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Show r i r -------SENTINEL'S WEEKLY FEATURE PAGE OF LATEST WORLD EVENT NEWS PICTURES-----• Leadet~ of New European Invasion Team Russian Generals Visit Allied 8th Army ~ ~ Furlough Fun .. • r • L ~-• I • \ '"k ."'1 \'~~ j ·- These are the men who will lead the long awaited Allied "second front" invasion of Eurnpe. Left to right: Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of Allied invasion armies; Air Chief :l\larshal Sir Arthur Tedder, deputy to Eisenhower; Lieut. Gen. Carl Spaatz, chief of all the American strategic a.U: forces that ~vill bit Germany from west and south; and Gen. Sir Bernnrd L ..Montgomery, chief of the Bnttsh land armtes. Appointment of Tedder as Eisenhower's deputy indicated that air power was to be a major weapon in the battle to crush the fortress of Europe. Eisenhower, who had never before made a prediction in 13 months of warfare, announced as be left Algiers to assume hls new post that "we will win the European war in 1944." I McKinley Park, a luxury hotel in Alaska, has been taken over by the Major General Vasiliev is pictured saluting as his party of Soviet gen~ army and is used as a recreation erals drives away in a jeep after a visit to Gen. Bernard L. 1\Iontgom~ center for women war department ery's 8th Army command. Vasiliev was named as the commaqder who employees and soldiers stationed there. :.\largaret l\Iylius is helped to directed the campaign which cut oft' the German armies in the Crimea. her feet by Lieut. Anselm Tibbs Jr. as they walk to the skating pond. Nazi Soldiers Appear Happiest When Not Fighting ----~--- Railroad President Becomes Colonel Mediterranean Chief ' I • • • • • Le.ft: A lew hours rest has been granted to these Nazi sold1ers who are p1ctured en~ertamm~ themselves somewhere along the Russ~an front. With Russia's great !illy, wi~ter, now_ in action there. ~s little tim~ for rest tn German ranlts. This p1cture was found by the Ross~ans. Right: Thts photograph wrnch was radioed from 1\.Jgiers shows young Nazi prisoners of the 26th panzer regiment taken captive in Italy. They smile at the camera, apparently pleased that they are prisoners and no longer must fight and face the difficulties of war against the Allies. Nazis Preparing for 'H' Hour h~ Ralph Budd, left, president of the BUl'lington railroad, as was sworn lnto the army as a colonel of transportation. He was placed in charge Df all railronds in tke central western region when the army seized the railroads as a strike threatened to disrupt service. Left to right are: Budd Col. D. A. Hart, l\Iaj. A. Hillman, and 1\laj. G. E. Van Tassel. ' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - -- - - - Marshall Inspects Oahu Jungle Fighters The Road Home Sir Henry l\Iaitland ·w nson, who was named supreme commander in the l\Iediterranean theater of war succeeding General Eisenhower of the United States. Wilson formerly was the British commander in chief of the Middle East. FD's Son, Grandson I servicemen in Italy want to travel. I Rome to Berlin, and then home- that, apparently, is the route most Field 1\olarshal Von Ranstedt, who commands German forces in westem Europe, is shown as he inspected a sector of the "Atlantic wall" defenses recently. The entire war psychology of Germany apparently has passed from the offensive to the defensive and constant predictions were being made by Nazis as to the date of an Allied invasion from England. Where Bombs Are Stopping Rockets This sign printe~ there ~Y Yanks Gen. George c. Marshall, u. s. army chief of staff, and Lieut. John whe~ oll duty t~lls the distance to H. Ferguson (left) of the infantry, watch a well trained jungle lighter Aus.tm, Texas, Vla that route. Bul- crash a barbed· wire obstacle with a fast lunge. Lieutenant Ferguson, an in~arta~ troops were reported to be structor in jungle fighting, was the first married man to be drafted from mvading Italy from the north. San Antonio, Texas. 'Superman' Recovers Marching Through Mud on Bougainville Lieut. Franklin Roosevelt Jr. shows his son, Franklin 3d, age 5, one of his grandfather's boat models. This picture was made at Pres~ ident Roosevelt's Hyde Park home. Given Highest Award ' ~ ARRAS It's Allied bombs against German "rockets" in area at left where the Germans are believed to have mounted emplact:ments from which to launch their 50 ton projectiles at England. Right: Points in Germany lbat have been heavily bombed by Allies to wreck sources of these rockets. Recuperating from wounds received on BougainviUe is marine Pfc. Robert E. Lanslcy, who is an· other of those lighting men with the nickname, uone man army." He cleaned up two enemy machine gun nests with the aid of a marine dog and another raider. Heavily Jadeq marine infantrymen slosh through deep mud or a jungle Lieut. lohn C. !\forgan as he was trail as they near the battle front. Cont~nued Amer!can attacks . on awarded the Congressional Medal of Japanese positions in the Pacific are steadily lengtherung our strokmg Honor. He returned his plane to power from the air. As the battle continued on Bougainville, American England while the pilot ancl all cuntroops battled toward Rahaul which is considered a vital Japanese base. ners were unconscious from in,jnri~ 7 |