Asiatic War Front Shifts as Leaders Plan Moves
Reports from Washington and Chungking sketch a widening crisis as Allied leaders MacArthur Stilwell Mountbatten and Auchinlee pursue routes through Burma to Manila Rangoon Singapore and the China coast. Discussion centers on Japanese advances from Burma risk to India and a possible easing of Chiang Kai-shek’s resistance amid Moscow’s stance and pressures in Chungking.
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Joseph F. Stilwell
Burma
Lord Mountbatten
Claud J.P. Auchin
Jef
India
MacArthur
Philippines
Stilwell
Ching
Lon Mountbatten
Rangoon
Malaya
Singapore
Burma Road
Manila
Mountbatten
Davao
Mindanao
Chana Sea
Borneo
Java
Japan
Netherland Faust Indies
Washington
China
Indian National Army
Chandra Bose
Moscow
Quter Mongolia
Sinkiing
Chungking
New Delhi
Straliyg
Ledo Road
Easter and Bataan Faith and Duty Message
The author invokes the Easter story of Thomas to urge the nation to abandon doubt about the Bataan charge. He calls for renewing faith and honoring those who died, saying Easter and Bataan are linked by consecration to the tasks and ideals for which the sons sacrificed and perished.
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Thomases
Bataan
Easter
Moscow pivots with Japan amid Soviet diplomacy shift
The article analyzes Stalin’s shift away from Chiang Kai-Shek after a pact letting Japan gain fishing rights off Sakhalin. It traces historical Soviet involvement in China, the rise of a Japanese “people’s army,” and hints at a broader, looming realignment as Moscow trades concessions for food and strategic leverage, signaling growing tensions in Asia.
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Chungking
Nanking
Wang Ching-Wei
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Chiang Kai-Shek
Sun
America
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Russia
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Marshal Stalin
Chisang Kai-Shek
Sakhalin
Siberian
China
Chang Tso-Lin
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Geheray Galen
Bluecher
Michael Borodin
Mos+scow
Red
Mongolia
Litvinoff
Nanke Ing
Soviet Russia
Ulan Bator
Soviet Union
Sinklang
Willem Randolph Hearst
Jap Army
VOKVO
Horneo
Sumatra
Burma
Sakralin
Asia
Alaskan Crash Victims Found
Six men perished in a Pan American Airways plane crash ten miles east of Nome Alaska Detectives recovered the bodies today identifying the dead as Erle Kotengen Billy Millay Andrew Wilson all Alaska residents The crew killed included Captain Robert L Bullis pilot from Yakima Wash flight mechanic Fred Moller of Alaska Also dead were two company maintenance men Theodore Selten and Hch riding as passengers
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Alaska
INS
Pan American Airways
Memo
Paitbanks
Erle Kotengen
Billy Millay
Andrew Wilson
Robert L
Top Ace Gets 3 More Nazis To Total 30
In a wartime diary style report the top ace recounts leading a squadron in a brutal mission over Germany. He describes violent maneuvers that caused him blackouts yet he claimed three Focke-Wulf 190s and a tight tally as Liberators bore down toward the target amid swarming enemy planes.
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Germany
Gent-teel Pronunciation Highlight From War Reports
In Piqua Ohio Capt Don Gentile the top US ace is quoted on how his name should be pronounced Gent-teel with a soft G. A wartime action recount shows him engaging enemy fighters including a Mustang and FW. Gentile earns official confirmation of his 27th victory and attends a base picnic after the mission. Frio County exceeds its 1944 war fund with $482 collected toward a $3500 quota.
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Piqua
Ohio
America
Don
Genille
Shairht
Creation
Frio
Pearsall
Frio County
British Counter Blow Near Imphal and Kohima
British imperial forces counter attacked in the Imphal hills and northern Kohima area, seizing key positions to blunt a Japanese thrust toward Imphal and the Bengal Assam railway. Allied air raids hit enemy lines as reports conflict over Kohima control and timing of Japanese occupation.
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Jeong
Genesis Mey
New Delhi
Imphal Plain
Kohima
Bengal-Assam
Trphaly
Nagar Hills
Dinapur
Burma
Mountbatten
Que
Jop
Indian National Army
Imphal
Furma
Atakan
Buthidaung
Caladwin
Jay
Manywet
Cal Curops
Domel Disputch
London Daily Telegraph
War Vets to Fill OPA Vacancies in District Office
Veterans will be recruited for OPA posts through local veterans organizations and civil service channels in the San Antonio district. The district office and six dozen ration boards hire about 20 new staff monthly. plans target direct vet appointments with proper qualifications. Veterans may serve as local board clerks and other OPA roles, with expansion pursued via civil service commissions.
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Wat
Veterans Ca
Yatson
OPA
Yesiowel
Branch Antonio
Civil Service
F. M.isson
Ration Board of
Caverton
OFA
Erans
U. S
Veterans’ Organization
San Antonio
Civil Service Commission
Covert
Movie Man Lands Treatment of Spain
New York April 8. Melville Forrester fiction picture producer said U S foreign policy in Spain kept the union from joining the Axis. On return from Spain he warned about German menace and said mishandled pressure could have drawn Spain into war on the Axis side. Mayfair weddings in Santa Barbara included Mital Mayfair and Charlie Henderson with Key Francis as matron of honor.
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New York
Melville Forrester
U. S
Forrester
State Department
Mitz Mayfair
Santa Barbara
Calif
Mital Mayfair
Charlie Henderson
Key Francis
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