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The Daily News Leader from Staunton, Virginia • 8

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Of I TP tl Ma Vm ill U.S. Troops Reinforce Marines in Solomons Gdts Medal In Aussie Hospital Motlicr and Four Sons In Uncle Sam's Service 1 "-11 I -1 i j. i 1 Lr 1 1 if i Sitting on the edge of his bed in a hospital near Darwin, Australia," Brig. Gen. Albert L.

Sneed is shown receiving his decoration from Xieut Gen. George H. Brett Commander in Chief of the Allied air' forces in the southwest Pacific. Sneed is suffering from an attack of Dengue fever. Prond Mrs.

Helen F. Barry of Bedford, salutes tha photos of her four sons, equally divided between the Army and Navy. Two of the Barry boys arc fighting in the Pacific She is floing her part for the boys in Uncle Sam's armed forces by serving as a nurse in the hospital of the Chelsea, Mass, soldiers' home. Thou Tf Ar tn. a boardinc a hug eamooflaffd tnuiaport at aNeCaledoiiUp(t bore 5 lTinir to reinforce the marines in tie Sobm-M.

The doughboys apparently armed rums iai me ake Mrt iedefenw against the all-oat attempt of the Japs to recapture the islands. While U.T Sn and destroyers banged away at the caul air base. Jap vessels landed new troops to the east. Tha is an official U. S.

Army photo. Mrs. FDR at Buckingham Palace Machinery, and Candy, Too, Taken From Jap: hi I'M I msconsinGoVernor Old Fashioned Molar Grinder irvltij. i L1 mm 4 SlHi nt(( St. i i 'I if I a iAi- it.

4 13 pi ifl I Here is Wisconsin new a i llliii Orland 8. umis, When a memDer 0j the Allied forces geU a toothache at the Allied base who defeated the Republican Jn- neM Darwin( Australia, he gets the attention of a dentist at the base's eumbent, Julius who was ficl(1 jjogpitaL A member of the dental corps is shown grinding a molar bidding for a third term. to tone of a treadle, while another soldier is being examined. Air Chief TalKs to My in Aussie Jungle To the victor belongs the spoils. In this case, the spoils are cases of Japanese supplies, everything from machinery to candy, taken by the U.

S. Marines on Guadalcanal. U. S. Navy has announced a slow retreat by the Japs on Guadalcanal island and also that American submarines had sunk seven more enemy ships in the far PacmcJrrfT first lady Mrs.

Eleanor Roosevelt Is shown with King George and Queen Elizabeth in the Bow Room of Buckingham Palace in London. Seated at right are the Princesses Margaret Rose (on hassock) and Elizabeth. U.S. Tests Captured Zero Navy, Army and USO Distaff Side 4. i' i mm fK vb'A." -s -4 if- if i 4 i 't A reconditioned Zero fighter plane downed in the Aleutian Islands, now bearing U.

S. stars instead of Jap insignia, is shown during one of its test flights conducted by U. S. Navy fliers. Most of its fast, maneuver-able features have been copied from American planes.

The Jap plane's sacrifice of protective armor makes it vulnerable to the concentrated siftchfoe-gnn and cannon fire of U. S. aircraft. This is an official U. 8.

Navy photo. Six-week-old lion cubs, born at the Griffith Park too in Los Angeles, make their camera debut. Pretty Ann Morley helps put the picture over, don't you think? (Left to right: Lieut. Mildred McAfee, director of the WAVES, eiplains insignia on her uniform to Mrs. Maurice T.

Moore, chairman ol tne USO National Women's Committee, and Lieut Helen Hamilton Woods of the WAACS. Lieut McAfee said that her own "off the record interpretation of the anchor on one lapel and the propeller on the other, is "Keep them down, and push ahead." Both officers told Mrs. Moore that an increasing number of WAVES and WAACS are using USO duos and lounges throughout the The General Takes a Catnap Before decorating several U. S. air heroes, Lieut.

Gen. George IL Brett, ewnnmndeT-Inei of the United NaUons'. Air Forces In the southwest Pacific, addresses U. a flyers to a Jungle airfield some-, where ion the northern Australian coast Brett is in group at left WAAC and WVS Chiefs Meet in England Allied Troops Advance Through Axis Shellfire 1 xi 11! iwjm.ri 1 1 i. J4 Vv 1 v.

1. mm mm mm Maj. Gen. Ralph Royce curls tip in the radio room for a catnap as hU Flying Fortress returns to its base somewhere near Darwin, Australia He had Juet returned from a jungle base Down Under, whew U. JUers an living, flying and looking forward to bombing the spa.

AlUod NaUons Infantrymen take abetter for moment behind a disabled tank as they advanr aga lwrt Ax poUlZ west th El Alamein line In the EgypU.n desert Rommel's forces are giving ti. AUiiod Unka and bvvbtnbmzl from th air. Thk is a r4igrh Ovffa Culp Hobby, (left) head of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, who accompanied Mrs. 3- rv 3ii D. Kwaevdt on her trip to England, is shown wilh Maj.

Gen. Russell P. Ilartle and Lady Reading, Jb4 Fcsr 's Xoluntar girvlce, XIarile Is in command of tha V. boon in IrclaiuL.

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