Allied Aerial Onslaughts Focus Three Pacific Fronts
Allied air offensives concentrate on three Pacific regions the Kurile islands in the North Pacific the Caroline and Marshall islands in the Central Pacific and the Dutch New Guinea Bismarck area in the Southwest Pacific. Kuriles near Japan are being softened for invasion as weather and distance hinder operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph H. Heppe
Associated Press
Farflung
Pacific
Far North Pacific
Kurile Islands
Japan
Caroline and
Marshall Islands
Central Pacific
Equator
Dutch New Guinea-Bismarck Archipelago
Southwest Pacific
Kuriles
Frank Jack Fletcher
North Pacific
United States
Aleutians
Tokyo
Ponape
Carolines
Atoll
Truk
Philippines
Detroit
San Francisco
Bismarck Archipelago
Marshalls
Wewak
New Guinea
Rabaul
New Britain
New Ireland
Bougainville
Douglas MacArthur
Dutch New Guinea
Hollandia
Six Million Trillion Electrons Power Lamp Brightness
A playful science note explains the flow of about six million trillion electrons through an ordinary lamp, linking electric current to the light you see. It highlights the vast scale of current in a simple household fixture.
Martin Dies Declines Re Election To Congress
Rep. Martin Dies of Texas, head of the House committee on un American activities, says in a telegram he will not seek re election. He has been treated in a Galveston hospital for a throat ailment and plans surgery at the Mayo Clinic before returning to private law practice. Dies first entered Congress in 1930.
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Beaumont
Tex
Martin Dies
House
Committee On un-American Activities
Dies
Galveston
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Congress
Navy V-12 program to furnish over 23000 officer candidates
Vice Adm. Randall Jacobs said by July 1 the Navy V-12 program will have supplied more than 23000 qualified officer candidates. The group will join reserve midshipmen schools supply corps schools and Marine officer candidates schools, in addition to 2600 officers from the naval reserve officers training corps and 1400 from medical and dental schools. Curtailment of the program is in sight.
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New York
Randall Jacobs
USN
Naval Personnel
Navy
Columbia University
Supply Corps
Jacobs
Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps
Louie the Sea Lion Finally Goes Back to Sea
In Los Angeles on May 13, Louie the sea lion was found as a roadside rescue. R J Coon of an animal shelter tried to return him to the sea after the animal resisted beach release. After efforts failed, a breaker finally carried Louie back toward the surf and he was launched again.
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Los Angeles
R. J. Coon
Louie
Coon
State Fish and Game Division
Louis
Portia Faces Life and Young Dr Malone Highlights
A TV schedule fragment lists Portia in a life drama at 12:00, followed by Young Dr Malone at 12:30. The lineup ends with Superman at 12:45, as KTUC and KVOA deliver afternoon programming.
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Portia
Devs
Dr Malone
Light of the World
Ann
Salt Lake Tabernacle
Gildersleeve
Jack
Fitch Band
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Advisory Committee Council For
Italy
Badoglio
Alexander
Allied Control Commission
Mason MacFarlane
MacFarlane
Naples
Charles Poletti
AMG
Otions
Washington
London
Cassino
Tyrrhenian Sea
Garigliano
Marne
France
Piave
Ebro
China
Yellow River
Russia
Spain
Stald
Verdun
Western Europe
United States Army
Fifth Army
Marine Corps
Press Alliance, Inc
Fess Jackson
AT the Riverside
West Congress
The
Foreman’s Club
Consolidated
Vultee
el Charrs
Jucson
STON
Lodge Club
Fifth Avenue
Capes Crooners
EVOA
Boston Symphony
Allis
Chalmers
Pioneer Hotel
Arthur Crowell
Hammond
Tucson
Hal Greene
Helen McIntosh
Martin
NBC
Tucsonia
Bernard H. Bloch
W. Congress
Betty Grable
John Payne
Rockies
Carmen Miranda
Cesar Romero
Harry James
Robert Taylor
Walter Pidgeon
RED Skelton
Boogie
Don la Var
Larry's
Sunset Riders
ALL States Club
East 6Th St
Luis Jiminez
Amparito Morillo
Maria Luisa Zea
Abel Salazar
Bob Livingston
Smiley Burnette
Fernando Soler
Gloria Maria
Tomas Perrin
Jose Baviera
Chela Castro
Emma Roldan
Nelson Eddy
Susana Foster Lus
Women’s Army Corps
Arthur Lake
Janis Carter
Lyane
Staate
Mom
Dad
Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn
Danny Kaye
Dinah Shore
Dawa Andrews
Constance Dowling
Mr. Smith
Allan Jones
Evelyn Ankers
Billie Burke
James Cagney
Lup NO
Henri
WAC
Tos
Tucson Roller Rink
East
Edwin Syubbone
Truman Bradley
Ned Calmer
Leathernecks
Glenn Hardy
Aye Lewis Meyee Webb
Civic Auditorium
St Francis Orch
KVOA
KTUC
News of the World Mexicana
Club
Superman
EKVOA
Galaelen Gate
Burl Ives
Joe Hubbard
Church Christ
Nazarene Church
Ty Presbyterian Church
Manhattan
Fred Allen
Rex Miller Hardy
NJ News
Santa Rita
Walter W
Huntley News
Tvosi
Cvoa Ktuc
VOA
Kvoa Ktuc
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