World War II Chronicle: January 12, 1943
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The Navy has released which ships had been sunk earlier in the war but their names were withheld on page two. One of the ships is the light cruiser USS Juneau. On the same page is a report that Thomas and Aleta Sullivan of Waterloo, Iowa have been notified that their five sons, all Juneau sailors, are missing… On the same page, Eddie Rickenbacker’s co-pilot begins a day-by-day account of their three-week journey across the South Pacific in a life raft…
Page four gives an account of suicidal Japanese pilots attacking USS Hornet, and the following page has more on the sunken carrier’s crew… George Fielding Eliot column on page 10… Sports section begins on page 14, featuring a picture of Washington Redskins end John Kovatch and Phillies pitcher Ike Pearson, now attending Marine Corps officer candidate school…
Not in the papers, but topical disease has been decimating the Maj. Gen. Alexander Patch’s soldiers and Marines on Guadalcanal. So badly in fact that some understrength units had to be combined. The Composite Army-Marine (CAM) Division — made up of the 147th Infantry and 182nd Infantry Regiments, the 6th Marines, along with artillery from the 23rd “Americal” and the 2nd Marine Divisions — is activated on this day.
Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 12 January 1943. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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