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op
PORT S OUTER
W,1......... I
n FRANK JENKINS
LIEE Is plenty of ncwi again
1 lotlny.
n.n- Americans ere closing in
, Cherbourg, und B this In
.. n iilu fMim mlli'ti tiwnv
Lira trniipcd thora Hint they
will "u wl"u """"""'I
ccupe l hopeless.
At Siilpnn, tho Jnps throw In
.heir lr forco nnd gut TililKE
, Ir bi U of ho PB:
"lllc slucu Midway.
CliiinBshn UAia iu me.
JAl'S. ...
'rOME or WIO Ulil i""'n 111 uiu
a S11I nil 11 battle COME FROM
IjAI CARRIERS. 1 hut mean
. . .. fln..Hl.lrtriihlf .Inn tinvlll
I'.""' 1. i,,..',l,, off In llu- din.
mnco soniowucru. mm iuu
-ji.. 1, ii hi'on nromlslnil u big
L...,.l lililllO SOOII.)
iH"
Apparently Jap plnnos aro
..... ..-1.1 iwn fi-nm thnlr mr-
SMUl I iiw ....... ....... -
,.. 1.. inn IfinH hinu.ii nnd hack.
IhUS CnnUllllK llinii lu no vuu
long Illgnis irom in uiiin
curriers. ...
OUR attack on saipan appenrs
in ln.vf ft-lilhli'ticd tho little
'yellow men horribly.
Berlin NKIIO . Miggems uuiiiy
ihc reason (or tholr fright. When
Uf.litlin Illir SlMMT-
forlriW can SHUTTLB from
ihen to our huso In China, hlt
,l,m Japan BOTH WAYS und o
nnrvlnu our SCARCE goso-
Ine In China.
That's something for tho Japs
to put In their mpes ana smunu
WATCH this Marianas battle.
It's bin. There is every
ILllItu Ihnf II mnv uet big-
nURSIM""J ..I I A '
jcr. rnis mmm even cti
Ihc plnco ior mp mpa vu
In their navy.
pHANGSHA 'hi apparently
v fallen. At any rato, Its
radio has Bono sneni. iiw
are Irving to knock out China
while there Is still time. Our
job is to SAVE China while
tlioro Is still time.
Ono has tho feeling that big
events aro looming In the Pacific.
ON nlnk, 1200 miles to the
south of Saipan, wo storm
nolher ridge that has been hold
ing us back from two more Jap
airfields. - '
In the Kurlles, 2000 miles to
the north, navy bombers from
Aleutians bases hit Jan Instal
lations BY DAYLIGHT (tho first
time we've hit thero except at
nlnhl.) PLENTY of Jap fighter
planes aro encountered.
AN ominous (to the Japs) nolo
comes from Russia, where
War and tho Working Classes,
a Russian magazine, makes
sharply critical and slighting re
marks about Japan's ambition
to rule Asia. (Tho volco of the
press in Russia Is practically tho
volco of tho government.)
Berlin radio says Honry Wal
lace has gone to Moscow to cook
up a deal with tho Russians to
use Slborlan bases, to bomb
Japan.
CROM what Is described as a
r rcliablo source, Stockholm
km.i... (lint 1lln.ll.l tin. fnlfnO.
The Russians have been moving
up inward It along tno uuu 01
Finland, with tho heavy ships of
Ihnli. nnlil lnnl follnutlntr thpm
along the shore, sinking Finnish
snips,
TN recent exciting days, we've
practically forgotten Italy,
whnrn ihn nnrmnns aro still
flshtlng rear guard actions in
an effort to got bnck behind their
Arno lino. We're following
swiftly. There'll be another
battle there soon.
-
THE German rocket bombs (or
pilotloss flying torpedoes
wnnicvor they arc) sun ian m
smiuicrn England, Dili in uiraur
ISH1NG numbers. British gun
ners and fighter pilots seem to
be getting the range on them
and many aro being destroyed in
mo air.
A foreo nf nrnund 1500 U. S.
heavy bombers hits the Calais
coast whero tho rocket bombs
are being launched and then goes
on to bomb Interior uermany.
There's a hint that what the
Germans aro really trying to
accomplish with their new
weapon is to scare us Into using
a largo part of our1 air force In
(icstrovlno thn hnmhs before they
toll, thus taking some of our
"r weignt off tho uerman.necR
dsewhero.
There is also a suggestion that
the German propagandists fear
hey may have OVERPLAYED
the new secret weapon, thus
risking a bad reaction whon the
Germans at homo find It ISN'T
sioppmg the invasion.
t
QN the homo front there Is a
tale to tho effect that a now
transport piano, equipped with
elevators Inside, is being readied
for FDR's personal use (presum
jioiy to fly to Europe.) Stephen
"any, .presidential secretary, av
nies it.
(Keep your fingers crossed
fhls js a campalgnycar.)
TN Maine, ClOer Pettis, trying
for both' tho Republican and
'he Democratic nominations for
"ingress in tho first Maine dis
trict, is turned down hard by the
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PRICE 5 CENTS
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Shown above are the five marines from the local Marine Barracks who offered their campaign
ribbons and citations to bond buyers of the Malin area Saturday night. Two hundred iorty-nine
thousand four hundred eighty-five dollars in war bonds ware sold at the auction. Shown from
left to right in the picture are Privates First Class Eben Lenoir. H. T. Coggini. Jim Jarrell,
George Shrambro and Thomas Tomeselli. Lenoir here is taking a campaign ribbon off the uni
form of George Shrambro.
City School Vote Approves J
Proposed Money Reserves
Voters of tho Klamath Falls
elementary school district and
of the Klamath county unit dis
trict yesterday overwhelmingly
approved measures to create fi
nancial reserves for post-war
construction and rehabilitation.
Tho city district board was
authorized to levy 20,000 a year
for five yenrs, and the county
board, to. levy $60;000. annually
for five years.
Mrs. Ralph W. Stearns won
by a narrow margin over Dr.
Boy Dies After
Fall Into Cogs of
Irrigation Pump
A fall into tho cogs of an ir
rigation pump proved fatal to
day to Jerry Holzliouscr, 7, soij
of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Holi
houscr of Poo volley.
The accident occurred early
Monday evening. Tho small boy
was rushed to Hillside hospital
where ho lived through the
night but died nbout 10 o'clock
Tuesday morning. v
According to the family's
story, tho little boy and his
father wore working near a
centrifugal pump when Jerrys
clothing caught in the machine
belt nnd ho was pulled into the
irrigation pump. His body is at
Ward's funeral home.
Soldier Killed
By Freight Train
A young soldier was nccldent
oii willed bv a freight, train
early Tuesday morning near
Chiloquln after he had apparent
ly lumped from a coach of the
passenger train ho was riding.
Sheriff Lloyd Low was called
to the scene and the soldier s
body brought to Klamath Falls
snoruy auerwmua. .
Arnnrrilnt' to rCDOrtS. tllC SOl'
dlcr, a mental pntient, was being
tnifnn nuth from Vancouver,
Wash., hospital. At a point near
Chiloquln ho evidcntally broke
a coach winnow ana jumptu
thrmioh onto the tracks. The en
gineer of a freight train which
had followed close behind the
passenger, on coming near, saw
the soldier lying on the track but
it was too late to stop.
Tho young man's body was
taken to Ward's funeral home.
His name had not boon learned
late Tuesday afternoon.
' I W m "
Cirmlchiel
in The. Shanta -
Auction Campaign Ribbons
J, ffp'v srs
L. L. Truax, Incumbent, . for
member of tho board of elemen
tary district No. 1. Tho vote was:
Mrs. Stearns, 111; Dr. Truax,
100.
Percy Dixon was reelected to
the county board. . . . -
Returns were complete from
tho cltv vote, but only, scatter-:
ifig figures were available irom
the county district. The former
snowed: . . . . . . i v ;
On tho $20,000 levy: Yes 131
No 39.
On increasing the budget over
8 percent : Yes ill, ISO 4.
On adoption of the published
budget: Yes 120, No 30. . ;
Figures from Altamont, Shasta
and Bly showed the county unit
district s 5u,uuu levy . running
far ahead of the negative vote.
In these three, 31 voted for it
and only 2 against. Percy Dixon
was unopposed for the county
school board post.
There is a bare possibility that
later returns could upset the
county unit report, but that ap
peared highly unllKely.
m WAR
BULLETINS
LONDON, June 20 (P) A
Stockholm dispatch said today
that Viipurl, key Finnish seaport,
had fallen to the Russian army
after the city had been shelled
by mass artillery from positions
less than nine miles away. 1
The Swedish reports, reaching
a reliable source in Stockholm,
were not Immediately confirmed
by Moscow or Russian sources
In London.
LONDON. June 20 P) Ber
lin radio said tonight allied
forces have reached the forti
fied area of ihe town of Cher
bourg.
"Their spearheads already are
In contact with the German de
fenders," the enemy broadcast
added.
Sgf. Carmichael
Killed in Action
It has been learned here that
Staff Sergeant urvllle uar-
michael. 27, of Malin was killed
somewhere over England in
March of this year. Me is the son
nf Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Carmichael
who are now making their home
In San Diego.
The family made their home
In Malin for about two years, af
ter coming from Indianola, Ne
braska, and young Carmichael
was well-known In Klamath
county.
He left for the army from
Klnmnth Falls in March,
and was first stationed at Shep
ard field, Texas. He was then
moved to Las Vegas, Nev., where
he received mbst of his training
and was moved to Idaho before
he was sent overseas. At the time
nf Mo Inriurtlnn he was employ
ed at the Huffman ranch at Wil
low Creek, uant.
Besides his parents, he has a
sister, Carol Carmichael, who
Is also living in San Diego, and
a brother, Dale, who is with the
Scabecs. He was unmarriea.
Ctmcadv Wonderland
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1944
- rfrrp.
AT
Representatives of two clean
ing companies testified . at a
PUC hearing this morning they
were forced temporarily, to
Close down their plarlta or work,
overtime,, oecause of insufficient
steam or- lack of steanji.-They
appeared -as witnesseirhe3Tdistance,. jin-'BllIe'3' communique
inon complalnls.x against the
Klamath :Heating iebmpany.
' J. B. Henry and Fred Miller
were the, complainants at the
morning - session. Other wit
nesses were- to be heard in the
afternoon, along with the de
fense of the heating company,
on this question.. A later hearing
is to take up the matter of pro
posed increases in rates lor-tne
neatlng utility.
The "black snow" . issue did
not develop at the hearing, with
raui t arrens, attorney repre-
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Navy Strikes
At Kuriles
WITH THE NORTH PACIFIC
FORCE, U. S. FLEET, June 14
(Delayed) (F) Navy Ventura
bombers today made the first
daylight raid in force against
Japan's Kurile islands since
army planes struck at Paramu
shlro and Shimushu last . Sep
tember.
The navy's fast planes, oper
ating from fleet air wing four's
Aleutian base, completed the
bombing and reconnaissance
mission . despite intense anti-aircraft
fire and fighter plane re
sistance. Three planes were
damaged by enemy lire.
The raid was on Shimushu,
most northern of the Kurlles
where the Japanese have navy
and air bases. It came one day
after a fleet task force bom-
barded Matsuwa island, about
150 miles further down the
Kurlles toward Japan proper,
Changsha Falls
To Japanese
CHUN GKING. Wednesday,
June 21 P) Changsha, capital
of Hunan province, has fallen
to the Japanese.
-The high command announced
today that the enemy- occupied
Changsha Sunday after Chinese
forces had withdrawn.
An earlier communique said
more than 50,000 troops at
tacking under, war plane cover
had destroyed tne cny s suDur-
ban defense works.
Japs Fear B-29 ;
Base on Saipan
' Bv The Asiociated Press
Japanese fears that Saipan
island. - where American Inva
sion forces are now engaging
enemy forces, will be used as
a base for shuttle bombing over
Tokyo by B-29 Super-Fortresses
flying from the island to China
were expressed in a Berlin
broadcast of a Tokyo dispatch
today, v ' , -;
Baseball Scores
AMERICAN LEAGUE
R. H. E
Washington 1
Now Vnrlc ' -3 10
i Nlffsfilinff and Ferrell.-- Bor
pwy and Hensley.
300 Nippon
Planes lost
In Mcaricancas
ALLIES PUSH NORTH
ROME, June" 20 (P) Allied
forces pressing . northward on
the Italian mainland have cap
tured Perugia, major -communi
cations center 72 miles air linel
southeast of Florence and 85
miles north of Rome, after the
German position in the north
had been weakened by the con
quest of Elba by French colonial
troops.
The French crushed the last
stubborn resistance-on Elba yes
terday. The swift campaign net
ted 1800 prisoners, all but a
small portion of the enemy gar
rison. ,
White Flag . ; ,
Organized resistance 'on Elba
collapsed with the capture of
Porto Longone, on the eastern
shore of the historic island. The
garrison of about 300 there hoist
ed a white flag and surrendered.
Large quantities of material
were abandoned by the enemy,
Perugia was entered by eighth
army troops which were encoun
terihg spotty resistance today
within the town. On. -both tides
, .1 M.. 1 1 1 1 .
ux : -tua cib.v. uuwcvei. . tuuea
troops-, advanced:' a considerable!
sntrl.
. Armies Advance
Eighth army -troops were win-'
ing out nests of fierce resistance
inside1 the old town. Despite rain
which interfered with- the move
ment of.troops and transport the
eigntn army advanced all along
its front in'the face of resistance
at key points.'i - v
ine fifth army advanced more
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Army Pounds
Jap Airfields
WASHINGTON. Jmu an im
Army bombers pounded Japa
nese air iieios on jvioen island
in Truk atoll Sundav night, with
oniy meager opposition f r o m
that once-strong enemy base,
tne navy reported today. -
There was no fighter oddosI-
tion and only light anti-aircraft
fire was encountered. .
South ; of the West Pacific
Caroline islands other bombers,
uying . through intense but in
accurate anti - aircraft fire,
shelled and bombed anti-air-craft
gun positions and build
ings on Nauru. :
Troops Advance
South in India
SOUTHEAST OF ASIA COM
MAND HEADQUARTERS, Kan
dy, Ceylon, June 20 (IP) Par
allel columns of imperial troops
striking south from noliiraa to
ward Imphal have advanced 17
miles, the greatest singie-oay
of progress in the counteroffen
sive to knock the Japanese from
the northeastern India border
regions, it was announced to
day,
Queen Candidate
Here is Jean Parker, last of
the nine girls to register for
queen of the Klamath Buckarbo
Days Fourth of July celebration
here.
IP
ifi
Juna
Max. (Jun 19) 64 Min. 39
Precipitation last 24 hours .01
Stream year to date 9.22
Normal 11.55 Last year 17.14
Forecast: Cloudy.
V. S. PACIFIC FLEET
HEADQUARTERS. Pearl Har
bor, June 20 (P) American
carrier pilots and warships guns
have destroyed an estimated
300 Japanese planes off Saipan
to win the biggest Pacific air
battle since Midway, while a
land surge captured a vital air
strip and sealed on tne soutnern
end of the island.
In a vicious battle lasting sev
eral hours, the. offshore task
force smashed a sustained Japa
nese aerial assault bunday.
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said
first information reported only
one American vessel damaged.
300 Yank Planes
(Imberial Japanese headquar
ters declared, without confirma
tion.- that 300 American, planes
were destroyed and . a battle
ship, two cruisers, a destroyer
and one submarine were sunk
during .the battle. A. broadcast
memv ' communique; also said
Japanese airmen were -still at-
tackine the American ships.
rrhlit claim may have been a
follow-up to a Tokyo broadcast
promising -mat tne , oapancat
(uontinuea on rage im
Bond Events
6yt((ned for
Purchasers
f :War bond headquarters today
issued, specif ip information for
bond-buyersi on special events
coming , up in -the Fifth War
Loan,- in . answer to many in
quiries.. .1 . . :--
. hptp it is., conaensea:
'1 TJTwnipri-. , nieture.- "Eve of
St. Mark,',' .at- Pelican theatre,
June 28, with; local prologue,
one, general admission ticket
with each E bond, purchased
from June 17 to 28.. Tickets now
available at Pelican bond booth
or-bond headquarters, 735 Main.
2. Wrestlina matches. Friday,
June 23. Tickets given with each
S25 bond or larger on Friday.
3. Marine tsarracKS tour, juiy
2. Tickets at bond headquarters
to all buyers of E bonds since
June 1.
Same bonds.' cannot be used
for more than one event.
Coastguardsmen
Search for Body
M'AWSHFIELD. Ore.. June 20
(IP)' Coastguardsmen searched
today lor tne oooy oi iu-year-nlH
Rnhert McCov of Charleston,
Ore., who his tearful playmate
said, fell into the ocean from a
finn-foot cliff.
Robert's companion, Richard
Jones, 9, of North Bend, was
found wandering dazed at the
base of the cliff near Coos Head
early yesterday by a coast guard
patrol boat . atter an an nigni
search by, coastguardsmen and
civilians. ,
Richard said the accident oc
curred on a Sunday hike and
that he tried vainly to swim out
and bring. Robert ashore.
French Report
Gas Transport
NEW YORK. June 20- (IP)
Radio France at Algiers said to
day 'in a broadcast to-French
areas that : the Germans had
transported , "large quantities'
of poison gas from Germany
into Hungary "with a view to
uslne.it aeainst the soviet army,
from whom they dread a new
and powerful offensive." - .
: The broadcast, reported ' by
TTnlteri States government mon
itors;; said the information had
been received from the Balkans
via nkara.. . .
Russia Wants
American. Goods
' MOSCOW,. June 20 (P) Rus
sia wants to buy "many billions
of dollars worth of American
goods on purchase terms mu
tually advantageous to me iwu
countries involved," Eric John
ston, president of the Unjted
States chamber ot commerce, dis
closed yesterday.
i Johnston, who. is touring Rus
sia, told a press conference he
had been authorized to make the
statement .by Foreign Trade
Commissar jiAnastas Mikoyan
with whom Tie had conferred
earlier. , . -
20, 1944
Number 10189
New President
Sveinn Biornsion (above) was
chosen first . president ' of - the
new republic of Iceland. He has
been regent for three ' years.
(AP. wirephoto). .' "
1 By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW. June 20 WP) Big
guns of the red army, only nine
miles away and within sight of
the Finnish seaport of Viipuri,
poured salvo atter salvo into its
outskirts today. . :
Izvestia's correspondent Ivan
Ossipov "said Viipuri "is just
ahead-of the red army" and that
the speed of the remarkable
offensive was increasing. .
Defenses Collapse
' Major Nikolai Shvankow the
Red Star correspondent, de
clared coastal defenses of the
Finns along the Gulf of Viipuri
have collapsed and that soviet
sailors are' threatening to cut
off large numbers of the enemy
in little peninsulas south of the
city.
Outside Viipuri the Russians
defeated the 18th and 10th Fin
nish infantry brigades, a fresh
(Continued on Page Two;.
Refitting of
Liner Cancelled
NEW- YORK, June 20 (IP)
The navy says that plans to re
fit the former French luxury
liner Normandie have been
cancelled because of a shortage
of manpower and critical ma
terials.
The ocean Slant... which
burned and rolled on her side
here in February, 1942, was
raised at a cost of $3,750,000
last fall and was towed to the
Todd shibvard in Brooklyn. The
cancellation announcement was
made yesterday by the navy de
partment.
Segregee Gets
Year in Jail
Harrv Hiroshi Kawai, a Tule-
lake segregee, was sentenced to
a year in tne moooc county jau
after pleading guilty to a charge
of striking a soldier with a meat
cleaver at tne wka center. -Judee
A. K. Wylie. Alturas,
in meting sentence, stated from
the bench he would recommend
to the parole board that Kawai
ha released after serving 90 days.
Kawai was arrested after the
attack, but no serious injury was
caused. The hearing was held at
Alturas Monday.
Bomber Force
Platforms,
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, June 20 (P) More' than
1500 American heavy: bombers,
possibly the greatest force'in his
tory, today simultaneously at
tacked rocket bomb platforms in
the Pas-de-Calais and an array
of objectives in central Germany
ranging from oil refineries to air-
rilnno nnH tnnk nlants.
The giant armada equalled If
it did not surpass that sent out
last Wednesday to attack French
air fields, bridges . and the .m
merich oil refinery in Germany.
With its big fighter escort, the
entire sky fleet totalled upward
of 2000 planes. , ,
nliut Oil Plant! - -
The heavy bombers blasted
synthetic oil plants and oil re
fineries around Hannover, Ham
burg, Magdeburg, and Politi, a
tank depot near Magdeburg, and
DEFENSES HIP
BY ADVANG
6
Nearby Towns Taken
In Mounting Fury k
; "Of Offensive
Br WES GALLAGHER
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED- EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, June 20 (IP) Head
quarters announced tonight that
allied troops were attacking;
"the outer defenses of Cher
bourg." The veteran U. S. ninth di
vision spearheaded the deepest
drive directly south of - Cher-bourg-T-a
death pocket for per
haps up. to 50,000 nazis cam
turing St. Martin Le Grand only
fqjir miles away. --
Oh the southeast approach W
the transatlantic port, other
doughboys seized Valognes and
pushed a mile beyond, ana
cleaned the Germans out of by
passed Montebourg, four mile
from Valognes.
ran sack
The Germans were falllnrf
back upon the inner perimeter
of Cherbourg's defenses, Associ
ated Press Correspondent Roger
Greene said in. a dispatch irom
U. S. field headquarters. He
added the Germans foil back:
from Valognes "without attempt
ing a major stand. - .
The power drive directly souttt
of Cherbourg carried the ninth
division. . battering - ram nearly
six miles north of captured
Bricquebec. e
Trap Tightens -a
On the eastern coast of the)
trap tightening steadily on Cher
bourg, an American column
drove two miles north of uuine-
ville. - .-. - . i". -.v.
Montebourg, won and lost b
the Yanks in bitter street fight
(Continued on page Two) i;
Court Upholds
Death Penalty
For Negro Cook '
SALEM, June 20 (IP) Tha
Oregon state supreme court to- .
day upheld the conviction and
death penalty imposed on kod
ert E. Lee Folkes, young negro
dining car cook for the "lower
13" slaying of Mrs. Martha Vir
ginia James in January, 1943.
The decision was maoe Dy
5-2 vote,: with Judges George
Rossman and Percy . Kelly dis
senting, y:- J:;..i'i- V,:-Y
The L,os Angeles negro was
convicted in Albany on May 28,
ioia nf first deeree murder.
and sentenced to death in the)
states gas chamber.
Mrs. James, the bride of a
navy ensign, was slashed m the
throat as she lay in berth low&
er 13 of a Southern Pacific pas
senger train passing through
Linn county January 23., Sh
was from Norfolk, Va. vk
Sub Grayback
Reported Lost
WASHINGTON, June 20 (F)
Loss of the submarine Grayback,
presumably in operation against
the Japanese in the far Pacific,
was announced by the navy to-
daThe 1457-ton submersible carj
ried an estimated personnel 9
65 officers and men. -
She was commanded by Com
mander John Anderson Moore,
who is listed as missing in action.
Moore's wife, Mrs. Virginia S.
Moore, lives at Memphis, Tenn.
The loss of the. Gray back, of
ficially listed as overdue and
presumed lost, brings to 24 the
number of American submannei
missing since December 7, 1941
Of that total, two were sunk
in the Atlantic ocean during
training and other maneuvers
and one was destroyed to pre
vent capture. The others all ar4
listed as overdue and presumed
lOSt. t i - 'f'
Hts Rocket J
Oil Refineries
airplane wing repair and. party
plant near-Brunswick. '
The Germans reported the
American fleet was attacked by
large' formations of fighters and
that ; heavy air battles were
fought. .;: :
-.Stockholm reported 21. of the
heavy' bombers made forced
-landings -in Sweden. . ' ,. yc;::;
. - Clear Weather ; VT
Returning crewmen said they ;,
found clear weather over Ger
many but were forced to bomb
through a cloud cover over the
Pas-de-Calais. Today's giant op
eration took a part of the fleet
more than 550' mllcg .almost to
the Polish border to hit Polite,
about 10 miles north of the Bal
tic seaport of , Stettin in far eat
ern Germany. - y '
While the American bombef
and fighter fleet Vas coursing
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Sat.