Bulkeley Sees Torpedo Boats Mop Up Japs in War Opinion
New York May report Lt John D Bulkeley, famed for torpedo boat exploits in the Philippines, returns home and says with a couple hundred torpedo boats they could sweep the Japanese from the Bea. His wife greets him at the airport and a 19 month old son is shown at home in Long Island City as the family reflects on wartime service.
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New York
John D. Bulkeley
Philippines
Bea
Bulkeley
Long Island City
John Duncan Bulkeley
Bulkeley describes escape from Corregidor and war outlook
Bulkeley recounts leaving Corregidor on torpedo boat Me with General MacArthur and others en route to a bomber rendezvous that landed him in Australia. He says Americans faced roughly 16 to 1 Japanese while praising wartime resolve. He plans a 10 day furlough to spend with family and may return to Newport training. Nazis halt cycling Vichy.
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Pacific Coast
Revert ‘Kelley
New York
Robert E. Cox
Watertown
N.Y
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Macarthur
Corregidor
Australis
Bulkeler
Hiis
Washington
Torpedo Boat Training Center
Newport
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San Francisco
Vichy
France
Jap Troops To Manchuria Move Reported
London report says Japanese forces rush into Manchuria linked to Wang Ching Wei puppet regime. North China dispatches indicate plans to push from Manchukuo toward Siberia next month.
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London
Powers
Manchuria
Inorma
China
Siberia
Germans retake Fresnoy as Britain falls back on front
May 1937 report notes Germans drive British troops from Fresnoy on the western front while France gains northeast of Craonne. Senate passes embargo export power bill. One year ago Bertin protested seizing foreign ships. Nazi air raids hit Britain. Allied response claims 50 raids shot down in 30 hours.
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Senate
Craonne
France
Bertin
Armerican
Witestreak
Britain
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Three Hickam Heroes Cited At Hickam Field
Three air corps servicemen from the December 7 Hawaii attack were decorated at Hickam Field. Lieut. Samuel W Bishop of Brownsville Texas received the Silver Star for heroism during the air raid. Lieut. Col. Elmer P Rose of Dusser Iowa and Sgt. Henry G Sanders of Braddock Pennsylvania received the Pure Heart decoration for extraordinary conduct. Bishop swam ashore after a plane crash with a broken leg. Rose directed firefighting and rescue efforts despite injuries. Sanders helped treat the wounded and assist the defense before collapsing from blood loss.
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Hawaiian Islands
Hickam, Field
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Brownsville
Texas
Elmer P. Rose
Dusser
Iowa
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Braddock
Fiers
Ibeltows Field
Rose
Hick Jam
Sanders
Alford Pays With Life For Slaying James B
Alford, 28, was executed in Huntsville at 12:02 am Friday for the killing of James B. Alford and R. I. Agnew. He faced last-minute appeals by attorney E B Simmons to Judge McCrory, but the stay was denied. Rupert, convicted with him for the March 17, 1941 crime, remains imprisoned for life.
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E. B. Simmons
W. W. McCrory
Criminal District Court
McGrory
Jack Rupert
Ae Antonio
Rupert
Penitentit
Wainwright Surrender Report Unconfirmed Amid War Developments
Washington reports on May 8 say the U S War Department has no confirmation that Lieut Gen Jonathan M Wainwright ordered cessation of resistance in the Philippines The Jap radio in Manila claimed terms for capitulation at Corregidor and other Manila Bay ports with surrender demanded of scattered American Philippine forces to stop attacks The fate of Wainwright and whether Japanese terms were met remains unclear In London six Dutchmen were reportedly sentenced to death by a German court in Amsterdam for breaking into a food control office.
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Tuetwar Department
Rap Radio
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Philippines
Manila Radio
War Department
Corregidor
Manila Bay
Jhave
Mindanao
Wainwright
London
Aneta
Amsterdam
Reports of Fatalities to Be Delayed
Washington May 8 The war department reported a long delay in confirming American prisoners missing or killed in the Philippines. Officials said months may pass before accurate lists are available. More than 60,000 troops and personnel were estimated captured or killed or wounded. only a few hundred reports had been received. Names of 121 killed and fewer than 300 others reported in Pacific theaters were released. Two lists of prisoners and interned civilians via the Red Cross total 339. Radio communications hampered timely uploads to military headquarters on Corregidor.
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Amercan
Philippines
Corregidor
Bataan
War Department
Naval
Marine Corps
Army
Pacific
International Red Cross
Corrégidor
Natural defenses of bush area repelled invaders
First Lieut. Henry Holliday of Athens Georgia recalls drifting lost for 18 hours near an Australian base. He described mosquitoes as dive-bombers on spear grass and ants and burrs tearing his socks. He survived by signaling a nearby shack and finding an airstrip in the distance.
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Australia
Henry Holliday
Athens
Holliday
Bullets Fly After Affray in Cafe
In a cafe affray at 514 Broadway proprietor Mike Ells Sr and Arch B Cannon of 40 Broadway were booked for affray. Colbert, Carmon, Arch’s brother and cashier at the nearby 4X1-block restaurant, fired into the air after a disturbance. Detectives Barrera and Nast helped reconstruct events as a beer drinker fled, was chased, and two shots were fired.
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