Strasbourg Holiday Inn Amid War Turmoil
The Marauders move through Strasbourg as Seventh Army advances via Savern Gap. An American convoy clogs routes while wrecked tanks and roadblocks dot the countryside. In the Blue Cross hotel, local clerks note German occupation, and GIs seek meals, drink, and rest amid fog and cold. The town’s meaning shifts from strategic value to a plain need for food and shelter.
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Strasbourg
Seventh Army
Savern Gap
Rhine
The
Blue Cross
Rouget de Lisle
Adolph Hitler
Europe
Black Forest
John Preston Yank
Shoo Shoo Baby Edward DuPont Adopted by GIs in Holland
Cpl Jimmy Adkins of the OSS wakes to meet Dutch four year old Edward DuPont nicknamed Shoo Shoo. The boy, hungry and silent at first, is taken to meals with the GI group and temporarily adopted by the soldiers. They tailor a tiny GI uniform and arrange pay, with a Dutch cent partial payment from the finance officer to ease the process.
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Holland
Cpl
Jimmy Adkins
Office of Strategic Services
Adkins
Edward DuPont
Weasels at Work in the Philippines Front Lines
In the Ordnance repair shop soldiers fix M29 Weasels after bogging through paddies and swamps. The small tracked vehicles carry about 1,200 pounds and boost infantry rations, with parts made on the spot due to scarce replacements. T-5 Arnold Westman Jr. recalls jeep clutch adaptations to fit the Weasel, shaving time from ten hours to three after initial trials.
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Eyte
Philippines
Ordnance
Arnold Westman Jr
Fenton, Mich
Jet fighter trio features Bell Aircraft sisters
Two Bell Aircraft sister ships headline this week’s cover, the jet propelled P-59 Airacomet flanked by the P-39 Airacobra and P-63 Kingcobra. The story explains what makes the jet job fly across pages 2 3 and 4.
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Bell Aircraft
Photo Credits and Air Force Imagery Labels
Photo credits list assignments and personnel for a military page. Includes Bell Aircraft Corporation images 2 and 3, USSTAF on page 4, Pvt. George Aarons on page 5, Pvt. Charles Schonert and Sgt. Nat Eisenberg on page 6, PA tower Acme on page 7, Masory Pawlak CPhoM on pages 10 and 11, Sgt. Dave Richardson on pages 12 and 13, Ardmore AAF Oklo on page 18, PRO Cama Crowder Me on page 6, Breeks Field Tex, Universal Pictures on page 20, Acme Signal Corps on page 23.
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Bell Aircraft Corporation
Usstaf
George Aarons
Charles Schonert
Nat Eisenberg
Upper
Tower
Acme
Masory Pawlak
Dave Richardson
Ardmore Aaf
Oklo
Cama Crowder
Breeks Field
Tex
Universal Pictures
Signal Corps
Bed in Bedlam War The Fifteenth Air Force in Italy
A US Army Air Forces sergeant, exhausted near Florence, seeks his wounded infantryman brother at a field hospital. He naps in a room mistaken for a ward, wakes to a medic's thermometer, and is later directed to the psych ward after humor turns to confusion. The incident ends with the misread sign RECEIVING WARD.
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Fifteenth Air Force
Italy
Air Force
Florence
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Yanks
U. S
Loran Calvin
Shoo
DuPont
Weasels
Bedlam
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