America at war! (1941– ) (Part 1)

U.S. torpedo planes sink German sub

San Jose, Costa Rica (AP) – (Aug. 1)
The TACA Airline announced today that United States torpedo-planes had sunk a German submarine between Curaçao and Trinidad after a TACA pilot informed American Caribbean military headquarters of sighting the U-boat.

The airline said Sherman Wilson, an American pilot, saw the submarine on a regular commercial flight and immediately gave its position.

The announcement added that a group of American patrol bombers and four torpedo planes immediately flew to the place named by Wilson, and sank the raider with several torpedoes after it had surfaced.

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U.S. airmen report desert successes

Boost repair facilities at Eritrean base

Weigh fate of 8 spies

FDR to reveal verdict after reviewing data about saboteurs

Recruiting ban hinted

Army and Navy oppose plan studied by manpower board

Allied units watch Japs at Buna-Gona

Planning ‘something big,’ observers believe

Survives battles; drowns

Polson, Mon. (AP) – (Aug. 1)
Louie Finley, 101, an Indian who survived battles between tribes and against the whites, drowned in Turtle Lake where he went to fish. His body was found yesterday.

His widow, Louise, is reputed to be 112 years old and the oldest of her Indian tribe.

‘10,000 TOO MANY JAPS IN ALEUTIANS,’ JOHNSON ASSERTS
Congressmen uneasy over Navy report

Officials say Pribilof Islands not seized by Japanese

Bullet-riddled U.S. Fortress outfights dozen Jap Zeroes

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Rail worker held as train wrecker

Police say Negro admits responsibility

Survivors of destroyer thrown out of sea by depth charges

Horsemen sought for beach patrols

Shortage of materials may close war plant

Funeral of Duchess to be held privately

Subs attack 3 more ships

Only one vessel sinks in encounters; two seamen lost
By the Associated Press

Pelley will take stand

Former Silver Shirt leader may be first witness for self

Crew learns Jap trickery

Fishing sampans appear as convoy, but sub scores successes

In the language of 28 nations, it’s–

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The millions of peoples of the 28 nations fighting against the Axis say it in thousands of languages and dialects, but it all adds up to the same thing – V for Victory.

Put them all together and they’d make the Tower of Babel sound like an elocution-school commencement-day program.

In case you should want to greet some of your friends in the war slogan in their own tongue, here are phonetic translations of some of the more difficult ones:
Russian: Just say П Для Победы (P Dlya Pobyedy) and they’ll know what you mean.
Yugoslavian: В за победу (V za pobedu)
Norwegian: Vi Vil Vinne
Danish: V for sejr
Chinese: 勝是勝利 (Shèng shì shènglì)
Polish: V Znak Zwycięstwa
Czech: V pro vítězství

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Draft takes 1-B selectees

Estimated million men to be called for limited service

Famous Chicago hotels taken over by Army

Yanks eager for action in China’s skies

Japanese seldom come their way, so they go out and hunt them
By William McGaffin