Show washington WASHING TOI nsf N OUR rom W K RANGER for the armed turkey dinner thanksgiving forces acs on man an and d woman on duty in every everyman american merican ican armed forces every mr the he abroad and at home stations 1 here approximately abely one pound egl 11 dinner thanksgiving at turkey ey day of 0 and will have all the traditional this assurance was made possible suspension of civi civilian liar 1 sales through gh bird from virgust 2 to octo the f m 25 it is certain that no civilian inconvenienced by this ab beer been has yet it assure our fighting sia gai nence frees forces a real dinner on that day of days I 1 to provide that one pound per of turkey person M military were bought for overseas military militar personnel in this country will ot est fresh lulled killed turkey overseas the birds avill wn arr ive frozen or in the form of canned meat depending upon pon the distance traveled and the dunate climate of the foreign nation gasoline for the armed forces 1 gasoline for the 1 the armed forces of the 1 TT united A states use gasoline more extensively than any other fighting servi service ce in the world use of gasoline to power thousands of type of equipment from blood plasma refrigerators to rant ant bombers and 60 ton tanks has immensely simplified our supply problems gasoline needs in this war are eighty times greater than in the last lasi jar ar A mechanized division whose gasoline supply fails is so much scrap rap iron iroil on the move a motorized infantry division consumes 12 SOO gallons per hundred miles not only do tanks half trucks and mobile repair shops continually drink vast quantities of gasoline but additional dit ional thousands of barrels daily are burned by tank trucks trucks which bring the fuel up to the fighting lire ize As the battle extends gasoline must be made available at more and more points in as great quantities as possible to avoid the risk of defeat for lack of refueling ven our troops landed in north alica africa AL ica some types of signal corps equipment went ashore with tem dan most of the equipment derev td its electrical power from dynamos operated by gasoline engines truck mounted radio senders and receiver took their long range and high voltage from gasoline generators mounted in trailers similar mo bile generators furnished the power for field telephones and for antiaircraft devices the sound detectors which warn of the approach of enemy aircraft the candle tower power searchlights whose beams C dri spot raiders at heights of 12 00 yards and the automatically aimed guns that bring the enemy town down the engineers with their bulldozers trucks rollers and other gasoline using equipment have repaired and built highways as well as airfields fields If these Forn complex plex and num tous KOUS field operators are based on the use of a single all ah purpose 80 tane gasoline designed to operate ally well ii ir the heaviest equip icat t and the most delicate this cooks meals for the men LI i field celd hospitals and boils the water to sterilize their clothing and provides them with showers in battle areas the world around gasoline generators furnish power to light quickly erected american field hospitals which are kept at an even temperature by gasoline heaters gasoline has been pressed into service to save american lives in other ways chief among them the evacuation of the wounded from battle zones just as our own utah boy lt glen herrington who was recent ly released from a german grisor prison camp in in exchange for german national was flown from london to washington to insure the best medical attention |