Date: May 29, 1944 Creator: [United States.] Army Service
Forces. Army Information Branch Description: Front: Text
describes action on various war fronts: Italy, Pacific, USSR,
China, Southeast Asia, Western Europe. Maps: Central Italy
showing current offensive areas and the battle line as of 11
May, 1944; Extent of Allied ground force operations. Includes
photographs: 20,000 ft. column of smoke rising from Ploesti,
Romania; Supply column heads north through Castelforte, Italy;
American soldier walks through piles of rubble in the aftermath
of heavy shelling; Amphibious "ducks" outside Anzio, laden with
supplies for Fifth Army troops; Tanks emerge from the Assam
Hills in northern India; Army nurse Lt. Jane Easton of Atlantic
City, NJ and nurse Doru Chu of China tend to Corp. George Sammy
of Gary, Ind. in China, Lt. La Retta Matthews of Lakeland, FL
and Lt. Carolyn Taylor, Douglaston, L.I., N.Y. converse with a
fabric shop owner in a Chinese city. Back: New Guinea. Map
(continuation of map issued in Newsmap v.