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...fresh troops entered battle with increased aerial and artillery support. His strengthened Air Force dropped incendiary bombs in an apparently unsuccessful attempt to wipe out Douglas MacArthur's precious store of food and munitions. The desperate defense of his adversary called for desperate measures: last week, for the first time, he was revealed to be using the awesome flame throwers that his Axis ally has found so effective in the battle of Europe. Twice during the week his bombers unloaded on a civilian refugee camp...
...Report. The announcement of great new gains did not come. Instead a communique announced a full-scale attack on the central front, a push by tank squadrons and massed infantry, sharp aerial fighting. In the first day, the communique said, the Russian spearhead had reached to within 50 miles of the German winter headquarters at Smolensk...
...getting the price down so much as it is overcoming innumerable difficulties dealing with weather limitations and working out new techniques of navigation and weather control. According to government acrobatics advisor Edward P. Warner, "It's going to be a long time before we can plan for 20,000 aerial commuters to drop down every morning, within forty-five minutes or so, on airports in the immediate neighborhood of Manhattan...
...treacherous Salween River. But Martaban, choked with decades of the Salween's silt, has little or no strategic value as a port for water-borne assault against Rangoon, across the Martaban Gulf. The Martaban-Rangoon railway is a flimsy affair. And troops crossing the Salween near Paan, 90 aerial miles from Rangoon, were met last week by deadly accurate British Blenheims, sowing thousands of pounds of delayed-action fragmentation bombs that cut the invaders to shreds...
...intervals, thereby pumping a steady supply of fresh strength into the front lines. His artillery, which hammered Manila Bay's defending forts from concealed positions across the Bay, was usually fired only in the morning when, with the sun directly behind it, gun flashes were hard to detect. Aerial superiority enabled Japanese dive-bombers to return again & again over U.S. positions, in spite of withering anti-aircraft fire. In the lull that followed the latest unsuccessful thrust against MacArthur, Japanese troops took uncontested possession of Masbate Island, in the middle archipelago south of Luzon, which has an excellent airfield...