“Air Surgeons recommendation that medicinal whiskey be made available all theatres of operation for the issue to Army Air Forces Combat crew members upon their return from serial combat missions or operations, is concurred in.” August 19, 1943.
Record Group 492: Records of Mediterranean Theater of Operations, United States Army
Series: Formerly Security Classified General Correspondence
File Unit: SECT 435, Coffee, Tea, Beverages, Drinks
Transcription:
Equals British Secret
Confidential
War Departement
Cmassified message center
AFHQ
Incoming message
War
filed 100233Z
AFSC N314/10
100732B
cjr
PRIORITY
FROM: AGWAR
TO: FREEDOM TO KIRK TO CARROLL, COX, KING, HAWLEY, SAMS,
TAMRAZ, MOORE, BLESSIE, MAXWELL
NO: 4590, August 1943
Air Surgeons recommendation that medicinal whiskey be made available all theatres of operation for the issue to Army Air Forces Combat crew members upon their return from serial combat missions or operations, is concurred in. Quantity required should be procured locally if possible, if not available locally, timely requisitions should be initiated if needs to be supplied from here. Forward immediately estimate of quantity required next 6 months.
ACTION: SURGEON
INFORMATION: SGS
NAAF
NAASC
DTC
RECORDS
MC IN 4536 10 AUG 43 1004B Ref No: 4590 jc
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Confidential [crossed] Copy No. 12
The making of an exact copy of this message is forbidden
Regraded unclassified [stamp]
Order Sec Army by Tag per 60512 [stamp]
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“The crew posing to duplicate their caricatures in the nose art of Boeing B-29 Superfortress ‘Waddy’s Wagon’ of the 869th Bomb Squadron, 497th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing, 20th Air Force at Isley Airfield in Saipan on November 24, 1944.”
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Arlington National Cemetery is not there for political campaign ads. Most people don’t go there for that and don’t want to see that when they do. Trump put out a TikTok video and dozens of campaign videos and photos.
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On 7 August at 9 a.m. an officer of the Japanese Army Air Force called at the laboratory of Yoshio Nishina, the best known of the Japanese atomic scientists, which had suffered severe damage in a previous air raid.
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