Navy to draw officers from enlisted men
Navy plans to promote from within as a major source of officers. A June 19 report notes about 45 percent of those commissioned since December 7, 1941 came from enlisted ranks, with 25 percent entering from civil life after training. The service expects to rely on enlisted personnel for permanent and temporary officer appointments, aiming to expand postwar naval careers from within.
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Navy
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Naval Reserve
Naval Academy
Naval Service
Grapefruit Shipments Exceed 2750 Freight Cars
Phoenix June 19 The grapefruit administrative committee reported that more than 2,750 freight cars carried about 1,287,725 boxes of fresh desert grapefruit from the Salt River valley to the nation through May 31. Arizonans consumed over 91,900 boxes and local canneries used 1,118,553 boxes during the season.
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Ariz
Salt River Valley
Crushed Rose and Dead Soldier Mark War’s Brutal Ground
War correspondent describes a battlefield scene in France on June 15, detailing a crushed rose by a dead British soldier, a ruined village, a burned tank, and fallen Germans amid the invasion’s carnage. The scene captures the clash between German panzer units and British armor with heavy losses on both sides.
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Richard D. McMillan
France
Tommy
Valhalla
Sagas Of Spam And Sprouts In ETO Memory
James F. McGlincy recalls the European Theater of Operations era as a vivid world for GI life. He highlights humor, slang, and morale efforts from Yank magazine to Stars and Stripes, plus famed entertainers and large mess halls.
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London
ETO
Joe
Picadilly
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Yank Magazine
Stars and Stripes
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Yank
Brooklyn
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Hollywood
Adolph Menjon
Bob Hope
Carole Landis
Kansas City
Retailers' Sales Rise in May Compared to Last Year
The Commerce Department reports May sales by 14,029 retailers in 34 states up 12 percent from May last year and 16 percent above April. Department stores and apparel shops lead with 19 percent gains. hardware stores rise 17 percent in dollar volume.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Norman Countryside Blasted as War Reaches Home Front
Descriptive scene of broken field guns, burned armor, and exhausted soldiers on a hillside in the Norman countryside. A German prisoner, a frightened eighteen-year-old, is led along the slope by a British infantryman, illustrating the brutal transformation from glory to horror.
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Sicily
Tommy
Bear Olga Bears Triplets at Cincinnati Zoo
Olga the Russian brown bear surprised Cincinnati officials by giving birth to three cubs named Timoshenko Igo and Tanya. Zoo staff had expected at least two cubs and note that triplets are the bear equivalent of twins for this species.
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Cincinnati Zoo
Olga
Timoshenko
Igo
Tanya
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