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...night every night for over a week, loaded planes left India at few-minute intervals, Burma bound. During the entire operation not a ship was lost, not a passenger or mule scratched, not a pound of supplies damaged. The late Major General Wingate, commanding the ground forces transported, stated "that it was the most incredibly successful enterprise in the history of airborne operations...
...Battle of Malta, as well as in Burma...
Born. To the late, great Raider Orde Charles Wingate, 41, bush-bearded jungle general, killed in a Burma plane crash (TIME, April 10); and Lorna Wingate, 26, his beauteous, Scottish-born widow: their first child, a son; in Aberdeen, Scotland...
...south, another Chinese army, in a surprise move, crossed the milewide, emerald-green Salween on a 130-mile front and lunged west this week toward General Joseph Stilwell's India-based troops, now slowly advancing across north Burma...
Paulette Goddard, well-gammed gamin of the cinema, was back in Manhattan from an eleven-week, 38,000-mile U.S.O. Camp Show tour. In the CBI (China-Burma-India) war theater, where she was the first U.S. woman entertainer, Paulette had a narrow escape: at the jump-off field in Burma the weather looked dirty, so the pilot who had won in a lottery (TIME, March 13) the right to take her over the Hump decided to wait; that night another plane crashed in the Himalayas. Tabbed "Madame Cheesecake" by the G.I.s, she was given a scroll by vinegary Lieut...