U S Airmen Open Joint Flights To Russian Bases
Eastern Command forces report a large force of American heavy bombers with Russian escort landing at Soviet bases in Russia after a raid on rail hubs in Hungary and Romania. Lt. D J MacDonald of Minneapolis praised the mission as an honor to complete passage to Russia. A Russian cook at the U S mess hall called the cooperation a privilege. Over 700 bombers and 1000 supporting planes took part in the operation with minimal losses.
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Eastern Command
Usstaf
Soviet Union
Russia
15Th Airforce
Italy
D. J. MacDonald
Minneapolis
Minn
Hilda
U. S
Hungary
Romania
Debrecen
Budapest
Red Army
Army
Red Army General Staff
Red Airce
U. S. Strategic Air Force
OPA Increases 1944 Potato Prices Nationwide Excluding 2 States
The Office of Price Administration announced a 20 cent per hundred pound rise in ceiling prices for early 1944 potatoes, effective for the rest of June, with Arizona and California exempt due to favorable weather. The move is expected to raise the average household cost by about a quarter of a cent per pound.
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Washington
Arizona
California
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Two Arizona officers promoted to lieutenant colonel
The war department announces two Arizonans promoted from major to lieutenant colonel. Daniel Orson Kleinman of Mesa in the transportation corps and Everett Orrell Wogstad of Tucson are named. Lucy E. Pasqualone of Jerome becomes second lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps.
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Washington
War Department
Daniel Orson Kleinman
Transportation Corps
Mesa
Everett Orrell Wogstad
Army of the United States
Route 4
Tucson
Lucy E. Pasqualone
Jerome
Army Nurse Corps
Vast U S Pipelines Would Loop the Earth
The combined length of oil, gasoline and natural gas pipelines in the United States would wrap around the earth nearly 13 times. Experts note the vast network underscores energy infrastructure scale and investment needs nationwide.
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United States
Stubborn Constipation Case and Home Remedies
A reader reports a stubborn case of constipation and suggests irritable remedies including increasing water intake and trying All-Bran cereal from Kellogg's in Battle Creek. The note implies dietary changes as a remedy without medical advice.
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Kellogg's
Battle Creek
Old 75 mm Now In Use On Mitchells
The Mitchell B 25 bomber now mounts the French three inch 75 mm cannon as its nose gun, adding heavy air firepower, long reach, and the ability to hit targets ahead of the aircraft. The gun works with a five or six man crew, with a cannoni er loading and handling duties. The cannon aids air artillery against enemy ground installations and has damaged Jap airdromes in New Guinea and Burma, while pilots photograph battle damage.
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Orlando
Fla
France
New Guinea
Burma
Army Air Forces Tactical Center
Snipers Scatter U. S. War Writers
Rome dispatch details a dangerous brush with German forces as U.S. war correspondents travel with tanks near Rome. The group, including Reynolds Packard and Edd Johnson, faces machine guns, artillery, and wary German troops, ending with a view of the sign Roma along highway six.
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Rome
U.P
Highway Six
Reynolds Packard
United Press War
Edd Johnson
Chicago Sun
Roma
New Seabee Pontoon Bridges Invasion Landings
The Navy develops a welded steel box pontoon system for amphibious landings in France. Prefab hollow boxes join like toy blocks to form bridges docks and causeways for assault craft. Elsewhere on the road German fire wounds troops as two American soldiers lie dead with red poppies in handg as reminders of sniper danger.
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Seabee
Washington
Jane
Navy
GI Soldiers Sing Lili Marlene In Italy War Note
U S infantrymen in Italy adopt the song Lili Marlene heard from British forces and German prisoners. Ernie Pyle relayed the tune to producer Lester Cowan for a possible film use, noting music is needed. Lyrics describe bidding farewell and keeping a memory of Lili Marlene.
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Italy
Hollywood
U. S
Ernie Pyle
Lester Cowan
Pyle
Eighth Army
Cowan
Lili Marlene Echoes Through War Lines and Rail Split
A wartime poem line ties to a love amid mud and cold as a soldier recalls Lili Marlene. Separately a New York City public school fact cites 310 classes for physically handicapped children amid a broader wartime frame. In Steubenville Ohio Ola Phillips files for divorce after claiming 23 year absence, stating her husband left her since November 1920.
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New York City
Steubenville, O
Ola Phillips
Common Pleas Court
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Naomi Nakano
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Fred Lance
Scranton
Reynolds King
Ithaca
N. Y
Albert Gamble
Bessemer
Ala
Jack Roach
West 59Th Street
Los Angeles
Donald Rew
Lynbrook
Pvt
Anthony Parent
Cleveland, O
Jimmy Wallington
Hinds
By Hazel Hartzog
Lili Marlene
Venus & Yecum
East Shire
Thornewood
TVA Satenianen
the Mountain States Tele &T Co. i Phone & Telegraph
E. Pennington
Franz Schubert
Jean Tennyson
den Poerce
George Sebastian
KTUC
Conoco
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