The B-29 Superfortresses were busy again over the past weekend, when in two record-breaking raids on Saturday and Sunday they hit the Maiagon mashalling yards at Rangoon and the dockyards and repair facilities of the Singapore Naval base.
Flying from the XX Bombar Command bases in India on Saturday, the Forts carried the largest bomb loads ever carried by any bombers in the daylight attack on the marshalling yards at Rangoon. Observers reported seeing a large number of bombs falling squarely on the principle objectives. Direct hits were seen on a roundhouse and other important buildings. Sunday's raid on Sigapore was the longest daylight operation ever carried out by military aircraft. The only longer raid was the XX Bomber Command's night attack on the Pladjoe Refinery at Palembang, Summatra last August 10th, which exceeded Sundays operation by several miles. In another raid on Sunday the Pangkaian-Brandon Oil Refinery on the North Coast of Sumatra, near the city of Medan, was also hit by the Forts. One direct hit was observed on the refinery. This installation is probably the second only to Pladjoe as a source of high octane aviation gasoline for Japan. The flak on all the raids was only moderate and what few Japanese fighters were observed seemed very reluctant to close with the B-29s. |
TRAITOR'S DEATH Not even allowed the dignity of facing the firing squad, Pietro Caruso, ex-"Master of Rome," is dispatched to his reward by a firing squad of sixteen Carabinieri. Bound and seated on a kitchen chair, he is ignominiously shot in the back. |
B-29 DOWNS 7 ZEROS IN FOUR-HOUR BATTLE WESTERN CHINA (ANS) - Interrogation officers at this B-29 base disclosed Tuesday that 79 Japanese fighter planes attacked a single American Superfortress over enemy teritory recently and not only failed to inflict damage, but had seven of their own planes downed, and two other damaged by the B-29 gunners. The big ship met the enemy planes in a four-hour running battle. |
ARMY ORDERS 1,029 MORE SUPERFORTS SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8 - The Boeing Aircraft Company of Seattle announced that they have received a Washington order for an additional 1,029 Superfortresses besides the 700 ordered. The management have intimated that these Superfortresses are necaessary for the softening up of Japanese defences. |
REUNION IN CHINA Reunited at the 14th Air Force Headquarters eight years after they last met in Berlin are (left to right in background) Mr. Racine Huo, Chinese official in '36 Olympics, Mr. Mao Chue Yu, member of Chinese Olymoic basketball team, Lt. Earle Meadows, Olympic pole-vaulting champ from USC, and Prof. John Mo, another Olympic official. In the foreground Lt. Col. Joseph McNarama, chaplain, congratulates Pvt. John Lunch, South Ozone Park, N.Y., winner of the 880 yd. and mile run. |
ATC BASE, INDIA - The Air Medal has been awarded to Lt. Bernice McDonald, a flight nurse, of Burkburnett, Texas, for completion of operational flights in the evacuation of patients from hazardous combat zones. She is one of the first women ever to receive the honor in the China and India-Burma theaters.
The fair-haired nurse has been in the theater for a year, serving with a Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron attached to the ATC, flying wounded patients from the battlefields of Burma. She has assisted in the evacuation of an estimated 1,000 patients carried from jungles and foxholes. In the award citation, Lt. McDonald is credited with distinguishing herself "by meritorious achievement while participating in more than 150 hours of operational flight in transport aircraft through the combat zones of Upper Assam, Burma and southwest China." It adds that she has "displayed professional skill, untiring energy and meticulous care wile evacuating sick and wounded from forward American and Allied air strips in Burma to hospitals in India and China..." Lt. McDonald is the daughter of Mrs. Geneva McDonald, Burkburnett. Prior to receiving her commission in the army, she served as a stewardess with the American Airlines. Before that she worked as a surgical nurse in the Little Company of Mary Hospital, Chicago, Ill. Service as flight nurse with the evacuation unit is so hazardous that operational flights are considered combat time. Activities of the organization in saving lives through speedy evacuation of patients to rear echelon hospitals have been recorded for transcription by United States networks, as well as for the radio program, "A Yank in the Orient." |
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Burra Club ‘Football Frolics’ Monday Night On Monday evening, Nov. 13th, the second of ARC's Fall outdoor dances, the "Football Frolics." will be held at the U.S. Army Recreation Center at 3 Outram Street. As a departure from the usual policy of limiting attendance to those who are invited, this week the Burra Club dance will be opened to all enlisted men despite the limited space for dancing. Any ladies interested in attending the dance may secure invitations by calling the Burra Club, Cal. 6250. |
Experienced Carnival Men Wanted By EPU The EPU, under the command of Major Melvyn Douglas, Theatrical Advisor, issued a call throughout the theater this week for experienced carnival and circus men. Besides men with general carnival experience, the EPU wants pro wrestlers, judo experts, clowns, jugglers, tumblers, exhibition roller skaters and wire act men. Those intereted and qualified should write, stating their qualifications in full, to the Entertainment Production Unit, APO 465. |
GI Color Artist Tints Favorite Photos Free Another service was added to the long list at the ARC 'Burra Club' when it was announced this week that the club had secured the services of color-artist Pvt. A. L. Franklin, who on Monday evenings between 1900 and 2100 hours will color in oils your favorite photograph free of charge. Pvt. Franklin was a color-artist in civilian life and has volunteered his services to the Red Cross each week to tint the pictures of wives, mothers, sweethearts, or children of his felloe GIs. |
Second Services Art Exhibit Opens Sunday The Second Services Art Club of Calcutta will be officially opened by Mrs. Casey, wife of the Governor of Bengal, on Sunday, November 12th, at 1700 hours in the Government School of Art on Chowringhee. All servicemen are invited to attend the exhibit in which several American officers and enlisted men have entries. |
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CHIEF ARRIVES Maj. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer is greeted by members of the press on his arrival at Chungking to start his new assignment as CG, USAF, China Theater and Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. The interviewers are (left to right) Anna Lee Jacoby, TimeLife; Walter Rundle, UP; Richard Watts, OWI; Spencer Moosa, AP. In the left background is Maj. Gen. Thomas G. Hearn, Chief of Staff. (Signal Corps photo) |
SHOE SHINE BOY A native boy, bearer for one of the GIs quartered in this basha at an ICD-ATC base at Ceylon, gives out with his very best smile as he polishes the shoes of one of the 'sahibs.' Pretty fancy variety of footwear there too - Indian sandals, Natal boots, American oxfords, and the very best QM issue. (ICD-ATC photo) |
GUIDING HAND C. J. Ketola, Los Angeles, Cal., American aircraft specialist, gives a helping hand to the Chinese boys that he is instructing in dismantling a radial engine at an Air Service Command engine overhaul plant in Southern India. (SEAC photo unit) |
HIGH IDEALS Beryl Vaughan, popular English-born NBC radio figure has been busy with her radio career but hopes to return to college for her B.A. |
WACS AT WORK Pfc. Betty Shants (right) of Seattle, Wash., receives routing instructions frm M/Sgt. Edwin J. Davis, Kimball, Neb., as they route the many messages that pass through the operations department at Maj. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer's AAF and EAC Headquarters in India. (AAF photo) |
STOVE SPECIALIST Lt. A. H. Butler, Brewer, Maine, is shown inspecting the oil burner which he recently developed as an attachment to the regular Army A-5 cooking range. (Signal Corps photo) |
TEN AND OUT S/Sgt. Arnold H. Hexon, Wankon, Iowa, provides some comedy relief in the first rough and ready, rootin' and shootin' Wild West Rodeo ever held in India, which took place recently at the Ramgarh Training Center. |
V-GRAND The 5,000th B-24 Liberator produced by one of the U.S. aircraft companies makes its first flight decorated with the names of 5,000 of the company's employees. Names the V-Grand by the employees, this fouir-engine heavy bomber will soon be adding to the headaches of either Nazis or the Nipponese. |