Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles [Evening] Herald and Express of May 29 [published a photograph] showing the meeting of General Homma and General Wainwright on May 5. Are you able to reconcile this with the following from TIME, March 16: "After an honorable funeral, the late General Homma's ashes were flown to Tokyo for internment in an honorable shrine...
...Despite the photograph released by the Japanese and purporting to show General Jonathan Wainwright surrendering at Corregidor to General Masaharu Homma, Douglas MacArthur is convinced that Homma is dead. In March Corregidor had word that a Jap general of high rank had committed hara-kiri in Manila. His body was publicly carried to a crematorium while soldiers lined the streets. Next day a special plane bearing an urn of ashes took off from Manila. Homma was not seen again in the Philippines and General Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of Malaya, succeeded-according to Tokyo's own announcement-to the command...
...drive, Philadelphia's KYW put a bouncing blonde cutie in a rubber bathing suit, sent her touring the town in a horse-drawn cart, made as if to salvage her suit. Result: 19,173 Ib. of rubber in twelve hours, and the war's most nonsensical publicity photograph...
...Flag Association announced that it would make awards to magazines for the best Fourth of July flag covers: "Cross of Honor" to House & Garden; "Patriotic Service Crosses" to TIME (best flag painting on a weekly), to Harper's Bazaar (best photograph on a monthly), to This Week (best photograph on a weekly...
...Churchill and Roosevelt offered encouragement also to the Pacific War Council. Chinese Foreign Minister T. V. Soong was once again assured that his stubbornly fighting country would get all possible help. The Council's members, not all of them such chuckleheaded politicians as they looked in their official photograph, exuded optimism freely at the meeting's conclusion...