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INTERNATIONAL NEWS PHOTO Wilsolfs great theme is, 'All out effort to win this war' Y Un the alert! Through blackouts, air raids, secrecy campaigns, Victory production drives, the South- land is one gigantic arsenal of Democracy. Long Beach at war is the apex of feverish war activity, the home base of the U. S. Fleet and Ferry command, transporting materials to the far flung fronts of a world at war, the doorvvay to the South Pacific battle lines. Booming war industries concentrated in this strategic area work Z4 hours a da ' rim ea les of the sk van uards of the Arm , Nav roar incessantl overhead yr S g Y, g Y Yr Y 1 giving Daugherty Airport the greatest traffic volume in the United States. Constant streams of army con- vo trucks o b .In arlcs, buildin s, on hills the ever- resent sentr with fixed ba onet is watchin be- Y g Y P g : P Y Y g hind masses of barbed wire. Oil refineries pour out floods of gasoline, great merchant ships slide into busy harbors' the blackout Dou las lant rinds out hoardes of formidable trans orts bombers to 'oin the 1 S P S P 2 J clouds of planes climbing from southland plants. Long Beach is at warg Wilsoii is in the war!
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f Air Raid-A sudden screeching siren. A blast, silence . . . A blast, si- lence . . . And a whole city was awake and on the alert at 2 a. m. Awake and on the alert. For that siren, destroying the stillness February 25 gave warning of events that might destroy more than silence . . . might wreck homes and kill men. A frightened Long Beach crept to their doors and found themselves spectators to the most poignant, terrifying, yet magnifi- cent spectacle of modern times. Stars, millions of them, in subdued bright- ness formed a weird background for the magnificent power of giant search- lights, beacons offering comfort as they hunted down their prey. Anti-air- craft guns shot their rockets, flaming red, high into the sky. Then ominous thunder of guns and speeding planes and shaking homes. And then it ended, the first air raid of Long Beach. Ark-ack guns hurled death while searchllghts blaze-el
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