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July 1, 1944 No. 203 Vol. 16 20 Pages
Cover: Americans At War
American troops and men of the Scottish Horse gather round famous “song-hit” writer Irving Berlin in the Colosseum and ask for autographs. Berlin opened his show This Is The Army in Rome 10 days after Allied troops entered the Italian capital.
Articles Inside:
The Week
(Gen. von Schlieben, Von Arnim)
50 Div And Desert Rats Again
Forward In Italy Once More
Sea Battle In The Pacific
Special Message From General Sir Bernard Paget, K.C.B., D.S.O., M.C.
Commander-in-Chief, the Middle East Forces
Americans In France
Kenneth G. Crawford, covering the Second Front for ‘Newsweek,’ went in with the first wave on D-Day. Revisiting Normandy he writes of the American soldier who like his British Ally has ridden the storm of initial invasion and proved his superiority to the German
(2nd Lt. Charles W. McCann, Buster Toon, Sam Byrd, Lt. Col. C.C. Simmons, Sergt. Sam Cochran)
Victory at Cherbourg
The Pacific Offensive Grows
Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, former C-in-C U.S. Asiatic Fleet, traces the pattern of Pacific assault on Japan
Assam S.O.S. Camp
“Parade” reporter Paul Chadburh, back from the Burma theatre, describes his visit to an American Army camp in northern Assam
American Home Town
U.S.A, like Britain has a home front. Come on a visit to Hagerstown, Maryland, a typical American home town. War industry has swelled its population, its men are overseas, its housewives in factories
(Austin Hoch)
The Pentagon
U.S. War Office
(cartoonist Carl Rose)
Convention In Chicago
In November America will elect a president In Chicago Republicans have met to select their candidate. Democrats meet on July 19 to choose their champion. Here is how they do it
‘Dugout’ Taxis For Delegates
This week’s “American Chronicle” gives vivid details of wartime arrangements for the two national presidential conventions
Berlin Goes To Rome
“Parade” reporter R.J. Gilmore and cameraman Bela Zola attend Rome performance of song-writer Irving Berlin’s world-touring U.S. Army show
(Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Gen. Mark W. Clark)
Michael Mason’s Cable From London
(Air Marshal Sir Roderic Hill, Air Marshal Sir Ralph Sorley, Sir Henry Tizard, Lord Rosebery, Akim Tamiroff, Lynn Bari, Mr. Frank Fawcett, Mr. Ronald Miller)
Home News
Bristol
(Sergt-Maj. Jack Astley, Pte. A. J. Hopkins, Corpl. H. S. Dalton, Alderman C. R. Gill)
Portsmouth
(Air Commodore K.B.B. Cross, Sqdn-Ldr. Ian Cross, Lieut-Cmdr. L.W.A. Bennington, H.M.S. Wolverine)
Cardiff
(Miss Cooksley, Mrs. Burnand, Mrs. Summerhayes, Mr. Wyndham Jones, Maj-Gen. D. P. Dickinson, Sir James Grigg. M.P.)
York
(Lord Mayor, Councillor William Thompson, Field Marshal Sir Cyril Deverell, Father P. J. Shaw, Tpr. Robert Ward, Tpr. Robert Henderson, Mr. J. Randall)
Scotland
(Partick Thistle, Arthur Greenwood, Sir Thomas Hunter. M.P., Mr. George Buchanan. M.P., Lord Inverclyde, Mr. Harry Yates, Mr. Tom Steel, Lord Dunglass, John Rocks, Mr. W. A. Ross)
Birmingham
(Mr. A.R. Penny, Lord Mayor. Alderman L.G.H. Alldridge, Edward Barnell)
Derby
Plymouth
(Rev. C.A. Martin, Gen. Sir Hugh Elies)
Huddersfield
(Mr. Ernest Woodhead, Frank Quarmby, Trevor Sykes and F. Barlow)
Manchester
(Miss Mary Kingsmill Jones, Corpl. Monty Rosenfield)
Merseyside
(Mr. J.H. Eccles, Mr. P.J. Robinson, Captain Bernard Rigby)
India
(Naik Nand Singh, Sir Ardeshir Dalal, Sir Jeremy Raisman, Sir Shanmukam Chetty, Sir Jeremy Raisman, Governor, Mr. R.G. Casey)
South Africa
(Mr. H. Welsh, Honorary Chief Defence Force Liaison Officer, Sir William Campbell, Mr. Harry Lawrence)
By Jan Marais
“Parade” Credits
Cover: Zola-“Parade3-7: U.S.O.W.I.; 9: Gidal-“Parade”; 10-12: U.S.O.W.I.; 14. 15: U.S.O.W.I.; 16: Zola-“Parade”; 17: “The Tatler and Bystander 18, 19: Val Doone; 20: M.G.M.
Pin-up: Ann Sother
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