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...ready to laugh. The Volksstürmer have done an immense amount of work on Germany's border fortifications. The East Prussian Gauleiter boasted that in 100 days they had dug enough antitank ditches to reach from Königsberg to Lisbon. By taking over garrison duties in the rear, the Volkssturm releases better soldiers for the front lines. Whether fighting or digging, they receive Wehrmacht pay and equal allowances for dependents...
...Bhamo (bypassed by the Mars Force), a Japanese suicide garrison had had enough after 28 days of siege by the Chinese 38th Division. Last week it was annihilated in an attempt at a breakout. Lieut. General Daniel I. Sultan, theater commander, tramped through the smoldering ruins of Bhamo's teakwood fortress, called it one of the strongest Jap positions in north Burma...
Castle to Pillbox. They surrounded an old castle, sent a surrender ultimatum to the Nazi commander. He refused. When they attacked again the next day, they found that the garrison had slipped out in the night, to fight again somewhere else. But the Germans machine-dunned some of their own troops who popped out of pillboxes with white flags...
...viscous gumbo, fighting was reduced to patrol actions. Off Leyte's western shore, Japanese reinforcement convoys appeared and were attacked by fighter bombers from Sverdrup's new strips. Some were burned and some were sunk. Thousands of Japanese troops on their way to reinforce the stubborn, holdout garrison at Ormoc died. How many thousands, no man knew, although the communiqués offered guesstimates in bold round numbers...
...that 3,500 of 6,000 troops headed for the Leyte battle lines had been killed or drowned. Two days later another convoy was smashed, with 2,000 men killed. That brought to 17,000 the total of Japanese lost at sea in disastrous efforts to reinforce the Leyte garrison. But other reinforcements have slipped through. And even the 17,000 lost showed the determination of the enemy to continue forcing every possible delay into Douglas MacArthur's Philippine timetable...