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...their way back home after two weeks of fighter squadron training, 30 Tennessee Air National Guardsmen and a crew of four were killed this week in the flaming crash of a Florida National Guard C46 troop transport which had just taken off from the training camp at Myrtle Beach...
...over Korea was building up. U.S. and Australian Air Force fighters and bombers hit hard and often at Communist troop concentrations and supply lines. Last week Major General Emmett ("Rosy") O'Donnell's new Far East Bomber Command sent World War II Superfortresses (now classified as "medium bombers") to drop almost 1,000 tons of bombs on Red rail centers and supply bases north of the 38th parallel...
...incidents" came after a flow of recent reports that Bulgaria is building up troop concentrations on its Yugoslav border. At week's end, the Moscow radio accused Tito of "playing Syngman Rhee's role." Whether and when Moscow would try to inflict Syngman Rhee's fate on Tito was the Kremlin's secret...
...Illinois denounced such stories as "almost criminal." Majority Leader Lucas called on President Truman to ask the press to impose self-censorship at once, or face a Government censorship. In Lucas' home state, the Chicago Sun-Times made a Page One pledge to swear off news of troop departures, names of vessels, and destinations, except in official announcements...
...biggest U.S. scarcity was in fast ocean passenger tonnage convertible to troop transport service. No U.S. passenger ships were built during World War II, and the pip-squeak postwar construction has not begun to replace the losses from sinkings and scrappings. Even with the completion in 1952 of six liners now in the yards, the U.S. will have only 58 passenger vessels in operation, with berths for 20,000 passengers, less than half the space available before Pearl Harbor. Last week U.S. shipbuilders were hoping that Congress would pass the industry-sponsored long range shipping bill providing special tax benefits...