The White Falcon - 01.05.1943, Qupperneq 7

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Preceded by tanks -and with close air support, troops of General Montgomery’s vic-
torious Eighth Army close in on trapped Axis forces holding Tunis-Bizerte position in a last-
ditch attempt to throw United Nations invasion timetable off schedule.
Seaman Basil D. Izzi, 19, who longed for a plate of his moth-
er’s spaghetti while he spent 83 gruelling days aboard a raft in
the Atlantic, gets his wish fulfilled during a visit to his mother
in South Barre, Mass. Izzi was a Navy gunner aboard a freighter
which was torpedoed.
Flinging wisecracks and sing-
ing hot songs from the home-
front in the good old U.S.A.,
comedy actress Martha Raye en-
tertains men of 12th Air Force
on a makeshift stage on the edge
of the Sahara Desert in North
Africa. Martha was one of four
American stage and screen act-
resses who toured the fighting
front.
Herbert H. Lehman (left) U.S. Director of Foreign Relief and
former Governor of New York, takes a look around London be-
fore beginning survey of European relief problems.
Oscar of the Waldorf (Oscar Tschirky, left above) receives
autographed silver tray given to him by members of New York’s
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel at a dinner celebrating the fiftieth anni-
versary of the hotel and Oscar’s fiftieth year in its employ.
Former Olympic diving champ Marjorie Gestring (left), a stu-
dent at Stanford University in California, recently announced her
marriage. Nonetheless, she’ll do as a pin-up girl.
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr.,
takes time out from his task force
raiding activities in the Pacific
to enjoy a relaxing swim. In case
the fancy trunks fool you, look
at the anchor tatooed on the Ad-
miral’s arm.
Sgt. Gerard Cote (right) of the
Canadian Army flashes a smile
of victory as he crosses finish
line in Boston, Mass^ to win 47th
running of Boston A. A. mara-
. thon. Cote ran the 26-mile race
in two and a half hours.
This radiophoto received from a neutral country is described as showing the Maut Halle,
a Fifteenth Century landmark in Niirnberg, Germany, after the building was destroyed by
a recent R.A.F. bombing raid. The structure, erected in 1498—1502, was originally a gran-
ary, but was divided up into shops in 1899.
district caus-
and Refining
United States Air Force troops in China haggle with mandarin over price of ancient
dynasty temple incense burner. Probably the utilitarian value of the relic as a stove means
more to the soldiers than its ornate carving and fine workmanship.
Missouri River flood waters surged into the Omah^, Nebraska, industrial
ing many plants to shut down. In the foreground is the American Smelting
Company, one of the plants forced to cease operation.
Gigantic Nazi gun being placed on English Channel coast in-
dicates measures being taken by jittery Nazis from Norway to
the Balkans to balk expected United Nations invasion this Sum-
mer. Guns such as this have intermittently blasted across Chan-
nel at England without great success.