World War II Chronicle: October 7, 1943

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The Cardinals have a one-run lead on the Yankees in the seventh inning of Game Three of the World Series. Today’s paper discusses yesterday’s game… American submarines are prowling the waters around mainland Japan, and one — USS Wahoo — has sunk a passenger ship in the Tsushima Strait off Honshu Island on Tuesday… That same day, Task Force 14 aircraft raided Wake Island. Believing that the Americans were coming, Rear Adm. Shigematsu Sakaibara the Japanese garrison rounded up their remaining American prisoners, blindfolded them and killed them all with machinegun fire. One man escaped and returned to the mass grave. There he carved “98 U.S. P.W. 10-5-43” on a nearby rock to mark the burial site. He was later captured and personally beheaded by Rear Adm. Shigematsu Sakaibara…

George Fielding Eliot column on page 12… The sports section begins on page 22 and features another Grantland Rice World Series column… United Aircraft News ad on page 47

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Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 7 October 1943. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1943-10-07/ed-1/