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What happened did everybody forget General MacArthur, he is really and truly the man of the year, by his heroic fighting in Bataan, the Japs were hampered and delayed, long enough for us to get reinforcements to Pearl Harbor, Australia, etc. He stopped the Jap horde from grasping all the Pacific, for Pete's sake pick an Army man, and that man is General Douglas MacArthur...
Distinguished Flying Cross (airmen only). Army, 345; Navy, 377; Marines, 34. Sample case: Ensign Harry Bonaparte Gibbs. As a combat pilot, in two successive days' fighting in the Coral Sea Battle, he shot down a Jap plane and helped sink or damage a Jap carrier...
Silver Star. Army, 661; Navy, 117; Marines, 1; Coast Guard, 4. Sample case: Captain Nathaniel Blanton of the 19th Bombardment Group, who, leading eight planes, intercepted nine Japanese bombers and six Zero fighters over Java. He shot down the Jap flight leader and by his own leadership helped to make a perfect attack...
...well the Japs were prepared for such an undertaking was a mystery. Latest reliable reports put Japanese concentrations in Burma at some 90,000 troops. In Indo-China, Jap troops were recently reported landing at Haiphong on the coast and streaming ashore from barges at Hanoi on the Red River. Troop trains had been seen moving north-toward the Yunnan border. Chungking declared that Japan, with the cooperation of Vichyfrench Governor General Rear Admiral Jean Decoux, was conscripting an army of 150,000 native Indo- Chinese. Estimates of Japanese air forces in Burma, Indo-China and Siam: between...
...Salween (TIME, Dec. 7). For months they have guarded the pocked and broken upper half of the Burma Road which still belongs to them. In the first few days of the fighting in the gorge of the Wu-ti Ho last week they turned back the prongs of the Jap advance...