Dauntless dive bomber crew eugene kansas12/12/2023 Navy Photo from ACME) Ĭlosing in on Salamaua. Giant timber frames erected along the hull have cables running over them and to winches ashore, which slowly draw the vessel upright. Oklahoma being raised from the bottom of Pearl Harbor, where the warship was sunk during the Jap attack. The Japs have been driven from Munda Point on New Georgia after bloody fighting and only isolated pockets of resistance remain. Note mud-caked wheel of ambulance in foreground. NEW GEORGIA ISLAND – Allied wounded are placed in ambulances for removal from the fighting zone on New Georgia Island. The Gripsholm is shown in New York harbor. She will return with non-military internees. Guaranteed safe conduct by all belligerent governments, the liner will voyage to the Far East, bringing relief packages from the U. At night, while on the high seas, she will be gaily lighted to reveal her identity. NEW YORK CITY – In contrast to the drab vessels of war, the Swedish exchange liner “Gripsholm” sports the brilliant blue and gold colors of her country on her side, with her name and the word “Diplomat” prominently lettered between the colors. His Excellency celebrated mass and distributed gifts of prayer books, rosaries and similar articles. S., is shown with a group of Italian prisoners during his recent visit to the PW camp at Weingarten. Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Papal Representative to the U. WEINGARTEN, MO – The spiritual needs of prisoners of war interned in camps in America are not overlooked. Given a Christian burial by Marine Corps chaplains, the boys lie in neat graves marked with name plates made from captured Jap mess gear. ENOGAI, NEW GUINEA - This is the last resting place of marines who gave their lives for their country during fighting in the Enogai jungle. CHICAGO – Vice-President Henry Wallace and Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox meet unexpectedly at the Glenview Naval Air Station near Chicago when Wallace, in Chicago to make a “major address” before a mass meeting dedicated to winning the peace, was making a tour of the naval base and Knox arrived. Milan – Suffering heavily from bombing attacks by the Allies, Milan was described as “a city of the dead, without gas, water or electricity.” This photo, received through a neutral source, shows wreckage in the Piazza Fontana of the industrial city. See ACME photo #646764 for a glimpse of Ingrid in peacetime as an eye-filling pin-up. Even the lovely blonde tresses are hidden beneath a safety cap as she works at her drill press in a Minneapolis war plant. – Here’s the face that decorated countless barracks walls – but pretty Ingrid Vallo has hidden her eye-catching gams in a pair of war worker’s overalls, for the duration. Using a rolled-up blanket for a chair, she bangs out a letter t the folks back home. Part of a WAC contingent sent to Allied Force Headquarters in North Africa, she’s a whiz at the typewriter, too. North Africa – The WAC has its Private Hargrove too – and here she is – Private Pearlie Hargrove who hails from Pillager, Minn. The road starts at Assam, will cross the North Burma border and on into Central Burma, where it will connect with the Old Burma road, now blocked by Jap occupation. Army Engineers working on a new branch of the Burma Road, points out the direction which United Nations moving over the road, will eventually take - to Tokyo. Moyer, of Tuskegee, Ala., one of many U.S.
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