazzo at 392 Granada.
Flight Officer Travis F. White of 217 North Park avenue has received his commission and wings after advanced flying training. He is transferred to Smyrna Army airfield Tennessee for a 15 week AAF training command course to qualify as a first pilot for B 24 Liberator bombers. White is the son of Mr and Mrs Joel C White and attended Tucson high school.
Lieutenant General George C. Kenney bestowed the Air Medal on Captain George Craig of Route 5 Tucson for meritorious achievement as navigator on a B 25 during a coordinated strike against Rabaul New Britain on November 2 1943. The base was then considered the strongest in the Southwest Pacific.
First Lt. Frank E. Barr son of Mr and Mrs George T Barr recently completed bombardment pilots training at Carlsbad Army airfield New Mexico. The course qualifies him to train bombardier cadets at the Carlsbad field in the Army Air Forces training command.
Pfc. Edwin C. Smith of 538 South Roskruge Tucson has qualified as marksman with the carbine rifle and now wears the marksman's badge. The announcement came from Ephrata Army Air Base Washington a fourth Air Force fighter pilot training base.
Emily C Harmon from Sonoita Arizona is listed as a private in the 108th Women's Army Corps detachment at Fort Meade. The notice notes her home and service assignment while reflecting typical wartime personnel records.
Los Angeles August 25 UPI Rep Alfred J. Bulwinkle leads a congressional group touring major airline operation centers and aircraft plants. He urges a permanent adequate postwar air force and airport bases in Canada to support the aircraft industry after the war. Joining him are Reps Virgil Chapman Lindley Beckworth Lyle Boren Richard Harless Carl Hinshaw Evan Howell and Joseph O Hara.
Miss Eleanor Pegnam of Whitman will marry Coast Guardsman Thomas L. Mc Grath. Her uncle, Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York, initially balked at announcing the engagement but relented when she insisted.
Pvt Harmon, daughter of C. B. Carrington of the Crown C ranch Sonoita and Mrs J B Carrington 731 Williams St Palo Alto Calif, is identified with the Army transportation corps. She enlisted in the WAC on May 14 1944 after working at Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing.
Argall Morrison, a yeoman third class who has served in the Pacific theater this past year, is on leave visiting his parents at 2612 East Fourth Street. He attended Tucson High School and has seen action in the Aleutians at Kiska, Tarawa, and Hollandia.
Benjamin Davis Harmon 17 son of Mr and Mrs B G Harmon 2230 North Campbell Ave enlisted as apprentice seaman in the U S naval reserve on Aug 21. He attended Tucson schools before enlistment in Phoenix and is now at San Diego for basic training.
The 86 265 increase in federal support raises the recreation aid for Casa Grande Arizona from 85 875 to 812 140. The extended assistance runs from August 31 1914 to June 30 1945 supporting Marana airbase training centers MP facilities and guard units plus an air conditioned center for servicemen a teen center a high school auditorium and pool facilities.
Army psychiatrist Lt. Col. R. Robert Cohen developed a puppet therapy to treat neurotics among war weary troops at Aberdeen proving ground. His stage uses GI Joe and personified traits like Resentment Fear Anger Sorrow and Common Sense to show causes and cures of mental distress.
Chinese 20th army troops swept the southwest sector of Tengchung approaching the Burma road as Allied engineers near Lungling blew Sunghsan mountain with three tons of TNT. Chinese occupied Tengchung British consulate ancient temple and a hospital while Japanese main force pulled back toward the city wall after losses.
Newsweek reporter Harold Isaacs and I witnessed earth and logs erupt from an anti air craft gun position near Hue Tung bridge as American artillery roars from surrounding peaks. Chinese infantry then seized the crest after a two month struggle on the rugged slopes hoping to clear the Burma road.
A rehabilitation center scene shows Joe being cured by rest, proper food, and understanding the causes of his low mood. The method was demonstrated to delegates at the American Psychiatric Association conference in Philadelphia. Col. Cohen noted success at Aberdeen where the approach has run for three months.
John Edward Vanlandingham, blind Washburn University graduate, was admitted to practice before the Kansas Supreme Court. He becomes the sole candidate for Kingman County attorney in the upcoming election, ensuring a guaranteed job in public service.
A terse war report notes a western front line where a ring of smaller ridges remains under stubborn Japanese control. Allied tanks and infantry press the attack as air superiority supports the push.
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