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...many of its 1,800 daily rail carloads of mail held up by troop trains, miss connections...
...North Africa, P-38s destroyed 20 Italian troop transports, three other planes, eleven tanks in a couple of days. Against Germany's Messerschmitt 109-G and the Focke-Wulf 190, the P-38s had scored "about even," which prompted Air Forces Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold to predict: "If we can continue to destroy the Germans plane for plane, the result cannot long be in doubt because our production is at least double the German production...
...well the Japs were prepared for such an undertaking was a mystery. Latest reliable reports put Japanese concentrations in Burma at some 90,000 troops. In Indo-China, Jap troops were recently reported landing at Haiphong on the coast and streaming ashore from barges at Hanoi on the Red River. Troop trains had been seen moving north-toward the Yunnan border. Chungking declared that Japan, with the cooperation of Vichyfrench Governor General Rear Admiral Jean Decoux, was conscripting an army of 150,000 native Indo- Chinese. Estimates of Japanese air forces in Burma, Indo-China and Siam: between...
Time and the Fortress. Hitler was bound to guard the Festung Europa (the European Fortress). He sent troops into France-the only major Axis troop movement reliably reported up to last week. German soldiers also filtered into Italy. He punched as many soldiers as possible into Tunisia, to fight a delaying action...
Adding the score of the final engagement, announced last week, to that previously announced (TIME, Nov. 23), the Japs suffered the following sinkings: one battleship, another battleship or a very large cruiser, eight cruisers, six destroyers, eight troop transports, four cargo ships. They also lost a huge number of ground troops who had been taking their last ferry trip-between 20,000 and 40,000, Admiral Nimitz estimated...