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...other side of the world Harry Zinder datelined his cable "On the Road to Berlin" and told of a day's advance with General Dempsey's Second Army north of the Ruhr. "I was out in the open in a jeep in the middle of a convoy of specially armored tanks. Snipers were still present in all the villages we passed through, since nothing had been cleared. Through the night the Germans shelled our column with their 88s, and were registering as well with heavy caliber guns. But regardless of the guns the column pushed through...
...Roosevelt, like a couple of worried matrons, talked about food. A British major general with a distinguished record for bravery in Italy faced, with obvious trepidation, his new assignment to handle The Netherlands' "potentially perfectly awful" relief problems. Workers in France's nationalized Renault works hijacked a convoy of meat-laden trucks which had been seized by the Food Ministry. French railwaymen blocked gendarmes "who tried to take away ten cattle, threatened to tie up the big Villeneuve-St.-Georges freight yards with a strike. Paris entered its fourth meatless week. Alarmed by reports from the hungry Continent...
Sergeant Sabu ("Elephant Boy") Dastagir, 22-year-old Indian who gained fame & fortune in peacetime films riding on the back of an elephant, was awarded the D.F.C. for riding a U.S. bomber as a tail gunner in an attack on a Japanese convoy off Borneo...
...first glow of dawn. Brigadier General William H. Tunner's transport planes were flashing over the Hump, one every two and a half minutes. Brigadier General Lewis A. Pick's trucks were thundering up the newly opened Ledo-Burma Road, past banners reading "Welcome Honorable Truck Convoy," "Welcome Material Help...
Trucks were already moving supplies from the Ledo railhead over "Pick's Pike" to Myitkyina. The first convoy got through to Tengyueh in China via "Chiang's Lane," the narrow alternate roadway 50,000 coolies had hacked over 8,000-ft. mountains. When last-ditch Jap suicide squads are cleaned up, other convoys, using the old Burma Road from Wanting north, would help feed China's munitions-starved armies...