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...attempt to supplement its under-manned staff, the American Field Service has opened a new drive for recruits who are needed for operations in Italy, Burma and France...
Ambulance drivers are required for the three theatres. Units serving in Italy and Burma are under British command, while members of the A.F.S. in France are directed by the Free French forces. Volunteers should report to 8 Newbury Street in Boston...
...sand-fly fever so that Army doctors could try to find preventives and treatments for these diseases, which have already been a problem in Hawaii, North Africa, Sicily and Italy, and will be more of one when large numbers of U.S. troops are involved in the Pacific and China-Burma-India theaters...
Into the mile-high battle for Tengyueh (Tengchung) on the Burma-Yunnan border, went U.S. Tenth Air Force planes from India to help the Chinese in their stone-by-stone reconquest of the walled city. Near by, U.S. and Chinese engineers literally blew the top off Sungshan Mountain with three tons of TNT. The Japs manning the peak went with it. One more step toward reopening the Burma Road was taken...
...from Hengyang and the twin drive toward Kweilin, where the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force base was threatened. The Japs' backing & filling, while increasing their already preponderant power, was puzzling. Of one thing observers were sure: it was now or never for the Japs. Within 60 days the Ledo-Burma supply route should be open. Thereafter, the Japs' last chance to cut China in half and wipe out U.S. A.A.F. bases near the China coast would be lost...