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...four-engined transport crashed from motor failure on a flight from India, to China. There had been just time to radio the nearest Allied base, an American outpost 100 miles away, then crew and passengers bailed out. All but two of the 21 landed safely. Among them: William L. Stanton, of the U.S. Office of Economic Warfare; John Davies, second secretary of the American Embassy at Chungking; Eric Sevareid, CBS news commentator; several Chinese colonels...
...Stops. At Leopoldina, outpost base for operations, an airfield has been cleared for the expedition's three planes. Two are for supply and reconnaissance, one for emergencies...
...defeat. Its every move was forced upon it, and each move at one point weakened it at some other point. Everywhere Germany was losing: at home, from the mightiest air assault in history; in Russia; in southern Europe. It was there, from Sicily and Italy to their Cretan outpost, that the real nature of the Germans' plight was most apparent...
Missing in Action. British Army Lieut. John David Graves, 23, son of Author Robert von Ranke Graves (Goodbye to All That); after capturing a Japanese outpost singlehanded; in Burma. In World War I, his father held the same rank in the same regiment (Royal Welch Fusiliers), was once listed as "died of wounds...
Fascism, in its 21st year, faced its most dreaded hour. In Sicily the Allied armies were overrunning not a colony, not an island outpost, but the second largest of Italy's regioni. In a sense, they were probing the accumulated rot under the Fascist house...