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Show • -------SENTINEL'S WEEKLY FEATURE PAGE OF LATEST WORLD EVENT NEWS PICTURES-----• Marines Advance on Japs Through Pouring Rain 3fl Years of U. S. Aviation Progress Banker on Newsstand ' Lett: Maj. Gen. W. H. Rupertus cools his aching feet in swirling sea water which also washes away some of the New Britain mud. Right: Despite a tropical downpour which drenches marine warriors and their equip- ment they carry on their campaign in the Cape Gloucester area of New Britain. The uniform o( the man with his band raised is plastered to his body by the rushing deluge. .-: Top: Naval air station at Pensacola, Fla., in 1914. Tents were fair weather hangars. ln bad weather planes were rolled into a brick structure not shown. Bottom; Typical view of the naval air training cen- "' encan M anner Life-Jacketed Pupils Train on 'Am" 7 . ....., J _,, ,.' ·--· ,. ter today where 15,000 naval aviators are trained yearly. are trainers. 1 1 The planes MacArthur Poses With His Indian Warriors Guy Emerson, vice president of a. New York bank, sells papers at a newsstand while the owner took time off to purchase a war bond. His act typifies the unity with whlcb bigand small business men are buying; bonds and getting war tools to meo at tbe fronts. Dry Crusaders '' Gen. Douglas MacArthur, commander in chief of the Allied forces in Ithe Southwest Pacific area, poses with representatives of American Indian tribes in our army. Left to right: Sergt. Virgil F. Bowell, Pawnee tribe, Pawnee, Okla.; Sergt. Alvin J. Vilcan, Chitimacha tribe, Charenton, La.; General l\-1acArthur; Sergt. Byron L. Tsignine, Navajo tribe, Defiance, Ariz.; and Sergt. Larry L. Dekin, Navajo tribe, Copper Mine, Ariz. After extensive schooling ashore, Merchant marine trainees get practical experL -..ce in wartime seamanship aboard the "American l'rlariner," one of the training ships of this servi<""' ~~eft: h'illiam H. Byle and Richard Balmes (right) are shown at work on one of the great power pumps aboard the "American 1\-fariner." Top right: Trainees learn the technique of abandoning ship on a practice cruise. Bottom right: Where Some of -Those Huge Raids Start Always ready for enemy action, these mariners attend class aboard ship clad in life jackets. Yank Pipeline Gets Oil to Italian Front 'Angels~ Mrs. Ida Wise Smith, national president of the Women's Cbristiau Temperance Union, chats with Congressman Joseph R. Bryson who is sponsoring a bill to outlaw beVerages containing more than one-half of 1 per cent alcohol by volume .. Out of the Rough Get Wings ' MUNIC"f • • ClUJ FJight nurses of tbe army now wear wings. Capt. Juanita Redmond Top left: Yanks constructed this pipeline which carries oil from an sports her wings above her National Italian port to the battlefront. It was built in a week. Bottom left: Defense and Pacific-Asiatic cam· Terminal point of the line. Top right: Tanker 'locked at the port pumps paign ribbons both of which bear gasoline directly into tl1e pipeline. Bottom right: Lieut. Col. Charles L. combat area stars. Below: A closeup of the flight nurses' wings. Lockett, who commanded the pipeline builders, receives a report. 'Navajo Fire Dance' Put on Canvas U. S. Flying Fortresses are now using over 11 recently equipped air bases near Foggia, Italy, to drop tons of bombs on NaziMcontroHed territory. These bases will make -possible a camp?..jgn extem1ing over the 600 mile range indicated b.f the light area on the map. Bombers can take off and return to these bases usually without racing serious enemy opposition. 1\-lonths of stud).· preceded onedeft stroke of Ad:rian Gra~selly, Wh() split the .,famous SZOO,OOO Liberator diamond~ 1he largest ever found iR Flak Towers Take High Raider Toll Wins HigLrst Award Forgery Query Figure ' Venezuela. The 155 carat stone is sho\\-n in closc:ap at bottom. ''" " • William R. Leigh, 77, famous painter of the old wild west, is shown putting the last strokes to his ''Navajo Fire Dance." This is one of his many canvases comprising his exhibition entitled "Cowboys and Indians" which was on display in the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York. This canvas shows a circle of dancers at the climax of a healing ceremony. George N · Bri_ggs,. wbo was sus~ pended from_ an mte~1or d~par_tment position durmg a~ mvestigabon o~ possible forgery mvolvtng Repnbo lican and Democratic leaders. This is one of the most successful defense devices developed during It is a flak tower oi the antiaircraft command. Such towers proved very effective last summer during the sneak attacks against seaside towns. Last year flak towers ac~ounted for 93 downed enemy planes and 59 uprobables." Britain s long struggle for survival against Nazi bombers. I Lieut. David c. Way bur of PiedJ :mont, Calif., who was awarded thai Congressional :M edal of Jlonor for'! heroism in Sicily. Tbis is the hlghest American military award. -=.J 7 |