Burma Burma Volunteers Face Public Reveal Of Their Valor
In Rangoon and Chungking reports reveal names of about 300 American volunteers fighting with British and Chinese in Burma and China. Official tallies credit them with 136 Japanese planes shot down and 20 to 1 enemy losses in Rangoon battles, with four AVG members killed and one prisoner of war.
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Rangoon
Burma
U.P
China
Jack
Scarsdale
N. Y
Buster
Sandy
Chungking
Saturn
R. J
Sandell
San Antonio
Texas
AVG First Pursuit
Robert Neale
Seattle
Bay of Bengal
J. W
Scarsdale Jack) Newkirk
101St
Robré
Keeton
Manzanola
Colo
British Submarines Sink, Torpedo, Hit Convoys in Mediterranean
An admiralty communique reports British submarines sunk a heavily laden enemy supply ship in the central Mediterranean, torpedoed and almost certainly sunk another, and hit a third. The ships were convoys escorted by planes and destroyers, likely bound for Tripoli with reinforcements for German and Italian forces. The German drive into Libya relies on these guarded supply convoys crossing from Italy.
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London
U.P
Admiralty
Mediterranean
Tripoli
Libya
Italy
Invasion Forces Press Closer as Java Battles Intensify
Japanese invasion troops thrust toward Java with a new Celebes landing at Macassar and air attacks on Java bases. Gasmata landing on New Britain was reported, while Java and Borneo operations continued. Malang and Soerabaja were bombed with limited damage and no Allied losses. Batavia faced air raids and fires.
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Batavia
Java
Celebes Island
Gasmata
New Britain
Australia
Celebes
Macassar
United Nations Supreme Headquarters
Borneo
Bantermasin
Malang
East Java
Soerabaja
Tjeppe
Sumatra
Aneta
East
Britain Bombards Axis in Libyan Desert Front
Cairo AP dispatch reports British artillery and bombing squadrons attacked Axis forces west of Ain El Gazala with no major tank clash. The line held from Tmimi to Meikili and west of Tea geder as patrols and mobile columns operated widely and fighters protected land operations.
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Cairo
Ain el Gazala
Tmimi
Meikili
Teageder
French North Africa Aids German Libya War Effort
An official spokesman said the German army in Libya has received supplies from French North Africa including food gasoline and aviation fuel. He added that Rommel may have used these French routes and noted US inquiries in Vichy about the deliveries.
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London
U.P
Libya
French North Africa
Washington
Erwin Rommel
Afrika Korps
United States
Vichy
North Africa
Tunisia
France
Weather and civic notes for Amarillo region
Forecast shows slowly rising temperatures today with a cooler night in the west Texas area east of Pecos River and Del Rio Eagle Pass. New Mexico expects little change with fresh winds central portion decreasing today. 24 hour extremes show a 21 to 45 range, noon temperature 33.
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Amarillo
West Texas
Pecos River
del Rio-Eagle Pass
New Mexico
Red Faces in Vogue For Telephone Gossips
In Altadena California deputy sheriff E H Maas arrested two teenage youths who tapped a telephone line by hooking earphones to listen in on conversations. The pair found gossip so engaging they became avid listeners in a curious raid on privacy.
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Altadena
Calif
E. H. Maas
Japanese dive bombers strike on Bataan in last stand phase
U P reports say Japanese dive bombers bombarded Bataan lines as Gen Douglas MacArthur fights to hold the last American resistance on Luzon. The clash leaves Philippine defenders outnumbered, while a Japanese sub torpedoed the small transport Royal T Frank in Hawaiian waters with 29 lives lost.
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Washington
U.P
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan
U. S
Luzon
War Department
MacArthur
Lingayen Gulf
Subic Bay
Bataan Peninsula
China Sea
Manila Bay
Hawaiian
Philippines
Frank
Burma Across Salween War Update From Tokyo Reports
Japanese troops entered Martaban at the mouth of the Salween River in Burma and the Port of Moulmein fell days ago. Allied forces brace for a new offensive north of Paan as Japan concentrates near Chiengmai and Toungoo to sever the Burma Road and threaten Rangoon Mandalay Lashio and India.
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Tokyo
Martaban
Salween River
Burma
Domei
Salween
Moulmein
Rangoon
U.P
Paan
Thailand
Toungoo
Rangoon- Mandalay
China
Chungking
Chiengmai
Upper
Thailand-Burma
Mandalay
Lashio
India
Russians Cut Off Rzhev As German Fronts Struggle
Reports from the front say Russians have cut off Rzhev, a northern anchor of the German front near Moscow, with bitter snow battles and German forces rushing up elite troops to break Russian lines. The morning communique notes continued operations and seven inhabited points captured, but Russian dispatches suggest the counteroffensive slows amid cold and stiff resistance. Russians also accuse German surgeons of blood transfusion and skin grafts using Russian children, left without care after procedures.
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London
U.P
Rzhev
Moscow
Stace
Mander
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