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...most isolated of all U.S. battle theaters-China-Burma-India-got its first clear hearing on the U.S. air last week. The Blue Network program, Yanks in the Orient, was the first of 13 programs being recorded on the spot by U.S. Army Public Relations and flown to the U.S. by Air Transport Command.* It told the story of the Rescue Squadron of A.T.C.'s India-China wing...
Yanks in the Orient let the men of the Rescue Squadron speak for themselves. There were no dramatics, no suspense. But the plain voices of U.S. airmen doing a job had impressive authenticity...
Undoctored Reporting. The reason for Yanks in the Orient is Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell's desire that the U.S. public understand his theater's physical barriers and painful supply problem. He called for some professional radiomen. He got Lieut. Finis Farr, writer, late of the MARCH OF TIME and Mr. District Attorney, and Lieut. Bert Parks, ex-CBS-NBC announcer, and a mobile recorder. Lieut. Colonel Paul Jones, onetime Don Lee, Mutual Networker, who had been with Stilwell for two years, was made head of the project...
...themselves. Eric's working life started when he was scarcely out of rompers. From selling newspapers and running errands he progressed to working his way through high school and the University of Washington by reporting for newspapers, stevedoring in vacations. In World War I he went to the Orient as a Marine intelligence officer, stayed in service until 1922. Then he returned to Spokane to begin his business career as a house-to-house salesman of vacuum cleaners. The first two weeks it was no sale. But the third week things began to break. He went on to open...
North toward the Orient, on the shortest possible line from Chicago to Vladivostok, U.S. warplanes roar over one of the most important air routes in the world: the northwest passage across Canada to Alaska and beyond. In Parliament last week Munitions Minister Clarence Decatur Howe announced that air-minded Canada would pay the whole shot ($58,500,000) for her sector of this line...