Rangoon Marks Allied Victory Parade After Japanese Rule
A Rangoon celebration honors Burma and Allied forces with a Victory parade through the city. Detachments from United States, British, Chinese troops, air forces, and Burma Navy marched as home guards watched in excitement. The event ends years of Japanese occupation and signals renewed hope for national restoration.
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Harry Grayson
Rangoon
Jie Mensoon
Bengal
Mountbatten
Inj Eintess
Asia
Louis
Agai
Turee
Burra
Burma
United Sates
Amies
United States
Oyal
Therilish
South East Asia
Burne
Texas
New Order
Uncle Sen
Stilwell Road
China
United States Army
Mountbatten Led Burma Campaign To Rout Japanese
The article recalls Mountbatten and General Wheeler directing the Burma operation to retake Rangoon, facing terrain and supply hurdles, with Allied forces including Gurkas Punjabis and Sikhs pushing through jungle to cut off Japanese forces. It notes casualties, the Myitkyina success, and the Rangoon victory parade with Allied troops advancing across 1000 miles in ten months.
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Mountbatten
Normandy
Burma
Rangoon
Thailand
Ghurka
Bate
Nepal
Calcutta
Surma
Joe Stilwell
Myitkyina
Mengoonk
Lord Lounise
Southeast
Anian
Burma Battle and Rangoon Aftermath Noted in Burma Report
The report describes British entry into Rangoon on May 3, noting the city’s residential area largely intact while docks and the waterfront business district suffered. Burmese reaction favored the winner, with U Saw jailed, and Japan’s occupation linked to a future invasion of India. The piece discusses Burma as a rear base for operations and mentions propaganda pamphlets and local Buddhist landmarks including the Shwe Dagon Pagoda.
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Burma
Rangoon
Baasx
U Saw
India
China
Malaya
Sumatra
Java
Japan
Shwe Dagon
Intact Burma Temples Amid War Skies and Oil
The Shwe Dagon Pagoda dome gleams with beaten gold funded by public contribution while other landmarks like Paul’s Cathedral in London remain intact. Burma's cities show resilience with healthier cattle and lush landscapes despite three and a half years of war, as oil fields along the Irrawaddy emerge as key continental petroleum sources.
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Shwe Dagon
Paul's Cathedral
London
Middle East
Irrawaddy River
Burma
Visits famous canteen yields War Bond and photo with actress
Corporal Robert L. Palmer of 401 North Foster Street won a 525,000 War Bond at the Hollywood Canteen during a visit and posed for a picture with film star Joan Loring. Navy casualty James Clemit Phillips, ship's cook first class USNR, is listed among Navy dead released by the Navy Department in May. George Bernard Shaw, with five years of schooling, earned the Nobel Prize in Literature. An ancient British patent described a machine gun firing round bullets at Christians and square bullets at heathens.
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Robert L. Palmer
North Foster Street
Hollywood Canteen
Joan Loring
James Clemit Phillips
USNR
Manuel Dewey Phillips
Slacomb
Navy Department
George Bernard Shaw
Transferred Corporal Danker joins training in Dhnais
Corporal Royce H Joiner son of Frank Joiner of Dothan is transferred from Moody Field Georgia to a B school in Dhnais for training. Mrs J W Wireland of 11044 E Washington Street reports today. Private Martha Newman home on a delay en route visiting her parents Rex and Mrs Newman. Newman joined the WACs in January with basic training at Fort Des Moines Iowa before transfer to Camp Atterbury.
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Royce H . Dank
Frank Joiner
Dothan Toute Five
Moody Field
Dhnais
Wis Spies
Mra
J. W. Wireland
Washington Street
Martha Newman
Mason General Hospital
Brentwood
Long Island
New York
Rex Newman
Newman
Wacs
Fort Des Moines
Iowa
Basle
Camp Atterburg
Indiens biography fragment outlines early training and work
Fragmentary text notes a medical trainee later graduating, four weeks training as a physio therapy technician at Cushing General in Framingham Massachusetts, and prior employment as a welder for J A Jones Construction in Panama City Florida. It references a high school and a rare earth oxide term.
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Cushing General
Framingham
Mass
Newman
J. A. Jones Construction Company
Paneme City
Flo
Slotomb
Scar
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PSS
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J. F. Collins
Dothan
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Alex White
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R.C. Carter
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Verlon C. Register
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W. E. Moore
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R. J. Mc Deslel
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Clarence W. Hughes
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Ala
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Price
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