SOUTHERN OREGON MINER Thursday, June 15, 1944 ADMIRAL KING PRAISES WAVES IN V A S IO N ! C «A T° .BRITAIN •f» Friday and Saturday GIMMANY PA«I$ ^1« FRANC! " y s u TRY ■utooc ^PQRTUGA MEXICALI ROSE” PARACHUTE TROOPS SEE ACTION! GAS WON’T STOP THEM C U. S. .Irmy Signal Ctrft Philo) P U. S. Parachutists float earth­ plus ward from troop carrying planes as an effective men * of land­ ing behind enemy lines and dis­ rupting his communications. This scene was repeated many times as the invasion got under way. ANYWAY YOU $AY IT - IT S TISIIFICI afudoi Allied troops are equipped for gas attacks. The job of making gas masks wus speeded up by the use of gypsum cements, which have been used widely to make patterns and models for many vital war materials.______ AIGÍRIA INVASION MAP (SounJfhoto) Invasion moves as depicted on the map above were planned to isolate German troops in fortified zones according to forecasts by military experts. How close those forecasts came to being rig h t- is now indicated by the actual invasion. "otrnwGS _y» < n IN A M A Z IN G Ew T IC H W IC O L O II I High praise “f the work tiie W a v ».S given by A dm iral e i m s i J. Klug, C oiiuiiuidcrlli-C nlef of the U. S. Fleet and Chief of N a­ val O perations In a recent report to the S ecretary of the Navy, hua been reiterated by otf.ceia-tn- charge of th e naval atationa and activities lit Oregon, w h e r e I WAVES are now on duty, ac­ cording to a report Juat released by R ecruiting Specialist II W. C ialn of the Medford U. 8. Navy R ecruiting Station, which handles WAVE applications in thia uiea. lucieaa.ng efficiency in h an ­ dling the N avy's m ass of busl- n rss in many p lu ses of lta o p era­ tions in Oregon la reported by these officeia-tn-charge, bearing out Adftnral King a report on the auccesa of the WAVE pro g ram m ilia review of the progress and expansion of the Navy since the beginning of the wur. W AV ko are on duty a t these naval activities in Oiegon: U. 8. Naval Air Station, Tillam ook; U. 8. Naval Station, Aalorla; U. 8. ' N aval Air Station. Aatoria; U. 8 Navy Hospital, K lam ath F ’lls, U. 8. Naval Air Station. K lam ath Falla; Supervisor of Shipbuilding ¡Office, P o rtla n d ; Office of Navul O ffic e r l*rocurement. WAVES E n ­ listm ent Section, P ortland; Air W arning Service, P ortland, and Office of Industrial Relations, i ’ortland ' WAVES now handle more than 250 Navy jobs, form erly exclu­ sively the work of men. Thia wide range of jobs offers oppor­ tunity for many women with n e a r­ ly any civilian training experience lo r aptitude. Young women are i urged to find out about their opportunities In the W AVES at any U. 8. Navy R ecruiting S ta ­ tion or at the WAVES E nlistm ent H eadquarters. 735 S. W. A lder S treet. Portland. Ashland USD Club Receives Donations- A, “GOING TO THE MAT’ IN EUROPE British sappers, above, are laving a piece of “portable high­ way” to permit safe passage for transports and tanks as they land on European shores. Bundles of steel landing mats are unloaded from ship to shore, to form highways to speed men, munitions and guns to the front line fighting. Landing fields are quickly com­ pleted this simple way, too. Steel mats, many of which are made by United States Gypsuni Company, are one of the innovations of this war. When the war ends this USG production w' ' ■