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Show U. S. Stepping Stone to Tokyo; $ Thats Amchitka, a Navy Base Hundreds Offer Home to Soldiers Waifs Navy forces on their way to Tokyo have landed forces on the Aleutian island of Amchit-kabout 70 miles from the island of Kiska. Japanese-hel- d Zero planes vainly sought Jap to dislodge our forces. During one foray U. S. navy gunners knocked all attacking Jap planes out of the sky. All attempts to bomb or strafe the navy landing party ceased shortly afterward, and since completion of a landing strip for U. S. fighter planes, Jap aircraft are rarely seen. a, j You guys better get out of here while the gettings good. Thats Their father is in the army and their mother is ill .in the South, so what the characters on this imitabrothers pictured at top were waiting at the Chi- tion leaf told the Japs on Kiska the four bright-eye- d ldrens Aid society in New York for someone to give them a home until island. The leaves were dropped by their parents can come back. Hundreds responded to their plea ex- U. S. aviators to enemy forces who pressed via a newspaper. Among them was William G. Helis, mil- are supposed to have an aversion n who for the leaves, supposedly from a lionaire oil man shown at bottom. Helis is a has contributed over $1,000,000 to Greek war relief. Japanese Kin tree. Greek-America- Photo at top shows a typical navy gunner, his features high Alaskan lighted by the bright sunlight. The beard is a protec tion against the sharp wintry blasts for which the Alaskan ter--i ritory is famous. Left: A pilot .f. M.v. pushes his way through the drift has He . his towards tent just returned from a bombing ing snow success in ridding the area Their weather. the patrol flight despite constant care and watch the dimmed has not of Japanese planes their efforts to catch and dein fulness exercised by the navy men stroy the enemy. A machine gun crewman silhouetted against the sun as he watches for Zeros. Note tents in background at right, which were set up on arrival. ' I fiMMlfcw. The Road Back He Made Salt Water Drinkable This cry of Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink. R. Clare Lieut. true. Spealman, no is sailor longer the shipwrecked drmk-abl- e USN (left), has discovered a simple process to make sea water sailor. a shipwrecked minutes few out in a by which can be carried He is shown being congratulated by Capt. William L. Mann. House Paralysis Healer at the White nwiimwigimnii in . -- With the Axis cleaned out of North Africa, refugees like the ones shown above can move back into their homes. These people are returning to Bizerte aboard their carriage which is fitted out with springs, rubber tires, and a wheel assembly from a Rolls Royce automobile. Zip Off Zoots mim esident Roosevelt meets K as developed a new method of treaO Connor, Basil above are President RofseveU, She was a hu rsis Foundation, and Sister hite House. jj.'.vj.'AW.-- the National t at Servicemen and zo.it suit wearers own in fought a small war of their youths many Los Angeles, sending hoslike the one above to jails and were stripservicemen The pitals. in revenge for ping the zooters previous assaults, The silent messenger pictured above enabled U. S. forces to slip in quietly. This blinker was the communication between ship and shore. Here a message is being read to the operator who blinks it in code to a ship in the harbor. Left: Although they were deep in mud at Amchitka, these enlisted men found baseball equipment in the first load of freight delivered there, but the mud-clea-r airfield was being used strike out to Japs. |