War s Big Moments
From Poland Blitz
To French Inv asion
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invade Marshall islanas at Kwa
jalein.
Feb. 17: Americans land on
Eniwetok a'oll in Marshalls.
March 1: American destroyer
borne troops land on Admiralty
island. MacArthur on hand for
surprise blow.
March 3: U. S. planes fly over
Berlin for the first time.
March 10: Eire rejects U. S.
call to oust Axis envoys.
March 20: German 'roops oc
cupy Hungary.
March 24: German occupation
of Romania is confirmed.
March 31: Russia ends Sakha
lin oil concession to Japan.
April 3: Russians invade Ro
mania.
June 4: Allies succeed in captur
ing Rome, after long assault.
June 6: U. S. troops land in
northwestern France, securing
footholds in several places, to
launch the much-touted Western
Invasion.
BLIND WOMAN IS~
ABLE HOUSE HUNTER
OAKLAND, Calif. — (AP) —.
^lind almost 57 years, Mrs. Ada
Kennedy is conducting a telephone
canvass of Oakland to find rooms
for war workers for the War
Housing Bureau.
She calls every name in the
telephone book. Unable to see
herself, she copies them in Braille
as a neighbor reads them off. Re
suits of her survey, recorded in
Braille, are exceptional.
SILVER STAR—James P. Shaw. American Red Cross field direc
tor. who rescued American soldiers from tho sea after their landing
craft had received a direct bomb hit on July 11, 1943, near Licata,
Sicily, and who cared for the wounded under fire of attacking enemy
planes, is awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action by Major
General John T. Lewis. The award, received in a ceremony at
Memorial Continental Hall Washington. I). C., February 29, ia tho
first of World War II to an American Red Cross worker.
TENTH AIRFORCE FLIES
LONGEST MISSIONS
CALCUTTA —<AP)— Tenth
USAAF heavy bombers fly the
longest missions in the world ar.d
over the meanest jungles on ear’h.
The world’s longest bombing
jaunt started from India soon after
the 10th USAAF was formed two
years ago, when a small forma
tion flew 2.300 miles non-stop to
hit Bangkok.
The four-motored planes flew
out one morning over the Bay of
Bengal for 1,000 miles without
sighting land until they dropped
their loads on Nicobar Islands. It
was like the great shuttle raids
on Europe from England to Afri
ca. The trip from London to Tunis
is the same distance as from In
dia to Nicobar islands. The Eu
ropean bombers refueled at Tu
nis but there were too many Jap
anese at Nicobar to land and take
on gasoline.
STILLS AID WAR EFFORT
—Alcohol Tax Unite agents here
—Alcohol ax Unit agents here
enforce the law against illicit
distilling of whiskey—and aid the
war effort all at the same time.
They gave the local Red Cross
chapter over 1,000 pounds of cop
per .seized at stills in this area,
for sale as scrap me'al.
The Coast Guard has fought in
every war sine ethe United States
was founded, with the exception
of the war against Tripoli.
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Major Thornton
Given Legion of
Merit Award
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HEADQUARTERS, ALASKAN
DEPARTMENT — Major Joseph
L. Thornton of Hibbing, Minn.,
who won a race against the ap
proach of winter to deliver ur
gently-needed aviation gsaoline
and oil from Nenana to Galena by
I river craft in the fall of 1942, has
| been awarded the Legion of Mer
it.
The Engineer officer, a first
lieutenant at that time, was cited:
recnetly by Lt. Gen. Simon Boli-;
var Buckner, Jr., Alaskan De-'
partment commander, for “merit-!
orious conduct in the performance
of outstanding service.”
Major Thornton, an officer in:
charge of a special party, charged
with delivering the fuel over the
360-mile river route, was respon-;
sible for accomplishing the mis
sion before the annual freeze of
the rivers.
“Immediate and positive action
to supply that point with ade
quate aviation fuel and oil had
to be accomplished regardless of
the difficulties encountered,” the
citation said. “The problems of
organization and methods to be
used with available equipment
were many and complex, and it
was necessary to employ power
boats of various sizes and in vari
ous stages of depreciation.
“Because of lack of spare parts
and numerous breakdowns, the
maximum number of boats em
ployed at any one time was ex
tremely limited; however, Major
Thornton’s superior technical •
knowledge enabled him to effect
rapid overhaul and repair of
boats and replace damaged parts.
“Improvised rafts were design
ed so that they could be lashed
together, and Major Thornton;
successfully initiated a plan of J
LONG R U N—Judith Evelyn
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logical melodrama Angel Street,
operation, and by constant super
vision of all personnel participat
ing in this race against the ap
proach of winter, successfully
transported more than the mini
mum amount required over the
hazardous route in 56 days with
out loss of personnel, gasoline, oil
or equipment.
"By overcoming all obstacles in j
accomplishing the task and pro
ducing results far in excess of'
what was expected in the time
available, Major Thornton dis
played superior leadership, judg
ment, determination, physical en
durance and an outstanding de
votion to duty.”
Before the war, Bulgaria sup
plied 15 per cent of Germany’s
chromium imports.
BRICKBAT BOQUETS
FOR FLOWER WOMEN
CHARLESTOWN — <AP'<— This
city's gaily garbed Negro flower
women, who for generations have
sold cut flowers to tourists at the
post office, have been given two
months by the licensing bureau
to clean up -he area or get out.
The 60 women vendors, all re
lated to each other, live in two
island communities where camel
ias and azalea blossoms grow
wild. They are about to be ruled
off the streets near the pos* of
fice as nuisances until swanky
Charlestown garden clubs came
to their support.
The city f.nally consented to a
two-months' test in which each
vendor agreed to purchase a $3
license, keep the area clean, stay
within bounds and limit vendors
actually selling to 20 at a time.
STRAIGHT SALARIES
FOR SHOW-ME SHERIFFS
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—<AP
—Nobody knows how much monej
a sheriff in Missouri receive
under present laws, but a constit
utional convention committe
pians to place them all on straigh
salary.
Sheriffs now are paid in fee
and not required to make an
accounting. Under the new pla
the fees would go into revent
funds.
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REQUEST FROM THE FRONT
SAN FRANCISCO — <AP> •
From a German prison can.
came the request of Lt. Harm"
S. Bonte, Jr., shot down on^®
bombing mission, that his fath
“please give the Red Cross $1
for what they are doing for
here.”
REFORMED KILLERS
LONDON —(AP)— The Ro
Norwegian Air Force recently
stroyed its 150th German pl» m—■
since the force was reformed—^
Britain in 1941.