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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Okinawa, pilots of the 2nd Marine Air Wing took off to intercept a Japanese attacking force. Three of them-Major George C. Axtell Jr., of Baden, Pa., Major Jefferson Davis Dorrah, Hood River, Ore., and First Lieut. Jeremiah J. O'Keefe, Biloxi, Miss.-were flying into their first combat. When they landed again, all three were aces. Their joint score: 16 Japs shot down, two probables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: One Deal, Three Aces | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...confesses, "to enjoy night clubs. I don't understand what goes on after 1 a.m.-but I doubt if anything very profound is said." A family man (he has been married twice), he does not smoke, seldom drinks, spends as much time as possible on his Doylestown, Pa. farm, where he grows wheat and alfalfa and raises Aberdeen-Angus cattle. His one eccentricity is that he writes standing up. But even that is based on logic: he paces so much when working that it saves time not to sit down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical In Manhattan, Apr. 30, 1945 | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

President Truman took with him to the White House Colonel Harry H. Vaughan, close friend since World War I, as military aide and secretary-the post held by the late Major General Edwin M. ("Pa") Watson. As his personal secretary the President took closemouthed Matthew J. Connelly, who had become his confidential secretary after last November's election. For press secretary, the job now held by round-faced, amiable Jonathan Daniels, there was talk of the veteran Charles G. Ross, of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, or younger (45) Samuel Amos O'Neal, ex-Post-Dispatch reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Now? | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...application-for a course in practical electricity-came from a soldier somewhere in the Pacific. It was delivered at the special post office in the big factory-like building on Wyoming Avenue, in Scranton, Pa. Within a few hours it was opened, sorted, approved, numbered, sent along for processing. Thus the famed, 54-year-old International Correspondence Schools matriculated their 5,000,000th student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: I.C.S.'s $ 5,000,000th | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

After months of convalescence, Private Holland wrote a letter home to West Conshohocken, Pa., to his sweetheart, Doris Jane Ruth: "Don't wait for me, I'm pretty shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VETERANS: No Matter What's Left | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

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