Air Battle Over Pacific Ends With Japanese Losses
Lieutenant Edward H. O’Hare of St. Louis, a 1937 Annapolis graduate, flies with Navy fighters to shoot down at least six enemy planes during a two hour engagement. The fleet destroys multiple Japanese bombers and patrol aircraft with heavy anti air fire and carrier aircraft defending the cruiser and destroyers.
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Edward Henry O'Hare
St. Louis
Annapolis
Navy
Japan
O'Hare
Defenders Declare Java Stand Amid Pacific Invasion
Dutch army spokesman said Java will be defended to the death as Japanese forces press in Java and threaten Burma’s Rangoon area. British commentators note hard fighting around Pegu while Japan advances toward the Rangoon Prome railroad with land superiority and encirclement tactics.
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Burma
Pegu
Rangoon
Prome Road
Rangoon-Mandalay
Burma Road
Payagi
Pyinbon
Prome
United States
Indies
Netherlands East Indies
Australia
Britain
Netherlands
Linked To Death By Own Action Of Gen. Homma
General MacArthur has altered the tempo of operations in the Pacific as Yamashita led the Malayan campaign and accepted Singapore’s surrender. Yamashita, linked to Berlin study missions and later command in China, is portrayed as a leading War Ministry figure and potential future Minister of War due to his strategic roles and ties to Prince Chichibu.
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MacArthur
Yamashita
Singapore
Malayan
Berlin
Supreme Military Council
Tokyo
China
War Department
Third
Prince Chichibu
Japanese General Homma Said to Die by Suicide
War Department reports quoted by General MacArthur claim Japanese General Homma killed himself as American and Filipino defenders held Bataan and Corregidor. The account notes funeral rites on February 26 in Manila with Imperial emissaries present and ashes sent to Japan.
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MacArthur
Homma
War Department
Hart-Karl
Bataan
Corregidor
Manila
Hirohito
Japan
Battle Report on Truck Caravan Destruction by American Air
MacArthur announced that 129 of the enemy trucks were destroyed along with most of their occupants. Casualty figures exceeded 700, indicating heavy losses in the air strike on the caravan of 90 trucks.
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MacArthur
Four Men Demolish 117 Slot Machines Under Court Order
Acting on orders by Circuit Judge J. G. Burnside four men used sledgehammers to demolish 117 slot machines over several hours. The machines, valued around $20,000, were removed under the supervision of Coroner Sidney Stiltz, with the scrap to be turned over to the county.
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Taylorville
J. G. Burnside
Sidney Stiltz
Man Arrests Over Heil Hitler Incident in Chicago Restaurant
Paul Newenfeld, 52, was due in court today to explain why he allegedly heckled with Heil Hitler in a crowded Chicago restaurant. Joseph Brindisi, a fascinationnaire, had Newenfeld arrested after the episode drew cheers for the Fuhrer.
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Hitler
Chicago
INS
Paul ‘Newenfeld
Fuhrer
Joseph Brindisi
Newenfeld
Japs Try to Stir Burmese to Rebellion in Burma War
British tank units fought to hold Rangoon against a Japanese pincer while Imperial Japanese headquarters claimed Rangoon fell at 10 A.M. The Japanese sought to spark rebellion by contacting discontented locals along the Irrawaddy and marsh areas as civil administration personnel were withdrawn.
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Daniel DE Luce
Burma
Rangoon
Pegu
Sittang River
Irrawaddy River
China
Irrawaddy
Prome
Murray Attacks Critics as Silly Statesmen
New York March 9. Phil Murray president of the CIO denounces some Congress members as silly statesmen for saying labor lacks patriotism. He addresses 503 members of the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists praising labor gains since the war program began and defending wage raises and union security during the war emergency.
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Murray
Labor
New York
INS
Phil Murray
The
C. I O
Congress
Association of Catholic Trade Unionists
Monsignor Sheen Predicts Hitler's Death by His Own Action
New York March 9 INS Monsignor Fulton Sheen in a St Patrick Cathedral Lenten sermon described Adolf Hitler as the Judas who betrayed France and Czechoslovakia with the kiss of death. He said Poland was crucified between Russia and Germany.
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Adolf
Hitler
Msgr
Fulton Sheen
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Monsignor Sheen
France
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