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Last week the only authoritative, firsthand report on Chinese Turkestan reached the U.S. That report came from TIME'S Chungking correspondent, Theodore White, who with LIFE Photographer William Vandivert has just completed a two-month tour of the hitherto forbidden area. Correspondent White brought back fresh and important news...
Other air-front news: > Against the Fortress and Liberator formations, the Germans are trying new defensive tactics. Three planes abreast, coming head on, swing from left to right to avoid the frontal guns of the U.S. formations. It has not worked. > The Germans revealed hitherto unpublished information on U.S. tactics: the bomber formations are protected by other Fortresses that carry no bombs (presumably fill their bays with extra tons of ammunition to fire at German fighters. A Nazi newscast drew an eloquent picture of battle over Germany: "Thus more than 1,000 U.S. airmen, covered by armored planes, are defending...
...C.E.D. has made itself vulnerable to political attack because 1) its origin links it too closely to Jesse Jones; 2) its grassroots autonomy has led to the appointment of some regional and community chairmen hitherto known as Old Dealers, Republican and Democratic. It is charged that some bitter Roosevelt-hating big shots are more interested in C.E.D. as a potential political weapon than as a potential builder of employment...
...first use in so delicate an operation of the "metal locator" that' helped surgeons extract pieces of shrapnel from the wounded at Pearl Harbor (TIME, Jan. 19, 1942). Although simpler and quicker than X ray, the locator (which is attached to a sensitive ammeter) had hitherto been considered too crude for such fine work. The assistant who helped the Mt. Sinai surgeon use the instrument was its inventor Manhattan Subway Engineer Samuel Berman...
...Whatever happens at Orel happens just as much everywhere in Germany at the same time. . . . Orel has already be come a symbol of internal strength, a symbol in which one will always see a test of German soldiers far beyond all successes achieved hitherto...