Radar Eyes Across the Aleutians Changed War Plans
A 1943 Associated Press report explains radar’s role in the Aleutian campaign, transforming naval thinking by making fog bound routes navigable. It credits Dr. Albert Hoyt Taylor and Robert M. Page for foundational ideas, with Harold G. Bowen promoting radar’s use in war contexts.
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Army
Navy
Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Albert Hoyt Taylor
Naval Research Laboratory
Robert M. Page
NRL
Harold G. Bowen
John M. Hightower
Associated Press
Washington
Tokyo
Atlantic
Dramalbert Hoyt Taylor
Leo C. Young
Navy Department
Italian scholar predicts Italy to become a republic after war
Professor Rudolph Altrocchi of the University of California, former head of the US Office of War Information in Italy in 1918, forecasts Mussolini and the Savoy monarchy toppled. He says most Italians oppose Mussolini with King Victor Emmanuel seen as a traitor and Umberto derided as the handsome idiot.
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Denver
Wilson
Office of War Information
Italy
Mussolini
Rudolph Altrocchi
Department of Italian
The
University of California
House of Savoy
Republic
Altrocchi
Victor Emmanuel
Umberto
Free Course Attracts 48 Youths In Arizona Airbases
The mechanic learner program run with the U S employment service at three Arizona airbases has drawn 48 youths aged 16 to 17. Participants receive 120 dollars monthly during training and can secure a 150 dollar starting salary on completion. Of those enrolled, 23 go to Marana, 14 to Davis Monthan, and 11 to the Consolidated Vultee modification center. Applications are welcome at the U S employment office on East Pennington Street.
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Arizona
United States Employment Service
East Pennington Street
Gus August Wieden
Marana
Davis-Monthan
Consolidated-Vultee Modification Center
Wieden
U. S
Spanish Pretender Demands Neutrality
Don Juan the Spanish pretender declares he will not accept the throne while Franco leads Spain and urges strict neutrality. The letter from Lausanne to Foreign Minister Jordana dates to April 1 and asks Franco to submit the policy.
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United Press
Don Juan
Francisco Franco
Spain
Lausanne
Francisco G. Jordana
Franco
Venereal Diseases In State Show Increase
Phoenix report shows 161 of 425 communicable cases for the week ended June 19 were venereal. The count rose from 134 the prior week. Pima County had 24 syphilis, 36 gonorrhea, 2 chancroid. Cochise 9 syphilis, 19 gonorrhea, 18 chancroid. Santa Cruz 1 syphilis.
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Phoenix
State Board of Health
Pima County
Cochise
Santa Cruz
Interference Tied to Plane Passing Through Radioactive Zone
Hyland noted interference appeared only when a plane crossed the radioactivity zone from Young's transmitter. He confirmed the finding three or four times and told Young and Taylor. Taylor recalled the excitement and the potential defense value of detecting planes.
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Young
Hyland
toeYoung and
Taylor
Steel in a lawn mower could forge a 100 pound bomb
A concise note explains that the steel in an average sized lawn mower contains enough material to manufacture a bomb weighing about 100 pounds.
Training For U. S. Pilots Is Improving
At Luke Field Brig. Gen. Al van C. Kincaid praised U S pilot training saying 96 9 percent of the class qualified as marksmen or experts in a class larger than earlier years and that Luke Field provides the nation s best fixed gunnery training A new record gunnery score of 72 percent was set by Second Lt Calvin Oscar Anderson at Luke Field Williams Field also graduated a record twin engine and Lightnings class and held a parade review of troops.
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Taylor
Young
Northwestern University
Goettingen
Germany
University of Wisconsin
University of North Dakota
Navy
Great Lakes
Louis Gebhard
Naval Service
Gebhard
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Radio
George Washington University
Washington
Naval Air Station
Anacostia
Harding
KDKA
Pittsburgh
Naval
Phoenix
Ariz
Alvan C. Kincaid
37Th
Luke Field
Army Air Force
Kincaid
Luke
Calvin Oscar Anderson
Freewater
Ore
John K. Nissley
Salt River Valley
Williams Field
Arade
Friendship Assured For Russia Mexico Postwar Ties
New Soviet ambassador Constantine Oumansky declared a postwar friendship between Russia and Mexico when presenting credentials to President Avila Camacho at the national palace. He said the alliance would benefit also allies and friends, as Camacho affirmed Mexico’s loyalty to the Americas while urging world brotherhood.
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Mexico City
Constantine Oumansky
Avila Camacho
Oumansky
United States
Camacho
Mexico
Americas
Bridges Denied Plant Visit With CIO Leader
Harry Bridges the west coast labor leader under deportation orders to Australia was barred from visiting the North American Aviation plant with CIO President Philip Murray and his entourage. The Army ruled an alien not sponsored by the embassy could not visit the plant.
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Bar. Bridges
Los Angeles
Calif
Harry Bridges
Australia
Philip Murray
CIO
Army
Washington
Hitler Plans Reserve Air Army For Defense
Reports say Hitler intends a reserve air army for defense with at least two divisions and up to 1500 frontline planes. The force would be kept inside Germany, separate from existing eastern western and southern units, ready to move to areas under heavy Allied attack. Also London schools to grant children two pennies weekly pocket money due to altered penny purchasing power.
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Germany
London County Council
Harmony Reigns as French National Liberation Committee Reaches Unity
In Algiers on June 23 the French National Liberation Committee announced unity between De Gaulle and Giraud factions. The agreement preserves Giraud’s command in North and West Africa and De Gaulle’s in other empire territories, with a unified army and shared treasury.
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Algiers
United Nations
French Committee of National Liberation
France
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Giraud
Giraud
Africa
de Gaulle
Empire
United.States
Britain
Jean Morinet
Alphonse Juin
Eduard Rene Marie de Larminat
Navy
Air Force
City reuses wooden garbage pails in gas shortage
Pasadena officials authorize return to wooden garbage pails due to war priority shortage of galvanized iron cans. City directors vote to resume use amid supply constraints.
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Pasadena
Cal. U.P
Board of City Directors
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Potomac River
Naval Laboratory
Gregory Breit
Merle A. Tuve
Carnegie Institute At
Carnegie
Matthew H. Schrenk
Western Electric Company
Chicago
Kennelly-Heaviside
Taylor, Young, Breit
Tuve
Taylor, Young
L. A. Hyland
Bendix Corporation
Bollingfield
Army Air Station
Russia
Amor
Isendibes
Parker Mortuary Chapel
Parker Mortuary
Stone Avenue
Hitler
de Gaulle and
Monnet
Monnett
Henri Bonnett
New York
DeGaulle
Arizona Inn
Wilson and Elm
Tucson Gas, Electric Light & Power CO
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