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Only then did Commander Talbot order gunfire. His 4-inchers blazed. The Japanese began to fire from armed merchantmen and destroyers. But it was much too late. Only four U.S. sailors were wounded when Desdiv 59, blacked out and wondering just how much damage it had done, bore south through the Strait again. When daylight came, the division looked forward to its leading ship, saw that Talbot had run up the signal that Navy men prize most...
...Chinese around Toungoo bore the brunt of the ground fighting, with no air support. The American Volunteer Group flyers and the R.A.F. could spare no planes to help them. Unmolested, heavy Jap air forces backed up the ground attack, bombed Toungoo six times in one day. The Jap sidestepped Toungoo to the west, then wheeled at right angles, took the airport north of the town and cut off the Chinese from the British. Surrounded on three sides, the Chinese fought for 60 desperate hours without rest. Then reinforcements arrived and they broke through to begin a retirement. According...
Fort Dix's nearness to New York and New Jersey metropolitan areas encourages departing soldiers to telephone last goodbys to friends and families. Some of them undoubtedly let slip the place and time of their departure. Last week Dix's public phone booths bore a terse legend: "Temporarily out of order, by order...
Reinforcements reached Burma last week. They were Chinese reinforcements: thousands of war-hardened soldiers, whose officers generally scorned the markings of rank, shared their men's Spartan fare and, in their tattered uniforms, looked like the lowest private. Many of the soldiers bore U.S. weapons. Quickly, with the British and Indian troops who had retired from Rangoon, they formed a new defense line across central Burma...
...dint of some ingenious rewriting, and considerable skating on thin ice, Hollywood has produced a version of Kings Row which retains that novel's main outlines without arousing the censors. This is no mean feat, since the book bore down on sadism, incest and assorted abnormalities so heavily that its liberal admixture of seduction seemed a welcome note of normalcy. Although the grislier aspects have been glossed over prettily in deference to the family trade, the picture is still moderately worth-while entertainment...