World War II Chronicle: December 8, 1942
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Capt. Arthur W. Wermuth, the “One Man Army” is reportedly a prisoner of the Japanese (see front page)… The late Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell’s sister is featured on page three. Ruth Mitchell had served with Draža Mihailović’s Chetnik guerillas in Yugoslavia and was captured and sentenced to death by the Nazis. She was released in a prisoner exchange. Her son John Lendrum Van Breda was a pilot officer in the Royal Air Force’s Volunteer Reserve and perished when his light bomber crashed in Libya in May 1941… 35,000 Americans are listed as either killed, wounded, or captured since the war began (see page five)…
George Fielding Eliot column on page 12… Sports section begins on page 17, and features the selections for the NFL All-Pro team. Also mentioned is that 79-year-old Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack has plans to rebuild his last-place A’s… A 13-year-old Marine Corps Guadalcanal veteran is pictured on page 33 as he is discharged from service. George B. Holle Jr. joined when he was 12, and is just one of countless underage Americans that snuck into the Armed Forces during World War II.
Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 8 December 1942. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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