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JET-PROPELLED F I C H T E R PLAN E—The Bell P-59 (above) Is the first of the USAAF jet-propelled fighter planes. This
particular ship set down at the Great Falls, Mont., Army air base for cold weather testing operations.
* PO N I TO CHANC E—Movie Actress Pon! Adams, pic
tured piloting a boat, is polling V. S. soldiers for suggestions for
another name because an astrologist maintains “Poni” is unlucky.
"Carol” is leading at present.
WINTER AT THE FRONT —Pvt. Charles Preston of
Nicholasville, Ky., brushes snow from the .30 caliber machine ?un
mounted on his jeep in the northern sector of the western front.
Jeep’» windshield is smashed below gun.
NINTH ARMY SKI PATROL —At the top of a ridge somewhere in Germany the leader of a ski patrol of the U. S. Ninth
Army makes a turn to head the group over the deep snow back toward their base.
USO observes its fourth birth
day on Sunday, Feb. 4. During that
week-end open house is held at all
USO chibs throughout the country,
with anniversary luncheons in key
cities on Feb. 5. Here WAVE Yeo
man 2/c Thelma Belville, of Town
send, Mont., and Sergeant Walter
Glardon, of New Rochelle, N. Y.,
j collaborate on a birthday greeting.
PATTON — Forces under
command of Lt. Gen. George S.
Patton, Jr., shown In s portrait
made in France, were prominent
in checking the Nad counter*,
offensive.
CHICAGO, ILL.—Would you be
willing to shine your own shoes if
it would help shorten the war?
That is the question that regional
director of the War Manpower
Commission, Dean Spencer asks.
Spencer is shown here as he shines
his own shoes, and thereby releases
an “unemployed” bootblack for a
job with a war plant. The WMC
is checking all types of work and
may order war jobs for those that
are not in war work.