

SICILY-Allied bombers, attacking Palermo, according to the caption on this picture received from a neutral source. The plant is reported to be the largest producer of hollow ground steel blades in the nation. – Gleaming hollow steel propellers, soon to whirr on United Nations warplanes, are checked on the final assembly line by Kathren Krumpe and Ann Newdonski, workers at a Curtiss-Wright propeller plant in the Pittsburgh district of Pennsylvania. soldiers are taught to fight during a gas attack. Here is sound proof that Roosevelt wasn’t bluffing. “Acts of this nature committed against any one” of the Allies will be regarded as having been committed against the United States itself and “treated accordingly”, the President promised. – For the third time since the war began, President Roosevelt has warned the Axis powers that if they use poison gas in a desperate effort to stem the Allied tide of victory, the United Nations will bring “full and swift retaliation in kind” upon Axis munitions centers, seaports and other military objectives. The demonstration was made in celebration of the Engineers 168th anniversary. Army engineers from Camp McCoy, Wis., built across the Chicago River at State Street a pontoon bridge capable of carrying a load of ten tons, and within another hour had dismantled it. CHICAGO – In a little less than an hour, U.S. Credit: Signal Corps photo via OWI Radiophoto from ACME ĪRMY BRIDGES CHICAGO RIVER IN 55 MINUTES. Marshall accompanied British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to North Africa from Washington. Army Chief of Staff, is shown conferring with General Dwight Eisenhower (left), Allied Commander in Chief, during an informal press conference held at Allied Headquarters in North Africa.

The gun crew went into action while escorting a United Nations convoy through sub-infested seas. Somewhere in the North Atlantic – Sending a fiery blast into North Atlantic skies from the deck of an American Destroyer, this gun casts a glow on “Old Glory” giving “proof thru the night that our flag was still there”.

