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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 30, 1942)
With U. S. Troops in Libyan Desert Refreshed by a night’s sleep punctured by the roar of nearby guns, members of the crew of a ©. S.-bnilt "General Grant" tank (left) go through the morning routine, somewhere in the Libyan desert. Right: A Ger man ammunition truck Is shown afire after a direct hit during a skirmish. Feminine ’Chute Packers See Work Tested . .... ■imi.n-T.i.ii-unm-Tri-r-tr-r-rnn-m —T fn 1—r • " — ■- J- BfSJMfS'-■»; ’ •"•CT Feminine navy league aides, students in the first parachute rigging class for women in the country, at Philadelphia, see the ’chutes which they packed taken aloft for test jump (right) with dummies attached. Pilot Robert Bitner, pilot of the testing ship, receives the ’chutes. Picture at left shows the completion of • successful test jump. The students struggle to deflate the billowing silk so as to pack it again. Greetings to Leader of ‘Fighting French’ Gen. Charles De Gaulle, left, leader of the “Fighting French” (for merly the Free French) shakes the hand of Lieut. Gen. D. D. Eisen hower, U. S. commander for the European theater on the celebration of Bastille day In London. Adm. H. R. Stark, commander of the U. S. naval forces in European waters (center) looks on. Paul Revere Rides Again Paul Revere, 25, of Braintree, Mass., lineal descendant of the famous patriot of the same name, is now a buck private in Uncle Sa.m’s army, hav ing been sworn in recently in the presence of cheering troops. He then toured the camp on Duffy, 101st cavalry horse, before donning bis uni form. Above, Paul bids adieu to Duffy and takes over with jeep. ‘Bluebeard Tower’ A force of U. S. marines at Bourne Field, U. S. marine air station, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, looks down on the sunny Caribbean from “Blue beard’s Tower.” The turret is all that remains of a fortress which leg end says was the retreat of the fa bled character. I Colombians Arriving at Miami to Join Presi dent-elect Alfonso Lopez of Colom bia, who was in the U. S. as guest of President Roosevelt, Senora De Lo pez is shown (right) with her daugh ter. WAAC Members Welcomed to Army The first women to receive WAAC uniforms nre welcomed into the army by Col. Don C. Faith, commandant of the post at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. A total of 25,000 women will be trained at the camp—enough to release the equivalent of two divisions of men for active combat duty. Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby is director of the WAAC. A Queen Holds Court in New York Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands greets members of the Dutch Colony at a New York hotel. They are, left to right, Jonkheer G. Man Tets Van Goudrlaan (secretary) to the queen; Mme. and Alexander Lon don, Netherlands minister to the C. S.; Queen Wilhelmina; and Baroness Ethel Van Boetzelaer and Mr. De Lanoy. New Steel Monster for Uncle Sam This is the new M-4 tank, the successor of the M-3. Its construction consists of cast or w'elded hulls that offer a much speedier and more satisfactory method of manufacturing in mass production. It carries a 77-mm. gun that can be raised and put in traverse turret to give better all-around fire pow'er, and has improved vision. Last Ride for Russian Prisoners This cartload of Russian prisoners, captured by the Nazis, Is on its way to be shot—somewhere on the Russian front. The Russians, follow ing the "scorched earth" policy, deprive the Germans of any food that may be had, and for this reason, according to the Nazis, the Germans are forced to kill the Russians la order to feed their own soldiers. • * \ Flying Tiger George Burgard of Sunbury, Pa., former “Flying Tiger,” displays a Sumarai sword taken from a Jap victim. Burgard. now visiting in Mi ami, bagged 12 enemy planes in Burma white he was a member of the American volunteer group. Rubber From Grain A congressional delegation visits a Philadelphia alcohol plant to In spect process for producing rubber from alcohol. L. to R.. Senator Guy V. Gillette, Iowa; Senator George Norris, Nebraska; and the refugee inventor, Waclaw Scxukiewics. War Heroes’ Sons Three sons of war heroes are pic tured at the USO's children’s review of the world at the war exhibit in Rockefeller Center, New York. Left to right at the gun mechanism are Dale O’Donnel, Pat O’Donnel and | Pat Devereaux. The O’Donnel boys I are sons of Lieut. Col. Emmet O’Donnel, hero of the aerial defense of Luzon. Young Devereaux's dad Is MaJ. J. P. Devereaux, captured i by the Japs on Wake island. Priority on Pants M. R. Wolfkeil, 38G-pound ship builder of San Pedro, Calif, (left) who wired the President to instruct Henderson to send him priority for cloth, as he had trouble getting clothes under WPB's restrictions. Above, Wolfkeil shows his shabby clothes to Findley Carter. 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