Grey Highlands Newspapers

Flesherton Advance, 14 Mar 1945, p. 7

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l^ *- ^ M r- ; [ I WE HAVE THE 'KNOW HOW NOW FIGHTING MEN MUST EAT This First Canadian Army Duck is being loaded with compo ration for Canadian troops fighting ia the lowlands of Holland. ZERO HOUR . . . GERMANY 5â€" SeabecsfT*^'^ 2 Green apprentics in amphibious warfare in the days of Gualalcanal and bloody Tarawa, Unci* Sam's Pacific fighter's now have their master's dagree â€" but they got it the hard way. Their "grad- uation thesis" was the wiiining of almost impregnable Iwo Jima. Illustrated above the steps in the invasion pattern that has now become classic: enemy air power grounded and planes knocked out by weeks of aerial bombardment; th« foe driven from beachheads and under cover by pound- ing shells and rockets from warships, which also aims to knock out shore batteries; the actual landing, under covering fire; the battle to "secure" the objectiv«; Seabees, on heels of invasion forces, repair airfields for our use, bring in tons of supplies, set up mechanical and engineering equipment; finally, the mopping up of last-ditch survivors, REUNION IN SCHOONDYKO NON-BOUNCER These men, members of a famous Canadian infantry regiment, somewhere on the German front, wait in their slit trenches for the order to attack. The Nazis are just up forward of this position. CORNY PICTURE United States fliers bombing rail- ways in Burma found that often a bomb would ricochet into the jungle. The spike buries itself into a railway tie and the -bomb goes off where it lands . Nature was almost too bountiful out in central Nebraska, where there was such a buiMer com crop that storing and preserving it is a critical problem. In photo above, 24,000 bushels lie on th« gound outside an elevator, at Shelton, Neb. Elevator is full and has a heavy backlog. Everybody's happy as Mr. and Mrs. Marten Zoonevylle welcome to their home near Schoondyko, Holland, the granddaughter they haven't seen since 1921. She is WAG Pfc. Neeltje Zoonevylle. whose parents took her to Sodus, N. Y., when she was 16 months old. She grew up there and now is serving with the USAAF 9th Bombardment division. FRIEND AND FOE FIND REFUGE DON'T BE AN ABSENTEE â€"keep working regularly^ German prisoners and their American guards take cover beneath a tank destroyer as « hail of Nazi shells whistles over head. Pris- oners were taken by 4th Division troops of the U.S. Third Army luring advancM across the Pruem Vauejr. Contributed by m^wm BLACK HORSE ©lanwssii? s-iw

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