Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carrier-based naval squadron of dive-bombers and torpedo planes smashed a Jap fleet movement of one carrier flanked by cruisers and destroyers. Torpedo-plane Pilot Lieut. Bruce Harwood of Claremont, Calif., flew within 800 yards of the carrier (presumably the 7,100-ton Ryuzyo) before releasing a "pickle" that sent a giant plume of flame from the ship's bow. In the opening Solomon Islands' sea battle Jap fleet units took a terrific pounding. To U.P. Reporter Joe James Custer the great balls of flame being volleyed back & forth over the blue court of the ocean turned...
...Rainier, miles away from regular mess facilities, mountain troops lived on Ration K for days, came through fit as fiddles. At Indio, Calif., where the temperature ran as high as 122° in the shade, a five-day trial gave equally nourishing results. The menu was surprisingly varied. Breakfast consisted of enriched biscuits, compressed graham crackers, veal luncheon meat, fruit bar, malted milk dextrose tablets, soluble coffee, sugar, chewing gum, four cigarets. Dinner was much the same, with the addition of powdered bouillon-but without coffee or fruit bar. Supper: biscuits, cheese, fruit-juice powder, chocolate bar, sugar, chewing...
Last week the Blue Army commander called for air aid as his columns rolled into the pass to Needles, Calif. Here they had been stopped short by opposing artillery. Then the bombers came from the rear, diving at gun emplacements, strafing bombed-out troops. Behind them came the transports ready to drop paratroops...
Five Freedoms. In Corte Madera, Calif.. Justice of the Peace Herbert De La Monanya scolded police for arresting five backyard nudists, agreed with the defense attorney that nudism at home was one of the liberties the U.S. was fighting...
Vigor. In Stockton, Calif., Mrs. Columbo Fanucchi, cycling, thrust out her hand for a left turn, thrust it through the window of a passing car, broke...