Weekly Mission 1944 11 12 nr 23 (PDF)

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Metz Threatened By 3rd Army Pincers From North And South, U.S. Spearheads only 14 miles apart
Yanks gain five miles over Leyet
Roosevelt’s plurality passes 3,000,000 as votes roll in
B-29s Rip Nanking
Bing finds comfor in being unknown: Bing Crosby
Unit evacuates 100,000 patients: 802nd Medical AIr Evacuation Squadron
8th exploits Forli’s fall
Churchill arrives in French capitol
12th compiles proud record in two years
Virginia Thacher
William H. McCue. Jr. 1st Lieutenant earns Silver Star
Robert W. Joyce, 1sr Lieutenant 448th Bomb Squadron, 321st Bomb Group earns Silver Star
TAF rolls up 15,799 sorties in October, Luftwaffe re-apperance bad weather hamper tactical units
Claims new two engine record: T/Sgt. Robert Keating from Southington, Conn. change engines on B023 Marauder of Lt. Robert I. Lamb, Dayton, Ohio
Marine gains nod as top smoocher
Two TAF pilots mix with 50 MEs: Lake Garda, Italy, 1st Lt. James B. Dailey from Hopkinsville, Ky and 2nd. Lt. Robert C. Tomlinson from Iron Mountain, Michiga B-24 Wing Has 20,000 sorties in year’s time
Missions from France: Capt. Lyman E. Seeley of Woodburn, Ore., 1st. Lt. Murray Shapiro of Brooklyn,N.Y., 2nd Lt. Roger Paquette of Riverside,L.I.
Virginia Mayo
Carol Bruce
RKO announces coming movies thru 1944-1945
Biggest-busted Miss America doesn’t even know bust size – Venus Ramey
Bartow Belle, jinx for strange pilots, is lucky ship for 12th AAF Floridan; by Capt. Henry H. Dunn; 1st. Lt. Hayden H. Harriss from Jacksonville
12th in 3rd combat year
Eaker, Clark praise 15th on anniversary
Lt. Aleda E. Lutz of Saginaw, Michigan
Comics: Moon Mullins by Frank Willard, Wash Tubbs, Alley Oop, Male Call by Milton Caniff
Sports: Glenn Davis, Bill Barron, Dick Duden, Joe Sulivan and Bob JenkinsĀ  MAAF knocks out 11,200 enemy planes during 2 years of combat operations, allied planes rain down 450,000 tons since Africa D-Day
Bells to ring for hero Kelly: Louise Elliott and T/Sgt. Charles E (Commando) Ketty Combat cameraman chutes down into France with 120 pounds of equipment: S/Sgt. J.E. Birdsall of Gadsden, Ala