Yanks Battle Invaders Around Corregidor Island
Washington reports heavy fighting as American Filipino defenders on Corregidor Island hold against a Japanese invasion axis. Cebu landings and bombardments lash Manila Bay fortifications while Wainwright warns of limited communications with trapped troops on Bataan. The situation shows six Japanese beachheads and persistent artillery duels near Corregidor.
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Army to Take Over Airliners and Cargo Planes
The War Department announced the U S Army Air Force will soon take over about 25 percent of U S commercial airliners to augment transport capacity. Aircraft will move military cargo and personnel with airline crews operating under Army Air Force direction. In related news a former Oslo University headmaster, Prof Didrik Akup Betn, has been transported to Germany after seven months at Crint concentration camp.
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Sarge in Java Defies Odds in Daring Escape to Australia
The article profile Sergent Mayes Harry M Hayes who escaped from Java with 18 American, Dutch and British officers and civilians after his fortress plane failed. He piloted a damaged craft across water to Australia with cool courage and grit. Hayes, who joined the air corps in 1935 at Kelly Field, later faced near fatal moments in 1940 while a mechanic and pilot.
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War Claims 4th U S Sub Lost In War
The Navy department said the U S admiral Perch under Lt. Cond David Albert Hurt from Pounding Mill Virginia is overdue by over a month and presumed lost. It is the seventy ninth naval craft lost in the war and the fourth submarine to go down. The Perch operated in the South China Sea and was commissioned November 19 1896. It was a 1496 foot craft later assigned to the Asiatic fleet.
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Thus Far and No Farther on the Fall of Bataan
The piece analyzes the Bataan surrender as inevitable given numbers and supply, noting American losses in bases, manpower, ships, and planes yet stressing the war is not lost. It urges offensive action to prevent further Japanese incursions, calling on leaders to justify public confidence and end the dark days with decisive victory.
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Navy reports 317 ships sunk or damaged by U S submarines
The Navy announced a revised tally showing 317 ships sunk or damaged by U S submarines since the war began, including 86 naval vessels. Details cover Christmas Island Bali operations and Far East patrols with multiple sinkings and damages, plus losses and a recent submarine in the Java Sea.
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Navy Cross Awarded to Destroyer Chief Harold P. Smith
Secretary Knox awarded the Navy Cross to Lieutenant Commander Harold P. Smith of Oklahoma City Oklahoma for meritorious conduct in action during the Battle of the Chinese coast. He was the commanding officer of the destroyer Stewart and engaged a greatly superior Japanese force despite a head injury from a prior incident.
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Twenty U S Priests on Cebu Island Trapped by Japs
Chicago April 11. The report says at least 20 American Catholic missionary priests of the Society of the Divine Word on Cebu Island in the Philippines were cut off after the December 7 Japanese attack. They requested financial aid from Manila weeks after they were isolated.
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OPA Post Named UT Professor Stocking Assistant Administrator
Professor George W. Stocking of the University of Texas was appointed assistant administrator of the OFA and will lead the OPA. The formal announcement came in Washington on April 11.
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