The White Falcon - 13.03.1943, Blaðsíða 6

Meeting his son for the first time in three years, Admiral
Chester Nimitz pins Navy Silver Star award on chest of Lt.
Chester Nimitz, Jr., submarine officer cited for heroic and ef-
fective action against Nip Navy.
Good looking Gloria Callen of Nyack, N.Y., proudly displays
her collection of swimming medals. Gloria was elected by sports
experts as the outstanding woman athlete of 1942.
Art Devlin, 20-year-old Syracuse University student and con-
sidered the nation’s outstanding American-born ski jumber, soars
into space to win Franklin D. Roosevelt Trophy at Bear Mount-
ain, N.Y., with a 153-foot leap.
Mortar crews of U.S. Army take up positions in a ravine
during Allied counter-attacks against Rommel’s Afrika Korps.
During the Allied offensive in New Guinea, Brig. Gen. Han-
ford MacNider (right), former member of Congress, stands in
chow line at Army bivouac.
Joe E. Brown, film star, and his son, Corp. Joe L. Brown,
read cable informing them that Japs have been made to pay
for death of the film comedian’s late son, Capt. Don Brown.
Newest member of the U.S.
Supreme Court is Wiley B. Rut-
ledge, Jr., former Dean of Law
at the University of Iowa. He is
a foremost exponent of the hum-
anistic interpretation of law.
The SS Lou Gehrig, a 10,500-
ton Liberty cargo ship, named
for the late first baseman of the
New York Yankees, slides into
water at an East Coast shipyard.
The baseball star’s mother christ-
ened ship with bottle of cham-
pagne attached to a baseball bat.
An attack by U.S. bombers on this Jap transport off New Brit-
ain scored direct hits despite attempt to camouflage ship with
palm trees and other foliage.
Ginger Rogers of the movies is shown dancing with her hus-
band, Pvt. Jack Briggs of the U.S. Marines, following their re-
cent wedding. Ginger, 31, had not met Briggs, 22, until he ent-
ered the service although he had worked as an actor.
To the amusement of comrades stationed in India, a U.S. Army
sergeant tries his skill at charming a hooded cobra with the
pipe of bonafide charmer squatted at left.
American and French officers salute raising of Tricolor
and Stars and Stripes somewhere in North Africa. At right of
front row is French General Henri Boisseau and in center is
Maj. Gen. L. R. Fredendall of U.S. Army.
American Chiefs of Staff lunching in the new Combined Chiefs of Staff Building in Wash-
ington discuss war strategy together before regular weekly conference attended by Army
and Navy experts at which coordination of the fighting services is worked out. Left to
right: Admiral King, General Marshall, Admiral Leahy, and Lt. Gen. Arnold.
United States troops, already hardened and schooled in Com-
mando tactics, continue training even while aboard ship enroute
to battlefront by practicing climbing down cargo nets.
Col. Anthony Biddle, who has studied hand-to-hand fighting
methods all over the world, instructs U.S. Marines on how to
evade a knife thrust and deliver a counter-blow at the foe’s
stomach.
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Dock installations at Naples, Italy, feel impact of American
bombs despite heavy anti-aircraft fire and attacks by fighter
planes. Accuracy of attack is attested by columns of smoke ris-
ing from dock area.
Former superintendent of the
U.S. Military Academy at West
Point and now commander of
U.S. forces in Papua, Lt. Gen. Ro-
bert L. Eichelberger was recently
awarded the Distinguished Serv-
ice Cross.