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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1953
Page
6
Rangoon reports say Burma’s forces have driven Chinese guerrillas from Rankha in eastern Burma after a battle. Reinforcements are rushing to help the Burmese town as Nationalist guerrillas suffer heavy losses, with about 250 killed in the engagement.
In heavy rain and fog over northwest Korea Captain Manuel Fernandez Jr. became the world’s leading jet ace with 13 confirmed MIGs destroyed aboard his Sabre jet. Flying with Second Lt. Richard Morin, he credited weather and fuel limits for not extending the battle, as U S forces hammered a large Red supply center near Yangsi and engaged enemy aircraft along the Yalu.
Gen Armand Fonsard, a French ace credited with shooting down 27 German planes in World War I, died Sunday at 66 in Paris. After World War II he was condemned for collaboration with the Nazis, later pardoned.
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