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...canny, weather-beaten flier, who first who fame as leader of the American Volunteer Group of "Flying Tigers" in Burma and who now commands the U. S. Army Air Forces in China, said he based his optimism as to the length of the Pacific War on reports from the United Nations "Unconditional Surrender" conference at Casablanca...
...advances on fronts scattered from northern Kiangsu to the Salween River on the Burma border might be the prelude to the final campaign to knock exhausted China out of the war. Indeed a Tokyo broadcast threatened just that...
...British and U.S. efforts in Asia] will be assured by subsequent conferences between General MacArthur and General Wavell." Last week Washington announced that General Walter Krueger had arrived in Australia to take command of a newly activated Sixth Army. But the only practical route to China is through Burma. There Wavell's campaign to end Japanese occupation is still on a miniature scale, making almost imperceptible progress...
...Burma "as a cruel punishment lasting three months and administered by six tattooers," Constantine had 388 designs on his body, 52 on his abdomen and buttocks alone. In addition to two crowned sphinxes, two serpents, two swans and one horned owl, he had genuine Oriental writing between his fingers which branded him as "the greatest rascal and thief in the world." But he was not much more elaborately illustrated than England's onetime army officer, Zebra Man Omi (see cut), who sports a 150-hour job by London's tattooist George Burchett...
...this situation, airmen say, it is always Chennault who comes off second best, since Bissell, too, has a war on his hands in Burma. Result, as Chennault's men see it, is that the priceless opportunity Chennault has for knocking out the Japs' pivotal air bases and attacking their commerce on the South China Sea is now being wasted as thoroughly as it was last summer...