[Homer_J_Simpson]

The war gets third billing today, after the coal strike and the Detroit riots.

WLB Warns Ickes (Stark) – 2-3
Injured Reach 600 – 3-4
Mob Rule: Twenty-three Persons Are Killed in Detroit Race Riots (photos) – 4-6
RAF Raids Friedrichshafen, Wrecking Nazi Radar Plant – 7-8
War News Summarized – 8
U.S. Fliers to Get Suits of Mail as Added Protection Over Germany – 9
Our Modern Warriors of the Air Dressed in Armor (photo) – 9
Soviet Asks Allies for 2d Front Now Lest Cause Suffer – 10
Quake Lays Turkish City in Ruins; Hundreds Killed, Ankara Reports – 11
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on Fighting in Various Zones – 12-13

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1943/jun1943/f22jun43.htm

US reinforcements land on New Georgia
Tuesday, June 22, 1943 www.onwar.com

Reinforcements arrive in New Geotgia [photo at link]

In the Solomon Islands... On New Georgia, American reinforcements arrive without incident.

In Algiers... After several days of bargaining, the Committee of National Liberation decides the General Giraud will continue to command Free French forces in North Africa, but de Gaulle will be in command everywhere else. This is a victory of de Gualle and his supporters.

[BroJoeK]

headline: "Mob Rule: Twenty-three Persons Are Killed in Detroit Race Riots (photos) – 4-6"

"With Detroit and its metropolitan area population of about 2,500,000 persons -- tens of thousands of them employed in Detroit's many war factories -- under state emergency..."

Interesting to note that in 1943 roughly 1.8 million of the 2.5 million lived in the city of Detroit itself.

Today, Detroit's population is around 700,000 and falling every census.
Meanwhile, the larger urban area has grown to 3.7 million or 5.2 million (depending on where you draw the lines), with about 46 million living within 300 mile radius of Detroit, and 59 million in the "Great Lakes Megalopolis".

[iowamark]

I had never heard of this idea of bomber crews wearing chain mail suits. Apparently it did not catch on.

You are lucky to have all this wartime correspondence from your father. My Dad’s family didn’t save anything.