(AFPS Feature C continued)
The German waives : poured on, but the
7th and 101st became' islands;of resist
tanee. St. Vlth held long enough to
stall the Nazi, timetable; Bastogne was
< never: reduced... ‘
The shoulders of the Bulge withstood
bitter German attacks. Allied infantry
compressed the penetration into a cone
with its tip .a -few miles east of the
Meuse River r nearly 60miles from the'
original line. '' ■ ‘ ,j:
\ Two .days, before Christmas the over
cast broke to give Allied air forces a
chance to mount a, hardhitting attack,
German armor and supply columns were
■vulnerable to artillery and aip strikes?
and the crisis was over. Oh Dec. 26j
tanks of' the 4th'- Armd. Div. reached
the encircled Bastogne to relieve the
weary paratroopers,
Many foot soldiers will never forget
Christmas, 1944q Many never lived to
see another Christmas.
. CLASSIC LINi5S-That»s what
, , • Nancy Wakefield.is shaped
alongo Nancy will reign
at the Orange Bowl,
■*
NAVY- - DUMPS "HOT"
SAND IN'iFALUOUT: TEST
Ten tons of radioactive sand were
spri-nkled • over a.'four~acre. area within
a half mile of a. • school near San Fran
•ci^coy - as: the. Navy: opened a series of
fallout tests» 5' /• .d.
Tfae test d id not endanger anyone, ac
cording to .the Naval. Radiological De
fense laboratory there.
-The contaminated sand was dumped at
Camp Parks on a selected site, contain
ing buildings, pavement, lawns and trees
as in a city. Scientists then moved in
to clean up the simulated fallout.
The teat: was the.first practical app
lication of a method .for cleaning up
radiation fallout on a large scale.
”WeJve learned -enough to know it is
not an impossible job to. clean up large
areas,l! officials said, nBut we want to
improve: our techniques and our equipment
for doing so9 ' -
- The radioactive isotopes used . in the
test were-■ of. such low yield that, they
rapidly. becom'Q. harmless.
i AR
tXau s.
Dubbed as the world1 a most - powerful
radio ■ transmitter, the- Navy*s. Radio
Station nJim,Creektt. is situated in the
foothills-of ;-the Cascade- Mountains, 55
miles northwest 'of Seattle. - -
Jim Greek operates on a 24 hour,basis
to furnish' International Morse Code key
transmission to• i Navy stations and all
ships at sea, <. : . >
■ ‘Utilising two 3,000 foot mountains to
Set up its antenna, Jim Creek emits one
million watts of transmitter power gen
erated" from a i.dozen 200 foot towers.
Approximately. 300 miles pf copper cable
are located beneath the transmitter to
'provide a complex, grounding system for
the’radio'station, - ; \ -
’-*• Originally attached to Naval Communi
cations'when Commissioned on.; No.v9 IB,
1953,;Jin Creek - became a.s eparate and
independent 1 command In March of* this
year.