Pilot George Manusier AAF veteran recalls thrills of Udine raid
Captain George W Manusier of Washington Iowa a 15th Air Force P 38 fighter recalls a decisive Udine area encounter in Italy boasting nine bullet holes in his aircraft after aerial combat He led a flight in a veteran group credited with over 49 enemy aircraft shot down He earned the Air Medal with six oak leaf clusters and served from Washington High School through Ellington Field and Ft Snelling before combat duty.
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Italy
15Th Air Force
George W. Manussier
East Seventh Street
Washiington
Iowa
Udine
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William P. Ilotton
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Ft. Snelling
Air Corps
Ellington Field
Texas
Washington
Washington High School
Washington Junior College
Walter W Wells Promoted in South Pacific Finance Office
Walter W Wells advanced from technician fifth grade to technician fourth grade while serving with the army services of supply in the South Pacific area. He has been overseas since March 1944 and is assigned as assistant cashier to the funding officer in the theater fiscal office. His wife Virginia Collins of Winner South Dakota works as supervisor of a flood bank in St Louis Missouri.
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South Pacific
Army
Services of
Walter W. Wells
Federal Reserve Bank
Chicago
Wells
General Accounting Office
Viginia Collins
Winner
South Dakota
St. Louis
Missouri
Army Finance Training Center
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indiana
Advanced
Army Finance School
Wake Forest College
North Carolina
Duke University
Durham
Sergeant Wells Receives Second Promotion in Army Service
Sergeant Wells, a Wake Forest army basketball alumnus and Iowa graduate, earned a second promotion after completing February 1944 training. He attended Washington high school and junior college in Washington Iowa then Iowa State University, belonging to Beta Theta Pi and Estherville lodge, and he received a good conduct medal from Major General Robert G Breene for fidelity and efficiency.
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Washington High School
Washington Junior College
Washington
Iowa
Towa State University
Beta Theta Pi Fraternity
Masonic Order of
Estherville
Wake Forest
Wells
Robert G. Breene
Chaplain Nye Assigned to Ninth Air Force Europe
Chaplain John A. Nye of Agency Iowa, with twenty two months in the European theater, joins a quartermaster truck regiment on invasion duty. He previously served in England with air reconnaissance and a signal corps unit, aiding Eighth and Ninth Air Forces. Nye attended Iowa Wesleyan and Garrett Biblical Institute. His wife Lois stays with her parents in New Jersey.
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Ninth Air Force Service Command
John A. Nye
W. D. Nye
Iowa
Ninth Air Force
Europe
Nye
Esterfield la
England
U. S. Tactical Air Command
Signal Corps
Britain
Eighth
Ninth Air Forces
Elhurch
Ainsworth
Iowa Wesleyan College
Mt. Pleasant
Ninth Air Force strikes reshape continental defenses
Army trucks enable smashing tactical sorties and assaults by the Ninth Air Force against Hitler's continental strongpoints, signaling intensified operations and likely shifts in frontline engagements.
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Ninth Air Force
Hitler
Riverside Officer Leads Coast Guard Landing at Normandy
Lieut ent Eldred Kron of Riverside Iowa commanded the first wave of assault craft aboard the JOSEPH T DICKMAN during the Normandy invasion on June 6 1944. Heavy fire mines and rough seas tested the crews as Krons boat went over the beach and back to the transporter amid waves of combat. Coast Guard 85 footers aided in rescue operations pulling soldiers from channel waters and placing them on returning transports.
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Coast Guard
France
Eldred J. Kron
Riverside
Iowa
Joseph T. Dickman
Normandy
Kron
West Wall
Dickman
Channel
Air Service Command Station Training Overseas
Harold D Batterson son of Mrs Alpha Breent of 454 South 8th Washington Iowa is overseas after completing a course at a service command station. He underwent classification exams security training healthful recreation facilities and Chaplain lectures as part of preparation for duties overseas prior to joining air force operations against the Nazi war machine. He previously worked for Carris Manufacturing in Washington Iowa.
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England
Harold D. Batterson
Alpha Breent
South 8Th
Washington
Iowa
Thei.r
Batterson
Army
Carris Manufacturing Company
Paratrooper Trainee Earns Wings at Fort Benning
Eilliss W. Stoops, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Stoops of Huntington Park California, completed four weeks of jump training at Fort Benning. He made five jumps including a night tactical jump, earning the right to wear army para trooper wings. The parachute school trains specialists in communication demolition riggers sewing machine maintenance for airborne units.
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Fort Benning
Eilliss W. Stoops
J. M. Stoops
Saturn Ave
Huntington Park
Calif
United States Army
Great Lakes Navy radio school graduates radioman third class
Blue jacket Wayne E. Davis of Washington Iowa, age 18, completed the naval training school course at Northwestern university Evanston Illinois and is eligible to qualify for radioman third class. Selection was based on recruit training aptitude test scores and covered radio equipment operation maintenance and fundamentals. Davis awaits orders for sea duty or another station.
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Great Lakes, Ill
Naval Training School
Radio
Northwestern University
Evanston
Ill
Wayne E. Davis
Third St
Washington
Iowa
Navy
Postwar meat demand tightens hog supply for brushes
The report notes that after war, Chinese reliance on young hogs for tender pork could limit long bristle supply for paint brushes. A parallel is drawn to postwar Russia where eating more young pork reduced the supply of long bristles needed from older hogs.
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Russia
Michigan shores lure visitors with peaceful lake life
A writer describes a tranquil Hamlin Lake retreat in Michigan. They note cottages dotting the area, friendly locals, and simple pleasures from quiet nights on the porch to hunting for antiques, dining delays, and plans for a beach picnic.
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Hamlin Lake
Tia
Who Is He Moscow Declarations Quiz Challenge
US secretary of state at 72 flew to Russia and helped frame a famous Moscow declaration. A POW is a person of war. Skip bombing refers to low altitude bombing. True or false: a soldier who loafs is a gold brick.
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U. S
Russia
Moscow
Answers Count: Question One and Notes
The prompt lists scoring, a Cordell Hall reference, a prisoner of war item, and a cryptic line. It includes True and a garbled sentence. The readable elements indicate a focus on questions and scoring with named terms.
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Cordell Hall
Price increases in wars compare cost of living via stats
The period of World War I saw living costs rise about 62 percent by November 11 1918. During World War II costs rose 26 percent overall, with retail price controls since May 1942 limiting the increase to 7 percent of the wartime rise.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Rayon price fall and wool price rise from 1913 to 1939
Rayon dropped from 1.85 dollars per pound in 1913 to 0.52 in 1939 while raw wool rose from about 0.57 to 0.82 dollars per pound in the same period.
Unclear chatter notes on daily life and plans
A fragment expresses everyday scenes with women on porches playing cards and mentions visiting town to buy a paper. The speaker muses about returning to activity later and references a Democratic convention in a casual, non-specific way.
Stuffed potatoes as butterless alternative
Describe a method for making stuffed potatoes when butter is scarce. Bake potatoes, halve them lengthwise, scoop out the insides, mash with salt pepper hot milk and thin cream, then refill shells and brown in the oven. Garnish with chopped green onion tops or parsley for a spring touch.
Egg production per person by season in the nation
In the flush season from February to June laying flocks produce about 1.4 eggs per person daily. During the rest of the year production drops to 0.4 eggs per person each day.
Birdsfoot Trefoil Crop Spotlight
Birdsfoot trefoil serves as a forage crop for lands not to be plowed often. It thrives on good soil but can grow and persist in wet conditions and on shallow dry soils.
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