U.S. Army Headquarters in Australia, April 6 (AP) –
Gen. Douglas MacArthur accepted today the invitation of Sgt. Alvin C. York to become honorary international commander-in-chief of the Citizens’ Committee to Display the Flag.
India’s Congress Party rejects all proposals of Stafford Cripps
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Posters like this in aircraft manufacturing plants tell Uncle Sam’s “assembly line soldiers” why they must be careful with the tools that are turning out America’s increasing flocks of warbirds. Broken machinery is no longer discarded but reprocessed and put back to work again.
‘Old Sarge’ notes silver anniversary of first world conflict in which he served as member of 101st Infantry, 26th Division
By J. Norman Lodge
Editor’s note:
The writer of the following, dubbed “The Old Sarge” by his Associated Press colleagues, served in World War I as a member of the 101st Infantry, 26th Yankee Division, reaching France July 10, 1917. He went through six major engagements, was wounded and awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palm. He received a taste of the present war as a foreign correspondent, returning to the United States 11 months ago. Since Pearl Harbor, he has tried to re-enter the armed forces but has failed because of reasons he outlines in the article.
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By Clark Lee
Editor’s note:
Clark Lee, Associated Press correspondent who chronicled the heroic exploits of Gen. MacArthur’s men on Bataan Peninsula for more than two months, discloses for the first time in this dispatch that he himself was injured at the front. Lee, who recently arrived in Australia, characteristically subordinates his own story to that of the men with whom he shared the dangers of war.
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