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...were flown just over the housetops. It would have been no trick to hit Hirohito's palace, but Doolittle had given specific instructions: don't bomb it. "I think several of us dropped bombs within sight of it." The Doolittle plane was attacked by nine Jap fighters, but he rapidly outdistanced them all. Not an American plane was lost (the Japs claimed nine) and the 79 volunteers, along with Doolittle, were all nominated for the Distinguished Service Cross. Still undisclosed was the American planes's base. Unhumorously reporting a heavy Roosevelt jest, the Berlin radio solemnly announced...
...march behind us when we crossed the Chindwin, but we have had no news of them since then. We have reason to believe that the greater portion of the Chinese Army, except the unit left in the hills of the Shan States at the time of the Jap drive toward Lashio, are safe...
...wreck of Burma last week came Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell. When the outside world had last heard of him, "Uncle Joe" and his Chinese Fifth and Sixth Armies were cut off, and had swung north in a, ferocious slash at the back of the Jap...
...Chinese Fifth and Sixth Armies were not with Joe Stilwell. They were still fighting the Jap in Burma, or had filtered back into China, or had disintegrated. Unspoken in India (and unanswered in the U.S. early this week) was the question: Why did Uncle Joe Stilwell leave the troops he commanded? Was it on orders from Washington? Was it at Gissimo Chiang's request?* Was it on his own authority, because the job of commanding Chinese troops who had commanders of their own was too embarrassing...
...newsmen knew that another prospect was not so pleasant. The whole military philosophy of fighting the slippery, lightly equipped Jap had to be rewritten. And Uncle Joe had all the notes for the new text, if only he could make other soldiers listen...