Bombers Hit Bairoko Harbor in Largest Southwest Pacific Raid
Allied forces led by Douglas MacArthur launched the heaviest air attack in the Southwest Pacific, using over 150 Avenger torpedo bombers and Dauntless dive bombers to strike Bairoko Harbor near Munda on New Georgia Island. The raid supported ground advances toward Enogai Inlet and aimed at crippling Japanese defenses.
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Southwest Pacific
Bairoko Harbor
Munda
New Georgia Island
Douglas MacArthur
Enogai Inlet
Bairoko
Solomons
William F. Halsey
South Pacific
U. S
Madang
New Guinea
Komiatum
Salamaua
Mount Tambu
Fifth Airforce
Gum
Gogol
Gori
Madang-Lae
Penfoet
Timor
Rabaul
New Britain
Cape Gloucester
Finschhafen
Lae
Vella Lavella Island
Bulolo
Navy planning for Pacific war into 1949
The piece notes Vice Admiral Frederick Horne warns of a Pacific war lasting at least to 1949, while War Mobilization Chief James Byrnes voices uncertainty. It highlights Allied air raids on Bairoko Harbor and Kahili, probing Japanese defenses from Kiska to Celebes, and counts high Japanese losses to illustrate steady Allied progress.
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Frederick Horne
Naval Operations
Navy
James F. Byrnes
War Mobilization
Mikado
Bairoko Harbor
New Georgia
Sbe
Saes
Steno
Kahili
Japan
Solomons
Pacific
Kiska Island
Aleutians
Kiska
Alaska
Paramushiro
Kurile Chain
Amchitka
Australia
Celebes
Pearl Harbor
Classified Advertisements For Sale and Wanted Items
Farm lands for sale 125 acres on highway near Winchester with buildings Myrtle Garvin Gore Virginia 7 15 121 non wash spray Cryolite and Summer Oil F A Shryock Co 7 19 101 8 room house for sale 114 Greenwall Ave 7 19 6t Baby stroller excellent condition price 15 cash 523 Fairmont Ave ii Electric refrigerator wanted phone 3143 7 21 31 Good second bicycle wanted call 5409 7 21 31 School boy for morning store work Worths 27 N Loudoun 7 22 21
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Winchester
Myrtle Garvin
Gore
Virginia
F. A. Shryock Co
Fairmont Ave
Loudoun
For Sale and Rent Classified Fragments
Multiple brief notices list items for sale and rental: RCA radio with remote, Westinghouse electric range, gold plated Bibles, one electric refrigerator, and two rental houses with addresses and contact details. All entries show dates or postmarks and contact numbers for inquiries.
Lost ration book and papers in Lauransburg North Carolina
A LOST A gas ration book is filed with Wood Tow C Martin at 18 Peyton St Lauransburg NC. Also notice of LOST registration card O D T certificate and LOST pocket book with money and papers. Finder may recover money if papers are returned Edward Ray McKee phone 5544 contact 7 22 21
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Main
Lauranburg
N. C
Wood- Tow C. Martin
Peyton St
J. W. Grove
Edward Ray McKee
More Raid Shelters Claimed Needed In Large Cities
Washington July 22 James F Landis director of Civilian Defense urged expanded shelter areas in major cities after air raid test alarms. He said crowds linger on streets when warnings sound and noted a lack of shelters endangering civilians in theatres and shipping districts.
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Washington
James F. Landis
Civilian Defense
Landis
Sugar Beet Planters Face Major Cutbacks in West
Sugar beet operations may halt nationwide if quotas drop to 40 percent. Eric W. Ryberg of Utah Idaho Sugar predicts closures unless supply is safeguarded. Howard Neagle of the Idaho Beet Growers Association notes federal officials ordered the cut, citing industry costs.
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Salt Lake City
Eric W. Ryberg
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company
Howard Neagle
Idaho Beet Growers Association
St. Anthony
Idaho
Frederick Co Democratic Call to Vote August 3 1943
A Frederick County Democratic notice solicits voter support for August 3 1943 with Earl Bailey signing The brief appeal urges voters to back the party in the upcoming election.
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TMS
Ceres
Greenwich Village
William Holden
Eddie Bracken
Susan Hayward
Robert Benchley
John Nesbitt
Edger Kennedy
Robert Taylor
Bill Dane
Bataan
Earl L. Mason
N. Loudoun
Bell
Front Royal
Gabardine
Jantzen
H.C. Sheetz & Son
Gray & Sheetz
Shangri-La
Farmers “” Merchants National Bank
By Marlin Spencer
Omps Funeral Home
Senda
Tokio
J. W. Arthur
General Insurance
Rouss. Ave
Winchester, Va
DIAL
T. V. Soong
China
Greenwall Ave
Colonial Brick Corp
Call
Shenandoah Valley
C. D. Kenny Company
Hagerstown
Q. Cook
S. Cameron
Loudoun Manor
Whitlock Avenue
A. W. M. Richards
Bileven Tube R. C. A
POR Sale Foundation
Clara Fultz
Westinghouse Electric
W W. J. Helms
South Kent
City
Loudoun St
Heatec
Hansbrough & Carter
N. Loudoun St
W. Clifford &J
Piccadilly
Care Star
Martin Wisecarver
Amherst St
Baking Co
Dial 3076
Business School
Molden
Solenberger
E. W Armstrong Co
E. Piccadilly St
Return To Texas Co
George W. Kurtz
Grabill Mfg. CO
Woodstock
Masao
Hable’s Palace
Hollywood
Frederick CO
Earl
Bailey
South Market St
West
Monmouth
Andee Poole
Roy Duvall
N. Main ST
Magnolia
Winchester Milling Corp
Gray and
Eddy
Plymouth
Pine Motor Co
Loudoun Street
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