The White Falcon - 14.08.1943, Blaðsíða 6

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During a heavy
downpour, a Navy
lensman snapped
shot (left) of twin
waterspouts near
Pensacola, Fla.
They were a mile
apart, stood 1,500
feet high, and re-
mained in shape
for 20 minutes.
Ezra Pound
(left), a native of
Idaho, is one of
eight U.S. citizens
recenty indicted
for treason. He
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broad-
casting Axis pro-
paganda from
Rome, until the
fall of Mussolini.
Water flies high
above Jap destroy-
er (right) caught
off Cape Gloucest-
er, New Britain,
July 23, by bombs
from U.S. Mitchell
bombers. The ves-
sel was sunk the
next day after be-
*ng left helpless
by the initial at-
tack.
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While sceeen of
smoke from previ-
ous attacks hangs
over devastated
port of Hamburg
(right), bomb
bursts from B-17’s
add their blasts to
wreckage. Raided
nine times in 10
days, Hamburg
and its U-boat
yards were “wip-
ed off the map,”
according to Alli-
ed intelligence.
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Film actress Betty Grable and bandleader Harry James went
into this clinch (below) following their wedding at dawn in Las
Vegas, Nev. Betty is the former wife of Jackie Coegan, screen
actor now in the Army.
An oil storage tank bursts into
flames as bombs from U.S. Lib-
erators smashed the Ploesti, Ru-
mania,.oil refineries (right). This
photo was made during the first
moments of the raid, before de-
layed-action bombs exploded. In-
cendiary bombs were also drop-
ped on the target. Ninety percent
of Germany’s aviation gasoline
came from the Ploesti refineries.
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Against a backdrop of billowing
flames, (below) U.S. B-24’s sweep
low over the Ploesti, Rumania,
oil refineries. Linked with the
bombing of railroad marshalling
yards near Rome, the fall of Mus-
solini and the imminent Sicilian
debacle faced by the Axis, these
bombings fired a wave of peace
riots throughout Italy and other
Axis satellite nations.
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This P-51 Mustang fighter plane was photographed in flight
with four 20-mm. cannon installed in the leading edge of the
wings. Similar to the German Mel09E, the American fighter has
large and square cut tail, fin and rudder, while the Messer-
Chester Bowles, advertising
executive, has been named to high
post with OPA. Second only to
chief Prentiss Brown, he will
determine how much and at what
cost folks back home will be able
to get food and ether necessities.
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Vaccines for Russia, radio, aircraft and motor parts and other
freight are loaded into glider at Montreal for first trans-Atlan-
tic glider flight completed recently. Glider was towed to Eng-
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View of ^Taormina, on the east coast of Sicily, shows cliffs
that protect most of the northern and eastern shores of wan-
ing Axis stronghold. Allied warships and planes are blasting
Axis troops as they fall back from Catania along coastal road.

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The year-old secret engagement of Princess Alexandra of Gieece
and King Peter of Yugoslavia was announced recently in Lon-
don by the Premier of the Yugoslavian Government-in-exile.
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