SAIPAN SUPERS HIT CAPITAL 4½ HOURS
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Superfortresses of recently activated, Saipan-based XXI Bomber Command lashed out twice Wednesday night to drop lethal loads on Tokyo, according to a Japanese broadcast monitored here. An offical War Department announcement stated that Tokyo was again bombed on Wednesday, but failed to reveal any of the details. Warning that "The present raids on Japan must be considered to be only the first phase of enemy air attacks," the Japanese commentator said that the initial raid lasted for two hours immediately preceding midnight on Wednesday until almost 2 a.m. Thursday. The second bombing of the double-header got underway at 4:15 a.m. Thursday. Several waves of B=29's flew over the Tokyo area for four and a half hours in last night's raid. Rapidly spreading fires caused by the oversized bombers were subdued just before dawn, the Japanese spokeman claimed. It was offically announced that no Superforts were lost in the latest Tokyo raid. A communique stated: "Industrial targets in Tokyo were bombed on Wednesday by B-29s in the first night mission flown by Saipan-based Superfortresses. The bombing was accomplished by precision instruments and results were not observed due to clioud cover. Anti-aircraft fire was meager and inaccurate. Non of our aircraft was lost from enemy action." |
AAF WILL SMASH JAP INDUSTRIES KANSAS CITY, MO., Nov. 29 - "We are going to bomb Japan'e industries into a state of paralysis," Gen. H. H. Arnold, commanding general, USAAF, promised in an address delivered before the National Convention of War Veterans here. The air war against Japan is just beginning, Arnold told his audience. "We are going to destroy the heart and nerve centers of Japan's war machine." Japan will have little industry left when our Army and Navy air forces complete their tasks of destruction, he declared. Gen. Arnold reviewed the air war against Germany and told how 30,000 Nazis south of the Loire river were prevented from attacking Lt. Gen. Patton's right flank when the 3rd Army chief was driviong through France last August. Air power alone accomplished this feat, he said.m Discussing the progress of German scientists on new weapons, Arnold concluded with, "I say sincerely and with the utmost urgency that this war is not over - not by a long shot." |
SUPERFORTS OVER NANKING A burst of bombs from a B-29 Superfortress of Majoe Gen. Curtis E. LeMay's Twentieth Bomber Command drops on shipping and the Tientsin-Pukow railroad terminal on the east bank of the Yangtze river across from the city of Nanking, China. The raid on the Japanese-occupied area was carried out on November 11. (AAF photo) |
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OVER THE DAM Water pouring down the spillway of a mighty dam in the western United States, creating a waterfall almost twice as high as Niagara Falls. One of three U.S. structures that are the biggest ever built by man, the dam diverts water onto 1,200,000 acres in the west. |
ALLIES ADVANCE IN KALEWA AREA KANDY, Nov. 30 - Today's SEAC communique says: Northern Burma: There was patrol action in all sectors of the Bhamo area yesterday and also in the railway corridor. Chindwin Front: In Myittha Gorge, five miles west of Kalewa, East African Forces have gained ground after capturing a number of Japanese strong points. East Africans are also in contact with the enemy four miles north of Kalewa. Strong support from tanks and Hurrican bombers was maintained yesterday in both the attacks. Troops of the Fourteenth Army have entered Paunghyin river station on the east bank of the Chindwin without opposition. Further east they have cleared a village thirteen miles from Pauinghyin. Arakan: Further Japanese withdrawals are reported from the Paletwa area. |
Burma Progress Inspires Optimism LONDON, Nov. 30 - Allied optimism about development of Allied drives in Burma is high. Military experts in Washington are of the opinion that such progress has been made in the last aix weeks that the Japanese hold over all northern Burma above Mandalay is threatened. The enemy's grip even in southern and eastern Burma is seen to be considerably less secure than it was six months ago. While the Japanese still contest strongly the Allied conquest of northern Burma and it is realized that most Allied spearheads and fronts are still without lateral contact, the Washington view is that a situation is developing in which lateral links will soon be possible and all forces will be able to attack along a more or less continuous broad front. |
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Chinese Amphibious Assault Wins City of Shwego, Burma Director, The Command Post |
GI DHOBI-WALLAH Sgt. Kenneth Fowler, Riverdale, Md., supervises the dhobies at a XX Bomber Command base in India, and tries to keep down the motality on buttons as the natives use their primitive methods to get GI khakis and fatigues clean. (AAF photo) |
McClure Succeeds Hearne In China CHUNGKING, Nov. 30 - T he Associated Press said it was announced that Maj. Gen. Robert B. McClure who commanded an American division in the Southwest Pacific has been appointed Chief-of-Staff of the United States forces in the China theater. He succeeds Maj. Gen. Thomas G. Hearne, who is leaving for the United States for a new assignment. Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault has been made advisor to the Commanding General of the U.S. forces in China in addition to duties as commander of the 14th USAAF. |
SUPERFORT SAVERS Looking at the portion of the B-29 belly damaged by a loose tank which they hacked off with a hatchet at the risk of their lives to save the plane during a recent Superfort mission are (left to right): S/Sgt. James W. Garr, Chillicothe, Mo., and S/Sgt. Gerald Tefft, Craigtown, Idaho. (AAF photo) |
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CALCUTTA FERRY An undetermined number of ferry boats, similar to this one, shuttle back and forth across narrow streams in and around the Calcutta area. Travel is free - with the compliments of the municipality. A fabulous number of the population take advantage of the 'bakshees' service annually. |
One Way To Solve Base Ice Shortage ATC BASE, INDIA - Corp. Linnard Ugstad, of Duluth, Minn., found one way to lick the ice shortage at this station, which was imperilling a medical unit's serum and vaccine supply as well as depriving thirsty throats of a cool coke or beer. From spare parts and salvaged junk he and a few other GIs built an ice-plant which turns out 250 to 300 pounds a day. Not only was the hospital crisis averted, but the surplus has been found adequate to provide cold drinks and refrigeration in the mess halls of the unit, a medical air evacuation squadron attached to ATC. |
CLEAN SINGLE Jim Ripp, MP clouter, smashes out a single in the softball game Sunday between the MPs and the Eagles. The MPs won easily 6-0. Watching the hit on its way out to right field is Miller, the Eagles catcher. (Signal Corps. photo) MPs Meet Giants For League Lead What is desdcribed in the environs of Ebbets Field as a 'crushial' game takes place this Sunday at 1400 hours at the Diamond at the Miadan when the MPs meet the Giants in the game that will decide first place in the American Softball league. Both teams have a record of eight wins against no losses in league competition, and barring a stunning upset in the final few games the winner should be the league champion. Another battle for third place pits the Orphans against the Skyliners. |
FIRST WACS IN TEALAND
Capt. Elisabeth M.Lutze, Sheboygun, Wis., left, and Lt. Florence Bullitt, San Jose, Calif., at the Chuingking Airport ujpon their arrival at the Chinese capital. Although American nurses and Red Cross girls have held down assignments in China for many months, the arrival of the two officers brings the first American WACs to tealand. (Signal Corps. photo)
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STATESIDE BOUND Bound for a zoo in Washington, D.C. is "Olga," an 1,800-lb. rhinocerous, which has been the property of the United States Government for six years. The rhino was captured in the jungles of northern Assam. Major W. J. Sherwood of Washington, North Carolina, will accompany "Olga" to he destination. (Signal Corps. photo) The three pictures below, caught by ace NEA-Acme lensman Frank Cancellare, dramatically portray China's civilians in the path of the Japanese advance. Along every highway leaving Liuchow, on every train out of city, evacuees puched on in plentiful streams. "Women ch'ih k'oo" (We eat bitterness) is the peasant's customary greeting. Here the legend is personified. |
"LONG TOM" A camouflaged U.S. 155mm "Long Tom" gun hurtles powerful missile against Nazi positions in Germany during the 100 mile Allied offensive now in progress on the Western front. (Radiophoto) |
EVACUATION EXPRESS As Jap troops converged on Liuchow from the north, south and east, the long-suffering Chinese civilian population prepared to flee. For weary thoudands, no transportation could be provided. A lucky few shown in these remarkable photographs taken by NEA-Acme photographer Frank Cancellere, crammed every inch of the space on a freight train loaded with human cargo. They clung to their babies, to a few scraps of food, to such pathetic luxuries as the parasol shading the yougster cuddled close to the smokestack. From locomotive to caboose, wherever their fingers could hinge on, refugees clung to the train. HOME Living quarters are cramped, but this Chinese family, refugees from Liuchow, has managed to make the rods of a freight car liveable. Wherever he turned, Frank Cancellaew NEA-Acme photographer, could train his camera on scenes like this. |
SORROW For the most part, the stoic Chinese suffered silently. This heartbroken, slobbering mother could no longer restrain the flow of her bitter tears. Somewhere, sometime, the peasants must find a place that's safe from the Japs, where they can till the soil in peace once more. For many refugees there was no room on the train leaving Liuchow and the had to plod alongside the rails with other thousands who raced as swiftly as they could to escape the Japs. Foot-sore and weary, they carried as much of their worldly goods as they were able to transport on their backs. |