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...Briefing Was Over. The men climbed into trucks, whipped off to the airfield. Already a clattering rumble spread across the night-hung countryside: engines on the warmup. They piled out of the trucks at the darkened stations and went to work...
Stilwell's Chinese and American infantry reached the outskirts of the Japanese supply base in north Burma last fortnight -after a bitterly difficult 23-day march. At week's end they still had a firm grip on the most important airfield in north Burma, two miles to the south, were attacking from positions north and southwest of the village. The capture of Myitkyina appeared only a matter of time...
...policy toward Spain is best expressed by drawing comical or even rude caricatures of General Franco, but I think there is more than that." Specifically: Spain might have wrecked Allied plans for the North African invasion. As many as 600 invasion planes at one time crowded Gibraltar's airfield within range of Spanish guns; a great fleet of Allied shipping rested in Spanish waters, under Spanish guns. But the Spaniards did not interfere. If they had, "the Strait of Gibraltar would have been closed, and all access to the Mediterranean would have been cut off from the west...
...supply route to China may soon be using it, avoiding the 20,000-ft.-high "oxygen run" across the Hump and stepping up the deliveries to Major General Claire L. Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force and the Chinese armies. To this airfield, too, reinforcements for Stilwell can be fer ried even during the monsoon...
Hero Youree was sentenced to be cashiered as an example to youngster airmen who are tempted to reckless flying. He was convicted at his station at the Ardmore, Okla. Army airfield of flying too close to a Braniff airliner and scaring the daylights out of its 21 passengers...