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Says War Department Plans Assignment of Negro Aviation Squadron
Source: “Says War Department Plans Assignment of Negro Aviation Squadron.” The Morning Call, 11 July 1942, p. 22. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-morning-call/136813013/
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44,143 American Casualties Listed Since War Began
Source: “44,143 American Casualties Listed Since War Began.” The Daily Monitor Leader, 22 July 1942, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-monitor-leader/137134043/
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Clark Gable Enlists
Source: “Clark Gable Enlists.” The Roanoke Times, 13 Aug. 1942, p. 6. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-roanoke-times/137890335/
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Lowered Draft Age Coming
In a “radio fireside chat” from of the White House, President Roosevelt tells the nation that the draft age will have to be lowered from 20 to 18 years of age. He goes on to inform America that Allied commanders have agreed on opening “new offensives against Germany and Japan” and that “we must now…
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Insignia Change Affect Everyone Wearing Bars
Source: “Insignia Change Affect Everyone Wearing Bars.” The Kansas City Times, 28 Aug. 1942, p. 1. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-times/135996889/
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Radio: Three Greatest Guests
Tall, blue-eyed Ginny Simms, official sweetheart of 100 college fraternities, fingered the rabbit’s foot Judy Garland had slipped her, flashed a toothy smile at a husky sailor, a slick-haired soldier, a plump marine. Blues-singing Ginny was introducing “Three Greatest Guest Stars in the World,” as she emceed the premiere of Philip Morris’ Johnny Presents Ginny…
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YANK: The Army Weekly
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Science: Reconstituted Milk
One thousand four hundred seasick cows wished that they were in a nice Kansas City slaughterhouse. They were on their way to Panama to supply U.S. Army men with a daily quota of 14,000 quarts of fresh milk. According to Dr. Charles Edward North, Manhattan consulting milk sanitarian and an enthusiastic expert, the unhappy cows…
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BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: One Year of War
The first year was ending, and it had been a Navy year. The tall, taut man who is both Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet (COMINCH) and Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) let his mind go back to the morning of Pearl Harbor, and observed that the Japanese probably had not expected their attack…