The above pictures were taken during a recent B-29 mission. Left, Lt. Warren D. (Deacon) Dailey, navigator, and Lt. Tom C. Evans, bombardier, are not only crewmates but are married to twin sisters who live together in Los Angeles. Right, a man aboard Maj. Gen. Curtis Lemay's lead plane shows how his flak vest may have saved his life. |
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By PVT. JOHN R. McDOWELL Roundup Field Correspondent |
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What's In A Name?
HERE'S WHAT CHUNGKING - The inherently superstitious Japanese were uneasy with the name "Loyang" when they captured that strategic western Honan town. They promptly decided to change it because it sounded like the two Chinese characters meaning "setting sun." The town was renamed "Fuyang." Now the Japs are confronted with another embarrassing dilemma. Fuyang has the same sound as the Chinese characters meaning "captive sun." |
TENTH A.F. HQS., INDIA - T/Sgt. Edward J. McCarthy, radio operator-gunner of the Tornado Squadron, 10th Air Force, EAC, is very pleased with his parachute, despite the fact that it almost resembles Swiss cheese with 200 holes. During a mission over Burma, the sergeant felt a slight impact in his back when his plane encountered Japanese ground fire. McCarthy thought no more about it until he returned to base. Then he found a bullet lodged deeply in the silk of the 'chute. He survived with a "whole" skin, but the parachute took the count with almost 200 holes. In the photo at right, parachute riggers Cpl. Euel J. Pertect, left, and T/Sgt. Joseph F. Krul, right, examining the chute with McCarthy, center. |
Made-in-America flame throwers in the hands of the Chinese played an important role in the reduction of the ancient walled city of Tengchung after a siege of three months. Soldier is shown squirting flame into a Jap pillbox, while riflemen and tommy-gunners give him protection. Heat of flame blew up grenades and other enemy ammunition inside strong points. |
Pvt. Raymond Drzewiecki, of the Y-Force Operations Staff, hasn't shaved since the start of the Salween campaign, won't until victory is won. |
Fighting was so intense that the Japs often didn't have time to bury their casualties. So when the Chinese forces, accompanied by American Y-Force liaison members entered Tengchung, they found this soldier who had died on a stretcher. Left to right, Sgt. Joe Gourley, Capt. Pung, Cpl. Donald Larsen and Capt, Marshall Bennett, members of the invading force. |
WRONG ADDRESS This was the rugged, forgotten Salween Front, where PX supplies had been rumor rather than fact. So you would have expected the G.I. trudging up the trail to have worn a smile of pleasure. For in his arms he cradled a small, rare collection of PX items, just miraculously flown over the Hump. But no, his face was a curious mixture of wonder and dejection. "Look what I won when we drew for supplies," he croaked miserably, holding up a bottle of hair oil. He swept off his cap. The rays of the sun hit and glanced off his highly-polished bald pate. |
BRITISH LRP HITS NIPS PAST TIDDIM HQS., SEAC - Long-range penetration forces of the 14th Army are operating in the Fort White area 12 miles south of the Jap-held village of Tiddim, it was revealed this week. This flanking move threatens the escape route to the Chindwin River of Jap troops now offering stiff resistance to the 5th Indian Division, which is moving on Tiddim from the north. In North Burma only patrol activity was reported by Maj. Gen. F. W. Festing's British 36th Division south of Hopin on the railroad and by Chinese troops near Kazu in the Myitkyina area. |
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