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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 11, 1943)
‘Black Gold’ for Atlantic Seaboard Begins to Flow h Tank cars at Norris City, III., the temporary mid-western terminus of the Texas-to-IIlinois pipeline, are loaded (left) for the first shipment of oil to the Atlantic seaboard. Oil started flowing through the pipeline re cently at the rate of 50,000 barrels daily. At right, W. Alton Jones, president of War Emergency Pipe Lines, Inc., turns valve to load the first tank car from the pipe line at Norris City. Inset: Train of tank cars to speed oil to Eastern seaboard to relieve fuel crisis. With U. S. Troops in Jungle Outpost on Burma Border j These pictures were taken at a U. S. army air force base in India. At left, a soldier busily packs a bale of supplies, food, and games to help combat the monotony of the boys who man our jungle outposts along the Burma border. The supplies are dropped by parachute. Center: U. S. troops in a trailer-hauling jeep cross a stream. The bridge is constructed of bamboo. Right: Scene inside one of the big army transport planes that does the job of keeping U. S. outposts supplied. A Senegalese Father Goes to the Front Except for the color of their skins and the manner in which the mother f carries her child, this scene is a duplicate of what goes on at railroad stations all over America and Britain. It took place in Dakar, French West Africa, as a French colonial regiment entrained for the Tunisian front. The child seems big enough to start getting around on its own. Jewish Children Pray for Kin in Nazi Lands i About 5,000 Jewish children from 518 religious schools in Greater New York gathered in solemn assembly of prayer and protest at Mecca temple for the children in Nazi-occupied countries. Ingeborg Jacob of Germany is shown here as she lights the memorial candle for those who died in the Nazi wave of terror. Buna Battle Trophy Scrgt. James M. Cox of Jackson, Miss., holds a huge pair of binocu lars captured from the Japs at Buna. All the equipment the Japs had at that New Guinea base was either destroyed or captured by U. S. troops when they wiped out the last Jap forces there. U-Boat Skipper This (ierman U-boat captain poses for the camera man after his sob was beached at Oran, Algeria. Brit ish depth charges damaged the sub so badly that it was a case of sur. I render or sink. Where Tunis Air Raid Was Plotted The roulette table In this old gambling casino In Tunisia is the plot ting room for planning the air raid on the Axis-held El Auina field, Tuni sia. This was prior to the great tank battle of Kasserine Pass, in which American armored forces, after serious reverses, hammered back Rom mel’s dangerous thrust westward towards Tebassa. Flying Fortresses Foray in Solomons Leaving fire and destruction in their wake, G. S. army Flying For tresses carry out a bombing sortie on Japanese installations on Gizo island in the Solomons. The raid was part of a triple-pronged aerial thrust against the enemy during the fight for Guadalcanal. The starboard wing of the Flying Fortress from whleh a G. S. navy photographer snapped this picture is visible at the extreme right. Jap Zeros in Alameda Naval Base The Alameda naval air base, California, had a visitation of Japanese float-type Zeros, but no bombs were dropped. The planes, in various stages of disrepair, were shot dowu In the war eone and brought back for such purposes as the navy department may see fit to put them to. Photo shows a sample of what happens to these frail Japanese craft when they come under the guns of U. S. forces in the Pacific. Little Brown Church in Wildwood This chapel of Our Lady of Loretto was erected by U. 8. soldiers al an American base in the South Pacific. The chapel is used for Catholic and Protestant services, and is well attended. Governor of Algeria When High Commissioner Henri Giraud announced the appointment of Marcel Peyrouton as governor general of Algeria it created quite a stir there, which later subsided when the appointment was sanc tioned by the United Nations, Here we see the new Algerian governor general seated at his desk execut ing the duties of office. His aide, I J. Fabregoule, stands behind him. I - Gets ‘Low Down’ Lieut. Gen. Leslie J. McNair, com manding general of the army ground forces, is shown here questioning Private Edward Gall, training-tough ened glider infantryman, who has just finished running the difficult ob stacle course at Maxton-Laurinburg army air base in North Carolina. — Hat Blackout Luminous straw hats will be the rage this summer, what with black outs and dimouts. This excellent safety device is a straw hat for men treated with luminous paint, which will glow for hours after a 1 moment’s exposure to day or elec tric light. Above, hat is shown be fore being treated, and below is a picture made by the hat’s luminous qualities as it would appear to au automobile driver at night. Bring French Ships Capt. C. Y. Perzo, skipper of the Fantasque, and Capt. I). M. Saia, ■kipper of the Terrible, French light cruisers, are shown in Boston after perilous trip from Dakar, French West Africa. I Our Prisons Are Doing Part in Defeating Axis American prisons are now pro ducing millions of dollars worth of war materials, says Collier’s. Air raid sirens are being made at Sar.» Quentin; shirting for the navy at the Alabama state prison; bomb parts at the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa.; and cartridge belts at the reformatory for wom en in Alderson, W. Va. Even large patrol boats for the army are being built entirely by the inmates at McNeil Island. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT FOR SALE Hoieral Hundred white face Wyoming ewes. Bred to black face bucks to lamb on or bo fore April first. If interested call or write, J. 11. 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