World War II Chronicle: July 24, 1943
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The front page quotes Col. Elliot Roosevelt of the Northwest African Photographic Reconnaissance Wing (and President Roosevelt’s second son) as saying that photographic reconnaissance paired with daylight strategic bombing will defeat the Axis… Page seven features an article about what it’s like to fly as an aerial artillery observer over Sicily…
George Fielding Eliot says its possible that Bulgaria may quit the Axis on page eight… Brig. Gen. William H. Rupertus, author of the “Rifleman’s Creed” has pinned on a second star. 1st Marine Division commander Alexander Vandegrift has moved on to another assignment and Rupertus will take his place…
Sergeant James Narem is featured on page 13 saying that the quality of the Japanese pilots facing his B-17 crew is declining. The radio operator/gunner was stationed at Schofield Barracks when the Japanese attacked Oahu on Dec. 7, 1941 and his room was destroyed. Narem earned the Silver Star during the Battle of the Coral Sea when he dislodged a bomb that was jammed in his plane’s open bomb bay. After the war he flies bombers for the Air Force and retires as a major… Sports on page 18.
Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 24 July 1943. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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