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Show 'TvNMnor-mvri- r 1 H rHi MVtxri iivjh xnnnv Avainxvs the Sky Take Crete A HbATTLE OF THE BALKANS: Warriors From 'a i t: & C2-- . 7f 1 feJZ .ixk - ,.5 smw S &&' & , r V $r r-vr- i WS. v v y 05l4, J f,w , , ?T7! - b 44 brought Germanys drive through the L Balkans to a spectacular climax when L . s( they rained from the skies onto the L Greek island of Crete m May, 1941, just a few days after mysteiy man Rudolf Hess dropped into Scotland in similar fashion. In the fall of 1940, Nazi diplomats drew Bulgaria and Rumania into the axis camp While Italy was getting beat by m ; skirted soldiers of Greece in Albania. 1941, Germany marched ? 4 In April, through Yugoslavia and Greece, sav- Italys face. British troops fresh'14,. mg 4$ from the Libyan campaign were unable to help stop the Nazis in Greece, w ' and were forced out of Crete by the J: f H r jYS'ii- VT :,4 ' f Hf v o -r- hu,,- We mutually pledge to each other our Lives our Fortunes and our Sacred Honor On a hot summer's day in July, 1776 the sun streamed the of the was to become that through fanlight building immortal as Indeendence Hall. It hit the lectern as the sjH'aker read: We hold these truths to In self etident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed b their creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In phrases that have etched tlnm meaning deeply on all mankind through these 166 years since the Declaration of Indt endence was first real the Continental Congress charted a course that has inspired not only Americans but men evtrv where in the battle for libort this declaration they mutually pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. And so our country was bont. After that came Valley Forge, hunger, misery-- , betrayal. But also there came .York town as wall inevitably come VICTORY to our bra-men at Bataan and Corregidor have already written their undvmg tale cf epic heroism. e o You and I have neither the perilous choice of our Continental fathers to make nor the harrowmg nights of Bataan to face. We are merely asked to support our fighters with money, a por.on of our earnings, not with our fortunes but with our spare funds to help achieve that VICTORY which shall bring meaning once more to the word LIBERIA', that shall jierish fear and want and misery- from the peoples of the earth. - It took corn age for the signers cf the Declaration to sever ties so binding, to proclaim a doc tune so bold and revolution try It took courage paituularly since man of the signers were men of pnvilt ge and of fortune ti istoc rat1- - who had nothing to gain tiom esxusing the iau-- e ot eedo- m- nothing but a free conscience To 1 1 And we are not eyen asked to GIVE but to LEND our money where it will multiply and return generously increased when ea(c shall have come again, and it will because we the free peoples of the earth, shall make it come Buy U. S. War Savings Bonds and Stamps Turn adccrtiscmcnt published by the J C. Penney Store, Logan, Utah, in appreciation of the patriotism of the people yv ho are devoting themsehes unstintingly to our countrys War Bond effort. |