New York –
Mrs. Lillian Auerbach, 42, and her only daughter, Irene, 21, leave for Fort Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday for training in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. Mrs. Auerbach said she had wanted to join since the WAAC was organized and had served as a yeomanette in the last war. Milton Auerbach, the husband and father, will stay at home, “very jealous and very proud.”
Reykjavík, Iceland –
A German place, identified by civilian observers as a four-motored Focke-Wulf bomber, dropped two bombs in an open field Tuesday near the north Iceland fishing village of Sauðárkrókur without causing damage or casualties, United States Army Headquarters reported.
Greenville, South Carolina –
Seven men were killed in the crash of an Army bomber near Richburg, South Carolina, last night during a training flight.
Allied air helps patriot army to wreck 49 Axis trains
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By Robert C. Miller, United Press staff writer
This is the second and last dispatch based on the reporter’s notebook of Robert C. Miller, United Press staff writer, who covered the first six weeks of the U.S. Marines’ campaign in the Solomon Islands.
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Miami, Florida –
Movie star Bruce Cabot, who appears here today in a musical revue given by the Army Air Force, said he would enlist “within a few weeks.” He said he had not yet decided upon which of the Armed Forces he would join.
Colorful squadrons of U.S. fighting forces carry their own insignia – now you can get a collection of those insignia at no cost
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Jap resistance stiffens as Allies gain slowly
By Don Caswell, United Press staff writer
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16 Jap planes bagged in the score of Marine Corps Maj. John L. Smith, of Lexington, Oklahoma, so far in air battles in the Solomon Islands.
Emergency community formed by Americans and others in Manila
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New York (UP) –
The national Keys to Victory drive which opened Sept. 17 will provide the USO with more than $500,000 – the greatest contribution the organization has received, E. J. Durkin, national chairman of the drive, said tonight.
The drive ends tomorrow and the boxes in which keys have been deposited will be collected. Most of the keys are of the finest steel and the original goal of 100 million keys has already been surpassed with well over 200 million keys donated.