At Barrage Balloon Training Center
Barrage training center. Camp Tyson, Tcnn.,
where crews are trained to handle, sail and re
pair the huge gas bags. Upper left: Trainees
seated around their instructor. Lower left: Gas
filtered through the purification plant being
forced through the high pressure manifold to be
stored for re-use. Right: Sewing a seam in a bar
rage balloon—“a stitch in time.”
Flock for Service on Navy’s PT-Boats
The successes of our motor torpedo fleet in Philippine waters have brought a flood of applications to the
navy from young officers who want to serve aboard the boats. Special schools have been set up for this
purpose. At the left a group of officers is receiving instructions in the use of depth bombs. Picture at
right shows a group of them gathered about an Orlikon automatic anti-aircraft cannon.
Salvage Work in Desert Battle Zone
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This pile of shell cases is part of the huge collection of material
salvaged from the battlefields of the Libyan desert by the British. The
cases will be used again, for they are of valuable brass and copper. In
many instances the British have taken Italian guns and ammunition and
have used them against their former owners.
New War Bonnet
Arnold Headley, seaman, second
class, is a full-blooded Arapahoe In
dian from Ethete, Wyo. Here he is
demonstrating with machine gun
bullets at the U. S. naval air station
at Corpus Christi, Texas, just how
his ancestors looked with a head
dress of war feathers. Headley is
the station boxing champ.
To Manage All-Star Service Team
Lieut. Gordon (“Mickey") Cochrane has been appointed manager of
the all-star service baseball team composed of former minor and major
league players now in the navy. Shown above are (left to right)
Comdr. Gene Tunney, in charge of sports activities for the navy; Col.
John Thomas Taylor, assistant director, bureau of public relations (war
department), and “Mickey" Cochrane,
Gal in Every Port?
“Just one gal Is enough for me,"
says an old song, but this sailor
seems to be of a different turn of
mind. While his arms are quite full,
his wink speaks volumes.
Gas Mask Drill on Pacific Coast
Above is a general view of a gas mask drill which was held in Oak*
land, Calif., after civilian defense officials began distributing more than
30,000 gas masks to 10 Alameda county communities, as well as parts of
three other counties. Masks will go to volunteer defense workers sped*
fled by the Office of Civilian Defense.
Hitler and II Duce Talk It Over
This historic picture just received In the U. S. shows the meeting at
Salzburg, Austria. General Jodel, second from left, explains to Mussolini
and Hitler a difficult point on the map. Japan was not represented.
Tank-Borne Troops on Russian Front
Red army infantrymen are shown In marching formation after they
had been unloaded from the tanks that carried them to the deployment
point near the front line, somewhere on the long battle line that reaches
from the Baltic to the Black sea. Russians claim that these tanks have
proved superior to the German Juggernauts that crashed through France
two years ago.
Mexico Enters War on Axis
Mexico has now entered the war against the Axis. This action makes
ber a belligerent ally of the 26 other United Nations. Picture shows
Manuel Camacho (extreme right) and his cabinet which voted to Join the
United Nations at war, following the sinking of the two Mexican tankers
in the Gulf of Mexico. Formal protest by Mexico was rejected by
, the Axis.
Part of AEF
Lieut. Betty Egad (left) of Boston,
and Lieut. Helen Rocque of Lexing
ton, Mass., shown as they landed at
a North Ireland port with an army
nursing unit. Note the slacks. The
girls were part of a huge AEF.
‘Honor Man’
Gen. George Marshall congratu
lates Cadet James Hottenrolh of
New York, honor man of the gradu
ating class at West Point, after pre
senting him with his diploma.
Jeep in Ireland
The Dowager Marchioness of
Reading, Ireland (front seat) wear
ing her women’s voluntary service
uniform, Is given a ride in a Jeep
daring a visit to U. 8. troops in
Northern Deland. In the rear seat
are Pauline Fenno (left) of Boston
and Lady Stronge, chairman of the
women’s voluntary service in North,
era Ireland.
‘Gun Moll’—for U. S.
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Many women are employed by the
U. S. as artificers, and have proved
to be expert gunsmiths. Above,
Mary Barkes, 22, goes about her
business of rebuilding an automatic
rifle.
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While There Is Life
Do not keep the alabaster boxes
of your love and tenderness sealed
up until your friends are dead. Fill
their lives with sweetness. Speak
approving, cheering words while
their ears can hear them and
while their hearts can be thrilled
by them.—Henry Ward Beecher.
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