Read some of the interesting and wacky news stories from home; taken from the 25 Feb 1944 Down Under Edition.
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Showing posts with label News From Home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News From Home. Show all posts
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Monday, August 24, 2009
Golly What Gams!
Radio City Music Hall Rockettes with plaque made for them from bits of a South Pacific flyers who've picked theses gals as "ideal."YANK 20 Aug 1944 British Edition
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
News From Home
Read all the news from home wild, wacky, crazy and sometimes dull but always interesting.
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YANK 11 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition
Winged Wedding
Miami, Fla.
S/Sgt. Walt R Johnson of Chicago, Ill., was at the alter getting married here after a long hitch at a bomber base in Greenland where GIs use interphone language all day long.
The chaplain asked him the fateful question: "Do you, Walter take the woman, Helen, to be your lawful wedded Wife?"
Walt nodded nervously.
"Roger," he said.
YANK 18 Aug 1944
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
New From Home Maryland-North Dakota
Read clips from "News from Home" Maryland to North Dakota 11 Aug 1944
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Saturday, August 15, 2009
News From Home
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This is facinating stuff. This segment is the shorts from the "States" Alabama to Maine.
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YANK 11 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition
Friday, August 07, 2009
News from Home
New York
Twelve women electricians and welders became the first of their sex to hold jobs in the New York Navy Yard at Brooklyn.
Four hundred German prisoners of war, the first of a contingent of 1,000, arrived at Fort Niagara for assignment to farms and food-processing plaants in the area.
Ohio
Cincinnati has women street cleaners and a woman elevator operator in City Hall, all because of the manpower shortage.
An 11-day strike of bakery drivers in six major Toledo plants over wages and overtime provisions ended when drivers finally obeyed a National War Labor Board back-to-work order.
South Carolina
Moses Nevins strangled to death a wildcat that attacked him at night while he was walking along Highway No. 1 south of Cheraw.
Texas
Mrs. Lester Renfrow of Dallas announced that her baby daughter born on D Day would be named Invasia.
The Harrison Cunty Jail in Marshall was empty for the first time in 17 years.
Virginia
Moonshining was staging a come-back in the Old Dominion State; Federal agents confiscated 57 stills in May, the largest number in a single month in 2 1/2 years.
Pedesrians who walk against a red light in Richmond, may be fined 50 cents to $5 under a new ordinance.
Washington
Castor oil was prescribed for Tacoma school children by a jokester who represented himself as a school physician when he telephoned their parents.
Hoquiam's City Council passed an ordinance providing for fines and jail sentences for proprietors of establishments who permit minors to play pinball machines.
Wisconsin
Air-conditioning equipment in 50 percent of Milwaukee's bars, restaurants, stores and other establishments will not operate this summer because freon, the refrigerant in small cooling systems, is being used almost exclusively by the armed forces.
The state announced that mororists must get along next year with the same license plates they have used since 1942.
YANK 4 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition
Twelve women electricians and welders became the first of their sex to hold jobs in the New York Navy Yard at Brooklyn.
Four hundred German prisoners of war, the first of a contingent of 1,000, arrived at Fort Niagara for assignment to farms and food-processing plaants in the area.
Ohio
Cincinnati has women street cleaners and a woman elevator operator in City Hall, all because of the manpower shortage.
An 11-day strike of bakery drivers in six major Toledo plants over wages and overtime provisions ended when drivers finally obeyed a National War Labor Board back-to-work order.
South Carolina
Moses Nevins strangled to death a wildcat that attacked him at night while he was walking along Highway No. 1 south of Cheraw.
Texas
Mrs. Lester Renfrow of Dallas announced that her baby daughter born on D Day would be named Invasia.
The Harrison Cunty Jail in Marshall was empty for the first time in 17 years.
Virginia
Moonshining was staging a come-back in the Old Dominion State; Federal agents confiscated 57 stills in May, the largest number in a single month in 2 1/2 years.
Pedesrians who walk against a red light in Richmond, may be fined 50 cents to $5 under a new ordinance.
Washington
Castor oil was prescribed for Tacoma school children by a jokester who represented himself as a school physician when he telephoned their parents.
Hoquiam's City Council passed an ordinance providing for fines and jail sentences for proprietors of establishments who permit minors to play pinball machines.
Wisconsin
Air-conditioning equipment in 50 percent of Milwaukee's bars, restaurants, stores and other establishments will not operate this summer because freon, the refrigerant in small cooling systems, is being used almost exclusively by the armed forces.
The state announced that mororists must get along next year with the same license plates they have used since 1942.
YANK 4 Aug 1944 Down Under Edition
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Paulette Goddard
Now Come See Us! Paulette Goddard, back home agter a 38,000-mile trip entertaining GIs in China-India-Burma Theater. That's a memento giver her by Gen. Joe Stilwell.YANK 6 Aug 1944 British Edition
Paulette Goddard was a child model who debuted in "The Ziegfeld Follies" at the age of 13. She made about 59 films in hollywood from 1929 to 1972. She was also married to Charlie Chapman and Burgess Meredith. She died in 1990 of a heart attack. She was about 34 when this picture was taken.
GOOD LUCK
Cpl. Bertha Santos, USMC, helps launch the destroyer, "Hanna," named for her late sweetheart, William Hanna, of Carlson's Raiders. Hanna's mother watches.YANK 6 Aug 1944 British Edition
William T. Hanna was a Marine private who fought heroically on Guadalcanal. "Fighting desperately in hand-to-hand combat against overwhelming hostile forces, Private Hanna refused to be dislodged from his position and after exacting a tremendous toll of the enemy, heroically died at his post."
USS Hanna served the Navy from 1944 until 1959.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Thursday, March 08, 2007
News From Home
After taking his Army physical, Mayor William P. Hood, of Wichita Falls, Texas, wired his wife: "Inspected, dissected, infected, rejected, as expected."
YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition
YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition
News From Home
At Camp White, Ore., Sgt. Fred Barnett, of Hammond, Ind., received the Distinguished Service Cross from Major General James M. Bradley, while 10,000 of his fellow-soldiers saluted. The sarge, who is 31 years old and a widower, was honored for killing twenty Japs on Attu last June. A private at the time, he was a member of a battalion which was trapped by Jap snipers and boxed by two machine-gun emplacements. Barnett filled his pockets with grenades and dashed for the enemy position, firing his rifle as he ran. He succeeded in killing the snipers and the crew of one machine-gun before running out of ammunition, then bayoneted or slugged to death every Jap in the second machine-gun emplacement. His mother, Mrs. Edith Barnett, of Independence, Kan., and his daughter, Wanda Barnett, were on hand to see him receive the recognition he had earned.
YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition
YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition
News From Home
During the month of February, 1944, the United States shipyards turned out 134 merchant ships.
YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition
YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition
Senator Harry Truman
Senator Harry Truman, Democrat of Missouri, got browned off about the nation's press. "Ever since I've been in the Senate" complained the Senator, who was first elected to his post in 1935, "it's been the policy of the press to make it appear that the legislative branch of the Government is made up of morons."
YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition
YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition
News From Home
Mickey Rooney, the movie Peter Pan who was turned down by the Army a year ago, was back on 1-A status according to the Draft Board.
YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition
YANK 19 March 1944 British Edition
News From Home
Missouri:
Water was released at Montana's Fort Peck Dam to raise the Missouri River two feet so that eight LST's built at Kansas City could navigate downstream.
YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition
Water was released at Montana's Fort Peck Dam to raise the Missouri River two feet so that eight LST's built at Kansas City could navigate downstream.
YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
News From Home
New York:
New York University announced the establishment of Gold Star scholarships to provide four years tuition to the children of the university's graduates who lose their lives in this war.
YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition
New York University announced the establishment of Gold Star scholarships to provide four years tuition to the children of the university's graduates who lose their lives in this war.
YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition
Monday, March 05, 2007
News From Home
Oklahoma:
Marriages by proxy or radio telephone is illegal in Oklahoma, Atty. Gen. Cobb advised the American Red Cross.
YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition
Marriages by proxy or radio telephone is illegal in Oklahoma, Atty. Gen. Cobb advised the American Red Cross.
YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition
News From Home
Delaware:
Thousands of residents between Lewes and Rehoboth Beach watched a blazing sea of oil five miles off the Delaware Capes caused by the collision of two merchnt ships.
YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition
Thousands of residents between Lewes and Rehoboth Beach watched a blazing sea of oil five miles off the Delaware Capes caused by the collision of two merchnt ships.
YANK 17 March 1944 Down Under Edition
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