Editorial: Nazis and holy places
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Government gets contract for pipeline
Pact provides for U.S. financing, ownership
By Marshall McNeil, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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New measure held threat to bank checks
‘Exchange charges’ on drafts proposed
By Ruth Finney, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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WAC recruits get 4-month stay
If in college, business school
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OWI to poke all padding from payroll
It will, that is, if it finds any
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Capt. Gentile’s own story –
Fledgling ace just concentrated on staying alive in first raids
By Capt. Don Gentile (as told to Ira Wolfert)
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Völkischer Beobachter (April 21, 1944)
Außenminister Schigemitsu erklärt:
‚Deutschland wird siegen!‘
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Rätselraten um die Invasion in England –
In Moskau will man Taten sehen
Von unserer Stockholmer Schriftleitung
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U.S. Navy Department (April 21, 1944)
CINCPAC Press Release No. 365
For Immediate Release
April 21, 1944
Wake Island was bombed by Liberator bombers on the evening of April 19 (West Longitude Date). Thirty tons of bombs were dropped. Anti-aircraft fire was moderate.
On the same day, the airfield and adjacent buildings at Ponape Island were bombed by 7th Army Air Force Mitchell bombers. Weak anti-aircraft fire was encountered.
Fifty tons of bombs were dropped on enemy positions in the Marshall Islands by Mitchells of the 7th Army Air Force, Dauntless dive bombers and Corsair fighters of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, and Ventura search planes of the Fleet Air Wing Two. Barracks, gun positions, airstrips, and other facilities were hit.
Pakin, Ant, and Ujelang Islands were bombed by single search planes of Fleet Air Wing Two on April 19.