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Show 'q. M. Com mTary IT " . V yy by Cpl. Vernon iarnell l8" """"- v, ss" V Salute to ASC Over KDYL Waves Tonight Wednesday March I, 1944 Fred Waring and his famous orchestra will present at "Salute to the ASC" at 5 o'clock tonight over the National Broadcasting Company Station network, KDYL in through Salt Lake City. The program also will include a dramatized story of the Atlantic Overseas Air Service command at Newark, N. J. Last night the Bob Hope Show was broadcast from Mobile Air Service Command, and Monday night the "Army Air Forces" Salute to ASC carried the story of the ASC at Makin Atoll over the Mutual network. 'Modern Army9 Slated for Orientation Lectures and an accompanying training film on the "Modern Army" are being utilized for mili tary personnel orientation lectures Writes EM Here From Island Home MMwmmii,ni,,M,..mn1.l, - .. this week, a change from next ween s leature. the planned schedule. Th "Know and Have Pride in Your Outfit" program, although not presented this weeK, win De Kin Often-Bombe- d 7 JA. Robert Van Brunt handles the rostrum for the second consec utive week with his "Modern Army" talks to the 482nd, Medics, WAC detachment and 708th band at their regular hours. TSgt. Floyd Jackson will fill trie speaker's bill for the 308th Aviation squadron at their meetings. , Five Supply Girls Join Up With Armed Services Sweaters and saddle shoes of five supply division girls will be discarded soon in favor of the natty blue and OD uniforms of the WAC, SPARs and WAVES. Wilma Tremewan, supervisor, unit Q, branch seven, reports to Des Moines, Iowa, next month for five weeks basic training. Mary Frideck, technical inspec- w tion, will report to Hunter college, The Bronx, New York, to begin her eight week's training in the WAVES. Evelyn Storres, central files, will go to San Francisco for duty after she completes her basic training SSgt. Charles B. Taylor in the WAC at Des Moines. "I received your letter, but they Erma Fretcher from AGP branch were bombing so hard that I had also reports to Des Moines in early to read it in a foxhole." March. Darlene Blaeer, another of Eniwetok cost Japanese 3000 So reads a letter received recent- AGP employe, will take her SPAR killed and nearly 12,000 killed in ly by SSgt Charles B. Taylor; mo- basic training at Palm Beach, Fla. the Marshalls. U. S. forces smash tor pool ' sergeant from the 308th, Saipan and Tinian in the Mariana from his' brother, Pvt. Smith Tayislands, less than 1500 miles from lor, who. has been with a combat Tokyo. This represents the deep engineer squadron in the south Paest penetration of the war taking cific for the last sixteen months. the attack 635 miles closed to Although Private Taylor said in Tokyo than Truk. The total score his letter that he couldn't tell where at Truk represents 23 enemy ships he is now, he did say that "I was Lean-t- o office quarters are bein fact ing built by utilities employes on sunk, 201 Jap planes destroyed and in Guadalcanal, and 50 damaged. 17 U. S. planes were . . . I have seen everything you the south side of the transport lost and one surface ship moder- have heard about,- and will probab-l- hangar located south of the flight before Chester Admiral over here ately damaged. test hangar, it was announced last go everyplace V. Nimitz announced a greater I get back home." week by utilities officials in re"It takes a heart of iron to stay vealing new construction on the victory for Americans than first over here," the letter continued, field. reported. Burma A carpenter shop addition to the "but I am still o. k. One time we First major victory of war were moving from one island to radio repair building is nearly against Japanese by British and another one, and the ship next to complete. Both projects will be Indian troops dealt by smashing ours was sunk before the outfit finished in about two weeks, it enemy offensive on the Arakan embarked. We made it by a mat- was said. A railroad Interchange for- use front of Western Burma. The of ter of hours and we worked like as a storage track was completed ficial report cost the enemy 3000 hell to do it." casualties. Japanese are forced to Sergeant Taylor and his brother this week under the supervision of retreat in northern Burma and on call Kansas City, Mo., their home the U. S. Engineers. The addition is 2,000 feet long. the Arakan front by allied troops. town. Construction Continuing Pace New WEEK OF FEB. ... 1944 22-2- 9, western Europe Germany Continuing the at tack on Germany, U. S. Bombers mash four major aircraft factories. The results of the new raid may prove to be the turning point Jn the extinction of the Luftwaffe. Daylby the U. S. Eighth Air Force. All trios of the daylight assault were deep inside Germany requiring a round trip of more than 1100 miles. Figures of tonnage dropped and planes shot down prove the assault as history's neatest sustained aerial offensive. per cent of Germany's plane Production smashed. The week's Bomb tonnage was estimated at 18,000 dropped by the Americans d RAF together. During the eek sustained assaults were maintained by the RAP at night and InAAF by day' The COBt to the Allies has not been negligible; "out 3500 airmen on 300 heavy bombers and 60 fighters lost. Roughly, $100,000,000 worth of Wanes were lost, but the loss was conomical in view of the aggre- Jte 17,000 sorties and the great ight raids made TO damage done England to the enemy. Gfirm Att HaMaiisjm nifAtf am Has vu muvt Aim atwvA umdon's defenses making a total U raids for the month. Women n children in London evacuate nightly air raids continue. This . prfna f auanna. , the CAnttnl'a rHn O fthe War riraof nnntlnnnf nt S. troops arrive with thousands iVT vtlllCllLO V. "wight D. Elsenhower's Invasion Jjymassing in the British Isles. , Fortress, I T ked northern France but met with n0 resistance by German nghters. Flak downs 6 American J bombers as they pounded em the coast. Helsinki -- .it..i iw-..- t..- .mi a ITf00 Planes In warning to Fln-"n- d to quit war. Finnish-Russia- n negotiations are still In the re "official stage. m9 continue a as nmM.Tuii. Yugoslav-Part- l- I Ilaa column is destroyed. Germans re new offensive during latter part of week along Yugoslav coast positions.. Mediterranean Area Gigantic German assault Italy to stay allies in beachhead is officially interpreted a failure. The general situation at the beginning of the week appeared that the German army was preparing for a break while the lull gave an opportunity for the forces of Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark to consolidate. The battle south of. Rome bogs lown in snow and mud and Ineffective 4Nazi thrusts were made near The Germans are now on the defensive below Rome and are regrouping. The summary of the campaign stated that the Germans 7,500 had lost approximately killed, wounded, or taken prisoners, Cassino is nearly encircle in spite of tenacity of the Germans. American paratroopers have been in action on the beachhead since Jan. 22. Russian Front Krivoi Rog's capture celebrated on the 26th anniversary of the Red Army. In the southern Ukraine, 6000 Nazis were killed and supplies taken near Krivoi Rog. Russian front advance covers a north of Lake Pskov and running 20 miles north of Pskov, to the south along the railway to Ustrugi. Russians approach almost within sight of the borders of Rumania. Vitebsk evacuated and German troops fall back to old Polish frontier, 70 miles to the west. German attempts to pierce the Russian lines in the Lutsk area of eastern Po land have been hurled back as Soviets smash to within 14 miles of Pskov. The drive brings total towns captured up to 450. Everywhere along the front the Germans are being forced to surrender, retreat, or die.' The nearest approacn to Pakov was with the capture oi .y.v Toroshmo, 6 miles from the city. Are Pacific Southwest com edy presented three times last week by the Merrj Of the one-aMEMBERS OF THE CAST American conquest of the Mar Ford. ?!tcil between the between relax Hillcrest of presenUtions. Leading man was Patrick shall! completed with the capture MMauera on floor, extreme riEht. seated B. Mls was Nellie Nichols, Director extreme twolovelies on the right of Parry Island, last Jap strong were the of art doors" setting. stage "French The p me uaiue hold of Eniwetok Atoii. - yl - Ca3-sin- o. Say, 'Thanks Awfully!9 175-mi- le ... ct Let Us All Help 'Recruit New Employes |