Week’s News Highlights
First Photo Of Jap Defeat
Postmorten Find
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OFFICIAL R A A F PHOTO
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BOURNE TO SAN FRANCIS
CO — Photo shows one of the
22 ships in the Jap convoy com
pletely wined out by Allied
bombers. This merchantman
keels over in the Bisinark Sea
after receiving bomp hits from
medium bombers.
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NEW YORK — One phase
of the March of Time’s “One
Day of War” records this incid
ent on the Russian front A Red
Army soldier makes a routine
search of the body of a German
soldier just killed in action. A
mong the litter in the dead man’s
pocket are some snapshots, one
of which is reproduced in the
lower photo It shows three men,
obviously Russian, hanging by
their necks, victims of the “New
Order” brand of “justice.”
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Advance Alaska Base (Delay
ed)—U S. Army airmen dropped
“Jap Busters” for the first time
in the heaviest aerial smash in
the war against Kiska. The big
1-ton bombs made their debut
in a death cargo of 47 tons rain
ed on the Japs m daylight oper
ations of the 11th Air Force.
The punishing raid kept the
Japs ducking for cover inter
mittently for 9 hours and 1 min
ute after the first attack. Six
groups of raiders swept over
Kiska through the day, which
must have seemed a longer one
to Tojo’s cohorts than any of
the Aleutian’s coldest and fog
giest days.
If any of the Japs kept their
head out of their battered
shelters long enough they got a
glimpse of at least 72 U. S.
planes, more than ever used in a
single raid before The Air Force
listed only one fighter pilot miss
ing. He met death in a forced
landing on the water.
Only 3 Jap Zero fighter planes
were seen in the air all day and
they weren’t looking for a fight.
•They jumped the weather obser
vation patrol plane which sent
the weather report that launched
the thunderous attack
(Second day) — Fifty calibre
machine guns and 20 milimeter
cannon poured a withering fire
into Jap workers building a land
ing strip on Kiska. The Light
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