Around the World News in Pictures
Official U. S. Coast Guard photo.
The Corser twins, James and Jack, aged 20, look as much alike as the
two pineapples they are preparing for chow at a Coast Guard base in
the mid-Pacific. The Corser Coast Guardsmen are sons of Mrs. Alta M.
Corser of Attica, Kans.
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WAR’S PATH IN ATHENS — Greek civilians pick
their way between a wrecked building and some of the barbed
wire defenses set up by British forces in Athens.
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ROME—Soundphoto—His Holiness, Pone Pius XII, is shown giv- |
1ng communion during the celebration of midnight Christmas mass in
St. Peters. Vatican City.
YEAR’S FIRST SU B—USS Stickleback, first sub of 1945 launched at Mare Island navy yard.
Shield shows Yakima county, Wash., citizens’ war bond purchases financed it.
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Soundphoto— An anti-tank gun is rapidly put into position in forward area on the German Belgian
border, to repel a strong German counter attack in the 1st Army sector.
‘OLD IRONSIDES SAFE — Snow blankets the historic decks of the USS Constitution-* ^
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