Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everywhere. Step by step General Douglas MacArthur was wresting away the Philippines. Last week his men moved south to Sanga Sanga and Bongao islands, only 30 miles from Britain's oil-rich Borneo, the island that was to have stoked Japan's factories. Bit by bit, their stolen empire was falling to ruins...
...General itemized his indictment. Tires and wheels have been stolen from P-51 Mustangs. Bomb parts have been stolen, making the bombs duds. Emergency jungle kits in parachutes (containing jungle knives, rations, matches, etc.) have been looted, probably resulting in death to flyers downed over jungle terrain. Ammunition, weapons, gasoline and vehicles are stolen everywhere...
Almost any G.I. in China theater could have enlarged the indictment. Widespread thievery is the secret grievance the average American soldier holds against China. At one base the rotor and timing gear on a tractor used for loading heavy bombers were stolen. The parts could not be replaced in China...
...save the strength of the Army, General Chennault urged Chinese people not to buy stolen equipment, which is easily identifiable. Japanese forces, maneuvering in central China, seemed preparing drives against the U.S. bases at Chihkiang in southern Hupeh and Poseh in western Kwangsi. The Fourteenth Air Force would need all its strength...
...Venus Fixers have hardly begun. Nazi-occupied northern Italy is still ahead of them.* As for Italian paintings which have been destroyed, lost and looted, Colonel DeWald has quoted no figures (others estimate as high as $50,000,000 worth in stolen goods alone). But on the theory that some of the "stuff" has been hidden by Germans or Italian Fascists, he has his Venus Fixers hunting clues. And, he thinks, a lot more will come to light when the Allies get a good look into the Hitler Museum in Linz and Art-lover Goring's Karinhall near Berlin...