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Sirs: TIME'S story "Battle of Asia" [March 27] leaves off where the real work began. Colonel Cochran ably planned and executed the first night's glider-borne operation, fortified by loan of two of Brigadier General William D. Old's troop carrier squadron planes and pilots (American). Beginning D plus 1 night, General Old fired his American and British squadron planes into "Broadway" (code name for strip) at a rate that would have left the dispatcher at LaGuardia dizzy. I counted as many as ten transports circling simultaneously, waiting clearance to land...
Fretted by Congressional demands for permanent American control over naval, troop and air bases already under leases to the U.S., House of Commons members asked Winston Churchill for assurances that Britain will keep her own.* Said he, with sharp finality: "There is not the slightest question of any cession of British territories - not the slightest...
...China, Claire Chennault said nothing for publication. Pitcher Chennault was shown at baseball with his deputy and battery mate, Brigadier General Edgar ("Buzz") Glenn, between raids constantly carried out by the Fourteenth on Japanese fields, troop installations, shipping off the South China coast. But if the railway should be out, there would be little left to Chennault & Co. but baseball, until a new supply route should be opened...
...Germans, equipped with tanks and planes, surprised an underground camp. After a day's fighting and severe losses, the Poles broke out of a German ring, dispersed in the forest, left behind 400 dead and wounded enemies. More typical exploits: setting fire to German tank cars, derailing German troop transports, raiding Gestapo prisons, burning down German colonists' villages in retaliation for Polish Lidices...
...Landing Vehicle, Tracked), amphibious "Water Buffalo," 21 ft. long, 20-troop capacity, for storming swamps, coral reefs, otherwise inaccessible places...