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JULY 29, 1943 .(One Day Nearer Victory) THE WAYNES V1LLE MOUNTAINEER Pare S re : i .;. ,, JEWS OF THE DA Y Caught By the Camera 1 .'I C?S STAGE LANDING ATTACK U.S. Honors Chiang AS ALLIED INVASION FLEET HEADED FOR SICILY 'Helena' Survivor 1 i If i5 . - ' 1 is PS- ft si-- " JESS: " IED 0URIN3 A tUWDMi swimming cjiiiiuiuuii siagea unaer ma on of the American Red Cross at Camp Edwards, Mass., am ,:in! can vine full field packs and rifles have just abandoned d Ending caree and are swimming to shore. Upon landing iU -anatu - " i..'.vn,unm, NEW ARMY PLANE INSIGNIA THE NEW AMERICAN order of the Legion of Merit was conferred on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek by Lieut Gen. Joseph W Stilwell. commander of U. S. forces in In dia, China and Burma, In a cere mony at Chungking, marking the sixth anniversary of China's resist ance to the Japs. (International) A Good Remir. IB THE 0FF1CIAI Army Air Force Insignia that wQI now be used U plane. The present White star on a field of blue Is retained. kitt rectangle has been added on either side of the field of blue, to whole design is enclosed in a red border. (international) FORTY WINKS FOR TIRED YANKS i , Mll . ( N5r feci j V ... Vv A ItTtJ . ... .... r nnMi of blasting Jap Installations on KolomDangara u. f Wosr.ons, these members of the U S. task force catch a nap. They 10 blow Jap ships out of the water in the uauie or tvuia 7 photo from News ' Day Nevvsreel. (International) PAZI FATE MAY REST ON BULGE 4uH Toropets NoHk ; LOVELY Gloria De Haven, film star let, points to the calendar to re mind observers that today an : every day is a good time to buy w stamps to the tune of $130,000 ' The money will be used to buj' U. S. Navy's new aircraft c "Shangri La." (Internals Poses for Soldiers ..... VA. ? 11 to (f -j 0f G'MANVS third summer ofjensn e in Kussia. a ... Sorotj h ' ce' . depends on her ability to straignten Ho J"'66 111 the 2.000-mile long battlefronl Unless her armies Plj po Russians may drive on Smolensk one of her vital ! Crimp,15' cf 31 Poltava and Kremenchug. Key approaches to Nazi Muenk rong Soviet forces recently advanced along the Zhiz "e and frora Kursk., threatening to envelop the Nazi man HiThV31 rel rhese successful attacks may have caused the !-., ,Cnmm?nii to start the third offensive sooner than they 'karc :o move (nternotionn' SCREEN STAR Anne Gwynne, the serviceman's favorite "pin - up" girl, poses for a pin-up photo at the Hollywood USO clubhouse. Anne, in addition to mailing pictures of herself to the boys In the service, also poses for them. (International) Si a . inii' wHj PART Of THI GREATEST INVASION FLEET In history, consisting of more than 2,000 ships, Is shown headed ior the shores of Sicily. The vessels were loaded with battle-tried U. S., British and Canadian armored and infantry forces, and all kinds of war supplies. Allied forces continue to capture many Sicilian towns said ports, and are driving toward the strategic city of Messina. OWI Radiophoto. (International) WHERE JAPS FALL BACK IN SOUTH PACIFIC I j j: ijjLj! m i - i rvyorx nnu v i jr i HnMLNE BAY c P0RT MORESBY w Georgia; RUSSEL IS&rxp GUADALCANAL ALL ROADS LEAD TO RABAUL today as American forces point toward that vital Jap base in the South Pacific. The shaded Jap-held territory on the map shrinks slowly but steadily. Now U. S. troops have cut off Munda (lower right) and threaten Salamaua (center left). Within the last 18 days, the Japs have lost 435 aircraft in air combats alone in this area. As a result of our advances, Rabaul has been brovght under strong air attack and the enemy has been forced to depend more heavily on New Guinea ba. with Kavieng (top center) on New Ireland taking over as the principal rear base. (Internatient) TERRAIN WHERE ALLIED TROOPS BATTLE AXIS THIS SICILIAN VILLAGE, Santa Ella, located east of Palermo, Is typical of many of the areas in whk-h Allied troops are now fighting Axis defenders on the Italian island. Mountains run right down to the sea and landings had to be made through reef-infested, heavily-mined waters and beaches (Her.umoa!) CHINESE STILL FIND TIME FOR FUN ill J3 r V Bm. fir 4 aL- iL J. BLOWN INTO THI WATER in the battle of Kula Gulf, MaJ. Bernard T. Kelly of the Marines saw his ship, the U. S. cruiser Helena, go down fighting. After 63 hours in shark-infested waters and 10 days on an island, he and 160 other sur vivors were saved. International) Navy's in Her Lino rAi - r rrv,- J pi f a ,, 4 -. "rifriTifaTfrftWsfsili GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER of Com modore Oliver H. Perry and grand niece of the Commodore Mathew G. Perry who opened Japan to the modern world, WAVE Phyllis Jeaa Perry of Forest Hills, N. Y., attends) the Bronx, N. Y, nr.val trainlan school. (Intrrnationttf Downs Six Zero r, . ;? L- ' k i A f " DESPITE THEIR long and desperate resistance to the Jap Invaders, Chinese soldiers maintain some happy ( peacetime traditions. This is the annual dragon boat festival, equivalent to our own Poughkeepsie re- i gatta, and It was held recently somewhere in the Interior. The winner (above) is about 50 feet long and ' the paddlers are led by the standing captain while the drummer marks the beat (International) 1 SON of a Marine Corps officer, Capt. Francis E. Pierce, Jr., 25, of Coronado, Cal., has downed six Jap planes in nine flights in the Solomons. In one dogfight he was wounded in both legs, but contin ued to fight. Official U. S. Marine Corps photo. International) i' ! I, I v IS . t' I I v :?: f I I i j; i.
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