WESTERN CHINA, Nov. 13 (Delayed) - Fifteen crack Japanese divisions totalling approximately 300,000 men are engaged in a determined drive to cut China in two and secure an overland supply and communication zone by capturing Kweilin, Liuchow and Nanking. Progressing from Kwangsi, the Jap push is designed to offset the threatened loss of their shipping in the China Seas.
Savage Jap infantry attacks supported by armored columns are battling in the streets of Kweilin. capital of Kwangsi, forcing the Chinese to retreat. Communications with Chungking have been severed. Other Jap columns by-passing the Kwangsi capital have rolled irresistibly towards Liuchow 90 miles to the southwest of Kweilin. Fighting is now raging in the outskirts of the town. The Liuchow airfield has been evacuated and the 14th Air Force has lost yet another important base in Eastern China. Nanning, 120 miles to the soiuthwest of Liuchow is another objective of the Japanese drive. Japanese detachments are already attacking Chienkiang which is 80 miles to the north of Nanning on the Liuchow-Nanning Road. Nanning is also threatened by enemy columns marching southwest of Kweissien. |
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Emphasizing that this was just the first batch of what is anticipated to be the biggest Christmas mail in the history of the U.S. Postal Department on the basis of early reports, the local APO officer revealed that special facilities have been engaged and warehouses requisitioned to expedite the handling, separation and delivery of the mail, so that servicemen and women in both theatres will have their packages by Christmas. |
Bugler sounds 'Taps' as Chaplain Arthur Colburn, Dorset, Vt., (extreme left) pronounces the final prayer of benediction at the simple but impressive ceremony in which Base Section 2 joined the world in observing Armistice Day. (Signal Corps photo)
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Pvt. Boodie Westerman, WAC assigned to Major Gen. George E. Stratemeyer's Eastern Air Command and AAF Hq. is an example of perfect Army classification - among other things. Bootiful Boodie (see pix) who comes from Cooper, Texas was a member of the Texas City, Texas police force in civilian life. In addition to working in the two-way radio room of the police station, she also patrolled the streets of Texas City in a prowl car, often by herself. At AAF Hq. Pvt. Westerman works in the Staff Provost Marshal's office. To her, Army classification may well point with pride. |
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TECH THIRD GRADE TO TECH SERGEANT William E. Heil, Davenport, Iowa STAFF SERGEANT TO TECHNICAL SERGEANT Malcolm McSwain, Eagle Rock, California TECHNICAL SERGEANT TO MASTER SERGEANT Aubrey M. Davis, San Diego, California David Gianuzzi, Virden, Illinois Nolan R. Silvey, Tyler, Texas |
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USAF CHINA TEAM Major Gen. G. X. Cheves, left, former commanding general of Base Section 2, being greeted by Major Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer as Gen. Cheves arrived at Hq., USAF, China Theatre of Operations, to assume his new command as Commanding General of SOS, USAF, CTO. Gen. Wedemeyer is Commanding General od the recently formed China Theatre and Chief of Staff to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. |
BOMB STOVE Capt. Everett B. Baker, Kershaw, S.C., waits for his handy bombshell stove to warm things up in his quarters. (USAAF photo) |
IT CAN HAPPEN HERE With orders to go back to the States in their pockets, this sad looking trio went and missed theb train. The are (left to righT) Capt. Harold K. Arnold, Sturgis, Ky.; Pfc. Henry J. Rush, Bradley, S.C.; and T/Sgt. Russell B. Corbin, Adams, Tenn. |
BEAUTY AND THE BUDDHA In the Temple in the Clouds (or Temple of the Five Hundred Lesser Buddhas) near Kunming, China. Betty Yeaton and Ruth Carrell of the Jinx Falkenburg troupe gaze in awe at the unchanging expression on an Oriental image. |
GIANT BLADE The huge four-bladed propeller of the B-29 Superfortress, 16 feet, seven inches high, dwarfs S/Sgt. Robert E. Griffith, Washington, D.C., as he runs it through the balancing procedure. (AAF photo) |
PRIZE PHOTO A Commandtown street scene won second prize in the photo contest, in the second art exhibit of the Services Art Club, for Corp. E. Pelletieri, a Commandtown GI. The photo was chosen from among several hundred entries submitted by American and British officers and enlisted men. |
GLAMOR IN THE HOUSE Helen Gahagan, American stage and screen star and wife of IB's Major Melvyn Douglas, who was recently elected to the House of Representatives. She is a Democrat and hails from California. |
NEW RESCUE VESSEL A new U.S. Army patrol craft to be used primarily to rescue plane crews downed in water. The streamlined hulls and housings are made of wood, reducing the load upon powerful engines and enabling the new vessels to race along at a speed of 50 miles an hour. |
MAIL CALL Stowing mail in the "belly tank mail box" on a P-40 "Shark" are (left to right) S/Sgt. Edward Pioecuch, South Bend, Indiana, and T/Sgt. Stanley Strout, Windsor, Cal. The 'mail bag' can be fitted to any P-40 to supplement the infrequent mail delivery at some forward fields. (USAAF photo) |