Willkie firm on demand for Allied second front
By Merriman Smith, United Press staff writer
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Mother, daughter enlist
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.”
Bombs fall on Iceland
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.
Seven die in bomber crash
Greenville, South Carolina –
Seven men were killed in the crash of an Army bomber near Richburg, South Carolina, last night during a training flight.
U.S. planes fly food, arms to Yugoslav chief
Allied air helps patriot army to wreck 49 Axis trains
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Reporter quits destroyer few hours before sinking
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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Bruce Cabot to enlist
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.
Press to distribute free stamps of plane insignia!
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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Like human flies –
Aussies cross peak in Guinea
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.