Word: battlefronts
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...Algiers, he found his ace economic brain-truster, urbane Herve Alphand, back from London after a successful conference with British officials. The British had reportedly agreed to: 1) transfer civil administration of liberated a.eas behind the battlefront to Gaullist commissioners; 2) recognize the Gaullist Committee's right to issue all currency in liberated France; 3) supply food to the liberated population...
...tentative calls, Prewi's SWIF (Somewhere in France) got astounding news on its receiver: its signals were clearly pounding into the Prewi receiving station at Baldwin, L.I. Soon SWIF had its first customer: the United Press's Henry T. Gorrell. He said communications from the battlefront were now the best in his nine years' experience as a war correspondent...
...safe back at the Twentieth Bomber Command's China base after thirty-six hours of wandering just a few miles behind the Honan battlefront where the B-29 I was in crash-landed flying back from Japan bombing. I spent most of the time with crew members working out a scheme to avoid being captured by Japs, while Jap fighters and bombers throughout the morning mercilessly strafed and bombed the ship into a total wreck. I fortunately escaped any injury. I hope my story on bombing will reach you in time for publication. (It did. See WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
...taking part in the war. Said the Convention's war resolution (drawn up by Dr. Daniel A. Poling): "The church must be the church-not a recruiting agency for any government. [But] she must companion her sons and daughters wherever as conscientious Christians they may go-to the battlefront, to the ambulance corps and to the camp for objectors...
...second prize (for war reporting) went to a recorded program from Italy by Warcaster Matthew Halton, ex-Toronto Star correspondent. The Institute thought the program's use of battlefront sounds, cries and commentaries excellent, commended it to U.S. networks...