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Story Behind Great Britain’s Mysterious
Rocket Guns Revealed For First Time
Revealed for the first time early
this week was the story behind
Britain’s rocket guns, one of the
most closely guarded military
secrets of the war. The unusual
weapons, which hurl “acres of
explosives” into the air, have
been used by British anti-aircraft
defenses against German raiders
since the outbreak of the pre-
sent conflict.
Each measuring about six feet
long and four inches in diameter,
the rockets contain a propelling
charge described by the War Of-
fice as “one of the most effective
yet known.” Now being manu-
factured in great quantities in
the States, the rockets have been
developed considerably since
they were first used and are now
being employed in various theat-
ers of operations by American
Wolves in Norway?
—British Girl Ponders
The London press reported this
week that a giant wolf, eight feet
long and claimed to be one of
the biggest ever seen, has been
caught in the mountains of Nor-
way. Reading this item a Brit-
ish girl commented, “I didn’t
know the Yanks had landed there
yet!”
forces as well as by the British.
While the announcement said
that the rockets were originally
designed to hold off low-flying
aircraft, such as dive-bombers,
they have also been used effec-
tively against bombers at high
altitudes. Fired in groups, the
rockets form a spectacular pat-
tern when they explode.
How much the rocket-gun bat-
teries have contributed . to the
defense of Britain was not dis-
closed.
Civilians Get
Miami Hotels
Again In July
All Air Corps training schools
at Miami Beach, Fla., will be
transferred to the San Antonio
Cadet Center, Sheppard Field,
Texas, it was announced by the
War Dept, this week, thereby re-
leasing a total of 39 hotels for
civilian operation on July 1.
According to the announce-
ment, classes now training in
Miami hotels will be completed,
but future classes will be sent
to Texas.
Ace Pickpocket
Dies Flat Broke
James Wallace, a 73-year-old
pickpocket, known as the “Black
Prince,” who has acquired about
a million dollars worth of loot
during his half-century of crime,
died in Toledo, Ohio, this week.
Also known as “The Black
Pearl,” Wallace died almost
broke after living in grand,
story-book style all his check-
ered life. He started his light-
fingered career in Australia and
was on police blotters all over
America.
Strangely enough, his last
court appearance was in the no-
vel role of complaining witness
in June of ’43. HC was a familiar
figure to residents of Toledo,
where he walked the streets' in
his best attire, wearing a dia-
mond stickpin and twirling a
cane.
EVERY
PAY DAY
BOND DAY
Warring: Fronts
Bombings
There was no let-up in Allied
bombing raids on Germany this
week as huge air armadas blast-
ed Frankfurt, Berlin, the Pas de
Calais area of France, key Nazi
railway yards at Hamm in Cen-
tral Germany, the Luftwaffe sta-
tion at Achmer, the Werl air-
craft park, the Handorf bomber
base, and numerous other targets
located in Germany and German
occupied territories.
More than 1,000 planes partici-
pated in Wednesday night’s at-
tack on Frankfurt, rapidly be-
coming one of the most bombed
cities in the world. It is report-
er that 3,000 tons of bombs were
dropped on the city in this raid.
Italy
It’s still pretty tough going in
Italy. Nazi units facing the Fifth
Army have been strongly rein-
forced and are said to be staging
many savage counter-attacks. Al-
though the Germans are suffer-
ing heavily in casualties, their
stubborn resistance is' slowing
the Allied advance northward.
Entrenched in the hills, the Nazis
are pounding the Allied lines
with heavy mortar and artillery
fire.
Shortly before dawn on Wed-
nesday, German long-range guns
shelled an American tent hospi-
tal on the Fifth Army beach-
head below Rome, killing five
soldier patients and wounding
11. This latest Nazi attack on
Aiherican hospital areas in the
beachhead zone brings the total
of persons killed to 33; 74 have
been wounded.
Russia
Nikolaev, important German-
held port on the Black Sea, is
the present objective of the fast-
moving Soviet forces advancing
in the upper reaches of the Cri-
mea. Powerful Red Army units
are preparing for the final at-
tack. Backed by heavy artillery,
Russian units are almost at the
gates' of battered Nikolaev.
At the same time, in Bessara-
bia, another army of the giant
Soviet military machine continu-
es to roll toward the Prut River
which separates and forms a na-
tural boundary between Bessara-
bia and Rumania proper.
Farther north, around the
southeastern tip of Czechoslo-
vakia, Russian forces have slice
their way to a point 55 mile*
from Cenauti which is locate
beyond the Dniester River in a
gap of the Carpathian Mountains
leading into northwestern
mania.
Ru-
Pacific
Major fighting broke out in
India this week for the first time
in the war. The Jap forces which
crossed the Indian border from
northern Burma are reported to
have been engaged in close-quar-
ter operations by Allied units
under the command of Lord Lou-
is Mountbatten.
A communique from Lord
Mountbatten’s headquarters stat-
ed that Japanese resistance m
north Burma is stiffening on the
coastal plain south of MaungdaW
and Arakan and in the western
foothills of the Magyu Range-
Farther east, Jap troops mad®
six attacks' against Allied posi-
tions west and south of Buthi-
daung. All were beaten off by
Allied troops.
While the ground fighting in
southeastern Asia gains momen-
tum, Allied flyers continue to
pound Japanese communications.
U.S. medium bombers, dive bom-
bers and fighter-bombers’ attack-
ed targets in north Burma on
Thursday and inflicted severe
damage on enemy gasoline
dumps, buildings, and transport
facilities.
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Even ,Nags Not Exempt
GI’s living in the field aren t
the only ones eating concentrat-
ed rations these days. After con-
siderable research on the pro-
blem of how to provide a less
bulky item of food than a bale
of hay for Army horses, the VS-
Dept, of Agriculture has come op
with a food concentrate f°r
them, too.
The amount of hay that would
ordinarily be fed to a horse wTas
cut down by four-fifths, and
alfalfa meal and oystershell flour
were tossed in to guarantee the
needed proportion of vitamin81
and calcium. The whole works
was rolled into a pill, a few
hundred of which will keep most
normal horses well, happy, and
contented all day long.
Male Call
Milton Caniff, creator of "Terry and the Pirates"
MISS LACE, DITCH
THEM DOUGHNUTS^
AM' LETS YOU AM'
ME GO OUTSIDE AN'
NECK FOR ABOUT
30 MINUTES',
OF COURSE, GENERAL
-BUT I PROMISED TO,
BREAK A CAN OF SPAM
OVER A NEW SECOND
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Bagged By A J.A.C.P
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