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Vol. 4 No. 240 – Thursday, August 10, 1944
Articles’ Headlines: …….. The Picture Tells the Story ….. A One-Mission Man’s Tour Concludes – A20s’ 100th Op a Milk Run–But Our Joe Will Stick to Gin / By Joe Fleming ….. Reds Renew Campaign at East Prussia – German Lines Breached To East and South; Riga Drive Speeded ….. The War Today ….. U.S. Strikes Hit Plane Output – 9,000 Workers Out; Lewis Orders Miners Back; Truckers Idle ….. Port of Cherbourg Chief, Sub Expert lyes, Is Killed ….. 17 Lost in Clipper Crash ….. Aircraft a Key To a Nazi Rout – Mallory Describes Havoc Wrought by Planes; Heavies Hit Reich ….. Le Mans Falls; Yanks at Loire – Reach Angers on River; Canadians Gain 4 Miles In Smash for Falaise – German Escape Gap Narrows; Brittany Ports Hold Out ….. Occupied Nations’ Ships Pledged to War on Japan ….. Two Privates Spot Panzers, Snafu Assault ….. Paris Cab Pops Up in Brittany ….. Hengyang Battling Still On-Chungking ….. 17 U-Boats Sunk by Allies In Channel Since D-Day ….. Maps Detail Week’s Allied Gains ….. Canada’s New Army ….. Drive on Tokyo ….. A Superb Job ….. Hash Marks ….. Straight From the Front / By Ernie Pyle ….. Notes from the Air Force ….. This Is The Army ….. Hell Hath No Fury – Irate Dodger Fan Demands Justice for His ‘Beloved’ Bums / By Gene Graff ….. Giants Subdue Bucs, 8-4, in Only Game on Docket – Bill Voiselle, Aided by Rally In Sixth, Annexes 14th Decision ….. How They Stand ….. Help Wanted–And Given ….. Branch Rickey All Set to Slip Durocher a Mickey / By Oscar Fraley ….. Tiger Eleven Starts Drills – 35 Candidates Seek Berths On Brooklyn Pro Combine ….. Bears Prepare for All-Star Tilt ….. Iowa Pre-Flight Shortstop To Join Brooks at Chicago ( Lou Rochelli ) ….. Wilks Released From Hospital ( Ted Wilks ) ….. Leg Injury Forces Alsab Into Retirement ….. Giants Return Barthelson To Jersey City Farm Team ( Bob Barthelson ) ….. Hillenbrand Normandy Casualty ( Capt. Joseph W. Hillenbrand ) ….. Eleven Entered In Hambletonian ….. Maple Leafs Sign Cooney ( Johnny Cooney ) ….. Minor League Results ….. Vienna Upsets Twilight Tear – Wright Filly Drops First Three-Year-Old Event In Alabama Stakes ….. Li’l Abner / By Al Capp ….. Yank, German Medics Team Up ….. Gas Mask Doubles As a Bathysphere ….. Fails to Deny Himmler Death – Berlin Silent on Captives’ Report; More Officers Facing ‘Trial’ ….. Desertion Means Death in Germany Later, Nazis Told ….. Radio Highlights ….. Isle 500 Mi. Off Philippines Hit; Mass Jap Suicides Described – Reporter Tells of Saipan Death Orgy Among Enemy Civilians ….. B32, ‘Sister Ship’ of B29, Now in Production in U.S. ….. NEWS FROM HOME – Group to Probe Army Planning On Rest Centers – Senate Committee Cites ‘Mismanagement’ in the Acquisition of Hotels ….. Jessel’s Ex-Wife to Wed ( George Jessel ) ….. Gen. Hyde Dies ( Brig. Gen James C. Hyde ) ….. Drills for Water, Strikes Oil ( Cooney Ball ) ….. Betty Compson to Wed Again ….. Capture Town Near Florence ….. Anglo-U.S. Oil Agreement Is Signed at Washington ….. Bubbles From The Political Pot ….. Admiral Takes Own Life; Combat Fatigue Blamed ( Rear Adm. Don. P. Moon ) ….. Ex-Congressman Dies ( John Stephen McGroarty ) ….. Terry & The Pirates / By Milton Caniff ………………… WARWEEK … ( Insert ) ………………… GI Jinxes–How Did They Start? – When You Go Back Home Again – Kraut Komiks or Why Jerry Laughs ….. How To Duck that Old GI Jinx / By Ed. Wilcox ….. This Week’s Army Talk … ‘. . . duration, plus six months’–and then / By John J. Christie ….. GI Bill of Rights Provides for Loans, Aid, Hospital Care American People Insist Veterans Have Fresh Start ….. Ha, Ha, Aber Diss Ist Funny, Yah? Dopes? ….. Jack M. McCown Wins War Bond / By Paul V. Connors ….. Quiz-Fix Contest Winners … FIRST PRIZE …. $50 War Bond T/5 Jack M. McCown, APO 874 SECOND PRIZE …. $25 War Bond Sgt. Robert W. O’Briant, APO 30 THIRD PRIZE …. $10 (Tie)Sgt. H. M. Meyers, APO 124 and Pvt. George A. Tanner, APO 887 ….. APO Ixnays Souvenir Krauts ….. The Old Sergeant’s Corner ….. NO GI JERRY THIS WEEK